1 Afterwards there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham; And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 And the Jehovah appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land that I will tell you.
3 Dwell as a stranger in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath I swore to Abraham your father.
4 I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands; and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in your seed,
5 because Abraham heard my voice, and he kept my precept, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 And the men of that place asked him about his wife; and he answered: She is my sister; because he was afraid to say: she is my wife; thinking that perhaps the men of the place would kill him because of Rebekah, since she was beautiful in appearance.
8 It came to pass, after he had been there many days, that Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking out of a window, saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is indeed your wife. How then did you say: She is my sister? And Isaac answered him: Because I said, Perhaps I will die because of her.
10 And Abimelech said, Why have you done this to us? Some of the people would almost have slept with your wife, and you would have brought sin upon us.
11 Then Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely die.
12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he reaped a hundredfold that year; and the Jehovah blessed him.
13 The man became rich, and prospered, and became great until he became very powerful.
14 And he had a herd of sheep, and a herd of herds, and much husbandry; and the Philistines envied him.
15 And all the wells which his father Abraham’s servants had dug in his days, the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, Depart from us, for you have become much more powerful than us.
17 And Isaac departed from there, and camped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac reopened the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, and which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the names that his father had called them.
19 But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water,
20The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with the shepherds of Isaac, saying, The water is ours. That’s why he named the well Esek, because they had had an altercation with him.
21 And they dug another well, and also quarreled over it; and he called his name Shitna.
22 And he departed from there, and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; and he called its name Rehoboth, and said, For now the Jehovah has prospered us, and we will be fruitful in the land.
23 And from there he went up to Beersheba.
24 And the Jehovah appeared to him that night, and said to him, I am the God of Abraham your father; Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless and multiply your descendants for the sake of Abraham my servant.
25 And he built an altar there, and called on the name of the Jehovah, and pitched his tent there; and Isaac’s servants dug a well there.
26 And Abimelech came to him from Gerar, and Ahuzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, seeing that you have hated me, and have driven me out from among you?
28 And they answered, We have seen that the Jehovah is with you; and we said: Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us, and we will make a covenant with you,
29 that you do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have only done you good, and we send you in peace; you are now blessed by Jehovah.
30 Then he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
31 And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they took leave of him in peace.
32 On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
33 And he called him Sheba; For this reason the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
35 and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
1 And it came to pass, when Isaac grew old, and his eyes became dark, that he could not see, that he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son. And he answered: Here I am.
2 And he said, Behold, I am old, I do not know the day of my death.
3 So take now your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out into the field and bring me game;
4 And make me a stew the way I like it, and bring it to me, and I will eat, so that I may bless you before I die.
5 And Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son; And Esau went into the field to look for the game that he was going to bring.
6 Then Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I have heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,
7 Bring me game, and make me a stew, that I may eat, and bless you before the Jehovah before me. die.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice in what I command you.
9 Go now to the cattle, and bring me from there two good kids of the goats, and I will make them meat for your father, as he likes;
10 and you shall bring them to your father, and he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am hairless.
12 Perhaps my father will touch me, and he will consider me a mocker, and I will bring a curse on me and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said, My son, let your curse be upon me; Just obey my voice and go and bring them to me.
14 Then he went and took them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made stews, as his father liked.
15 And Rebekah took the precious garments of Esau her eldest son, which she had in the house, and she clothed Jacob her youngest son;
16 and she covered her hands and the part of his neck where she had no hair, with the skins of the goats;
17 And she gave the stews and the bread that she had prepared into the hands of Jacob her son.
18 Then this man went to his father and said, My father. And Isaac answered, Here am I; who are you, my son?
19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me: get up now, sit down, and eat my game, so that you may bless me.
20 Then Isaac said to his son, How is it that you found her so quickly, my son? And he answered, Because the Jehovah your God caused it to be found before me.
21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Come now, and I will feel you, my son, whether you are my son Esau or not.
22 And Jacob approached his father Isaac, who touched him, and said, The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23And he did not know him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau; and he blessed him.
24 And he said, Art thou my son Esau? And Jacob answered: I am.
25 He also said, Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so that I may bless you; and Jacob brought it to him, and Isaac ate; He also brought him wine, and he drank.
26 And his father Isaac said to him, Come now and kiss me, my son.
27 And Jacob came near and kissed him; And Isaac smelled the smell of his clothes, and blessed him, saying, See, the smell of my son, Like the smell of the field which the Jehovah has blessed;
28 Therefore may God give you the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and abundance of wheat and new wine.
29 People serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord over your brothers, And let your mother’s sons bow before you. Cursed are those who curse you, and blessed are those who bless you.
30 And it came to pass, after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father Isaac, that his brother Esau returned from hunting.
31 And he also made stews, and brought 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 to him, I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled greatly, and said, Who is he that came here, that brought game, and gave it to me, and I ate everything before you came? I blessed him, and he will be blessed.
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a very loud and very bitter exclamation, and said to him, Bless me also, my father.
35 And he said, Your brother came deceitfully, and he took your blessing.
36 And Esau answered, Well they called his name Jacob, for he has already supplanted me twice: he took my birthright, and behold now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?
37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him your lord, and have given him all his brothers as servants; I have provided him with wheat and wine; What then shall I do to you now, my son?
38 And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac his father spoke and said to him, Behold, your habitation will be in the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother; And it will come to pass when you become strong, That you will take off his yoke from your neck. Jacob flees from Esau
41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and he said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father will come, and I will kill my brother Jacob.
42 And the words of Esau her eldest son were spoken to Rebekah; And she sent and called Jacob his youngest son, and said to him, Behold, Esau your brother is taking counsel concerning you, intending to kill you.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; get up and flee to my brother Laban’s house in Haran,
44 and stay with him for a few days, until your brother’s anger is turned away;
45 until your brother’s anger against you turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; I will then send and bring you from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day?
46 And Rebekah said unto 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, why do I want life?
1 Then Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, saying, Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Get up, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and there take a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 And may the Almighty God bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, until you become a multitude of people;
4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, and your descendants with you, so that you may inherit the land in which you live, which God gave to Abraham.
5 So Isaac sent Jacob, who went to Padan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 And Esau saw how Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had sent him to Padan-aram, to take a wife for himself from there; and that when he blessed him, he had commanded him saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan-aram.
8 Esau also saw that the daughters of Canaan did not like his father Isaac;
9 And Esau went to Ishmael, and took to himself Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, besides his other wives.
10 So Jacob left Beersheba and went to Haran.
11 And he came to a certain place, and he slept there, because the sun had already set; and he took some of the stones from that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place.
12 And he dreamed: and behold, a ladder rested on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and behold, angels of God ascended and descended through it.
13 And behold, the Jehovah was on top of it, who said, I am the Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; I will give the land on which you lie to you and to your descendants.
14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south; and all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your descendants.
15 Behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have told you.
16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, Surely the Jehovah is in this place, and I knew it not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How terrible is this place! It is nothing other than the house of God, and the door to heaven.
18 And Jacob arose early in the morning, and took the stone which he had made a headboard, and set it up for a sign, and poured oil upon it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel, although Luz was the name of the city first.
20 And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God be with me, and keep me in this journey on which I go, and give me bread to eat and raiment to wear,
21 and if I return in peace to my father’s house, the Jehovah will be my God. .
22 And this stone that I have set as a sign will be the house of God; and of everything you give me, I will set aside a tithe for you.
1 Jacob then continued on his way and went to the land of the easterners.
2 And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying near it, because the cattle were watered from that well; and there was a large stone over the mouth of the well.
3 And they gathered all the flocks there; and they rolled over the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep, and returned the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.
