Jacob's vision at Mahanaim. BEFORE CHRIST 1739. b ch. 28. 1. c ch. 18. 33. & 30. 25. a Ps. 91. 11. Heb. 1. 14. Ps. 103. 21. & 148. 2. Luke 2. 13. GENESIS, XXXII. He wrestleth with an angel. 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. BEFORE CHRIST 1739. r ch. 28. 13, 14, 15. 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esauch. 43. 11. his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the AND Jacob went on his way, and hand of his servants, every drove by the angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob saw them, he Josh. 5.14. said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place 2 Mahanaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: 2 That is, dch.36.6,7,8. (ch. 30. 43. 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my sch.33.8,15. lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. themselves; and said unto his ser- 17 And he commanded the fore- 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. Prov. 18. 16. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the present over before are him: and himself lodged that night in the company. 2 Heb. my Job 42. 8, 9. a Deut. 3.16. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, "and passed over the ford Jabbok. 23 And he took them, and sent & Heb. them over the brook, and sent over that he had. 24 T And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the 'breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. The kindness of Jacob a ch. 32. 6. b ch. 18. 2. & 42. 6. & 43. 26. c ch. 32. 28. vailed. be called no more Jacob, but 2 Israel: | thee, if now I have found grace in thy 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, e 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAPTER XXXIII. 1 The kindness of Jacob and Esau at their ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and 2 And he put the handmaids and 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and dch. 45. 14, embraced him, and fell on his neck, 15. 4 Heb. to thee? e ch. 48. 9. Ps. 127. 3. Is. 8. 18. and kissed him: and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. е 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 he said, What 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said unto him, My lord 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass 15 And Esau said, Let me now 4leave with thee some of the folk thatch. 32. 3. are with me. And he said, "What needeth it? mlet me find grace in the sight of my lord. 16 T So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. or, place." Heb. Wherefore is this! m ch. 34. 11. & 47. 25. Ruth 2. 13. 27. Ps. 60. 6. 17 And Jacob journeyed to "Suc-Josh. 13. coth, and built him an house, and Judg. 8. 5. made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called • Succoth. 6 That is, Booths. What is all by all this drove which meanest thou A Leah, winch the daughter of ach. 30. 31. The sons of Jacob BEFORE CHRIST cir. 1782. ? Heb. to GENESIS, XXXIV. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the heart of the damsel. the damsel: See Is. 40.2. Hos. 2. 14. e Judg. 14. 2. 2 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: 1 Sam. 10. and Jacob 'held his peace until they 27. were come. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; 'which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and m get you possessions therein. 11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 12 Ask me never so much "dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: 14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for P Josh. 5.9. Pthat were a reproach unto us: 15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. slay the Shechemites. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 1732. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the 91 Chron. house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 4. 9. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of 2 Heb. the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have "troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? mouth. t ch. 49. 6. Josh. 7.25. 1 Sam. 13.4. Deut. 4.27. x Ex. 5. 21. Ps. 105. 12. Jacob's name is changed. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 1732. a eh. 28. 19. b ch. 28. 13. ech. 27.43. d ch. 18. 19. Josh. 24.15. 34. ch. 31. 19, Josh. 24. 2, 1 Sam. 7.3. 23. f Exod. 19. 10. g ch. 32. 7, 24. Ps. 107. 6. & 31. 3, 42. GENESIS, XXXV. CHAPTER XXXV. I God sendeth Jacob to Beth-el. 2 He purgeth his house of idols. 6 He buildeth an altar at Beth-el. 8 Deborah dieth at Allon-bachuth. 9 God blesseth Jacob at Beth-cl. 16 Rachel travaileth of Benjamin, and dieth in the way to Edar. 22 Reuben lieth with Bilhah. 23 The sons of Jacob. 27 Jacob cometh to Isaac at Hebron. 28 The age, death, and burial of Isaac. A ND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacobsaid unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, hand was b ch. 28. 20. with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their I Hos. 2. 13. hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. k Josh. 24. 26. Judg. 9. 6. 1 Exod. 15. 16. & 23. 27. & 34. 24. Deut. 11. 25. Josh. 2. 9. & 5. 1. 1 Sam. 14. 15. 2 Chr. 14. 14. m ch. 28. 19, 22. n Eccles. 5. 4. 2 That is, i 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6 ¶ So Jacob came to m Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he "built there an altar, and called the place 2 El-beth-el: because The God of there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. The sons of Jacob. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 14 And Jacob "set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. 16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of chel's grave unto this day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. 22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and flay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: g 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. 27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the icity of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourn ed. 28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. d 1 Sam. 10. Esau's generations. BRFORB CHRIST cir. 1796. cir. 1796. ch. 25. 30. b ch. 26. 34. c ver. 25. cir. 1760. d ch. 28. 9. e1 Chr.1.35. cir. 1740. ? Heb.souls. ch. 13. 6, u.. ch. 17. 8. & 28. 4. h ch. 32. 3. Deut. 2. 5. Josh. 24. 4. i ver. 1. 3 Heb. Edom. k1 Chr. 1. 35, &c. Or, Zephi. 1 Chr. 1.36. 14. GENESIS, XXXVI. CHAPTER XXXVI. 1 Esau's three wives. 6 His removing to mount Seir. 9 His sons. 15 The dukes which descended of his sons. 20 The sons and dukes of Seir. 24 Anah findeth mules. 31 The kings of Edom. 40 The dukes that descended of Esau. No OW these are the generations of 2 b Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; 3 And d Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the 2 persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. 7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. 8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. 9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to EL 17.8, Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife. Num. 24.20. 1 Sam. 15. 2, 3, &c. cir. 1715. 1 13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 14 T And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. 15 T These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, 16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and The sons and dukes of Seir. duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. 17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes. 20 ¶ m These are the sons of Seir "the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, Or, and Ithran, and Cheran. 27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. 28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran. 29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. |