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THE NAMES AND ORDER OF ALL
THE
BOOKS OF
THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT,
WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR
CHAPTERS.
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The Books of the Old Testament.
Chaps
Genesis 50
Exodus 40
Leviticus 27
Numbers 36
Deuteronomy 34
Joshua 24
Judges 21
Ruth 4
1 Samuel 31
2 Samuel 24
1 Kings 22
2 Kings 25
1 Chronicles 29
2 Chronicles 36
Ezra 10
Nehemiah 13
Esther 10
Job 42
Psalms 150
Proverbs 31
Chaps
Ecclesiastes 12
The Song of
Solomon 8
Isaiah 66
Jeremiah 52
Lamentations 5
Ezekiel 48
Daniel 12
Hosea 14
Joel 3
Amos 9
Obadiah 1
Jonah 4
Micah 7
Nahum 3
Habakkuk 3
Zephaniah 3
Haggai 2
Zechariah 14
Malachi 4
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The Books of the New Testament.
Chaps
Matthew 28
Mark 16
Luke 24
John 21
The Acts 28
Epistle to the
Romans 16
1 Corinthians 16
2 Corinthians 13
Galatians 6
Ephesians 6
Philippians 4
Colossians 4
1 Thessalonians 5
Chaps
2 Thessalonians 3
1 Timothy 6
2 Timothy 4
Titus 3
Philemon 1
To the Hebrews 13
The Epistle of
James 5
1 Peter 5
2 Peter 3
1 John 5
2 John 1
3 John 1
Jude 1
Revelation 22
THE FIRST
BOOK OF MOSES,
CALLED
GENESIS.
CHAPTER 1
IN the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
3 And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God
saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from
the darkness.
5 And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
6 ¶ And God
said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters.
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.
8 And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13 And
the evening and the morning were the third day.
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:
15 And
let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so.
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.
17 And God
set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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.
19 And
the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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.
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.
22 And God
blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And
the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.
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.
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.
27 So God
created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CHAPTER 2
THUS the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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.
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.
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,
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.
6 But
there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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.
8 ¶ And
the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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.
10 And a
river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads.
11 The
name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And
the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And
the name of the second river is Gihon:
the same is it that compasseth the
whole land of Ethiopia.
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.
15 And
the Lord God took the man, and put
him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And
the Lord God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
22 And
the rib, which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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.
24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto
his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And
they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
CHAPTER 3
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?
2 And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden:
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.
4 And
the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 And
the Lord God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And
he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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?
12 And
the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to
be with me, she gave me of the tree,
and I did eat.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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;
18
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field;
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.
20 And
Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto
Adam also and to his wife did the Lord
God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
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:
23
Therefore the Lord God sent him
forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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.
CHAPTER 4
AND Adam
knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a
man from the Lord.
2 And
she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.
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 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:
5 But
unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and
his countenance fell.
6 And
the Lord said unto Cain, Why art
thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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.
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.
9 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know
not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
10 And
he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me
from the ground.
11 And
now art thou cursed from the earth,
which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
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.
13 And
Cain said unto the Lord, My
punishment is greater than I can bear.
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.
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.
16 ¶ And
Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
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.
18 And
unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19 ¶ And
Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And
Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such
as have cattle.
21 And
his brother’s name was Jubal: he was
the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And
Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and
iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was
Naamah.
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.
24 If
Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
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.
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.
CHAPTER 5
THIS is the book of the generations of Adam.
In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male
and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day when they were created.
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:
4 And
the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he
begat sons and daughters:
5 And
all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
6 And
Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
7 And
Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters:
8 And
all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9 ¶ And
Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10 And
Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat
sons and daughters:
11 And
all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12 ¶ And
Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
13 And
Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat
sons and daughters:
14 And
all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 ¶ And
Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16 And
Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat
sons and daughters:
17 And
all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he
died.
18 ¶ And
Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19 And
Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters:
20 And
all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21 ¶ And
Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And
Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters:
23 And
all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And
Enoch walked with God: and he was not;
for God took him.
25 And
Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26 And
Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and
begat sons and daughters:
27 And
all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28 ¶ And
Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
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.
30 And Lamech
lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons
and daughters:
31 And
all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32 And
Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
CHAPTER 6
AND it
came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born unto them,
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.
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.
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.
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 And it
repented the Lord that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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.
8 But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
9 ¶ These
are the generations of Noah: Noah was
a just man and perfect in his
generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And
Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The
earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God
looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth.
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.
14 ¶ Make
thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch
it within and without with pitch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
22 Thus
did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
CHAPTER 7
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 And
Noah did according unto all that the Lord
commanded him.
6 And
Noah was six hundred years old when
the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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.
8 Of
clean beasts, and of beasts that are not
clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah.
10 And
it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth.
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.
12 And
the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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;
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.
15 And
they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
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.
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.
18 And
the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark
went upon the face of the waters.
19 And
the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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:
22 All
in whose nostrils was the breath of
life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
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.
24 And
the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
CHAPTER 8
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;
2 The
fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain
from heaven was restrained;
3 And the
waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And
the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat.
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.
6 ¶ And
it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the
ark which he had made:
7 And he
sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up
from off the earth.
8 Also
he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the
face of the ground;
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.
10 And
he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark;
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.
12 And
he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not
again unto him any more.
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.
14 And
in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth
dried.
15 ¶ And
God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go
forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with
thee.
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.
18 And
Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every
beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth
out of the ark.
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.
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.
22 While
the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
CHAPTER 9
AND God
blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth.
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.
3 Every
moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I
given you all things.
4 But
flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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.
6 Whoso
sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God
made he man.
7 And
you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.
8 ¶ And God
spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I,
behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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.
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.
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:
13 I do
set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me
and the earth.
14 And
it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall
be seen in the cloud:
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.
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.
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.
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.
19 These
are the three sons of Noah: and of
them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And
Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And
he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brethren without.
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.
24 And
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And
he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant
of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And
he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant.
27 God
shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant.
28 ¶ And
Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And
all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
CHAPTER 10
NOW these
are the generations of the sons of
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2 The
sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And
the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And
the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By
these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after
his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
6 ¶ And
the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And
the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and
the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And
Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was
a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And
the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in
the land of Shinar.
11 Out
of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and
Calah,
12 And
Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is
a great city.
13 And
Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14 And
Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
15 ¶ And
Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
16 And
the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
17 And
the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18 And
the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the
families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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.
20 These
are the sons of Ham, after their
families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
21 ¶ Unto
Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the
elder, even to him were children born.
22 The
children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
23 And
the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And
Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
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.
26 And
Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 And
Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And
Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29 And
Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were
the sons of Joktan.
30 And
their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
31 These
are the sons of Shem, after their
families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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.
CHAPTER 11
AND the
whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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.
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.
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.
5 And
the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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.
7 Go to,
let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another’s speech.
8 So the
Lord scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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.
10 ¶ These
are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat
Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And
Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.
12 And
Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
13 And
Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.
14 And
Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 And
Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons
and daughters.
16 And
Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
17 And
Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons
and daughters.
18 And
Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And
Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and
daughters.
20 And
Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 And
Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and
daughters.
22 And
Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And
Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.
24 And
Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 And
Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons
and daughters.
26 And
Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ¶ Now
these are the generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And
Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the
Chaldees.
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.
30 But
Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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.
32 And
the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
CHAPTER 12
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8 And he
removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his
tent, having Beth-el 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.
9 And
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
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.
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 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.
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.
14 ¶ And
it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the
woman that she was very fair.
15 The
princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the
woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
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.
17 And
the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his
house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
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?
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.
20 And
Pharaoh commanded his men concerning
him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
CHAPTER 13
AND Abram
went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him,
into the south.