4 And Jacob said to them, My brothers, where are you from? And they answered, We are from Haran.
5 He said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said: Yes, we know him.
6 And he said to them, Is it well? And they said, Well, and behold Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.
7 And he said, Behold, it is yet very day; It is not yet time to gather the cattle; water the sheep, and go to feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they remove the stone from the mouth of the well, that we may water the sheep.
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s flock, for she was the shepherd.
10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, that Jacob came and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban’s brother. his mother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up her voice and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.
13 So when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, she ran to meet him, and embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house; and he told Laban all these things.
14 And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And she was with him for a month.
15 Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother, will you serve me for nothing? Tell me what your salary will be.
16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 And Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel had a beautiful countenance and a beautiful appearance.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your youngest daughter.
19 And Laban answered, It is better that I give it to you, and not that I give it to another man; stay with me.
20 So Jacob served for Rachel seven years; and it seemed like a few days to her, because he loved her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is fulfilled, to join her.
22 Then Laban gathered all the men of that place and made a banquet.
23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took her daughter Leah, and brought her unto him; and he came to her.
24 And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a servant.
25 When morning came, behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, What is this that you have done to me? Have I not served you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?
26 And Laban answered, It is not so done in our place, that the lesser is given before the greater.
27 Complete this week, and the other week will also be given to you, for the service you do with me for another seven years.
28 And Jacob did so, and he completed the week of that week; and he gave his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
29 And Laban gave his daughter Rachel, his servant, Bilhah, to be his servant.
30 And he also came to Rachel, and he also loved her more than Leah; and she served Laban another seven years.
31 And Jehovah saw that Leah was despised, and he gave her children; but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and she bare a son, and he called her name Reuben, for she said, Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; now, therefore, my husband will love me.
33 She conceived again, and gave birth to a son, and said, Because Jehovah heard that I was despised, he has given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and she bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore she called her name Levi.
35 She conceived again, and gave birth to a son, and said, This time I will praise Jehovah; therefore she called her name Judah of him; and she stopped giving birth.
1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children to Jacob, she was envious of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die.
2 And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I God, who withheld the fruit of your womb from you?
3 And she said, Behold my servant Bilhah; come to her, and she will give birth on my knees, and I will also have children by her.
4 So she gave him Bilhah her maidservant to wife; and Jacob came to her.
5 And she conceived Bilhah, and she bare a son to Jacob.
6 Then Rachel said, God judged me, and he also heard my voice, and gave me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.
7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and she gave birth to a second son to Jacob.
8 And Rachel said, With God’s struggles I have contended with my sister, and I have prevailed. And she called her name Naphtali.
9 So when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10 And Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, Good fortune has come; and she called her name Gad.
12 Then Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob another son.
13 And Leah said: For my happiness; because women will call me blessed; and she called her name Asher.
14 Reuben went at the time of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to Leah his mother; And Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.
15 And she answered, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband, but that you must also take my son’s mandrakes? And Rachel said: Well, he will sleep with you tonight because of your son’s mandrakes.
16 So when Jacob was returning from the field in the evening, Leah came out to him and said, Come to me, for I have truly hired you for my son’s mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.
17 And God heard Leah; and she conceived, and she bare the fifth son to Jacob.
18 And Leah said, God has given me my reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband; therefore he called his name Issachar.
19 Then Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God has given me a good dowry; Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six children; and she called his name Zebulun.
21 Then she gave birth to a daughter, and he called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God heard her, and granted her children by her.
23 And she conceived, and she bare a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach;
24 and she called her name Joseph, saying, Let Jehova add to me another son.
25 It came to pass, when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me, and I will go to my place, and to my land.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served with you, and let me go; Well, you know the services I have done for you.
27 And Laban answered him, May I now find favor in your eyes, and stay; I have experienced that Jehovah has blessed me because of you.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give them.
29 And he answered, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have been with me.
30 For you had little before my coming, and it has increased in great numbers, and Jehovah has blessed you with my coming; And now, when will I also work for my own house?
31 And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, Give me nothing; If you do this for me, I will return to feed your sheep.
32 Today I will go through all your flock, setting aside all the spotted and colored sheep, and all the dark-colored sheep, and the spotted and colored sheep among the goats; and this will be my salary.
33 This is how my honesty will answer for me tomorrow, when you come to recognize my wages; Everything that is not painted or stained on the goats, and of a dark color among my sheep, is to be considered stolen.
34 Then Laban said, See, let it be as you say.
35 And Laban separated that day the spotted and striped goats, and all the spotted and colored goats, and all those that had any white in them, and all the dark-colored ones among the sheep, and he put them in the hand of their children.
36 And he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob tended Laban’s other sheep.
37 Then Jacob took green sticks of poplar, hazel, and chestnut, and stripped the bark of white peelings from them, thus revealing the whiteness of the sticks.
38 And he placed the rods that he had cut before the cattle, in the channels of the water troughs where the sheep came to drink, which procreated when they came to drink.
39 Thus the sheep conceived before the poles; and they gave birth to striped sheep, painted and splashed with different colors.
40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and put with his own flock the stripes and all that was dark of Laban’s flock. And he set his flock apart from him, and did not set it with Laban’s sheep.
41 And it happened that whenever the strongest sheep were in heat, Jacob would put the rods before the sheep in the troughs, so that they would conceive in the sight of the rods.
42 But when the weaker sheep came, he did not lay them; thus they were the weakest for Laban, and the strongest for Jacob.
43 And the man became very rich, and had many sheep, and female servants, and male servants, and camels, and donkeys.
1 And Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.
2 Jacob also looked at Laban’s countenance, and saw that he was not toward him as he had been before.
3 The Jehovah also 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 sheep 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 has been with me.
6 You know that with all my strength I have served your father;
7 and your father has deceived me, and he has changed my wages ten times; but God has not allowed him to harm me.
8 If he said thus: The painted ones will be your wages, then all the sheep gave birth painted ones; and if he said thus: The lists will be your salary; then all the sheep gave birth stripes.
9 So God took away your father’s cattle, and gave them to me.
10 And it came to pass, while the sheep were in heat, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the males that covered the females were striped, painted, and variegated.
11 And the angel of God said to me in a dream: Jacob. And I said: Here I am.
12 And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and you will see that all the males that cover the females are striped, painted, and variegated; for I have seen everything 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. Arise now and leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.
14 Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Do we have a share or inheritance in our father’s house?
15 Doesn’t He already consider us as strangers, since he sold us, and has even completely eaten our price?
16 For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children’s; Now, therefore, do everything that God has told you.
17 Then Jacob arose, and put his children and his wives on camels,
18 and set out all his cattle, and all that he had acquired, the cattle of his gain which he had obtained in Padan-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 idols.
20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, not letting him know that he was leaving.
21 So he fled with everything he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates, and went to Mount Gilead.
22 And on the third day it was told Laban that Jacob had fled.
23 Then Laban took his relatives with him, and went after Jacob on a seven-day journey, and overtook him in Mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream that night, and said to him, Take care that you do not speak rudely to Jacob.
25 So Laban overtook Jacob; and he had pitched his tent on the mountain; and Laban camped with his relatives in Mount Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you deceived me, and have you brought my daughters as prisoners of war?
27 Why did you hide to flee, and deceive me, and not let me know so that I would send you away with joy and with singing, with drum and harp?
28 Well, you didn’t even let me kiss my sons and my daughters. Now, madly you have done.
29 There is power in my hand to harm you; but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying: Take care that you do not speak rudely to Jacob.
30 And since you were leaving, because you had a desire for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods from me?
31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; Well, I thought maybe you would take your daughters from me by force.
