Gen 11:27 Now these are {the records of} the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.
Gen 11:28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Gen 11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 11:30 Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Gen 11:31Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
Gen 11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you;
Gen 12:2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
Gen 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
Gen 12:4 So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.
Gen 12:6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite {was} then in the land.
Gen 12:7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Gen 12:8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 12:9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
Abram and Lot Separate: Genesis 13:1-18
Gen 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
Gen 13:2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.
Gen 13:3 He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Gen 13:4 to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Gen 13:5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
Gen 13:6 And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.
Gen 13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
Gen 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Gen 13:9 "Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if {to} the left, then I will go to the right; or if {to} the right, then I will go to the left."
Gen 13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere--{this was} before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
Gen 13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.
Gen 13:12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
Gen 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LORD.
Gen 13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
Gen 13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.
Gen 13:16 "I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.
Gen 13:17 "Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you."
Gen 13:18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Hagar and Ishmael: Genesis 16:1-16
Gen 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no {children,} and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
Gen 16:2 So Saraisaid to Abram, "Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing {children.} Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 16:3 After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
Gen 16:4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
Gen 16:5 And Saraisaid to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me."
Gen 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
Gen 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
Gen 16:8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."
Gen 16:9 Then the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."
Gen 16:10 Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."
Gen 16:11 The angel of the LORD said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
Gen 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand {will be} against everyone, And everyone's hand {will be} against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers."
Gen 16:13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?"
Gen 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadeshand Bered.
Gen 16:15 So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Gen 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
The Three Visitors: Genesis 18:1-15
Gen 18:1 Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Gen 18:2 When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw {them,} he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,
Gen 18:3 and said, "My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, please do not pass Your servant by.
Gen 18:4 "Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;
Gen 18:5 and I will bring a piece of bread, that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant." And they said, "So do, as you have said."
Gen 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead {it} and make bread cakes."
Gen 18:7 Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave {it} to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.
Gen 18:8 He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed {it} before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.
Gen 18:9 Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "There, in the tent."
Gen 18:10 He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.
Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
Gen 18:12 Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Gen 18:13 And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear {a child,} when I am {so} old?'
Gen 18:14 "Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."
Gen 18:15 Sarah denied {it} however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh.“
Abraham Pleads for Sodom: Genesis 18:16-33
Gen 18:16 Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.
Gen 18:17 The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
Gen 18:18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Gen 18:19 "For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him."
Gen 18:20 And the LORD said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
Gen 18:21 "I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."
Gen 18:22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
Gen 18:23 Abraham came near and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Gen 18:24 "Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep {it} away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
Gen 18:25 "Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are {treated} alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"
Gen 18:26 So the LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account."
Gen 18:27 And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am {but} dust and ashes.
Gen 18:28 "Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?" And He said, "I will not destroy {it} if I find forty-five there."
Gen 18:29 He spoke to Him yet again and said, "Suppose forty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do {it} on account of the forty."
Gen 18:30 Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose thirty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do {it} if I find thirty there."
Gen 18:31 And he said, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy {it} on account of the twenty."
Gen 18:32 Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy {it} on account of the ten."
Gen 18:33 As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham the LORD departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
Isaac’s Birth; Ismael Sent Away: Genesis 21:1-21
Gen 21:1 Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised.
Gen 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen 21:3 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Gen 21:4 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Gen 21:5 Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Gen 21:6 Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Gen 21:7 And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
Gen 21:8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Gen 21:9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Gen 21:10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac."
Gen 21:11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.
Gen 21:12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.
Gen 21:13 "And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant."
Gen 21:13 "And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant."
Gen 21:14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave {them} to Hagar, putting {them} on her shoulder, and {gave her} the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 21:15 When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Gen 21:16 Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, "Do not let me see the boy die." And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.
Gen 21:17 God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Gen 21:18 "Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
Gen 21:19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
Gen 21:20 God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
Gen 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Abraham Tested: Genesis 22:1-19
Gen 22:1 Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
Gen 22:2 He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."
Gen 22:3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:4 On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
Gen 22:5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you."
Gen 22:6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
Gen 22:7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
Gen 22:8 Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
Gen 22:9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Gen 22:10 Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Gen 22:11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
Gen 22:12 He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."
Gen 22:13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind {him} a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
Gen 22:14 Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it will be provided."
