Rachel bears Joseph.

GENESIS.

Jacob's covenant with Laban.

15 And she said unto her, Is it a small me in time to come, when it shall come for matter that thou hast taken my husband? my hire before thy face: every one that is and wouldest thou take away my son's man- not speckled and spotted among the goats, drakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore and brown among the sheep, that shall be he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's counted stolen with me.

34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it

mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in might be according to thy word. the evening, and Leah went out to meet 35 And he removed that day the he-goats him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; that were ring-straked and spotted, and all for surely I have hired thee with my son's the she-goats that were speckled and spotmandrakes. And he lay with her that night. ted, and every one that had some white in 17 ¶ And God hearkened unto Leah, and it, and all the brown among the sheep, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. gave them into the hand of his sons. 18 And Leah said, God hath given me 36 And he set three days' journey be my hire, because I have given my maiden twixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the to my husband: and she called his name rest of Laban's flocks. Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

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

20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Ze-watering-troughs when the flocks came to bulun. drink; that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-straked, speckled, and spotted.

40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, 23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and set the faces of the flocks toward the and said, God hath taken away my re- ring-straked, and all the brown in the flock proach: of Laban: and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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.

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.

26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he for thou knowest my service which I have put them not in: so the feebler were Ladone thee. ban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray 43 And the man increased exceedingly, thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, and had much cattle, and maid-servants, tarry: for I have learned by experience and men-servants, and camels, and asses. that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. CHAP. XXXI. 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 provide for mine own house also?

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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 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

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.

Jacob departs from Laban.

CHAP. XXXI. Jacob's complaint of Laban. 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be awares to me, and carried away my daughthy wages; then all the cattle bare speck- ters, as captives taken with the sword? led: and if he said thus, The ring-straked 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away seshall be thy hire: then bare all the cattle cretly, and steal away from me, and didst ring-straked. not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

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 ring-straked, speckled, and grizzled.

11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

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

12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-straked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth stolen my gods? unto thee.

31 ¶ And Jacob answered and said to La

13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou ban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peranointedst the pillar, and where thou vow-adventure thou wouldest take by force thy edst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out daughters from me. 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.

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 maid-servants' 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 houseand hold-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, 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.

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, 1 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; in a dream by night, and said unto him, of my hand didst thou require it, whether Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob stolen by day, or stolen by night. either good or bad. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now consumed me, and the frost by night; and Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: my sleep departed from mine eyes. 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 un

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.

Jacob's vision:

GENESIS.

His message to Esau. 42 Except the God of my father, the God men-servants, and women-servants: and I of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had been have sent to tell my lord, that I may find with me, surely thou hadst sent me away grace in thy sight. now empty. God hath seen mine affliction, 6 And the messengers returned to Jaand the labour of my hands, and rebuked cob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, thee yesternight. and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

43 ¶ And Laban answered, and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and and these children are my children, and distressed: and he divided the people that these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and seest is mine; and what can I do this day the camels into two bands; unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne?

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:

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 1 am become two bands.

48 And Laban said, This heap is a wit- 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand ness between me and thee this day. There- of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for fore was the name of it called Galeed : I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD and the mother with the children. watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

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 multi

50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my tude.

is witness betwixt me and thee.

daughters; no man is with us; See, God 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

14 Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. and ten foals. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God 16 And he delivered them into the hand of Nahor, the God of their father, judge of his servants, every drove by themselves; betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear and said unto his servants, Pass over before of his father Isaac. me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

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.

CHAP. XXXII.

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 be

AND Jacob went on his way, and the hind us.

angels of God met him.

19 And so commanded he the second, 2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, and the third, and all that followed the This is God's host: and he called the name droves, saying, On this manner shall ye of that place Mahanaim. speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

3 ¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that 4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus goeth before me, and afterward I will see shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy his face; peradventure he will accept of me. servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned 21 So went the present over before him; with Laban, and stayed there until now: and himself lodged that night in the com5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and pany.

The kindness of Jacob and CHAP. XXXIII, XXXIV. Esau at their meeting. 22 And he rose up that night, and took are to find grace in the sight of my his two wives, and his two women-servants, lord. and his eleven sons, and passed over the 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my ford Jabbok. brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 23 And he took them, and sent them 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if over the brook, and sent over that he had. now I have found grace in thy sight, then 24 And Jacob was left alone; and receive my present at my hand: for therethere wrestled a man with him, until the fore I have seen thy face, as though I had breaking of the day. seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

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.

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 28 And he said, Thy name shall be call-flocks and herds with young are with me, ed no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a and if men should over-drive them one day, prince hast thou power with God, and with all the flock will die. 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.

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.

32 Therefore the children of Israel eat 17 ¶ And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, not of the sinew which shrank, which is and built him an house, and made booths upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this for his cattle: therefore the name of the day; because he touched the hollow of Ja-place is called Succoth. cob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

CHAP. XXXIII.

18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Ca

AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and look-naan, when he came from Padan-aram ; ed, and behold, Esau came, and with and pitched his tent before the city. 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 hinder

most.

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.

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.

CHAP. XXXIV.

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

5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the her. women and the children, and said, Who are 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the those with thee? And he said, The children daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damwhich God hath graciously given thy ser-sel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4¶ And Shechem spake unto his father

vant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near, Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. they and their children, and they bowed 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled themselves. Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the field :) and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves; and after

came Joseph near and Rachel, and they 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem bowed themselves. 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

8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These

Hamor and Shechem circumcised. GENESIS.

The Shechemites spoiled. grieved, and they were very wroth, because 25 ¶ And it came to pass on the third he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with day, when they were sore, that two of the Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's be done. brethren, took each man his sword, and 8 And Hamor communed with them, say- came upon the city boldly, and slew all the ing, The soul of my son Shechem longeth males. for your daughter: I pray you give her him 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem to wife. his son with the edge of the sword, and 9 And make ye marriages with us: and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and give your daughters unto us, and take our went out. daughters unto you.

27 The sons of Jacob came upon the 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the slain, and spoiled the city; because they land shall be before you; dwell and trade had defiled their sister.

ye therein, and get you possessions therein. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, 11 And Shechem said unto her father, and their asses, and that which was in the and unto her brethren, Let me find grace city, and that which was in the field. in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto 29 And all their wealth and all their litme, I will give. tle ones, and their wives took they captive, 12 Ask me never so much dowry and and spoiled even all that was in the house. gift, and I will give according as ye shall 30 ¶ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. Ye have troubled me to make me to stink 13 ¶ And the sons of Jacob answered among the inhabitants of the land, among Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and and said, (because he had defiled Dinah being few in number, they shall gather themtheir sister; selves together against me, and slay me, and

14 And they said unto them) We cannot I shall be destroyed, I and my house. do this thing, to give our sister to one that 31 And they said, Should he deal with is uncircumcised for that were a reproach our sister as with an harlot ?

unto us:

15 But in this will we consent unto you:

CHAP. XXXV.

if ye will be as we be, that every male of AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up

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.

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 there make an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, 19 And the young man deferred not to and was with me in the way which I went. do the thing, because he had delight in Ja- 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the cob's daughter: and he was more honour-strange gods which were in their hand, and able than all the house of his father. all their ear-rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of 21 These men are peaceable with us, God was upon the cities that were round therefore let them dwell in the land, and about them, and they did not pursue after trade therein: for the land, behold it is large the sons of Jacob.

enough for them: let us take their daugh- 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in ters to us for wives; and let us give them the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and our daughters. all the people that were with him.

22 Only herein will the men consent unto 7 And he built there an altar, and called us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if the place El-beth-el; because there God every male among us be circumcised, as appeared unto him, when he fled from the they are circumcised. face of his brother.

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.

8 ¶ But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

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