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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife :
and Jacob went in unto her .
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And Bilhah conceived ,
and bare Jacob a son .
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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 .
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And Bilhah Rachel '
s maid conceived again ,
and bare Jacob a second son .
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And Rachel said ,
With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister ,
and I have prevailed :
and she called his name Naphtali .
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing ,
she took Zilpah her maid ,
and gave her Jacob to wife .
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And Zilpah Leah '
s maid bare Jacob a son .
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And Leah said ,
A troop cometh :
and she called his name Gad .
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And Zilpah Leah '
s maid bare Jacob a second son .
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And Leah said ,
Happy am I ,
for the daughters will call me blessed :
and she called his name Asher .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And God hearkened unto Leah ,
and she conceived ,
and bare Jacob the fifth son .
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And Leah said ,
God hath given me my hire ,
because I have given my maiden to my husband :
and she called his name Issachar .
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And Leah conceived again ,
and bare Jacob the sixth son .
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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 .
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And afterwards she bare a daughter ,
and called her name Dinah .
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And God remembered Rachel ,
and God hearkened to her ,
and opened her womb .
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And she conceived ,
and bare a son ;
and said ,
God hath taken away my reproach :
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And she called his name Joseph ;
and said ,
The LORD shall add to me another son .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And he said ,
Appoint me thy wages ,
and I will give it .
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And he said unto him ,
Thou knowest how I have served thee ,
and how thy cattle was with me .
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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 ?
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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And Laban said ,
Behold ,
I would it might be according to thy word .
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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 .
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And he set three days '
journey betwixt himself and Jacob :
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban '
s flocks .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the flocks conceived before the rods ,
and brought forth cattle ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and spotted .
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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 .
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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 .
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But when the cattle were feeble ,
he put them not in :
so the feebler were Laban '
s ,
and the stronger Jacob '
s .
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And the man increased exceedingly ,
and had much cattle ,
and maidservants ,
and menservants ,
and camels ,
and asses .
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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 .
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban ,
and ,
behold ,
it was not toward him as before .
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And the LORD said unto Jacob ,
Return unto the land of thy fathers ,
and to thy kindred ;
and I will be with thee .
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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock ,
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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 .
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father .
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And your father hath deceived me ,
and changed my wages ten times ;
but God suffered him not to hurt me .
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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 .
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father ,
and given them to me .
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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 .
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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream ,
saying ,
Jacob :
And I said ,
Here am I .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him ,
Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father '
s house ?
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Are we not counted of him strangers ?
for he hath sold us ,
and hath quite devoured also our money .
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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 .
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Then Jacob rose up ,
and set his sons and his wives upon camels ;
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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 .
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And Laban went to shear his sheep :
and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father '
s .
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And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian ,
in that he told him not that he fled .
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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 .
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And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled .
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And he took his brethren with him ,
and pursued after him seven days '
journey ;
and they overtook him in the mount Gilead .
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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 .
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Then Laban overtook Jacob .
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount :
and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead .
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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 ?
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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 ?
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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing .
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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 .
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And now ,
though thou wouldest needs be gone ,
because thou sore longedst after thy father '
s house ,
yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods ?
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And Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
Because I was afraid :
for I said ,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me .
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With whomsoever thou findest thy gods ,
let him not live :
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me ,
and take it to thee .
For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them .
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And Laban went into Jacob '
s tent ,
and into Leah '
s tent ,
and into the two maidservants '
tents ;
but he found them not .
Then went he out of Leah '
s tent ,
and entered into Rachel '
s tent .
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Now Rachel had taken the images ,
and put them in the camel '
s furniture ,
and sat upon them .
And Laban searched all the tent ,
but found them not .
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And she said to her father ,
Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee ;
for the custom of women is upon me .
And he searched ,
but found not the images .
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And Jacob was wroth ,
and chode with Laban :
and Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
What is my trespass ?
what is my sin ,
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me ?
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Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff ,
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff ?
set it here before my brethren and thy brethren ,
that they may judge betwixt us both .
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This twenty years have I been with thee ;
thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young ,
and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten .
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ;
I bare the loss of it ;
of my hand didst thou require it ,
whether stolen by day ,
or stolen by night .