Gen 22:15 Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
Gen 22:16 and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Gen 22:17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Gen 22:18 "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
Gen 22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Isaac and Rebekah: Genesis 24:1-29, 50-67
Gen 24:1 Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.
Gen 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Please place your hand under my thigh,
Gen 24:3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
Gen 24:4 but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Gen 24:5 The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?"
Gen 24:6 Then Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there!
Gen 24:7 "The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:8 "But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there."
Gen 24:9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Gen 24:10 Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Gen 24:11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
Gen 24:12 He said, "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.
Gen 24:13 "Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
Gen 24:14 now may it be that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also'--{may} she {be the one} whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.“
Gen 24:15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
Gen 24:16 The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Gen 24:17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar."
Gen 24:18 She said, "Drink, my lord"; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.
Gen 24:19 Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking."
Gen 24:20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
Gen 24:21 Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the LORD had made his journey successful or not.
Gen 24:22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
Gen 24:23 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father's house?"
Gen 24:24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
Gen 24:25 Again she said to him, "We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in."
Gen 24:26 Then the man bowed low and worshiped the LORD.
Gen 24:27 He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers."
Gen 24:28 Then the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.
Gen 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.
Gen 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, "The matter comes from the LORD; {so} we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Gen 24:51 "Here is Rebekah before you, take {her} and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."
Gen 24:52 When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the LORD.
Gen 24:53 The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
Gen 24:54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."
Gen 24:55 But her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl stay with us {a few} days, say ten; afterward she may go."
Gen 24:56 He said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
Gen 24:57 And they said, "We will call the girl and consult her wishes."
Gen 24:58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."
Gen 24:59 Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham's servant and his men.
Gen 24:60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her, "May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them."
Gen 24:61 Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
Gen 24:62 Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the Negev.
Gen 24:63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming.
Gen 24:64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.
Gen 24:65 She said to the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "He is my master." Then she took her veil and covered herself.
Gen 24:66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Gen 24:67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Jacob and Esau: Genesis 25:19-34
Gen 25:19 Now these are {the records of} the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham became the father of Isaac;
Gen 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Gen 25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Gen 25:22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why then am I {this way?}" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
Gen 25:23 The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."
Gen 25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Gen 25:25 Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
Gen 25:26 Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
Gen 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.
Gen 25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Gen 25:29 When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;
Gen 25:30 and Esau said to Jacob, "Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Gen 25:31 But Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright."
Gen 25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die; so of what {use} then is the birthright to me?"
Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, "First swear to me"; so he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Jacob Gets Isaac’s Blessing: Genesis 27:1-40
Gen 27:1 Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 27:2 Isaac said, "Behold now, I am old {and} I do not know the day of my death.
Gen 27:3 "Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;
Gen 27:4 and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die."
Gen 27:5 Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring {home,}
Gen 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,
Gen 27:7 'Bring me {some} game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
Gen 27:8 "Now therefore, my son, listen to me as I command you.
Gen 27:9 "Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them {as} a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
Gen 27:10 "Then you shall bring {it} to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
Gen 27:11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
Gen 27:12 "Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."
Gen 27:13 But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get {them} for me."
Gen 27:14 So he went and got {them,} and brought {them} to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved.
Gen 27:15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
Gen 27:16 And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Gen 27:17 She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.
Gen 27:18 Then he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
Gen 27:19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me."
Gen 27:20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have {it} so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God caused {it} to happen to me."
Gen 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
Gen 27:22 So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
Gen 27:23 He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Gen 27:24 And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."
Gen 27:25 So he said, "Bring {it} to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you." And he brought {it} to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.
Gen 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come close and kiss me, my son."
Gen 27:27 So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed;
Gen 27:28 Now may God give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine;
Gen 27:29 May peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you."
Gen 27:30 Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Gen 27:31 Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."
Gen 27:32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
Gen 27:33 Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was he then that hunted game and brought {it} to me, so that I ate of all {of it} before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
Gen 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, {even} me also, O my father!"
Gen 27:35 And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."
Gen 27:36 Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
Gen 27:37 But Isaac replied to Esau, "Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?"
Gen 27:38 Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, {even} me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his voice and wept.
Gen 27:39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, And away from the dew of heaven from above.
Gen 27:40 "By your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will break his yoke from your neck."
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel: Genesis 29: 1-30
Gen 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.
Gen 29:2 He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.
Gen 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.
Gen 29:4 Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."
Gen 29:5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know {him.}"
Gen 29:6 And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."
