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GENESIS World's creation in seven days 18 to rule over the day and over the night, When God began to create the heavens and to separate the light from the darkness. and the earth-- the earth was without God saw how good it was. shape or form, it was dark over the deep 'There was evening and there was mornsea, and God's wind swept over the wa- ing: the fourth day. ters--God said, "Let there be light." And 20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with so light appeared. "God saw how good the living things, and let birds fly above the earth light was. God separated the light from the up in the dome of the sky." 2God created darkness. God named the light Day and the great sea animals and all the tiny living the darkness Night. things that swarm in the waters, each accordThere was evening and there was morn- ing to its kind, and all the winged birds, each ing: the first day. according to its kind. God saw how good it God said, "Let there be a dome in the was. 22 Then God blessed them: "Be fertile middle of the waters to separate the waters and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, from each other." God made the dome and and let the birds multiply on the earth." separated the waters under the dome from 23 There was evening and there was mornthe waters above the dome. And it happened ing: the fifth day. in that way. God named the dome Sky. 24God said, "Let the earth produce every There was evening and there was morn- kind of living thing: livestock, crawling ing: the second day. things, and wildlife." And that's what hap'God said, "Let the waters under the skypened. 25 God made every kind of wildlife, come together into one place so that the every kind of livestock, and every kind of dry land can appear." And that's what hap- creature that crawls on the ground. God pened. 10 God named the dry land Earth, saw how good it was. 26 Then God said, and he named the gathered waters Seas. "Let us make humanity in our image to reGod saw how good it was. "God said, "Let semble us so that they may take charge of the earth grow plant life: plants yielding the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the seeds and fruit trees bearing fruit with livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling seeds inside it, each according to its kind things on earth." throughout the earth." And that's what 27 God created humanity happened. The earth produced plant life: in God's own image, plants yielding seeds, each according to its in the divine image God created them, kind, and trees bearing fruit with seeds in- male and female God created them. side it, each according to its kind. God saw 28 God blessed them and said to them, how good it was. "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and 13 There was evening and there was morn- master it. Take charge of the fish of the sea, ing: the third day. the birds of the sky, and everything crawlGod said, "Let there be lights in the ing on the ground." 29Then God said, "I now dome of the sky to separate the day from give to you all the plants on the earth that the night. They will mark events, sacred sea- yield seeds and all the trees whose fruit sons, days, and years. They will be lights in produces its seeds within it. These will be the dome of the sky to shine on the earth." your food. 30 To all wildlife, to all the birds And that's what happened. God made the of the sky, and to everything crawling on stars and two great lights: the larger light the ground-to everything that breathesto rule over the day and the smaller light I give all the green grasses for food." And to rule over the night. "God put them in that's what happened. 31 God saw everythe dome of the sky to shine on the earth, thing he had made: it was supremely good. o Or In the beginning, God created "Heb has singular him, referring to humanity.

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...... Genesis 2:1 There was evening and there was morning: the sixth day. of the garden's trees; "but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it, you will The heavens and the earth and all who die!" 18Then the LORD God said, "It's not 2 ad. on good the sixth day God completed all the work that he had done, and on the seventh day God rested from all the work that he had done. 3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation. "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. 2 World's creation in the garden On the day the LORD God made earth and sky-"before any wild plants appeared on the earth, and before any field crops grew, because the LORD God hadn't yet sent rain on the earth and there was still no human being to farm the fertile land, "though a stream rose from the earth and watered all of the fertile land-'the LORD God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile lands and blew life's breath into his nostrils. The human came to life. The LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east and put there the human he had formed. In the fertile land, the LORD God grew every beautiful tree with edible fruit, and also he grew the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides into four headwaters. "The name of the first river is the Pishon. It flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12That land's gold is pure, and the land also has sweetsmelling resins and gemstones.h 13The name of the second river is the Gihon. It flows around the entire land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is the Tigris, flowing east of Assyria; and the name of the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 The LORD God took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden to farm it and to take care of it. 16 The LORD God commanded the human, "Eat your fill from all him a helper that is perfect for him." 19So the LORD God formed from the fertile land all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky and brought them to the human to see what he would name them. The human gave each living being its name. 20 The human named all the livestock, all the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals. But a helper perfect for him was nowhere to be found. 21So the LORD God put the human into a deep and heavy sleep, and took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh over it. 22 With the rib taken from the human, the LORD God fashioned a woman and brought her to the human being. 23 The human1 said, "This one finally is bone from my bones and flesh from: my flesh. She will be called a woman' because from a man she was taken." 24 This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 The two of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they weren't embarrassed. Knowledge, not eternal life The snake was the most intelligent' of had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say that you shouldn't eat from any tree in the garden?" 2 The woman said to the snake, "We may eat the fruit of the garden's trees 3but not the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden. God said, 'Don't eat from it, and don't touch it, or you will die." "The snake said to the woman, "You won't die! 5God knows that on the day you eat from it, you will see clearly and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." "The woman saw that the tree was beautiful with delicious food and that the tree would provide wisdom, so she took some of its LXX, Sam, Syr; MT seventh Or from all his work, which God created to do Or man (Heb adam) *Heb adam Heb adamah Heb uncertain Or man (Heb adam) Or wife (Heb ishshah) kOr husband (Heb ish) Heb sounds like naked.

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Genesis 4:7 : fruit and ate it, and also gave some to her cursed is the ground because of you; husband, who was with her, and he ate it. in pain you will eat from it ?Then they both saw clearly and knew that every day of your life. they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves 18 Weeds and thistles will grow for you, together and made garments for them- even as you eat the field's plants; selves. 19 by the sweat of your face (r) During that day's cool evening breeze, you will eat breadthey heard the sound of the LORD God until you return to the fertile land, walking in the garden; and the man and his since from it you were taken; wife hid themselves from the LORD God in you are soil, the middle of the garden's trees. 'The LORD to the soil you will return." God called to the man and said to him, 20 The man named his wife Eve because "Where are you?" she is the mother of everyone who lives. 10 The man" replied, "I heard your sound 21 The LORD God made the man and his wife in the garden; I was afraid because I was leather clothes and dressed them. 22 The naked, and I hid myself." LORD God said, "The human being has now "He said, "Who told you that you were become like one of us, knowing good and naked? Did you eat from the tree, which I evil. Now so he doesn't stretch out his hand commanded you not to eat?" and take also from the tree of life and eat and 12 The man said, "The woman you gave live forever." 23 the LORD God sent him out me, she gave me some fruit" from the tree, of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land and I ate." from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the 13 The LORD God said to the woman, human. To the east of the garden of Eden, he "What have you done?!" stationed winged creatures wielding flaming And the woman said, "The snake tricked swords to guard the way to the tree of life. me, and I ate." 14 The LORD God said to the snake, Cain and Abel "Because you did this, The man Adam knew his wife Eve intiyou are the one cursed mately. She became pregnant and gave out of all the farm animals, birth to Cain, and said, "I have given life out of all the wild animals. to' a man with the LORD's help." She gave On your belly you will crawl, birth a second time to Cain's brother Abel. and dust you will eat Abel cared for the flocks, and Cain farmed every day of your life. the fertile land. 15 I will put contempt 3Some time later, Cain presented an ofbetween you and the woman, fering to the LORD from the land's crops between your offspring and hers. "while Abel presented his flock's oldest They will strike your head, offspring with their fat. The LORD looked but you will strike at their heels." favorably on Abel and his sacrifice Sbut 16 To the woman he said, didn't look favorably on Cain and his sac"I will make your pregnancy very painful; rifice. Cain became very angry and looked in pain you will bear children. resentful. The LORD said to Cain, "Why are You will desire your husband, you angry, and why do you look so resentbut he will rule over you." ful? 'If you do the right thing, won't you 17To the man he said, "Because you lis- be accepted? But if you don't do the right tened to your wife's voice and you ate from thing, sin will be waiting at the door ready the tree that I commanded, "You will not eat to strike! It will entice you, but you must from it,' rule over it." Or He "Heb lacks some fruit. 'Heb sounds like live. Por man (Heb adam) or created; Heb sounds similar to O Cain. "LXX, Syr, Vulg, Sam; MT lacks Let's go out to the field.

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Genesis 4:8 8 Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go wives of Lamech, out to the field." When they were in the pay attention to my words: field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and I killed a man for wounding me, killed him. a boy for striking me; 'The LORD said to Cain, "Where is your 24so Cain will be paid back seven times brother Abel?" and Lamech seventy-seven times." Cain said, "I don't know. Am I my broth- 25 Adam knew his wife intimately again, er's guardian?" and she gave birth to a son. She named him 10 The LORD said, "What did you do? The Seth "because God has given me another voice of your brother's blood is crying to child in place of Abel whom Cain killed." me from the ground. "You are now cursed 26 Seth also fathered a son and named him from the ground that opened its mouth to Enosh. At that time, people began to wortake your brother's blood from your hand. ship in the LORD's name. 12 When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will Adam's descendants become a roving nomad on the earth." [This is the record of Adam's descend 13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment Jants. On the day God created humanis more than I can bear. Now that you've ity, he made them to resemble God 'and driven me away from the fertile land and I created them male and female. He blessed am hidden from your presence, I'm about to them and called them humanity' on the day become a roving nomad on the earth, and they were created. 'When Adam was 130 anyone who finds me will kill me." years old, he became the father of a son in 15 The LORD said to him, "It won't his image, resembling him, and named him happen;' anyone who kills Cain will be paid Seth. "After Seth's birth, Adam lived 800 back seven times." The LORD put a sign on years; he had other sons and daughters. "In Cain so that no one who found him would all, Adam lived 930 years, and he died. assault him. 16 Cain left the LORD's pres- When Seth was 105 years old, he ence, and he settled down in the land of became the father of Enosh. After the Nod, east of Eden. birth of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years; and he had other sons and daughters. In all, Cain's descendants Seth lived 912 years, and he died. 17 Cain knew his wife intimately. She be- 'When Enosh was 90 years old, he came pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. became the father of Kenan. 1deg After KeCain built a city and named the city after nan's birth, Enosh lived 815 years; and his son Enoch. he had other sons and daughters. "In 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad fathered all, Enosh lived 905 years, and he died. Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, 12When Kenan was 70 years old, he beand Methushael fathered Lamech. "Lamech came the father of Mahalalel. 13After the took two wives, the first named Adah and the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years; second Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he and he had other sons and daughters. In was the ancestor of those who live in tents all, Kenan lived 910 years, and he died. and own livestock. 21His brother's name was 15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, Jubal; he was the ancestor of those who play he became the father of Jared. 16 After stringed and wind instruments.22 Zillah also Jared's birth, Mahalalel lived 830 years; gave birth to Tubal-cain, the ancestor oft and he had other sons and daughters. blacksmiths and all artisans of bronze and 17 In all, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and iron. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah. he died. 23 Lamech said to his wives, 18 When Jared was 162 years old, he be"Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; came the father of Enoch. "After Enoch's O`LXX, Syr, Vulg; MT therefore 'Heb lacks the ancestor of. Sounds like the Heb verb gave 'Heb adam

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Genesis 7:1 birth, Jared lived 800 years, and he had ways completely evil. The LORD regretted other sons and daughters. 20 In all, Jared making human beings on the earth, and he lived 962 years, and he died. was heartbroken. 'So the LORD said, "I will 21When Enoch was 65 years old, he be- wipe off of the land the human race that I've came the father of Methuselah. 22 Enoch created: from human beings to livestock to walked with God. After Methuselah's the crawling things to the birds in the skies, birth, Enoch lived 300 years; and he had because I regret I ever made them." But as other sons and daughters. 23 In all, Enoch for Noah, the LORD approved of him. lived 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God 'These are Noah's descendants. In his and disappeared because God took him. generation, Noah was a moral and exem 25When Methuselah was 187 years plary man; he walked with God. 1degNoah old, he became the father of Lamech. had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 26 After Lamech's birth, Methuselah "In God's sight, the earth had become corlived 782 years; and he had other sons rupt and was filled with violence. God saw and daughters. 27 In all, Methuselah lived that the earth was corrupt, because all crea969 years, and he died. tures behaved corruptly on the earth. 28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he 3God said to Noah, "The end has come became the father of a son and named for all creatures, since they have filled the him Noah, saying, "This one will give us earth with violence. I am now about to dereliefw from our hard work, from the pain stroy them along with the earth, so make in our hands, because of the fertile land a wooden ark. Make the ark with nesting that the LORD cursed." 30 After Noah's places and cover it inside and out with tar. birth, Lamech lived 595 years; and he 15 This is how you should make it: four hunhad other sons and daughters. "In all, dred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, Lamech lived 777 years, and he died. and forty-five feet high. Make a roof for 32 When Noah was 500 years old, the ark and complete it one foot from the Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, top. Put a door in its side. In the hold below, and Japheth. make the second and third decks. 17"I am now bringing the floodwaters over Ancient heroes the earth to destroy everything under the sky When the number of people started to that breathes. Everything on earth is about increase throughout the fertile land, to take its last breath. 18 But I will set up my daughters were born to them. The divine covenant with you. You will go into the ark beings saw how beautiful these human together with your sons, your wife, and your women were, so they married the ones they sons' wives. "From all living things--from chose. "The LORD said, "My breath will not all creatures--you are to bring a pair, male remain in humans forever, because they and female, into the ark with you to keep are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty them alive. 20From each kind of bird, from years." "In those days, giants' lived on the each kind of livestock, and from each kind of earth and also afterward, when divine be- everything that crawls on the ground-a pair ings and human daughters had sexual rela- from each will go in with you to stay alive. tions and gave birth to children. These were 2 Take some from every kind of food and the ancient heroes, famous men. stow it as food for you and for the animals." 22 Noah did everything exactly as God Great flood commanded him. 5The LORD saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the every idea their minds thought up was al- lark with your whole household, because WHeb resembles the sound of Noah's name. *Or spirit or the Nephilim ?Heb Noah Or ark of gopher wood, an O unknown species of tree or window 'Heb uncertain

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Genesis 7:2 among this generation I've seen that you are the things crawling on the ground, birds, a moral man. ?From every clean animal, take livestock, wild animals, everything swarmseven pairs, a male and his mate; and from ing on the ground, and every human being. every unclean animal, take one pair, a male 22 Everything on dry land with life's breath and his mate; and from the birds in the sky in its nostrils died. 23 God wiped away every as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so living thing that was on the fertile landthat their offspring will survive throughout from human beings to livestock to crawling the earth. In seven days from now I will things to birds in the sky. They were wiped send rain on the earth for forty days and off the earth. Only Noah and those with forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile him in the ark were left. 24 The waters rose land every living thing that I have made." over the earth for one hundred fifty days. 5Noah did everything the LORD commanded him. O God remembered Noah, all those alive, Noah was 600 years old when the flood- and all the animals with him in the ark. waters arrived on earth. 'Noah, his sons, God sent a wind over the earth so that the his wife, and his sons' wives with him en- waters receded. The springs of the deep tered the ark to escape the floodwaters. sea and the skies closed up. The skies held 8 From the clean and unclean animals, from back the rain. The waters receded gradually the birds and everything crawling on the from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, ground, 'two of each, male and female, the waters decreased; and in the seventh went into the ark with Noah, just as God month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came commanded Noah. 1oAfter seven days, the to rest on the Ararat mountains. "The waters floodwaters arrived on the earth."'In the six decreased gradually until the tenth month, hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second and on the first day of the tenth month the month, on the seventeenth day-on that mountain peaks appeared. day all the springs of the deep sea erupted. After forty days, Noah opened the winand the windows in the skies opened. ?It dow of the ark that he had made. 'He sent rained upon the earth forty days and forty out a raven, and it flew back and forth until nights. 13That same day Noah, with his sons the waters over the entire earth had dried Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and up. Then he sent out a dove to see if the his sons' three wives, went into the ark. waters on all of the fertile land had sub14 They and every kind of animal--every sided, but the dove found no place to set kind of livestock, every kind that crawls its foot. It returned to him in the ark since on the ground, every kind of birdd - Sthey waters still covered the entire earth. Noah came to Noah and entered the ark, two of stretched out his hand, took it, and brought every creature that breathes. 16 Male and it back into the ark. 1degHe waited seven female of every creature went in, just as more days and sent the dove out from the God had commanded him. Then the LORD ark again. "The dove came back to him in closed the door behind them. the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in 17 The flood remained on the earth for its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, were subsiding from the earth. He waited and it rode high above the earth. 18The seven more days and sent out the dove, but waters rose and spread out over the earth. it didn't come back to him again. 13 In Noah's The ark floated on the surface of the wa- six hundred first year, on the first day of the ters. "'The waters rose even higher over first month, the waters dried up from the the earth; they covered all of the highest earth. Noah removed the ark's hatch and mountains under the sky. 20 The waters rose saw that the surface of the fertile land had twenty-three feet high, covering the moun- dried up. 14In the second month, on the sevtains. 21 Every creature took its last breath: enteenth day, the earth was dry. O "LXX; MT every bird, every winged thing EURHeb lacks the door. For the windows of the skies

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Genesis 9:23: 15 God spoke to Noah, 16"Go out of the Whoever sheds human blood, ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your by a human his blood will be shed; sons' wives with you. "Bring out with you for in the divine image all the animals of every kind-birds, live- God made human beings. stock, everything crawling on the ground - As for you, be fertile and multiply. Popuso that they may populate the earth, be late the earth and multiply in it." 8God said fertile, and multiply on the earth." 18 So to Noah and to his sons with him, 941 am Noah went out of the ark with his sons, his now setting up my covenant with you, with wife, and his sons' wives. All the animals, your descendants, and with every living all the livestock, all the birds, and every- being with you--with the birds, with the thing crawling on the ground, came out of large animals, and with all the animals of the ark by their families. the earth, leaving the ark with you." "I will set up my covenant with you so that never God's promise for the earth again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. 20 Noah built an altar to the LORD. He There will never again be a flood to destroy took some of the clean large animals and the earth." some of the clean birds, and placed entirely 2 God said, "This is the symbol of the burned offerings on the altar. 2The LORD covenant that I am drawing up between me smelled the pleasing scent, and the LORD and you and every living thing with you, on thought to himself, I will not curse the fer- behalf of every future generation. 13 I have tile land anymore because of human beings placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the since the ideas of the human mind are evil symbol of the covenant between me and from their youth. I will never again destroy the earth. 14When I bring clouds over the every living thing as I have done. earth and the bow appears in the clouds, 22 As long as the earth exists, 151 will remember the covenant between seedtime and harvest, me and you and every living being among cold and hot, all the creatures. Floodwaters will never summer and autumn, again destroy all creatures. 16 The bow will day and night be in the clouds, and upon seeing it I will will not cease. remember the enduring covenant between God and every living being of all the earth's God's covenant with all life creatures." "7God said to Noah, "This is the God blessed Noah and his sons and said symbol of the covenant that I have set up to them, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the between me and all creatures on earth." earth. All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you all the birds in the Shem's blessing and Canaan's curse skies, everything crawling on the ground, 18 Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and all of the sea's fish. They are in your came out of the ark. Now Ham was Canaan's power. 'Everything that lives and moves father. 19 These were Noah's three sons, and will be your food. Just as I gave you the from them the whole earth was populated. green grasses, I now give you everything. 2degNoah, a farmer, made a new start and "However, you must not eat meat with its planted a vineyard. 21He drank some of life, its blood, in it. the wine, became drunk, and took off his 5I will surely demand your blood clothes in his tent. 22 Ham, Canaan's father, for a human life, saw his father naked and told his two brothfrom every living thing I will demand it. ers who were outside. 23Shem and Japheth From humans, from a man for his brother, took a robe, threw it over their shoulders, I will demand something walked backward, and covered their naked for a human life. father without looking at him because they O SLXX; MT lacks all the livestock. "LXX; MT includes for all the animals of the earth.

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...... O...... Genesis 9:24 turned away. 24 When Noah woke up from his wine, he discovered what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan: the lowest servant he will be for his brothers." 26 He also said, "Bless the LORD, the God of Shem; Canaan will be his servant. 27 May God give space' to Japheth; he will live in Shem's tents, and Canaan will be his servant." 28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. 29 In all, Noah lived 950 years; then he died. Noah's descendants 8 Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed. 19 The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha. 20These are Ham's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 21 Children were also born to Shem the father of all Eber's children and Japheth's older brother. 22 Shem's sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg, because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan's sons. 30 Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains. 31These are Shem's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 32 These are the clans of Noah's sons according to their generations and their nations. From them the earth's nations branched out after the flood. These are the descendants of Noah's Ham, and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood. 2Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 5From these the islandnations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations. "Ham's sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 'Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan. Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth. "The LORD saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, "Like Nimrod, whom the LORD Origin of languages and cultures saw as a great hunter." 10The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. "Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah, 12and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines came. All people on the earth had one language and the same words. "When they traveled east," they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar. "They said, "Come, let's build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let's make a name for ourselves so that we won't be dispersed over all the earth." 15 Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth, 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, "the Hivites, the 5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built. 'And Heb sounds like Japheth. LXX, Sam, 1 Chron 1:7; MT Dodanim Or Casluhim, from which the Philistines set out, and Caphtorim Or separation "Heb lacks people. "Or from the east

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the LORD said, "There is now one people and they all have one language. This is what they have begun to do, and now all that they plan to do will be possible for them. 'Come, let's go down and mix up their language there so they won't understand each other's language." Then the LORD dispersed them from there over all of the earth, and they stopped building the city. "Therefore, it is named Babel, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD dispersed them over all the earth. Shem's descendants 10 These are Shem's descendants. 14When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. 15 After Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 years; he had other sons and daughters. 16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. "After Peleg was born, Eber lived 430 years; he had other sons and daughters. 18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. 19 After Reu was born, Peleg lived 209 years; he had other sons and daughters. 20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. 21After Serug was born, Reu lived 207 years; he had other sons and daughters. 22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. 23 After Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 years; he had other sons and daughters. 9 24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. 25 After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years; he had other sons and daughters. Genesis 12:8 26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. When Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood. "After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived 500 years; he had other sons and daughters. 12 When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. 13 After Shelah was born, lived 403 Abram's family moves to Canaan LORD said to Abram, "Leave years, he had other spas and daughters. 12 land, your family, and your father's 27 These are Terah's descendants. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died while with his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor both married; Abram's wife was Sarai, and Nahor's wife was Milcah the daughter of Haran, father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Sarai was unable to have children. 31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (son of Haran), and his son Abram's wife, Sarai his daughterin-law. They left Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan, and arriving at Haran, they settled there. 32Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. household for the land that I will show you. 2I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing. "q 3I will bless those who bless you, those who curse you I will curse; all the families of earth will be blessed because of you." "Abram left just as the LORD told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. 5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all of their possessions, and those who became members of their household in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, 'Abram traveled through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites lived in the land at that time. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I give this land to your descendants," so Abram built an altar there to the LORD who appeared to him. From there he traveled toward the mountains east of Bethel, and Heb balal, wordplay on Babel POr birthplace Or will bless themselves because of you; or will find a blessing because of you ......

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Genesis 12:9 10 pitched his tent with Bethel on the west Now Lot, who traveled with Abram, also and Ai on the east. There he built an altar had flocks, cattle, and tents. They had so to the LORD and worshipped in the LORD's many possessions between them that the name. 'Then Abram set out toward the arid land couldn't support both of them. They southern plain, making and breaking camp could no longer live together. 'Conflicts as he went. broke out between those herding Abram's livestock and those herding Lot's livestock. Abram and Sarai visit Egypt At that time the Canaanites and the Perizz10 When a famine struck the land, Abram ites lived in the land. went down toward Egypt to live as an im- Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have dismigrant since the famine was so severe in putes between me and you and between the land. "Just before he arrived in Egypt, our herders since we are relatives. 'Isn't the he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a whole land in front of you? Let's separate. If good-looking woman. When the Egyp- you go north, I will go south; and if you go tians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife, south, I will go north." 1degLot looked up and and they will kill me but let you live. 13 So saw the entire Jordan Valley. All of it was tell them you are my sister so that they will well irrigated, like the garden of the LORD, treat me well for your sake, and I will sur- like the land of Egypt, as far as Zoar (this vive because of you." was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyp- Gomorrah). "So Lot chose for himself the tians saw how beautiful his wife was. When entire Jordan Valley. Lot set out toward the Pharaoh's princes saw her, they praised east, and they separated from each other. her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken 2 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, into Pharaoh's household. 16 Things went and Lot settled near the cities of the valley well for Abram because of her: he acquired and pitched his tent close to Sodom. 13 The flocks, cattle, male donkeys, men servants, citizens of Sodom were very evil and sinful women servants, female donkeys, and cam- against the LORD. els. Then the LORD struck Pharaoh and 4After Lot separated from him, the LORD his household with severe plagues because said to Abram, "From the place where you of Abram's wife Sarai. 18 So Pharaoh sum- are standing, look up and gaze to the north, moned Abram and said, "What's this you've south, east, and west, because all the land done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was that you see I give you and your descendants your wife? Why did you say, 'She's my sis- forever. 16I will make your descendants like ter, so that I made her my wife? Now, here's the dust of the earth. If someone could count your wife. Take her and go!" 20 Pharaoh gave the bits of dust on the earth, then they could his men orders concerning Abram, and they also count your descendants. "Stand up and expelled him with his wife and everything walk around through the length and breadth he had. of the land because I am giving it to you." 18 So Abram packed his tent and went and Abram and Lot separate settled by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron. 12 Abram went up from Egypt toward There he built an altar to the LORD. the arid southern plain with his wife, with everything he had, and with Abram rescues Lot Lot. ?Abram was very wealthy in live- 17. While Amraphel was king of Shinar, stock, silver, and gold. 3Abram traveled, Ellasar's King Arioch, Elam's King making and breaking camp, from the arid Chedorlaomer, and Goiim's King Tidal desouthen plain to Bethel and to the sacred clared war on Sodom's King Bera, Gomorplace there, where he had first pitched his rah's King Birsha, Admah's King Shinab, tent between Bethel and Ai, that is, to the Zeboiim's King Shemeber, and the king place at which he had earlier built the altar. of Bela, that is, Zoar. ?These latter kings There he worshipped in the LORD's name. formed an alliance in the Siddim Valley

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11 (that is, the Dead Sea'). "For twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they revolted. "In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings of his alliance came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, and the Horites in the mountains of Seir as far as El-paran near the desert. 'Then they turned back, came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and attacked the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar. Genesis 15:8 of Salem and the priest of El Elyons had brought bread and wine, 19 and he blessed him, "Bless Abram by El Elyon, creator of heaven and earth; 20 bless El Elyon, who gave you the victory over your enemies." Abram gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything. "Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the property for yourself." 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I promised the LORD, El Elyon, creator of heaven and earth, 23that I wouldn't take even a thread or a sandal strap from anything that was yours so that you couldn't say, 'I'm the one who made Abram rich.' 24The only exception is that the young men may keep whatever they have taken to eat, and the men who went with me-Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre-may keep their share." Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bera (that is, Zoar) took up battle positions in the Siddim Valley 'against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar, four kings against five. 10 Now the Siddim Valley was filled with tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah retreated, they fell into them; and the rest fled to the mountains. "They took God's covenant with Abram everything from Sodom and Gomorrah, 15 came to Abram in a vision, "Don't be After these events, the LORD's word afraid, Abram. I am your protector. Your reward will be very great." including its food supplies, and left. 12They also took Lot, Abram's nephew who lived in Sodom, and everything he owned, and took off. 13 When a survivor arrived, he told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks of the Amorite Mamre, who was the brother of Eshcol and Aner, Abram's treaty partners. 2 But Abram said, "LORD God, what can you possibly give me, since I still have no children? The head of my household is Eliezer, a man from Damascus."u 3He continued, "Since you haven't given me any children, the head of my household will be my heir." 14When Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he took all of the loyal men born in his household, three hundred eighteen, and went after them as far as Dan. 15 During the night, he and his servants divided themselves up against them, attacked, and chased them to Hobah, north of Damascus. 1He brought back all of the looted property, together with his relative Lot and Lot's property, wives, and people. "The LORD's word came immediately to him, "This man will not be your heir. Your heir will definitely be your very own biological child." "Then he brought Abram outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars if you think you can count them." He continued, "This is how many children you will have." "Abram trusted the LORD, and the LORD recognized Abram's high moral character. Abram blessed by Melchizedek 17 After Abram returned from his attack on Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom came out to the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley) to meet him. 18 Now Melchizedek the king Or Salt Sea Or God Most High Or shield or benefactor "Heb uncertain 'He said to Abram, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession." 8 But Abram said, "LORD God, how do I know that I will actually possess it?" ......

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Genesis 15:9 12 'He said, "Bring me a three-year-old ment is your fault. I allowed you to embrace female calf, a three-year-old female goat, my servant, but when she realized she was a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pregnant, I lost her respect. Let the LORD pigeon." He took all of these animals, split decide who is right, you or me." them in half, and laid the halves facing each Abram said to Sarai, "Since she's your other, but he didn't split the birds. "When servant, do whatever you wish to her." So vultures swooped down on the carcasses, Sarai treated her harshly, and she ran away Abram waved them off. After the sun set, from Sarai. Abram slept deeply. A terrifying and deep The LORD's messenger found Hagar at a darkness settled over him. spring in the desert, the spring on the road 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Have to Shur, &and said, "Hagar! Sarai's servant! no doubt that your descendants will live as Where did you come from and where are immigrants in a land that isn't their own, you going?" where they will be oppressed slaves for four S he said, "From Sarai my mistress. I'm hundred years. But after I punish the na- running away." tion they serve, they will leave it with great 'The LORD's messenger said to her, "Go wealth. "As for you, you will join your an- back to your mistress. Put up with her harsh cestors in peace and be buried after a good treatment of you." "The LORD's messenger long life. 16 The fourth generation will return also said to her, here since the Amorites' wrongdoing won't "I will give you many children, have reached its peak until then." so many they can't be counted!" 17 After the sun had set and darkness had The LORD's messenger said to her, deepened, a smoking vessel with a fiery "You are now pregnant flame passed between the split-open ani- and will give birth to a son. mals. 18 That day the LORD cut a covenant You will name him Ishmaely with Abram: "To your descendants I give because the LORD has heard about this land, from Egypt's river to the great your harsh treatment. Euphrates, together with the Kenites, the 2 He will be a wild mule of a man; Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, he will fight everyone, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amo- and they will fight him. rites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and He will live at odds the Jebusites." with all his relatives." 13 Hagar named the LORD who spoke to Hagar and the Ishmaelites' origins her, "You are El Roi" because she said, "Can 1 Sarai, Abram's wife, had not been able I still see after he saw me?"Y 14Therefore, Oto have children. Since she had an that well is called Beer-lahai-roi;? it's the Egyptian servant named Hagar, Sarai said well between Kadesh and Bered. 15Hagar to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from giv- gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram ing birth, so go to my servant. Maybe she named him Ishmael. 16 Abram was 86 years will provide me with children." Abram did old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for just as Sarai said. 'After Abram had lived Abram. ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant Hagar God's covenant with Abraham and gave her to her husband Abram as his 17When Abram was 99 years old, the wife. "He slept with Hagar, and she became 17 LORD appeared to Abram and said to pregnant. But when she realized that she him, "I am El Shaddai." Walk with me and was pregnant, she no longer respected her be trustworthy. ?I will make a covenant mistress. Sarai said to Abram, "This harass- between us and I will give you many, many : 'Or God hears WOr he will live at odds with all his kin; or he will reside near all his relatives *Or God who sees or God whom I've seen 'Heb uncertain; or Have I really seen God and survived? Or the Well of the Living One who sees me O or whom I've seen "Or God Almighty or God of the Mountain

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descendants." Abram fell on his face, and God said to him, ""But me, my covenant is with you; you will be the ancestor of many nations. And because I have made you the ancestor of many nations, your name will no longer be Abramb but Abraham. "I will make you very fertile. I will produce nations from you, and kings will come from you. 'I will set up my covenant with you and your descendants after you in every generation as an enduring covenant. I will be your God and your descendants' God after you. I will give you and your descendants the land in which you are immigrants, the whole land of Canaan, as an enduring possession. And I will be their God." 13 Genesis 18:6 will name him Isaac. I will set up my covenant with him and with his descendants after him as an enduring covenant. 20 As for Ishmael, I've heard your request. I will bless him and make him fertile and give him many, many descendants. He will be the ancestor of twelve tribal leaders, and I will make a great nation of him. 21But I will set up my covenant with Isaac, who will be born to Sarah at this time next year." 22When God finished speaking to him, God ascended, leaving Abraham alone. 23 Abraham took his son Ishmael, all those born in his household, and all those purchased with his silver-that is, every male in Abraham's household-and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that same day, just as God had told him to do. 24 Abraham was 99 years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, 25 and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised. 26That same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. 27 All the men of his household, those born in his household and those purchased with silver from foreigners, were circumcised with him. "God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants in every generation. 10This is my covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Circumcise every male. "You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it will be a symbol of the covenant between us. 12On the eighth day after birth, every male in every generation must be circumcised, including those who are not your own children: those born in your household and those purchased with silver from foreigners. 13Be sure you circumcise Isaac's birth announced those born in your household and those 18 the oaks of Mamre while he sat at The LORD appeared to Abraham at purchased with your silver. Your flesh will embody my covenant as an enduring covenant. 14Any uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin remains uncircumcised will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant." 15 God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, you will no longer call her Sarai. Her name will now be Sarah. 16I will bless her and even give you a son from her. I will bless her so that she will become nations, and kings of peoples will come from her." the entrance of his tent in the day's heat. He looked up and suddenly saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them, he ran from his tent entrance to greet them and bowed deeply. 3He said, "Sirs, if you would be so kind, don't just pass by your servant. "Let a little water be brought so you may wash your feet and refresh yourselves under the tree. "Let me offer you a little bread so you will feel stronger, and after that you may leave your servant and go on your way-since you have visited your servant." "Abram fell on his face and laughed. He said to himself, Can a 100-year-old man become a father, or a 99-year-old woman have a child? 18 To God Abraham said, "If only you would accept Ishmael!" 19 But God said, "No, your wife Sarah will give birth to a son for you, and you bor exalted ancestor 'Or ancestor of a multitude or he laughs One seah is seven and a half quarts. They responded, "Fine. Do just as you have said." 6 So Abraham hurried to Sarah at his tent and said, "Hurry! Knead three seahse of the finest flour and make some baked goods!" ......

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Genesis 18:7 14 Abraham ran to the cattle, took a healthy toward Sodom, but Abraham remained young calf, and gave it to a young servant, standing in front of the LORD. 23 Abrawho prepared it quickly. Then Abraham ham approached and said, "Will you really took butter, milk, and the calf that had sweep away the innocent with the guilty?h been prepared, put the food in front of 24What if there are fifty innocent people in them, and stood under the tree near them the city? Will you really sweep it away and as they ate. not save the place for the sake of the fifty 'They said to him, "Where's your wife innocent people in it? 25 It's not like you to Sarah?" do this, killing the innocent with the guilty And he said, "Right here in the tent." as if there were no difference. It's not like 10 Then one of the men said, "I will defi- you! Will the judge of all the earth not act nitely return to you about this time next justly?" year. Then your wife Sarah will have a son!" 26 The LORD said, "If I find fifty innocent Sarah was listening at the tent door be people in the city of Sodom, I will save it hind him. "Now Abraham and Sarah were because of them." both very old. Sarah was no longer men- 27 Abraham responded, "Since I've alstruating. ?So Sarah laughed to herself, ready decided to speak with my Lord, even thinking, I'm no longer able to have chil- though I'm just soil and ash, 28 what if there dren and my husband's old. are five fewer innocent people than fifty? 13 The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Will you destroy the whole city over just Sarah laugh and say, 'Me give birth? At five?" my age?' Is anything too difficult for the The LORD said, "If I find forty-five there, LORD? When I return to you about this I won't destroy it." time next year, Sarah will have a son." 29 Once again Abraham spoke, "What if 15 Sarah lied and said, "I didn't laugh," be- forty are there?" cause she was frightened. The LORD said, "For the sake of forty, I But he said, "No, you laughed." will do nothing." 30 He said, "Don't be angry with me, my Abraham pleads for Sodom Lord, but let me speak. What if thirty are 16 The men got up from there and went there?" over to look down on Sodom. Abraham was The LORD said, "I won't do it if I find walking along with them to send them off thirty there." 17 when the LORD said, "Will I keep from 31 Abraham said, "Since I've already deAbraham what I'm about to do? 18 Abraham cided to speak with my Lord, what if twenty will certainly become a great populous na- are there?" tion, and all the earth's nations will be The LORD said, "I won't do it, for the blessed because of him. 1'I have formed a sake of twenty." relationship with him so that he will over- 32Abraham said, "Don't be angry with see his children and his household after me, my Lord, but let me speak just once him. And they will keep to the LORD's path, more. What if there are ten?" being moral and just so that the LORD And the LORD said, "I will not destroy can do for Abraham everything he said he it because of those ten." 33 When the LORD would." 20 Then the LORD said, "The cries finished speaking with Abraham, he left; of injustice from Sodom and Gomorrah are but Abraham stayed there in that place. countless, and their sin is very serious! 211 will go down now to examine the cries of Lot leaves Sodom injustice that have reached me. Have they 10 The two messengers entered Sodom really done all this? If not, I want to know." 17 in the evening. Lot, who was sitting 22 The men turned away and walked at the gate of Sodom, saw them, got up o 'Some ancient manuscripts read but the LORD remained standing in front of Abraham. 80r righteous "Or wicked

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15 to greet them, and bowed low. He said, "Come to your servant's house, spend the night, and wash your feet. Then you can get up early and go on your way." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the town square." He pleaded earnestly with them, so they went with him and entered his house. He made a big meal for them, even baking unleavened bread, and they ate. "Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom-everyone from the youngest to the oldest-surrounded the house 5 and called to Lot, "Where are the men who arrived tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them intimately." Lot went out toward the entrance, closed the door behind him, 'and said, "My brothers, don't do such an evil thing. I've got two daughters who are virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever you wish. But don't do anything to these men because they are now under the protection of my roof." "They said, "Get out of the way!" And they continued, "Does this immigrant want to judge us? Now we will hurt you more than we will hurt them." They pushed Lot back and came close to breaking down the door. 10 The men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house with them and slammed the door. "Then the messengers blinded the men near the entrance of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, so that they groped around trying to find the entrance. 12 The men said to Lot, "Who's still with you here? Take away from this place your sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and everyone else you have in the city 13because we are about to destroy this place. The LORD has found the cries of injustice so serious that the LORD sent us to destroy it." 14 Lot went to speak to his sons-in-law, married to his daughters, and said, "Get up and get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city." But his sonsin-law thought he was joking. 15 When dawn broke, the messengers 1Or small Genesis 19:30 urged Lot, "Get up and take your wife and your two daughters who are here so that you are not swept away because of the evil in this city." 16He hesitated, but because the LORD intended to save him, the men grabbed him, his wife, and two daughters by the hand, took him out, and left him outside the city. 17 After getting them out, the men said, "Save your lives! Don't look back! And don't stay in the valley. Escape to the mountains so that you are not swept away." 18 But Lot said to them, "No, my Lords, please. 19You've done me a favor and have been so kind to save my life. But I can't escape to the mountains since the catastrophe might overtake me there and I'd die. 20 This city here is close enough to flee to, and it's small. It's small, right? Let me escape there, and my life will be saved." 21 He said to Lot, "I'll do this for you as well; I won't overthrow the city that you have described. 22 Hurry! Escape to it! I can't do anything until you get there." That is why the name of the city is Zoar. Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed 23 As the sun rose over the earth, Lot arrived in Zoar; 24and the LORD rained down burning asphalt from the skies onto Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 The LORD destroyed these cities, the entire valley, everyone who lived in the cities, and all of the fertile land's vegetation. 26When Lot's wife looked back, she turned into a pillar of salt. 27 Abraham set out early for the place where he had stood with the LORD, 28 and looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah and over all the land of the valley. He saw the smoke from the land rise like the smoke from a kiln. Origin of Moab and Ammon 29 When God destroyed the cities in the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the disaster that overtook the cities in which Lot had lived. 30 Since Lot had become fearful of living in Zoar, he and his two daughters headed up from ......

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: Genesis 19:31 16 Zoar and settled in the mountains where against me. That's why I didn't allow you to he and his two daughters lived in a cave. touch her. 'Now return the man's wife. He's 3 The older daughter said to the younger, a prophet; he will pray for you so you may "Our father is old, and there are no men in live. But if you don't return her, know that the land to sleep with us as is the custom you and everyone with you will die!" everywhere. 32 Come on, let's give our fa- Abimelech got up early in the ther wine to drink, lie down with him, and ing and summoned all of his servants. we'll have children from our father." 33 That When he told them everything that had night they served their father wine, and the happened, the men were terrified. 'Then older daughter went in and lay down with Abimelech summoned Abraham and said her father, without him noticing when she to him, "What have you done to us? What lay down or got up.34 The next day the older sin did I commit against you that you have daughter said to the younger, "Since I lay brought this terrible sin to me and my kingdown with our father last night, let's serve dom, by doing to me something that simply him wine tonight too, and you go in and lie isn't done?" 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, down with him so that we will both have "What were you thinking when you did this children from our father." 35 They served thing?" their father wine that night also, and the "Abraham said, "I thought to myself, younger daughter lay down with him, with- No one reveres God here and they will kill out him knowing when she lay down or got me to get my wife. 12 She is, truthfully, my up. Both of Lot's daughters became preg- sister-my father's daughter but not my nant by their father. 37The older daughter mother's daughter-and she's now my wife. gave birth to a son and named him Moab. 13When God led me away from my father's He is the ancestor of today's Moabites. household, I said to her, 'This is the loyalty I 38 The younger daughter also gave birth to expect from you: in each place we visit, tell a son and named him Ben-ammi. He is the them, "He is my brother."". ancestor of today's Ammonites. 14 Abimelech took flocks, cattle, male servants, and female servants, and gave Abraham and Sarah visit Gerar them to Abraham; and Abimelech returned Abraham traveled from there toward his wife Sarah. 15 Abimelech said, "My land L Uthe land of the arid southern plain, is here available to you. Live wherever you and he settled as an immigrant in Gerar, be- wish." 16 To Sarah, he said, "I've given your tween Kadesh and Shur. Abraham said of brother one thousand pieces of silver. It his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So King Abi- means that neither you nor anyone with melech of Gerar took her into his household. you has done anything wrong. Everything 3But God appeared to Abimelech that has been set right." 17Abraham prayed to night in a dream and said to him, "You are God; and God restored Abimelech, his wife, as good as dead because of this woman you and his women servants to health, and have taken. She is a married woman." they were able to have children. 18 Because "Now Abimelech hadn't gone near her, of the incident with Abraham's wife Sarah, and he said, "Lord, will you really put an in- the LORD had kept all of the women in Abinocent nation to death? Didn't he say to melech's household from having children. me, 'She's my sister, and didn't she-even she-say, 'He's my brother? My intentions Isaac's birth were pure, and I acted innocently when I The LORD was attentive to Sarah just did this." L las he had said, and the LORD carried God said to him in the dream, "I know out just what he had promised her. She that your intentions were pure when you became pregnant and gave birth to a son did this. In fact, I kept you from sinning for Abraham when he was old, at the very o 'Or son of my people

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time God had told him. 3Abraham named his son-the one Sarah bore him-Isaac.k "Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old just as God had commanded him. "Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born. "Sarah said, "God has given me laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me." 7She said, "Who could have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? But now I've given birth to a son when he was old!" Hagar and Ishmael evicted The boy grew and stopped nursing. On the day he stopped nursing, Abraham prepared a huge banquet. 'Sarah saw Hagar's son laughing, the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham. 10So she said to Abraham, "Send this servant away with her son! This servant's son won't share the inheritance with my son Isaac." "This upset Abraham terribly because the boy was his son. 12 God said to Abraham, "Don't be upset about the boy and your servant. Do everything Sarah tells you to do because your descendants will be traced through Isaac. 13 But I will make of your servant's son a great nation too, because he is also your descendant." 14 Abraham got up early in the morning, took some bread and a flask of water, and gave it to Hagar. He put the boy in her shoulder sling and sent her away. She left and wandered through the desert near Beer-sheba. 15 Finally the water in the flask ran out, and she put the boy down under one of the desert shrubs. 16 She walked away from him about as far as a bow shot and sat down, telling herself, I can't bear to see the boy die. She sat at a distance, cried out in grief, and wept. 17 God heard the boy's cries, and God's messenger called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "Hagar! What's wrong? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy's cries over there. 18 Get up, pick up the boy, and take him by the hand because I will make of him a great nation." 19Then God opened her eyes, 17 Genesis 22:2 and she saw a well. She went over, filled the water flask, and gave the boy a drink. 20God remained with the boy; he grew up, lived in the desert, and became an expert archer. 21He lived in the Paran desert, and his mother found him an Egyptian wife. Abraham's treaty with the Philistines 22 At that time Abimelech, and Phicol commander of his forces, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you do. 23 So give me your word under God that you won't cheat me, my children, or my descendants. Just as I have treated you fairly, so you must treat me and the land in which you are an immigrant." 24 Abraham said, "I give you my word." 25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech's servants had seized. 26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this, and you didn't tell me. I didn't even hear about it until today." 27 Abraham took flocks and cattle, gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them drew up a treaty.TM y.m 28 Abraham set aside, by themselves, seven female lambs from the flock. 29So Abimelech said to Abraham, "What are these seven lambs you've set apart?" 30 "Abraham said, "These seven lambs that you take from me will attest that I dug this well." 31Therefore, the name of that place is Beer-sheba" because there they gave each other their word. 32After they drew up a treaty at Beer-sheba, Abimelech, and Phicol commander of his forces, returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and he worshipped there in the name of the LORD, El Olam.P 34 Abraham lived as an immigrant in the Philistines' land for a long time. Binding of Isaac 22 After these events, God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" Abraham answered, "I'm here." 2God said, "Take your son, your only son Or he laughs 'Or God has made a joke of me. Everyone who hears about it will laugh at me. "Or covenant "Or Well of seven; or Well of giving one's word "Or covenant POr the eternal God ......

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Genesis 22:3 18 elbecedash Shefarz whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of 5The LORD's messenger called out to Moriah. Offer him up as an entirely burned Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and offering there on one of the mountains that I said, "I give my word as the LORD that bewill show you." 3Abraham got up early in the cause you did this and didn't hold back your morning, harnessed his donkey, and took son, your only son, "I will bless you richly two of his young men with him, together and I will give you countless descendants, with his son Isaac. He split the wood for the as many as the stars in the sky and as the entirely burned offering, set out, and went grains of sand on the seashore. They will to the place God had described to him. conquer their enemies' cities. 18 All the na "On the third day, Abraham looked up tions of the earth will be blessed because of and saw the place at a distance. "Abraham your descendants, because you obeyed me." said to his servants, "Stay here with the 19 After Abraham returned to the young donkey. The boy and I will walk up there, men, they got up and went to Beer-sheba worship, and then come back to you." where Abraham lived. Abraham took the wood for the entirely burned offering and laid it on his son Isaac. Abraham's nephews in Syria He took the fire and the knife in his hand, and 20 After these events, Abraham was told: the two of them walked on together. 'Isaac "Milcah has now also given birth to sons for said to his father Abraham, "My father?" your brother Nahor. 21 They are Uz his oldest Abraham said, "I'm here, my son." son, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Isaac said, "Here is the fire and the wood, Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and but where is the lamb for the entirely burned Bethuel." 23 Bethuel became the father of Reoffering?" bekah. These are the eight Milcah bore for Abraham said, "The lamb for the entirely Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24His secondary burned offering? God will see to it, my son." wife's name was Reumah, and she gave birth The two of them walked on together. to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. 'They arrived at the place God had described to him. Abraham built an altar there Sarah's death and burial site and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his Sarah lived to be 127 years old; this son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top L w as how long she lived. She died in of the wood. Then Abraham stretched out Kiriath-arba, that is, in Hebron, in the land his hand and took the knife to kill his son of Canaan; and Abraham cried out in grief as a sacrifice. "But the LORD's messenger and wept for Sarah. 'After he got up from called out to Abraham from heaven, "Abra- embracing his deceased wife, he spoke with ham? Abraham?" the Hittites: 4"I am an immigrant and a Abraham said, "I'm here." temporary resident with you. Give me some 12 The messenger said, "Don't stretch property for a burial plot among you so that out your hand against the young man, and I can bury my deceased wife near me." don't do anything to him. I now know that The Hittites responded to Abraham, you revere God and didn't hold back your 6"Listen to us, Sir. You are an eminent man son, your only son, from me." 13 Abraham of God among us. Bury your dead in one of looked up and saw a single ram' caught by our own select burial sites. None of us will its horns in the dense underbrush. Abra- keep our own burial plots from you to bury ham went over, took the ram, and offered it your dead." as an entirely burned offering instead of his Abraham rose, bowed to the local citison. Abraham named that place "the LORD zens the Hittites, 8and spoke with them: "If sees." That is the reason people today say, you yourselves allow me to bury my dead "On this mountain the LORD is seen." near me, listen to me and ask Ephron, Zo 'Or God will see; or God will provide 'LXX, Sam, Syr, Tg; MT a ram behind or the LORD is seen; or the LORD O provides for the LORD sees; or on the LORD's mountain, it will be provided

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19 Genesis 24:19 har's son, 'to give me his own cave in Mach- SThe servant said to him, "What if the pelah at the edge of his field. Let him give it woman doesn't agree to come back with me to me for the full price, to be witnessed by to this land? Shouldn't I take your son back you, as my own burial property." to the land you left?" Now Ephron was a native Hittite. So Abraham said to him, "Be sure you don't Ephron the Hittite responded to Abraham take my son back there. The LORD, God of publicly in order that the Hittites and ev- heaven--who took me from my father's eryone at his city's gate could hear: 11"No, household and from my family's land, who Sir. Listen, I will give you the field, and I spoke with me and who gave me his word, will give you the cave in it. In front of my saying, 'I will give this land to your descenpeople's witnesses, I will give it to you. Bury dants'--he will send his messenger in front your dead!" of you, and you will find a wife for my son 12 Abraham bowed before the local citi- there. If the woman won't agree to come zens and spoke to Ephron publicly in the back with you, you will be free from this obpresence of the local citizens: "If only you ligation to me. Only don't take my son back would accept my offer. I will give you the there." 'So the servant put his hand under price of the field. Take it from me so that I his master Abraham's thigh and gave him can bury my dead there." his word about this mission. 14 Ephron responded to Abraham, 15"Sir, The servant took ten of his master's what is four hundred shekels of silver be- camels and all of his master's best provitween me and you for the land so that you sions, set out, and traveled to Nahor's city can bury your dead?" 16 Abraham accepted in Aram-naharaim. "He had the camels Ephron's offer and weighed out for Ephron kneel down outside the city at the well in the silver he requested publicly before the the evening, when women come out to draw Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver at water. He said, "LORD, God of my master the current rate of exchange. Abraham, make something good happen 17So the field of Ephron in Machpelah for me today and be loyal to my master near Mamre--the field and the cave in it, Abraham. 13 I will stand here by the spring and all the trees within the field's bound- while the daughters of the men of the city aries--was officially transferred 18 to Abra- come out to draw water. 14When I say to a ham as his property in the presence of the young woman, 'Hand me your water jar so I Hittites and of everyone at his city's gate. can drink, and she says to me, 'Drink, and 19 After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah I will give your camels water too,' may she in the cave in the field of Machpelah near be the one you've selected for your servant Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Ca- Isaac. In this way I will know that you've naan. 20 The field and the cave in it were been loyal to my master." 15 Even before he officially transferred from the Hittites to finished speaking, Rebekah-daughter of Abraham as his burial property. Bethuel the son of Milcah wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother--was coming out with Isaac marries Rebekah a water jar on her shoulder. 16 The young As the days went by and Abraham be- woman was very beautiful, old enough to came older, the LORD blessed Abra- be married, and hadn't known a man intiham in every way. ?Abraham said to the mately. She went down to the spring, filled oldest servant of his household, who was in her water jar, and came back up. charge of everything he owned, "Put your 7 The servant ran to meet her and said, hand under my thigh. "By the LORD, God of "Give me a little sip of water from your jar." heaven and earth, give me your word that She said, "Drink, sir." Then she quickly you won't choose a wife for my son from lowered the water jar with her hands and the Canaanite women among whom I live. gave him some water to drink. When she "Go to my land and my family and find a finished giving him a drink, she said, "I'll wife for my son Isaac there." draw some water for your camels too, till

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...... Genesis 24:20 they've had enough to drink." 20She emptied her water jar quickly into the watering trough, ran to the well again to draw water, and drew water for all of the camels. 21The man stood gazing at her, wondering silently if the LORD had made his trip successful or not. 22 As soon as the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold ring, weighing a half shekel," and two gold bracelets for her arms, weighing ten shekels. 23 He said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?" 24She responded, "I'm the daughter of Bethuel, who is the son of Milcah and Nahor." 25 She continued, "We have plenty of straw and feed for the camels, and a place to spend the night." 26 The man bowed down and praised the LORD: 27"Bless the LORD, God of my master Abraham, who hasn't given up his loyalty and his faithfulness to my master. The LORD has shown me the way to the household of my master's brother." 28 The young woman ran and told her mother's household everything that had happened. 29 Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran to the man outside by the spring. 30When he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah say, "This is what the man said to me," he went to the man, who was still standing by the spring with his camels. 31Laban said, "Come in, favored one of the LORD! Why are you standing outside? I've prepared the house and a place for the camels." 32So the man entered the house. Then Laban unbridled the camels, provided straw and feed for them and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him, 33 and set out a meal for him. But the man said, "I won't eat until I've said something." Laban replied, "Say it." 34 The man said, "I am Abraham's servant. 35 The LORD has richly blessed my master, has made him a great man, and has given O "Heb beqa 20 him flocks, cattle, silver, gold, men servants, women servants, camels, and donkeys. 36My master's wife Sarah gave birth to a son for my master in her old age, and he's given him everything he owns. 37My master made me give him my word: 'Don't choose a wife for my son from the Canaanite women, in whose land I'm living. 38 No, instead, go to my father's household and to my relatives and choose a wife for my son.' 39I said to my master, 'What if the woman won't come back with me?' 40 He said to me, "The LORD, whom I've traveled with everywhere, will send his messenger with you and make your trip successful; and you will choose a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father's household. "'If you go to my relatives, you will be free from your obligation to me. Even if they provide no one for you, you will be free from your obligation to me.' 42"Today I arrived at the spring, and I said, 'LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you wish to make the trip I'm taking successful, 43when I'm standing by the spring and the young woman who comes out to draw water and to whom I say, "Please give me a little drink of water from your jar," ""and she responds to me, "Drink, and I will draw water for your camels too," may she be the woman the LORD has selected for my master's son.' 45 Before I finished saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder and went down to the spring to draw water. And I said to her, 'Please give me something to drink.' ""She immediately lowered her water jar and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels something to drink too.' So I drank and she also gave water to the camels. 47Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, "The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son whom Milcah bore him.' I put a ring in her nose and bracelets on her arms. 48I bowed and worshipped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me in the right direction to choose the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son. 49 Now if you're loyal and faithful to

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Genesis 25:17 my master, tell me. If not, tell me so I will had happened. 67Isaac brought Rebekah know where I stand either way." 50 Laban and Bethuel both responded, "This is all the LORD's doing. We have nothing to say about it. 51Here is Rebekah, right in into his mother Sarah's tent. He married Rebekah and loved her. So Isaac found comfort after his mother's death. front of you. Take her and go. She will be the Abraham and Keturah's children 21 of LORD wift - 52 your master's son, just as the LoRt 25 Abraham married another wife, named they said, he bowed low before the LORD. 53 The servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. To her brother and to her mother he gave the finest gifts. 54He and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, the servant said, "See me off to my master." 55 Her brother and mother said, "Let the young woman stay with us not more than ten days, and after that she may go." 56 But he said to them, "Don't delay me. The LORD has made my trip successful. See me off so that I can go to my master." 57 They said, "Summon the young woman, and let's ask her opinion." 58 They called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." 59 So they sent off their sister Rebekah, her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, saying to her, "May you, our sister, become thousands of ten thousand; may your children possess their enemies' cities." 61 Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left. 62 Now Isaac had come from the region of Beer-lahai-roi and had settled in the arid southern plain. 63One evening, Isaac went out to inspect the pasture," and while staring he saw camels approaching. ""Rebekah stared at Isaac. She got down from the camel 65 and said to the servant, "Who is this man walking through the pasture to meet us?" The servant said, "He's my master." So she took her headscarf and covered herself. 66 The servant told Isaac everything that were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shua. 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's sons were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. "Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah's sons. 5Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac. To the sons of Abraham's secondary wives, Abraham gave gifts and, while he was still living, sent them away from his son Isaac to land in the east. Abraham's death 'Abraham lived to the age of 175. Abraham took his last breath and died after a good long life, a content old man, and he was placed with his ancestors. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave in Machpelah, which is in the field of Zohar's son Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. 10 Thus Abraham and his wife Sarah were both buried in the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites. "After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac lived in Beer-lahai-roi. Ishmael's descendants 12 These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore for Abraham. 13 These are the names of Ishmael's sons, by their names and according to their birth order: Nebaioth, Ishmael's oldest son; Kedar; Adbeel; Mibsam; 14Mishma; Dumah; Massa; 15 Hadad; Tema; Jetur; Naphish; and Kedemah. 16 These are Ishmael's sons. These are their names by their villages and their settlements: twelve tribal leaders according to their tribes. 17Ishmael lived to the age of 137. He took his last breath and died, and Heb uncertain; LXX through the desert of "Heb uncertain; possibly to walk around in the pasture or to meditate in the pasture ......

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Genesis 25:18 22 was placed with his ancestors. 18 He estab- 32 Esau said, "Since I'm going to die anylished camps* from Havilah to Shur, which way, what good is my birthright to me?" is near Egypt on the road to Assyria. He 33 Jacob said, "Give me your word today." diedy among all of his brothers. And he did. He sold his birthright to Jacob. 34So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. Jacob and Esau are born He ate, drank, got up, and left, showing just 19These are the descendants of Isaac, how little he thought of his birthright. Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac. 2 Isaac was 40 years old when he Isaac and Rebekah visit Gerar married Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel When a famine gripped the land, a the Aramean and the sister of Laban the LO different one from the first famine Aramean, from Paddan-aram. 'Isaac prayed that occurred in Abraham's time, Isaac set to the LORD for his wife, since she was un- out toward Gerar and toward King Abiable to have children. The LORD was moved melech of the Philistines. ?The LORD apby his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became peared to him and said, "Don't go down pregnant. 22But the boys pushed against to Egypt but settle temporarily in the land each other inside of her, and she said, "If that I will show you. 'Stay in this land as an this is what it's like, why did it happen immigrant, and I will be with you and bless to me?" you because I will give all of these lands to So she went to ask the LORD. 23And the you and your descendants. I will keep my LORD said to her, word, which I gave to your father Abraham. "Two nations are in your womb; "I will give you as many descendants as the two different peoples will emerge stars in the sky, and I will give your descenfrom your body. dants all of these lands. All of the nations One people will be stronger of the earth will be blessed because of your than the other; descendants. "I will do this because Abrathe older will serve the younger." ham obeyed me and kept my orders, my 24When she reached the end of her preg- commandments, my statutes, and my innancy, she discovered that she had twins. structions." 25 The first came out red all over, clothed So Isaac lived in Gerar. When the men with hair, and she named him Esau. 26 Im- who lived there asked about his wife, he mediately afterward, his brother came out said, "She's my sister," because he was gripping Esau's heel, and she named him afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, The men Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they who live there will kill me for Rebekah bewere born. cause she's very beautiful. 8After Isaac had lived there for some time, the Philistine's Jacob acquires the oldest son's rights King Abimelech looked out his window and 27When the young men grew up, Esau saw Isaac laughing together with his wife became an outdoorsman who knew how to Rebekah. hunt, and Jacob became a quiet man who So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, stayed at home. 28 Isaac loved Esau because "She's your wife, isn't she? How could you he enjoyed eating game, but Rebekah loved say, 'She's my sister'?" Jacob. 29 Once when Jacob was boiling stew, Isaac responded, "Because I thought that Esau came in from the field hungry 30 and I might be killed because of her." said to Jacob, "I'm starving! Let me devour Abimelech said, "What are you trying some of this red stuff." That's why his name to do to us? Before long, one of the people is Edom. would have slept with your wife; and you 31 Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright would have made us guilty." "Abimelech : today." gave orders to all of the people, "Anyone O *LXX; MT they established camps Yor He fell ?Heb uncertain Or red or oldest son's rights

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23 Genesis 27:8 who touches this man or his wife will be put the commander of his forces. 27 Isaac said to to death!" him, "Why have you come after me? You re sented me and sent me away from you." Isaac's treaty with the Philistines 28 They said, "We now see that the LORD ? Isaac planted grain in that land and was with you. We propose that there be a reaped one hundred shearimthat year be- formal agreement between us and that we cause the Lord had blessed him. 13 Isaac draw up a treaty with you: 29you must not grew richer and richer until he was ex- treat us badly since we haven't harmed you tremely wealthy. "He had livestock, both and since we have treated you well at all flocks and cattle, and many servants. As times. Then we will send you away peacea result, the Philistines envied him. The fully, for you are now blessed by the LORD." Philistines closed up and filled with dirt all 30 Isaac prepared a banquet for them, and of the wells that his father's servants had they ate and drank. 31They got up early dug during his father Abraham's lifetime. in the morning, and they gave each other 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Move away from their word. Isaac sent them off, and they us because you have become too powerful left peacefully. among us." 32 That day Isaac's servants informed him 17So Isaac moved away from there, about the well that they had been digging camped in the valley of Gerar, and lived and said to him, "We found water." 33 He there. 18 Isaac dug out again the wells that called it Shibah;h therefore, the city's name were dug during the lifetime of his fa- has been Beer-sheba' until today. ther Abraham. The Philistines had closed them up after Abraham's death. Isaac Esau's wives gave them the same names his father had 34When Esau was 40 years old, he margiven them. "'Isaac's servants dug wells in ried Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, the valley and found a well there with fresh and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. water. 20 Isaac's shepherds argued with Ger- 35 They made life very difficult for Isaac and ar's shepherds, each claiming, "This is our Rebekah. water." So Isaac named the well Esekd because they quarreled with him. They dug Jacob acquires his father's blessing another well and argued about it too, so he 7When Isaac had grown old and his named it Sitnah. 2? He left there and dug L eyesight was failing, he summoned his another well, but they didn't argue about it, older son Esau and said to him, "My son?" so he named it Rehoboth and said, "Now And Esau said, "I'm here." the LORD has made an open space for us ? He said, "I'm old and don't know when and has made us fertile in the land." I will die. 'So now, take your hunting gear, 23 Then he went up from Gerar to Beer- your bow and quiver of arrows, go out to the sheba. 24 The LORD appeared to him that field, and hunt game for me. "Make me the night and said, "I am the God of your fa- delicious food that I love and bring it to me so ther Abraham. Don't be afraid because I I can eat. Then I can bless you before I die." am with you. I will bless you, and I will give Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke you many children for my servant Abra- to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the ham's sake." 25So Isaac built an altar there field to hunt game to bring back, Rebekah and worshipped in the LORD's name. Isaac said to her son Jacob, "I just heard your fapitched his tent there, and his servants dug ther saying to your brother Esau, ''Bring a well. me some game and make me some delicious 26 But Abimelech set out toward him from food so I can eat, and I will bless you in the Gerar, with Ahuzzath his ally and Phicol LORD's presence before I die.' *Now, my An unknown measure of grain or quarrel Or accusation for open spaces or covenant or giving one's word O or seven 'Or Well of giving one's word or Well of seven

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Genesis 27:9 24 son, listen to me, to what I'm telling you to 26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come here do. 'Go to the flock and get me two healthy and kiss me, my son." 27So he came close young goats so I can prepare them as the and kissed him. When Isaac smelled the delicious food your father loves. You can scent of his clothes, he blessed him, bring it to your father, he will eat, and then "See, the scent of my son he will bless you before he dies." is like the scent of the field "Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "My that the LORD has blessed. brother Esau is a hairy man, but I have 28 May God give you smooth skin. 12What if my father touches showers from the sky, me and thinks I'm making fun of him? I will olive oil from the earth, be cursed instead of blessed." plenty of grain and new wine. 13 His mother said to him, "Your curse 29 May the nations serve you, will be on me, my son. Just listen to me: go may peoples bow down to you. and get them for me." So he went and got Be the most powerful man them and brought them to his mother, and among your brothers, his mother made the delicious food that his and may your mother's sons father loved. "Rebekah took her older son bow down to you. Esau's favorite clothes that were in the house Those who curse you will be cursed, with her, and she put them on her younger and those who bless you son Jacob. 16 On his arms and smooth neck will be blessed." she put the hide of young goats, "and the delicious food and the bread she had made Esau receives a secondary blessing she put into her son's hands. 30 After Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, 18 Jacob went to his father and said, "My and just as Jacob left his father Isaac, his father." brother Esau came back from his hunt. 3'He And he said, "I'm here. Who are you, my too made some delicious food, brought it to his father, and said, "Let my father sit up 19 Jacob said to his father, "I'm Esau your and eat from his son's game so that you oldest son. I've made what you asked me to. may bless me." Sit up and eat some of the game so you can 32 His father Isaac said to him, "Who are bless me." 20 Isaac said to his son, "How could you And he said, "I'm your son, your oldest find this so quickly, my son?" son, Esau." He said, "The LORD your God led me 33 Isaac was so shocked that he trembled right to it." violently. He said, "Who was the hunter 2'Isaac said to Jacob, "Come here and just here with game? He brought me food, let me touch you, my son. Are you my son and I ate all of it before you came. I blessed Esau or not?" 22So Jacob approached his fa- him, and he will stay blessed!" ther Isaac, and Isaac touched him and said, 34When Esau heard what his father said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the arms are he let out a loud agonizing cry and wept bitEsau's arms." 23 Isaac didn't recognize him terly. He said to his father, "Bless me! Me because his arms were hairy like Esau's too, my father!" arms, so he blessed him. 35Isaac said, "Your brother has already come 24Isaac said, "Are you really my son Esau?" deceitfully and has taken your blessing." And he said, "I am." 36 Esau said, "Isn't this why he's called 25 Isaac said, "Bring some food here and Jacob? He's taken mek twice now: he took let me eat some of my son's game so I can my birthright, and now he's taken my blessbless you." Jacob put it before him and he ing." He continued, "Haven't you saved a ate, and he brought him wine and he drank. blessing for me?" son?" you?" o'Or made something good happen for me kHeb ya'acob, a wordplay on Jacob

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25 Genesis 28:15: 37 Isaac replied to Esau, "I've already of Bethuel, your mother's father, and once made him more powerful than you, and there, marry one of the daughters of Laban, I've made all of his brothers his servants. your mother's brother. God Almighty will I've made him strong with grain and wine. bless you, make you fertile, and give you What can I do for you, my son?" many descendants so that you will become 38 Esau said to his father, "Do you really a large group of peoples. "He will give you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me and your descendants Abraham's blessing too, my father!" And Esau wept loudly. so that you will own the land in which you 39 His father Isaac responded and said are now immigrants, the land God gave to to him, Abraham." 5So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he "Now, you will make a home traveled to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of far away from the olive groves Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Reof the earth, bekah, Jacob and Esau's mother. far away from the showers Esau understood that Isaac had blessed of the sky above. Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to marry 40 You will live by your sword; a woman from there. He recognized that, you will serve your brother. when Isaac blessed Jacob, he had ordered But when you grow restless, him, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman," you will tear away his harness and that Jacob had listened to his father from your neck." and mother and gone to Paddan-aram. Esau realized that his father Isaac considered CaJacob sent away for protection naanite women unacceptable. 'So he went 4'Esau was furious at Jacob because his to Ishmael and married Mahalath daughter father had blessed him, and Esau said to of Abraham's son Ishmael and sister of Nehimself, When the period of mourning for baioth, in addition to his other wives. the death of my father is over, I will kill my brother. Jacob's dream at Bethel 42 Rebekah was told what her older son Jacob left Beer-sheba and set out for Esau was planning, so she summoned her Haran. "He reached a certain place and younger son Jacob and said to him, "Esau spent the night there. When the sun had your brother is planning revenge. He plans set, he took one of the stones at that place to kill you. 43So now, my son, listen to me: and put it near his head. Then he lay down Get up and escape to my brother Laban in there. He dreamed and saw a raised Haran. 4-Live with him for a short while staircase, its foundation on earth and its until your brother's rage subsides, "Suntil top touching the sky, and God's messenyour brother's anger at you goes away and gers were ascending and descending on it. he forgets what you did to him. Then I will 13Suddenly the LORD was standing on it" send for you and bring you back from there. and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of Why should I suffer the loss of both of you your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I on one day?" will give you and your descendants the land 46 Rebekah then said to Isaac, "I really on which you are lying. 14Your descendants loathe these Hittite women. If Jacob marries will become like the dust of the earth; you one of the Hittite women, like the women of will spread out to the west, east, north, and this land, why should I go on living?" south. Every family of earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants. "SI So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed am with you now, I will protect you everyLOhim, and gave him these orders: where you go, and I will bring you back to "Don't marry a Canaanite woman. Get up this land. I will not leave you until I have : and go to Paddan-aram, to the household done everything that I have promised you." o 'Heb uncertain mHeb El Shaddai or God of the Mountain "Or beside it or beside him

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...... Genesis 28:16 16 When Jacob woke from his sleep, he thought to himself, The LORD is definitely in this place, but I didn't know it. "He was terrified and thought, This sacred place is awesome. It's none other than God's house and the entrance to heaven. 18 After Jacob got up early in the morning, he took the stone that he had put near his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. He named that sacred place Bethel, though Luz was the city's original name. 20 Jacob made a solemn promise: "If God is with me and protects me on this trip I'm taking, and gives me bread to eat and clothes to wear, 21and I return safely to my father's household, then the LORD will be my God. 22This stone that I've set up as a sacred pillar will be God's house, and of everything you give me I will give a tenth back to you." 26 They said, "We know him." "He said to them, "Is he well?" 9 While he was still talking to them, Rachel came with her father's flock since she was its shepherd. 10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his uncle, and the flock of Laban, Jacob came up, rolled the stone from the well's opening, and watered the flock of his uncle Laban. "Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was related to her father and that he was Rebekah's son. She then ran to tell her father. 13When Laban heard about Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him. Laban embraced him, kissed him, and invited him into his house, where Jacob recounted to Laban everything that had happened. 14Laban said to him, "Yes, you are my flesh and blood." Jacob meets Rachel 29 Jacob got to his feet and set out for you are my relative. Tell me what you would like to be paid." the land of the easterners. 2 He saw a well in the field in front of him, near which three flocks of sheep were lying down. That well was their source for water because the flocks drank from that well. A huge stone covered the well's opening. 3When all of the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well's opening, water the sheep, and return the stone to its place at the well's opening. "Jacob said to them, "Where are you from, my brothers?" 16 Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah and the younger Rachel. "Leah had delicate eyes," but Rachel had a beautiful figure and was goodlooking. 18 Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will work for you for seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." 19 Laban said, "I'd rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me." 20 Jacob worked for Rachel for seven years, but it seemed like a few days because They said, "We're from Haran." 5Then he said to them, "Do you know he loved her. 21Jacob said to Laban, "The Laban, Nahor's grandson?" time has come. Give me my wife so that I may sleep with her." 22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a banquet. 23 However, in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her. 24Laban had given his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her servant. 25In the morning, there she was-- Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What have you done to me? Didn't I work for you to have Rachel? Why did you betray me?" 26 Laban said, "Where we live, we don't give the younger woman before the oldest. They said, "He's fine. In fact, this is his daughter Rachel now, coming with the flock." "He said to them, "It's now only the middle of the day. It's not time yet to gather the animals. Water the flock, and then go, put them out to pasture." 8They said to him, "We can't until all the herds are gathered, and then we roll the stone away from the well's opening and water the flock." Jacob marries Leah and Rachel After Jacob had stayed with Laban for a month, 15 Laban said to Jacob, "You shouldn't have to work for free just because OdegOr God's house POr they Heb uncertain; perhaps Leah had poor eyesight

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Genesis 30:23 to a son for Jacob. "Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor, heard my voice, and given me a son." So she named him Dan.* 'Rachel's servant Bilhah became pregnant again and gave birth to a second son for Jacob. Rachel said, "I've competed fiercely with my sister, and now I've won." So she named him Naphtali." 9 When Leah realized that she had stopped bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as his wife. 10Leah's servant Zilpah gave birth to a son for Jacob, "and Leah said, "What good luck!" So she named him Gad.2 12 Leah's servant Zilpah gave birth to a second son for Jacob, 13and Leah said, "I'm happy now because women call me happy." So she named him Asher.a 14 During the wheat harvest, Reuben found some erotic herbs in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me your son's erotic herbs." 15 Leah replied, "Isn't it enough that you've taken my husband? Now you want to take my son's erotic herbs too?" Rachel said, "For your son's erotic herbs, Jacob may sleep with you tonight." 16 When Jacob came back from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me because I've paid for you with my son's erotic herbs." So he slept with her that night. 17 God responded to Leah. She became pregnant and gave birth to a fifth son for 18 Leah "God me what I When Rachel that she could 30 War Robne children, Rachel be paid for, what I deserved for giving my ser 27 Complete the celebratory week with this woman. Then I will give you this other woman too for your work, if you work for me seven more years." 28 So that is what Jacob did. He completed the celebratory week with this woman, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife. 29 Laban had given his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her servant. 30 Jacob slept with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban seven more years. 27 Jacob's sons are born 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to have children. 32Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reubens because she said, "The LORD saw my harsh treatment, and now my husband will love me." 33She became pregnant again and gave birth to a son. She said, "The LORD heard that I was unloved, so he gave me this son too," and she named him Simeon. 34She became pregnant again and gave birth to a son. She said, "Now, this time my husband will embrace me," since I have given birth to three sons for him." So she named him Levi. 35She became pregnant again and gave birth to a son. She said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah." Then she stopped bearing children. came jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children! If you don't, I may as well be dead." vant to my husband." So she named him Issachar. 19 Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob, 20 and she said, "God has given me a wonderful gift. Now my husband will honor me since I've borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. 21 After this, she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. 3She said, "Here's my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, and she will give birth for me. Because of her, I will also have children." "So Rachel gave her servant Bilhah to Jacob as his wife, and he slept with her. 5 Bilhah became pregnant and gave birth 'LXX, Sam, Syr, Tg, Vulg; MT we will give 'Or see, a son me "Sounds like the Heb verb embrace, or connect "Sounds like the Heb verb praise *Or he judged "Or my competition or my wrestling "Or good fortune Or happy Or mandrakes Or he dOr there is payment "Or honor 22 Then God remembered Rachel, responded to her, and let her conceive. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my shame." 'Sounds like the Heb verb hear "Or be connected to 2 Jacob was angry at Rachel and said, "Do you think I'm God? God alone has kept you from giving birth!" ......

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Genesis 30:24 28 24 She named him Joseph, saying to herself, ing troughs so that they were in front of the May the LORD give me another son. flock when they drank, because they often mated when they came to drink. 39When God blesses Jacob and Laban the flock mated in front of the branches, 25 After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, they gave birth to striped, speckled, and Jacob said to Laban, "Send me off so that I spotted young. 40 Jacob sorted out the can go to my own place and my own coun- lambs, turning the flock to face the striped try. 26 Give me my wives and children whom and black ones in Laban's flock but keeping I've worked for, and I will go. You know the his flock separate, setting them apart from work I've done for you." Laban's flock. Whenever the strongest of 27 Laban said to him, "Do me this favor. the flock mated, Jacob put the branches in I've discovered by a divine sign that the front of them near the watering troughs so LORD has blessed me because of you, 28 so that they mated near the branches. 42 But name your price and I will pay it." he didn't put branches up for the weakest 29 Jacob said to him, "You know how I've of the flock. So the weakest became Laban's worked for you, and how well your livestock and the strongest Jacob's. 43The man Jacob have done with me. 30While in my care, became very, very rich: he owned large what little you had has multiplied a great flocks, female and male servants, camels, deal. The LORD blessed you wherever I took and donkeys. your livestock. Now, when will I be able to work for my own household too?" Jacob's household leaves Laban 3'Laban said, "What will I pay you?" 27 Jacob heard that Laban's sons were Jacob said, "Don't pay me anything. I saying, "Jacob took everything our If you will do this for me, I will take care father owned and from it he produced all of of your flock again, and keep a portion.h this wealth." ?And Jacob saw that Laban no 32 I will go through the entire flock today, longer liked him as much as he used to. out all of the speckled and spotted Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Go back sheep, all of the black male lambs, and all to the land of your ancestors and to your of the spotted and speckled female goats. relatives, and I will be with you." That will be my price. 33 I will be completely "So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah and honest with you: when you come to check summoned them into the field where his on our agreement, every female goat with flock was. 'He said to them, "I am aware me that isn't speckled or spotted and every that your father no longer likes me as much male lamb with me that isn't black will be as he used to. But my father's God has been considered stolen." with me. You know that I've worked for 34Laban said, "All right; let's do it." your father as hard as I could. 'But your fa35 However, on that very day Laban took ther cheated me and changed my payment out the striped and spotted male goats ten times. Yet God didn't let him harm me. and all of the speckled and spotted female If he said, 'The speckled ones will be your goats-any with some white in it--and all payment,' the whole flock gave birth to of the black male lambs, and gave them to speckled young. And if he said, "The striped his sons. 36He put a three-day trip between ones will be your payment,' the whole flock himself and Jacob, while Jacob was watch- gave birth to striped young. 'God took away ing the rest of Laban's flock. your father's livestock and gave them to me. 37 Then Jacob took new branches from 1degWhen the flocks were mating, I looked up poplar, almond, and plane trees; and he and saw in a dream that the male goats that peeled white stripes on them, exposing mounted the flock were striped, speckled, the branches' white color. 38 He set the and spotted. "In the dream, God's mesbranches that he had peeled near the water- senger said to me, Jacob!' and I said, 'I'm o for he adds 8Or them "Heb uncertain

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29 Genesis 31:42 here.' ? He said, 'Look up and watch all the and my daughters good-bye. Now you've striped, speckled, and spotted male goats acted like a fool, 29 and I have the power mounting the flock. I've seen everything to punish you. However, your father's God that Laban is doing to you. I am the God told me yesterday, 'Be careful and don't say of Bethel, where you anointed a sacred pil- anything hastily to Jacob one way or the lar and where you made a solemn promise other.' 30 You've rushed off now because you to me. Now, get up and leave this country missed your father's household so much, and go back to the land of your relatives."" but why did you steal my gods?" Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is 31 Jacob responded to Laban, "I was afraid there any share or inheritance left for us in and convinced myself that you would take our father's household? 15 Doesn't he think your daughters away from me. 32Whomof us as foreigners since he sold us and has ever you find with your divine images won't even used up the payment he received for live. Identify whatever I have that is yours, us? 16 All of the wealth God took from our in front of your brothers, and take it." Jacob father belongs to us and our children. Now, didn't know that Rachel had stolen them. do everything God told you to do." 33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, 1750 Jacob got up, put his sons and wives and her two servants' tent and didn't find on the camels, 18 and set out with all of his them. livestock and all of his possessions that So he left Leah's tent and went into Rahe had acquiredi in Paddan-aram in order chel's. 34Now Rachel had taken the divine to return to his father Isaac in the land of images and put them into the camel's sadCanaan. ''Now, while Laban was out shear- dlebag and sat on them. Laban felt around ing his sheep, Rachel stole the household's in the whole tent but couldn't find them. divine images that belonged to her father. 35 Rachel said to her father, "Sir, don't be 20 Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the angry with me because I can't get up for Aramean by not sending word to him that you; I'm having my period." He searched he was leaving. 21So Jacob and his entire but couldn't find the divine images. household left. He got up, crossed the river, 36 Jacob was angry and complained and set out directly for the mountains of to Laban, "What have I done wrong and Gilead. what's my crime that you've tracked me 22 Three days later, Laban found out that down like this? 37 You've now felt through Jacob had gone, 23 so Laban took his broth- all of my baggage, and what have you found ers with him, chased Jacob for seven days, from your household's belongings? Put it in and caught up with him in the mountains front of our relatives, and let them decide of Gilead. 24 That night, God appeared to between us. 38 For these twenty years I've Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, been with you, your female sheep and goats "Be careful and don't say anything hastily haven't miscarried, and I haven't eaten your to Jacob one way or the other." flock's rams. 39When animals were killed, I 25Laban reached Jacob after Jacob had didn't bring them to you but took the loss pitched his tent in the mountains. So Laban myself. You demanded compensation from and his brothers also pitched theirs in the me for any animals poached during the day mountains of Gilead. 26 Laban said to Jacob, or night. 40 The dry heat consumed me dur"What have you done? You have deceived ing the day, and the frost at night; I couldn't me and taken off with my daughters as if sleep. "I've now spent twenty years in your they were prisoners of war. 27 Why did you household. I worked for fourteen years leave secretly, deceiving me, and not letting for your two daughters and for six years me know? I would've sent you off with a cel- for your flock, and you changed my pay ebration, with songs and tambourines and ten times. 42 If the God of my father--the harps. 28 You didn't even let me kiss my sons God of Abraham and the awesome one of O'LXX; MT includes he had acquired, the livestock in his possession.

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Genesis 31:43 30 Isaac-hadn't been with me, you'd have no Mahanaim.P 3 Jacob sent messengers ahead doubt sent me away without anything. God of him to his brother Esau, toward the land saw my harsh treatment and my hard work of Seir, the open country of Edom. "He gave and reprimanded you yesterday." them these orders: "Say this to my master Esau. This is the message of your servant Jacob and Laban's treaty Jacob: 'I've lived as an immigrant with 43 Laban responded and told Jacob, "The Laban, where I've stayed till now. SI own daughters are my daughters, the children cattle, donkeys, flocks, men servants, and are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. women servants. I'm sending this message Everything you see is mine. But what can I to my master now to ask that he be kind."" do now about my daughters and about their The messengers returned to Jacob and sons? 44Come, let's make a covenant, you said, "We went out to your brother Esau, and me, and let something be our witness."i and he's coming to meet you with four hun 45So Jacob took a stone, set it up as a dred men." sacred pillar, 46 and said to his relatives, Jacob was terrified and felt trapped, so "Gather stones." So they took stones, made he divided the people with him, and the a mound, and ate there near the mound. flocks, cattle, and camels, into two camps. 47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha,k but He thought, If Esau meets the first camp Jacob called it Galeed. and attacks it, at least one camp will be left 48 Laban said, "This mound is our witness to escape. today," and, therefore, he too named it Ga- Jacob said, "LORD, God of my father leed. 49 He also named it Mizpah, because Abraham, God of my father Isaac, who said he said, "The LORD will observe both of us to me, 'Go back to your country and your when we are separated from each other. relatives, and I'll make sure things go well for 5deg If you treat my daughters badly and if you you.' 'I don't deserve how loyal and truthmarry other women, though we aren't there, ful you've been to your servant. I went away know that God observed our witness." across the Jordan with just my staff, but 5'Laban said to Jacob, "Here is this mound now I've become two camps. "Save me from and here is the sacred pillar that I've set up my brother Esau! I'm afraid he will come for us. 52 This mound and the sacred pillar and kill me, the mothers, and their children. are witnesses that I won't travel beyond this 12 You were the one who told me, 'I will make mound and that you won't travel beyond this sure things go well for you, and I will make mound and this pillar to do harm. 53 The God your descendants like the sand of the sea, so of Abraham and the God of Nahor" will keep many you won't be able to count them."" order between us." So Jacob gave his word 13 Jacob spent that night there. From in the name of the awesome one of his fa- what he had acquired, he set aside a gift ther Isaac. 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice on the for his brother Esau: 14two hundred female mountain, and invited his relatives to a meal. goats and twenty male goats, two hundred They ate together and spent the night on the ewes and twenty rams, Sthirty nursing mountain. 55oLaban got up early in the morn- camels with their young, forty cows and ten ing, kissed his sons and daughters, blessed bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten them, and left to go back to his own place. male donkeys. He separated these herds and gave them to his servants. He said to Jacob prepares to meet Esau them, "Go ahead of me and put some dis2 Jacob went on his way, and God's tance between each of the herds." "He or Lmessengers approached him. When dered the first group, "When my brother Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's Esau meets you and asks you, 'Who are camp," and he named that sacred place you with? Where are you going? And whose Or observation "LXX; MT includes their Or testimony Or mound of witness (Aram) 'Or mound of witness O father's God.deg32:1 in Heb Por two camps Or you

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31 herds are these in front of you?' 18 say, "They are your servant Jacob's, a gift sent to my master Esau. And Jacob is actually right behind us."" 19He also ordered the second group, the third group, and everybody following the herds, "Say exactly the same thing to Esau when you find him. 20Say also, 'Your servant Jacob is right behind us." Jacob thought, I may be able to pacify Esau with the gift I'm sending ahead. When I meet him, perhaps he will be kind to me. 21So Jacob sent the gift ahead of him, but he spent that night in the camp. Jacob wrestles with God 22 Jacob got up during the night, took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the Jabbok River's shallow water. 23 He took them and everything that belonged to him, and he helped them cross the river. 24 But Jacob stayed apart by himself, and a man wrestled with him until dawn broke. 25 When the man saw that he couldn't defeat Jacob, he grabbed Jacob's thigh and tore a muscle in Jacob's thigh as he wrestled with him. 26The man said, "Let me go because the dawn is breaking." But Jacob said, "I won't let you go until you bless me." 27 He said to Jacob, "What's your name?" and he said, "Jacob." 28 Then he said, "Your name won't be Jacob any longer, but Israel,' because you struggled with God and with men and won." 29 Jacob also asked and said, "Tell me your name." But he said, "Why do you ask for my name?" and he blessed Jacob there. 30 Jacob named the place Peniel," "because I've seen God face-to-face, and my life has been saved." 31 The sun rose as Jacob passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh. 32Therefore, Israelites don't eat the tendon attached to the thigh muscle to this day, because he grabbed Jacob's thigh muscle at the tendon. Genesis 33:17 Jacob divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two women servants. He put the servants and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last. He himself went in front of them and bowed to the ground seven times as he was approaching his brother. "But Esau ran to meet him, threw his arms around his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5Esau looked up and saw the women and children and said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children that God generously gave your servant." "The women servants and their children came forward and bowed down. 'Then Leah and her servants also came forward and bowed, and afterward Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed. 8 Esau said, "What's the meaning of this entire group of animals that I met?" Jacob said, "To ask for my master's kindness." 9Esau said, "I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what's yours." 10 Jacob said, "No, please, do me the kindness of accepting my gift. Seeing your face is like seeing God's face, since you've accepted me so warmly. "Take this present that I've brought because God has been generous to me, and I have everything I need." So Jacob persuaded him, and he took it. 12 Esau said, "Let's break camp and set out, and I'll go with you." 13 But Jacob said to him, "My master knows that the children aren't strong and that I am responsible for the nursing flocks and cattle. If I push them hard for even one day, all of the flocks will die. 14My master, go on ahead of your servant, but I've got to take it easy, going only as fast as the animals in front of me and the children are able to go, until I meet you in Seir." 15 Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But Jacob said, "Why should you do this since my master has already been so kind to me?" 16That day Esau returned on the road to Seir, "but Jacob traveled to Succoth. He Esau forgives Jacob 33 Jacob looked up and saw Esau approaching with four hundred men. 'Or God struggles or one who struggles with God Or face of God ......

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Genesis 33:18 32 built a house for himself but made tempo- 13 Jacob's sons responded deviously to rary shelters for his animals; therefore, he Shechem and his father Hamor because named the place Succoth." Shechem defiled their sister Dinah. 14 They said to them, "We can't do this, allowing Dinah and the conflict at Shechem our sisters to marry uncircumcised men, 18 Jacob arrived safely at the city of because it's disgraceful to us. We can only Shechem in the land of Canaan on his trip agree to do this if you circumcise every male from Paddan-aram, and he camped in front as we do. 16 Then we will give our daughters of the city. "He bought the section of the to you, and we will take your daughters field where he pitched his tent from the for ourselves. We will live with you and be sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one one people. But if you don't listen to us hundred qesitahs." 20 Then he set up an and become circumcised, we will take our altar there and named it El Elohe Israel. daughter and leave." 18 Their idea seemed like a good one to 2 Dinah, the daughter whom Leah Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem. "'The Uthad borne to Jacob, went out to young man didn't waste any time doing this meet the women of that country. When because he liked Jacob's daughter so much. Shechem the son of the Hivite Hamor and He was more respected than anyone else in the country's prince saw her, he took her, his father's household. 2deg Hamor and his son slept with her, and humiliated her. 'He Shechem went to their city's gate and spoke was drawn to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He to the men of their city: 27"These men want loved the young woman and tried to win peace with us. Let them live in the land and her heart. Shechem said to his father travel through it; there's plenty of land for Hamor, "Get this girl for me as my wife." them. We will marry their daughters and Now Jacob heard that Shechem defiled his give them our daughters. 22But the men daughter Dinah; but his sons were with the will agree to live with us and become one animals in the countryside, so he decided people only if we circumcise every male just to keep quiet until they got back. "Mean- as they do. 23 Their livestock, their property, while, Hamor, Shechem's father, went out and all of their animals--won't they be to Jacob to speak with him. Just then, Ja- ours? Let's agree with them and let them cob's sons got back from the countryside. live with us." 24Everyone at the city gate When they heard what had happened, they agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, were outraged and very angry, because so every able-bodied male in the city was Shechem had disgraced Israel by sleeping circumcised. with Jacob's daughter. Such things are sim- 25 On the third day, when they were still in ply not done. pain, two of Jacob's sons and Dinah's brothHamor said to them, "My son Shechem's ers Simeon and Levi took their swords, came heart is set on your daughter. Please let him into the city, which suspected nothing, and marry her. 'Arrange marriages with us: give killed every male. 26They killed Hamor and us your daughters and take our daughters his son Shechem with their swords, took for yourselves. ''Live with us. The land is Dinah from Shechem's household, and left. available to you: settle down, travel through 27When Jacob's other sons discovered the it, and buy property in it." dead, they looted the city that had defiled "Shechem said to Dinah's father and their sister. 28 They took their flocks, their brothers, "If you approve of me, tell me what cattle, and their donkeys, whether in the you want, and I will give it to you. 1?Make city or in the fields nearby. 29 They carried the bride price and marriage gifts as large as off their property, their children, and their you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. wives. They looted the entire place. 30 Jacob . Then let me marry the young woman." said to Simeon and Levi, "You've put me in o for temporary shelters "A monetary weight 'Or El, God of Israel

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33 Genesis 36:25 danger by making me offensive to those alone in the place where he spoke to him. who live here in the land, to the Canaanites 14So Jacob set up a sacred pillar, a stone and the Perizzites. I have only a few men. pillar, at the place God spoke to him. He They may join forces, attack me, and destroy poured an offering of wine on it and then me, me and my household." poured oil over it. 15 Jacob named the place 31They said, "But didn't he treat our sis- Bethel where God spoke to him. ter like a prostitute?" Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death Jacob establishes worship at Bethel 16 They left Bethel, and when they were 2 God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel J B ethel, and live there. Build an altar went into hard labor. During her difficult there to the God who appeared to you when labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be you ran away from your brother Esau." afraid. You have another son." 18 As her life ? Jacob said to his household and to ev- faded away, just before she died, she named eryone who was with him, "Get rid of the him Ben-oni, but his father named him foreign gods you have with you. Clean Benjamin. 19 Rachel died and was buried yourselves and change your clothes. "Then near the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlelet's rise and go up to Bethel so that I can hem. 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. It's build an altar there to the God who an- the pillar on Rachel's tomb that's still there swered me when I was in trouble and who today. 2'Israel continued his trip and pitched has been with me wherever I've gone." "So his tent farther on near the tower of Eder. they gave Jacob all of the foreign gods they had, as well as the rings in their ears, and Jacob's family Jacob buried them under the terebinth at 22While Israel stayed in that place, ReuShechem. SWhen they set out, God made ben went and slept with Bilhah his father's all of the surrounding cities fearful so that secondary wife, and Israel heard about it. they didn't pursue Jacob's sons. Jacob and Jacob had twelve sons. 23 The sons of all of the people with him arrived in Luz, Leah were Reuben, Jacob's oldest son, and otherwise known as Bethel, in the land of Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Canaan. 'He built an altar there and named 24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjathe place El-bethel, because God had re- min. 25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, vealed himself to him there when he ran were Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah, away from his brother. Rachel's nurse Deb- Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These orah died and was buried at Bethel under were Jacob's sons born to him in Paddanthe oak, and Jacob named it Allon-bacuth. aram. 'God appeared to Jacob again, while he was on his way back from Paddan-aram, Isaac's death and blessed him. "God said to him, "Your 2 7 Jacob came to his father Isaac at name is Jacob, but your name will be Jacob Mamre, that is, Kiriath-arba. This is Heno longer. No, your name will be Israel." bron, where Abraham and Isaac lived as imAnd he named him Israel. "God said to him, migrants. 28 At the age of 180 years, 2'Isaac "I am El Shaddai. Be fertile and multiply. A took his last breath and died. He was buried nation, even a large group of nations, will with his ancestors after a long, satisfying come from you; kings will descend from life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him. your own children. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I give to you; and I Esau's descendants will give the land to your descendants after 2 These are the descendants of Esau, that you." 13 Then God ascended, leaving him JOis, Edom. ?Esau married Canaanite : "Or God of Bethel *Or oak of weeping or God Almighty or God of the Mountain 'Or my suffering son o Or right-hand son or strong son

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...... Genesis 36:3 women: Adah the daughter of the Hittite Elon; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah son of the Hittite Zibeon, 3and Basmath the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. "Adah gave birth to Eliphaz for Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are Esau's sons born to him in the land of Canaan. "Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and everyone in his household, and his livestock, all of his animals, and all of the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he moved away from the land of Canaan and from his brother Jacob. 'They had so many possessions that they couldn't live together. The land where they lived as immigrants couldn't support all of their livestock. So Esau, that is Edom, lived in the mountains of Seir. 34 "These are the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of Edom, which lies in the mountains of Seir. 10These are the names of Edom's sons: Eliphaz son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau's wife Basemath. "Eliphaz's sons were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12Timna was the secondary wife of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she gave birth to Amalek for Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau's wife Adah. 13 These are Reuel's sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath. 14These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, Zibeon's son: she gave birth to Esau, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 15 These are the tribal chiefs from Esau's sons. The sons of Eliphaz, Esau's oldest son: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz, 16Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, and Chief Amalek. These are the tribal chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; they are Adah's sons. 17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These are the tribal chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath. 18 These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Chief Jeush, Chief Jalam, and Chief Korah. They are the tribal chiefs of Esau's wife Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. 19These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their tribal chiefs. 20These are the sons of Seir, the Horite, who live in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the Horite tribal chiefs, Seir's sons, in the land of Edom. 22 Lotan's sons are Hori and Heman, and Lotan's sister was Timna. 23 These are Shobal's sons: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah. Anah is the one who found watere in the desert while pasturing his father Zibeon's donkeys. 25 These are Anah's children: Dishon and Anah's daughter Oholibamah. 26 These are Dishon's sons: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 27 These are Ezer's sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 28 These are Dishan's sons: Uz and Aran. 29 These are the Horite tribal chiefs: Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the Horite tribal chiefs, listed according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 31 These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before a king ruled over the Israelites. 32 Bela, Beor's son, ruled in Edom; his city's name was Dinhabah. 33 After Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah became king. 34 After Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king. 35 After Husham died, Hadad, Bedad's son who defeated Midian in the countryside of Moab, became king; his city's name was Avith. 36 After Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king. 37After Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river became king. 38 After Shaul died, Baal-hanan, Achbor's son, became king. 39 After Baal-hanan, Achbor's son, died, bLXX, Sam, Syr; MT daughter LXX, Sam; MT to a land LXX, Sam, Syr; MT daughter Syr; Heb uncertain Sam, Syr; MT Dishan's

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35 Genesis 37:25 Hadar became king; his city's name was to him, "What kind of dreams have you Pau and his wife's name was Meheta- dreamed? Am I and your mother and your bel the daughter of Matred and grand- brothers supposed to come and bow down daughter of Me-zahab. to the ground in front of you?" "His broth40 These are the names of Esau's tribal ers were jealous of him, but his father took chiefs according to their families, their careful note of the matter. locations, and their names: Chief Timna, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth, 41Chief Oho- Joseph's brothers take revenge libamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, 42 Chief 2 Joseph's brothers went to tend their Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, father's flocks near Shechem. 13 Israel said 43 Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers tending are Edom's tribal chiefs according to the sheep near Shechem? Come, I'll send their settlements in the land they pos- you to them." sessed. This is Esau, the ancestor of the And he said, "I'm ready." Edomites. 14 Jacob said to him, "Go! Find out how your brothers are and how the flock is, and Joseph dreams of power report back to me." 27 Jacob lived in the land of Canaan So Jacob sent him from the Hebron Val where his father was an immigrant. ley. When he approached Shechem, 'Sa man 2 This is the account of Jacob's descen- found him wandering in the field and asked dants. Joseph was 17 years old and tended him, "What are you looking for?" the flock with his brothers. While he was 16 Jacob said, "I'm looking for my brothers. helping the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his Tell me, where are they tending the sheep?" father's wives, Joseph told their father un- 17The man said, "They left here. I heard flattering things about them. Now Israel them saying, 'Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joloved Joseph more than any of his other seph went after his brothers and found sons because he was born when Jacob was them in Dothan. old. Jacob had made for him a long robe. They saw Joseph in the distance before When his brothers saw that their father he got close to them, and they plotted to loved him more than any of his broth- kill him. 19The brothers said to each other, ers, they hated him and couldn't even talk "Here comes the big dreamer. 2deg Come on nicely to him. now, let's kill him and throw him into one 5 Joseph had a dream and told it to his of the cisterns, and we'll say a wild animal brothers, which made them hate him even devoured him. Then we will see what bemore. He said to them, "Listen to this comes of his dreams!" dream I had. When we were binding stalks 21When Reuben heard what they said, he of grain in the field, my stalk got up and saved him from them, telling them, "Let's stood upright, while your stalks gathered not take his life." 22 Reuben said to them, around it and bowed down to my stalk." "Don't spill his blood! Throw him into this & His brothers said to him, "Will you re- desert cistern, but don't lay a hand on him." ally be our king and rule over us?" So they He intended to save Joseph from them and hated him even more because of the dreams take him back to his father. he told them. 23When Joseph reached his brothers, 'Then Joseph had another dream and de- they stripped off Joseph's long robe, 24 took scribed it to his brothers: "I've just dreamed him, and threw him into the cistern, an again, and this time the sun and the moon empty cistern with no water in it. 25When and eleven stars were bowing down to me." they sat down to eat, they looked up and 10When he described it to his father and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from . brothers, his father scolded him and said Gilead, with camels carrying sweet resin, O LXX, Vulg; Heb uncertain

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...... O...... Genesis 37:26 36 a woman named Tamar. 7But the LORD considered Judah's oldest son Er immoral, and the LORD put him to death. Judah said to Onan, "Go to your brother's wife, do your duty as her brother-in-law, and provide children for your brother." "Onan knew the children wouldn't be his so when he slept with his brother's wife, he wasted his semen on the ground, so he wouldn't give his brother children. 10The LORD considered what he did as wrong and put him to death too. "Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Stay as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up." He thought Shelah would die like his brothers had. So Tamar went and lived in her father's household. 12 After a long time, Judah's wife the daughter of Shua, died. Then, after a period of mourning, he and his neighbor Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah, to those who were shearing his sheep. 13 Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is now on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep." 14 So Tamar took off the clothing she wore as a widow, covered herself with a veil, put on makeup, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim on the road to Timnah, since she realized that although Shelah had already grown up, she hadn't been given to him as a wife. 15 Judah saw her and thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face. 16 He turned to her beside the road and said, "Let me sleep with you," because he didn't know she was his daughter-in-law. medicinal resin, and fragrant resin on their way down to Egypt. 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What do we gain if we kill our brother and hide his blood? 27 Come on, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let's not harm him because he's our brother; he's family." His brothers agreed. 28When some Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. They sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they brought Joseph to Egypt. 29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and found that Joseph wasn't in it, he tore his clothes. 30Then he returned to his brothers and said, "The boy's gone! And I-where can I go now?" 31 His brothers took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. 32 They took the long robe, brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. See if it's your son's robe or not." 33 He recognized it and said, "It's my son's robe! A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph must have been torn to pieces!" 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put a simple mourning cloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days. 35 All of his sons and daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, telling them, "I'll go to my grave mourning for my son." And Joseph's father wept for him. 36 Meanwhile the Midianites had sold Joseph to the Egyptians, to Potiphar, Pharaoh's chief officer, commander of the royal guard. Tamar's place in Judah's family 38 At that time, Judah moved away from his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah. 2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her. After he slept with her, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, whom sheh named Er. "She became pregnant again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan. 5Then she gave birth to one more son and named him Shelah. She was in Chezib when she gave birth to him. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?" 17 He said, "I will give you a kid goat from my flock." She said, "Only if you give me some deposit, as security to guarantee that you will send it." 18 He said, "What kind of deposit should I give you?" And she said, "Your seal, its cord, and the staff in your hand." He gave these to her, slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. 19 Then she got up, left, and took off her "Judah married his oldest son Er to veil, dressing once again in the clothing she Sam, Tg; MT he 'Or perfumed herself or wrapped herself up

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37 Genesis 39:18: wore as a widow. 20 Judah sent the kid goat saw that the LORD was with him and that with his neighbor the Adullamite so he could the LORD made everything he did successtake back the deposits from the woman, but ful. "Potiphar thought highly of Joseph, and he couldn't find her. He asked the locals of Joseph became his assistant; he appointed that place, "Where's the consecrated worker Joseph head of his household and put evwho was at Enaim on the road?" erything he had under Joseph's supervision. But they said, "There's no consecrated From the time he appointed Joseph head worker here." of his household and of everything he had, 22 So he went back to Judah and said, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's household "I couldn't find her. The locals even said, because of Joseph. The LORD blessed ev"There's no holy woman here." erything he had, both in the household and 23 Judah said, "Let her keep everything in the field. So he handed over everything so we aren't laughed at. I did send this kid he had to Joseph and didn't pay attention goat, but you couldn't find her." to anything except the food he ate. 24 About three months later, Judah was Now Joseph was well-built and handsome. told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has be- 'Some time later, his master's wife become a prostitute and is now pregnant be- came attracted to Joseph and said, "Sleep cause of it." with me." And Judah said, "Bring her out so that He refused and said to his master's she may be burned." wife, "With me here, my master doesn't 25When she was brought out, she sent pay attention to anything in his housethis message to her father-in-law, "I'm preg- hold; he's put everything he has under my nant by the man who owns these things. supervision. 'No one is greater than I am See if you recognize whose seal, cord, and in this household, and he hasn't denied me staff these are." anything except you, since you are his wife. 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She's How could I do this terrible thing and sin more righteous than I am, because I didn't against God?" "Every single day she tried allow her to marry my son Shelah." Judah to convince him, but he wouldn't agree to never knew her intimately again. sleep with her or even to be with her. 27When she gave birth, she discovered "One day when Joseph arrived at the she had twins in her womb. 28 At birth, one house to do his work, none of the houseboy put out his hand, and the midwife took hold's men were there. She grabbed his it and tied a red thread on his hand, say- garment, saying, "Lie down with me." But ing, "This one came out first." 29 As soon as he left his garment in her hands and ran he pulled his hand back, his brother came outside. 13When she realized that he had out, and she said, "You've burst out on your left his garment in her hands and run own." So he was named Perez.k 30 Afterward, outside, 14 she summoned the men of her his brother with the red thread on his hand house and said to them, "Look, my huscame out, and he was named Zerah. band brought us a Hebrew to ridicule us. He came to me to lie down with me, but I Joseph's rise and betrayal screamed. When he heard me raise my When Joseph had been taken down voice and scream, he left his garment with to Egypt, Potiphar, Pharaoh's chief me and ran outside." 16 She kept his garofficer, the commander of the royal guard ment with her until Joseph's master came and an Egyptian, purchased him from the home, and she told him the same thing: Ishmaelites who had brought him down "The Hebrew slave whom you brought to there. The LORD was with Joseph, and he us, to ridicule me, came to me; 18 but when became a successful man and served in his I raised my voice and screamed, he left his : Egyptian master's household. His master garment with me and ran outside." Traditionally cultic prostitute kor bursting out 'Or dawn

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...... Genesis 39:19 19 When Joseph's master heard the thing that his wife told him, "This is what your servant did to me," he was incensed. 20 Joseph's master took him and threw him in jail, the place where the king's prisoners were held. While he was in jail, 21the LORD was with Joseph and remained loyal to him. He caused the jail's commander to think highly of Joseph. 22The jail's commander put all of the prisoners in the jail under Joseph's supervision, and he was the one who determined everything that happened there. 23 The jail's commander paid no attention to anything under Joseph's supervision, because the LORD was with him and made everything he did successful. 38 Joseph interprets dreams in prison 12 Joseph said to him, "This is the dream's interpretation: The three branches are three days. 13 After three days, Pharaoh will give you an audience and return you to your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just the way things were before when you were his wine steward. But please, remember me when you are doing well and be loyal to me. Put in a good word for me to Pharaoh, so he sets me free from this prison. 15I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I've done nothing to be thrown into this dungeon." 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "It was the same for me. In my dream, and baker for Egypt's were three of white on Some time later, both the wine king offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief wine steward and the chief baker, and he put them under arrest with the commander of the royal guard in the same jail where Joseph was imprisoned. "The commander of the royal guard assigned Joseph to assist them. After they had been under arrest for some time, both of them-the wine steward and the baker for Egypt's king who were imprisoned in the jail-had dreams one night, and each man's dream had its own meaning. "When Joseph met them in the morning, he saw that they were upset. 'He asked the officers of Pharaoh who were under arrest with him in his master's house, "Why do you look so distressed today?" 8They answered, "We've both had dreams, but there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Describe your dreams to me." hand, so I took the grapes, crushed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh's hand." 9The chief wine steward described his dream to Joseph: "In my dream there was a vine right in front of me, 10and on the vine were three branches. When it budded, its blossoms appeared, and its clusters ripened into grapes. "Pharaoh's cup was in my mHeb uncertain my head. "In the basket on top there were baked goods for Pharaoh's food, but birds were eating them out of the basket on my head." 18 Joseph responded, "This is the dream's interpretation: The three baskets are three days. After three days, Pharaoh will give you an audience and will hang you from a tree where birds will peck your flesh from you." 20The third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a party for all of his servants. Before all of his servants, he gave an audience to the chief wine steward and the chief baker. 21He returned the chief wine steward to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand. 22 But the chief baker he hanged, just as Joseph had said would happen when he interpreted their dreams for them. 23But the chief wine steward didn't remember Joseph; he forgot all about him. Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams 41 Two years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing near the Nile. 2In front of him, seven healthy-looking, fattened cows climbed up out of the Nile and grazed on the reeds. 3Just then, seven other cows, terrible-looking and scrawny, climbed up out of the Nile after them and

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39 Genesis 41:36 : stood beside them on the bank of the Nile. thin, frail cows devoured the first seven, The terrible-looking, scrawny cows de- fattened cows. 21But after they swallowed voured the seven healthy-looking, fattened them whole, no one would have known it. Cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. "He went They looked just as bad as they had before. back to sleep and had a second dream, in Then I woke up.2I went to sleep again and which seven ears of grain, full and healthy, saw in my dream seven full and healthy grew on a single stalk. Just then, seven ears of grain growing on one stalk. 23 Just ears of grain, scrawny and scorched by the then, seven hard and thin ears of grain, east wind, sprouted after them, and the scorched by the east wind, sprouted after scrawny ears swallowed up the full and them, 24 and the thin ears swallowed up the well-formed ears. Then Pharaoh woke up healthy ears. I told the religious experts, 9 and realized it was a dream. 8 In the morn- but they couldn't explain it to me." ing, he was disturbed and summoned all 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh has of Egypt's religious experts" and all of its actually had one dream. God has announced advisors. Pharaoh described his dreamso to to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 26 The them, but they couldn't interpret them for seven healthy cows are seven years, and the Pharaoh. seven healthy ears of grain are seven years. 'Then the chief wine steward spoke to It's actually one dream. 27The seven thin Pharaoh: "Today I've just remembered my and frail cows, climbing up after them, are mistake. 'Pharaoh was angry with his ser- seven years. The seven thin ears of grain, vants and put me and the chief baker under scorched by the east wind, are seven years arrest with the commander of the royal of famine. 28 It's just as I told Pharaoh: God guard. "We both dreamed one night, he and has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. I, and each of our dreams had its own in- 29 Seven years of great abundance are now terpretation. A young Hebrew man, a ser- coming throughout the entire land of Egypt. vant of the commander of the royal guard, 30 After them, seven years of famine will apwas with us. We described our dreams to pear, and all of the abundance in the land him, and he interpreted our dreams for us, of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will giving us an interpretation for each dream. devastate the land. No one will remember 13 His interpretations came true exactly: the abundance in the land because the famPharaoh restored me to my position but ine that follows will be so very severe. 32 The hanged him." dream occurred to Pharaoh twice because 14So Pharaoh summoned Joseph, and God has determined to do it, and God will they quickly brought him from the dun- make it happen soon. geon. He shaved, changed clothes, and appeared before Pharaoh. 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph's rise to power Joseph, "I had a dream, but no one could 33"Now Pharaoh should find an intelliinterpret it. Then I heard that when you gent, wise man and give him authority over hear a dream, you can interpret it." the land of Egypt. 34 Then Pharaoh should 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It's not me. appoint administrators over the land and God will give Pharaoh a favorable response." take one-fifth of all the produce of the land 1750 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my of Egypt during the seven years of abundream I was standing on the bank of the dance. 35During the good years that are Nile. 18 In front of me, seven fattened, stout coming, they should collect all such food cows climbed up out of the Nile and grazed and store the grain under Pharaoh's control, on the reeds. 19 Just then, seven other protecting the food in the cities. 36This food cows, weak and frail and thin, climbed will be reserved for the seven years of famup after them. I've never seen such awful ine to follow in the land of Egypt so that the cows in all the land of Egypt. 20Then the land won't be ravaged by the famine." o "Or magicians Sam; MT dream PLXX, Syr, Vulg; MT lacks I went to sleep again. "Or magicians

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Genesis 41:37 40 37This advice seemed wise to Pharaoh "because," he said, "God has given me chiland all his servants, 38 and Pharaoh said to dren in the land where I've been treated his servants, "Can we find a man with more harshly." God-given gifts" than this one?" 39 Then 53 The seven years of abundance in the Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has land of Egypt came to an end, 54 and the made all this known to you, no one is as seven years of famine began, just as Joseph intelligent and wise as you are. 40 You will had said. The famine struck every country, be in charge of my kingdom, and all my but the entire land of Egypt had bread. people will obeyt your command. Only as SSWhen the famine ravaged the entire land the enthroned king will I be greater than of Egypt and the people pleaded to Pharaoh you." 4 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Know this: for bread, Pharaoh said to all of the EgypI've given you authority over the entire land tians, "Go to Joseph. Do whatever he tells of Egypt." 42 Pharaoh took his signet ring you." 56 The famine covered every part of from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, the land, and Joseph opened all of the grahe dressed him in linen clothes, and he put naries and sold grain to the Egyptians. In a gold necklace around his neck. 43 He put the land of Egypt, the famine became more Joseph on the chariot of his second-in- and more severe. 57Every country came to command, and everyone in front of him Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because in cried out, "Attention!" So Pharaoh installed every country the famine had also become him over the entire land of Egypt. 44 Phar- more severe. aoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; no one will do anything or go anywhere in all the Joseph's brothers arrive in Egypt land of Egypt without your permission." . When Jacob learned that there was 45 Pharaoh renamed Joseph, Zaphenath- grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, paneah, and married him to Asenath, "Why are you staring blankly at each other? the daughter of Potiphera the priest of ?I've just heard that there's grain in Egypt. Heliopolis. Go down there and buy some for us so that Then Joseph assumed control of the land we can survive and not starve to death." of Egypt. 46 Joseph was 30 years old when So Joseph's ten brothers went down to he began to serve Pharaoh, Egypt's king, buy grain in Egypt. "However, Jacob didn't when he left Pharaoh's court and traveled send Joseph's brother Benjamin along with through the entire land of Egypt. 47During his brothers because he thought something the seven years of abundance, the land pro- bad might happen to him. "Israel's sons duced plentifully. 48 He collected all of the came to buy grain with others who also food during the seven years of abundance" came since the famine had spread to the in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in land of Canaan. cities. In each city, he stored the food from As for Joseph, he was the land's govthe fields surrounding it. 49 Joseph amassed ernor, and he was the one selling grain to grain like the sand of the sea. There was so all the land's people. When Joseph's brothmuch that he stopped trying to measure it ers arrived, they bowed down to him, their because it was beyond measuring. 5deg Before faces to the ground. When Joseph saw his the years of famine arrived, Asenath the brothers, he recognized them, but he acted daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis,* like he didn't know them. He spoke to them gave birth to two sons for Joseph. 51 Joseph with a harsh tone and said, "Where have named the oldest son Manasseh, "because," you come from?" he said, "God has helped me forget all of my And they said, "From the land of Canaan troubles and everyone in my father's house to buy food." hold." 52 He named the second Ephraim, Joseph recognized his brothers, but they : 'Or like this one, in whom is the spirit of God Or house 'LXX; Heb uncertain, perhaps submit themselves to your command "An Egyptian loanword similar to the Heb word kneel 'Heb On WLXX; MT lacks of abundance. o *Heb On Yor making forget ?Sounds like has given me children. "LXX, Syr; MT what was in them

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41 Genesis 42:38 didn't recognize him.'Joseph remembered 25Then Joseph gave orders to fill their the dreams he had dreamed about them, and bags with grain, to put back each man's silsaid to them, "You are spies. You've come to ver into his own sack, and to give them prolook for the country's weaknesses." visions for their trip, and it was done. 26 They 10 They said to him, "No, Master. Your loaded their grain onto their donkeys, and servants have just come to buy food. "We they set out. 27When they stopped to spend are all sons of one man. We are honest men. the night, one of them opened his sack to Your servants aren't spies." feed his donkey, and he saw his silver at the 2 He said to them, "No. You've come to top of his sack. 28 He said to his brothers, look for the country's weaknesses." "My silver's been returned. It's right here 13 They said, "We, your servants, are in my sack." Their hearts stopped. Terrified, twelve brothers, sons of one man in the they said to each other, "What has God land of Canaan. The youngest is now with done to us?" our father, but one is gone." 29 When they got back to their father 14 Joseph said to them, "It's just as I've Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described said to you. You are spies! 15But here is to him everything that had happened to how to prove yourselves: As Pharaoh lives, them: 30"The man, the country's governor, you won't leave here until your youngest spoke to us with a harsh tone and accused brother arrives. 16 Send one of you to get us of being spies in the country. 3lWe told your brother, but the rest of you will stay him, 'We're honest men, not spies. 32 We in prison. We will find out if your words are are twelve brothers, all our father's sons. true. If not, as Pharaoh lives, you are cer- One of us is gone, but the youngest is tainly spies." right now with our father in the land of Canaan.' 33 The man, the country's goverJoseph's brothers return to Canaan nor, told us, "This is how I will know you 17He put them all in prison for three are honest men: leave one of your brothdays. 18 On the third day, Joseph said to ers with me, take grain for those in your them, "Do this and you will live, for I'm a households who are hungry, and go. 34 But God-fearing man. "'If you are honest men, bring back your youngest brother to me. let one of your brothers stay in prison, and Then I will know that you are not spies but the rest of you, go, take grain back to those honest men. I will give your brother back in your households who are hungry. 2degBut to you, and you may travel throughout the bring your youngest brother back to me country.'" so that your words will prove true and you 35When they opened their sacks, each won't die." man found a pouch of his silver in his So they prepared to do this. 21 The broth- sack. When they and their father saw their ers said to each other, "We are clearly guilty pouches of silver, they were afraid. 36 Their for what we did to our brother when we saw father Jacob said to them, "You've taken my his life in danger and when he begged us for children from me. Joseph's gone. Simeon's mercy, but we didn't listen. That's why we're gone. And you are taking Benjamin. All this in this danger now." can't really be happening to me!" 22 Reuben responded to them, "Didn't I 37 Reuben said to his father, "You may tell you, 'Don't do anything wrong to the put both of my sons to death if I don't bring boy'? But you wouldn't listen. So now this him back to you. Make him my responsibilis payback for his death." 23 They didn't ity, and I will make sure he returns to you." know that Joseph was listening to them be- 38 But Jacob said to him, "My son won't cause they were using an interpreter. 24 He go down with you because his brother's stepped away from them and wept. When dead and he's been left all alone. If anyhe returned, he spoke with them again. thing were to happen to him on the trip Then he took Simeon from them and tied you are taking, you would send me-old as him up in front of them. I am-to my grave in grief."

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...... Genesis 43:1 43 Joseph's brothers return with Benjamin The famine was severe in the land, and when they had eaten all the grain that they brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little food." 3 Judah said to him, "The man was absolutely serious when he said, 'You may not see me again without your brother with you.' "If you agree to send our brother with us, then we will go down and buy you food. 5But if you don't agree to send him, then we can't go down because the man said to us, 'You may not see me again without your brother with you.' "" "Israel said, "Why have you caused me such pain by telling the man you had another brother?" "They said, "The man asked us pointedly about our family: 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' So we told him just what we've said. How were we to know he'd say, 'Bring your brother down here"?" 8 Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the young man with me. Let's get ready to leave so that we can stay alive and not diewe, you, and our children. 'I will guarantee his safety; you can hold me responsible. If I don't bring him back to you and place him here in front of you, it will be my fault forever. 10If we hadn't waited so long, we would've returned twice by now." "Their father Israel said to them, "If it has to be, then do this. Take in your bags some of the land's choice produce, and bring it down to the man as a gift: a little medicinal resin, a little honey, gum, resin, pistachios, and almonds. 12Take twice as much silver with you, and take back the silver returned in the top of your sacks. It might have been a mistake. 13 And take your brother, get ready, and go back to the man. 14 May God Almighty make the man compassionate toward you so that he may send back our other brother and Benjamin with you. But me, if I'm left childless, then I'm left childless." 15 So the men took this gift. They took twice as much silver with them, together 42 Heb El Shaddai or God of the Mountain with Benjamin. They left, traveled down to Egypt, and received an audience with Joseph. 16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the manager of his household, "Bring the men to the house and slaughter an animal and prepare it because the men will have dinner with me at noon." 17The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house. 18 When they were brought to Joseph's house, the men were frightened and said, "We've been brought here because of the silver put back in our sacks on our first trip so he can overpower us, capture us, make slaves of us, and take our donkeys." 19They approached the man who was Joseph's household manager and spoke to him at the house's entrance: 20"Please, Master, we came down the first time just to buy food, "but when we stopped to spend the night and opened our sacks, there was the exact amount of each man's silver at the top of his sack. We've brought it back with us, 22 and we've brought down with us additional silver to buy food. We don't know who put our silver in our sacks." 23 He said, "You are fine. Don't be afraid. Your God and your father's God must have hidden a treasure in your sacks. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them. 24 The manager brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water to wash their feet and feed for their donkeys. 25 They prepared the gift, anticipating Joseph's arrival at noon, since they had heard that they would have a meal there. 26When Joseph came into the house, they presented him the gift they had brought with them into the house, and they bowed low in front of him. 27 He asked them how they were and said, "How is your elderly father, about whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" 28 They said, "Your servant our father is fine. He's still alive." And they bowed down again with deep respect. 29 Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, and he said, "Is this your youngest brother whom

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you told me about? God be gracious to you, my son." 30 Joseph's feelings for his brother were so strong he was about to weep, so he rushed to another room and wept there. 31He washed his face, came back, pulled himself together, and said, "Set out the dinner." 32So they set out his food by himself, their food by themselves, and the Egyptians' who ate with him by themselves because Egyptians don't allow themselves to eat with Hebrews; the Egyptians think it beneath their dignity. 33They were seated in front of him from the oldest to the youngest in their exact birth order, and the men looked at each other with amazement. 34 Portions of food from Joseph's table were brought to them, but Benjamin's portion was five times as large as theirs. So they drank together and were at ease. Joseph tests his brothers 43 with as much food as they'll hold, and put each man's silver at the top of his sack. 2Put my cup, the silver cup, on top of the youngest brother's sack, together with the silver for his grain." So he did just as Joseph told him to do. Genesis 44:26 said. Whoever is found with it will be my slave, and the rest of you will go free." "Everyone quickly lowered their sacks down to the ground and each opened his sack. 12 He searched the oldest first and the youngest last, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13 At this, they tore their clothing. Then everyone loaded their donkeys, and they returned to the city. 14When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph's house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground in front of him. 15 Joseph said to them, "What's this you've done? Didn't you know someone like me can discover God's plans?"f 16 Judah replied, "What can we say to my master? What words can we use? How can we prove we are innocent? God has found your servants guilty. We are now your slaves, all of us, including the one found with the cup." Joseph commands to his house 17 Joseph said, "I'd never do such a 44 hold manager, all the men's sucks Only the man found with the cup will be my slave. As for the rest of you, you are free to go back to your father." Judah appeals for Benjamin 3 At dawn, the men and their donkeys were sent off. "They had left the city but hadn't gone far when Joseph said to his household manager, "Get ready, go after the men and catch up with them! Ask them, 'Why have you repaid hospitality with ingratitude? Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and uses to discover God's plans? What you've done is despicable."" 18 Judah approached him and said, "Please, my master, allow your servant to say something to my master without getting angry with your servant since you are like Pharaoh himself. 19My master asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or brother?' 20 And we said to my master, 'Yes, we have an elderly father and a young brother, born when he was old. His brother is dead and he's his mother's only child. But his father loves him.' 21You told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so I can see him.' 22 And we said to my master, "The young man can't leave his father. If he leaves, his father will die.' 23You said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother doesn't come down with you, you'll never see my face again.' "When he caught up to them, he repeated these words. They replied, "Why does my master talk to us like this? Your servants would never do such a thing. The silver that we found at the top of our sacks, we've just brought back to you from the land of Canaan. We didn't steal silver or gold from your master's house. "Whoever of your servants is found with it will be put to death, and we'll be my master's slaves." 24"When we went back to my: father your servant, we told him what you said. 25 Our father told us, 'Go back and buy for us a little food.' 26 But we said, 'We can't go down. We will go down only if our youngest brother is 10 He said, "Fine. We'll do just as you've LXX adds Why have you stolen my silver cup? dSyr; MT lacks cup. Or uses for divination for can practice divination ......

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...... Genesis 44:27 with us. We won't be able to gain an audience with the man without our youngest brother with us.' 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife gave birth to two sons for me. 28 One disappeared and I said, "He must have been torn up by a wild animal," and I haven't seen him since. 29 And if you take this one from me too, something terrible will happen to him, and you will send me--old as I am-to my grave in despair.' 30When I now go back to your servant my father without the young man whose life is so bound up with his-31and when he sees that the young man isn't with us, he will die, and your servants will have sent our father your servant-old as he is to his grave in grief. 321, your servant, guaranteed the young man's safety to my father, telling him, 'If I don't bring him back to you, it will be my fault forever.' 33 Now, please let your servant stay as your slave instead of the young man so that he can go back with his brothers. 34 How can I go back to my father without the young man? I couldn't bear to see how badly my father would be hurt." 44 so he declared, "Everyone, leave now!" So no one stayed with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers. He wept so loudly that the Egyptians and Pharaoh's household heard him. 3Joseph said to his brothers, "I'm Joseph! Is my father really still alive?" His brothers couldn't respond because they were terrified before him. "Joseph said to his brothers, "Come closer to me," and they moved closer. He said, "I'm your brother Joseph! The one you sold to Egypt. "Now, don't be upset and don't be angry with yourselves that you sold me here. Actually, God sent me before you to save lives. "We've already had two years of famine in the land, and there are five years left without planting or harvesting. 'God sent me before you to make sure you'd survive and to rescue your lives in this amazing way. You didn't send me Joseph's brothers return for Jacob Joseph reveals his identity 16 When Pharaoh's household heard the message "Joseph's brothers have control him 45 Joseph could no longer contendants, both Pharaoh nd his servants were pleased. O Sam, LXX; MT lacks with us. Or survive on earth here; it was God who made me a father to Pharaoh, master of his entire household, and ruler of the whole land of Egypt. 9"Hurry! Go back to your father. Tell him this is what your son Joseph says: 'God has made me master of all of Egypt. Come down to me. Don't delay. 10 You may live in the land of Goshen, so you will be near me, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everyone with you. "I will support you there, so you, your household, and everyone with you won't starve, since the famine will still last five years.' 12You and my brother Benjamin have seen with your own eyes that I'm speaking to 13 Tell you. my father about my power in Egypt and about everything you've seen. Hurry and bring my father down here." 14He threw his arms around his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder. 15 He kissed all of his brothers and wept, embracing them. After that, his brothers were finally able to talk to him. "Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Give your brothers these instructions: Load your pack animals and go back to the land of Canaan. 18 Get your father and your households and come back to me. Let me provide you with good things from the land of Egypt so that you may eat the land's best food. 19Give them these instructions too: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and wives, and pick up your father and come back. 20Don't worry about your possessions because you will have good things from the entire land of Egypt." 21 So Israel's sons did that. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh instructed, and he gave them provisions for the road. 22To all of them he gave a change of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. 23To his father he sent ten male donkeys carrying

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45 goods from Egypt, ten female donkeys carrying grain and bread, and rations for his father for the road. 24He sent his brothers off; and as they were leaving, he told them, "Don't be worried about the trip." 25 So they left Egypt and returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. 26 They announced to him, "Joseph's still alive! He's actually ruler of all the land of Egypt!" Jacob's heart nearly failed, and he didn't believe them. 27 When they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, Jacob recovered. 28 Then Israel said, "This is too much! My son Joseph is still alive! Let me go and see him before I die." Genesis 46:30 Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. Er and Onan both died in the land of Canaan. Perez's sons were Hezron and Hamul. 13 Issachar's sons were Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. 14 Zebulun's sons were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram. Her daughter was Dinah. All of these persons, including his sons and daughters, totaled 33. 16 Gad's sons were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17 Asher's sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She bore these to Jacob, a total of 16 persons. 19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 20To Joseph, in the land of Egypt, were born Manasseh and Ephraim. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore them to him. 21Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are Rachel's sons who were born to Jacob, a total of 14 persons. 23 Dan's son was Hushim. 24 Naphtali's sons were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore these to Jacob, a total of 7 persons. 26 All of the persons going to Egypt with Jacob-his own children, excluding Jacob's sons' wives-totaled 66 persons. 27 Joseph's sons born to him in Egypt were 2 persons. Thus, all of the persons in Jacob's household going to Egypt totaled 70. 28 Israel had sent Judah ahead to Joseph so that Joseph could explain the way to Goshen. Then they arrived in the land of Goshen. 29 Joseph hitched up his chariot and went to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he arrived, he threw his arms around his neck and wept, embracing him for a long time. 30 Israel said to Joseph, "I can die now after seeing your face. You are really still alive!" Jacob's household moves to Egypt 46 Israel packed up everything he owned and traveled to Beer-sheba. There he offered sacrifices to his father Isaac's God. 2God said to Israel in a vision at night, "Jacob! Jacob!" and he said, "I'm here." 3He said, "I am El, your father's God. Don't be afraid to go down to Egypt because I will make a great nation of you there. "I will go down to Egypt with you, and I promise to bring you out again. Joseph will close your eyes when you die." 5Then Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons put their father Jacob, their children, and their wives on the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him. "They took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and arrived in Egypt, Jacob and all of his children with him. 'His sons and grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters-all of his descendants he brought with him to Egypt. 8These are the names of the Israelites who went to Egypt, including Jacob and his sons. Jacob's oldest son was Reuben. 'Reuben's sons were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10 Simeon's sons were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, whose mother was a Canaanite. "Levi's sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12Judah's sons were Er, Onan, Or Don't quarrel during the trip. Or God Heb On 1Or sons ......

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...... Genesis 46:31 Jacob's household settles in Egypt 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "Let me go up and inform Pharaoh and tell him, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have arrived. 32The men are shepherds, because they own livestock. They've brought with them their flocks and herds and everything they own.' 33When Pharaoh summons you and says, 'What do you do?' 34 say, 'Your servants have owned livestock since we were young, both we and our ancestors,' so that you will be able to settle in the land of Goshen, since Egyptians think all shepherds are beneath their dignity." 46 47 7 Joseph went to inform Pharaoh and said, "My father and brothers with their flocks, herds, and everything they own have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen." 2From all of his brothers, he selected five men and presented them before Pharaoh. 3 Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What do you do?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our ancestors." "They continued, "We've come to the land as immigrants because the famine is so severe in the land of Canaan that there are no more pastures for your servants' flocks. Please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen." 5 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since your father and brothers have arrived, "the land of Egypt is available to you. Settle your father and brothers in the land's best location. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know capable men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock." 7Joseph brought his father Jacob and gave him an audience with Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How old are you?" Jacob said to Pharaoh, "I've been a traveler for 130 years. My years have been few and difficult. They don't come close to the years my ancestors lived during their Sam, LXX he made the people slaves travels." 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left Pharaoh's presence. "Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best location in the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had ordered. 12 Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and his father's entire household, in proportion to the number of children. Joseph centralizes power in Egypt 13 There was no food in the land because the famine was so severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan dried up from the famine. 14 Joseph collected all of the silver to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the grain, which people came to buy, and he deposited it in Pharaoh's treasury. 15The silver from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan had been spent, and all of the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes, just because the silver is gone?" 16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock if the silver is gone." 17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food for the horses, flocks, cattle, and donkeys. He got them through that year with food in exchange for all of their livestock. 18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We can't hide from my master that the silver is spent and that we've given the livestock to my master. All that's left for my master is our corpses and our farmland. 19Why should we die before your eyes, we and our farmland too? Buy us and our farms for food, and we and our farms will be under Pharaoh's control. Give us seed so that we can stay alive and not die, and so that our farmland won't become unproductive." 20 So Joseph bought all of Egypt's farmland for Pharaoh because every Egyptian sold his field when the famine worsened. So the land became Pharaoh's. 21He moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other. 22However, he didn't buy the

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47 Genesis 48:16: CSES farmland of the priests because Pharaoh al- numbers, and to make you a large group of lowed the priests a subsidy, and they were peoples. I will give this land to your descenable to eat from the subsidy Pharaoh gave dants following you as an enduring possesthem. Therefore, they didn't have to sell sion. Now, your two sons born to you in their farmland. the land of Egypt before I arrived in Egypt 23 Joseph said to the people, "Since I've are my own. Ephraim and Manasseh are now purchased you and your farmland for just like Reuben and Simeon to me. Your Pharaoh, here's seed for you. Plant the seed family who is born to you after them are on the land. 24When the crop comes in, you yours, but their inheritance will be determust give one-fifth to Pharaoh. You may mined under their brothers' names. When keep four-fifths for yourselves, for planting I came back from Paddan-aram," Rachel fields, and for feeding yourselves, those in died, to my sorrow, on the road in the land your households, and your children." of Canaan, with some distance yet to go to 25 The people said, "You've saved our lives. Ephrathah, so I buried her there near the If you wish, we will be Pharaoh's slaves." 2650 road to Ephrathah," which is Bethlehem." Joseph made a law that still exists today: When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, Pharaoh receives one-fifth from Egypt's "Who are these?" farmland. Only the priests' farmland didn't Joseph told his father, "They're my sons, become Pharaoh's. whom God gave me here." Israel said, "Bring them to me and I will Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh bless them." 10 Because Israel's eyesight had 27Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the failed from old age and he wasn't able to land of Goshen. They settled in it, had many see, Joseph brought them close to him, and children, and became numerous. 28 After he kissed and embraced them. Jacob had lived in the land of Egypt for sev- "Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't expect enteen years, and after he had lived a total I'd see your face, but now God has shown of 147 years, ?' Israel's death approached. me your children too." 12 Then Joseph took He summoned his son Joseph and said them from Israel's knees, and he bowed to him, "If you would be so kind, lay your low with his face to the ground. 3 Joseph hand under my thigh, and be loyal and true took both of them, Ephraim in his right to me. Don't bury me in Egypt. 30When I lie hand at Israel's left hand, and Manasseh down with my fathers, carry me from Egypt in his left hand at Israel's right hand, and and bury me in their grave." brought them close to him. 14 But Israel Joseph said, "I will do just as you say." put out his right hand and placed it on the 3Israel said, "Give me your word!" and head of Ephraim, the younger one, and his Joseph gave his word. Then Israel slumped left hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his down at the head of the bed. hands because Manasseh was the oldest son. "He blessed them and said, 1. After this happened, Joseph was "May the God before whom my fathers 40 told,n "Your father is getting weaker," Abraham and Isaac walked, so he took his two sons Manasseh and may the God who was my shepherd Ephraim with him. When Jacob was in- from the beginning until this day, formed, "Your son Joseph is here now," he 16 may the divine messenger pulled himself together and sat up in bed. who protected me from all harm, 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty" ap- bless the young men. peared to me in Luz in the land of Canaan. Through them may my name be kept alive He blessed me and said to me, 'I am about and the names of my fathers to give you many children, to increase your Abraham and Isaac. : "LXX, Syr, Tg, Vulg; MT he told oLXX; MT he informed PHeb Israel 'Heb El Shaddai or God of the Mountain o "Sam, LXX, Syr; MT lacks Aram. SSam; MT Ephrath *LXX; MT Joseph

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Genesis 48:17 for when they were angry, they killed men, and whenever they wished, they maimed oxen. Cursed be their anger; it is violent, their rage; it is relentless. I'll divide them up within Jacob and disperse them within Israel. May they grow into a great multitude throughout the land." 17 When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he was upset and grasped his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 Joseph said to his father, "No, my father! This is the oldest son. Put your right hand on his head." But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He'll become a people too, and he'll also be great. But his younger brother will be greater than he will, and his descendants will become many nations." 20 Israel blessed them that day, saying, "Through you, Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, "May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh."" So Israel put Ephraim before Manasseh. 2 Then Israel said to Joseph, "I'm about to die. God will be with you and return you to the land of your fathers. 22I'm giving you one portion more than to your brothers,' a portion that I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow." Judah, you are the one your brothers will honor; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down to you. Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you rise up. He lies down and crouches like a lion; like a lioness who dares disturb him? The scepter won't depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from among his banners.* Gifts will be brought to him; people will obey him. "He ties his male donkey to the vine, the colt of his female donkey to the vine's branches. He washes his clothes in wine, his garments in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. Jacob reveals his sons' destinies Jacob summoned his sons and said, 4 7 "Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the coming days. 2 Assemble yourselves and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to Israel your father. 13 Zebulun will live at the seashore; he'll live at the harbor of ships, his border will be at Sidon. 3 Reuben, you are my oldest son, my strength and my first contender, superior in status and superior in might. "As wild as the waters, you won't endure, for you went up to your father's bed, you went up and violated my couch. 14 Issachar is a sturdy donkey, bedding down beside the village hearths. He saw that a resting place was good and that the land was pleasant. He lowered his shoulder to haul loads and joined the work gangs. 5Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence their stock in trade. May I myself never enter their council. May my honor never be linked to their group; 16 Dan' will settle disputes for his people, as one of Israel's tribes. 17 Dan will be a snake on the road, a serpent on the path, "Heb uncertain 'Or first of my power WLXX; MT he went up *Sam; MT his feet o 'Or stubbornly lying beneath its saddlebags Or he judges, or settles disputes

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biting a horse's heels, so its rider falls backward. 18 I long for your victory, LORD. 19 Gada will be attacked by attackers, but he'll attack their back. 20 Asherb grows fine foods, 22 and he will supply the king's delicacies. 21 Naphtali is a wild doe that gives birth to beautiful fawns. Joseph is a young bull,d a young bull by a spring, who strides with oxen.e 23 They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows; the archers attacked him furiously. 24 But his bow stayed strong, and his forearms were nimble,f by the hands of the strong one of Jacob, by the name of the shepherd, the rock of Israel, 25 by God, your father, who supports you, by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings from the skies above and blessings from the deep sea below, blessings from breasts and womb. 26 The blessings of your father exceed the blessings of the eternal mountains,h the wealth of the everlasting hills. May they all rest on Joseph's head, on the forehead of the one set apart from his brothers. 27 Benjamin is a wolf who hunts: in the morning he devours the prey; in the evening he divides the plunder." 28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them by giving each man his own particular blessing. 49 Genesis 50:10 Jacob's death and burial 29 Jacob ordered them, "I am soon to join my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave that's in the field of Ephron the Hittite; 30in the cave that's in the field of Machpelah near Mamre in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial property. 31That is where Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, and where Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and where I buried Leah. 32It is the field and the cave in it that belonged to the Hittites." 33 After he finished giving orders to his sons, he put his feet up on the bed, took his last breath, and joined his people. 50Joseph fell across his father's body, wept over him, and kissed him. 2Joseph then ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3They mourned for him forty days because that is the period required for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days. "After the period of mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household: "If you approve my request, give Pharaoh this message: "My father made me promise, telling me, 'I'm about to die. You must bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' Now, let me leave and let me bury my father, and then I will return." "Pharaoh replied, "Go, bury your father as you promised." 7So Joseph left to bury his father. All of Pharaoh's servants went with him, together with the elder statesmen in his household and all of the elder statesmen in the land of Egypt, Joseph's entire household, his brothers, and his father's household. Only the children, flocks, and cattle remained in the land of Goshen. "Even chariots and horsemen went with him; it was a huge collection of people. 10When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan River, they observed a solemn, deeply sorrowful period of mourning. He grieved seven days for his father. Or he attacks or good fortune LXX, Syr, Vulg; MT from Asher Heb uncertain Heb uncertain Heb uncertain; or flexible hLXX; Heb uncertain Or who gives beautiful words Heb Shaddai or the Mountain One ......

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Genesis 50:11 50 When the Canaanites who lived in the your father's God."'" Joseph wept when land saw the observance of grief on Atad's they spoke to him. threshing floor, they said, "This is a sol- 18His brothers wept' too, fell down in emn observance of grief by the Egyptians." front of him, and said, "We're here as your Therefore, its name is Abel-mizraim. It slaves." is on the other side of the Jordan River. But Joseph said to them, "Don't be 12 Israel's sons did for him just as he had afraid. Am I God? 20 You planned someordered. 13His sons carried him to the land thing bad for me, but God produced someof Canaan and buried him in the cave in thing good from it, in order to save the lives the field of Machpelah near Mamre, which of many people, just as he's doing today. Abraham had purchased as burial property ? Now, don't be afraid. I will take care of you from Ephron the Hittite. 14 Then Joseph and your children." So he put them at ease returned to Egypt, he, his brothers, and and spoke reassuringly to them. everyone who left with him to bury his 22 Thus Joseph lived in Egypt, he and father. his father's household. Joseph lived 110 years 23 and saw Ephraim's grandchildren. Joseph and his brothers in Egypt The children of Machir, Manasseh's son, 15When Joseph's brothers realized that were also born on Joseph's knees. 24 Jotheir father was now dead, they said, "What seph said to his brothers, "I'm about to if Joseph bears a grudge against us, and die. God will certainly take care of you wants to pay us back seriously for all of the and bring you out of this land to the land terrible things we did to him?" 16So they he promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and approached Joseph and said, "Your father to Jacob." 25 Joseph made Israel's sons gave orders before he died, telling us, "'This promise, "When God takes care of you, is what you should say to Joseph. "Please, you must bring up my bones out of here." forgive your brothers' sins and misdeeds, 26 Joseph died when he was 110 years old. for they did terrible things to you. Now, They embalmed him and placed him in a please forgive the sins of the servants of coffin in Egypt. Or the Egyptians' observance of grief 'LXX; MT includes after he buried his father. KLXX, Syr; MT they commanded o'Or came