The First Book of Moses, called

Genesis



1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided
the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good.
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the
stars also.
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw
that it was good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the
earth.
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to
you it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein
there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and
it was so.
1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it
was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth
day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them.
2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
and made.
2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the
earth and the heavens,
2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man
to till the ground.
2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium
and the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river
is Euphrates.
2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto
Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that was the name thereof.
2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the
air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was
not found an help meet for him.
2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he
a woman, and brought her unto the man.
2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of
my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out
of Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden:
3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye die.
3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely
die:
3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil.
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did
eat.
3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees
of the garden.
3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast
thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with
me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat.
3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is
the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life;
3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living.
3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats
of skins, and clothed them.
3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of
us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper
of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to
his offering:
4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen?
4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be
his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him.
4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened
her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be
in the earth.
4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater
than I can bear.
4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD
set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt
in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:
and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after
the name of his son, Enoch.
4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one
was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as have cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and organ.
4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was
Naamah.
4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have
slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.
4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and
called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he
called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of
the LORD.
5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day
that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and
called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a
son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name
Seth:
5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years: and he died.
5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and
fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years:
and he died.
5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred
and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died.
5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety
and five years: and he died.
5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he
begat Enoch:
5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters:
5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
years: and he died.
5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
years:
5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took
him.
5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech:
5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
nine years: and he died.
5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat
a son:
5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because
of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety
and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years: and he died.
5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years.
6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.
6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me
that I have made them.
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man
and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence.
6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in
the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt
thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in
the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories
shalt thou make it.
6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth
shall die.
6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee;
they shall be male and female.
6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind,
of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of
every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee,
and for them.
6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so
did he.
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house
into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two,
the male and his female.
7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;
to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of
waters was upon the earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the
flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male
and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of
the flood were upon the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all
the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives
of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every
bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the
earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and
all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were
covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that
was in the dry land, died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that
were with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and
fifty days.
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the
cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to
pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month:
in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the
tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made:
8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,
until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters
were abated from off the face of the ground;
8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the
face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took
her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark;
8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her
mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the
waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the
dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in
the first month, the first day of the month, the waters
were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering
of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was
dry.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of
the month, was the earth dried.
8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and
thy sons' wives with thee.
8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with
thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply
upon the earth.
8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him:
8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living,
as I have done.
8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all
that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things.
9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man;
at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of
man.
9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.
9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with
your seed after you;
9:10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the
fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you;
from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I
make between me and you and every living creature that is
with you, for perpetual generations:
9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and
you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters
shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the
covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh
that is upon the earth.
9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the
whole earth overspread.
9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a
vineyard:
9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent.
9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
father, and told his two brethren without.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and
they saw not their father's nakedness.
9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants
shall he be unto his brethren.
9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant.
9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
years.
9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
and he died.
10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and
Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in
their nations.
10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great
city.
10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.
10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after
their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber,
the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children
born.
10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and
Lud, and Aram.
10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Mash.
10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was
Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's
name was Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,
and Jerah,
10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the
sons of Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto
Sephar a mount of the east.
10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after
their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood.
11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for morter.
11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they
have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined
to do.
11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from
thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all
the earth.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat
Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of
Iscah.
11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife;
and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt
there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew thee:
12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when
he departed out of Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son,
and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls
that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into
the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
land.
12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the
LORD, who appeared unto him.
12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and
Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD.
12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down
into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in
the land.
12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know
that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall
see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they
will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be
well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of
thee.
12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her
before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had
sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
was thy wife?
12:19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken
her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her,
and go thy way.
12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they
sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all
that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.
13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
and tents.
13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might
dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not dwell together.
13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's
cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and
the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray
thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we be brethren.
13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I
pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I
will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand,
then I will go to the left.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD,
like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot
journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the
other.
13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in
the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the
LORD exceedingly.
13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy
seed also be numbered.
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in
the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the
plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar
unto the LORD.
14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations;
14:2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with
Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber
king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which
is the salt sea.
14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings
that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which
is by the wilderness.
14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is
Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also
the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim;
14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five.
14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the
kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that
remained fled to the mountain.
14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and went their way.