Gen 29:7 He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them."
Gen 29:8 But they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."
Gen 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Gen 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Gen 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept.
Gen 29:12 Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.
Gen 29:13 So when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things.
Gen 29:14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him a month.
Gen 29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
Gen 29:16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Gen 29:17 And Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of form and face.
Gen 29:18 Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
Gen 29:19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me."
Gen 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.
Gen 29:21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give {me} my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her."
Gen 29:22 Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
Gen 29:23 Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah, and brought her to him; and {Jacob} went in to her.
Gen 29:24 Laban also gave his maid Zilpahto his daughter Leah as a maid.
Gen 29:25 So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?"
Gen 29:26 But Laban said, "It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.
Gen 29:27 "Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years."
Gen 29:28 Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
Gen 29:29 Laban also gave his maid Bilhahto his daughter Rachel as her maid.
Gen 29:30 So {Jacob} went into Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.
Jacob’s Children: Genesis 29:31 – 30:24
Gen 29:31 Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Gen 29:32 Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."
Gen 29:33 Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this {son} also." So she named him Simeon.
Gen 29:34 She conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.
Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
Gen 30:1 Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."
Gen 30:2 Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Gen 30:3 She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah, go into her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children."
Gen 30:4 So she gave him her maid Bilhahas a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Gen 30:5 Bilhahconceived and bore Jacob a son.
Gen 30:6 Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.
Gen 30:7 Rachel's maid Bilhahconceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Gen 30:8 So Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, {and} I have indeed prevailed." And she named him Naphtali.
Gen 30:9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpahand gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen 30:10 Leah's maid Zilpahbore Jacob a son.
Gen 30:11 Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.
Gen 30:12 Leah's maid Zilpahbore Jacob a second son.
Gen 30:13 Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.
Gen 30:14 Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Gen 30:15 But she said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."
Gen 30:16 When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
Gen 30:17 God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Gen 30:18 Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar.
Gen 30:19 Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Gen 30:20 Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
Gen 30:21 Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
Gen 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.
Gen 30:23 So she conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."
Gen 30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD give me another son."
Jacob Flees From Laban: Genesis 31:1-21
Gen 31:1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth."
Gen 31:2 Jacob saw the attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not {friendly} toward him as formerly.
Gen 31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Gen 31:4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
Gen 31:5 and said to them, "I see your father's attitude, that it is not {friendly} toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.
Gen 31:6 "You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Gen 31:7 "Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.
Gen 31:8 "If he spoke thus, 'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth speckled; and if he spoke thus, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth striped.
Gen 31:9 "Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given {them} to me.
Gen 31:10 "And it came about at the time when the flock were mating that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which were mating {were} striped, speckled, and mottled.
Gen 31:11 "Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
Gen 31:12 "He said, 'Lift up now your eyes and see {that} all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Gen 31:13 'I am the God {of} Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
Gen 31:14 Rachel and Leah said to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?
Gen 31:15 "Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.
Gen 31:16 "Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you."
Gen 31:17 Then Jacob arose and put his children and his wives upon camels;
Gen 31:18 and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had gathered, his acquired livestock which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Gen 31:19 When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.
Gen 31:20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
Gen 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the {Euphrates} River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
Laban Pursues Jacob: Genesis 31:22-55
Gen 31:22 When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
Gen 31:23 then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him {a distance of} seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Gen 31:24 God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."
Gen 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.
Gen 31:26 Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Gen 31:27 "Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;
Gen 31:28 and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
Gen 31:29 "It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.'
Gen 31:30 "Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; {but} why did you steal my gods?"
Gen 31:31 Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
Gen 31:32 "The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take {it} for yourself." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Gen 31:33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find {them.} Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.
Gen 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find {them.}
Gen 31:35 She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.
Gen 31:36 Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?
Gen 31:37 "Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set {it} here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
Gen 31:38 "These twenty years I {have been} with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
Gen 31:39 "That which was torn {of beasts} I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself. You required it of my hand {whether} stolen by day or stolen by night.
Gen 31:40 "{Thus} I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Gen 31:41 "These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.
Gen 31:42 "If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."
Gen 31:43 Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?
Gen 31:44 "So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."
Gen 31:45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it up {as} a pillar.
Gen 31:46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Gen 31:47 Now Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Gen 31:48 Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore it was named Galeed,
Gen 31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other
Gen 31:50 "If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, {although} no man is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."
Gen 31:51 Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between you and me.
Gen 31:52 "This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Gen 31:53 "The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Gen 31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
Gen 31:55 Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.
Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau: Genesis 32:1-21
Gen 32:1 Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.
Gen 32:2 Jacob said when he saw them, "This is God's camp." So he named that place Mahanaim.
Gen 32:3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Gen 32:4 He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
Gen 32:5 I have oxen and donkeys {and} flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight."'"
Gen 32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
Gen 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;
Gen 32:8 for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape."
Gen 32:9 Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,'
Gen 32:10 I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff {only} I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.
Gen 32:11 "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me {and} the mothers with the children.
Gen 32:12 "For You said, 'I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'"
Gen 32:13 So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:
Gen 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Gen 32:15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Gen 32:16 He delivered {them} into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves."
Gen 32:17 He commanded the one in front, saying, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these {animals} in front of you belong?'
Gen 32:18 then you shall say, '{These} belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.'"
Gen 32:19 Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, "After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
Gen 32:20 and you shall say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
Gen 32:21 So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.
Jacob Wrestles With God: Genesis 32:22-32
Gen 32:22 Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Gen 32:23 He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.
Gen 32:24 Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Gen 32:25 When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
Gen 32:26 Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
Gen 32:27 So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
Gen 32:28 He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."
Gen 32:29 Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And he blessed him there.
Gen 32:30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, for {he said,} "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved."
Gen 32:31 Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.
Gen 32:32 Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
Jacob Meets Esau: Genesis 33:1-20
Gen 33:1 Then Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
Gen 33:2 He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Gen 33:3 But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Gen 33:4 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
Gen 33:5 He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these with you?" So he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Gen 33:6 Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.
Gen 33:7 Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.
Gen 33:8 And he said, "What do you mean by all this company which I have met?" And he said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
Gen 33:9 But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own."
Gen 33:10 Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
Gen 33:11 "Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty." Thus he urged him and he took {it.}
Gen 33:12 Then Esau said, "Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you."
Gen 33:13 But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.
Gen 33:14 "Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."
Gen 33:15 Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
Gen 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Gen 33:17 Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.
Gen 33:18 Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.
Gen 33:19 He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Gen 33:20 Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Jacob Returns to Bethel: Genesis 35:1-15
Gen 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Gen 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
Gen 35:3 and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
Gen 35:4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
Gen 35:5 As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen 35:7 He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Gen 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.
Gen 35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
Gen 35:10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.
Gen 35:11 God also said to him, "I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.
Gen 35:12 "The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you."
Gen 35:13 Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.
Gen 35:14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
Gen 35:15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
Joseph’s Dreams: Genesis 37:1-11
Gen 37:1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
Gen 37:2 These are {the records of} the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was {still} a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
Gen 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.
Gen 37:4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and {so} they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.
Gen 37:5 Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
Gen 37:6 He said to them, "Please listen to this dream which I have had;
Gen 37:7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf."
Gen 37:8 Then his brothers said to him, "Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 37:9 Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, "Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:10 He related {it} to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?"
Gen 37:11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying {in mind.}
Joseph Sold by His Brothers: Genesis 37:12-36
Gen 37:12 Then his brothers went to pasture their father's flock in Shechem.
Gen 37:13 Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing {the flock} in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I will go."
Gen 37:14 Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 37:15 A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
Gen 37:16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing {the flock.}"
Gen 37:17 Then the man said, "They have moved from here; for I heard {them} say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Gen 37:18 When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.
Gen 37:19 They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer!
Gen 37:20 "Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, 'A wild beast devoured him.' Then let us see what will become of his dreams!"
Gen 37:21 But Reuben heard {this} and rescued him out of their hands and said, "Let us not take his life."
Gen 37:22 Reuben further said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him"--that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.
Gen 37:23 So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him;
Gen 37:24 and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
Gen 37:25 Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, on their way to bring {them} down to Egypt.
Gen 37:26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Gen 37:27 "Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our {own} flesh." And his brothers listened {to him.}
Gen 37:28 Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled {him} up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty {shekels} of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Gen 37:29 Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.
Gen 37:30 He returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is not {there;} as for me, where am I to go?"
Gen 37:31 So they took Joseph's tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;
Gen 37:32 and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine {it} to {see} whether it is your son's tunic or not."
Gen 37:33 Then he examined it and said, "It is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"
Gen 37:34 So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Gen 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.
Gen 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, the captain of the bodyguard.
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