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Thus I was ;
in the day the drought consumed me ,
and the frost by night ;
and my sleep departed from mine eyes .
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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ;
I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters ,
and six years for thy cattle :
and thou hast changed my wages ten times .
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Except the God of my father ,
the God of Abraham ,
and the fear of Isaac ,
had been with me ,
surely thou hadst sent me away now empty .
God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands ,
and rebuked thee yesternight .
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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob ,
These daughters are my daughters ,
and these children are my children ,
and these cattle are my cattle ,
and all that thou seest is mine :
and what can I do this day unto these my daughters ,
or unto their children which they have born ?
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Now therefore come thou ,
let us make a covenant ,
I and thou ;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee .
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And Jacob took a stone ,
and set it up for a pillar .
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And Jacob said unto his brethren ,
Gather stones ;
and they took stones ,
and made an heap :
and they did eat there upon the heap .
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And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha :
but Jacob called it Galeed .
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And Laban said ,
This heap is a witness between me and thee this day .
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed ;
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And Mizpah ;
for he said ,
The LORD watch between me and thee ,
when we are absent one from another .
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If thou shalt afflict my daughters ,
or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters ,
no man is with us ;
see ,
God is witness betwixt me and thee .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
Behold this heap ,
and behold this pillar ,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee ;
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This heap be witness ,
and this pillar be witness ,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee ,
and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me ,
for harm .
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The God of Abraham ,
and the God of Nahor ,
the God of their father ,
judge betwixt us .
And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac .
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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount ,
and called his brethren to eat bread :
and they did eat bread ,
and tarried all night in the mount .
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And early in the morning Laban rose up ,
and kissed his sons and his daughters ,
and blessed them :
and Laban departed ,
and returned unto his place .
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And Jacob went on his way ,
and the angels of God met him .
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And when Jacob saw them ,
he said ,
This is God '
s host :
and he called the name of that place Mahanaim .
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir ,
the country of Edom .
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And he commanded them ,
saying ,
Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau ;
Thy servant Jacob saith thus ,
I have sojourned with Laban ,
and stayed there until now :
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And I have oxen ,
and asses ,
flocks ,
and menservants ,
and womenservants :
and I have sent to tell my lord ,
that I may find grace in thy sight .
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And the messengers returned to Jacob ,
saying ,
We came to thy brother Esau ,
and also he cometh to meet thee ,
and four hundred men with him .
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed :
and he divided the people that was with him ,
and the flocks ,
and herds ,
and the camels ,
into two bands ;
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And said ,
If Esau come to the one company ,
and smite it ,
then the other company which is left shall escape .
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And Jacob said ,
O God of my father Abraham ,
and God of my father Isaac ,
the LORD which saidst unto me ,
Return unto thy country ,
and to thy kindred ,
and I will deal well with thee :
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies ,
and of all the truth ,
which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ;
and now I am become two bands .
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Deliver me ,
I pray thee ,
from the hand of my brother ,
from the hand of Esau :
for I fear him ,
lest he will come and smite me ,
and the mother with the children .
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And thou saidst ,
I will surely do thee good ,
and make thy seed as the sand of the sea ,
which cannot be numbered for multitude .
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And he lodged there that same night ;
and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother ;
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Two hundred she goats ,
and twenty he goats ,
two hundred ewes ,
and twenty rams ,
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Thirty milch camels with their colts ,
forty kine ,
and ten bulls ,
twenty she asses ,
and ten foals .
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants ,
every drove by themselves ;
and said unto his servants ,
Pass over before me ,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove .
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And he commanded the foremost ,
saying ,
When Esau my brother meeteth thee ,
and asketh thee ,
saying ,
Whose art thou ?
and whither goest thou ?
and whose are these before thee ?
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Then thou shalt say ,
They be thy servant Jacob '
s ;
it is a present sent unto my lord Esau :
and ,
behold ,
also he is behind us .
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And so commanded he the second ,
and the third ,
and all that followed the droves ,
saying ,
On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau ,
when ye find him .
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And say ye moreover ,
Behold ,
thy servant Jacob is behind us .