2 And
Abram was very rich in cattle, in
silver, and in gold.
3 And he
went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his
tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
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.
5 ¶ And Lot
also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 Then Lot
chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the one from the other.
12 Abram
dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and
pitched his tent toward Sodom.
13 But
the men of Sodom were wicked and
sinners before the Lord
exceedingly.
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:
15 For
all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for
ever.
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.
17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for
I will give it unto thee.
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.
CHAPTER 14
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;
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.
3 All
these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
4 Twelve
years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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,
6 And
the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
7 And
they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
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;
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.
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.
11 And
they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went
their way.
12 And
they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and
departed.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
18 And
Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
19 And
he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram
of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And
blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all.
21 And
the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to
thyself.
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,
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:
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.
CHAPTER 15
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.
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?
3 And
Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my
house is mine heir.
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.
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.
6 And he
believed in the Lord; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
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.
8 And he
said, Lord God, whereby shall I
know that I shall inherit it?
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.
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.
11 And
when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And
when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror
of great darkness fell upon him.
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;
14 And
also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they
come out with great substance.
15 And
thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But
in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full.
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.
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:
19 The
Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And
the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And
the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
CHAPTER 16
NOW Sarai
Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose
name was Hagar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 And
the angel of the Lord said unto
her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And
the angel of the Lord said unto
her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
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.
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.
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?
14
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and
Bered.
15 ¶ And
Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare,
Ishmael.
16 And
Abram was fourscore and six years
old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
CHAPTER 17
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.
2 And I
will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And
Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
4 As for
me, behold, my covenant is with thee,
and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
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.
6 And I
will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings
shall come out of thee.
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.
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.
9 ¶ And God
said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed
after thee in their generations.
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.
11 And
ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the
covenant betwixt me and you.
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.
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.
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.
15 ¶ And
God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name
Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
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 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?
18 And
Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
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.
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.
21 But
my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at
this set time in the next year.
22 And
he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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.
24 And
Abraham was ninety years old and
nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
25 And
Ishmael his son was thirteen years
old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
26 In
the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27 And
all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the
stranger, were circumcised with him.
CHAPTER 18
AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
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,
3 And
said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant:
4 Let a
little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree:
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 ¶ And
they said unto him, Where is Sarah
thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
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.
11 Now
Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the
manner of women.
12
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I
have pleasure, my lord being old also?
13 And
the Lord said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am
old?
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.
15 Then
Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but
thou didst laugh.
16 ¶ And
the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with
them to bring them on the way.
17 And
the Lord said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do;
18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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.
20 And
the Lord said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
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.
22 And
the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham
stood yet before the Lord.
23 ¶ And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the
wicked?
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?
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?
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.
27 And
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord,
which am but dust and ashes:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
33 And
the Lord went his way, as soon as
he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
CHAPTER 19
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;
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.
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.
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:
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.
6 And Lot
went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And
said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
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.
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.
10 But
the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut
to the door.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
18 And Lot
said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
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:
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.
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.
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.
23 ¶ The
sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then
the Lord rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord
out of heaven;
25 And
he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 ¶ But
his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 ¶ And
Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
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.
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.
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.
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:
32 Come,
let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
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.
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.
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.
36 Thus
were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And
the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this
day.
38 And
the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon
unto this day.
CHAPTER 20
AND Abraham
journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and
Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
2 And
Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is
my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
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.
4 But
Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a
righteous nation?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
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.
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.
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.
14 And
Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah
his wife.
15 And
Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before
thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
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.
17 ¶ So
Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants;
and they bare children.
18 For
the Lord had fast closed up all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
CHAPTER 21
AND the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and
the Lord did unto Sarah as he had
spoken.
2 For
Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.
3 And
Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to
him, Isaac.
4 And
Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded
him.
5 And
Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 ¶ And
Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so
that all that hear will laugh with
me.
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.
8 And
the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 ¶ And
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham,
mocking.
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.
11 And
the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
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.
13 And
also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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 Beer-sheba.
15 And
the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the
shrubs.
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.
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.
18
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great
nation.
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.
20 And God
was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an
archer.
21 And
he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the
land of Egypt.
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:
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.
24 And
Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And
Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s
servants had violently taken away.
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.
27 And
Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them
made a covenant.
28 And
Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean
these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
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.
31
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of
them.
32 Thus
they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the
chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 ¶ And
Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba,
and called there on the name of the Lord,
the everlasting God.
34 And
Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
CHAPTER 22
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.
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.
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.
4 Then
on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
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.
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.
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?
8 And
Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so
they went both of them together.
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.
10 And
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And
the angel of the Lord called unto
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
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.
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.
14 And
Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
15 ¶ And
the angel of the Lord called unto
Abraham out of heaven the second time,
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:
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;
18 And
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast
obeyed my voice.
19 So
Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba;
and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
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;
21 Huz
his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And
Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And
Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 And
his concubine, whose name was Reumah,
she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
CHAPTER 23
AND Sarah
was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of
the life of Sarah.
2 And
Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is
Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep
for her.
3 ¶ And
Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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.
5 And
the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
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.
7 And
Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
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,
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.
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,
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.
12 And
Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
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.
14 And
Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
CHAPTER 24
AND Abraham
was old, and well stricken in age:
and the Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things.
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:
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:
4 But thou
shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
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?
6 And
Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
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.
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.
9 And the
servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him
concerning that matter.
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.
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.
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.
13
Behold, I stand here by the well of
water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
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.
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.
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.
17 And
the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little
water of thy pitcher.
18 And
she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her
hand, and gave him drink.
19 And
when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
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.
21 And
the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or
not.
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;
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 And
she said unto him, I am the daughter
of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
25 She
said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to
lodge in.
26 And
the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
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.
28 And
the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.
29 ¶ And
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was
Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
34 And he
said, I am Abraham’s servant.
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.
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.
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:
38 But
thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto
my son.
39 And I
said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
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:
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.
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:
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
50 Then Laban
and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
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.
52 And
it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped
the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
57 And
they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
58 And
they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she
said, I will go.
59 And
they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and
his men.
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.
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.
62 And
Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south
country.
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.
64 And
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
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.
66 And
the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
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.
CHAPTER 25
THEN again
Abraham took a wife, and her name was
Keturah.
2 And
she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 And
Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim,
and Leummim.
4 And
the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All
these were the children of Keturah.
5 ¶ And
Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
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.
7 And
these are the days of the years of
Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
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.
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;
10 The
field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried,
and Sarah his wife.
11 ¶ And
it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and
Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
12 ¶ Now
these are the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
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,
14 And
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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.
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.
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.
19 ¶ And
these are the generations of Isaac,
Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:
20 And
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel
the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
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.
22 And
the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be
so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire
of the Lord.
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.
24 ¶ And
when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her
womb.
25 And
the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his
name Esau.
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.
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.
28 And
Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his
venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 ¶ And
Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
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.
31 And
Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 And
Esau said, Behold, I am at the point
to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
33 And
Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his
birthright unto Jacob.
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.
CHAPTER 26
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.
2 And
the Lord appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
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;
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;
5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws.
6 ¶ And
Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 And
Abimelech charged all his people,
saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then
Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the
Lord blessed him.
13 And
the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For
he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of
servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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.
16 And
Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 ¶ And
Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt
there.
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.
19 And
Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing
water.
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.
21 And
they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of
it Sitnah.
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.
23 And
he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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.
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 ¶ Then
Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol
the chief captain of his army.
27 And
Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent
me away from you?
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;
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.
30 And
he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
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.
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.
33 And
he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
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:
35 Which
were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
CHAPTER 27
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.
2 And he
said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
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;
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.
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.
6 ¶ And
Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto
Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring
me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the
Lord before my death.