32 He in whose power you find your gods, let him not live; In front of our brothers he recognizes what I have of yours, and take it. Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 Laban entered Jacob’s tent, Leah’s tent, and the two maidservants’ tent, and found them not; and he left Leah’s tent, and entered Rachel’s tent.
34 But Rachel took the idols and put them on a camel’s pack, and sat on them; and she searched for Laban throughout the tent, and she found them not.
35 And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry, for I cannot stand before thee; Well, I am with the custom of women. And he searched, but he did not find the idols.
36 Then Jacob was angry, and quarreled with Laban; And Jacob answered and said unto Laban, What transgression is mine? What is my sin, that you have come after me with so much ardour?
37 Since you have searched through all my things, what have you found of all the belongings of your house? Place it here before my brothers and yours, and let them judge between us.
38 These twenty years I have been with you; Your sheep and your goats never miscarried, nor did I eat ram from your sheep.
39 I never brought you what was taken by wild beasts: I paid for the damage; What was stolen both day and night, you charged me for it.
40 By day the heat consumed me, and at night the frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.
41 Thus I have been in your house for twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, were not with me, you would surely send me away now empty-handed; but God saw my affliction and the work of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.
43 Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the sheep are my sheep, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do today to these my daughters? or to their children that they have given birth to?
44 Come now, therefore, and let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a testimony between us two.
45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a sign.
46 And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather up stones. And they took stones and made a pile, and they ate there on that pile.
47 And Laban called him Jegar Sahaduta; and Jacob called him Gilead.
48 For Laban said, This heap is a witness today between us two; therefore his name was called Gilead;
49 and Mizpah, because he said, Let the Jehovah watch between you and me, when we depart from one another.
50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, no one is with us; Look, God is a witness between us two.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this sign, which I have set up between you and me.
52 This mountain be a witness, and this sign be a witness, that I will not pass over this mountain against you, nor will you pass over this mountain or this sign against me, for evil.
53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us, the God of his fathers. And Jacob swore by him whom his father Isaac feared.
54 Then Jacob sacrificed victims on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread; and they ate bread, and slept that night on the mountain.
55 And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and he returned and returned to his place.
1 Jacob continued on his way, and angels of God met him.
2 And Jacob said when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob: I have dwelt with Laban, and have tarried until now;
5 and I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants; and I send to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that he had with him, and the sheep and 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 And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good to you;
10 I am less than all the mercies and all the truth that you have used towards your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am over two camps.
11 Deliver me now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him; May my mother not come and hurt me with her children.
12 And you have said, I will do good to you, and your descendants will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered by the multitude.
13 And he slept there that night, and took from what came to hand a gift for his brother Esau:
14 two hundred goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty she-camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty donkeys and ten donkeys.
16 And he gave it to his servants, each flock by itself; and he said to his servants, Pass before me, and put space between flock and flock.
17 And he commanded the first, saying, If Esau my brother find thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and where you’re going? And for whom is this that you carry before you?
18 then you will say: This is a gift from your servant Jacob, who sent to my lord Esau; and behold he also comes after us.
19 He also commanded the second, and the third, and all those who went after those flocks, saying, According to this you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20 And you will also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is coming after us. For he said, I will appease his anger with the gift that goes before me, and then I will see his face; perhaps I will be accepted.
21 So the present passaed before him; and he slept that night in the camp.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
23 So he took them and made the stream pass over them and everything he had.
24 So Jacob was left alone; And a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25 And when the man saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the socket of his thigh, and Jacob’s thigh came out of joint while he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Leave me, for the dawn is breaking. And Jacob answered him: I will not leave you, unless you bless me.
27 And the man said to him, What is your name? And he answered: Jacob.
28 And the man said to him, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won.
29 Then Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me now your name. And the man answered: Why do you ask me by name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of that place Peniel; for he said, I saw God face to face, and my soul was delivered.
31 And when he had passed over Peniel, the sun rose; and he limped from his hip.
32 For this reason the children of Israel do not eat, to this day, of the contracted tendon, which is in the socket of the thigh; because he touched Jacob this place on his thigh in the tendon that contracted.
1 Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau came, and the four hundred men with him; Then he divided the children between Leah and Rachel and the two maidservants.
2 And he put the maidservants and their children in front, then Leah and her children, and Rachel and Joseph last.
3 And he passed before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came to his brother.
4 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they cried.
5 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these? And he answered: They are the children that God has given to your servant.
6 Then the maidservants came, they and their children, and bowed down.
7 And Leah came with her children, and they bowed down; and then Joseph and Rachel arrived, and they also bowed.
8 And Esau said, What do you intend with all these groups that I have found? And Jacob answered: To find favor in the eyes of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; be for you what is yours.
10 And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; If I have now found grace in your eyes, accept my gift, because I have seen your face, as if I had seen the face of God, since you have received me with so much favor.
11 Please accept, I beg you, my present that I have brought you, for God has given me favor, and everything that is here is mine. And he insisted on it, and Esau took it.
12 And Esau said, Come, let us go; and I will go before you.
13 And Jacob said to him, My lord knows that children are tender, and that I have sheep and cows; and if they tire them, in one day all the sheep will die.
14 Now my lord will pass before his servant, and I will go little by little at the pace of the cattle that go before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.
15 And Esau said, I will now leave with you the people that come with me. And Jacob said: Why this? I found grace in the eyes of my lord.
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 And Jacob went to Sukkot, and built a house for himself there, and made booths for his cattle; therefore he called the name of that place Sukkot.
18 Then Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and he camped before the city.
19 And he bought a part of the field, where he pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for a hundred coins.
20 And he set up an altar there, and he called it El-Elohe-Israel.
1 Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had given birth to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the country.
2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of that land, saw her, and took her from her, and lay with her, and dishonored her from her.
3 But her soul was attached to Dinah the daughter of Leah, and he fell in love with the young woman, and he spoke of her to her heart.
4 And Shechem spoke to Hamor his father, saying, Take this young woman for me as a wife.
5 But Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled Dinah his daughter; And while his sons were with their cattle in the field, Jacob was silent until they came.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went to Jacob to speak with him.
7 And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it; And the men were grieved and very angry, because he did evil in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, which should not have been done.
8 And Hamor spoke to them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem is attached to your daughter; I beg you to give her to him as a wife.
9 And be related to us; Give us your daughters, and take ours.
10 And dwell with us, for the land will be before you; dwell and trade in it, and take possession of it.
11 Shechem also said to Dinah’s father and her brothers: May I find favor in your eyes, and I will give what you tell me.
12 Increase at my expense much dowry and gifts, and I will give whatever you tell me; and give me the young woman as a wife.
13 But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceitful words, because he had defiled Dinah his sister.
14 And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, giving our sister to an uncircumcised man, because it is an abomination among us.
15 But with this condition we will please you: if you are to be like us, let every male among you be circumcised.
16 Then we will give you our daughters, and we will take yours; and we will dwell with you, and we will be one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us to circumcise you, we will take our daughter and go away.
18 And his words seemed good to Hamor, and to Shechem the son of Hamor.
19 And the young man wasted no time in doing this, because Jacob’s daughter had pleased him; and he was the most distinguished of all his father’s house.
20 Then Hamor and Shechem his son 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 country, and trade in it; for behold, the land is wide enough for them; We will take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters.
22 But on this condition these men will consent to live with us, so that we may be one people: that every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.
23 Their livestock, their property, and all their livestock will be ours; Let us only agree with them, and they will dwell with us.
24 And all who went out from the gate of the city obeyed Hamor and Shechem his son, and they circumcised every male, as many as went out from the gate of his city.
25 But it came to pass 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 unprepared, and killed everyone. male.
26 And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword; and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and departed.
