bes - Genesis:31-33

bes@Genesis:31:1 @ And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and of our father’s property has he gotten all this glory.

bes@Genesis:31:2 @ And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as (note:)Gr. yesterday and the day before; Hebraism(:note) before.

bes@Genesis:31:3 @ And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.

bes@Genesis:31:4 @ And Jacob sent and called Lea and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.

bes@Genesis:31:5 @ And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

bes@Genesis:31:6 @ And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.

bes@Genesis:31:7 @ But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.

bes@Genesis:31:8 @ If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.

bes@Genesis:31:9 @ So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

bes@Genesis:31:10 @ And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

bes@Genesis:31:11 @ And the angel of God said to me (note:)Lit. in sleep(:note) in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it?

bes@Genesis:31:12 @ And he said, Look up with thine eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to thee.

bes@Genesis:31:13 @ I am God that appeared to thee in the place of God where thou anointedst a pillar to me, and vowedst to me there a vow; now then arise and depart out of this land, depart into the land of thy nativity, and I will be with thee.

bes@Genesis:31:14 @ And Rachel and Lea answered and said to him, Have we yet a part or inheritance in the house of our father?

bes@Genesis:31:15 @ Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.

bes@Genesis:31:16 @ All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be our’s and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.

bes@Genesis:31:17 @ And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;

bes@Genesis:31:18 @ and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Chanaan.

bes@Genesis:31:19 @ And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

bes@Genesis:31:20 @ And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.

bes@Genesis:31:21 @ And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Galaad.

bes@Genesis:31:22 @ But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.

bes@Genesis:31:23 @ And having taken his brethren with him, he pursued after him seven days’ journey, and overtook him on Mount Galaad.

bes@Genesis:31:24 @ And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.

bes@Genesis:31:25 @ And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the mount Galaad.

bes@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done? wherefore didst thou run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

bes@Genesis:31:27 @ Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

bes@Genesis:31:28 @ And I was not counted worthy to embrace my children and my daughters; now then thou hast wrought foolishly.

bes@Genesis:31:29 @ And now my hand has power to hurt thee; but the God of thy father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not evil words to Jacob.

bes@Genesis:31:30 @ Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

bes@Genesis:31:31 @ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time thou shouldest take away thy daughters from me, and all my possessions.

bes@Genesis:31:32 @ And Jacob said, With whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live in the presence of our brethren; take notice of what I have of thy property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him, but Jacob knew not that his wife Rachel had stolen them.

bes@Genesis:31:33 @ And Laban went in and searched in the house of Lea, and found them not; and he went out of the house of Lea, and searched in the house of Jacob, and in the house of the two maid-servants, and found them not; and he went also into the house of Rachel.

bes@Genesis:31:34 @ And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camel’s packs, and sat upon them.

bes@Genesis:31:35 @ And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.

bes@Genesis:31:36 @ And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that thou hast pursued after me,

bes@Genesis:31:37 @ and that thou hast searched all the furniture of my house? what hast thou found of all the furniture of thine house? set it here between thy relations and my relations, and let them decide between us two.

bes@Genesis:31:38 @ These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.

bes@Genesis:31:39 @ That which was taken of beasts I brought not to thee; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

bes@Genesis:31:40 @ I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

bes@Genesis:31:41 @ These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years among thy sheep, and thou didst falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.

bes@Genesis:31:42 @ Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

bes@Genesis:31:43 @ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which thou seest are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them to-day, or their children which they bore?

bes@Genesis:31:44 @ Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.

bes@Genesis:31:45 @ And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.

bes@Genesis:31:46 @ And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee to-day.

bes@Genesis:31:47 @ And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.

bes@Genesis:31:48 @ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

bes@Genesis:31:49 @ And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and thee, because we are about to depart from each other, —

bes@Genesis:31:50 @ If thou shalt humble my daughters, if thou shouldest take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God is witness between me and thee.

bes@Genesis:31:51 @ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold, this heap, and this pillar are a witness.

bes@Genesis:31:52 @ For if I should not cross over unto thee, neither shouldest thou cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar.

bes@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

bes@Genesis:31:54 @ And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.

bes@Genesis:31:55 @ And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place.

bes@Genesis:32:1 @ And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the (note:)Gr. camp(:note) host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him.

bes@Genesis:32:2 @ And Jacob said, when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place, Encampments.

bes@Genesis:32:3 @ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom.

bes@Genesis:32:4 @ And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob; I have sojourned with Laban and tarried until now.

