GEN-1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

GEN-1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness

[was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved

upon the face of the waters.

GEN-1:3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

GEN-1:4  And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God

divided the light from the darkness.

GEN-1:5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he

called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

GEN-1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of

the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

GEN-1:7  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters

which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were]

above the firmament: and it was so.

GEN-1:8  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening

and the morning were the second day.

GEN-1:9  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be

gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear:

and it was so.

GEN-1:10  And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering

together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was]

good.

GEN-1:11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the

herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after

his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was

so.

GEN-1:12  And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding

seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed

[was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

GEN-1:13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.

GEN-1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of

the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for

signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

GEN-1:15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the

heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

GEN-1:16  And God made two great lights; the greater light to

rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made]

the stars also.

GEN-1:17  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to

give light upon the earth,

GEN-1:18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to

divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was]

good.

GEN-1:19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

GEN-1:20  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly

the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly

above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

GEN-1:21  And God created great whales, and every living

creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God

saw that [it was] good.

GEN-1:22  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and

multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply

in the earth.

GEN-1:23  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

GEN-1:24  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living

creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast

of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

GEN-1:25  And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,

and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon

the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

GEN-1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our

likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all

the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the

earth.

GEN-1:27  So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of

God created he him; male and female created he them.

GEN-1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:

and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of

the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GEN-1:29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb

bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and

every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed;

to you it shall be for meat.

GEN-1:30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of

the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for

meat: and it was so.

GEN-1:31  And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,

[it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the

sixth day.

*GEN-2:1  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all

the host of them.

GEN-2:2  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had

made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which

he had made.

GEN-2:3  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God

created and made.

GEN-2:4  These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the

earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made

the earth and the heavens,

GEN-2:5  And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,

 and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God

had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a

man to till the ground.

GEN-2:6  But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered

the whole face of the ground.

GEN-2:7  And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground,

 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man

became a living soul.

GEN-2:8  And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and

there he put the man whom he had formed.

GEN-2:9  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every

tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree

of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of

knowledge of good and evil.

GEN-2:10  And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and

from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

GEN-2:11  The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which

compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;

GEN-2:12  And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is]

bdellium and the onyx stone.

GEN-2:13  And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same

[is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

GEN-2:14  And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that

[is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth

river [is] Euphrates.

GEN-2:15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the

garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

GEN-2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every

tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

GEN-2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest

thereof thou shalt surely die.

GEN-2:18  And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man

should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

GEN-2:19  And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast

of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto

Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called

every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

GEN-2:20  And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of

the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was

not found an help meet for him.

GEN-2:21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

 and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the

flesh instead thereof;

GEN-2:22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,

made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

GEN-2:23  And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and

flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was

taken out of Man.

GEN-2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,

and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

GEN-2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and

were not ashamed.

*GEN-3:1  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the

field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,

Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

GEN-3:2  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the

fruit of the trees of the garden:

GEN-3:3  But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of

the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall

ye touch it, lest ye die.

GEN-3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not

surely die:

GEN-3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then

your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good

and evil.

GEN-3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for

food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be

desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and

did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

GEN-3:7  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew

that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and

made themselves aprons.

GEN-3:8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the

garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid

themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees

of the garden.

GEN-3:9  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,

Where [art] thou?

GEN-3:10  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I

was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.

GEN-3:11  And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked?

Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou

shouldest not eat?

GEN-3:12  And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be]

with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

GEN-3:13  And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this

[that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled

me, and I did eat.

GEN-3:14  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou

hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above

every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust

shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

GEN-3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and

between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and

thou shalt bruise his heel.

GEN-3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy

sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth

children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall

rule over thee.

GEN-3:17  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened

unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which

I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is]

the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all

the days of thy life;

GEN-3:18  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;

and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

GEN-3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till

thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for

dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

GEN-3:20  And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was

the mother of all living.

GEN-3:21  Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make

coats of skins, and clothed them.

GEN-3:22  And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as

one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his

hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for

ever:

GEN-3:23  Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden

of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

GEN-3:24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of

the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned

every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

*GEN-4:1  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and

bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

GEN-4:2  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a

keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

GEN-4:3  And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain

brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

GEN-4:4  And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his

flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel

and to his offering:

GEN-4:5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

GEN-4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and

why is thy countenance fallen?

GEN-4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if

thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall

be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

GEN-4:8  And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to

pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against

Abel his brother, and slew him.

GEN-4:9  And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy

brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?

GEN-4:10  And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy

brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

GEN-4:11  And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath

opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GEN-4:12  When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth

yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt

thou be in the earth.

GEN-4:13  And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is]

greater than I can bear.

GEN-4:14  Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face

of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a

fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass,

[that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.

GEN-4:15  And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever

slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the

LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

GEN-4:16  And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and

dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

GEN-4:17  And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare

Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city,

after the name of his son, Enoch.

GEN-4:18  And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael:

and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

GEN-4:19  And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the

one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

GEN-4:20  And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as

dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.

GEN-4:21  And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father

of all such as handle the harp and organ.

GEN-4:22  And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of

every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain

[was] Naamah.

GEN-4:23  And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear

my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have

slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

GEN-4:24  If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech

seventy and sevenfold.

GEN-4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and

called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me

another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

GEN-4:26  And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he

called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of

the LORD.

*GEN-5:1  This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the

day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

GEN-5:2  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and

called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

GEN-5:3  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat

[a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his

name Seth:

GEN-5:4  And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were

eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:5  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and

thirty years: and he died.

GEN-5:6  And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat

Enos:

GEN-5:7  And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and

seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:8  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve

years: and he died.

GEN-5:9  And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

GEN-5:10  And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and

fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:11  And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five

years: and he died.

GEN-5:12  And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

GEN-5:13  And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight

hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:14  And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten

years: and he died.

GEN-5:15  And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat

Jared:

GEN-5:16  And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight

hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:17  And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred

ninety and five years: and he died.

GEN-5:18  And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he

begat Enoch:

GEN-5:19  And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:20  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and

two years: and he died.

GEN-5:21  And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat

Methuselah:

GEN-5:22  And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah

three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:23  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and

five years:

GEN-5:24  And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God

took him.

GEN-5:25  And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years,

 and begat Lamech:

GEN-5:26  And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven

hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:27  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty

and nine years: and he died.

GEN-5:28  And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and

begat a son:

GEN-5:29  And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall

comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of

the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

GEN-5:30  And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred

ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

GEN-5:31  And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy

and seven years: and he died.