27 And the sons of Jacob came to the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep and herds and their donkeys, and what was in the city and in the field,
29 and all their possessions; They took all their children and women captive, and stole everything in the house.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me abominable to the inhabitants of this land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I having few men, they will gather against me and attack me, and I and my house will be destroyed.
31 But they answered, Should he treat our sister as a harlot?
1 God said to Jacob, Get up and go up to Bethel, and stay there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
2 Then Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your clothes.
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me in the way I have walked.
4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their power, and the earrings that were in his ears; and Jacob hid them under an oak that was near Shechem.
5 And they went out, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (this is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
7 And he built an altar there, and called the place El-bet-el, because there God had appeared to him, when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Then Deborah, Rebekah’s mistress, died, and she was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak tree, which was called Alonbacut.
9 God appeared again to Jacob, when he had returned from Padan-aram, and blessed him.
10 And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name; and he called his name Israel.
11 God also said to him: I am the omnipotent God: grow and multiply; A nation and a host of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your loins.
12 The land that I have given to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.
13 And God departed from him, from the place where he had spoken with him.
14 And Jacob set up a sign in the place where he had spoken with him, a sign of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15 And Jacob called the name of that place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
16 Then they left Bethel; And there was still about half a league of land to reach Ephrathah, when Rachel gave birth, and there was labor in delivering her.
17 And it came to pass, as there was labor in her delivery, that the midwife said unto him, Fear not, for thou shalt also have this son.
18 And it came to pass, when his soul departed (for he died), that he called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the road to Ephrathah, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob built a pillar over her grave; This is the sign of Rachel’s burial to this day.
21 And Israel went out and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-edar.
22 It came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and slept with Bilhah his father’s concubine; which Israel came to know. Now the children of Israel were twelve:
23 the children of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob; Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24 Rachel’s sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padan-aram.
27 Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, to the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac dwelt.
28 And the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
29 And Isaac breathed out the spirit, and he died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
1 These are the generations of Esau, which is Edom:
2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hittite,
3 and Basemath the daughter of Ishmael , sister of Nebaioth.
4 Ada gave birth to Esau to Eliphaz; and Basemat gave birth to Reuel.
5 And Aholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jaalam, 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 people of his household, and his cattle, and all his cattle, and all that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into another land, separating himself from Jacob his brother.
7 For their possessions were many; and they could not live together, nor could the land where they lived support them because of their livestock.
8 And Esau dwelt 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 Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, son of Ada, Esau’s wife; Reuel, son of Basemath, wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.
12 And Timnah was the concubine of Eliphaz the son of Esau, and she bore him Amalek; These are the children of Ada, 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 the wife of Esau, the daughter of Anah, who was the son of Zibeon: she bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah, sons of Esau.
15 These are the leaders of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: the leaders Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
16 Korah, Gatam and Amalek; These are the leaders of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; These were the children of Ada.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; These are the leaders of the line of Reuel in the land of Edom; These children come from Basemath, Esau’s wife.
18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah the wife of Esau: the leaders Jeush, Jaalam and Korah; These were the leaders who came out of Aholibamah, wife of Esau, daughter of Anah.
19 These then are the sons of Esau, and his leaders; he is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, inhabitants of that 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, Manahat, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
24 And the sons of Zibeon were Aja and Anah. This Anah is the one who discovered springs in the desert, when he was feeding the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
25 The sons of Anah were Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
26 These were the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Esban, Itram and Cheram.
27 And these were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Achan.
28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
29 And these were the leaders of the Horites: the leaders 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 And the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before he reigned king over the children of Israel, were these:
32 Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinaba.
33 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Teman reigned in his place.
35 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
36 Hadad died, and Samla of Masrekah reigned in his place.
37 Samla died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the Euphrates reigned in his place.
38 Saul died, and Baal-hanan son of Acbor reigned in his place.
39 And Baal-hanan son of Acbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.
40 These then are the names of the leaders of Esau by their families, by their places, and by their names: Timnah, Alva, Jetheth,
41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
43 Magdiel and Iram. These were the leaders of Edom according to their dwellings in the land of their possession. Edom is the same Esau, father of the Edomites.
1 Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had dwelt, in the land of Canaan.
2 This is the history of Jacob’s family: Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, tended the sheep with his brothers; and the young man was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph informed his father of their bad reputation.
3 And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he had had him in his old age; and he made him a tunic of different colors.
4 And when his brothers saw that his father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peacefully to him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they came to hate him even more.
6 And he said to them, Hear now this dream that I have dreamed:
7 Behold, we were tying bundles in the middle of the field, and behold, my bundle stood upright, and your bundles stood around and bowed down to mine.
8 His brothers answered him, Will you reign over us, or will you rule over us? And they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.
9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying: Behold, I dreamed another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.
10 And he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What dream is this that you dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers come and bow down to the ground before you?
11 And his brothers envied him, but his father meditated on this.
12 Then his brothers went to feed his father’s sheep in Shechem.
13 And Israel said to Joseph, Your brothers feed the sheep in Shechem: come, and I will send you to them. And he answered: Here I am.
14 And Israel said to him, Go now, see how your brothers are and how the sheep are, and bring me the answer. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 And a man found him, as he was wandering in the field, and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16 Joseph answered, I seek my brothers; Please show me where they are grazing.
17 That man answered: They have already left here; and I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan. Then Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18 When they saw him from afar, before he came near them, they plotted against him to kill him.
19 And they said one to another, Behold, the dreamer comes.
20 Now therefore, come, and let us kill him and throw him into a cistern, and we will say, Some evil beast devoured him; and we will see what will become of his dreams.
twenty-oneWhen Reuben heard this, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; cast him into this cistern that is in the desert, and do not lay hands on him; to free him thus from his hands, to return him to his father.
23 So it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they took away Joseph’s coat, the colored coat that he had on him;
24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern; but the cistern was empty, there was no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat bread; And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, and their camels brought spices, balm, and myrrh, and they were going to take them to Egypt.
26 Then Judah said to his brothers, What good is it if we kill our brother and cover up his death?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let our hand not be upon him; because he is our brother, our own flesh. And his brothers agreed with him.
28 And when the Midianite merchants were passing by, they took Joseph out of the cistern, and brought him up, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
29 Then Reuben returned to the cistern, and did not find Joseph in it, and tore his clothes.
30 And he returned to his brothers, and said, The young man does not appear; And where will I go?
31 Then they took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a kid of the goats, and dyed the tunic with the blood;
32 And they sent the colored tunic and brought it to his father, and said, This is what we have found; Recognize now if it is your son’s tunic or not.
33 And he recognized it, and said, It is my son’s coat; some evil beast devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces.
34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; But he would not receive comfort, and said, I will go down to Sheol in mourning to my son. And his father cried for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, captain of the guard.
1 It came to pass at that time, that Judah departed from his brothers, and went to a man of Adullamite, whose name was Hira.
2 And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanite man, whose name was Shuah; and he took it from her, and came to her.
3 And she conceived, and gave birth to a son, and he called her name Er.
4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and he called her name Onan.
5 And she conceived again, and gave birth to a son, and he called her name Shelah. And she was in Kezib when she gave birth to him.
6 Then Judah took a wife for his firstborn Er, whose name was Tamar.
7 And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Jehovah, and Jehovah took his life.
8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go to your brother’s wife, and betroth her, and raise up offspring for your brother.
9 And when Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, it happened that when he came to his brother’s wife, he poured it on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.
10 And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he also took his life.
11 And Judah said to Tamar her daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah my son grows up; for he said, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went away, and was in his father’s house.
12 Many days passed, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah’s wife, died. Then Judah was consoled, and went up to the sheep shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hira the Adullamite.