8 Now
therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
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:
10 And
thou shalt bring it to thy father,
that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
11 And
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a
smooth man:
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.
13 And
his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy
curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14 And
he went, and fetched, and brought them
to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
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:
16 And
she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth
of his neck:
17 And
she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
of her son Jacob.
18 ¶ And
he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 And
he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s
hands: so he blessed him.
24 And
he said, Art thou my very son Esau?
And he said, I am.
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.
26 And
his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
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:
28
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and
plenty of corn and wine:
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.
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.
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.
32 And
Isaac his father said unto him, Who art
thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
firstborn Esau.
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.
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.
35 And
he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
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?
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?
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
43 Now
therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to
Haran;
44 And
tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
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?
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?
CHAPTER 28
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.
2 Arise,
go to Padan-aram, 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.
3 And God
Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou
mayest be a multitude of people;
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.
5 And
Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the
Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 ¶ When
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, 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;
7 And
that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
8 And
Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
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.
10 ¶ And
Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
16 ¶ And
Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
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.
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.
19 And
he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called
Luz at the first.
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,
21 So
that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:
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.
CHAPTER 29
THEN Jacob
went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
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.
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.
4 And
Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be
ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
5 And he
said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
6 And he
said unto them, Is he well? And they
said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
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.
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.
9 ¶ And
while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept
them.
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.
11 And
Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
12 And
Jacob told Rachel that he was her
father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s
son: and she ran and told her father.
13 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.
14 And Laban
said to him, Surely thou art my bone
and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
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?
16 And Laban
had two daughters: the name of the elder was
Leah, and the name of the younger was
Rachel.
17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was
beautiful and well favoured.
18 And
Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy
younger daughter.
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.
20 And
Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to
her.
21 ¶ And
Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my
wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
22 And Laban
gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
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.
24 And Laban
gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for
an handmaid.
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?
26 And Laban
said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the
firstborn.
27
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou
shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to
wife also.
29 And Laban
gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
30 And
he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and
served with him yet seven other years.
31 ¶ And
when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but
Rachel was barren.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CHAPTER 30
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.
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?
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.
4 And
she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 And
Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
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.
7 And
Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And
Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah
saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to
wife.
10 And
Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
11 And Leah
said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
12 And
Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah
said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his
name Asher.
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.
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.
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.
17 And God
hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
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.
19 And Leah
conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
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.
21 And
afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 ¶ And
God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And
she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
24 And
she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord
shall add to me another son.
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.
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.
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.
28 And
he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
29 And
he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was
with me.
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?
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:
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.
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.
34 And Laban
said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
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.
36 And
he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of
Laban’s flocks.
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.
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.
39 And
the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked,
speckled, and spotted.
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.
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.
42 But
when the cattle were feeble, he put them
not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 And
the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and
menservants, and camels, and asses.
CHAPTER 31
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.
2 And
Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 And
the Lord said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
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.
6 And ye
know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And
your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered
him not to hurt me.
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.
9 Thus God
hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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.
11 And
the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying,
Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
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.
13 I am the God of Beth-el, 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.
14 And
Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is
there yet any portion or inheritance
for us in our father’s house?
15 Are
we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured
also our money.
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.
17 ¶ Then
Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
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 Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac
his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban
went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
20 And
Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he
fled.
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.
22 And
it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 And
he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and
they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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.
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.
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?
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?
28 And
hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done
foolishly in so doing.
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.
30 And
now, though thou wouldest needs be
gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
31 And
Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure
thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
32 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.
33 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.
34 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.
35 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.
36 ¶ 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?
37
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.
38 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.
39 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.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 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.
42
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.
43 ¶ 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?
44 Now
therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a
witness between me and thee.
45 And
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for
a pillar.
46 And
Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an
heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban
called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban
said, This heap is a witness between
me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 And
Mizpah; for he said, The Lord
watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 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.
51 And Laban
said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 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.
53 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.
54 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.
55 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.
CHAPTER 32
AND Jacob
went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 And
when Jacob saw them, he said, This is
God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And
Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the
country of Edom.
4 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:
5 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.
6 ¶ 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.
7 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;
8 And
said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company
which is left shall escape.
9 ¶ 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:
10 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.
11
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.
12 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.
13 ¶ And
he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a
present for Esau his brother;
14 Two
hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten foals.
16 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.
17 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?
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
21 So
went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
22 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.
23 And
he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 ¶ And
Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of
the day.
25 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.
26 And
he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go,
except thou bless me.
27 And
he said unto him, What is thy name?
And he said, Jacob.
28 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.
29 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.
30 And
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved.
31 And
as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32
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.
CHAPTER 33
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.
2 And he
put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after,
and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
3 And he
passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he
came near to his brother.
4 And
Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him:
and they wept.
5 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.
6 Then
the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
7 And Leah
also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph
near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8 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.
9 And
Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
10 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.
11 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.
12 And
he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 ¶ So
Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
17 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.
18 ¶ And
Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched
his tent before the city.
19 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.
20 And
he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
CHAPTER 34
AND Dinah
the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters
of the land.
2 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.
3 And
his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and
spake kindly unto the damsel.
4 And
Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
5 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.
6 ¶ And
Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
7 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.
8 And
Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your
daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
9 And
make ye marriages with us, and give
your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
10 And
ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye
therein, and get you possessions therein.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And
the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said,
because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
14 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:
15 But
in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
16 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.
17 But
if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our
daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And
their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
19 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.
20 ¶ And
Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with
the men of their city, saying,
21 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.
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 ¶ 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.
26 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.
27 The
sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had
defiled their sister.
28 They
took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
29 And
all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive,
and spoiled even all that was in the house.
30 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.
31 And
they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
CHAPTER 35
AND God
said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an
altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of
Esau thy brother.
2 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:
3 And
let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 ¶ So
Jacob came to Luz, which is in the
land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he
and all the people that were with
him.
7 And he
built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God
appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8 But
Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak:
and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
9 ¶ And God
appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
10 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.
11 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;
12 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.
13 And God
went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14 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.
15 And
Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
16 ¶ And
they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath:
and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
17 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.
18 And
it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called
his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
19 And
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
20 And
Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is
the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
21 ¶ And
Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 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:
23 The
sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The
sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
25 And
the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And
the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
27 ¶ And
Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And
the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
29 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.
CHAPTER 36
NOW these
are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
2 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;
3 And
Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
4 And
Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
5 And
Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
6 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.
7 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.
8 Thus
dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 ¶ And
these are the generations of Esau the
father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
10 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.
11 And
the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And
Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek:
these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
13 And
these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath,
and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
14 ¶ 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.
15 ¶ 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,
16 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.
17 ¶ 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.
18 ¶ 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.
19 These
are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
20 ¶ These
are the sons of Seir the Horite, who
inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
21 And
Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are
the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 And
the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
23 And
the children of Shobal were these;
Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24 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.
25 And
the children of Anah were these;
Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
26 And
these are the children of Dishon;
Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
27 The
children of Ezer are these; Bilhan,
and Zaavan, and Akan.
28 The
children of Dishan are these; Uz, and
Aran.
29 These
are the dukes that came of the Horites;
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
30 Duke
Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are
the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
31 ¶ And
these are the kings that reigned in
the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
32 And
Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
33 And
Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
34 And
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.
35 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.
36 And
Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
37 And
Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the
river reigned in his stead.
38 And
Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
39 And Baal-hanan
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.
40 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,
41 Duke
Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
42 Duke
Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
43 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.
CHAPTER 37
AND Jacob
dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 ¶ And
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it
his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6 And he
said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7 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.
8 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.
9 ¶ 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.
10 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?
11 And
his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
12 ¶ And
his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13 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.
14 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.