GEN-5:32  And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

*GEN-6:1  And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the

face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

GEN-6:2  That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they

[were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

GEN-6:3  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive

with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an

hundred and twenty years.

GEN-6:4  There were giants in the earth in those days; and also

after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of

men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty

men which [were] of old, men of renown.

GEN-6:5  And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in

the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his

heart [was] only evil continually.

GEN-6:6  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the

earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

GEN-6:7  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have

created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the

creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me

that I have made them.

GEN-6:8  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

GEN-6:9  These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just

man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.

GEN-6:10  And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

GEN-6:11  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth

was filled with violence.

GEN-6:12  And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was

corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

GEN-6:13  And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come

before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;

and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

GEN-6:14  Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make

in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

GEN-6:15  And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it

[of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the

breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

GEN-6:16  A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit

shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou

set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second, and third

[stories] shalt thou make it.

GEN-6:17  And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters

upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of

life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the

earth shall die.

GEN-6:18  But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou

shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and

thy sons' wives with thee.

GEN-6:19  And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every

[sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with

thee; they shall be male and female.

GEN-6:20  Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their

kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two

of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.

GEN-6:21  And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and

thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for

thee, and for them.

GEN-6:22  Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him,

 so did he.

*GEN-7:1  And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy

house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in

this generation.

GEN-7:2  Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens,

the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by

two, the male and his female.

GEN-7:3  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the

female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

GEN-7:4  For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon

the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living

substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of

the earth.

GEN-7:5  And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded

him.

GEN-7:6  And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of

waters was upon the earth.

GEN-7:7  And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his

sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the

flood.

GEN-7:8  Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean,

and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

GEN-7:9  There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the

male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

GEN-7:10  And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters

of the flood were upon the earth.

GEN-7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the

second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day

were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the

windows of heaven were opened.

GEN-7:12  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty

nights.

GEN-7:13  In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,

and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three

wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

GEN-7:14  They, and every beast after his kind, and all the

cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth

upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,

every bird of every sort.

GEN-7:15  And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two

of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

GEN-7:16  And they that went in, went in male and female of all

flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

GEN-7:17  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the

waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above

the earth.

GEN-7:18  And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly

upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

GEN-7:19  And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;

and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were

covered.

GEN-7:20  Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the

mountains were covered.

GEN-7:21  And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of

fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing

that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

GEN-7:22  All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all

that [was] in the dry [land], died.

GEN-7:23  And every living substance was destroyed which was

upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the

creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were

destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and

they that [were] with him in the ark.

GEN-7:24  And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and

fifty days.

*GEN-8:1  And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and

all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a

wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

GEN-8:2  The fountains also of the deep and the windows of

heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

GEN-8:3  And the waters returned from off the earth continually:

and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were

abated.

GEN-8:4  And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the

seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

GEN-8:5  And the waters decreased continually until the tenth

month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month,

were the tops of the mountains seen.

GEN-8:6  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah

opened the window of the ark which he had made:

GEN-8:7  And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,

until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

GEN-8:8  Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the

waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

GEN-8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,

and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on

the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and

took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

GEN-8:10  And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent

forth the dove out of the ark;

GEN-8:11  And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo,

in her mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that

the waters were abated from off the earth.

GEN-8:12  And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the

dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

GEN-8:13  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first

year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the

waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the

covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the

ground was dry.

GEN-8:14  And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth

day of the month, was the earth dried.

GEN-8:15  And God spake unto Noah, saying,

GEN-8:16  Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons,

and thy sons' wives with thee.

GEN-8:17  Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is]

with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of

every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may

breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply

upon the earth.

GEN-8:18  And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and

his sons' wives with him:

GEN-8:19  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl,

[and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds,

went forth out of the ark.

GEN-8:20  And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of

every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt

offerings on the altar.

GEN-8:21  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said

in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for

man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from

his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing

living, as I have done.

GEN-8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and

cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall

not cease.

*GEN-9:1  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them,

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

GEN-9:2  And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon

every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon

all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the

sea; into your hand are they delivered.

GEN-9:3  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;

even as the green herb have I given you all things.

GEN-9:4  But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood

thereof, shall ye not eat.

GEN-9:5  And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at

the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of

man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life

of man.

GEN-9:6  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be

shed: for in the image of God made he man.

GEN-9:7  And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth

abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

GEN-9:8  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,

saying,

GEN-9:9  And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and

with your seed after you;

GEN-9:10  And with every living creature that [is] with you, of

the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with

you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the

earth.

GEN-9:11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither

shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;

neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

GEN-9:12  And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant

which I make between me and you and every living creature that

[is] with you, for perpetual generations:

GEN-9:13  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a

token of a covenant between me and the earth.

GEN-9:14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over

the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

GEN-9:15  And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me

and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters

shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

GEN-9:16  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look

upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between

God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the

earth.

GEN-9:17  And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the

covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that

[is] upon the earth.

GEN-9:18  And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were

Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.

GEN-9:19  These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was

the whole earth overspread.

GEN-9:20  And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a

vineyard:

GEN-9:21  And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was

uncovered within his tent.

GEN-9:22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of

his father, and told his two brethren without.

GEN-9:23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it]

upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the

nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and

they saw not their father's nakedness.

GEN-9:24  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his

younger son had done unto him.

GEN-9:25  And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants

shall he be unto his brethren.

GEN-9:26  And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and

Canaan shall be his servant.

GEN-9:27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the

tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

GEN-9:28  And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty

years.

GEN-9:29  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty

years: and he died.

*GEN-10:1  Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah,

Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the

flood.

GEN-10:2  The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and

Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

GEN-10:3  And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and

Togarmah.

GEN-10:4  And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim,

and Dodanim.

GEN-10:5  By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in

their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families,

in their nations.

GEN-10:6  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and

Canaan.

GEN-10:7  And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah,

and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and

Dedan.

GEN-10:8  And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in

the earth.

GEN-10:9  He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it

is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

GEN-10:10  And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech,

 and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

GEN-10:11  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded

Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

GEN-10:12  And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a

great city.

GEN-10:13  And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and

Naphtuhim,

GEN-10:14  And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came

Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

GEN-10:15  And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

GEN-10:16  And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

GEN-10:17  And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

GEN-10:18  And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite:

 and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

GEN-10:19  And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as

thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and

Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

GEN-10:20  These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families,

after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.

GEN-10:21  Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of

Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were

[children] born.

GEN-10:22  The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad,

and Lud, and Aram.

GEN-10:23  And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,

and Mash.

