Genesis 34-37

Genesis 34

¹And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

²And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

³And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden.

⁴And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife.

⁵And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his cattle in the fields, and Jacob said nothing until they came.

⁶And Hamor the father of Shechem came out to Jacob, to speak to him.

⁷And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

⁸And Hamor spoke to them, saying, My son Shechem's soul cleaves to your daughter: I pray you, give her to him as wife.

⁹And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

¹⁰And dwell with us, and the land shall be before you: dwell and trade in it, and get yourselves possessions in it.

¹¹And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favour in your eyes; and what ye shall say to me I will give.

¹²Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

¹³And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and spoke -- because he had defiled Dinah their sister --

¹⁴and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us.

¹⁵But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;

¹⁶then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.

¹⁷But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away.

¹⁸And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

¹⁹And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honourable above all in the house of his father.

²⁰And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

²¹These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it. And the land -- behold, it is of wide extent before them. We will take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters.

²²But only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people -- if every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.

²³Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

²⁴And all that went out at the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised -- all that went out at the gate of his city.

²⁵And 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 his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

²⁶And Hamor and Shechem his son they slew with the edge of the sword; and took Dinah out of Shechem's house; and went out.

²⁷The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

²⁸Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what was in the city, and what was in the field they took;

²⁹and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was in the houses.

³⁰And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, in that ye make me odious among the inhabitants of the land -- among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few men in number, and they will gather themselves against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

³¹And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?

Genesis 35

¹And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

²And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

³and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.

⁴And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that is by Shechem.

⁵And 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.

⁶And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁸And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

⁹And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.

¹⁰And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel.

¹¹And God said to him, I am the Almighty God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins.

¹²And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

¹³And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him.

¹⁴And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it.

¹⁵And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.

¹⁷And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.

¹⁸And it came to pass as her soul was departing -- for she died -- that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.

¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

²⁰And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder.

²²And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³The sons of Leah: Reuben -- Jacob's firstborn -- and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.

²⁷And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre -- to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac.

²⁸And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

²⁹And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 36

¹And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom.

²Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

³and Basmath Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

⁴And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel.

⁵And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan.

⁶And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob.

⁷For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle.

⁸Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom.

⁹And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.

¹⁰These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basmath the wife of Esau.

¹¹-- And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

¹²And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

¹³-- And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife.

¹⁴-- And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jaalam and Korah.

¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

¹⁷And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife.

¹⁸-- And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

²²-- And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

²³-- And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

²⁴-- And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

²⁵-- And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.

²⁶-- And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

²⁷-- These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.

²⁸-- These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁹These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel.

³²And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

³³And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

³⁴And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

³⁵And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Avith.

³⁶And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

³⁷And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.

³⁸And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

³⁹And 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 daughter of Mezahab.

⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, with their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.

Genesis 37

¹And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned -- in the land of Canaan.

²These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

³And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours.

⁴And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

⁵And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

⁶And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I have dreamt:

⁷Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf.

⁸And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

¹⁰And he told it to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.

¹²And his brethren went to feed their father's flock at Shechem.

¹³And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

¹⁴And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see after the welfare of thy brethren, and after the welfare of the flock; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came towards Shechem.

¹⁵And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

¹⁶And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

¹⁷And the man said, They have removed from this; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them at Dothan.

¹⁸And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.

¹⁹And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that dreamer!

²⁰And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams.

²¹And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

²²And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him -- in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him to his father again.

²³And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his vest, the vest of many colours, which he had on;

²⁴and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty -- there was no water in it.

²⁵And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum -- going to carry it down to Egypt.

²⁶And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood?

²⁷Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened to him.

²⁸And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

²⁹And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his garments,

³⁰and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

³¹And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;

³²and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son's vest or not.

³³And he discerned it, and said, It is my son's vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces!

³⁴And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

³⁶And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.