13 And he was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 Then she took off her widow’s clothing, and covered herself with a veil, and covered herself, and stood at the entrance to Enaim by the road to Timnath; for he saw that Shelah had grown up, and she was not given to him as a wife.
15 And Judah saw her, and he considered her a harlot, because she had covered her face.
16 And he turned away from the way toward her, and said to her, Let me now come to you: for I did not know that she was her daughter-in-law; and she said: What will you give me to come to me?
17 He answered: I will send you a kid of the goats from the cattle. And she said: Give me a pledge until you send it.
18 Then Judah said, What pledge shall I give you? She answered: Your seal, your cord, and your staff that you have in your hand. And he gave them to her, and he came to her, and she conceived by him.
19 Then he arose and departed, and took off the veil from him, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by his friend the Adullamite, so that he might receive the woman’s pledge; but he did not find it.
21 And he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot of Enaim by the way? And they said to him: No harlot has been here.
22 Then he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; And the men of the place also said: She has not been a harlot here.
23 And Judah said, Take it to yourself, so that we will not be despised; Behold, I have sent this goat, and you did not find it.
24 It came to pass that after about three months Judah was told, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and she is indeed pregnant because of fornications. And Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
25 But when they were bringing her out, she sent to her father-in-law and said, “I am with child by the man whose name these things are.” She also said: See now whose these things are, the seal, the cord and the staff.
26 Then Judah recognized them, and said, She is more righteous than I, because I have not given her to Shelah my son. And he never met her again.
27 And it came to pass, that at the time of her giving birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
28 It happened when she was giving birth that she put out her hand one, and her midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread to her hand, saying, This one came out first.
29 But when he put his hand in again, behold, his brother came out; and she said: What a breach you have made for yourself! And she called her name Phares.
30 Then her brother, the one who had the scarlet thread in his hand, came out and called her name Zara.
1 So when Joseph was taken to Egypt, Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 But Jehovah was with Joseph, and he became a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that whatever he did, Jehovah made it prosper in his hand.
4 So Joseph found favor in his eyes, and served him; and he made him steward of his house and gave into his power all that he had.
5 And it came to pass, when he gave him charge of his house and of all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph, and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, both at home and in the field. .
6 And he left everything he had in Joseph’s hand, and with him he did not worry about anything except the bread he ate. And it was Joseph with a beautiful countenance and beautiful presence.
7 It came to pass after this, that her master’s wife looked upon Joseph, and said, Sleep with me.
8 And he would not, and said to his master’s wife, Behold, my lord cares not with me about what is in the house, and he has put into my hand all that he has.
9 There is no one greater than me in this house, and he has reserved nothing for me except for you, because you are his wife; How then would I do this great evil, and sin against God?
10 She spoke to Joseph every day, and he did not listen to her to lie down next to her, to be with her,
11 It came to pass that one day he entered the house to do her work, and there was no one from the house there.
12 And she took hold of him by her clothes, saying, Sleep with me. Then he left her clothes in her hands, and fled from her and came out from her.
13 When he saw that he had left her clothes in her hands, and had fled away from her,
14 he called those of the house, and spoke to them, saying, Behold, he has brought us a Hebrew to make fun of. of us. He came to me to sleep with me, and I cried loudly;
15 And when he saw that I raised my voice and cried, he left her clothes beside me, and fled and went out.
16 And she laid Joseph’s clothes next to her, until her master came to her house.
17 Then she spoke the same words to him, saying: The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us, he came to me to dishonor me.
18 And when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his clothes beside me and fled outside.
19 And it came to pass, when Joseph’s master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, This is how your servant has treated me, his anger was kindled.
20 And he took Joseph’s master, and put him in prison, where the king’s prisoners were, and he was there in prison.
21 But Jehovah was with Joseph and extended mercy to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the prisoner.
22 And the head of the prison handed over to Joseph the care of all the prisoners that were in that prison; Everything that was done there, he did.
23 The head of the prison did not need to attend to any of the things that were in Joseph’s care, because Jehovah was with Joseph, and what he did, Jehovah prospered.
1 It came to pass after these things, that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker committed a crime against their lord the king of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, against the chief cupbearer and against the chief baker,
3 and he put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was imprisoned.
4 And the captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he served them; and they spent days in prison.
5 And both the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were arrested in prison, had a dream, each his own dream in the same night, each with his own meaning.
6 Joseph came to them in the morning, and he looked at them, and behold, they were sad.
7 And he asked those officers of Pharaoh, who were with him in the prison of his lord’s house, saying, Why do your countenances look evil today?
8 They said to him: We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. Then Joseph said to them: Are not the interpretations from God? Tell me now.
9 Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, I dreamed that I saw a vine before me,
10 and on the vine three branches; and it seemed to sprout, and shed its flower, coming to ripen the clusters of grapes from it.
11 And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
12 And Joseph said to him, This is his interpretation: the three branches are three days.
13 After three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will give the cup to Pharaoh in his hand, as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
14 Therefore remember me when you have this good, and I pray you, show me mercy, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
15 For I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and I have not done anything here why they would put me in jail.
16 When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted it for good, he said to Joseph: I also dreamed that I saw three white baskets above my head.
17 In the highest basket there were all kinds of pastry delicacies for Pharaoh; and the birds ate them from the basket on my head.
18 Then Joseph answered and said, This is their interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
19 After three days Pharaoh will remove your head from you, and he will hang you on the gallows, 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 And he brought the chief cupbearer back to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
22 But he had the chief baker hanged, as Joseph had interpreted.
23 And the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but he forgot him.
1 It happened that after two years Pharaoh had a dream. It seemed to him that he was by the river;
2 And seven cows came up out of the river, beautiful to look at, and very fat, and were grazing in the meadow.
3 And after them seven other cows of ugly appearance and thin flesh came up from the river, and they stood near the beautiful cows on the bank of the river;
4 and that the cows of ugly appearance and thin flesh devoured the seven beautiful and very fat cows. And Pharaoh woke up.
5 He fell asleep again, and dreamed the second time: That seven full and beautiful ears grew from a single reed,
6 and that after them there came out another seven small and beaten ears of the east wind;
7 and the seven small ears devoured the seven thick and full ears. And Pharaoh woke up, and, behold, it was a dream.
8 It happened that in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt, and all his wise men; And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I remember my faults today.
10 When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, he threw me and the chief baker into prison in the house of the captain of the guard.
11 And he and I had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
12 A young Hebrew man was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us, and declared to each one according to his dream.
13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted them to us, so it was: I was restored to my place, and the other was hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they hurriedly brought him out of the prison, and he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it; But I have heard it said about you that you hear dreams to interpret them.
16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me; God will be the one who gives a favorable response to Pharaoh.
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream it seemed to me that I was on the bank of the river;
18 And seven cows of thick meat and beautiful appearance came up from the river and grazed in the meadow.
19 And seven other cows came up after them, skinny and very ugly in appearance; so exhausted that I have not seen others similar in ugliness in all the land of Egypt.
20 And the lean and ugly cows devoured the first seven fat cows;
21 and these entered her bowels, but it was not known that they had entered, because the appearance of the skinny ones was still bad, as at the beginning. And I woke up.
22 I also saw in a dream that seven ears of corn were growing on the same reed, full and beautiful.
23 And seven other small ears, withered, blown down by the east wind, grew after them;
24 and the small ears devoured the seven beautiful ears; and I have told it to the wise men, but there is no one to interpret it for me.
25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, Pharaoh’s dream is oneself; God has shown Pharaoh what he is going to do.
26 The seven beautiful cows are seven years old; and the beautiful ears are seven years: the dream is oneself.
27 Also the seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years old; and the seven small and withered ears of the east wind, seven years will be of famine.