GEN-10:24  And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

GEN-10:25  And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one

[was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his

brother's name [was] Joktan.

GEN-10:26  And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and

Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

GEN-10:27  And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

GEN-10:28  And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

GEN-10:29  And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were]

the sons of Joktan.

GEN-10:30  And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto

Sephar a mount of the east.

GEN-10:31  These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families,

after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

GEN-10:32  These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after

their generations, in their nations: and by these were the

nations divided in the earth after the flood.

*GEN-11:1  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one

speech.

GEN-11:2  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,

that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt

there.

GEN-11:3  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,

 and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and

slime had they for mortar.

GEN-11:4  And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a

tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a

name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole

earth.

GEN-11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,

which the children of men builded.

GEN-11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and

they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now

nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined

to do.

GEN-11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their

language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

GEN-11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the

face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

GEN-11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the

LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from

thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the

earth.

GEN-11:10  These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an

hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

GEN-11:11  And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:12  And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat

Salah:

GEN-11:13  And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred

and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:14  And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

GEN-11:15  And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and

three years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:16  And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

GEN-11:17  And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and

thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:18  And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

GEN-11:19  And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and

nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:20  And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

GEN-11:21  And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and

seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:22  And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

GEN-11:23  And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:24  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat

Terah:

GEN-11:25  And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and

nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

GEN-11:26  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,

 and Haran.

GEN-11:27  Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat

Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

GEN-11:28  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of

his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

GEN-11:29  And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of

Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,

the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of

Iscah.

GEN-11:30  But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.

GEN-11:31  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of

Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son

Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the

Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto

Haran, and dwelt there.

GEN-11:32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:

 and Terah died in Haran.

*GEN-12:1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy

country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto

a land that I will show thee:

GEN-12:2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will

bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a

blessing:

GEN-12:3  And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him

that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth

be blessed.

GEN-12:4  So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him;

and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years

old when he departed out of Haran.

GEN-12:5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's

son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the

souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go

into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

GEN-12:6  And Abram passed through the land unto the place of

Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in

the land.

GEN-12:7  And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy

seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto

the LORD, who appeared unto him.

GEN-12:8  And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east

of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west,

and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,

 and called upon the name of the LORD.

GEN-12:9  And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

GEN-12:10  And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went

down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous

in the land.

GEN-12:11  And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter

into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know

that thou [art] a fair woman to look upon:

GEN-12:12  Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians

shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his wife: and

they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

GEN-12:13  Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may

be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of

thee.

GEN-12:14  And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into

Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.

GEN-12:15  The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended

her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

GEN-12:16  And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had

sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants,

 and she asses, and camels.

GEN-12:17  And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great

plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

GEN-12:18  And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this

[that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that

she [was] thy wife?

GEN-12:19  Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might have

taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take

[her], and go thy way.

GEN-12:20  And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and

they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

*GEN-13:1  And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and

all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

GEN-13:2  And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in

gold.

GEN-13:3  And he went on his journeys from the south even to

Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,

between Bethel and Hai;

GEN-13:4  Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there

at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

GEN-13:5  And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and

herds, and tents.

GEN-13:6  And the land was not able to bear them, that they

might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that

they could not dwell together.

GEN-13:7  And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's

cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and

the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

GEN-13:8  And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I

pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy

herdmen; for we [be] brethren.

GEN-13:9  [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself,

I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I

will go to the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand,

then I will go to the left.

GEN-13:10  And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain

of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the

LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the

LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

GEN-13:11  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot

journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the

other.

GEN-13:12  Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled

in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.

GEN-13:13  But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before

the LORD exceedingly.

GEN-13:14  And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was

separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the

place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and

westward:

GEN-13:15  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I

give it, and to thy seed for ever.

GEN-13:16  And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so

that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy

seed also be numbered.

GEN-13:17  Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and

in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

GEN-13:18  Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in

the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an

altar unto the LORD.

*GEN-14:1  And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of

Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and

Tidal king of nations;

GEN-14:2  [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and

with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber

king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

GEN-14:3  All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim,

which is the salt sea.

GEN-14:4  Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the

thirteenth year they rebelled.

GEN-14:5  And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the

kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth

Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh

Kiriathaim,

GEN-14:6  And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,

which [is] by the wilderness.

GEN-14:7  And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which [is]

Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also

the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

GEN-14:8  And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of

Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and

the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle

with them in the vale of Siddim;

GEN-14:9  With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal

king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of

Ellasar; four kings with five.

GEN-14:10  And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and

the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they

that remained fled to the mountain.

GEN-14:11  And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah,

and all their victuals, and went their way.

GEN-14:12  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt

in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

GEN-14:13  And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram

the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,

brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were]

confederate with Abram.

GEN-14:14  And when Abram heard that his brother was taken

captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house,

three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.

GEN-14:15  And he divided himself against them, he and his

servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah,

which [is] on the left hand of Damascus.

GEN-14:16  And he brought back all the goods, and also brought

again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and

the people.

GEN-14:17  And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his

return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that

[were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's

dale.

GEN-14:18  And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and

wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.

GEN-14:19  And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of

the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

GEN-14:20  And blessed be the most high God, which hath

delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of

all.

GEN-14:21  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the

persons, and take the goods to thyself.

GEN-14:22  And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up

mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of

heaven and earth,

GEN-14:23  That I will not [take] from a thread even to a

shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine,

lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

GEN-14:24  Save only that which the young men have eaten, and

the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and

Mamre; let them take their portion.

*GEN-15:1  After these things the word of the LORD came unto

Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield,

[and] thy exceeding great reward.

GEN-15:2  And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me,

seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this

Eliezer of Damascus?

GEN-15:3  And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:

and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

GEN-15:4  And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto him,

saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come

forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

GEN-15:5  And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now

toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number

them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

GEN-15:6  And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him

for righteousness.

GEN-15:7  And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought

thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to

inherit it.

GEN-15:8  And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I

shall inherit it?

GEN-15:9  And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years

old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years

old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

GEN-15:10  And he took unto him all these, and divided them in

the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the

birds divided he not.

GEN-15:11  And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram

drove them away.

GEN-15:12  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell

upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

GEN-15:13  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy

seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and

shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

GEN-15:14  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I

judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

GEN-15:15  And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt

be buried in a good old age.

GEN-15:16  But in the fourth generation they shall come hither

again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

GEN-15:17  And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down,

and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp

that passed between those pieces.

GEN-15:18  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,

saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of

Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

GEN-15:19  The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

GEN-15:20  And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the

Rephaims,

GEN-15:21  And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the

Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

*GEN-16:1  Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she

had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

GEN-16:2  And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath

restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it

may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to

the voice of Sarai.