15 ¶ And
a certain man found him, and, behold, he
was wandering in the field: and the
man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16 And
he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
17 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.
18 And
when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired
against him to slay him.
19 And
they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20 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.
21 And
Reuben heard it, and he delivered him
out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
22 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.
23 ¶ 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;
24 And
they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
25 And
they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold,
a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and
balm and myrrh, going to carry it down
to Egypt.
26 And
Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is
it if we slay our brother, and
conceal his blood?
27 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.
28 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.
29 ¶ And
Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
30 And
he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
31 And
they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in
the blood;
32 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.
33 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.
34 And
Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his
son many days.
35 And
all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he 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.
36 And
the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.
CHAPTER 38
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.
2 And
Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
3 And
she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
4 And
she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
5 And
she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was
at Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And
Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 And
Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord
slew him.
8 And
Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise
up seed to thy brother.
9 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.
10 And
the thing which he did displeased the Lord:
wherefore he slew him also.
11 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.
12 ¶ 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.
13 And
it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to
shear his sheep.
14 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.
15 When
Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered
her face.
16 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?
17 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?
18 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.
19 And
she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the
garments of her widowhood.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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.
23 And
Judah said, Let her take it to her,
lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 ¶ 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 ¶ And
it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
28 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.
29 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.
30 And
afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and
his name was called Zarah.
CHAPTER 39
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.
2 And
the Lord was with Joseph, and he
was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And
his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in
his hand.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 ¶ And
it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon
Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
8 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;
9 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?
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And
it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was
fled forth,
14 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:
15 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.
16 And
she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
17 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:
18 And
it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment
with me, and fled out.
19 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.
20 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.
21 ¶ But
the Lord was with Joseph, and
shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 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.
23 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.
CHAPTER 40
AND it
came to pass after these things, that
the butler of the king of Egypt and his
baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
2 And
Pharaoh was wroth against two of his
officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
3 And he
put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the
place where Joseph was bound.
4 And
the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they
continued a season in ward.
5 ¶ And
they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man
according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the
king of Egypt, which were bound in
the prison.
6 And
Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold,
they were sad.
7 And he
asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with
him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
8 And
they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter
of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not
interpretations belong to God? tell
me them, I pray you.
9 And
the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream,
behold, a vine was before me;
10 And
in the vine were three branches: and
it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters
thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
11 And
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I
took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s
hand.
12 And
Joseph said unto him, This is the
interpretation of it: The three branches are
three days:
13 Yet
within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy
place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former
manner when thou wast his butler.
14 But
think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee,
unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
15 For
indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I
done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
16 When
the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I
also was in my dream, and, behold, I had
three white baskets on my head:
17 And
in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for
Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
18 And
Joseph answered and said, This is the
interpretation thereof: The three baskets are
three days:
19 Yet
within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang
thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
20 ¶ And
it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a
feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and
of the chief baker among his servants.
21 And
he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh’s hand:
22 But
he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet
did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
CHAPTER 41
AND it
came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold,
he stood by the river.
2 And,
behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed;
and they fed in a meadow.
3 And,
behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and
leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine
upon the brink of the river.
4 And
the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and
fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he
slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon
one stalk, rank and good.
6 And,
behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
7 And
the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke,
and, behold, it was a dream.
8 And it
came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and
called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and
Pharaoh told them his dream; but there
was none that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.
9 ¶ Then
spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
10
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the
guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
11 And
we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream.
12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of
the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man
according to his dream he did interpret.
13 And
it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine
office, and him he hanged.
14 ¶ Then
Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the
dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed
his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can
interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that
thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And
Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an
answer of peace.
17 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the
river:
18 And,
behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well
favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And,
behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and
leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 And
the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 And
when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them;
but they were still ill favoured, as
at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I
saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
23 And,
behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
24 And
the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there
was none that could declare it to me.
25 ¶ And
Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The
seven good kine are seven years; and
the seven good ears are seven years:
the dream is one.
27 And
the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty
ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto
Pharaoh: What God is about to do he
sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of
Egypt:
30 And
there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And
the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following;
for it shall be very grievous.
32 And
for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly
bring it to pass.
33 Now
therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the
land of Egypt.
34 Let
Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint
officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the
seven plenteous years.
35 And
let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn
under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 And
that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the
famine.
37 ¶ And
the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
38 And
Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such
a one
as this is, a man in whom the Spirit
of God is?
39 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
40 Thou
shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be
ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 And
Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and
arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43 And
he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before
him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler
over all the land of Egypt.
44 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh,
and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath
the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 ¶ And
Joseph was thirty years old when he
stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And
in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And
he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of
Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up
in the same.
49 And
Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left
numbering; for it was without number.
50 And
unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath
the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me
forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
52 And
the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful
in the land of my affliction.
53 ¶ And
the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And
the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the
dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And
when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread:
and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you,
do.
56 And
the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land
of Egypt.
57 And
all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
CHAPTER 42
NOW when
Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye
look one upon another?
2 And he
said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither,
and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 ¶ And
Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But
Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest
peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And
the sons of Israel came to buy corn among
those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And
Joseph was the governor over the
land, and he it was that sold to all
the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves
before him with their faces to the
earth.
7 And
Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and
spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said,
From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And
Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land
ye are come.
10 And
they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And
he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13 And
they said, Thy servants are twelve
brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14 And
Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
15
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence,
except your youngest brother come hither.
16 Send
one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison,
that your words may be proved, whether there
be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And
he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And
Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye
be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison:
go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But
bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye
shall not die. And they did so.
21 ¶ And
they said one to another, We are verily
guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he
besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And
Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against
the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is
required.
23 And
they knew not that Joseph understood them;
for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
24 And
he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and
communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25 ¶ Then
Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s
money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto
them.
26 And
they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And
as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied
his money; for, behold, it was in his
sack’s mouth.
28 And
he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:
and their heart failed them, and they
were afraid, saying one to another, What is
this that God hath done unto us?
29 ¶ And
they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all
that befell unto them; saying,
30 The
man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies
of the country.
31 And
we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father;
one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land
of Canaan.
33 And
the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here
with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and
be gone:
34 And bring
your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye
are true men: so will I deliver
you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 ¶ And
it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle
of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the
bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And
Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not,
and ye will take Benjamin away: all
these things are against me.
37 And
Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to
thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And
he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is
left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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AND the
famine was sore in the land.
2 And it
came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of
Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
3 And
Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye
shall not see my face, except your brother be
with you.
4 If
thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
5 But if
thou wilt not send him, we will not
go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother
be with you.
6 And
Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill
with me, as to tell the man whether
ye had yet a brother?
7 And
they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him
according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would
say, Bring your brother down?
8 And
Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and
go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
9 I will
be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto
thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
10 For
except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
11 And
their father Israel said unto them, If it
must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels,
and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices,
and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
12 And
take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the
mouth of your sacks, carry it again
in your hand; peradventure it was an
oversight:
13 Take
also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
14 And God
Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other
brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of
my children, I am bereaved.
15 ¶ And
the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and
Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And
when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready;
for these men shall dine with me at
noon.
17 And
the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.
18 And
the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they
said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are
we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take
us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And
they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at
the door of the house,
20 And
said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
21 And
it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and,
behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money
in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
22 And
other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who
put our money in our sacks.
23 And
he said, Peace be to you, fear not:
your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I
had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
24 And
the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
25 And
they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that
they should eat bread there.
26 ¶ And
when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to
the earth.
27 And
he asked them of their welfare, and
said, Is your father well, the old
man of whom ye spake? Is he yet
alive?
28 And
they answered, Thy servant our father is
in good health, he is yet alive. And
they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
29 And
he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and
said, Is this your younger brother,
of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
30 And
Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
31 And
he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread.
32 And
they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is
an abomination unto the Egyptians.
33 And
they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the
youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
34 And
he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five
times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
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AND he
commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
2 And
put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn
money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As
soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
4 And when they were gone out of the city,
and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men;
and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded
evil for good?
5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye
have done evil in so doing.
6 ¶ And
he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
7 And
they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy
servants should do according to this thing:
8
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto
thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s
house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever
of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s
bondmen.
10 And
he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
11 Then
they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man
his sack.
12 And
he searched, and began at the eldest,
and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Then
they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
14 ¶ And
Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And
Joseph said unto them, What deed is this
that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
16 And
Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall
we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we
are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
17 And
he said, God forbid that I should do so: but
the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you,
get you up in peace unto your father.
18 ¶ Then
Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee,
speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy
servant: for thou art even as
Pharaoh.
19 My
lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And
we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age,
a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and
his father loveth him.
21 And
thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes
upon him.
22 And
we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his
father would die.
23 And
thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you,
ye shall see my face no more.
24 And
it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the
words of my lord.
25 And
our father said, Go again, and buy us
a little food.
26 And
we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go
down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
27 And
thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
28 And
the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw
him not since:
29 And
if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
30 Now
therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is
bound up in the lad’s life;
31 It
shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants
shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
32 For
thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him
not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
33 Now
therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to
my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
34 For
how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be
not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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THEN Joseph
could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried,
Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while
Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2 And he
wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph;
doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
4 And
Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near.
And he said, I am Joseph your brother,
whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now
therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither:
for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 For
these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there
shall neither be earing nor harvest.
7 And God
sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your
lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now
it was not you that sent me
hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his
house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste
ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God
hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
10 And
thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou,
and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds,
and all that thou hast:
11 And
there will I nourish thee; for yet there
are five years of famine; lest thou,
and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
12 And,
behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 And
ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen;
and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
14 And
he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his
neck.
15
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his
brethren talked with him.
16 ¶ And
the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are
come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts,
and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
18 And
take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the
good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19 Now
thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for
your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 Also
regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21 And
the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
22 To
all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three
hundred pieces of silver, and five changes
of raiment.
23 And
to his father he sent after this manner;
ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with
corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So he
sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye
fall not out by the way.
25 ¶ And
they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their
father,
26 And
told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive, and he is governor over all
the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.
27 And
they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their
father revived:
28 And
Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is
yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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AND Israel
took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered
sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God
spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he
said, Here am I.
3 And he
said, I am God, the God of thy
father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
4 I will
go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes.
5 And
Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had
sent to carry him.
6 And
they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
7 His
sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and
all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8 ¶ And
these are the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s
firstborn.
9 And
the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 ¶ And
the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
11 ¶ And
the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 ¶ And
the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 ¶ And
the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14 ¶ And
the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These
be the sons of Leah, which she bare
unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and
his daughters were thirty and three.
16 ¶ And
the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and
Areli.
17 ¶ And
the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their
sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These
are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban
gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The
sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 ¶ And
unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath
the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
21 ¶ And
the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and
Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and
Ard.
22 These
are the sons of Rachel, which were
born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 ¶ And
the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 ¶ And
the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These
are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban
gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26 All
the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides
Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were
threescore and six;
27 And
the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came
into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
28 ¶ And
he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they
came into the land of Goshen.
29 And
Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen,
and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a
good while.
30 And
Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because
thou art yet alive.
31 And
Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and
shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come
unto me;
32 And
the men are shepherds, for their
trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have.
33 And
it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 That
ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even
until now, both we, and also our fathers:
that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
CHAPTER 47
THEN Joseph
came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks,
and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan;
and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And he
took some of his brethren, even five
men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
3 And
Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is
your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
4 They
said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy
servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 And
Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto
thee:
6 The
land of Egypt is before thee; in the
best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let
them dwell: and if thou knowest any men
of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
7 And
Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh.
8 And
Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
9 And
Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and
evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the
days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And
Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11 ¶ And
Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the
land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
commanded.
12 And
Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household,
with bread, according to their families.
13 ¶ And
there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 And
Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the
money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 And
when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the
Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in
thy presence? for the money faileth.
16 And
Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money
fail.
17 And
they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange
for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the
asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 When
that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We
will not hide it from my lord, how
that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not
ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our
land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die,
that the land be not desolate.
20 And
Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every
man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became
Pharaoh’s.
21 And
as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22 Only
the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them:
wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then
Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land
for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the
land.
24 And
it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall
be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones.
25 And
they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my
lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
26 And
Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
27 ¶ And
Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had
possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was
an hundred forty and seven years.
29 And
the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said
unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand
under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in
Egypt:
30 But I
will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in
their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
31 And
he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon
the bed’s head.
CHAPTER 48
AND it
came to pass after these things, that one
told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:
and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy
son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the
bed.
3 And
Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of
Canaan, and blessed me,
4 And
said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will
make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after
thee for an everlasting possession.
5 ¶ And
now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land
of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And
thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of
their brethren in their inheritance.
7 And as
for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the
way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto
Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
8 And
Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are
these?
9 And
Joseph said unto his father, They are
my sons, whom God hath given me in this place.
And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
10 Now
the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so
that he could not see. And he brought
them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And
Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath
shewed me also thy seed.
12 And
Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his
face to the earth.
13 And
Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and
Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.
14 And
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was
the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands
wittingly; for Manasseh was the
firstborn.
15 ¶ And
he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did
walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
16 The Angel
which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on
them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a
multitude in the midst of the earth.
17 And
when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim,
it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s
head unto Manasseh’s head.
18 And
Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
19 And his
father refused, and said, I know it,
my son, I know it: he also shall
become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother
shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
20 And
he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make
thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And
Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring
you again unto the land of your fathers.
22 Moreover
I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the
hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
CHAPTER 49
AND Jacob
called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
that which shall befall you in the
last days.
2 Gather
yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your
father.
3 ¶ Reuben,
thou art my firstborn, my might, and
the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
4
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s
bed; then defiledst thou it: he went
up to my couch.
5 ¶ Simeon
and Levi are brethren; instruments of
cruelty are in their habitations.
6 O my
soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not
thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they
digged down a wall.
7 Cursed
be their anger, for it was
fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter
them in Israel.
8 ¶ Judah,
thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of
thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my
son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up?
10 The
sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come; and unto him shall
the gathering of the people be.
11
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he
washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His
eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 ¶ Zebulun
shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall
be for an haven of ships; and his
border shall be unto Zidon.
14 ¶ Issachar
is a strong ass couching down between
two burdens:
15 And
he saw that rest was good, and the
land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto tribute.
16 ¶ Dan
shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan
shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse
heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 I
have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
19 ¶ Gad,
a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 ¶ Out
of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
dainties.
21 ¶ Naphtali
is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
22 ¶ Joseph
is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The
archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at
him, and hated him:
24 But
his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from
thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall
help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb:
26 The
blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27 ¶ Benjamin
shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning
he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28 ¶ All
these are the twelve tribes of
Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them,
and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 And
he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury
me with my fathers in the cave that is
in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In
the cave that is in the field of
Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in
the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite
for a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There
they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The
purchase of the field and of the cave that is
therein was from the children of
Heth.
33 And
when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into
the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
CHAPTER 50
AND Joseph
fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the
physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And
forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which
are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
4 And
when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in
the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My
father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me
in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I
pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
6 And
Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
7 ¶ And
Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of
Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 And
all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little
ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9 And
there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great
company.
10 And
they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore
lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And
when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor
of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim,
which is beyond Jordan.
12 And
his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
13 For
his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the
field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a
buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 ¶ And
Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him
to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 ¶ And
when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will
peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did
unto him.
16 And
they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he
died, saying,
17 So shall
ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and
their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the
trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake
unto him.
18 And
his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
be thy servants.
19 And
Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am
I in the place of God?
20 But
as for you, ye thought evil against me; but
God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save
much people alive.
21 Now
therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 ¶ And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred
and ten years.
23 And
Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation:
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s
knees.
24 And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you
out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.
25 And
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So
Joseph died, being an hundred and ten
years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
THE SECOND
BOOK OF MOSES,
CALLED
EXODUS.
CHAPTER 1
NOW these
are the names of the children of
Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
2 Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan,
and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 And
all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for
Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 And
Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
7 ¶ And
the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied,
and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now
there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 And he
said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 Come
on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass,
that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and
fight against us, and so get them up
out of the land.
11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their
burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But
the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were
grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And
the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And
they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in
all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them
serve, was with rigour.
15 ¶ And
the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other
Puah:
16 And
he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if
it be a daughter, then she shall
live.
17 But
the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but
saved the men children alive.
18 And the
king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done
this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
19 And
the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and
waxed very mighty.
21 And
it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22 And
Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast
into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
CHAPTER 2
AND there
went a man of the house of Levi, and took to
wife a daughter of Levi.
2 And
the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a
goodly child, she hid him three
months.
3 And
when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and
daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
4 And
his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5 ¶ And
the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself
at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she
saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And
when she had opened it, she saw the
child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
is one of the Hebrews’ children.
7 Then
said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of
the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
8 And
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s
mother.
9 And
Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me,
and I will give thee thy wages. And
the woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 And
the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her
son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the
water.
11 ¶ And
it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his
brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an
Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And
he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew
the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 And
when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove
together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy
fellow?
14 And
he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me,
as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is
known.
15 Now
when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the
face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
16 Now
the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water
their father’s flock.
17 And
the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and
watered their flock.
18 And
when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
19 And
they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also
drew water enough for us, and watered
the flock.
20 And
he said unto his daughters, And where is
he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And
Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.
22 And
she bare him a son, and he called his
name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
23 ¶ And
it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the
children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their
cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 And God
heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac,
and with Jacob.
25 And God
looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
CHAPTER 3
NOW Moses
kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led
the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2 And
the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 And
Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is
not burnt.
4 And
when the Lord saw that he turned
aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said,
Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5 And he
said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground.
6
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
7 ¶ And
the Lord said, I have surely seen
the affliction of my people which are
in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows;
8 And I
am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with
milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9 Now
therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I
have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come
now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth
my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 ¶ And
Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I
should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out
of Egypt?
12 And
he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto
thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of
Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
13 And
Moses said unto God, Behold, when I
come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers
hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God
said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
15 And God
said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
16 Go,
and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited
you, and seen that which is done to
you in Egypt:
17 And I
have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of
the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And
they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of
Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us:
and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to the Lord
our God.
19 ¶ And
I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
20 And I
will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do
in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
21 And I
will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come
to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
22 But
every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her
house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
CHAPTER 4
AND Moses
answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my
voice: for they will say, The Lord
hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And
the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A
rod.
3 And he
said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a
serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth
thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it,
and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That
they may believe that the Lord God
of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.
6 ¶ And
the Lord said furthermore unto
him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and
when he took it out, behold, his hand was
leprous as snow.
7 And he
said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom
again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his
other flesh.
8 And it
shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice
of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it
shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither
hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and
pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest
out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
10 ¶ And
Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord,
I am not eloquent, neither
heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And
the Lord said unto him, Who hath
made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind?
have not I the Lord?
12 Now
therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
13 And
he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
14 And
the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Moses, and he said, Is not
Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold,
he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his
heart.
15 And
thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy
mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
16 And
he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a
mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
17 And
thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
18 ¶ And
Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me
go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to
Moses, Go in peace.
19 And
the Lord said unto Moses in
Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And
Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to
the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And
the Lord said unto Moses, When
thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he
shall not let the people go.
22 And
thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord,
Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I
say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let
him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even
thy firstborn.
24 ¶ And
it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
25 Then
Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
husband art thou to me.
26 So he
let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou
art, because of the circumcision.
27 ¶ And
the Lord said to Aaron, Go into
the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
28 And
Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord
who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
29 ¶ And
Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of
Israel:
30 And
Aaron spake all the words which the Lord
had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And
the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
CHAPTER 5
AND afterward
Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2 And
Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let
Israel go? I know not the Lord,
neither will I let Israel go.
3 And
they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee,
three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence,
or with the sword.
4 And
the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the
people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
5 And
Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
6 And
Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their
officers, saying,
7 Ye
shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go
and gather straw for themselves.
8 And
the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them;
ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for
they be idle; therefore they cry,
saying, Let us go and sacrifice to
our God.
9 Let
there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let
them not regard vain words.
10 ¶ And
the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to
the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11 Go
ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be
diminished.
12 So
the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather
stubble instead of straw.
13 And
the taskmasters hasted them, saying,
Fulfil your works, your daily tasks,
as when there was straw.
14 And
the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to
day, as heretofore?
15 ¶ Then
the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying,
Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16 There
is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and,
behold, thy servants are beaten; but
the fault is in thine own people.
17 But
he said, Ye are idle, ye are
idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and
do sacrifice to the Lord.
18 Go
therefore now, and work; for there
shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And
the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish
ought from your bricks of your daily
task.
20 ¶ And
they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh:
21 And
they said unto them, The Lord look
upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes
of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to
slay us.
22 And
Moses returned unto the Lord, and
said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil
entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
23 For
since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people;
neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
CHAPTER 6
THEN the
Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt
thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go,
and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And God
spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am
the Lord:
3 And I
appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
was I not known to them.
4 And I
have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan,
the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I
have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep
in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you
out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with
great judgments:
7 And I
will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know
that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out
from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I
will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
9 ¶ And
Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses
for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
10 And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Go
in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out
of his land.
12 And
Moses spake before the Lord,
saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of
uncircumcised lips?
13 And
the Lord spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 ¶ These
be the heads of their fathers’
houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron,
and Carmi: these be the families of
Reuben.
15 And
the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are
the families of Simeon.
16 ¶ And
these are the names of the sons of Levi
according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years
of the life of Levi were an hundred
thirty and seven years.
17 The
sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
18 And
the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of
the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty
and three years.
19 And
the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are
the families of Levi according to their generations.
20 And
Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and
Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were
an hundred and thirty and seven years.
21 ¶ And
the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 And
the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
23 And
Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and
she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 And
the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
25 And
Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of
the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites
according to their families.
26 These
are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the
Lord said, Bring out the children
of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
27 These
are they which spake to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
28 ¶ And
it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of
Egypt,
29 That
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
I am the Lord: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say
unto thee.
30 And
Moses said before the Lord,
Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips,
and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
CHAPTER 7
AND the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made
thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
2 Thou
shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto
Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
3 And I
will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land
of Egypt.
4 But
Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and
bring forth mine armies, and my
people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And
the Egyptians shall know that I am the
Lord, when I stretch forth mine
hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
6 And
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord
commanded them, so did they.
7 And
Moses was fourscore years old, and
Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
8 ¶ And
the Lord spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
9 When
Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt
say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it
before Pharaoh, and it shall become a
serpent.
10 ¶ And
Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down
his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
11 Then
Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt,
they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
12 For
they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod
swallowed up their rods.
13 And
he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
14 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s
heart is hardened, he refuseth to let
the people go.
15 Get
thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou
shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned
to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
16 And
thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God
of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve
me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus
saith the Lord, In this thou shalt
know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod
that is in mine hand upon the waters
which are in the river, and they
shall be turned to blood.
18 And
the fish that is in the river shall
die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the
water of the river.
19 ¶ And
the Lord spake unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt,
upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their
pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
20 And
Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
21 And
the fish that was in the river died;
and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river;
and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22 And
the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was
hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the Lord had said.
23 And
Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this
also.
24 And
all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they
could not drink of the water of the river.
25 And
seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord
had smitten the river.
CHAPTER 8
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh,
and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if
thou refuse to let them go, behold, I
will smite all thy borders with frogs:
3 And
the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into
thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of
thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy
kneadingtroughs:
4 And
the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy
servants.
5 ¶ And
the Lord spake unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the
rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And
Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up,
and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And
the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the
land of Egypt.
8 ¶ Then
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs
from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice
unto the Lord.
9 And
Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for
thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy
houses, that they may remain in the
river only?
10 And
he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou
mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.
11 And
the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants,
and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had
brought against Pharaoh.
13 And
the Lord did according to the word
of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of
the fields.
14 And
they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
15 But
when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened
not unto them; as the Lord had
said.
16 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto
Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
17 And
they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust
of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land
became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And
the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they
could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then
the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is
the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto
them; as the Lord had said.
20 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the
water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21 Else,
if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies
upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and
the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground
whereon they are.
22 And I
will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no
swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord
in the midst of the earth.
23 And I
will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign
be.
24 And
the Lord did so; and there came a
grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all
the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
25 ¶ And
Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God
in the land.
26 And
Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of
the Egyptians to the Lord our God:
lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and
will they not stone us?
27 We
will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
28 And
Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye
shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
29 And
Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
30 And
Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
31 And
the Lord did according to the word
of Moses; and he removed the swarms of
flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
32 And
Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people
go.
CHAPTER 9
THEN the
Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord
God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 For if
thou refuse to let them go, and wilt
hold them still,
3
Behold, the hand of the Lord is
upon thy cattle which is in the
field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and
upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
4 And
the Lord shall sever between the
cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is
the children’s of Israel.
5 And
the Lord appointed a set time,
saying, To morrow the Lord shall
do this thing in the land.
6 And
the Lord did that thing on the
morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel
died not one.
7 And
Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites
dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
8 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses and unto
Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward
the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it
shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking
forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt.
10 And
they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled
it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
11 And
the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil
was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
12 And
the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
13 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith
the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let
my people go, that they may serve me.
14 For I
will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants,
and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in
all the earth.
15 For
now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with
pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
16 And
in very deed for this cause have I
raised thee up, for to shew in thee
my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17 As
yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
18
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
19 Send
therefore now, and gather thy cattle,
and all that thou hast in the field; for
upon every man and beast which shall
be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down
upon them, and they shall die.
20 He
that feared the word of the Lord
among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the
houses:
21 And
he that regarded not the word of the Lord
left his servants and his cattle in the field.
22 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of
Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout
the land of Egypt.
23 And
Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground;
and the Lord rained hail upon the
land of Egypt.
24 So
there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there
was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 And
the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb
of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
26 Only
in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
27 ¶ And
Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned
this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28
Intreat the Lord (for it is
enough) that there be no more mighty
thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
29 And
Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad
my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither
shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.
30 But
as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.
31 And
the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was
bolled.
32 But
the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
33 And
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased,
and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
34 And
when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
35 And
the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel
go; as the Lord had spoken by
Moses.
CHAPTER 10
AND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh:
for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew
these my signs before him:
2 And
that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things
I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may
know how that I am the Lord.
3 And
Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt
thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve
me.
4 Else,
if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts
into thy coast:
5 And
they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the
earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth
unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of
the field:
6 And
they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses
of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have
seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself,
and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And
Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us?
let the men go, that they may serve the Lord
their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And
Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go,
serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go?
9 And Moses
said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold
a feast unto the Lord.
10 And
he said unto them, Let the Lord be
so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it;
for evil is before you.
11 Not
so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they
were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up
upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land
all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought
the locusts.
14 And
the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of
Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
15 For
they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and
they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the
herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 ¶ Then
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against
the Lord your God, and against
you.
17 Now
therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from
me this death only.
18 And
he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
19 And
the Lord turned a mighty strong
west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained
not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But
the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
21 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
even darkness which may be felt.
22 And
Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in
all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They
saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all
the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 ¶ And
Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you.
25 And
Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may
sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
26 Our
cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for
thereof must we take to serve the Lord
our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.
27 ¶ But
the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,
and he would not let them go.
28 And
Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no
more; for in that day thou seest my face
thou shalt die.
29 And
Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.
CHAPTER 11
AND the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring
one plague more upon Pharaoh, and
upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out
hence altogether.
2 Speak
now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and
every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
3 And
the Lord gave the people favour in
the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s
servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And
Moses said, Thus saith the Lord,
About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
5 And
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the
firstborn of beasts.
6 And
there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was
none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But
against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against
man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord
doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And
all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto
me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I
will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh
shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And
Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he
would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
CHAPTER 12
AND the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
land of Egypt, saying,
2 This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month
of the year to you.
3 ¶ Speak
ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to
them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if
the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto
his house take it according to the
number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count
for the lamb.
5 Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the
goats:
6 And ye
shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And
they shall take of the blood, and strike it
on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they
shall eat it.
8 And
they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat
not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And
ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth
of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 ¶ And
thus shall ye eat it; with your loins
girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat
it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.
12 For I
will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the
Lord.
13 And
the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And
this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye
shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven
days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven
out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And
in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an
holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only
may be done of you.
17 And
ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your
armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations
by an ordinance for ever.
18 ¶ In
the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even.
19 Seven
days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that
which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of
Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye
shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened
bread.
21 ¶ Then
Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and
take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And
ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it
in the blood that is in the bason,
and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall
go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For
the Lord will pass through to
smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the
two side posts, the Lord will pass
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to
smite you.
24 And
ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And
it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath
promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And
it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by
this service?
27 That
ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of
the Lord’s passover, who passed
over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
28 And
the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 ¶ And
it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord
smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the
firstborn of cattle.
30 And
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there
was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 ¶ And
he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as
ye have said.
32 Also
take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also.
33 And
the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the
land in haste; for they said, We be all
dead men.
34 And
the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And
the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of
the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And
the Lord gave the people favour in
the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they
required. And they spoiled the
Egyptians.
37 ¶ And
the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a
mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And
they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not
tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 ¶ Now
the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And
it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land
of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children
of Israel in their generations.
43 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses and
Aaron, This is the ordinance of the
passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But
every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.
45 A
foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In
one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh
abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All
the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And
when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised,
and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in
the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One
law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
among you.
50 Thus
did all the children of Israel; as the Lord
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And
it came to pass the selfsame day, that
the Lord did bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
CHAPTER 13
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the
children of Israel, both of man and
of beast: it is mine.
3 ¶ And
Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt,
out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be
eaten.
4 This
day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 ¶ And
it shall be when the Lord shall
bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give
thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in
this month.
6 Seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
7
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread
be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.
8 ¶ And
thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it
shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine
eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in
thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord
brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou
shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 ¶ And
it shall be when the Lord shall
bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers,
and shall give it thee,
12 That
thou shalt set apart unto the Lord
all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou
hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.
13 And
every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not
redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among
thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 ¶ And
it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him,
By strength of hand the Lord
brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And
it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice
to the Lord all that openeth the
matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And
it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes:
for by strength of hand the Lord brought
us forth out of Egypt.
17 ¶ And
it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,
although that was near; for God said,
Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to
Egypt:
18 But God
led the people about, through the way
of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed
out of the land of Egypt.
19 And
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children
of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones
away hence with you.
20 ¶ And
they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the
wilderness.
21 And
the Lord went before them by day
in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire,
to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took
not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
CHAPTER 14
AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak
unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp
by the sea.
3 For
Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I
will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be
honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that
I am the Lord. And they did so.
5 ¶ And
it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh
and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we
done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he
made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he
took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains
over every one of them.
8 And
the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the
children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But
the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook
them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
10 ¶ And
when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and,
behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the
children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.
11 And
they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken
us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to
carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell
thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had
been better for us to serve the
Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 ¶ And
Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of
the Lord, which he will shew to
you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again
no more for ever.
14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall
hold your peace.
15 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore
criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But
lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it:
and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground
through the midst of the sea.
17 And
I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow
them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his
chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And
the Egyptians shall know that I am the
Lord, when I have gotten me honour
upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 ¶ And
the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind
them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind
them:
20 And
it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a
cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these:
so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And
the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand,
and on their left.
23 ¶ And
the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots,
and his horsemen.
24 And
it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord
looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the
cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And
took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the
Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And
Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his
strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst
of the sea.
28 And
the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into
the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But
the children of Israel walked upon dry land
in the midst of the sea; and the waters were
a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus
the Lord saved Israel that day out
of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And
Israel saw that great work which the Lord
did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord,
and his servant Moses.
CHAPTER 15
THEN sang
Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The Lord is
my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God,
and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is
a man of war: the Lord is his name.
4
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains
also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The
depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy
right hand, O Lord, is become
glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord,
hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in
the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up
against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which
consumed them as stubble.
8 And
with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods
stood upright as an heap, and the
depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The
enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust
shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 Thou
didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty
waters.
11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou
stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou
in thy mercy hast led forth the people which
thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them
in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14 The
people shall hear, and be afraid:
sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then
the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take
hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear
and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass
over, O Lord, till the people pass
over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou
shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou
hast made for thee to dwell in, in the
Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands
have established.
18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For
the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the
sea, and the Lord brought again
the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 ¶ And
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all
the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And
Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord,
for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into
the sea.
22 So Moses
brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur;
and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 ¶ And
when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it
was called Marah.
24 And
the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And
he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters,
the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and
there he proved them,
26 And
said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is
right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes,
I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the
Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
27 ¶ And
they came to Elim, where were twelve
wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the
waters.
CHAPTER 16
AND they
took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of
Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And
the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And
the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of
the Lord in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the flesh pots, and when
we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this
wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 ¶ Then
said the Lord unto Moses, Behold,
I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my
law, or no.
5 And it
shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall
be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And
Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall
know that the Lord hath brought
you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in
the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And
Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh
to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur
against him: and what are we? your
murmurings are not against us, but
against the Lord.
9 ¶ And
Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, Come near before the Lord:
for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And
it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of
Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
11 ¶ And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I
have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying,
At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread;
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
13 And
it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in
the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And
when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as
small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And
when the children of Israel saw it,
they said one to another, It is manna:
for they wist not what it was. And Moses
said unto them, This is the bread
which the Lord hath given you to
eat.
16 ¶ This
is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every
man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number
of your persons; take ye every man for them
which are in his tents.
17 And
the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And
when they did mete it with an omer,
he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack;
they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And
Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And
they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the
sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 ¶ And
it came to pass, that on the sixth
day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And
he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is
the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord:
bake that which ye will bake to day,
and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to
be kept until the morning.
24 And
they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither
was there any worm therein.
25 And
Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is
a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye
shall not find it in the field.
26 Six
days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in
it there shall be none.
27 ¶ And
it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day
for to gather, and they found none.
28 And
the Lord said unto Moses, How long
refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See,
for that the Lord hath given you
the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide
ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So
the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And
the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 ¶ And
Moses said, This is the thing which
the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer
of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I
have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of
Egypt.
33 And
Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and
lay it up before the Lord, to be kept
for your generations.
34 As
the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron
laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And
the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land
inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of
Canaan.
36 Now
an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
CHAPTER 17
AND all
the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of
Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may
drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt
the Lord?
3 And
the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and
said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And
Moses cried unto the Lord, saying,
What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Go on
before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod,
wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt
smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may
drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he
called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord
among us, or not?
8 ¶ Then
came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And
Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to
morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So
Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron,
and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And
it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when
he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But
Moses’ hands were heavy; and they
took a stone, and put it under him,
and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one
side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the
going down of the sun.
13 And
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Write
this for a memorial in a book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua:
for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And
Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16 For
he said, Because the Lord hath
sworn that the Lord will
have war with Amalek from generation
to generation.
CHAPTER 18
WHEN Jethro,
the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for
Moses, and for Israel his people, and
that the Lord had brought Israel
out of Egypt;
2 Then
Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her
back,
3 And
her two sons; of which the name of the one was
Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And
the name of the other was Eliezer;
for the God of my father, said he, was
mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And
Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into
the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he
said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife,
and her two sons with her.
7 ¶ And
Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him;
and they asked each other of their welfare;
and they came into the tent.
8 And
Moses told his father in law all that the Lord
had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon
them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
9 And
Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord
had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And
Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the
people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I
know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the
thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
12 And
Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and
Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in
law before God.
13 ¶ And
it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the
people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And
when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people?
why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning
unto even?
15 And
Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire
of God:
16 When
they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and
I do make them know the statutes of God,
and his laws.
17 And
Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18 Thou
wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is
too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
19
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with
thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes
unto God:
20 And
thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein
they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God,
men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens:
22 And
let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small
matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear
the burden with thee.
23 If
thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also
go to their place in peace.
24 So
Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had
said.
25 And
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people,
rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And
they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses,
but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 ¶ And
Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
CHAPTER 19
IN the
third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of
Egypt, the same day came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.
2 For
they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there
Israel camped before the mount.
3 And
Moses went up unto God, and the Lord
called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 Ye
have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now
therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall
be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel.
7 ¶ And
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces
all these words which the Lord commanded
him.
8 And
all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses
returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
9 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I
come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with
thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto
the Lord.
10 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto
the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And
be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
12 And
thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to
yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount,
or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to
death:
13 There
shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount.
14 ¶ And
Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and
they washed their clothes.
15 And
he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
16 ¶ And
it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud; so that all the people that was
in the camp trembled.
17 And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood
at the nether part of the mount.
18 And
mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof
ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And
when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses
spake, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And
the Lord came down upon mount
Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord
called Moses up to the top of the
mount; and Moses went up.
21 And
the Lord said unto Moses, Go down,
charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And
let the priests also, which come near to the Lord,
sanctify themselves, lest the Lord
break forth upon them.
23 And
Moses said unto the Lord, The
people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds
about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And
the Lord said unto him, Away, get
thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests
and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
25 So
Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
CHAPTER 20
AND God
spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord
thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
3 Thou
shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth:
5 Thou
shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me;
6 And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain; for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six
days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But
the seventh day is the sabbath of the
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the Lord blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it.
12 ¶ Honour
thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou
shalt not kill.
14 Thou
shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou
shalt not steal.
16 Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is thy neighbour’s.
18 ¶ And
all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
19 And
they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God
speak with us, lest we die.
20 And
Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that
his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 And
the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God
was.
22 ¶ And
the Lord said unto Moses, Thus
thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked
with you from heaven.
23 Ye
shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of
gold.
24 ¶ An
altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt
offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places
where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.