bes@Genesis:32:5 @ And there were born to me oxen, and asses, and sheep, and men-servants and women-servants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that thy servant might find grace in thy sight.

bes@Genesis:32:6 @ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and lo! he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

bes@Genesis:32:7 @ And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.

bes@Genesis:32:8 @ And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.

bes@Genesis:32:9 @ And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou art he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.

bes@Genesis:32:10 @ Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which thou hast wrought with thy servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps.

bes@Genesis:32:11 @ Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and smite me, and the mother upon the children.

bes@Genesis:32:12 @ But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

bes@Genesis:32:13 @ And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried with him, and sent out to Esau his brother,

bes@Genesis:32:14 @ two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams,

bes@Genesis:32:15 @ milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.

bes@Genesis:32:16 @ And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.

bes@Genesis:32:17 @ And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and he ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither wouldest thou go, and whose are these possessions advancing before thee?

bes@Genesis:32:18 @ Thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob’s; he hath sent gifts to my lord Esau, and lo! he is behind us.

bes@Genesis:32:19 @ And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;

bes@Genesis:32:20 @ and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept (note:)Gr. my face(:note) me.

bes@Genesis:32:21 @ So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.

bes@Genesis:32:22 @ And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two servant-maids, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jaboch.

bes@Genesis:32:23 @ And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions.

bes@Genesis:32:24 @ And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.

bes@Genesis:32:25 @ And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob’s thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him.

bes@Genesis:32:26 @ And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

bes@Genesis:32:27 @ And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob.

bes@Genesis:32:28 @ And he said to him, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; for thou hast prevailed with God, and shalt be mighty with men.

bes@Genesis:32:29 @ And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.

bes@Genesis:32:30 @ And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.

bes@Genesis:32:31 @ And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he halted upon his thigh.

bes@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore the children of Israel will by no means eat of the sinew which was benumbed, which is on the broad part of the thigh, until this day, because the angel touched the broad part of the thigh of Jacob— even the sinew which was benumbed.

bes@Genesis:33:1 @ And Jacob (note:)Gr. looked up with(:note) lifted up his eyes, and beheld, and lo! Esau his brother coming, and four hundred men with him; and Jacob divided the children to Lea and to Rachel, and the two handmaidens.

bes@Genesis:33:2 @ And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

bes@Genesis:33:3 @ But he advanced himself before them, and did reverence to the ground seven times, until he drew near to his brother.

bes@Genesis:33:4 @ And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.

bes@Genesis:33:5 @ And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.

bes@Genesis:33:6 @ And the maid-servants and their children drew near and did reverence.

bes@Genesis:33:7 @ And Lea and her children drew near and did reverence; and after this drew near Rachel and Joseph, and did reverence.

bes@Genesis:33:8 @ And he said, What are these things to thee, all these companies that I have met? And he said, That thy servant might find grace in thy sight, my lord.

bes@Genesis:33:9 @ And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep thine own.

bes@Genesis:33:10 @ And Jacob said, If I have found grace in thy sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen thy face, as if any one should see the face of God, and thou shalt be well-pleased with me.

bes@Genesis:33:11 @ Receive my blessings, which I have brought thee, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them.

bes@Genesis:33:12 @ And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward.

bes@Genesis:33:13 @ And he said to him, My lord knows, that the children are very tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are with young; if then I shall drive them hard one day, all the cattle will die.

bes@Genesis:33:14 @ Let my lord go on before his servant, and I shall have strength on the road according to the ease of the journey before me, and according to the (note:)Gr. foot(:note) strength of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.

bes@Genesis:33:15 @ And Esau said, I will leave with thee some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why so? it is enough that I have found favour before thee, my lord.

bes@Genesis:33:16 @ And Esau returned on that day on his journey to Seir.

bes@Genesis:33:17 @ And Jacob departs to his tents; and he made for himself there habitations, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of that place, Booths.

bes@Genesis:33:18 @ And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Secima, which is in the land of Chanaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and (note:)Or, pitched his tent; Alex. parenebale, for which probably parenelabe is a mere mistake; So Bos and P. Junius thought(:note) took up a position in front of the city.

bes@Genesis:33:19 @ And he bought the portion of the field, where he pitched his tent, of Emmor the father of Sychem, for a hundred lambs.

bes@Genesis:33:20 @ And he set up there an alter, and called on the God of Israel.

bes@Genesis:34:1 @ And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.