28 This is what I answer to Pharaoh. What God is going to do, he has shown Pharaoh.
29 Behold, seven years of great plenty come in all the land of Egypt.
30 And after them will follow seven years of famine; and all abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and famine will consume the land.
31 And that abundance will not be seen, because of the following famine which will be very serious.
32 And the dream happening to Pharaoh twice means that the thing is firm on God’s part, and that God hastens to do it.
33 Therefore now let Pharaoh provide himself with a prudent and wise man, and appoint him over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and appoint governors over the land, and quench the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty.
35 And gather all the provisions of these good years that are coming, and gather the wheat under the hand of Pharaoh for the maintenance of the cities; and keep it.
36 And let that provision be in store for the country, for the seven years of famine that will be in the land of Egypt; and the country will not perish from hunger.
37 The matter seemed good to Pharaoh and his servants,
38 and Pharaoh said to his servants, Shall we find another man like this, in whom is the spirit of God?
39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one understanding or wise like you.
40 You will be over my house, and all my people will be governed by your word; Only on the throne will I be greater than you.
41 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
42 Then Pharaoh took his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and made him clothe him in fine linen clothes, and put a gold necklace on his neck;
43 and he put him on his second chariot, and they proclaimed before him, Bend your knee! and he set it over all the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without you no one will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph, Zafnath-panea; and he gave him Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to wife. And Joseph went out into all the land of Egypt.
46 Joseph was thirty years old when he was presented before Pharaoh king of Egypt; And Joseph went out from before Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt.
47 In those seven years of abundance the land produced in abundance.
48 And he gathered all the food of the seven years of abundance that was in the land of Egypt, and stored food in the cities, putting in each city food from the surrounding countryside.
49 Joseph gathered wheat like the sand of the sea, so much so that it could not be counted, because he had no number.
50 And two sons were born to Joseph before the first year of famine came, and Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore him.
51 And Joseph called the name of his firstborn Manasseh; for he said: God made me forget all my work, and all my father’s house.
52 And he called the name of the second, Ephraim; for he said, God made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 Thus were completed the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt.
54 And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all countries, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 When famine was felt throughout the land of Egypt, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph, and do whatever he tells you.
56 And hunger was throughout the country. Then Joseph opened every granary where there was, and sold to the Egyptians; because the famine had grown in the land of Egypt.
57 And from all over the land they came to Egypt to buy from Joseph, because the famine had spread throughout the land.
1 When Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt; Go down there and buy from there for us, so that we may live and not die.
3 And Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy wheat in Egypt.
4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, Lest some disaster befall him.
5 The children of Israel came to buy among those who came; because there was a famine in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the lord of the land, who sold to all the people of the land; And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
7 And Joseph, when he saw his brothers, knew them; but he pretended that he did not know them, and spoke harshly to them, and said to them, Where have you come from? They answered: From the land of Canaan, to buy food.
8 Joseph therefore knew his brothers; but they did not know him.
9 Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had had about them, and said to them, “You are spies; You have come to see what the country has discovered.
10 They answered him: No, our lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11 All of us are children of a man; we are honest men; your servants were never spies.
12 But Joseph said to them, No; You have come to see what the country has discovered.
13 And they answered, Your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and no one else appears.
14 And Joseph said to them, This is what I have told you, saying that you are spies.
15 In this you will be tested: As Pharaoh lives, you will not leave here except when your younger brother comes here.
16 Send one of you and bring your brother, and you will be taken captive, and your words will be tested, if there is truth in you; and if not, let Pharaoh live, for you are spies.
17 Then he put them in prison together for three days.
18 And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, and live: I fear God.
19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be imprisoned in your prison house, and you go and bring food for the famine of your house.
20 But you will bring your younger brother, and your words will be verified, and you will not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another: Truly we have sinned against our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he prayed to us, and we did not listen to him; That is why this anguish has come upon us.
22 Then Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you and say, Do not sin against the young man, and you did not listen? Behold, his blood is also required of us.
23 But they did not know that Joseph understood them, because there was an interpreter among them.
24 And Joseph departed from them, and wept; Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and imprisoned him in their sight.
25 Then he ordered Joseph to fill their sacks with wheat, and to return each of their money, putting it in his sack, and to give them food for the journey; and so he took over them.
26 And they put their wheat on their donkeys, and departed from there.
27 But when one of them opened it and took it from him to feed his donkey in the inn, he saw his money that was in the mouth of his sack.
28 And he said to his brothers, My money has been returned to me, and here it is in my sack. Then their hearts were troubled, and they were terrified and said to each other: What is this that God has done to us?
29 And when their father came to Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying:
30 That man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
31 And we said to him: We are honest men, we were never spies.
32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one does not appear, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 Then that 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 for the famine of your houses, and go,
34 and bring me your younger brother, so that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men; So I will give you your brother, and you will trade in the land.
35 And it came to pass, as they emptied their sacks, behold, in each man’s sack was the bundle of his money; And when they and their father saw the bundles of their money, they were afraid.
36 Then their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children; Joseph does not appear, nor does Simeon, and you will take Benjamin; All these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, You will put my two sons to death, if I do not give him back to you; Give it into my hand, and I will give it back to you.
38 And he said, My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if any disaster befalls you on the way you are going, you will bring my gray hairs down with pain to Sheol.
1 The famine was great in the land;
2 And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the wheat which they brought from Egypt, that his father said unto them, Go back, and buy us some food.
3 Judah answered, saying: That man protested to us with a resolute spirit, saying: You will not see my face unless you bring your brother with you.
4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food from you.
5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down; because that man said to us: You will not see my face unless you bring your brother with you.
6 Then Israel said, Why did you do me so much harm, telling the man that you had another brother?
7 And they answered: That man specifically asked us about ourselves, and about our family, saying: Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we declare to him according to these words. Could we have known that he would say to us: Bring your brother?
8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, Send the young man with me, and we will arise and go, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
9 I answer to you for him; You will ask me for an account. If I do not bring it back to you, and if I do not put it before you, I will be your guilt forever;
10 For if we had not stopped, we would certainly have returned twice already.
11 Then Israel, his father, answered them, “So it is, do it; Take the best of the land in your sacks, and bring to that man a present, a little balm, a little honey, aromas and myrrh, nuts and almonds.
12 And take in your hands a double amount of money, and carry in your hand the money returned in the mouths of your sacks; maybe it was a mistake.
13 Take also your brother, and arise, and return to that man.
14 And the Almighty God give you mercy before that man, and release to you your other brother, and this Benjamin. And if I have to be deprived of my children, let me know.
15 Then those men took the present, and took a double amount of money in their hand, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt, and presented themselves before Joseph.
16 And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and said to the steward of his house, Take those men home, and slaughter a beef and prepare it, for these men will eat with me at noon.
17 And 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 lay a trap for us, and to attack us, and to take us and our servants. donkeys
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 go down at the beginning to buy food.
21 And it came to pass, 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 his fair weight; and we have brought him back with us.
22 We have also brought other money in our hands to buy food; We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.
23 He answered them: Peace be with you, do not fear; your God and the God of your father gave you the treasure in your sacks; I received your money. And he brought Simeon out to them.
24 And he brought the man to the men to Joseph’s house; and he gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he fed their donkeys.
25 And they prepared the present while Joseph came at noon, because they had heard that they would eat bread there.
26 And Joseph came home, and they brought him the gift that was in his hand into the house, and they bowed down to him to the ground.
27 Then Joseph asked them how they were, and said, Is your father, the old man whom you mentioned, doing well? Does he still live?
28 And they answered, Well is it with your servant our father; he still lives. And they bowed down and made obeisance.
29 And Joseph lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom you spoke to me? And he said: May God have mercy on you, my son.