GEN-16:3  And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the

Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,

and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

GEN-16:4  And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when

she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her

eyes.

GEN-16:5  And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee: I

have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had

conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me

and thee.

GEN-16:6  But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in

thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt

hardly with her, she fled from her face.

GEN-16:7  And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of

water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

GEN-16:8  And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou?

and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of

my mistress Sarai.

GEN-16:9  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy

mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

GEN-16:10  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will

multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for

multitude.

GEN-16:11  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou

[art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name

Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

GEN-16:12  And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against

every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell

in the presence of all his brethren.

GEN-16:13  And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto

her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked

after him that seeth me?

GEN-16:14  Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold,

[it is] between Kadesh and Bered.

GEN-16:15  And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his

son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

GEN-16:16  And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when

Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

*GEN-17:1  And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the

LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty

God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

GEN-17:2  And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and

will multiply thee exceedingly.

GEN-17:3  And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,

saying,

GEN-17:4  As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and

thou shalt be a father of many nations.

GEN-17:5  Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but

thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I

made thee.

GEN-17:6  And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will

make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

GEN-17:7  And I will establish my covenant between me and thee

and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting

covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

GEN-17:8  And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee,

the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan,

for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

GEN-17:9  And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant

therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

GEN-17:10  This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between

me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you

shall be circumcised.

GEN-17:11  And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;

and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

GEN-17:12  And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised

among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born

in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is]

not of thy seed.

GEN-17:13  He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought

with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall

be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

GEN-17:14  And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his

foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his

people; he hath broken my covenant.

GEN-17:15  And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife,

thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name

[be].

GEN-17:16  And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her:

 yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations;

kings of people shall be of her.

GEN-17:17  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and

said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an

hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old,

bear?

GEN-17:18  And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live

before thee!

GEN-17:19  And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son

indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish

my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his

seed after him.

GEN-17:20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have

blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him

exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him

a great nation.

GEN-17:21  But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which

Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

GEN-17:22  And he left off talking with him, and God went up

from Abraham.

GEN-17:23  And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were

born in his house, and all that were bought with his money,

every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the

flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said

unto him.

GEN-17:24  And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he

was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GEN-17:25  And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he

was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GEN-17:26  In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and

Ishmael his son.

GEN-17:27  And all the men of his house, born in the house, and

bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

*GEN-18:1  And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre:

 and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

GEN-18:2  And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men

stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from

the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

GEN-18:3  And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy

sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

GEN-18:4  Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash

your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

GEN-18:5  And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye

your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye

come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

GEN-18:6  And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and

said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it],

 and make cakes upon the hearth.

GEN-18:7  And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf

tender and good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted

to dress it.

GEN-18:8  And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he

had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them

under the tree, and they did eat.

GEN-18:9  And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife? And

he said, Behold, in the tent.

GEN-18:10  And he said, I will certainly return unto thee

according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall

have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was]

behind him.

GEN-18:11  Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken

in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of

women.

GEN-18:12  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After

I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

GEN-18:13  And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah

laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

GEN-18:14  Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time

appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life,

 and Sarah shall have a son.

GEN-18:15  Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was

afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

GEN-18:16  And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward

Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

GEN-18:17  And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that

thing which I do;

GEN-18:18  Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and

mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

in him?

GEN-18:19  For I know him, that he will command his children and

his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD,

 to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon

Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

GEN-18:20  And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and

Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

GEN-18:21  I will go down now, and see whether they have done

altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me;

and if not, I will know.

GEN-18:22  And the men turned their faces from thence, and went

toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

GEN-18:23  And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also

destroy the righteous with the wicked?

GEN-18:24  Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city:

 wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty

righteous that [are] therein?

GEN-18:25  That be far from thee to do after this manner, to

slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous

should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the

Judge of all the earth do right?

GEN-18:26  And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous

within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

GEN-18:27  And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have

taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and

ashes:

GEN-18:28  Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty

righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five?

And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy

[it].

GEN-18:29  And he spake unto him yet again, and said,

Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I

will not do [it] for forty's sake.

GEN-18:30  And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry,

and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.

 And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.

GEN-18:31  And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to

speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found

there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake.

GEN-18:32  And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will

speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.

And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

GEN-18:33  And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left

communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

*GEN-19:1  And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot

sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet

them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

GEN-19:2  And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you,

 into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your

feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they

said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

GEN-19:3  And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in

unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast,

and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

GEN-19:4  But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even]

the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young,

all the people from every quarter:

GEN-19:5  And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where

[are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out

unto us, that we may know them.

GEN-19:6  And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the

door after him,

GEN-19:7  And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

GEN-19:8  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known

man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to

them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing;

for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

GEN-19:9  And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This

one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:

now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they

pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break

the door.

GEN-19:10  But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into

the house to them, and shut to the door.

GEN-19:11  And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the

house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied

themselves to find the door.

GEN-19:12  And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any

besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and

whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this place:

GEN-19:13  For we will destroy this place, because the cry of

them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD

hath sent us to destroy it.

GEN-19:14  And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law,

which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this

place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one

that mocked unto his sons in law.

GEN-19:15  And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened

Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which

are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

GEN-19:16  And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his

hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his

two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they

brought him forth, and set him without the city.

GEN-19:17  And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth

abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,

neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest

thou be consumed.

GEN-19:18  And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

GEN-19:19  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,

 and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto

me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest

some evil take me, and I die:

GEN-19:20  Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it

[is] a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a

little one?) and my soul shall live.

GEN-19:21  And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee

concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city,

for the which thou hast spoken.

GEN-19:22  Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing

till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was

called Zoar.

GEN-19:23  The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered

into Zoar.

GEN-19:24  Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah

brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

GEN-19:25  And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and

all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the

ground.

GEN-19:26  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she

became a pillar of salt.

GEN-19:27  And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place

where he stood before the LORD:

GEN-19:28  And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward

all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the

country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

GEN-19:29  And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of

the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the

midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the

which Lot dwelt.

GEN-19:30  And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the

mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell

in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

GEN-19:31  And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father

[is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto

us after the manner of all the earth:

GEN-19:32  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will

lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

GEN-19:33  And they made their father drink wine that night: and

the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived

not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

GEN-19:34  And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn

said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:

let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,

[and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

GEN-19:35  And they made their father drink wine that night also:

 and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not

when she lay down, nor when she arose.

GEN-19:36  Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by

their father.

GEN-19:37  And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name

Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.

