Genesis 19-29

 

 

Genesis 19 The two Messengers came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and got up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 2 and he said, “See now, my masters, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way”. They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night”. 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 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. 5 They called to Lot, and told him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, so that we can have sex with them”. 6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. 7 He said, “Please, my brothers, dont act so wickedly. 8 Look, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them what seems good to you. Only dont do anything to these men, because they’ve come under the shadow of my roof”. 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then 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. 10 But the men reached out their hands, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door. 12 The men told 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; 13 because we’re about to destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yehovah, that Yehovah has sent us to destroy it”. 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, because Yehovah will destroy the city”. But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15 When the morning came, then the Messengers hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, otherwise you be consumed in the depravity of the city”. 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yehovah being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. 17 Once they had taken them out, one of them said, “Escape for your life! Dont look behind you, and dont stay anywhere on the plain. Escape to the mountains, otherwise you’ll be consumed!” 18 Lot told them, “Oh, not so, my master. 19 Look, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, that you have shown to me in saving my life. I cant escape to the mountain, otherwise evil will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and It’s a little one. Oh let me escape there (isnt it a little one?), and my soul will live”. 21 He said to him, “Look, I’ve granted your request concerning this thing also, that I wont overthrow the city of that you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, because I cant do anything until you get there”. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then Yehovah rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yehovah out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yehovah. 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. 29 It happened, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in that Lot lived. 30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; because he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there isnt a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve our father’s descendants”. 33 They made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didnt know when she lay down, or when she arose. 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, so that we may preserve our father’s descendants”. 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didnt know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were pregnant by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 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.

 

Genesis 20 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister”. Abimelech king of Gerar sent men, and took Sarah. 3 But Elohim came to Abimelech in a dream at night, and told him, “Look, you are a dead man, because of the woman who you have taken. She is a man’s wife”. 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Adonay, will you kill even a righteous nation? 5 Didnt he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother’. I did this with integrity and innocent hands”. 6 Elohim told him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with integrity, and I also prevented you from sinning against Me. I didnt allow you to touch her. 7 Now so, restore the man’s wife. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you’ll live. If you dont restore her, know for sure that you’ll die, you, and all who are yours”. 8 Abimelech got up early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and told 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’ve done deeds to me that shouldnt be done!” 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, so that you have done this thing?” 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of Elohim isnt in this place. They’ll kill me for my wife’s sake’. 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 It happened, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I told her, ‘This is your kindness that you’ll show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother”’.” 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. 15 Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Live where it pleases you”. 16 He said to Sarah, “Look, I’ve given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Look, It’s for you a covering of the eyes to everything that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated”. 17 Abraham prayed to Elohim. Elohim healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. 18 For Yehovah had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

 

Genesis 21 Yehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Yehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time that Elohim had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, who Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him. 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 6 Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me”. 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I’ve borne him a son in his old age”. 8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, who she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son! The son of this handmaid wont be heir with my son, Isaac”. 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. 12 Elohim said to Abraham, “Dont 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. From Isaac will your descendants be called. 13 I’ll also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your descendants”. 14 Abraham got 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. 15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. She said, “Dont let me see the death of the child”. She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17 Elohim heard the voice of the boy. The Messenger of Elohim called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Dont be afraid. For Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand; because I’ll make him a great nation”. 19 Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. 20 Elohim was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. 22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do. 23 Now, so, swear to me here by Elohim that you wont deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I’ve done to you, you’ll do to me, and to the land in that you have lived as a foreigner”. 24 Abraham said, “I’ll swear”. 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, that Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, “I dont know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today”. 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves mean?” 30 He said, “You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I’ve dug this well”. 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech got up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yehovah, the Everlasting Elohim. 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

 

Genesis 22 It happened after these things, that Elohim tested Abraham, and told him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am”. 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, who you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I’ll tell you of”. 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 that Elohim had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I’ll go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you”. 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. 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?” 8 Abraham said, “Elohim will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son”. So they both went together. 9 They came to the place that Elohim 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. 10 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. 11 The Messenger of Yehovah called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He replied, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Dont lay a hand on the boy, or do anything to him, because now I know that you fear Elohim [Father], seeing you havent spared your son, your only son, from Me.” 13 Abraham looked up 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. 14 Abraham called the name of that place Yehovah Will Provide. As It’s said to this day, “On Yehovah’s mountain, it will be provided”. 15 The Messenger of Yehovah called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, 16 and said, “I’ve sworn by myself, says Yehovah, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 that I’ll bless you greatly, and I’ll multiply your descendants greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice”. 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. 20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Look, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor; 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel”. 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

 

Genesis 23 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. 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. 3 Abraham got up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 4 “I’m a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I can bury my dead out of my sight”. 5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6 “Hear us, my master. You are a prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead”. 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 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, 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, that he has, that is in the end of his field. The full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place”. 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, 11 “No, my master, 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”. 12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I’ll give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I’ll bury my dead there”. 14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 “My master, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead”. 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard. 17 So the field of Ephron, that was in Machpelah, that was before Mamre, the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, so that were in all of its borders, were deeded 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. 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. 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.

 

Genesis 24 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. 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. 3 I’ll make you swear by Yehovah, the Elohim of heaven and the Elohim of the earth, so that you wont take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among who I live. 4 But you’ll go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac”. 5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isnt willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?” 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you dont bring my son there again. 7 Yehovah, the Elohim 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’ll give this land to your descendants’. He’ll send his Messenger before you, and you’ll take a wife for my son from there. 8 If the woman isnt willing to follow you, then you’ll be clear from this my oath. Only you wont bring my son there again”. 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. 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. 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. 12 He said, “Yehovah, the Elohim of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13 Look, I’m standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to who I’ll say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I can drink’, and she’ll say, ‘Drink, and I’ll also give your camels a drink’,—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I’ll know that you have shown kindness to my master”. 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. 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. 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher”. 18 She said, “Drink, my lord”. She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. 19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, “I’ll also draw for your camels, until they’ve done drinking”. 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yehovah had made his journey prosperous or not. 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, 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?” 24 She said to him, “I’m the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, who she bore to Nahor”. 25 She said furthermore to him, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in”. 26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yehovah. 27 He said, “Blessed be Yehovah, the Elohim of my master Abraham, who hasnt forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yehovah has led me in the way to the house of my master’s relatives”. 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. 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 told me,” that he came to the man. Look, he was standing by the camels at the spring. 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yehovah. Why do you stand outside? For I’ve prepared the house, and room for the camels”. 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. 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I wont eat until I’ve told my message”. He said, “Speak on”. 34 He said, “I’m Abraham’s servant. 35 Yehovah 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. 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. 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You wont take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, 38 but you’ll go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son’. 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman wont follow me’? 40 He told me, ‘Yehovah, before who I walk, will send his Messenger with you, and prosper your way. you’ll take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father’s house. 41 Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they dont give her to you, you’ll be clear from my oath’. 42 I came this day to the spring, and said, ‘Yehovah, the Elohim of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way that I go— 43 behold, I’m standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to who I’ll say, “Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink,” 44 and she’ll tell me, “Drink, and I’ll also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman who Yehovah has appointed for my master’s son’. 45 Before I had finished speaking in my mind, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I told her, ‘Please let me drink’. 46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll also give your camels a drink’. So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink. 47 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you’? She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, who Milcah bore to him’. I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. 48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yehovah, and blessed Yehovah, the Elohim of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son. 49 Now if you’ll deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I can turn to the right hand, or to the left”. 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yehovah. We cant speak to you bad or good. 51 Look, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yehovah has spoken”. 52 It happened that when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yehovah. 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. 54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They got up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master”. 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she’ll go”. 56 He told them, “Dont hinder me, seeing Yehovah has prospered my way. Send me away that I can go to my master”. 57 They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her”. 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I’ll go”. 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them”. 61 Rebekah got up with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. 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. 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. 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. 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 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.

 

Genesis 25 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4 The sons of Midian; Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, 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. 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life that he lived; one hundred seventy-five years. 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. 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, that is before Mamre, 10 the field that Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. 11 It happened after the death of Abraham that Elohim blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, who Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham. 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, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 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. 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. 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives. 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac. 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. 21 Isaac entreated Yehovah for his wife, because she was barren. Yehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yehovah. 23 Yehovah said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two people will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger”. 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau. 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. 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, because I’m famished”. Therefore his name was called Edom. 31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright”. 32 Esau said, “Look, I’m about to die. What good is the birthright to me?” 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first”. He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

 

Genesis 26 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. 2 Yehovah appeared to him, and said, “Dont go down into Egypt. Live in the land I’ll tell you about. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I’ll be with you, and will bless you. To you, and to your descendants, I’ll give all these lands, and I’ll establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I’ll multiply your descendants as the stars of the sky, and will give to your descendants all these lands. In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, My commandments, my statutes, and my laws”. 6 Isaac lived in Gerar. 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”. 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. 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Look, 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’.” 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!” 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death”. 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yehovah blessed him. 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. 15 Now all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we”. 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, so that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. The Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by that his father had called them. 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 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. 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah. 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didnt argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “Now Yehovah has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land”. 23 He went up from there to Beersheba. 24 Yehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, “I’m the Elohim of Abraham your father. Dont be afraid, because I’m with you, and will bless you, and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake”. 25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yehovah, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 27 Isaac told them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yehovah 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, 29 that you’ll 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 Yehovah”. 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31 They got up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32 It happened the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well that they had dug, and told him, “We have found water”. 33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. 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. 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

 

Genesis 27 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he couldnt see, he called Esau his elder son, and told him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am”. 2 He said, “See now, I’m old. I dont know the day of my death. 3 Now so, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I can eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die”. 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I can eat, and bless you before Yehovah before my death’. 8 Now so, my son, obey my voice according to that that I command you. 9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I’ll make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. 10 you’ll bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death”. 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I’m a smooth man. 12 What if my father touches me? I’ll seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing”. 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me”. 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, so that were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, that she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I’m Esau your firstborn. I’ve done what you asked me to do. Please Get up, sit and eat of my venison, so that your soul may bless me”. 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yehovah your Elohim gave me success”. 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I can feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not”. 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”. 23 He didnt recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am”. 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I’ll 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. 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son”. 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Look, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Yehovah has blessed. 28 Elohim give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. 29 Let people 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”. 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. 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father Get up, and eat of his son’s venison, so that your soul may bless me”. 32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I’m your son, your firstborn, Esau”. 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I’ve eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed”. 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”. 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing”. 36 He said, “Isnt he rightly named Jacob? He has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing”. He said, “Havent you reserved a blessing for me?” 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Look, I’ve made him your master, 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?” 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. 39 Isaac his father answered him, “Look, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. 40 By your sword will you live, and you’ll serve your brother. It will happen, when you’ll break loose, so that you’ll shake his yoke from off your neck”. 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father blessed him. Esau said in his mind, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I’ll kill my brother Jacob”. 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and told him, “Look, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now so, my son, obey my voice. Get up, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away; 45 until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I’ll send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?” 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m 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?”

 

Genesis 28 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You wont take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Get up, 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. 3 May Elohim Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you can be a company of people, 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your descendants with you, so that you may inherit the land where you travel, that Elohim gave to Abraham”. 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. 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 wont take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,” 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didnt please Isaac, his father. 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. 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 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. 12 He dreamed. Look, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Look, the Messengers of Elohim ascending and descending on it. 13 Look, Yehovah stood above it, and said, “I’m Yehovah, the Elohim of Abraham your father, and the Elohim of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you’ll I give it, and to your descendants. 14 Your descendants will be as the dust of the earth, and you’ll spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your descendants will all the clans of the earth be blessed. 15 Look, I’m with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I wont leave you, until I’ve done that that I’ve spoken of to you”. 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yehovah is in this place, and I didnt know it”. 17 He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than Elohim’s house, and this is the gate of heaven”. 18 Jacob got 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. 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If Elohim 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, 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yehovah will be my Elohim, 22 then this stone, that I’ve set up for a pillar, will be Elohim’s house. Of all that you’ll give me I’ll surely give the tenth to you”.

 

Genesis 29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. Out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. 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. 4 Jacob told them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran”. 5 He told them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him”. 6 He told them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep”. 7 He said, “Look, It’s still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them”. 8 They said, “We cant, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep”. 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. 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. 11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. 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. 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh”. He lived with him for a month. 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you so serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?” 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I’ll serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter”. 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me”. 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, because the love he had for her. 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I can go in to her”. 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. 24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? didnt I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” 26 Laban said, “It isnt done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service that you’ll serve with me yet seven other years”. 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. 29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31 Yehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. She said, “Because Yehovah has looked at my affliction. Now my husband will love me”. 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yehovah has heard that I’m hated, he has so given me this son also”. She named him Simeon. 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I’ve borne him three sons”. Therefore was his name called Levi. 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yehovah”. Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

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