14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in
Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother
of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate
with Abram.
14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive,
he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants,
by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which
is on the left hand of Damascus.
14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again
his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people.
14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his
return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings
that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the
king's dale.
14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and
wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the
most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered
thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the
persons, and take the goods to thyself.
14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine
hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven
and earth,
14:23 That I will not take from a thread even to a
shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is
thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
14:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the
portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre;
let them take their portion.
15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in
a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I
go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus?
15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out
of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and
he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out
of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
15:8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the
midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds
divided he not.
15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram
drove them away.
15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon
Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge:
and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again:
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it
was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces.
15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of
Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites.
16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it
may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
to the voice of Sarai.
16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have
given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
me and thee.
16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy
hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water
in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.
16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude.
16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou
art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name
Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against
every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell
in the presence of all his brethren.
16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her,
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after
him that seeth me?
16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it
is between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's
name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar
bare Ishmael to Abram.
17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly.
17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,
saying,
17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou
shalt be a father of many nations.
17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy
name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made
thee.
17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and
thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and
you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in
the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not
of thy seed.
17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with
thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be
in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from
his people; he hath broken my covenant.
17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou
shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her:
yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations;
kings of people shall be of her.
17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in
his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live
before thee!
17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his
seed after him.
17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him
a great nation.
17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah
shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born
in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every
male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the
flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said
unto him.
17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael
his son.
17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and
bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men
stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from
the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and
make cakes upon the hearth.
18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress
it.
18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had
dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat.
18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he
said, Behold, in the tent.
18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according
to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in
age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of
women.
18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed
I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.
18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was
afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom:
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do;
18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him?
18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD,
to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah
is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me;
and if not, I will know.
18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went
toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy
the righteous with the wicked?
18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city:
wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein?
18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as
the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?
18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, then I will spare all the place for their
sakes.
18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said,
If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure
there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do
it for forty's sake.
18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and
I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.
And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak
unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.
And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will
speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.
And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in
the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them;
and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you,
into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your
feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they
said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto
him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and
did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the
men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young,
all the people from every quarter:
19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto
us, that we may know them.
19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door
after him,
19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;
let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them
as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for
therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one
fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now
will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the
house to them, and shut to the door.
19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the
house with blindness, both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son
in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou
hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent
us to destroy it.
19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which
married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place;
for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are
here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand,
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought
him forth, and set him without the city.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth
abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind
thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the
mountain, lest thou be consumed.
19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and
thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me
in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and I die:
19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is
a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little
one?) and my soul shall live.
19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the
which thou hast spoken.
19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till
thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar.
19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into
Zoar.
19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where
he stood before the LORD:
19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the
which Lot dwelt.
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain,
and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is
old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us
after the manner of all the earth:
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said
unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let
us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and
the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when
she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
father.
19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab:
the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name
Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day.
20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country,
and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to
him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which
thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord,
wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she
herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart
and innocency of my hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou
didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld
thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to
touch her.
20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a
prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and
if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely
die, thou, and all that are thine.
20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called
all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and
the men were sore afraid.
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou
hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that
thou hast done this thing?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of
God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's
sake.
20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter
of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became
my wife.
20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness
which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall
come, say of me, He is my brother.
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him
Sarah his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee:
dwell where it pleaseth thee.
20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering
of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all
other: thus she was reproved.
20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and
his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house
of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
unto Sarah as he had spoken.
21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,
at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto
him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old,
as God had commanded him.
21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac
was born unto him.
21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all
that hear will laugh with me.
21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in
his old age.
21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a
great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
born unto Abraham, mocking.
21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman
and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac.
21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because
of his son.
21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy
sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all
that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called.
21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he is thy seed.
21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread,
and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it
on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the
child under one of the shrubs.
21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good
way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the
death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up
her voice, and wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad
where he is.
21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I
will make him a great nation.
21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and
she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.
21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother
took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and
Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham,
saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not
deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:
but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,
thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast
sojourned.
21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,
which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing:
neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to
day.
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven
ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
21:30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take
of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have
digged this well.
21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there
they sware both of them.