GEN-19:38  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his

name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon

unto this day.

*GEN-20:1  And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south

country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in

Gerar.

GEN-20:2  And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister:

 and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

GEN-20:3  But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and

said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman

which thou hast taken; for she [is] a man's wife.

GEN-20:4  But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord,

 wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

GEN-20:5  Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, even

she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my

heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

GEN-20:6  And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that

thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also

withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee

not to touch her.

GEN-20:7  Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is]

a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and

if thou restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die,

thou, and all that [are] thine.

GEN-20:8  Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and

called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears:

 and the men were sore afraid.

GEN-20:9  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What

hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou

hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done

deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

GEN-20:10  And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou,

that thou hast done this thing?

GEN-20:11  And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear

of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my

wife's sake.

GEN-20:12  And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the

daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and

she became my wife.

GEN-20:13  And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander

from my father's house, that I said unto her, This [is] thy

kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither

we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother.

GEN-20:14  And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants,

and womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored

him Sarah his wife.

GEN-20:15  And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee:

dwell where it pleaseth thee.

GEN-20:16  And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy

brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a

covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with

all [other]: thus she was reproved.

GEN-20:17  So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech,

and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].

GEN-20:18  For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the

house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

*GEN-21:1  And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the

LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

GEN-21:2  For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old

age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

GEN-21:3  And Abraham called the name of his son that was born

unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

GEN-21:4  And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days

old, as God had commanded him.

GEN-21:5  And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son

Isaac was born unto him.

GEN-21:6  And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that]

all that hear will laugh with me.

GEN-21:7  And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that

Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born [him] a

son in his old age.

GEN-21:8  And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a

great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.

GEN-21:9  And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she

had born unto Abraham, mocking.

GEN-21:10  Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this

bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not

be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac.

GEN-21:11  And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight

because of his son.

GEN-21:12  And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in

thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in

all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for

in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

GEN-21:13  And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a

nation, because he [is] thy seed.

GEN-21:14  And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took

bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting

[it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she

departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

GEN-21:15  And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast

the child under one of the shrubs.

GEN-21:16  And she went, and sat her down over against [him] a

good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see

the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lift

up her voice, and wept.

GEN-21:17  And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of

God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What

aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of

the lad where he [is].

GEN-21:18  Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand;

for I will make him a great nation.

GEN-21:19  And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water;

and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad

drink.

GEN-21:20  And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in

the wilderness, and became an archer.

GEN-21:21  And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his

mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

GEN-21:22  And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and

Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying,

 God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:

GEN-21:23  Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou

wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my

son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto

thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast

sojourned.

GEN-21:24  And Abraham said, I will swear.

GEN-21:25  And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of

water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

GEN-21:26  And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this

thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it],

but to day.

GEN-21:27  And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto

Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

GEN-21:28  And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by

themselves.

GEN-21:29  And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these

seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

GEN-21:30  And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou

take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have

digged this well.

GEN-21:31  Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because

there they sware both of them.

GEN-21:32  Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then

Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host,

and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

GEN-21:33  And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and

called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

GEN-21:34  And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many

days.

*GEN-22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did

tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,

[here] I [am].

GEN-22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac,

whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and

offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains

which I will tell thee of.

GEN-22:3  And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled

his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his

son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and

went unto the place of which God had told him.

GEN-22:4  Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and

saw the place afar off.

GEN-22:5  And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here

with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and

come again to you.

GEN-22:6  And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and

laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand,

and a knife; and they went both of them together.

GEN-22:7  And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My

father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold

the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt

offering?

GEN-22:8  And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a

lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

GEN-22:9  And they came to the place which God had told him of;

and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order,

and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

GEN-22:10  And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the

knife to slay his son.

GEN-22:11  And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of

heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.

GEN-22:12  And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither

do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,

 seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.

GEN-22:13  And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and

behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and

Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt

offering in the stead of his son.

GEN-22:14  And Abraham called the name of that place

Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the

LORD it shall be seen.

GEN-22:15  And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of

heaven the second time,

GEN-22:16  And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for

because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,

 thine only [son]:

GEN-22:17  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in

multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,

and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed

shall possess the gate of his enemies;

GEN-22:18  And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be

blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

GEN-22:19  So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose

up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at

Beersheba.

GEN-22:20  And it came to pass after these things, that it was

told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born

children unto thy brother Nahor;

GEN-22:21  Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel

the father of Aram,

GEN-22:22  And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and

Bethuel.

GEN-22:23  And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did

bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

GEN-22:24  And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare

also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

*GEN-23:1  And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years

old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

GEN-23:2  And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in

the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to

weep for her.

GEN-23:3  And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake

unto the sons of Heth, saying,

GEN-23:4  I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a

possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead

out of my sight.

GEN-23:5  And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto

him,

GEN-23:6  Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty prince among us:

in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall

withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy

dead.

GEN-23:7  And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people

of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.

GEN-23:8  And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind

that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat

for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

GEN-23:9  That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he

hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as

it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a

buryingplace amongst you.

GEN-23:10  And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and

Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the

children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his

city, saying,

GEN-23:11  Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the

cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the

sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

GEN-23:12  And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of

the land.

GEN-23:13  And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the

people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray

thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take [it]

of me, and I will bury my dead there.

GEN-23:14  And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

GEN-23:15  My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four

hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee?

bury therefore thy dead.

GEN-23:16  And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham

weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience

of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current

[money] with the merchant.

GEN-23:17  And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah,

which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was]

therein, and all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were]

in all the borders round about, were made sure

GEN-23:18  Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the

children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his

city.

GEN-23:19  And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the

cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is]

Hebron in the land of Canaan.

GEN-23:20  And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were

made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the

sons of Heth.

*GEN-24:1  And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and

the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

GEN-24:2  And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house,

that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand

under my thigh:

GEN-24:3  And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of

heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a

wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom

I dwell:

GEN-24:4  But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred,

and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

GEN-24:5  And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman

will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs

bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

GEN-24:6  And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring

not my son thither again.

GEN-24:7  The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's

house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me,

and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this

land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a

wife unto my son from thence.

GEN-24:8  And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee,

then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my

son thither again.

GEN-24:9  And the servant put his hand under the thigh of

Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

GEN-24:10  And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his

master, and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in

his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city

of Nahor.

GEN-24:11  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city

by a well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time

that women go out to draw [water].

GEN-24:12  And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray

thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my

master Abraham.

GEN-24:13  Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the

daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

GEN-24:14  And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I

shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;

and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:

[let the same be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant

Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness

unto my master.

GEN-24:15  And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,

that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of

Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher

upon her shoulder.

GEN-24:16  And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin,

 neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well,

and filled her pitcher, and came up.

GEN-24:17  And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I

pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

GEN-24:18  And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let

down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

GEN-24:19  And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I

will draw [water] for thy camels also, until they have done

drinking.

GEN-24:20  And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the

trough, and ran again unto the well to draw [water], and drew

for all his camels.

GEN-24:21  And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit

whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

GEN-24:22  And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,

that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and

two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;

GEN-24:23  And said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray

thee: is there room [in] thy father's house for us to lodge in?

GEN-24:24  And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel

the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

GEN-24:25  She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and

provender enough, and room to lodge in.

GEN-24:26  And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the

LORD.

GEN-24:27  And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master

Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and

his truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of

my master's brethren.

GEN-24:28  And the damsel ran, and told [them of] her mother's

house these things.

GEN-24:29  And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban:

and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

GEN-24:30  And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and

bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words

of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that

he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the

well.

GEN-24:31  And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD;

wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house,

and room for the camels.

GEN-24:32  And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his

camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water

to wash his feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.

GEN-24:33  And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he

said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said,

 Speak on.

GEN-24:34  And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant.

GEN-24:35  And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he

is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and

silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels,

and asses.

GEN-24:36  And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master

when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

GEN-24:37  And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not

take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in

whose land I dwell:

GEN-24:38  But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my

kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

GEN-24:39  And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman

will not follow me.

GEN-24:40  And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk,

will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou

shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's

house:

GEN-24:41  Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when

thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one], thou

shalt be clear from my oath.

GEN-24:42  And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD

God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I

go:

GEN-24:43  Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall

come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water],

and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy

pitcher to drink;

GEN-24:44  And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also

draw for thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD

hath appointed out for my master's son.

GEN-24:45  And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold,

Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she

went down unto the well, and drew [water]: and I said unto her,

Let me drink, I pray thee.

GEN-24:46  And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her

[shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink

also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

GEN-24:47  And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou?

And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah

bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the

bracelets upon her hands.

GEN-24:48  And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD,

and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me

in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his

son.

GEN-24:49  And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my

master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the

right hand, or to the left.

GEN-24:50  Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing

proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

GEN-24:51  Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go,

and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

GEN-24:52  And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant

heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to

the earth.

GEN-24:53  And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and

jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he gave

also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

GEN-24:54  And they did eat and drink, he and the men that

[were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the

morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

GEN-24:55  And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel

abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that she

shall go.

GEN-24:56  And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD

hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

GEN-24:57  And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire

at her mouth.

GEN-24:58  And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou

go with this man? And she said, I will go.

GEN-24:59  And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her

nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

GEN-24:60  And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou

[art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions,

and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

GEN-24:61  And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode

upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took

Rebekah, and went his way.

GEN-24:62  And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for

he dwelt in the south country.

GEN-24:63  And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the

eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the

camels [were] coming.

GEN-24:64  And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw

Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

GEN-24:65  For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is]

this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had]

said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered

herself.

GEN-24:66  And the servant told Isaac all things that he had

done.

GEN-24:67  And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent,

and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and

Isaac was comforted after his mother's [death].

*GEN-25:1  Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was]

Keturah.

GEN-25:2  And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and

Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

GEN-25:3  And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of

Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

GEN-25:4  And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch,

and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of Keturah.

GEN-25:5  And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

GEN-25:6  But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,

 Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,

while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

GEN-25:7  And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's

life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

GEN-25:8  Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old

age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his

people.

GEN-25:9  And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave

of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the

Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;

GEN-25:10  The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:

 there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

GEN-25:11  And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that

God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.

GEN-25:12  Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's

son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto

Abraham:

GEN-25:13  And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by

their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of

Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

GEN-25:14  And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

GEN-25:15  Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

GEN-25:16  These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are]

their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve

princes according to their nations.

GEN-25:17  And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an

hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and

died; and was gathered unto his people.

GEN-25:18  And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is]

before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the

presence of all his brethren.

GEN-25:19  And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's

son: Abraham begat Isaac:

GEN-25:20  And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to

wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the

sister to Laban the Syrian.

GEN-25:21  And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because

she [was] barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah

his wife conceived.

GEN-25:22  And the children struggled together within her; and

she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to

inquire of the LORD.

GEN-25:23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy

womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy

bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other]

people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

GEN-25:24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold, [there were] twins in her womb.

GEN-25:25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy

garment; and they called his name Esau.

GEN-25:26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand

took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and

Isaac [was] threescore years old when she bare them.

GEN-25:27  And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a

man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.

GEN-25:28  And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his]

venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

GEN-25:29  And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field,

and he [was] faint:

GEN-25:30  And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with

that same red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore was his

name called Edom.

GEN-25:31  And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

GEN-25:32  And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die:

and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

GEN-25:33  And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware

unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

GEN-25:34  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles;

and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus

Esau despised [his] birthright.

*GEN-26:1  And there was a famine in the land, beside the first

famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto

Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

GEN-26:2  And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down

into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

GEN-26:3  Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and

will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give

all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware

unto Abraham thy father;

GEN-26:4  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of

heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in

thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

GEN-26:5  Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my

charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

GEN-26:6  And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

GEN-26:7  And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and

he said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my

wife; lest, [said he], the men of the place should kill me for

Rebekah; because she [was] fair to look upon.

GEN-26:8  And it came to pass, when he had been there a long

time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a

window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah

his wife.

GEN-26:9  And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a

surety she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my

sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for

her.

GEN-26:10  And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done

unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife,

 and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

GEN-26:11  And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He

that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

GEN-26:12  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the

same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

GEN-26:13  And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew

until he became very great:

GEN-26:14  For he had possession of flocks, and possession of

herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied

him.

GEN-26:15  For all the wells which his father's servants had

digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had

stopped them, and filled them with earth.

GEN-26:16  And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou

art much mightier than we.

GEN-26:17  And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in

the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

GEN-26:18  And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they

had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the

Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he

called their names after the names by which his father had

called them.

GEN-26:19  And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found

there a well of springing water.

GEN-26:20  And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's

herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of

the well Esek; because they strove with him.

GEN-26:21  And they digged another well, and strove for that

also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

GEN-26:22  And he removed from thence, and digged another well;

and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it

Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us,

and we shall be fruitful in the land.

GEN-26:23  And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

GEN-26:24  And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and

said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am]

with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my

servant Abraham's sake.

GEN-26:25  And he builded an altar there, and called upon the

name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's

servants digged a well.

GEN-26:26  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath

one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

GEN-26:27  And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,

seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

GEN-26:28  And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was

with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,

[even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

GEN-26:29  That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched

thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have

sent thee away in peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD.

GEN-26:30  And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

GEN-26:31  And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware

one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from

him in peace.

GEN-26:32  And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's

servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had

digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

GEN-26:33  And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the

city [is] Beersheba unto this day.

GEN-26:34  And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife

Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the

daughter of Elon the Hittite:

GEN-26:35  Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

*GEN-27:1  And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his

eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his

eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him,

Behold, [here am] I.

GEN-27:2  And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day

of my death:

GEN-27:3  Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy

quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some]

venison;

GEN-27:4  And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring

[it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I

die.

GEN-27:5  And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son.

And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring

[it].

GEN-27:6  And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold,

I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

GEN-27:7  Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may

eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.

GEN-27:8  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that

which I command thee.

GEN-27:9  Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good

kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy

father, such as he loveth:

GEN-27:10  And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may

eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

GEN-27:11  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my

brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:

GEN-27:12  My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem

to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not

a blessing.

GEN-27:13  And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse,

my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].

GEN-27:14  And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his

mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father

loved.

GEN-27:15  And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son

Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon

Jacob her younger son:

GEN-27:16  And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon

his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

GEN-27:17  And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which

she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

GEN-27:18  And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and

he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?

GEN-27:19  And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy

firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I

pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

GEN-27:20  And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou

hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the

LORD thy God brought [it] to me.

GEN-27:21  And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee,

that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau

or not.

GEN-27:22  And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he

felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands

[are] the hands of Esau.

GEN-27:23  And he discerned him not, because his hands were

hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

GEN-27:24  And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said,

 I [am].

GEN-27:25  And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of

my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought

[it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and

he drank.

GEN-27:26  And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now,

and kiss me, my son.

GEN-27:27  And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the

smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell

of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath

blessed:

GEN-27:28  Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the

fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

GEN-27:29  Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee:

be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to

thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be]

he that blesseth thee.

GEN-27:30  And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end

of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the

presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from

his hunting.

GEN-27:31  And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it

unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise,

and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

GEN-27:32  And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art] thou?

And he said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

GEN-27:33  And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?

where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and

I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?

yea, [and] he shall be blessed.

GEN-27:34  And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried

with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,

Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.

GEN-27:35  And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath

taken away thy blessing.

GEN-27:36  And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he

hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright;

and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,

Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

GEN-27:37  And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have

made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for

servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what

shall I do now unto thee, my son?

GEN-27:38  And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one

blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And

Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

GEN-27:39  And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,

Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of

the dew of heaven from above;

GEN-27:40  And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy

brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the

dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

GEN-27:41  And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing

wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart,

The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay

my brother Jacob.

GEN-27:42  And these words of Esau her elder son were told to

Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said

unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth

comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.

GEN-27:43  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee

thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

GEN-27:44  And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's

fury turn away;

GEN-27:45  Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he

forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and

fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you

both in one day?

GEN-27:46  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life

because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the

daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of

the land, what good shall my life do me?

*GEN-28:1  And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged

him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the

daughters of Canaan.

GEN-28:2  Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy

mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the

daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

GEN-28:3  And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful,

and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

GEN-28:4  And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to

thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein

thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

GEN-28:5  And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram

unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,

Jacob's and Esau's mother.

GEN-28:6  When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent

him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that

as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not

take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

GEN-28:7  And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and

was gone to Padanaram;

GEN-28:8  And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased

not Isaac his father;

GEN-28:9  Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives

which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the

sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

GEN-28:10  And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward

Haran.

GEN-28:11  And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried

there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the

stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay

down in that place to sleep.

GEN-28:12  And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the

earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the

angels of God ascending and descending on it.

GEN-28:13  And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I

[am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:

the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy

seed;

GEN-28:14  And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and

thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to

the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall

all the families of the earth be blessed.

GEN-28:15  And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in

all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into

this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that]

which I have spoken to thee of.

GEN-28:16  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,

Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

GEN-28:17  And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this

place! this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is]

the gate of heaven.

GEN-28:18  And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the

stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a

pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

GEN-28:19  And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the

name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.

GEN-28:20  And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me,

 and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread

to eat, and raiment to put on,

GEN-28:21  So that I come again to my father's house in peace;

then shall the LORD be my God:

GEN-28:22  And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar,

shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will

surely give the tenth unto thee.

*GEN-29:1  Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the

land of the people of the east.

GEN-29:2  And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,

 there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that

well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the

well's mouth.

GEN-29:3  And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they

rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,

and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.

GEN-29:4  And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye?

And they said, Of Haran [are] we.

GEN-29:5  And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?

And they said, We know [him].

GEN-29:6  And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said,

[He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the

sheep.

GEN-29:7  And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it]

time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the

sheep, and go [and] feed [them].

GEN-29:8  And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be

gathered together, and [till] they roll the stone from the

well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

GEN-29:9  And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her

father's sheep: for she kept them.

GEN-29:10  And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the

daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban

his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone

from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his

mother's brother.

GEN-29:11  And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and

wept.

GEN-29:12  And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's

brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told

her father.

GEN-29:13  And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of

Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced

him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told

Laban all these things.

GEN-29:14  And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and

my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

GEN-29:15  And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my

brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me,

what [shall] thy wages [be]?

GEN-29:16  And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder

[was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

GEN-29:17  Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and

well favoured.

GEN-29:18  And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee

seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

GEN-29:19  And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to

thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

GEN-29:20  And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they

seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.

GEN-29:21  And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my

days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

GEN-29:22  And Laban gathered together all the men of the place,

and made a feast.

GEN-29:23  And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah

his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

GEN-29:24  And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid

[for] an handmaid.

GEN-29:25  And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it

[was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done

unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then

hast thou beguiled me?

GEN-29:26  And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country,

 to give the younger before the firstborn.

GEN-29:27  Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for

the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

GEN-29:28  And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave

him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

GEN-29:29  And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his

handmaid to be her maid.

GEN-29:30  And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also

Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

GEN-29:31  And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he

opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

GEN-29:32  And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called

his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon

my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

GEN-29:33  And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath

therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name

Simeon.

GEN-29:34  And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have

born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

GEN-29:35  And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said,

 Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;

 and left bearing.

*GEN-30:1  And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,

Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children,

or else I die.

GEN-30:2  And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he

said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the

fruit of the womb?

GEN-30:3  And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her;

and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children

by her.

