Genesis
Verses from the book of Genesis
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:4
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:5
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together in one gathering, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Read commentary →Genesis 1:16
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:21
God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:22
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:25
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:26
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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:29
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:30
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:2
On the sixth day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:4
This is the history of 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.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:6
but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the Lord God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:10
A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Read commentary →Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:15
The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:16
The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
Read commentary →Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Read commentary →Genesis 2:19
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:21
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:23
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Read commentary →Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
Read commentary →Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:7
The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:8
They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:11
God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
Read commentary →Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:13
The Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:1
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the Lord's help."
Read commentary →Genesis 4:2
Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:3
As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:4
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The Lord respected Abel and his offering,
Read commentary →Genesis 4:6
The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
Read commentary →Genesis 4:8
Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:9
The Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Read commentary →Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:14
Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
Read commentary →Genesis 4:15
The Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:16
Cain went out from the Lord's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:18
To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:22
Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:24
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
Read commentary →Genesis 4:25
Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
Read commentary →Genesis 4:26
There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the Lord's name.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:3
Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:18
Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:25
Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:28
Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
Read commentary →Genesis 5:30
Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:32
Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:1
It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Read commentary →Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
Read commentary →Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:5
The Lord 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.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:7
The Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
Read commentary →Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:14
Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:15
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:16
You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:17
I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:19
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:21
Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
Read commentary →Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:2
You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:3
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:4
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
Read commentary →Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:7
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:8
Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Read commentary →Genesis 7:10
It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:13
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;
Read commentary →Genesis 7:15
They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:16
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:17
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:18
The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:19
The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:20
The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:21
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:23
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:4
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:5
The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:6
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Read commentary →Genesis 8:8
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Read commentary →Genesis 8:10
He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:12
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:13
It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:14
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 8:18
Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:21
The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:2
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:5
I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:7
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:11
I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:12
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:
Read commentary →Genesis 9:14
It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Read commentary →Genesis 9:16
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:17
God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:18
The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:21
He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:24
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:25
He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
Read commentary →Genesis 9:26
He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:27
May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
Read commentary →Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:5
No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Read commentary →Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
Read commentary →Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
Read commentary →Genesis 2:22
He made the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
Read commentary →Genesis 3:5
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:10
The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:18
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
Read commentary →Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Read commentary →Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:5
but he did not respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
Read commentary →Genesis 4:10
The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Read commentary →Genesis 4:12
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:4
The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:5
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:7
Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:13
Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
Read commentary →Genesis 5:16
Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:17
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:19
Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:20
All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:27
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Read commentary →Genesis 5:29
and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed."
Read commentary →Genesis 5:31
All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:2
that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:9
went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:14
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:2
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:3
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:7
and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:9
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:11
The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:16
"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:9
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
Read commentary →Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:13
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:15
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:5
Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:8
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord."
Read commentary →Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:11
Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Read commentary →Genesis 10:14
Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:18
the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:19
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:21
To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:24
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:30
Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:2
It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:3
They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:4
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 11:5
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:6
The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Read commentary →Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there, the Lord scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:10
This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:11
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:13
Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:15
and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:17
Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:19
Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:21
Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:23
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:25
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:26
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:27
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:28
Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:29
Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
Read commentary →Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
Read commentary →Genesis 12:4
So Abram went, as the Lord had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:8
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:10
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:11
It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:12
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:13
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
Read commentary →Genesis 12:14
It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:15
The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:16
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:17
The Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Read commentary →Genesis 12:19
Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
Read commentary →Genesis 12:20
Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:1
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:3
He went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Read commentary →Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:6
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:7
There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:9
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Read commentary →Genesis 13:10
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:14
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Read commentary →Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Read commentary →Genesis 13:17
Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
Read commentary →Genesis 13:18
Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:1
It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Read commentary →Genesis 14:2
that they 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 (the same is Zoar).
Read commentary →Genesis 14:3
All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
Read commentary →Genesis 14:4
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Read commentary →Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:7
They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:8
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) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
Read commentary →Genesis 14:9
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:11
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:12
They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:13
One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:15
He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:16
He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:17
The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Read commentary →Genesis 14:18
Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:19
He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
Read commentary →Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Read commentary →Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
Read commentary →Genesis 14:22
Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the Lord, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Read commentary →Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
Read commentary →Genesis 14:24
I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:2
Abram said, "Lord God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Read commentary →Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:4
Behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:5
The Lord brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:6
He believed in the Lord; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:7
He said to him, "I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:9
He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:10
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:11
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:12
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:14
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
Read commentary →Genesis 15:15
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
Read commentary →Genesis 15:17
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Read commentary →Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Read commentary →Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:3
Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:4
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The Lord judge between me and you."