For he said ,
I will appease him with the present that goeth before me ,
and afterward I will see his face ;
peradventure he will accept of me .
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So went the present over before him :
and himself lodged that night in the company .
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And he rose up that night ,
and took his two wives ,
and his two womenservants ,
and his eleven sons ,
and passed over the ford Jabbok .
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And he took them ,
and sent them over the brook ,
and sent over that he had .
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And Jacob was left alone ;
and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day .
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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him ,
he touched the hollow of his thigh ;
and the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh was out of joint ,
as he wrestled with him .
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And he said ,
Let me go ,
for the day breaketh .
And he said ,
I will not let thee go ,
except thou bless me .
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And he said unto him ,
What is thy name ?
And he said ,
Jacob .
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And he said ,
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob ,
but Israel :
for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men ,
and hast prevailed .
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And Jacob asked him ,
and said ,
Tell me ,
I pray thee ,
thy name .
And he said ,
Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name ?
And he blessed him there .
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel :
for I have seen God face to face ,
and my life is preserved .
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And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him ,
and he halted upon his thigh .
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank ,
which is upon the hollow of the thigh ,
unto this day :
because he touched the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh in the sinew that shrank .
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And Jacob lifted up his eyes ,
and looked ,
and ,
behold ,
Esau came ,
and with him four hundred men .
And he divided the children unto Leah ,
and unto Rachel ,
and unto the two handmaids .
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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost ,
and Leah and her children after ,
and Rachel and Joseph hindermost .
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And he passed over before them ,
and bowed himself to the ground seven times ,
until he came near to his brother .
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And Esau ran to meet him ,
and embraced him ,
and fell on his neck ,
and kissed him :
and they wept .
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And he lifted up his eyes ,
and saw the women and the children ;
and said ,
Who are those with thee ?
And he said ,
The children which God hath graciously given thy servant .
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Then the handmaidens came near ,
they and their children ,
and they bowed themselves .
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And Leah also with her children came near ,
and bowed themselves :
and after came Joseph near and Rachel ,
and they bowed themselves .
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And he said ,
What meanest thou by all this drove which I met ?
And he said ,
These are to find grace in the sight of my lord .
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And Esau said ,
I have enough ,
my brother ;
keep that thou hast unto thyself .
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And Jacob said ,
Nay ,
I pray thee ,
if now I have found grace in thy sight ,
then receive my present at my hand :
for therefore I have seen thy face ,
as though I had seen the face of God ,
and thou wast pleased with me .
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Take ,
I pray thee ,
my blessing that is brought to thee ;
because God hath dealt graciously with me ,
and because I have enough .
And he urged him ,
and he took it .
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And he said ,
Let us take our journey ,
and let us go ,
and I will go before thee .
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And he said unto him ,
My lord knoweth that the children are tender ,
and the flocks and herds with young are with me :
and if men should overdrive them one day ,
all the flock will die .
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Let my lord ,
I pray thee ,
pass over before his servant :
and I will lead on softly ,
according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure ,
until I come unto my lord unto Seir .
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And Esau said ,
Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me .
And he said ,
What needeth it ?
let me find grace in the sight of my lord .
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So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir .
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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth ,
and built him an house ,
and made booths for his cattle :
therefore the name of the place is called Succoth .
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And Jacob came to Shalem ,
a city of Shechem ,
which is in the land of Canaan ,
when he came from Padanaram ;
and pitched his tent before the city .
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And he bought a parcel of a field ,
where he had spread his tent ,
at the hand of the children of Hamor ,
Shechem '
s father ,
for an hundred pieces of money .
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And he erected there an altar ,
and called it Elelohe-Israel .
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah ,
which she bare unto Jacob ,
went out to see the daughters of the land .
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And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite ,
prince of the country ,
saw her ,
he took her ,
and lay with her ,
and defiled her .
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And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob ,
and he loved the damsel ,
and spake kindly unto the damsel .
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And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor ,
saying ,
Get me this damsel to wife .
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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter :
now his sons were with his cattle in the field :
and Jacob held his peace until they were come .
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And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him .
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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it :
and the men were grieved ,
and they were very wroth ,
because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob '
s daughter ;
which thing ought not to be done .
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And Hamor communed with them ,
saying ,
The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter :
I pray you give her him to wife .
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And make ye marriages with us ,
and give your daughters unto us ,
and take our daughters unto you .
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And ye shall dwell with us :
and the land shall be before you ;
dwell and trade ye therein ,
and get you possessions therein .
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And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren ,
Let me find grace in your eyes ,
and what ye shall say unto me I will give .
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Ask me never so much dowry and gift ,
and I will give according as ye shall say unto me :
but give me the damsel to wife .
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully ,
and said ,
because he had defiled Dinah their sister :
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And they said unto them ,
We cannot do this thing ,
to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised ;
for that were a reproach unto us :
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But in this will we consent unto you :
If ye will be as we be ,
that every male of you be circumcised ;
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Then will we give our daughters unto you ,
and we will take your daughters to us ,
and we will dwell with you ,
and we will become one people .
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But if ye will not hearken unto us ,
to be circumcised ;
then will we take our daughter ,
and we will be gone .
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And their words pleased Hamor ,
and Shechem Hamor '
s son .
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And the young man deferred not to do the thing ,
because he had delight in Jacob '
s daughter :
and he was more honourable than all the house of his father .
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And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city ,
and communed with the men of their city ,
saying ,
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These men are peaceable with us ;
therefore let them dwell in the land ,
and trade therein ;
for the land ,
behold ,
it is large enough for them ;
let us take their daughters to us for wives ,
and let us give them our daughters .
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Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us ,
to be one people ,
if every male among us be circumcised ,
as they are circumcised .
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Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours ?
only let us consent unto them ,
and they will dwell with us .
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And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city ;
and every male was circumcised ,
all that went out of the gate of his city .
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And it came to pass on the third day ,
when they were sore ,
that two of the sons of Jacob ,
Simeon and Levi ,
Dinah '
s brethren ,
took each man his sword ,
and came upon the city boldly ,
and slew all the males .
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And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword ,
and took Dinah out of Shechem '
s house ,
and went out .
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain ,
and spoiled the city ,
because they had defiled their sister .
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They took their sheep ,
and their oxen ,
and their asses ,
and that which was in the city ,
and that which was in the field ,
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And all their wealth ,
and all their little ones ,
and their wives took they captive ,
and spoiled even all that was in the house .
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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi ,
Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land ,
among the Canaanites and the Perizzites :
and I being few in number ,
they shall gather themselves together against me ,
and slay me ;
and I shall be destroyed ,
I and my house .
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And they said ,
Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot ?
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And God said unto Jacob ,
Arise ,
go up to Bethel ,
and dwell there :
and make there an altar unto God ,
that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother .
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Then Jacob said unto his household ,
and to all that were with him ,
Put away the strange gods that are among you ,
and be clean ,
and change your garments :
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And let us arise ,
and go up to Bethel ;
and I will make there an altar unto God ,
who answered me in the day of my distress ,
and was with me in the way which I went .
*
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand ,
and all their earrings which were in their ears ;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem .
*
And they journeyed :
and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them ,
and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob .
*
So Jacob came to Luz ,
which is in the land of Canaan ,
that is ,
Bethel ,
he and all the people that were with him .
*
And he built there an altar ,
and called the place Elbethel :
because there God appeared unto him ,
when he fled from the face of his brother .
*
But Deborah Rebekah '
s nurse died ,
and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak :
and the name of it was called Allonbachuth .
*
And God appeared unto Jacob again ,
when he came out of Padanaram ,
and blessed him .
*
And God said unto him ,
Thy name is Jacob :
thy name shall not be called any more Jacob ,
but Israel shall be thy name :
and he called his name Israel .
*
And God said unto him ,
I am God Almighty :
be fruitful and multiply ;
a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee ,
and kings shall come out of thy loins ;
*
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac ,
to thee I will give it ,
and to thy seed after thee will I give the land .
*
And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him .
*
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him ,
even a pillar of stone :
and he poured a drink offering thereon ,
and he poured oil thereon .
*
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him ,
Bethel .
*
And they journeyed from Bethel ;
and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath :
and Rachel travailed ,
and she had hard labour .
*
And it came to pass ,
when she was in hard labour ,
that the midwife said unto her ,
Fear not ;
thou shalt have this son also .
*
And it came to pass ,
as her soul was in departing , (
for she died )
that she called his name Benoni :
but his father called him Benjamin .
*
And Rachel died ,
and was buried in the way to Ephrath ,
which is Bethlehem .
*
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave :
that is the pillar of Rachel '
s grave unto this day .
*
And Israel journeyed ,
and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar .
*
And it came to pass ,
when Israel dwelt in that land ,
that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father '
s concubine :
and Israel heard it .
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve :
*
The sons of Leah ;
Reuben ,
Jacob '
s firstborn ,
and Simeon ,
and Levi ,
and Judah ,
and Issachar ,
and Zebulun :
*
The sons of Rachel ;
Joseph ,
and Benjamin :
*
And the sons of Bilhah ,
Rachel '
s handmaid ;
Dan ,
and Naphtali :
*
And the sons of Zilpah ,
Leah '
s handmaid ;
Gad ,
and Asher :
these are the sons of Jacob ,
which were born to him in Padanaram .
*
And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre ,
unto the city of Arbah ,
which is Hebron ,
where Abraham and Isaac sojourned .
*
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years .
*
And Isaac gave up the ghost ,
and died ,
and was gathered unto his people ,
being old and full of days :
and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him .
*
Now these are the generations of Esau ,
who is Edom .
*
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan ;
Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite ,
and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite ;
*
And Bashemath Ishmael '
s daughter ,
sister of Nebajoth .
*
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz ;
and Bashemath bare Reuel ;
*
And Aholibamah bare Jeush ,
and Jaalam ,
and Korah :
these are the sons of Esau ,
which were born unto him in the land of Canaan .
*
And Esau took his wives ,
and his sons ,
and his daughters ,
and all the persons of his house ,
and his cattle ,
and all his beasts ,
and all his substance ,
which he had got in the land of Canaan ;
and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob .
*
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together ;
and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle .
*
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir :
Esau is Edom .
*
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir :
*
These are the names of Esau '
s sons ;
Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau ,
Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau .
*
And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman ,
Omar ,
Zepho ,
and Gatam ,
and Kenaz .
*
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau '
s son ;
and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek :
these were the sons of Adah Esau '
s wife .
*
And these are the sons of Reuel ;
Nahath ,
and Zerah ,
Shammah ,
and Mizzah :
these were the sons of Bashemath Esau '
s wife .
*
And these were the sons of Aholibamah ,
the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon ,
Esau '
s wife :
and she bare to Esau Jeush ,
and Jaalam ,
and Korah .
*
These were dukes of the sons of Esau :
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau ;
duke Teman ,
duke Omar ,
duke Zepho ,
duke Kenaz ,
*
Duke Korah ,
duke Gatam ,
and duke Amalek :
these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom ;
these were the sons of Adah .
*
And these are the sons of Reuel Esau '
s son ;
duke Nahath ,
duke Zerah ,
duke Shammah ,
duke Mizzah :
these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom ;
these are the sons of Bashemath Esau '
s wife .
*
And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau '
s wife ;
duke Jeush ,
duke Jaalam ,
duke Korah :
these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah ,
Esau '
s wife .
*
These are the sons of Esau ,
who is Edom ,
and these are their dukes .
*
These are the sons of Seir the Horite ,
who inhabited the land ;
Lotan ,
and Shobal ,
and Zibeon ,
and Anah ,
*
And Dishon ,
and Ezer ,
and Dishan :
these are the dukes of the Horites ,
the children of Seir in the land of Edom .
*
And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam ;
and Lotan '
s sister was Timna .
*
And the children of Shobal were these ;
Alvan ,
and Manahath ,
and Ebal ,
Shepho ,
and Onam .
*
And these are the children of Zibeon ;
both Ajah ,
and Anah :
this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness ,
as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father .
*
And the children of Anah were these ;
Dishon ,
and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah .
*
And these are the children of Dishon ;
Hemdan ,
and Eshban ,
and Ithran ,
and Cheran .
*
The children of Ezer are these ;
Bilhan ,
and Zaavan ,
and Akan .
*
The children of Dishan are these ;
Uz ,
and Aran .
*
These are the dukes that came of the Horites ;
duke Lotan ,
duke Shobal ,
duke Zibeon ,
duke Anah ,
*
Duke Dishon ,
duke Ezer ,
duke Dishan :
these are the dukes that came of Hori ,
among their dukes in the land of Seir .
*
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom ,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel .
*
And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom :
and the name of his city was Dinhabah .
*
And Bela died ,
and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead .
*
And Jobab died ,
and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead .
*
And Husham died ,
and Hadad the son of Bedad ,
who smote Midian in the field of Moab ,
reigned in his stead :
and the name of his city was Avith .
*
And Hadad died ,
and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead .
*
And Samlah died ,
and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead .
*
And Saul died ,
and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead .
*
And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died ,
and Hadar reigned in his stead :
and the name of his city was Pau ;
and his wife '
s name was Mehetabel ,
the daughter of Matred ,
the daughter of Mezahab .
*
And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau ,
according to their families ,
after their places ,
by their names ;
duke Timnah ,
duke Alvah ,
duke Jetheth ,
*
Duke Aholibamah ,
duke Elah ,
duke Pinon ,
*
Duke Kenaz ,
duke Teman ,
duke Mibzar ,
*
Duke Magdiel ,
duke Iram :
these be the dukes of Edom ,
according to their habitations in the land of their possession :
he is Esau the father of the Edomites .
*
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger ,
in the land of Canaan .
*
These are the generations of Jacob .
Joseph ,
being seventeen years old ,
was feeding the flock with his brethren ;
and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah ,
and with the sons of Zilpah ,
his father '
s wives :
and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report .
*
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children ,
because he was the son of his old age :
and he made him a coat of many colours .
*
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren ,
they hated him ,
and could not speak peaceably unto him .
*
And Joseph dreamed a dream ,
and he told it his brethren :
and they hated him yet the more .
*
And he said unto them ,
Hear ,
I pray you ,
this dream which I have dreamed :
*
For ,
behold ,
we were binding sheaves in the field ,
and ,
lo ,
my sheaf arose ,
and also stood upright ;
and ,
behold ,
your sheaves stood round about ,
and made obeisance to my sheaf .
*
And his brethren said to him ,
Shalt thou indeed reign over us ?
or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us ?
And they hated him yet the more for his dreams ,
and for his words .
*
And he dreamed yet another dream ,
and told it his brethren ,
and said ,
Behold ,
I have dreamed a dream more ;
and ,
behold ,
the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me .
*
And he told it to his father ,
and to his brethren :
and his father rebuked him ,
and said unto him ,
What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ?
Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ?
*
And his brethren envied him ;
but his father observed the saying .
*
And his brethren went to feed their father '
s flock in Shechem .
*
And Israel said unto Joseph ,
Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem ?
come ,
and I will send thee unto them .
And he said to him ,
Here am I .
*
And he said to him ,
Go ,
I pray thee ,
see whether it be well with thy brethren ,
and well with the flocks ;
and bring me word again .
So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron ,
and he came to Shechem .
*
And a certain man found him ,
and ,
behold ,
he was wandering in the field :
and the man asked him ,
saying ,
What seekest thou ?
*
And he said ,
I seek my brethren :
tell me ,
I pray thee ,
where they feed their flocks .
*
And the man said ,
They are departed hence ;
for I heard them say ,
Let us go to Dothan .
And Joseph went after his brethren ,
and found them in Dothan .
*
And when they saw him afar off ,
even before he came near unto them ,
they conspired against him to slay him .
*
And they said one to another ,
Behold ,
this dreamer cometh .
*
Come now therefore ,
and let us slay him ,
and cast him into some pit ,
and we will say ,
Some evil beast hath devoured him :
and we shall see what will become of his dreams .
*
And Reuben heard it ,
and he delivered him out of their hands ;
and said ,
Let us not kill him .
*
And Reuben said unto them ,
Shed no blood ,
but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness ,
and lay no hand upon him ;
that he might rid him out of their hands ,
to deliver him to his father again .
*
And it came to pass ,
when Joseph was come unto his brethren ,
that they stript Joseph out of his coat ,
his coat of many colours that was on him ;
*
And they took him ,
and cast him into a pit :
and the pit was empty ,
there was no water in it .
*
And they sat down to eat bread :
and they lifted up their eyes and looked ,
and ,
behold ,
a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh ,
going to carry it down to Egypt .
*
And Judah said unto his brethren ,
What profit is it if we slay our brother ,
and conceal his blood ?
*
Come ,
and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites ,
and let not our hand be upon him ;
for he is our brother and our flesh .
And his brethren were content .
*
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen ;
and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit ,
and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver :
and they brought Joseph into Egypt .
*
And Reuben returned unto the pit ;
and ,
behold ,
Joseph was not in the pit ;
and he rent his clothes .
*
And he returned unto his brethren ,
and said ,
The child is not ;
and I ,
whither shall I go ?
*
And they took Joseph '
s coat ,
and killed a kid of the goats ,
and dipped the coat in the blood ;
*
And they sent the coat of many colours ,
and they brought it to their father ;
and said ,
This have we found :
know now whether it be thy son '
s coat or no .
*
And he knew it ,
and said ,
It is my son '
s coat ;
an evil beast hath devoured him ;
Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces .
*
And Jacob rent his clothes ,
and put sackcloth upon his loins ,
and mourned for his son many days .
*
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him ;
but he refused to be comforted ;
and he said ,
For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning .
Thus his father wept for him .
*
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar ,
an officer of Pharaoh '
s ,
and captain of the guard .
*
And it came to pass at that time ,
that Judah went down from his brethren ,
and turned in to a certain Adullamite ,
whose name was Hirah .
*
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite ,
whose name was Shuah ;
and he took her ,
and went in unto her .
*
And she conceived ,
and bare a son ;
and he called his name Er .
*
And she conceived again ,
and bare a son ;
and she called his name Onan .
*
And she yet again conceived ,
and bare a son ;
and called his name Shelah :
and he was at Chezib ,
when she bare him .
*
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn ,
whose name was Tamar .
*
And Er ,
Judah '
s firstborn ,
was wicked in the sight of the LORD ;
and the LORD slew him .
*
And Judah said unto Onan ,
Go in unto thy brother '
s wife ,
and marry her ,
and raise up seed to thy brother .
*
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his ;
and it came to pass ,
when he went in unto his brother '
s wife ,
that he spilled it on the ground ,
lest that he should give seed to his brother .
*
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD :
wherefore he slew him also .
*
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law ,
Remain a widow at thy father '
s house ,
till Shelah my son be grown :
for he said ,
Lest peradventure he die also ,
as his brethren did .
And Tamar went and dwelt in her father '
s house .
*
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah '
s wife died ;
and Judah was comforted ,
and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath ,
he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite .
*
And it was told Tamar ,
saying ,
Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep .
*
And she put her widow '
s garments off from her ,
and covered her with a vail ,
and wrapped herself ,
and sat in an open place ,
which is by the way to Timnath ;
for she saw that Shelah was grown ,
and she was not given unto him to wife .
*
When Judah saw her ,
he thought her to be an harlot ;
because she had covered her face .
*
And he turned unto her by the way ,
and said ,
Go to ,
I pray thee ,
let me come in unto thee ; (
for he knew not that she was his daughter in law .)
And she said ,
What wilt thou give me ,
that thou mayest come in unto me ?
*
And he said ,
I will send thee a kid from the flock .
And she said ,
Wilt thou give me a pledge ,
till thou send it ?
*
And he said ,
What pledge shall I give thee ?
And she said ,
Thy signet ,
and thy bracelets ,
and thy staff that is in thine hand .
And he gave it her ,
and came in unto her ,
and she conceived by him .
*
And she arose ,
and went away ,
and laid by her vail from her ,
and put on the garments of her widowhood .
*
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite ,
to receive his pledge from the woman '
s hand :
but he found her not .
*
Then he asked the men of that place ,
saying ,
Where is the harlot ,
that was openly by the way side ?
And they said ,
There was no harlot in this place .
*
And he returned to Judah ,
and said ,
I cannot find her ;
and also the men of the place said ,
that there was no harlot in this place .
*
And Judah said ,
Let her take it to her ,
lest we be shamed :
behold ,
I sent this kid ,
and thou hast not found her .
*
And it came to pass about three months after ,
that it was told Judah ,
saying ,
Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot ;
and also ,
behold ,
she is with child by whoredom .
And Judah said ,
Bring her forth ,
and let her be burnt .
*
When she was brought forth ,
she sent to her father in law ,
saying ,
By the man ,
whose these are ,
am I with child :
and she said ,
Discern ,
I pray thee ,
whose are these ,
the signet ,
and bracelets ,
and staff .
*
And Judah acknowledged them ,
and said ,
She hath been more righteous than I ;
because that I gave her not to Shelah my son .
And he knew her again no more .
*
And it came to pass in the time of her travail ,
that ,
behold ,
twins were in her womb .
*
And it came to pass ,
when she travailed ,
that the one put out his hand :
and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread ,
saying ,
This came out first .
*
And it came to pass ,
as he drew back his hand ,
that ,
behold ,
his brother came out :
and she said ,
How hast thou broken forth ?
this breach be upon thee :
therefore his name was called Pharez .
*
And afterward came out his brother ,
that had the scarlet thread upon his hand :
and his name was called Zarah .
*
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt ;
and Potiphar ,
an officer of Pharaoh ,
captain of the guard ,
an Egyptian ,
bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites ,
which had brought him down thither .
*
And the LORD was with Joseph ,
and he was a prosperous man ;
and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian .
*
And his master saw that the LORD was with him ,
and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand .
*
And Joseph found grace in his sight ,
and he served him :
and he made him overseer over his house ,
and all that he had he put into his hand .
*
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house ,
and over all that he had ,
that the LORD blessed the Egyptian '
s house for Joseph '
s sake ;
and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house ,
and in the field .
*
And he left all that he had in Joseph '
s hand ;
and he knew not ought he had ,
save the bread which he did eat .
And Joseph was a goodly person ,
and well favoured .
*
And it came to pass after these things ,
that his master '
s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph ;
and she said ,
Lie with me .
*
But he refused ,
and said unto his master '
s wife ,
Behold ,
my master wotteth not what is with me in the house ,
and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand ;
*
There is none greater in this house than I ;
neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee ,
because thou art his wife :
how then can I do this great wickedness ,
and sin against God ?
*
And it came to pass ,
as she spake to Joseph day by day ,
that he hearkened not unto her ,
to lie by her ,
or to be with her .
*
And it came to pass about this time ,
that Joseph went into the house to do his business ;
and there was none of the men of the house there within .
*
And she caught him by his garment ,
saying ,
Lie with me :
and he left his garment in her hand ,
and fled ,
and got him out .
*
And it came to pass ,
when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand ,
and was fled forth ,
*
That she called unto the men of her house ,
and spake unto them ,
saying ,
See ,
he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us ;
he came in unto me to lie with me ,
and I cried with a loud voice :
*
And it came to pass ,
when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried ,
that he left his garment with me ,
and fled ,
and got him out .
*
And she laid up his garment by her ,
until his lord came home .
*
And she spake unto him according to these words ,
saying ,
The Hebrew servant ,
which thou hast brought unto us ,
came in unto me to mock me :
*
And it came to pass ,
as I lifted up my voice and cried ,
that he left his garment with me ,
and fled out .
*
And it came to pass ,
when his master heard the words of his wife ,
which she spake unto him ,
saying ,
After this manner did thy servant to me ;
that his wrath was kindled .
*
And Joseph '
s master took him ,
and put him into the prison ,
a place where the king '
s prisoners were bound :
and he was there in the prison .
*
But the LORD was with Joseph ,
and shewed him mercy ,
and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison .
*
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph '
s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison ;
and whatsoever they did there ,
he was the doer of it .
*
The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand ;
because the LORD was with him ,
and that which he did ,
the LORD made it to prosper .
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