GEN-30:4  And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and

Jacob went in unto her.

GEN-30:5  And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

GEN-30:6  And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also

heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she

his name Dan.

GEN-30:7  And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare

Jacob a second son.

GEN-30:8  And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled

with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name

Naphtali.

GEN-30:9  When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took

Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

GEN-30:10  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

GEN-30:11  And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his

name Gad.

GEN-30:12  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

GEN-30:13  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will

call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

GEN-30:14  And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and

found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother

Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy

son's mandrakes.

GEN-30:15  And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that

thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's

mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with

thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

GEN-30:16  And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and

Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me;

for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay

with her that night.

GEN-30:17  And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and

bare Jacob the fifth son.

GEN-30:18  And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I

have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name

Issachar.

GEN-30:19  And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth

son.

GEN-30:20  And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry;

 now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six

sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

GEN-30:21  And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her

name Dinah.

GEN-30:22  And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,

and opened her womb.

GEN-30:23  And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath

taken away my reproach:

GEN-30:24  And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD

shall add to me another son.

GEN-30:25  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.

GEN-30:26  Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have

served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I

have done thee.

GEN-30:27  And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found

favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience

that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

GEN-30:28  And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give

[it].

GEN-30:29  And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served

thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

GEN-30:30  For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came],

and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath

blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for

mine own house also?

GEN-30:31  And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said,

Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for

me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock.

GEN-30:32  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.

GEN-30:33  So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to

come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one

that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown

among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

GEN-30:34  And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according

to thy word.

GEN-30:35  And he removed that day the he goats that were

ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were

speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in

it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the

hand of his sons.

GEN-30:36  And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and

Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

GEN-30:37  And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the

hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and

made the white appear which [was] in the rods.

GEN-30:38  And he set the rods which he had pilled before the

flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks

came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

GEN-30:39  And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought

forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

GEN-30:40  And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces

of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the

flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put

them not unto Laban's cattle.

GEN-30:41  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.

GEN-30:42  But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in:

 so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

GEN-30:43  And the man increased exceedingly, and had much

cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

*GEN-31:1  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.

GEN-31:2  And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold,

 it [was] not toward him as before.

GEN-31:3  And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of

thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

GEN-31:4  And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field

unto his flock,

GEN-31:5  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.

GEN-31:6  And ye know that with all my power I have served your

father.

GEN-31:7  And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages

ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

GEN-31:8  If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then

all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The

ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle

ringstreaked.

GEN-31:9  Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father,

and given [them] to me.

GEN-31:10  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]

ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled.

GEN-31:11  And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,

[saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.

GEN-31:12  And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the

rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstreaked, speckled,

and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

GEN-31:13  I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the

pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get

thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

GEN-31:14  And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is

there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's

house?

GEN-31:15  Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold

us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

GEN-31:16  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.

GEN-31:17  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives

upon camels;

GEN-31:18  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 Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land

of Canaan.

GEN-31:19  And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had

stolen the images that [were] her father's.

GEN-31:20  And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in

that he told him not that he fled.

GEN-31:21  So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and

passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount

Gilead.

GEN-31:22  And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was

fled.

GEN-31:23  And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after

him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount

Gilead.

GEN-31:24  And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night,

and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either

good or bad.

GEN-31:25  Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his

tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the

mount of Gilead.

GEN-31:26  And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that

thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my

daughters, as captives [taken] with the sword?

GEN-31:27  Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal

away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee

away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

GEN-31:28  And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my

daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.

GEN-31:29  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.

GEN-31:30  And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone,

because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet]

wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

GEN-31:31  And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was

afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy

daughters from me.

GEN-31:32  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.

GEN-31:33  And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's

tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found [them]

not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's

tent.

GEN-31:34  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.

GEN-31:35  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.

GEN-31:36  And Jacob was wroth, and chided 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?

GEN-31:37  Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast

thou found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before my

brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

GEN-31:38  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.

GEN-31:39  That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto

thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,

[whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.

GEN-31:40  [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and

the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

GEN-31:41  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.

GEN-31:42  Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and

the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me

away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of

my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.

GEN-31:43  And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These]

daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my

children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou

seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my

daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

GEN-31:44  Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I

and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

GEN-31:45  And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.

GEN-31:46  And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and

they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon

the heap.

GEN-31:47  And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called

it Galeed.

GEN-31:48  And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me

and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

GEN-31:49  And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me

and thee, when we are absent one from another.

GEN-31:50  If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt

take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see,

 God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.

GEN-31:51  And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold

[this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

GEN-31:52  This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be]

witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that

thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for

harm.

GEN-31:53  The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of

their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of

his father Isaac.

GEN-31:54  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.

GEN-31:55  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.

*GEN-32:1  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met

him.

GEN-32:2  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host:

 and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

GEN-32:3  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his

brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

GEN-32:4  And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak

unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have

sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

GEN-32:5  And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants,

and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may

find grace in thy sight.

GEN-32:6  And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came

to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four

hundred men with him.

GEN-32:7  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he

divided the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and

herds, and the camels, into two bands;

GEN-32:8  And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite

it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

GEN-32:9  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:

GEN-32:10  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and

of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for

with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two

bands.

GEN-32:11  Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,

from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and

smite me, [and] the mother with the children.

GEN-32:12  And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make

thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for

multitude.

GEN-32:13  And he lodged there that same night; and took of that

which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

GEN-32:14  Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two

hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

GEN-32:15  Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and

ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

GEN-32:16  And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants,

 every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass

over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

GEN-32:17  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?

GEN-32:18  Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's;

it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he

[is] behind us.

GEN-32:19  And so commanded he the second, and the third, and

all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye

speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

GEN-32:20  And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is]

behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that

goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure

he will accept of me.

GEN-32:21  So went the present over before him: and himself

lodged that night in the company.

GEN-32:22  And he rose up that night, and took his two wives,

and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over

the ford Jabbok.

GEN-32:23  And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and

sent over that he had.

GEN-32:24  And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man

with him until the breaking of the day.

GEN-32:25  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.

GEN-32:26  And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he

said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

GEN-32:27  And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said,

 Jacob.

GEN-32:28  And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,

but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with

men, and hast prevailed.

GEN-32:29  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.

GEN-32:30  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I

have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

GEN-32:31  And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him,

and he halted upon his thigh.

GEN-32:32  Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the

sinew which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh,

unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in

the sinew that shrank.

*GEN-33:1  And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,

 Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the

children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

GEN-33:2  And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,

and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph

hindermost.

GEN-33:3  And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to

the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

GEN-33:4  And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell