thou shalt say: They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto Esau; and, behold, he also is behind us.' 20And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; land ye shall say: 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 me.' 22So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

23 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.' Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps. And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.' 10And Jacob said: 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good; "I am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shown unto Thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two camps. 12Deliver me, I pray Thee, And he took them, and sent them from the hand of my brother, from over the stream, and sent over that the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest which he had. 25And Jacob was left he come and smite me, the mother alone; and there wrestled a man with with the children. 13 And Thou saidst: him until the breaking of the day. I will surely do thee good, and make 26And when he saw that he prevailed thy seed as the sand of the sea, which not against him, he touched the hollow cannot be numbered for multitude.' of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's 14And he lodged there that night; and thigh was strained, as he wrestled took of that which he had with him with him. 27And he said: 'Let me a present for Esau his brother: 15two go, for the day breaketh.' And he hundred she-goats and twenty he said: 'I will not let thee go, except goats, two hundred ewes and twenty thou bless me.' 28 And he said unto rams, 16thirty milch camels and their him: 'What is thy name?' And he colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty said: 'Jacob.' 29And he said: "Thy she-asses and ten foals. 17And he de- name shall be called no more Jacob, livered them into the hand of his but "Israel; for thou hast striven with servants, every drove by itself; and God and with men, and hast prevailed.' said unto his servants: 'Pass over 30And Jacob asked him, and said: before me, and put a space betwixt 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And drove and drove.' 18 And he com- he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou manded the foremost, saying: 'When dost ask after my name?' And he Esau my brother meeteth thee, and blessed him there. And Jacob called asketh thee, saying: Whose art the name of the place Peniel: 'for thou? and whither goest thou? and I have seen God face to face, and whose are these before thee? 19then my life is preserved.' 32And the That is, He who striveth with God. b That is, The face of God.

sun rose upon him as he passed over dealt graciously with me, and because Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh. I have enough.' And he urged him, Therefore the children of Israel and he took it. 12And he said: 'Let

Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel then will we take our daughter, and to wife.' Now Jacob heard that he we will be gone.' 18And their words had defiled Dinah his daughter; and pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's his sons were with his cattle in the son. 19And the young man deferred field; and Jacob held his peace until not to do the thing, because he had they came. "And Hamor the father of delight in Jacob's daughter. And he Shechem went out unto Jacob to was honoured above all the house of speak with him. And the sons of his father. 20And Hamor and Shechem Jacob came in from the field when his son came unto the gate of their they heard it; and the men were city, and spoke with the men of their grieved, and they were very wroth, city, saying: 'These men are peacebecause he had wrought a vile deed in able with us; therefore let them dwell Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; in the land, and trade therein; for, which thing ought not to be done. behold, the land is large enough for And Hamor spoke with them, saying: them; let us take their daughters "The soul of my son Shechem longeth to us for wives, and let us give them for your daughter. I pray you give our daughters. 22Only on this conher unto him to wife. And make ye dition will the men consent unto us marriages with us; give your daughters to dwell with us, to become one people, unto us, and take our daughters unto if every male among us be circumyou. And ye shall dwell with us; cised, as they are circumcised. "Shall and the land shall be before you; not their cattle and their substance dwell and trade ye therein, and get and all their beasts be ours? only let you possessions therein.' And She- us consent unto them, and they will chem said unto her father and unto dwell with us.' And unto Hamor her brethren: 'Let me find favour in and unto Shechem his son hearkened your eyes, and what ye shall say unto all that went out of the gate of his me I will give. 12Ask me never so city; and every male was circumcised, much dowry and gift, and I will all that went out of the gate of his give according as ye shall say unto city. 25And it came to pass on the me; but give me the damsel to wife.' third day, when they were in pain, 13And the sons of Jacob answered that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon Shechem and Hamor his father with and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each guile, and spoke, because he had man his sword, and came upon the city defiled Dinah their sister, and said unawares, and slew all the males. unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, 26And they slew Hamor and Shechem to give our sister to one that is un- his son with the edge of the sword, circumcised; for that were a reproach and took Dinah out of Shechem's unto us. 15Only on this condition will house, and went forth. 27The sons we consent unto you: if ye will be as of Jacob came upon the slain, and we are, that every male of you be spoiled the city, because they had circumcised; 16then will we give our defiled their sister. 28They took their daughters unto you, and we will take flocks and their herds and their asses, your daughters to us, and we will and that which was in the city and dwell with you, and we will become that which was in the field; "and all one people. But if ye will not their wealth, and all their little ones hearken unto us, to be circumcised; and their wives, took they captive

and spoiled, even all that was in the house. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.' And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

35 And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.' "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; 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, and was with me in the way which I went.' And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. "And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan-the same is Beth-elhe and all the people that were with him. And he built there an altar, and called the place "El-beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

That is, The God of Beth-el.

And God appeared unto Jacor again, when he came from Paddan aram, and blessed him. 10And God said unto him: "Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name'; and He called his name Israel. "And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.' And God went up from him in the place where He spoke with him. "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He spoke with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. 15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el. 16And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.' 18And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing-for she died-that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him "Benjamin. 19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath-the same is Bethlehem. 20And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. "And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder. 22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt 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: 23the sons of Leah: Reuben, b That is. The oak of weeping. • That is, The son of my sorrow. d That is, The son of the right hand.

Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the Zebulun; 24the sons of Rachel: wife of Esau. "And the sons of EliJoseph and Benjamin; 25and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddanaram. 27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba -the same is Hebron-where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. 29And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

36 Now these are the generations of Esau-the same is Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 'And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, that were born unto him in the land of Canaan. "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle. And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir-Esau is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the mountain-land of Seir. 1oThese are the names of Esau's sons:

phaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 12And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife. 13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. 14And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife; and she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. "These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: the chief of Teman, the chief of Omar, the chief of Zepho, the chief of Kenaz, 16the chief of Korah, the chief of Gatam, the chief of Amalek. These are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah. And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah. These are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. 18And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: the chief of Jeush, the chief of Jalam, the chief of Korah. These are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs; the same is Edom.

20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. children of Lotan were Hemam; and Lotan's

Heb. Edom.

And the Hori and

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