Read commentary →Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:8
He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
Read commentary →Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
Read commentary →Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
Read commentary →Genesis 16:11
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:12
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
Read commentary →Genesis 16:13
She called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
Read commentary →Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Read commentary →Genesis 16:15
Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:2
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
Read commentary →Genesis 17:4
"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:5
Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:8
I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
Read commentary →Genesis 17:9
God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:11
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:12
He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:13
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:14
The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
Read commentary →Genesis 17:15
God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
Read commentary →Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
Read commentary →Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
Read commentary →Genesis 17:23
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:25
Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:26
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
Read commentary →Genesis 17:27
All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Read commentary →Genesis 18:3
and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not go away from your servant.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:5
I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:7
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:9
They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:10
Then he said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Read commentary →Genesis 18:13
The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
Read commentary →Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:15
Then Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:16
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:18
seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Read commentary →Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:20
The Lord said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Read commentary →Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:22
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:23
Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Read commentary →Genesis 18:24
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Read commentary →Genesis 18:25
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Read commentary →Genesis 18:26
The Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Read commentary →Genesis 18:28
What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:29
He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:30
He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:31
He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:32
He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 18:33
The Lord went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Read commentary →Genesis 19:2
and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:3
He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:5
They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:9
They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:10
But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:12
The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
Read commentary →Genesis 19:13
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:15
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:16
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, the Lord being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"
Read commentary →Genesis 19:19
See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:20
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:21
He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of the sky.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:25
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:27
Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:28
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:29
It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:30
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:31
The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:32
Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:33
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:34
It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
Read commentary →Genesis 19:35
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:37
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Read commentary →Genesis 19:38
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:1
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
Read commentary →Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
Read commentary →Genesis 20:5
Did not he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
Read commentary →Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:7
Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you do not restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
Read commentary →Genesis 20:8
Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
Read commentary →Genesis 20:10
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
Read commentary →Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
Read commentary →Genesis 20:12
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:13
It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
Read commentary →Genesis 20:14
Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:15
Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."
Read commentary →Genesis 20:16
To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."
Read commentary →Genesis 20:17
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Read commentary →Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:1
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:2
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:3
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:4
Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:5
Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:7
She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:8
The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:9
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:10
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:11
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:13
I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:14
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:15
The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:16
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Do not let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:17
God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:18
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:19
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:22
It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:23
Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:26
Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:29
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
Read commentary →Genesis 21:30
He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
Read commentary →Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:32
So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
Read commentary →Genesis 21:34
Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:1
It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:2
He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:3
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:5
Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:7
Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Read commentary →Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:9
They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:10
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:11
The angel of the Lord called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:12
He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:13
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:14
Abraham called the name of that place the Lord Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On the Lord's mountain, it will be provided."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:15
The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
Read commentary →Genesis 22:16
and said, "I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Read commentary →Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:18
In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Read commentary →Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:20
It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Read commentary →Genesis 22:23
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Read commentary →Genesis 22:24
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:1
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:2
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:3
Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 23:4
"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:6
"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:8
He talked 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,
Read commentary →Genesis 23:9
that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 23:11
"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:13
He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:15
"My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
Read commentary →Genesis 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:17
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
Read commentary →Genesis 23:18
to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 23:20
The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:1
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. The Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:3
I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:4
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:5
The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
Read commentary →Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not bring my son there again.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:8
If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:12
He said, "O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:13
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:14
Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'-let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:15
It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:18
She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:19
When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:20
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:21
The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:22
It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Read commentary →Genesis 24:23
and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
Read commentary →Genesis 24:24
She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:25
She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:27
He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:29
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:30
It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:31
He said, "Come in, you blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:32
The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:33
Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:35
The Lord has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:36
Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:37
My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Read commentary →Genesis 24:38
but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
Read commentary →Genesis 24:40
He said to me, 'The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:41
Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they do not give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
Read commentary →Genesis 24:42
I came this day to the spring, and said, 'The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go-
Read commentary →Genesis 24:43
behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
Read commentary →Genesis 24:44
and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"-let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.'
Read commentary →Genesis 24:45
Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
Read commentary →Genesis 24:46
She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:47
I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:48
I bowed my head, and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:49
Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the Lord. We can't speak to you bad or good.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has spoken."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:52
It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:53
The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:54
They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:55
Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:56
He said to them, "Do not hinder me, seeing the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:58
They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:59
They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
Read commentary →Genesis 24:61
Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:62
Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the Negev.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:63
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:64
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:65
She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
Read commentary →Genesis 24:67
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:3
Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:4
The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:6
but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:7
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:8
Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
Read commentary →Genesis 25:10
the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:11
It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:12
Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Read commentary →Genesis 25:16
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:17
These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:18
They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:19
This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:21
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. The Lord was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:22
The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the Lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:23
The Lord said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:24
When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:25
The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:26
After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:27
The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:28
Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:29
Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:32
Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
Read commentary →Genesis 25:33
Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
Read commentary →Genesis 25:34
Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:2
The Lord appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
Read commentary →Genesis 26:5
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:7
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:8
It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:9
Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
Read commentary →Genesis 26:11
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:12
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The Lord blessed him.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:13
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:14
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:15
Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:16
Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:17
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:18
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:19
Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:21
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:22
He left that place, and dug another well. They did not argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:24
The Lord appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:25
He built an altar there, and called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:26
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:27
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Read commentary →Genesis 26:28
They said, "We saw plainly that the Lord was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
Read commentary →Genesis 26:29
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of the Lord."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:31
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:32
It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
Read commentary →Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Read commentary →Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:1
It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:3
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:4
Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:5
Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:6
Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 27:7
'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before my death.'
Read commentary →Genesis 27:8
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:9
Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:10
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:11
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:12
What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:13
His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:14
He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:15
Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:16
She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:17
She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:18
He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
Read commentary →Genesis 27:19
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:20
Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because the Lord your God gave me success."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:21
Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:22
Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:23
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:25
He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:27
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:28
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:30
It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:31
He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:32
Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:33
Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:34
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:35
He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:36
He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
Read commentary →Genesis 27:37
Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
Read commentary →Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:39
Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:40
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:41
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Read commentary →Genesis 27:42
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Read commentary →Genesis 27:45
until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
Read commentary →Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
Read commentary →Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
Read commentary →Genesis 28:4
and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
Read commentary →Genesis 28:5
Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
Read commentary →Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:8
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac, his father.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:11
He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:12
He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:13
Behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
Read commentary →Genesis 28:16
Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it."
Read commentary →Genesis 28:17
He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
Read commentary →Genesis 28:18
Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Read commentary →Genesis 28:20
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 clothing to put on,
Read commentary →Genesis 28:21
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and the Lord will be my God,
Read commentary →Genesis 28:22
then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:2
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:3
There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:4
Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:5
He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:6
He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:7
He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:8
They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:9
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:10
It happened, 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.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:12
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:13
It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
Read commentary →Genesis 29:16
Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:17
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:19
Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:21
Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:23
It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:25
It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
Read commentary →Genesis 29:26
Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:27
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:29
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:30
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:31
The Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because the Lord has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
Read commentary →Genesis 29:33
She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:34
She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
Read commentary →Genesis 29:35
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise the Lord." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:2
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Read commentary →Genesis 30:3
She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:7
Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:8
Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:13
Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:14
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:15
She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:16
Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:17
God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:18
Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:20
Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:22
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:23
She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:25
It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:27
Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the Lord has blessed me for your sake."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:29
He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:30
For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
Read commentary →Genesis 30:31
He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:32
I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:33
So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
Read commentary →Genesis 30:35
That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:36
He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:37
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:38
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:39
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:40
Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them into Laban's flock.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:41
It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
Read commentary →Genesis 30:42
but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Read commentary →Genesis 30:43
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:1
He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:2
Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:5
and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:8
If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:10
It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:11
The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
Read commentary →Genesis 31:12
He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Read commentary →Genesis 31:15
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:18
and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:19
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:20
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he was running away.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:21
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:23
He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:24
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:25
Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:26
Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Read commentary →Genesis 31:27
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
Read commentary →Genesis 31:28
and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
Read commentary →Genesis 31:30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
Read commentary →Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
Read commentary →Genesis 31:32
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:33
Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:35
She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:36
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
Read commentary →Genesis 31:37
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:39
That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:40
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:43
Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Read commentary →Genesis 31:44
Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:48
Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
Read commentary →Genesis 31:49
and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
Read commentary →Genesis 31:51
Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:52
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:54
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
Read commentary →Genesis 31:55
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:2
When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:3
Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:4
He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:5
I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 32:6
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Read commentary →Genesis 32:8
and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:9
Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
Read commentary →Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:11
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:12
You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 32:13
He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
Read commentary →Genesis 32:14
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Read commentary →Genesis 32:15
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:16
He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:17
He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
Read commentary →Genesis 32:18
Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 32:19
He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:20
You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:21
So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:22
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:23
He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:24
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:26
The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:28
He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:29
Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:30
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
Read commentary →Genesis 32:31
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
Read commentary →Genesis 32:32
Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:1
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:2
He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:3
He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:4
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:5
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:6
Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:7
Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:8
Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:9
Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:11
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:12
Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:13
Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:14
Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:15
Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
Read commentary →Genesis 33:17
Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:18
Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Read commentary →Genesis 33:19
He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:1
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:2
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:3
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:4
Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
Read commentary →Genesis 34:5
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:7
The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:8
Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:9
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
Read commentary →Genesis 34:11
Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:12
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
Read commentary →Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Read commentary →Genesis 34:14
and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:15
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
Read commentary →Genesis 34:16
then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:17
But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."
Read commentary →Genesis 34:19
The young man did not wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:20
Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 34:21
"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:22
Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:23
Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
Read commentary →Genesis 34:24
All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:25
It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:26
They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:27
Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:28
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
Read commentary →Genesis 34:29
and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
Read commentary →Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:3
Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:4
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:5
They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:6
So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:7
He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:8
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:9
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:10
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:11
God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:12
The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:15
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."
Read commentary →Genesis 35:18
It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:19
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
Read commentary →Genesis 35:20
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:22
It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:27
Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Read commentary →Genesis 35:29
Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Read commentary →Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Read commentary →Genesis 36:5
Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 36:6
Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Read commentary →Genesis 36:7
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.
Read commentary →Genesis 36:9
This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
Read commentary →Genesis 36:10
these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
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Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
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These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
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chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
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These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
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These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
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The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.
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These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
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These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
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These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
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These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
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These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
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chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
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These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
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Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
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Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
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Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
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Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
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Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
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These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
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chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
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Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
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This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
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His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
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Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
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for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
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His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
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He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
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He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
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Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
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He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
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A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
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He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
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The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
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They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
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Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
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Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
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Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
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It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
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and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
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Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.
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Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
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Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
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He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"
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They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
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They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
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He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
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Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
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All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
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The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
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It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
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Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
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She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
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Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord. The Lord killed him.
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Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
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Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
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The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he killed him also.
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Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
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After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
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It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
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When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
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He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
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He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
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He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
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She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.
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Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
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He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
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Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
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It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
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When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these-the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
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Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
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It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
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When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
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It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
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Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
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The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
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His master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did prosper in his hand.
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Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
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It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
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He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He did not concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
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It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
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But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
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He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
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As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he did not listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
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About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
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She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
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When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
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she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
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It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
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She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
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and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
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It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
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Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
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But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
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The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
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The keeper of the prison did not look after anything that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him; and that which he did, the Lord made it prosper.
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It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
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He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
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The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
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They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
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Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
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He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
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They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
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The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
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and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.
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Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
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Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
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Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
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But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
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For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
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In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
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Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
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Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
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It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
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He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
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It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.
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Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
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Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
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The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
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He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
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Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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The thin heads of grain blasted with the east wind swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
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It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
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Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
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Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
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We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
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There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
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It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
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Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "Without God an answer of welfare shall not be given to Pharaoh."
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Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
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and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
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and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
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and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
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I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
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and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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The seven thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
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The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
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The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
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That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
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There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
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and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
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The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
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"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
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Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.
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Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
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The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."
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The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
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You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
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Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
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and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
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Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
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He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
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Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
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To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
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The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
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The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
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The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Read commentary →Genesis 41:56
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Genesis 41:57
All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Read commentary →Genesis 42:2
He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:5
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:6
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:7
Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:10
They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:11
We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:12
He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:13
They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:14
Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'
Read commentary →Genesis 42:15
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:16
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:21
They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:22
Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'Do not sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:23
They did not know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:24
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:25
Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:26
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:27
As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:28
He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
Read commentary →Genesis 42:29
They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 42:30
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
Read commentary →Genesis 42:33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 42:35
It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Read commentary →Genesis 42:36
Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:37
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I do not bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."
Read commentary →Genesis 42:38
He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:2
It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:3
Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
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but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 43:6
Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
Read commentary →Genesis 43:7
They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
Read commentary →Genesis 43:8
Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:9
I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I do not bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,
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for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:11
Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
Read commentary →Genesis 43:12
and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:15
The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:16
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:17
The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:18
The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:19
They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
Read commentary →Genesis 43:20
and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:21
When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:22
We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:23
He said, "Peace be to you. Do not be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:24
The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:25
They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:27
He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Read commentary →Genesis 43:28
They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:29
He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:30
Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:31
He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."
Read commentary →Genesis 43:32
They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians do not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:33
They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
Read commentary →Genesis 43:34
He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:1
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:2
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:3
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:4
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
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Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 44:7
They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
Read commentary →Genesis 44:8
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
Read commentary →Genesis 44:9
With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
Read commentary →Genesis 44:10
He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
Read commentary →Genesis 44:11
Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:12
He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:13
Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:14
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
Read commentary →Genesis 44:16
Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
Read commentary →Genesis 44:17
He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
Read commentary →Genesis 44:18
Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:20
We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:21
You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:22
We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:23
You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:24
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:26
We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
Read commentary →Genesis 44:28
and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:30
Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
Read commentary →Genesis 44:31
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:32
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'
Read commentary →Genesis 44:33
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Read commentary →Genesis 44:34
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
Read commentary →Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:3
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:4
Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:5
Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:8
So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:9
Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Do not wait.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:11
There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
Read commentary →Genesis 45:12
Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
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You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."
Read commentary →Genesis 45:14
He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:15
He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:16
The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:17
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:18
Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
Read commentary →Genesis 45:19
Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:20
Also, do not concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."
Read commentary →Genesis 45:21
The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:22
He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:23
To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:24
So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you do not quarrel on the way."
Read commentary →Genesis 45:25
They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:26
They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he did not believe them.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:27
They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
Read commentary →Genesis 45:28
Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Read commentary →Genesis 46:1
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:2
God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
Read commentary →Genesis 46:3
He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
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I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
Read commentary →Genesis 46:5
Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:6
They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt-Jacob, and all his seed with him,
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his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:8
These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:10
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
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The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
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The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:18
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:20
To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. And there were sons born to Manasseh, which the Aramean concubine bore to him: Machir. And Machir begot Gilead. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasseh: Shuthelah and Tahan. And the sons of Shuthelah: Eran
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And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel. And the sons of Bela were: Gera and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim. And Gera begot Ard.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:22
These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were eighteen.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:26
All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:27
The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were nine souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy-five.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:28
He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:29
Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:30
Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
Read commentary →Genesis 46:31
Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Read commentary →Genesis 46:32
These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
Read commentary →Genesis 46:33
It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'
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that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:1
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:2
From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
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Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:4
They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:5
Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
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The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:7
Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:8
Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
Read commentary →Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:11
Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:12
Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:13
There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:14
Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:15
When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:16
Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:17
They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:18
When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:19
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:20
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:21
As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:22
Only he did not buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:24
It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:25
They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:27
Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:28
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
Read commentary →Genesis 47:29
The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
Read commentary →Genesis 47:30
but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."
Read commentary →Genesis 47:31
He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:1
It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:2
Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Read commentary →Genesis 48:4
and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
Read commentary →Genesis 48:5
Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:6
Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:9
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:10
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:11
Israel said to Joseph, "I did not think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:12
Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:13
Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:14
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:15
He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
Read commentary →Genesis 48:16
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:17
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:18
Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
Read commentary →Genesis 48:20
He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:21
Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Read commentary →Genesis 48:22
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
Read commentary →Genesis 49:1
Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:2
Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:3
"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:4
Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:6
My soul, do not come into their council. My glory, do not be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:8
"Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
Read commentary →Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:13
"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:15
He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:17
Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:22
"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:23
The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:
Read commentary →Genesis 49:24
But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
Read commentary →Genesis 49:25
even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:26
The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:27
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
Read commentary →Genesis 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:29
He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Read commentary →Genesis 49:30
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
Read commentary →Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
Read commentary →Genesis 49:32
the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."
Read commentary →Genesis 49:33
When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:2
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:3
Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:4
When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 50:5
'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
Read commentary →Genesis 50:6
Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."
Read commentary →Genesis 50:7
Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Read commentary →Genesis 50:8
all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:9
There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:10
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:11
When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:13
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:14
Joseph returned into Egypt-he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:15
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."
Read commentary →Genesis 50:16
They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,
Read commentary →Genesis 50:17
'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:18
His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
Read commentary →Genesis 50:19
Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
Read commentary →Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:21
Now therefore do not be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:22
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:23
Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
Read commentary →Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Read commentary →Genesis 50:25
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
Read commentary →Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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