21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech
rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.
21:33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called
there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,
here I am.
22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer
him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which
I will tell thee of.
22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his
ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son,
and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and
went unto the place of which God had told him.
22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the
ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come
again to you.
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid
it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and
a knife; and they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My
father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold
the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb
for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife
to slay his son.
22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven,
and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do
thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
me.
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold
behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as
it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be
seen.
22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of
heaven the second time,
22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son:
22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the
sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies;
22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up
and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
unto thy brother Nahor;
22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the
father of Aram,
22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel.
22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.
22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also
Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
these were the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to
weep for her.
23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto
the sons of Heth, saying,
23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a
possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead
out of my sight.
23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in
the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall
withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy
dead.
23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of
the land, even to the children of Heth.
23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that
I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for
me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you.
23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron
the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of
Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city,
saying,
23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave
that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons
of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the
land.
23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of
the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear
me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and
I will bury my dead there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred
shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead.
23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the
sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money
with the merchant.
23:17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which
was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was
therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that
were in all the borders round about, were made sure
23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his
city.
23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in
the land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made
sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the
sons of Heth.
24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the
LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
thigh:
24:3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven,
and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto
my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son Isaac.
24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will
not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring
thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not
my son thither again.
24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's
house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto
me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give
this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt
take a wife unto my son from thence.
24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then
thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son
thither again.
24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his
master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in
his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city
of Nahor.
24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a
well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that
women go out to draw water.
24:12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,
send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master
Abraham.
24:13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the
daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall
say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and
she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:
let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy
servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed
kindness unto my master.
24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,
behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin,
neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well,
and filled her pitcher, and came up.
24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down
her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will
draw water for thy camels also, until they have done
drinking.
24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough,
and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all
his camels.
24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit
whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that
the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
24:23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee:
is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
24:24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the
son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and
provender enough, and room to lodge in.
24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master
Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and
his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house
of my master's brethren.
24:28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house
these things.
24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and
Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah
his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came
unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room
for the camels.
24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his
camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water
to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
24:33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I
will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak
on.
24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is
become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and
camels, and asses.
24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when
she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I dwell:
24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will
send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt
take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou
comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou
shalt be clear from my oath.
24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of
my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to
pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I
say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher
to drink;
24:44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw
for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD
hath appointed out for my master's son.
24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold,
Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she
went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her,
Let me drink, I pray thee.
24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her
shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And
she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah
bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her hands.
24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in
the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his
son.
24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master,
tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right
hand, or to the left.
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and
let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard
their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the
earth.
24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also
to her brother and to her mother precious things.
24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were
with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide
with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall
go.
24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her
mouth.
24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go
with this man? And she said, I will go.
24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse,
and Abraham's servant, and his men.
24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art
our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and
let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and
went his way.
24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he
dwelt in the south country.
24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the
camels were coming.
24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac,
she lighted off the camel.
24:65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this
that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had
said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered
herself.
24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and
took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and
Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan
were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life
which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age,
an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his
people.
25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre;
25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God
blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their
names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their
names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes
according to their nations.
25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an
hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost
and died; and was gathered unto his people.
25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before
Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac:
25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to
wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the
sister to Laban the Syrian.
25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she
was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived.
25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she
said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire
of the LORD.
25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;
and the elder shall serve the younger.
25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
there were twins in her womb.
25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy
garment; and they called his name Esau.
25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took
hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac
was threescore years old when she bare them.
25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of
the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison:
but Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and
he was faint:
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that
same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name
called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and
what profit shall this birthright do to me?
25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto
him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he
did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau
despised his birthright.
26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine
that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech
king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all
these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto
Abraham thy father;
26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge,
my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he
said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my
wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time,
that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window,
and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his
wife.
26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety
she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And
Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us?
one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and
thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
26:11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same
year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until
he became very great:
26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged
in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped
them, and filled them with earth.
26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art
much mightier than we.
26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines
had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called
them.
26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there
a well of springing water.
26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well
Esek; because they strove with him.
26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also:
and he called the name of it Sitnah.
26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and
for that they strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us,
and we shall be fruitful in the land.
26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I
am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with
thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of
the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's
servants digged a well.
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing
ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with
thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even
betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee,
and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent
thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him
in peace.
26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants
came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged,
and said unto him, We have found water.
26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city
is Beersheba unto this day.
26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith
the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter
of Elon the Hittite:
26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes
were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,
here am I.
27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some
venison;
27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to
me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring
it.
27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that
which I command thee.
27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids
of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth:
27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat,
and that he may bless thee before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my
brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing.
27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my
son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father
loved.
27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau,
which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her
younger son:
27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn;
I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee,
sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast
found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD
thy God brought it to me.
27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I
may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or
not.
27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt
him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands
are the hands of Esau.
27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as
his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I
am.
27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my
son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it
near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he
drank.
27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and
kiss me, my son.
27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell
of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my
son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to
thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be
he that blesseth thee.
27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in
from his hunting.
27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat
of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he
said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where
is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I
have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?
yea, and he shall be blessed.
27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with
a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,
Bless me, even me also, O my father.
27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath
taken away thy blessing.
27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and,
behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast
thou not reserved a blessing for me?
27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made
him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what
shall I do now unto thee, my son?
27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing,
my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau
lifted up his voice, and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold,
thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew
of heaven from above;
27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy
brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother
Jacob.
27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to
Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and
said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth
comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou
to Laban my brother to Haran;
27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury
turn away;
27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he
forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send,
and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of
you both in one day?
27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because
of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters
of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the
land, what good shall my life do me?
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him,
and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy
seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him
away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as
he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was
gone to Padanaram;
28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father;
28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which
he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the
sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of
that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in
that place to sleep.
28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of
God ascending and descending on it.
28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the
LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the
north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed.
28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all
places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that
which I have spoken to thee of.
28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!
this is none other but the house of God, and this is the
gate of heaven.
28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name
of that city was called Luz at the first.
28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on,
28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then
shall the LORD be my God:
28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be
God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely
give the tenth unto thee.
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of
the people of the east.
29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,
there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that
well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the
well's mouth.
29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And
they said, Of Haran are we.
29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is
well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time
that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the
sheep, and go and feed them.
29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth;
then we water the sheep.
29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep: for she kept them.
29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's
brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's
brother.
29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept.
29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother,
and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her
father.
29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him,
and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban
all these things.
29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my
flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what
shall thy wages be?
29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was
Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured.
29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee,
than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed
unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days
are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and
made a feast.
29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid
for an handmaid.
29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was
Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto
me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast
thou beguiled me?
29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to
give the younger before the firstborn.
29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid
to be her maid.
29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
womb: but Rachel was barren.
29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his
name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because
the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given
me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now
this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have
born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;
and left bearing.
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or
else I die.
30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said,
Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of
the womb?
30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and
she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
her.
30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob
went in unto her.
30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name
Dan.
30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son.
30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah
her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name
Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
blessed: and she called his name Asher.
30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou
hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah
went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
with her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare
Jacob the fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have
given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now
will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six
sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath
taken away my reproach:
30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall
add to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that
Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served
thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have
done thee.
30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found
favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience
that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee,
and how thy cattle was with me.
30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and
it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath
blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also?
30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me,
I will again feed and keep thy flock:
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown
cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the
goats: and of such shall be my hire.
30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come,
when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that
is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among
the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to
thy word.
30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked
and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and
spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all
the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his
sons.
30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob:
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel
and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made
the white appear which was in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks
in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them
not unto Laban's cattle.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so
the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle,
and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath
taken away all that was our father's; and of that which
was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it
was not toward him as before.
31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock,
31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that
it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath
been with me.
31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your
father.
31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all
the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked
shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
given them to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying,
Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and
grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get
thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy
kindred.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there
yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us,
and hath quite devoured also our money.
31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father,
that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God
hath said unto thee, do.
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods
which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had
gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land
of Canaan.
31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen
the images that were her father's.
31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that
he told him not that he fled.
31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and
passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount
Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him
seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and
said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
good or bad.
31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent
in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount
of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou
hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters,
as captives taken with the sword?
31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away
from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee
away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God
of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou
heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.