30 Then Joseph made haste, for his heart was moved because of 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 went out, and restrained himself, and said, Put bread.
32 And they set aside for him, and separately for themselves, and separately for the Egyptians who ate with him; for the Egyptians cannot eat bread with the Hebrews, which is an abomination to the Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the elder according to his birthright, and the younger according to his younger age; and there were those astonished men looking at each other.
34 And Joseph took meat from before him for them; but Benjamin’s portion was five times greater than any of theirs. And they drank, and were glad with him.
1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill these men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.
2 And you will put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the younger one’s sack, with his wheat money. And he did as Joseph said.
3 When morning came, the men were sent away with their donkeys.
4 When they had left the city, from which they had not yet gone, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up and follow those men; and when you overtake them, say to them: Why have you turned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?
5 Is this not the one my lord drinks from, and by which he usually divines? You did wrong in what you did.
6 When he caught up with them, he spoke these words to them.
7 And they answered him: Why does our lord say such things? so never make your servants.
8 Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; How, then, were we to steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?
9 He of your servants in whom the cup is found, let him die, and even we will be servants of my lord.
10 And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; He in whom it is found will be my servant, and you will be blameless.
11 So they hastened, and each one of them knocked down his sack to the ground, and each of them opened his own sack.
12 And he searched; from the greatest it began, and he ended in the least; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Then they tore their clothes, and each loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, who was still there, and they worshiped him on the ground.
15 And Joseph said to them, What action is this that you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me knows how to divine?
16 Then Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What will we talk about, or with what will we justify ourselves? God has found the wickedness of your servants; behold, we are servants of my lord, we, and also he in whose possession the cup was found.
17 Joseph answered: I would never do such a thing. The man in whose possession the cup was found, he will be my servant; Go in peace to your father.
18 Then Judah came to him and said, Alas, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
20 And we answered my lord: We have an old father, and a young brother, still small, who was born to him in his old age; and a brother of his died, and he alone was left of his mother’s children; and his father loves him.
21 And you said to your servants, Bring him to me, and I will set my eyes on him.
22 And we said to my lord, The young man cannot leave his father, for if he leaves him, his father will die.
23 And you said to your servants: Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.
24 So it came to pass, when we came to my father your servant, that we told him the words of my lord.
25 And our father said, Buy us again some food.
26 And we answered, We cannot go; If our brother goes with us, we will go; because we will not be able to see the face of the man, if he is not with us our younger brother.
27 Then your servant my father said to us: You know that my wife bore me two sons;
28 and the one left my presence, and I truly think that he was torn to pieces, and until now I have not seen him.
29 And if you also take this one from before me, and disaster befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
30 Now therefore, when I return to your servant my father, if the young man does not go with me, since his life is linked to his life,
31 it will come to pass that when he does not see the young man, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32 As your servant went out as surety for the young man with my father, saying: If I do not bring him back to you, then I will be guilty before my father forever;
33 I beseech you, therefore, that your servant now remain my lord’s servant in the place of the young man, and that the young man go with his brothers.
34 For how can I return to my father without the young man? I will not be able to, for I do not see the evil that will befall my father.
1 Joseph could no longer contain himself in front of all those who were near him, and he cried out: Make everyone leave my presence. And there was no one left with him, when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2 Then he began to cry aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh also heard.
3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; Is my father still alive? And his brothers could not answer him, because they were troubled before him.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come now to me. And they came closer. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Now, therefore, do not grieve or be sorry for having sold me here; because to preserve life God sent me before you.
6 For there have already been two years of famine in the middle of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you, to preserve your posterity on the earth, and to give you life by a great deliverance.
8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God, who made me father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt.
9 Make haste, go to my father and tell him, Thus says your son Joseph: God has made me ruler of all Egypt; come to me, don’t stop.
10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children, and your children’s children, your cattle and your herds, and everything you have.
11 And there I will feed you, for there are still five years of famine, so that you and your house and everything you have will not perish from poverty.
12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that my mouth speaks to you.
13 Therefore you will make known to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and hurry, and bring my father hither.
14 And he fell on the neck of his brother Benjamin, and wept; and Benjamin also wept on his neck.
15 And he kissed all his brothers, and wept over them; and then his brothers spoke with him.
16 And the news was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brothers have come. And this pleased the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants.
17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Tell your brothers, Do this: load your beasts, and go, return to the land of Canaan;
18 and take your father and your families and come to me, for I will give you the good things of the land of Egypt, and you will eat of the abundance of the land.
19 And you command: Do this: take from the land of Egypt chariots for your children and your wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 And do not worry about your belongings, because the wealth of the land of Egypt will be yours.
21 And the children of Israel did so; And Joseph gave them chariots according to Pharaoh’s command, and he supplied them with provisions for the journey.
22 To each of them he gave changes of clothes, and to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothes.
23 And he sent this to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys loaded with wheat, and bread and food, for his father on the way.
24 And he sent away his brothers, and they departed. And he said to them: Do not quarrel along the way.
25 And they came up out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob his father.
26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive; and he is lord over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart was grieved, because he did not believe them.
27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had spoken to them; And Jacob seeing the chariots that Joseph was sending to carry him, his spirit revived.
28 Then Israel said, Enough; Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die.
1 Israel went out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke to Israel in visions by night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he answered: Here I am.
3 And 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 a great nation.
4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back; and the hand of Joseph will close your eyes.
5 And Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the children of Israel took his father Jacob, and his children, and his wives, in the chariots that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with them;
7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him; his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who entered Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Falú, Hezron and Carmi.
10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanite woman.
11 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.
12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zara; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Job and Simron.
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.
15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, and also her daughter Dinah; thirty-three people, all of her sons and daughters.
16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Hagi, Ezbon, Shuni, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher: Imna, Ishua, Ishui, Beriah, and Serah their sister. Beriah’s sons: Heber and Malkiel.
18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to her daughter Leah, and these she bore to Jacob; for all sixteen people.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah the priest of On, bore to him.
21 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Roz, Mupim, Hupim and Ard.
22 These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; for all fourteen people.
23 The sons of Dan: Husim.
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer and Shilem.
25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob; for all seven people.
26 All the people who came with Jacob to Egypt, from his loins, without the wives of Jacob’s sons, all the people were sixty-six.
27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, two persons. All the people of the house of Jacob who entered Egypt were seventy.
28 And Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to come and see him in Goshen; and they came to the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph yoked his chariot and came to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he appeared to him, and fell on 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 I know that you are still alive.
31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and I will say to him, My brothers and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32 And men are shepherds of sheep, because they are cattlemen; and they have brought their sheep and their herds, and everything they had.
33 And when Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your business?
34 then you will say: Men of cattle have been your servants from our youth until now, we and our fathers; so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because to the Egyptians every shepherd of sheep is an abomination.
1 Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their sheep and their herds, with all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And of the last of his brothers he took five men, and he presented them before Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your trade? And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds of sheep, as are we and our fathers.”
4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in this land; for there is no pasture for the sheep of your servants, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; Therefore we beg you now to allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6 The land of Egypt is before you; make your father and your brothers live in the best of the land; dwell in the land of Goshen; And if you understand that there are capable men among them, make them stewards of my cattle.
7 Joseph also brought in his father Jacob, and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of your life?
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; The days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers’ life in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh’s presence.
11 So Joseph made his father and his brothers live, and gave them possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.
12 And Joseph fed his father and his brothers, and all his father’s house, with bread, according to the number of his sons.
13 There was no bread in all the land, and the famine was very severe, so the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted with famine.
14 And 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 of the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread; Why will we die in front of you, because the money has run out?
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you your cattle, if the money is gone.
17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food for horses, and for the cattle of the sheep, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys; and he provided them with bread for all their livestock that year.
18 When that year was over, they came to him in the second year and said to him: We do not conceal from our lord that the money has certainly run out; The cattle are also our lord’s; nothing has been left before our lord but our bodies and our land.
19 Why will we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may live and not die, and the earth not be desolate.
20 Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians each sold his land, because the famine was severe among them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 And he brought the people into the cities from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.
22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because the priests had Pharaoh’s ration, and they ate the ration that Pharaoh gave them; That’s why they didn’t sell their land.
23 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh; See seed here, and you will sow the earth.
24 Of the fruits you will give the fifth to Pharaoh, and the four parts will be yours to sow the fields, and for your maintenance, and for those who are in your houses, and for your children to eat.
25 And they answered, You have given us life; Let us find favor in the eyes of our lord, and let us be servants of Pharaoh.
26 Then Joseph made it a law to this day over the land of Egypt, appointing Pharaoh the fifth, except only the land of the priests, which was not Pharaoh’s.
27 So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they took possession of it, and increased, and multiplied greatly.
28 And 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 And the days came for Israel to die, and he called Joseph his son, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, I pray thee, put thy hand under my thigh, and shalt show me mercy and truth. I beg you not to bury me in Egypt.
30 But when I sleep with my parents, you will take me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb. And Joseph answered, I will do as you say.
31 And Israel said, Swear to me. And Joseph swore to him. Then Israel leaned over the head of the bed.
1 It came to pass after these things that they said to Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And he made it known to Jacob, saying, Behold, your son Joseph is coming to you. Then Israel was strong, and sat down on the bed,
3 and said to Joseph: The Almighty God appeared to me in Light in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 and said to me: Behold, I will make you increase, and I will multiply you , and I will make you a race of nations; and I will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting inheritance.
5 And now your two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you into the land of Egypt, are mine; Like Reuben and Simeon, they will be mine.
6 And those whom you have begotten after them will be yours; They will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritances.
7 Because when I was coming from Padan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan, on the way, about half a league of land on my way to Ephrathah; and I buried her there on the road to Ephrathah, which is Bethlehem.
8 And Israel saw the sons of Joseph, and said, Who are these?
9 And Joseph said to his father, They are my children, whom God has given me here. And he said, Bring them now to me, and I will bless them.
10 And Israel’s eyes were so heavy with old age that she could not see. So she made them come to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
11 And Israel said to Joseph, I did not think I would see your face, and behold, God has also shown me your descendants.
12 Then Joseph took them out from between his knees, and bowed himself to the ground.
13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim on his right hand, on the left hand of Israel, and Manasseh on his left hand, on the right hand of Israel; and brought them close to him.
14 Then Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, who was the youngest, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, placing his hands on purpose, although Manasseh was his firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, saying: The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has sustained me since I was born until this day,
16 the Angel who frees me from all evil, bless these young men; and let my name be perpetuated in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them multiply greatly in the midst of the earth.
17 But when Joseph saw that his father placed her right hand on Ephraim’s head, this displeased him; and he took hold of the hand of his father, to change it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.
19 But his father would not, and he said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also will become a people, and he also will be exalted; But his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will form a multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you will Israel bless, saying, God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. And he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and he will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
22 And I have given you a portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
1 And Jacob called his sons, and said, Come together, and I will tell you what shall befall you in the days to come.
2 Gather together and listen, you sons of Jacob, and listen to your father Israel.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the beginning of my strength; Principal in dignity, principal in power.
4 Mighty as the waters, you will not be the ruler, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you debased yourself, ascending to my stand.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of iniquity his weapons.
6 Let my soul not enter into his counsel, nor let my spirit gather in his company. For in his fury they slew men, and in his rashness they hamstrung bulls.
7 Cursed is his fury, for he was fierce; And his anger, which was harsh. I will separate them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, your brothers will praise you; Your hand on the neck of your enemies; The sons of your father will bow down to you.
9 Lion’s cub, Judah; You came up from the dam, my son. He bowed himself, he lay down like a lion, Just like an old lion: who will awaken him?
10 The scepter will not be taken away from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; And the people will gather to him.
11 Binding his colt to the vine, and the son of his donkey to the stump, He washed his garment in wine, and his cloak in the blood of grapes.
12 His eyes were red with wine, and his teeth were white with milk.
13 Zebulun will dwell in seaports; He will be a harbor for ships, and the border of him will be as far as Sidon.
14 Issachar, a strong donkey that lies down between the sheepfolds;
15 And he saw that the rest was good, and that the land was pleasant; And he lowered his shoulder to carry, And served in tribute.
16 Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, and causes the rider to fall backwards.
18 I have waited for your salvation, O Lord.
19 Gad, an army will attack him; But he will attack at the end.
20 The bread of Asher will be rich, and it will give pleasure to the king.
21 Naphtali, a loose deer, Who will pronounce beautiful sayings.
22 Joseph is a fruitful branch, a fruitful branch by a fountain, whose shoots spread over the wall.
23 They made him bitter, they shot him with arrows, and the archers hated him;
24 But his bow stood strong, And the arms of his hands 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 the Almighty God, who will bless you With blessings from the heavens above, With blessings from the deep below, With blessings from the breasts and the womb.
26 Your father’s blessings were greater than the blessings of my parents; Until the end of the everlasting hills They will be on the head of Joseph, And on the forehead of him who was separated from his brothers.
27 Benjamin is a ravening wolf; In the morning he will eat the prey, and in the evening he will divide the spoil
28 These were all the twelve tribes of Israel, and this was what their father said to them when he blessed them; He blessed each one by his blessing.
29 Then he commanded them, and said to them, I am going to be gathered unto my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite. Hittite, for a burial plot.
31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; There they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; There I also buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and the cave that is in it belonged to the sons of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had finished giving commandments to his sons, he put his feet on the bed, and expired, and was reunited with his parents.
1 Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the doctors to embalm his father; and the doctors embalmed Israel.
3 And they completed forty days for him, because that was how they fulfilled the days of those who were embalmed, and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were over, Joseph spoke to those of Pharaoh’s house, saying, If I have now found favor in your eyes, I pray you, speak in Pharaoh’s ears, saying:
5 My father made me swear, saying: Behold, I am going to die; In the tomb that I dug for me in the land of Canaan, there you will bury me; I pray, therefore, that I go now and bury my father, and I will return.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go and bury your father, as he made you swear.
7 Then Joseph went up to bury his father; And all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and the house of his father. ; They only left his children, his sheep, and his herds in the land of Goshen.
9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, and a very large squadron became.
10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the other side of the Jordan, and there they mourned with great and very sad lamentation; and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the weeping in the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a great weeping of the Egyptians; therefore his name was called Abel-mizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.
12 So they made his sons with him as he had commanded them;
13 So his sons took him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the same field, as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite, east of Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those who went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried him.
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps Joseph will hate us and will repay us for all the evil we did to him.
16 And they sent to Joseph to say: Your father commanded before his death, saying:
17 Thus you shall say to Joseph: I pray you, forgive now the wickedness of your brothers and their sin, because they treated you badly; Therefore now we beg you to forgive the wickedness of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept while they spoke.
18 His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, Here we are your servants.
19 And Joseph answered them, Fear not; Am I in God’s place?
20 You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about what we see today, to keep many people alive.
21 Now therefore do not be afraid; I will support you and your children. So he comforted them, and he spoke to their hearts.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s house; and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; Also the children of Machir son of Manasseh were raised on Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am going to die; but God will surely visit you, and he will bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you will carry away my bones from here.
26 And Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt
