Génesis Capítulo 26
Isaac in Gerar
1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
2 The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land I will show you.
3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For to you and your offspring I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands. Through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
5 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.”
6 So Isaac lived in Gerar.
7 The men of that place asked him about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because thinking that perhaps the men of the place would kill him because of Rebekah, for she was beautiful.
8 After he had been there many days, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 So Abimelech called to Isaac and said, “She is surely your wife. How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered, “Because I thought, ‘Perhaps I shall die because of her.’”
10 Abimelech said, “Why have you done this to us? One of the people might almost have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
11 Then Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
12 Isaac sowed seeds in that land and reaped a hundredfold in the same year, and the Lord blessed him.
13 The man became rich, and his wealth increased until he became very powerful.
14 He had flocks and herds and a great deal of farming equipment, and the Philistines envied him.
15 Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth all the wells that his father Abraham’s servants had dug in his days.
16 So Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”
17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Valley of Gerar, where he lived.
18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death, and he called them by the same names his father had given them.
19 But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there,
20The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with the shepherds of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” So he named the well Esek, because they had quarreled with him.
21 They dug another well, and they quarreled over it also; so he named it Sitnah.
22 So he moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over him. He called its name Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
23 From there he went up to Beersheba.
24 The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
25 So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants dug a well there.
26 Abimelech came to him from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you hated me and drove me away?”
28 They replied, “We saw that the Lord is with you; And we said, “Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you, and have only done good to you, and sent you away in peace; you are now blessed by the Lord.”
30 Then he prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
31 And they rose early in the morning and swore to one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug, and they said, “We have found water.”
33 He named it Sheba; therefore the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
35 and they were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
Génesis Capítulo 27
Jacob receives Isaac
1 Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said, “Here I am.”
2 And he said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
3 Now therefore, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
4 And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and I may bless you before I die.”
5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son; and Esau went out to the field to hunt game to bring back.
6 Then Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,
7 ‘ Bring me game and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before I die.’”
8 Now then, my son, obey my voice in what I command you.
9 Go now to the flock, and bring me from there two choice young goats, and I will make them a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
10 Then you shall take them to your father, and he shall eat them, so that he may bless you before he dies.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth-skinned.
12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and he will think me a mocker, and I will bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”
13 And his mother said, “My son, let your curse be on me; only obey my voice, and go and get them for me.”
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16 She covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with goatskins.
17 Then she gave the savory food and the bread she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
18 So he went to his father and said, “My father.” Isaac answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Now get up, sit down, and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
20 Isaac said to his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “The Lord your God brought it to me.”
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, so that I may feel you, my son, to see whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
22 Then Jacob went near to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23And he did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like Esau’s hands; and he blessed him.
24 And he said, “Are you my son Esau?” And Jacob answered, “I am.”
25 Then he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and Isaac ate; he also brought him wine, and he drank.
26 And Isaac his father said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
27 So Jacob came near and kissed him; and Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him, saying, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.
28 May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; be lord over your brothers, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you.” Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.
30 Now it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from hunting.
31 And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father, and said unto him, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s game, that he may bless me.
32 Then Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33 And Isaac trembled greatly, and said, “Who was it that came here, that hunted game, and gave it to me, and I ate it all before you came? I blessed him, and he shall be blessed.”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a very loud and bitter cry and said, “Bless me also, my father!”
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 Esau replied, “His name is Jacob right, for he has supplanted me these two times. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him your master and given all his brothers to him as servants. I have provided him with grain and wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac his father spoke and said to him, “Behold, your dwelling place shall be the fatness of the earth, and the dew of heaven from above;
40 and by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you are strong, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.” Jacob flees from Esau
Jacob flees from Esau
41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him, and he said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching, and I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42 When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is plotting to kill you.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey me. Arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran,
44 and stay with him for a few days, until your brother’s anger subsides,
45 until his wrath against you turns away and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?”
46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth.” If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of this land, what good is my life to me?
Génesis Capítulo 28
1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, until you become a multitude of nations;
4 and may he give you the blessing of Abraham, and your offspring with you, that you may possess the land in which you are a sojourner, which God gave to Abraham.”
5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he had charged him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;
7 Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
8 Esau also saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;
9 so Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife, in addition to his other wives.
God appears to Jacob at Bethel
10 So Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11 He came to a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.
12 He dreamed that a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
13 Above it stood the Lord and said: “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and your offspring.
14 Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.”
15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17 He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
19 He called that place Bethel, though the city had been called Luz at first.
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.
22 And this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
Génesis Capítulo 29
Jacob serves Laban for Rachel and Leah
1 So Jacob continued on his way and went to the land of the people of the east.
2 He looked and saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying nearby, for the flocks were watered from that well. A large stone covered the mouth of the well.
3 They would gather all their flocks there, roll the stone back over the mouth of the well, water the sheep, and then put the stone back in its place.
4 Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they replied.
5 He asked, “Do you know Laban son of Nahor?” “We do,” they answered. “Here he is.”
6 “Is he well?” they asked. “He is well,” they replied. “And here is his daughter Rachel with the flocks.”
7 He said, “It is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the flocks. Water the flocks and go and pasture them.”
8 They answered, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth, so that we may water the sheep.”
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s flock, for she was a shepherdess.
10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother, he went up and rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother.
11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, the son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
13 When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him into his house. And he told Laban all these things.
14 And Laban said to him, “Surely you are my own flesh and blood.” So he stayed with him for a month.
15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Just because you are my brother, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
18 Jacob loved Rachel and said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19 Laban replied, “It is better that I give her to you than that I give her to another man; stay with me.”
20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed but a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
22 So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening that he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him, and he went in to her.
24 And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maidservant.
25 When morning came, behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
26 And Laban answered, “It is not the custom in our country to give the younger daughter before the older.”
27 Complete this week, and you will be given the other also, in return for another seven years of service to me.
28 So Jacob did so and completed the week of this one; and he gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.
29 And Laban gave his maidservant Bilhah to Rachel his daughter as a maidservant.
30 And he went in to Rachel also, and loved her more than Leah; and he served Laban another seven years.
The sons of Jacob
31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
32 Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, saying, “The Lord has looked on my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.”
33 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, he has given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.
34 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore she named him Levi.
35 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing children.
Génesis Capítulo 30
1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die!”
2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may bear children for me, and I too may have children through her.”
4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.
7 Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 Then Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister in godly struggles, and I have prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 Then Leah said, “What good fortune has come!” So she named him Gad.
12 Later, Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob another son.
13 Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me blessed.” So she named him Asher.
14 Now Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15 But she replied, “Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? Must you also take my son’s mandrakes?” And Rachel said, “He will lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 So when Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “Come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.
17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” Therefore she named him Issachar.
19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good dowry; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
21 Later she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach;
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, May the Lord add to me another son.
Jacob and Laban
25 After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and my own country.
26 Give me back my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know the service I have rendered you.”
27 Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay, for I have learned that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
28 Then he said, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
29 Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have fared for me.”
30 For you had little before I came, and it has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you since my coming. Now, when will I also have work for my own household?
31 He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob answered, “Give me nothing. If you will do this for me, I will again tend your flocks.
32 Today I will go through all your flocks and set apart every speckled and spotted sheep, every dark-colored sheep, and the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages.”
33 This is how my honesty will answer for me tomorrow, when you come to check on my wages: any sheep that is not speckled or spotted, and any of my sheep that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.
34 Then Laban said, “See, let it be as you say.”
35 So Laban that day removed the speckled and striped male goats, all the spotted and speckled female goats, all the female goats that had any white markings on them, and all the dark-colored sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.
36 He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob tended Laban’s other flocks.
37 Then Jacob took fresh poles of poplar, hazel, and chestnut trees, and peeled off strips of the bark from them, exposing the white flesh of the poles.
38 He placed the peeled poles in front of the flocks, in the watering troughs where the sheep came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink.
39 So the sheep conceived before the poles and gave birth to lambs that were striped, speckled, and speckled with various colors.
40 Jacob separated the lambs and put the striped and dark-colored ones of Laban’s flock with his own. He kept his flock separate and did not put it with Laban’s sheep.
41 Whenever the stronger sheep were in heat, Jacob would put the rods in front of them at the watering troughs so that they would conceive when they saw the rods.
42 But when the weaker sheep came, he did not put them there; so the weaker ones belonged to Laban, but the stronger ones to Jacob.
43 The man became exceedingly wealthy; he had many flocks, female and male servants, camels, and donkeys.
Génesis Capítulo 31
1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.”
2 Jacob also observed Laban’s countenance, and he saw that it was not toward him as it had been before.
3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
5 and said to them, “I see that your father’s countenance is not toward me as it was before, but the God of my father is with me.
6 You know that with all my strength I have served your father;
7 and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times; but God has not allowed him to harm me.
8 If he had said, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled lambs; And if he said, “The striped ones will be your wages,” then all the flocks bore striped lambs.
9 So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.
10 At the time the flocks were mating, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that were covering the ewes were striped, speckled, and spotted.
11 Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, “Jacob.” And I said, “Here I am.”
12 He said, “Lift up your eyes now, and you will see that all the rams that are covering the ewes are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the stone and where you made a vow to me. Now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.”
14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any share or inheritance in our father’s house?
15 Has he not treated us as strangers, since he sold us and has even eaten up all the money we received?
16 For all the wealth that God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children; now therefore, do everything that God has told you.”
Jacob flees from Laban
17 So Jacob arose, and put his sons and his wives on the camels,
18 and set out all his livestock and all that he had acquired, the livestock of his gain which he had obtained in Paddan-aram, to return to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 But Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was leaving.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates, and went to the hill country of Gilead.
22 And on the third day it was told Laban that Jacob had fled.
23 Then Laban took his relatives with him, and pursued Jacob for a seven-day journey, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream that night, and said to him, “Be careful not to speak ill of Jacob.”
25 So Laban overtook Jacob, who had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban and his relatives camped in the mountains of Gilead.
26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You deceived me and brought my daughters as prisoners of war.
27 Why did you hide and flee, and deceive me, and not tell me, so that I could send you away with joy and song, with tambourine and harp?
28 You didn’t even let me kiss my sons and daughters goodbye. Now you have acted foolishly.
29 I have the power to harm you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to speak to Jacob disrespectfully.’
30 Since you were going away because you longed for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods from me?”
31 Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, for I thought you might take your daughters from me by force.
32 Let no one in whose possession you find your gods live. In the presence of our relatives, identify what I have that belongs to you and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, Leah’s tent, and the tents of the two female servants, but he did not find them. Then he left Leah’s tent and went into Rachel’s tent.
34 But Rachel took the idols and put them in a camel’s saddlebag, and sat on them; and Laban searched throughout the tent, but did not find them.
35 And she said to her father, “Do not be angry, my lord, for I cannot rise before you, for I am having my period.” So he searched, but did not find the idols.
36 Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What transgression is mine? What is my sin, that you have come so fiercely to pursue me?
37 Since you have searched through all my belongings, what have you found of all your household goods? Set them here before my brothers and yours, and let them judge between us.
38 These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats never miscarried, nor did I eat any of your sheep.
39 I never brought you what was torn by wild beasts; I paid for the loss; what was stolen by day or by night, you charged me for.”
40 By day the heat consumed me, and by night the frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.
41 So I have been in your house twenty years; fourteen years I served you for your two daughters, and six years for your livestock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away empty-handed; but God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
43 Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the flocks are my flocks, and everything you see is mine. What can I do today for these daughters of mine, or for the children they have borne?
44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between us.”
45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
46 Then Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” So they gathered stones and made a heap, and they ate there beside it.
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Gilead.
48 For Laban said, “This heap is a witness between us today.” Therefore its name was called Gilead.
49 It was also called Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me if we ever go out of each other’s way.
50 If you harm my daughters or take any wives besides my daughters, no one is with us. See, God is witness between us.”
51 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this sign that I have set up between you and me.
52 Let this heap be a witness, and let this sign be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap against you, and you will not pass over this heap or this sign against me, to cause harm.”
53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us, the God of their fathers. And Jacob swore by him whom his father Isaac feared.
54 So Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his brothers to eat bread; and they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.
55 Early the next morning Laban rose and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them; then he returned to his place.
Génesis Capítulo 32
Jacob prepares for his encounter with Esau
1 Jacob continued on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he called the place Mahanaim.
3 Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the land of Edom.
4 He instructed them, saying, “Say this to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
5 I have cattle, donkeys, sheep, male and female servants, and I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, with four hundred men with him.”
7 Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. So he divided the people who were with him, the flocks, the herds, and the camels into two camps.
8 And he said, “If Esau comes against one camp and attacks it, the other camp will escape.”
9 Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’
10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown to your servant. With only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I am enslaved to two camps.
11 Deliver me now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack me, both mother and children.
12 Yet you have said, ‘I will do you good, and your descendants will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted for multitude.’”
13 So he spent the night there, and took what he had with him to give as a present to his brother Esau:
14 200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams,
15 30 camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys.
16 He gave them to his servants, each herd by itself, and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and put space between herds.”
17 He instructed the first one, saying, “If my brother Esau meets you and asks you, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? And whose are these things that you are carrying before you?’
18 then you shall say, ‘They are a present from your servant Jacob, sent to my master Esau; and look, he is coming after us.’”
19 He also commanded the second and the third, and all who followed those herds, saying, “This is what you are to say to Esau when you find him.
20 And you are to say, ‘Here is your servant Jacob, coming after us.’ For he said, ‘I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.’”
21 So the present went before him, and he spent the night in the camp.
Jacob wrestles with the angel at Peniel
22 That night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23 He took them and all his possessions and sent them across the stream.
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with him.
26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” And the man answered, “Why do you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
31 When he had passed Peniel, the sun rose upon him, and he was limping because of his hip.
32 Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the hip socket to this day, because the socket of Jacob’s hip touched the sinew of his hip.
Génesis Capítulo 33
Reconciliation between Jacob and Esau
1 Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.
2 He put the female servants and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph.
3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came to his brother.
4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him, and they wept.
5 Jacob looked up and saw the women and children and asked, “Who are these?” “The children God has given your servant,” Jacob replied.
6 Then the female servants and their children came forward and bowed down.
7 Next came Leah and her children, and they bowed down. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.
8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all these groups I have met?” And Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
9 And Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what is yours.”
10 But Jacob said, “No, I beg you; if I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift, for seeing your face is like seeing the face of God, because you have received me so graciously.
11 Please accept my gift that I have brought you, for God has been gracious to me, and all that I have is mine.” And he urged him, and Esau accepted it.
12 And Esau said, “Come on, let us go; I will go before you.”
13 But Jacob said, “My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have flocks and herds with young sheep; and if they are driven hard, all the flocks will die in one day.”
14 Let my lord go on ahead of his servant, and I will go slowly, at the pace of the livestock that go before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.
15 And Esau said, “I will leave with you some of the people who are with me.” And Jacob said, “Why should I do this? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 Jacob went to Succoth and built a house for himself there and made booths for his livestock; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
18 After this, Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he had come from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.
19 He bought a piece of field, where he pitched his tent, from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of silver.
20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Génesis Capítulo 34
Dina's dishonor avenged
1 Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and violated her.
3 But his heart was drawn to Dinah, Leah’s daughter, and he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
4 So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman as my wife.”
5 Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept quiet until they came home.
6 Then Hamor, Shechem’s father, went to Jacob to speak with him.
7 When Jacob’s sons heard about it, they came in from the field. And the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, which ought not to be done.
8 Then Hamor spoke to them, saying, “My son Shechem’s heart is set on your daughter; please give her to him as his wife.
9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take ours for yourselves.
10 Live among us, for the land will be before you; settle down and trade in it and acquire possessions in it.”
11 Shechem also said to Dinah’s father and to her brothers, “If I find favor in your eyes, I will give you whatever you ask.
12 Give me a very large dowry and gifts, and I will give you whatever you ask; just give me the young woman as my wife.”
13 But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor their father deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for it is an abomination to us.
15 But on this condition we will grant you our consent: if you will become like us, and every male among you be circumcised,
16 then we will give you our daughters, and we will take your daughters, and we will dwell among you and become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
19 And the young man did not delay, for Jacob’s daughter pleased him, and he was the most distinguished of all his father’s house.
20 Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
21These men are peaceful with us, and they will live in the land and trade in it; for behold, the land is large enough for them; we will take their daughters as wives, and we will give them our daughters.
22 But on this condition these men will agree to live with us, so that we may become one people: that every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.
23 Their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals will be ours; only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.
24 So all who went out of the gate of the city obeyed Hamor and his son Shechem, and circumcised every male who went out of the gate of their city.
25 But it happened on the third day, when they were in the greatest pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came against the city, which was unaware, and killed every male.
26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem’s house and departed.
27 So the sons of Jacob came to the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took her sheep, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and the country,
29 and all her possessions. They took all her little ones and her wives captive and plundered everything in the house.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me by making me loathsome to the inhabitants of this land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Since I have few men, they will gather together against me and attack me, and I and my household will be destroyed.”
31 But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”
Génesis Capítulo 35
God blesses Jacob at Bethel
1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments.
3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will build there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.
5 And they departed, and the terror of God fell upon the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is, Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
7 So he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak tree, which was called Allon-bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram and blessed him.
10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.
11 God also said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your own body.
12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
15 Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Death of Rachel
16 Then they journeyed from Bethel, and while they were still about half a league from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and had a difficult time in childbirth.
17 As she was in difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid; you will have this son also.”
18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
20 Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb, and it remains to this day as a memorial to Rachel’s tomb.
21 Israel set out and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-edar.
The sons of Jacob
22 Now it came to pass, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Israel were twelve:
23 the sons of Leah: Reuben Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Bilhah Rachel’s maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.
26 And the sons of Zilpah Leah’s maidservant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Death of Isaac
27 After this, Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, to the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
28 Isaac lived 180 years.
29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Génesis Capítulo 36
The descendants of Esau
1 These are the generations of Esau, who is Edom:
2 Esau took wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon the Hivite,
3 and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebaioth.
4 Adah bore Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel.
5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his household, and his livestock, and all his cattle, and all his beasts, and all that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land, separating himself from Jacob his brother.
7 For their possessions were great; And they could not live together, nor could the land where they lived support them because of their livestock.
8 So Esau lived in Mount Seir; Esau is Edom.
9 These are the families of Esau, the father of Edom, in Mount Seir.
10 These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, Esau’s wife; Reuel, the son of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son, and she bore him Amalek; these are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
13 The sons of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife, the daughter of Anah, who was the son of Zibeon: she bore Esau Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.
15 These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau’s firstborn: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
16 Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of the line of Reuel in the land of Edom; these sons came from Basemath, Esau’s wife.
18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah; these were the chiefs who came from Oholibamah, Esau’s wife, the daughter of Anah.
19 These are the sons of Esau, and their leaders; he is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who lived in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the leaders of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.
22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
23 The sons of Shobal were Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24 The sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. This Anah was the one who discovered springs in the wilderness while he was tending the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
25 The sons of Anah were Dishon and Oholibamah, Anah’s daughter.
26 These were the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Itthran, and Cheran.
27 These were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Achan.
28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
29 These were the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these were the leaders of the Horites, according to their commands in the land of Seir.
31 These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
32 Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinaba.
33 When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.
34 When Jobab died, Husham from the land of Teman succeeded him as king.
35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, succeeded him as king. The name of his city was Avith.
36 When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.
37 When Samlah died, Saul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates succeeded him as king.
38 Saul died, and Baal-hanan son of Achbor succeeded him as king.
39 Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, and Hadar succeeded him as king. The name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.
40 These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans, their places, and their names: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Edom is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Génesis Capítulo 37
Joseph is sold by his brothers
1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had lived, in the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob’s family. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a robe of many colors.
4 When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to it.”
8 His brothers asked him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Do you intend to rule over us?” And they hated him even more because of his dreams and what he had said.
9 He had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 When he told it to his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him. “What is this dream you had?” he asked. “Shall your mother and I and your brothers come and bow down to the ground before you?”
11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12 After this, his brothers went to pasture their father’s flocks in Shechem.
13 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers are pasturing the flocks in Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” And he answered, “Here I am.”
14 So Israel said to him, “Go now, see how your brothers are and how the flocks are, and bring me word again.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 A man found him wandering in the field and asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16 Joseph answered, “I am looking for my brothers. Please show me where they are pasturing their flocks.”
17 The man replied, “They have already left here; I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18 When they saw him from a distance, before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19 And they said to one another, “Look, that dreamer is coming!”
20 Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say, ‘Some wild animal devoured him.’ Then we will see what will become of his dreams.
21When Reuben heard this, he rescued him from their hands and said, “Let’s not kill him.”
22 Then Reuben said to them, “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” He said this to rescue him from their hands and return him to his father.
23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the colorful robe he was wearing.
24 So they took him and threw him into the cistern; but the cistern was empty, there was no water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat bread, and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to take him to Egypt.
26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What good is it if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let’s not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” And his brothers agreed to him.
28 So when the Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
29 So Reuben went back to the cistern, but he did not find Joseph in it, and he tore his clothes.
30 He went back to his brothers and said, “The young man is nowhere to be found. Where can I go?”
31 Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
32 They sent the colorful tunic and brought it to their father, saying, “We have found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces.”
34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son,” he said. And his father wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Génesis Capítulo 38
Judah and Tamar
1 At that time Judah left his brothers and went to live with an Adullam named Hirah.
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her and went in to her.
3 She conceived and gave birth to a son and named him Er. 4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan.
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She conceived yet again and gave birth to a son and named him Shelah. He was at Kezib when she gave birth to him. 6 Judah then took a wife for his firstborn son Er, and her name was Tamar.
7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.
8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of your brother, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
9 Now Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, so as not to produce offspring for his brother.
10 What he did displeased the Lord, and he put him to death also. 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,” for he said, “lest he also die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
12 After a long time, the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died. Then Judah was comforted and went up to Timnah to shear his sheep, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
14 So she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself up. Then she stood at the entrance to Enaim, by the road to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face. 16 So he turned aside to her from the road and said, “Let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me if you come in to me?”
17 He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Give me a pledge until you send it.”
18 Then Judah said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 Then she arose and went away, and removed her veil from herself, and put on her widow’s garments. 20 And Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge of the woman; but he did not find it.
21 And he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the prostitute of Enaim by the roadside?” And they said to him, “No prostitute has been here.”
22 So he returned to Judah and said, “I haven’t found her.” And the men of the place also said, “There hasn’t been a prostitute here.”
23 And Judah said, “Let her keep it for herself, so that we will not be shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, and you didn’t find her.”
24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and she is pregnant as a result of her harlotry.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned.”
25 But as they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, “I am pregnant by the man to whom these things belong.” She also said, “See now whose these are—the seal, the cord, and the staff.”
26 Then Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
27 And it came to pass at the time of her giving birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
28 And it happened as she was giving birth, that one put out his hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread around his hand, saying, This one came out first.
29 But when he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out; and she said, What a breach you have made in yourself! So she named him Perez.
30 Afterward his brother came out, he who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and she named her Zerah.
Génesis Capítulo 39
Joseph and Potiphar
1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.
2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he prospered, living in the house of his Egyptian master.
3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,
4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his servant. Potiphar made him overseer of his household and put him in charge of everything he owned.
5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything he owned, both in the house and in the field.
6 So he left everything he owned in Joseph’s care and did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in appearance and form.
7 After this, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me.”
8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “My master does not concern himself with anything in the house, but has put everything he owns into my hands.
9 There is no one greater in this house than I am, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
10 Day after day she spoke to Joseph, but he refused to lie with her or be with her.
11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants were there.
12 She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Come to bed with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and ran away.
13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,
14 she called to the men of the house and said to them, “Look, he has brought us a Hebrew to make a mockery of us. He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;
15 and when he saw that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went out.”
16 And she laid Joseph’s garment beside her until his master came to his house.
17 Then she spoke the same words to him, saying, “The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came to me to dishonor me.”
18 And when I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his clothes beside me and fled outside.
19 When Joseph’s master heard the words his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant has done to me,” his anger was kindled.
20 So Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 The keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the prison; whatever was done there, he oversaw.
23 The keeper of the prison did not need to attend to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph, and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.
Génesis Capítulo 40
José interprets two dreams
1 Some time after this, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt sinned against their master, the king of Egypt.
2 So Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
3 and he put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
4 The captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he served them. They remained in prison for some time.
5 Both the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in prison, had a dream, each one his own dream on the same night, each with its own interpretation.
6 Early the next morning Joseph came to them and saw that they were sad.
7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in prison in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 They said to him, “We have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dream.”
9 Then the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream, and said, “I dreamed that I saw a vine before me,
10 with three branches on the vine. It sprouted and put forth its blossoms, and its clusters of grapes ripened.
11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: The three branches are three days.
13 At the end of three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.”
14 Remember me, then, when you have this good fortune, and I beg you to show me kindness, and mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.
15 For I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here I have done nothing to deserve being put in prison.
16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: I saw three white baskets on my head.
17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
18 Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”
20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, the king made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
22 But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted.
23 The chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Génesis Capítulo 41
Joseph plays Pharaoh
1 After two years, Pharaoh had a dream. He was standing by the Nile,
2 when seven cows, beautiful and fat, came up out of the river and grazed in the meadow.
3 After them, seven other cows, ugly and lean, came up out of the river and stood beside the beautiful cows on the bank of the river.
4 The ugly, lean cows ate up the seven beautiful, fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.
5 He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, grew on a single stalk.
6 After them came up seven other heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind.
7 The thin heads of grain ate up the seven plump heads of grain. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
8 In the morning, Pharaoh was troubled, and he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. He told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for him.
9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my sins today.
10 When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, he put me and the chief baker in prison in the house of the captain of the guard.
11 That same night, he and I both had dreams, each with its own meaning.
12 Now a young Hebrew man, a servant of the captain of the guard, was with us. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation he had given him.
13 As he interpreted them for us, so it happened: I was restored to my position, but the other man was hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the prison, and he shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.
15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can interpret dreams.”
16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the Nile,
18 and seven cows, fat and beautiful, came up out of the river and grazed in the meadow.
19 After them, seven other cows came up—skinny and ugly, so gaunt that I had never seen any like them in all Egypt.”
20 The thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
21And these entered into her stomach, but it was not known that they had entered, for the appearance of the thin cows was still bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.
22 I also saw in my dream that seven ears of grain, full and beautiful, were growing on a single stalk.
23 And seven other ears, thin and withered, scorched by the east wind, grew up after them;
24 and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could interpret it for me.
25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dream is the same; God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the good ears of grain are seven years; the dream is the same.
27 Also the seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years; And the seven thin, shriveled ears of grain that wither in the east wind will be like seven years of famine.
28 This is what I tell Pharaoh: What God is going to do, he has shown Pharaoh.
29 Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.
30 And after them will follow seven years of famine; and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will consume the land.
31 And that abundance will not be remembered because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
32 And the fact that the dream occurred to Pharaoh twice means that the matter is firmly established by God, and that God will soon bring it about.
33 Therefore, let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint stewardship over the land, and let him take a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
35 And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh as food for the cities; and let them keep it.
36 And let that food be a storehouse for the land, for the seven years of famine that will come upon the land of Egypt; and the land will not perish from famine.
Joseph, governor of Egypt
37 The plan pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the Spirit of God?”
39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, «Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.»
41 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
43 He had him ride in his second chariot, and people cried out before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, «I am Pharaoh; And without you, no one will lift a hand or a foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 So Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went out throughout all the land of Egypt.
46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 In those seven years of abundance the land produced abundantly.
48 And he gathered all the food of the seven years of abundance that were in the land of Egypt, and stored food in each city the food from the fields around it.
49 And before the first year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, who Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore him.
50 And two sons were born to Joseph before the first year of the famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
51 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
52 He named his second son Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
53 So the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.
54 Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. The famine was in all the lands, but throughout all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 When the famine was throughout all the land of Egypt, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”
56 And the famine was throughout the land. So Joseph opened every storehouse he had and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
57 And people from all the land came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, for the famine was severe throughout the land.
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Joseph's brothers come for food.
1 When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you just standing there looking at each other?”
2 He said, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
3 So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain.
4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some harm come to him.”
5 The Israelites came to buy grain from those who were coming, because there was a famine in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the land, selling grain to all the people of the land. When Joseph’s brothers came, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
7 When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended not to know them and spoke harshly to them. He asked, “Where have you come from?” They answered, “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain.”
8 So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
9 Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had had about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the open land.”
10 They answered him, “No, our lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11 We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”
12 But Joseph said to them, “No, you have come to see the open land.”
13 And they answered, “We are your servants, twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and not one of us appears.”
14 And Joseph said to them, “That is what I told you, saying that you are spies.
15 By this you will be tested: As Pharaoh lives, you will not leave here unless your youngest brother comes here.”
16 Send one of you to bring your brother, and you remain in prison, and your words will be tested to see if you are truthful. If not, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!
17 So he put them all together in prison for three days.
18 On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this, and you will live, for I fear God.
19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain in prison in the house where you are held, and you go and take food to your house to feed it during the famine.
20 But you must bring your youngest brother, and your words will be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.
21And they said to one another, “Truly we have sinned against our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”
22 Then Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy,’ and you would not listen? Now his blood is required of us also.”
23 But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
24 Joseph withdrew from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them. He took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded that their sacks be filled with grain, that each man’s money be returned to him and put into his sack, and that they be given provisions for the journey. And so it was done for them.
26 So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and went away.
27 But one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey at the inn, and he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
28 He said to his brothers, “My money has been returned to me; here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and they said to one another in anguish, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them, saying,
30 “The man, the ruler of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us like spies of the land.
31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we were never spies.
32 We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father; one is missing, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’”
33 Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, “By this I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me, and take some food for your households to help you with the famine, and go.
34 Bring your youngest brother to me, so that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. Then I will give you your brother, and you may trade in the land.”
35 As they emptied their sacks, there was in each man’s sack a bundle of his money. When they and their father saw the bundles of their money, they were afraid.
36 Then their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is gone, and so is Simeon. And you will take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”
37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You will surely put my two sons to death if I do not give him back to you. Give him into my hand, and I will give him back to you.”
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if any calamity befalls him on the way by which you go, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.
Génesis Capítulo 43
Joseph's brothers return with Benjamin.
1 Now the famine was severe in the land.
2 When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us some food.”
3 Judah replied, “The man warned us earnestly, saying, ‘You will not see my face unless you bring your brother with you.’
4 If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless you bring your brother with you.’
” 6 Then Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly by telling the man that you had another brother?”
7 They answered, “The man specifically asked us about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we told him what he had said. How could we have known that he would say to us, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die—we, you, and our little ones.
9 I will vouch for him; you will hold me accountable. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty in your sight forever.
10 For if we had not delayed, we would surely have returned twice by now.”
11 Then their father Israel answered them, “If it is so, then do it. Take some of the best of the land in your sacks and carry down to the man a present: a little balm, a little honey, spices, myrrh, nuts, and almonds.
12 Take a double amount of money with you, and carry back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks, for perhaps it was a mistake.
13 Take your brother also, and arise and go back to the man.”
14 And may God Almighty grant you mercy before that man, and may he release your other brother, this Benjamin. And if I am to be bereaved of my children, so be it.
15 So the men took the present, and took in their hands a double amount of money, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring these men home, and slaughter an ox and prepare it, for these men shall eat with me at noon.”
17 So the man did as Joseph said, and brought the men to Joseph’s house.
18Then those men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, they have brought us here, to lie in wait for us, to attack us, and to take us and our donkeys as slaves.”
19 And they approached the steward of Joseph’s house and spoke to him at the entrance of the house.
20 And they said, “Alas, our lord, we really did come down the first time to buy food.
21 And it happened that when we came to the inn and opened our sacks, behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in its rightful weight; and we have brought it back with us.”
22 We have also brought other money with us to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks.
23 He answered them, “Peace be with you; do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks, and I have received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave food to their donkeys.
25 They prepared a present for Joseph until noon, for they had heard that they would eat bread there.
26 When Joseph came to the house, they brought the present they had with them into the house and bowed down to the ground before him.
27 Joseph asked them how they were, “Is your father, the old man you mentioned, well? Is he still alive?”
28 They answered, “Your servant, our father, is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed down and paid homage.
29 And Joseph lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
30 Then Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought a place to weep; and he went into his chamber and wept there.
31 And he washed his face and came out, and restrained himself, and said, “Set out bread.”
32 So they set out bread separately for him, and separately for themselves, and separately for the Egyptians who ate with him; for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that was an abomination to the Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men were amazed at one another.
34 And Joseph took food from before him for them; But Benjamin’s portion was five times greater than any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
Génesis Capítulo 44
Joseph 's cup
1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with grain, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” And he did as Joseph had said.
3 In the morning, the men were sent off with their donkeys.
4 As they were leaving the city, before they had gone far beyond it, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up and pursue these men, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?’
5 ‘Isn’t this the one my master drinks from, and the one he uses for divination? You have done wrong in what you have done.’”
6 When he caught up with them, he spoke these words to them.
7 They answered him, “Why does our master say such things? Your servants must never do such a thing.”
8 Look, the money we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
9 Whoever of your servants is found with the cup shall die, and we too shall become my master’s servants.
10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. Whoever is found with it shall be my servant, and you shall be innocent.”
11 So they hurried, and each man threw his sack down on the ground and opened it.
12 He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, where he was still, and they bowed down to the ground before him.
15 Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can divine?”
16 Then Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we say, or how shall we justify ourselves? God has found out about the guilt of your servants. Now we are my lord’s servants—we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”
17 Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! The man in whose possession the cup was found shall be my servant. You go in peace to your father.”
Judah intercedes for Benjamin
18 Then Judah approached him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20 And we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a young brother, a little one, who was born to him in his old age; and one of his brothers died, and he is the only one left of his mother’s children; and his father loves him.’
21 And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him to me, that I may lay my eyes upon him.’”
22 And we said to my lord, “The young man cannot leave his father, for if he does, his father will die.”
23 And you said to your servants, “Unless your youngest brother goes down with you, you will not see my face again.”
24 So it happened that when we came to my father, your servant, we told him the words of my lord.
25 And our father said, “Go back and buy us some food.”
26 And we answered, “We cannot go; if our brother goes with us, we will go, for we cannot see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.”
27 Then your servant, my father, said to us, “You know that my wife bore me two sons;
28 and one went out from my presence, and I think he has been torn to pieces, and I have not seen him to this day.
29 And if you take this one also from my presence, and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”
30 Now then, when I return to your servant my father, if the young man does not go with me, since his life is tied to his own,
31 it will happen that when I do not see the young man, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father to Sheol in sorrow.
32 Since your servant stood surety for the young man to my father, saying, “If I do not bring him back to you, then I will be guilty before my father forever,”
33 I beg you, therefore, let your servant remain in place of the young man as my lord’s servant, and let the young man go with his brothers.
34 For how can I go back to my father without the young man? I cannot, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father.
Génesis Capítulo 45
Joseph reveals himself to his brothers
1 Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So no one was left with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2 Then he wept aloud, and the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh also heard it.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me.” So they came near. And he said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore, do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Hurry, go to my father and tell him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay.’
10 You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me—you, your children, your grandchildren, your livestock, your herds, and all that you have.
11 There I will provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not perish from poverty.
12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that I am speaking to you.
13 You shall therefore tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and hurry, and bring my father here.
14 Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.
16 The news reached Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” This pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
17 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan.
18 Take your father and your families and come to me, for I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the abundance of the land.’”
19 And you command: Do this: Take chariots for your little ones and your wives from the land of Egypt, and bring your father, and come.
20 And do not worry about your belongings, for the wealth of the land of Egypt will be yours.
21 So the sons of Israel did as they were told; and Joseph gave them chariots according to Pharaoh’s command, and provided them with provisions for the journey.
22 To each of them he gave changes of clothing, and Benjamin gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
23 And he sent these things to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread and provisions for his father on the journey.
24 Then he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
26 And they told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But Jacob’s heart was grieved, for he did not believe them.
27 They told him all the words Joseph had spoken to them. When Jacob saw the chariots Joseph had sent to carry him, his spirit revived.
28 Then Israel said, “It is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Génesis Capítulo 46
Jacob and his family in Egypt
1 So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 Then God spoke to Israel in visions at night, saying, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.”
3 Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back again; and Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
5 So Jacob arose from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob, his little ones, and their wives in the chariots that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 They took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him;
7 his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
8 These are the names of the Israelites who went to Egypt: Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of the Canaanite woman.
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Job, and Shimron.
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, besides his daughter Dinah; Thirty-three persons in all, all his sons and daughters.
16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Ezbon, Shuni, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishua, Ishu, Beriah, and their sister Sera. The sons of Beriah: Eber and Malchiel.
18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and she bore these to Jacob; in all, sixteen persons.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
21 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22 These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; in all fourteen persons.
23 The sons of Dan: Hushim.
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shilem.
25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; in all seven persons.
26 All the people who came with Jacob to Egypt, his descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons, totaled sixty-six people.
27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, numbered two. All the people of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt totaled seventy.
28 So Jacob sent Joseph ahead of Judah to meet him in Goshen, and they arrived in the land of Goshen.
29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went to meet his father Israel in Goshen. He presented himself to him, threw his arms around his neck, and wept on his neck for a long time.
30 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Let me die now, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”
31 Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s house, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ‘My brothers and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.’
32 These men are shepherds, for they are livestock keepers; and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.
33 When Pharaoh calls you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’”
34 Then you will say, “Your servants have been livestock keepers from our youth until now, both we and our fathers; so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Génesis Capítulo 47
1 Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan, and now they are in the land of Goshen.”
2 From the last of his brothers, he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.
3 Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They answered Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”
4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in this land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6 The land of Egypt is before you; Settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any capable men among them, make them overseers of my livestock.”
7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many days are you living?”
9 Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The days of my sojourning are 130 years. The days of my life have been few and difficult, and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers during the days of their sojourning.”
10 So Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from Pharaoh’s presence.
11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them possession in the land of Egypt, in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 So Joseph fed his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number of the sons.
13 Now there was no bread in all the land, and the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished with hunger.
14 Joseph collected all the money that was in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the food that they bought from him, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 When the money in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying, “Give us bread, for why should we die before you, since the money is gone?”
16 And Joseph said, “Give me your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, since the money is gone.”
17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for horses, flocks, herds, and donkeys; and provided them with bread for all their livestock that year.
18 When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is gone; the livestock also belongs to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord but our bodies and our land.
19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be Pharaoh’s servants. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and so that the land may not be devastated.”
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians sold their lands because the famine was severe; so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 He moved the people to cities throughout the territory of Egypt.
22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and they ate the portion that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
23 And Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you today, and your land, for Pharaoh; here is seed, and you shall sow the land.”
24 You shall give a fifth of the produce to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be yours to sow the land, and for your food, and for those who are in your houses, and for your little ones to eat.
25 And they answered, “You have spared our lives; let us find favor in the sight of our lord, and let us be Pharaoh’s servants.”
26 So Joseph made it a law to this day throughout the land of Egypt, assigning to Pharaoh the fifth, except for the land of the priests, which did not belong to Pharaoh.
27 So Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they took possession of it, and increased greatly and multiplied.
28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years.
29 When the time came for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
30 but when I have rested with my ancestors, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.” Joseph replied, “I will do as you say.”
31 Then Israel said, “Swear to me.” So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed down at the head of the bed.
Génesis Capítulo 48
Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
1 After these things, Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him.
2 Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph is coming to you.” Then Israel strengthened himself and sat up on his bed.
3 He said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
4 He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you a nation. I will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.
’ 5 Now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in Egypt before I came to you there, are mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
6 Any children you have after them will be yours; they will be named after their brothers in their inheritance.”
7 For when I came from Paddan-aram, Rachel died to me in the land of Canaan, on the way, about half a league from Ephrath; and I buried her there on the road to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”
9 Joseph answered their father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them near to me, that I may bless them.”
10 Now Israel’s eyes were so dim with old age that he could not see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
11 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I did not expect to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
12 Then Joseph brought them from between his knees and bowed down to the ground.
13 So Joseph took them both, Ephraim on his right hand to Israel’s left, and Manasseh on his left hand to Israel’s right, and brought them near to him.
14 Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim’s head, because he was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, deliberately placing his hands there, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
15 Then he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my God all my life to this day,
16 the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may he bless these boys. May my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac be perpetuated on them, and may they increase greatly in the land.”
17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; And he took hold of his father’s hand, to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; lay your right hand on his head.”
19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, “In you Israel will pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
22 And I have given you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Génesis Capítulo 49
Jacob's prophecy concerning his sons
1 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, so I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.
2 Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob, and listen to your father Israel.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in honor, excelling in power.
4 Unstable as water, you will not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled yourself by going up 5 Simeon and Levi
are brothers; 6
Let my soul not enter into their council, nor let my spirit join their company ; enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. 9 Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him? 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him shall be the obedience of the people. 11 He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the vine; he washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes are red with wine, and his teeth are white with milk. 13 Zebulun will dwell by the seaside; he will be a haven for ships, his border extending to Sidon. 14 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down among the sheepfolds; 15 he saw that rest was good, and that the land was pleasant; He bowed his shoulders to bear burdens, and served in tribute. 16 Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan will be a serpent along the wayside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward. 18 I have waited for your salvation, O Lord. 19 Gad, an army, will attack him; but he will attack in the end. 20 Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies for the king. 21 Naphtali is a doe set free, that will utter beautiful words. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring, whose branches climb over a wall. 23 Archers bitterly attacked him; they shot at him and hated him. 24 But his bow remained steady, and his arms were strengthened by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. 25By the God of your father, who will help you, by God Almighty, who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the deep that lies beneath, with blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father were greater than the blessings of my ancestors; they will reach the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills. They will rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of him who was separated from his brothers.
27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, and in the evening he divides the spoil.
Death and burial of Jacob
28 These were the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one with his own blessing.
29 Then he gave them instructions, saying, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.”
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; there I also buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and the cave in it belonged to the Hittites.
33 When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into his bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his ancestors.
Génesis Capítulo 50
1 Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 They fulfilled forty days, for that was the time for those being embalmed, and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 When the days of mourning were over, Joseph spoke to the men of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, ‘Behold, I am about to die; in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore, let me go and bury my father, and I will return.”
6 And Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went up with him,
8 as well as all of Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds remained in the land of Goshen.
9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, a very large company.
10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very deep wailing. And Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a great wailing from the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12 So his sons did for him as he had commanded them.
13 So his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite, east of Mamre.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury their father, after he had buried him.
Death of Joseph
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us and repay us for all the wrong we did to him.”
16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died:
17 ‘ Say this to Joseph: “Please forgive your brothers for their sin, for they treated you badly. Now, please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.”’” And Joseph wept as they spoke.
18 His brothers also came and bowed down before him, saying, “We are your servants.”
19 Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
21 So do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your children.” With this he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
22 Joseph and his father’s household lived in Egypt for 110 years.
23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation, and the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
25 Then Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you will carry my bones up from here.”
26 So Joseph died at the age of 110; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.