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Résumé du livre de la Genèse

[Music] the book of genesis chapter 1 in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters and god said let there be light and there was light and god saw the light that it was good and god divided the light from the darkness and god called the light day in the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning were the first day and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and god made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so and god called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day and god said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so and god called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called he sees and god saw that it was good and god said let the earth bring forth grass the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass an herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind and god saw that it was good and the evening and the morning were the third day and god said that there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them before lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so and god made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also and god set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and god saw that it was good and the evening and the morning were the fourth day and god said that the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven and god created great whales and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged of foul after his kind and god saw that it was good and god blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth and the evening and the morning were the fifth day and god said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping a thing and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so and god made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and god saw that it was good and god said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth so god created man in his own image in the image of god created he him male and female created he them and god blessed them and god said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth and god said behold i have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for meat and to every beast of the earth into every fowl of the air and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life i have given every green herb for meat and it was so and god saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day genesis 2 thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created and made these are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul and the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden and there he put the man whom he had formed and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and a river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads the name of the first is person that is it which compasseth the whole land of havala where there is gold and the gold of that land is good there is dellium and the onyx stone and the name of the second river is the same is it that composite the whole land of ethiopia and the name of the third river is hidekel that is it which goes toward the east of assyria and the fourth river is euphrates and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it and the lord god commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die and the lord god said it is not good that the man should be alone i will make him and help meet for him and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever adam called every living creature that was the name thereof and adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field but for adam there was not found and helped meet for him and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the lord god had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man and adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed genesis 3 now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said unto the woman yea hath god said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god hath said ye shall not eat a it neither shall ye touch it lest she die and the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat in the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons and they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden and the lord god called unto adam and said unto him where art thou and he said i heard thy voice in the garden i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and he said who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the tree whereof i commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat and the man said the woman whom thou gave us to be with me she gave me of the tree and i did eat and the lord god said unto the woman what is this that thou has done and the woman said the serpent beguiled me and i did eat and the lord god said unto the serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life and i will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel unto the woman he said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee and unto adam he said because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which i commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life thorns also and thistle shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return and adam called his wife's name eve because she was the mother of all living [Music] unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothed them and the lord god said behold the man has become as one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life and eat and live forever therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden to till the ground from whence he was taken so he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the garden of eden cherry bims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life [Music] genesis 4 and adam knew eve his wife and she conceived and bear cain and said i have gotten a man from the lord and she again bear his brother abel and abel was a keeper of sheep but cain was a tiller of the ground and in process of time it came to pass that cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto the lord an able he also brought to the first links of his flock and of the fat thereof and the lord had respect unto abel and to his offering but unto cain into his offering he had not respect and cain was very roth and his countenance fell and the lord said unto cain why are thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him and cain talked with abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that cain rose up against abel his brother and slew him and the lord said unto cain where is abel thy brother and he said i know not am i my brother's keeper and he said what has thou done the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground and now art thou cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand when thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shall thou be in the earth and cain said unto the lord my punishment is greater than i can bear behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall i be hid and i shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to pass that everyone that findeth me shall slay me and the lord said unto him therefore whosoever slayeth cain vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold and the lord set a mark upon cain lest any finding him should kill him and cain went out from the presence of the lord and dwelt in the land of nod on the east of eden and cain knew his wife and she conceived and bear enoch and he builded a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son enoch and unto enoch was born irad and iran begat mahogany took unto him two wives the name of the one was ada and the name of the other zillah in adaba jabal he was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle and his brother's name was jubal he was the father of all such as handle the harp an organ and zillah she also bear tubal kane an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron and the sister of tubal kane was namah and lamix said unto his wives adar and zillah hear my voice ye wives allamic hearken unto my speech for i have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt if cain shall be avenged a seven-fold truly lamech seventy and seven fold and adam knew his wife again and she bear a son and called his name seth for god said she hath appointed me another seed instead of abel whom cain slew and who saith to him also there was born a son and he called his name enos then began men to call upon the name of the lord genesis 5 this is the book of the generations of adam in the day that god created man in the likeness of god made he him male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name adam in the day when they were created and adam lived 130 years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name seth and the days of adam after he had begotten seth were 800 years and he begat sons and daughters and all the days that adam lived were 930 years and he died and seth lived 105 years and begat enos and seth lived after he begat enos 807 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of seth were 912 years and he died and enos lived 90 years and begat canaan and enos lived after he begat canaan 815 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of venus were 905 years and he died and canaan lived 70 years and begat to mahala and canaan lived after he begat mahalia 840 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of canaan were 910 years and he died and mahalaliel lived 65 years and begat jared mahalia lived after he begat jared 830 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of mahalaliel were 895 years and he died and jared lived 160 in two years and he begat enoch and jared lived after he begat enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of jared were nine hundred sixty and two years and he died and enoch lived sixty and five years and begat methuselah and enoch walked with god after begats methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of enoch were three hundred sixty and five years and he not walked with god and he was not for god took him a methuselah lived 187 years and begat lamech amithusa lived after he begat lamix 780 and two years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of methuselah were 960 years and he died islamic lived 180 in two years and begat a son and he called his name noah saying this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the lord hath cursed and lamech lived after he begat noah 595 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of lamech were 777 years and he died and noah was 500 years old and noah begat shem ham and japheth [Music] genesis 6 and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose and the lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man but that he also is flesh yet his days shall be 120 years there were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men and they bear children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the law that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the lord said i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that i have made them but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord these are the generations of noah noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and noah the earth also was corrupt before god and the earth was filled with violence and god looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth and god said unto noah the end of all flesh has come before me but the earth is filled with violence through them and behold i will destroy them with the earth make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shout pitch it within and without with pitch and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits a window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou make it and behold i even i do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and everything that is in the earth shall die but with thee will i establish my covenant and thou shalt come into the ark thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy son's wives with thee and of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee they shall be male and female of fouls after their kind and of cattle after their kind of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive and take that unto thee of all food that is eaten and thou shalt gather it to thee and it shall be for food for thee and for them thus did noah according to all that god commanded him so did he [Music] genesis 7 and the lord said unto noah come down all thy house into the ark for thee have i seen righteous before me in this generation of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female and of beasts that are not cleaned by two the male and his female a thous also of the air by sevens the male and the female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth for yet seven days and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and fourteen nights in every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him and knows six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth and noah went in and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and have fouls and of everything that creepeth upon the earth there went in two and two unto noah into the ark the male and the female as god had commanded noah and it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of noah's life in the second month the seventeenth day of the month the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights in the self same day entered noah and shem and ham and japheth the sons of noah and noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark they in every beast after his kind and all the cattle after their kind and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and every fowl after his kind every bird of every sort and they went in unto noah into the ark two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life and they that went in went in male and female of all flesh as god had commanded him and the lord shut him in and the flood was 40 days upon the earth and the waters increased and bear up the ark and it was lift up above the earth and the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered and all flesh died that moved upon the earth both are fowl and of cattle and of beast and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth and every man all in whose nostrils was the breath of life of all that was in the dry land died and every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground both man and cattle and the creeping things and the fowl of the heaven and they were destroyed from the earth and noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days genesis 8 and god remembered noah in every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and god made a win to pass over the earth and the waters assuaged the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained and the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the 150 days the waters were abated and the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of ararat and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month in the tenth month on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen and it came to pass at the end of 40 days that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made and he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground but the dove found no rest for the soul of her foot and she returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark and he stayed at other seven days and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark and the dove came in to him in the evening and lo in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth and he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him anymore and it came to pass in the 600th and first year in the first month the first day of the month the waters were dried up from off the earth and noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold the face of the ground was dry and in the second month on the seventh and twentieth day of the month was the earth dried and god spake unto noah saying go forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons wives with thee bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh both a fowl and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth and noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him every beast every creeping thing and every fowl and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark and noah builded an altar unto the lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean foul and offered burnt offerings on the altar and the lord smelled a sweet savor and the lord said in his heart i will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth neither will i again smite anymore everything living as i have done while the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease genesis 9 and god blessed noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air upon all that moveth upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herb have i given you all things but flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat and surely your blood of your lives will i require at the hand of every beast will i require it and at the hand of man at the hand of every man's brother will i require the life of man whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of god made he man and you be fruitful and multiply bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein and god spake unto noah and to his sons with him saying and i behold i establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth and i will establish my covenant with you neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth and god said this is the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth and it shall come to pass when i bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud and i will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh and the bow shall be in the cloud and i will look upon it that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth and god said unto noah this is the token of the covenant which i have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth and the sons of noah that went forth of the ark were shem and ham and japheth and ham as the father of canaan these are the three sons of noah and of them was the whole earth overspread and noah began to be an husbandman and he planted a vineyard and he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent and ham the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without and shem and japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backward and they saw not their father's nakedness and noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him and he said cursed be canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren and he said bless be the lord god of shem and canaan shall be his servant god shall enlarge japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of shem and canaan shall be his servant that noah lived after the flood 350 years and all the days of noah were 950 years and he died [Music] genesis 10 now these are the generations of the sons of noah shem ham and japheth and unto them were sons born after the flood the sons of japheth gomer and magog and madai and javon and tubal and meshech and teras and the sons of gomer ashkenaz and rifhath and tagama and the sons of jivan elisha and tashish katim and dodonim but these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands everyone after his tongue after their families in their nations and the sons of ham cush and mizraim and foot and canaan and the sons of kush sabha and havala and sabta and rama and sabteka and the sons of rama shiva and and kush begat nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the earth he was a mighty hunter before the lord wherefore it is said even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord and the beginning of his kingdom was babel and arak in akkad and khalnay in the land of shinar out of that land went forth ashore and builded nineveh and the city rehoboth and kalah and resin between nineveh and kala the same is a great city and mizraim begat ludhim and anamim and the habbim enough to him and apathrazim and kasluhim out of whom came philistine and kaftarim and kanan begat side first born in heth and the jebusite and the amorite and the gurgashite and the hivite and the archite and the sinaite and the arvadaite and the zemorite and the hammer fight and afterward were the families of the canaanites spread abroad and the border of the canaanites was from sidon as thou comest to jirar unto gaza as thou goest unto sodom and gomorrah and these are the sons of ham after their families after their tongues in their countries and in their nations and hashem also the father of all the children of eber the brother of japheth the elder even to him were children born the children of shem elam and ashur and are fakhsad and lud and aram and the children of aram hull and gether [Music] were born two sons the name of one was peleg for in his days was the earth divided and his brother's name was joktan and joctan begat al-madad and shalaf and hazama veth in jirara in hadaram and uzal and dikla and obaal in abimael and sheba and ophir in havala and jobab all these were the sons of jotan and their dwelling was from mesha as thou goest unto safar a mount of the east these are the sons of shem after their families after their tongues in their lands after their nations these are the families of the sons of noah after their generations in their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood [Music] genesis 11 and the whole earth was of one language and of one speech and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plane in the land of chennai they dwelt there and they said one to another go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly and they had brick for stone and slime had they formed mortar and they said go too let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth and the lord came down to see the city in the tower which the children of men builded and the lord said behold the people is one and they have all one language and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do go to let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech so the lord scattered them abroad from fence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city therefore is the name of it called battle because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth these are the generations of shem shem was a hundred years old and begat our thaksad two years after the flood and shem lived after he begat al-fakshad 500 years and begat sons and daughters in our facts had lived five and thirty years and begat salah and al faksa had lived after he begat salah four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters and salah lived thirty years in the gataba and salah lived after he began four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters and ever lived for 30 years and begat peleg he never lived after he begat to plague 430 years and begat sons and daughters and peleg lived thirty years and begat rule and peleg lived after he begat rule 209 years and begat sons and daughters and rule lived two and thirty years and begat sereg and rue lived after he begat serag 207 years and begat sons and daughters and sarah lived 30 years and begotten a and sarah lived after he begotten a 200 years and begat sons and daughters and nahal lived 9 and 20 years and begat terror and the lived after he begat terror in 119 years and begat sons and daughters and terror lived 70 years and begat abram nahor and haran now these are the generations of terror terror begat abram nahan haran and haran begat lot and haran died before his father tara in the land of his nativity in urdu of the chaldees and abram and nahor took them wives the name of abram's wife was sarai in the name of nahor's wife milka the daughter of haran the father of milka and the father of iskar but sarai was barren she had no child and terror took abram his son and lot the son of haran his son's son and sarah his daughter-in-law his son abram's wife and they went forth with them from all of the chaldees to go into the land of canaan and they came onto haran and dwelt there and the days of terror were 205 years and terror died in haran genesis 12 now the lord had said unto abram get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that i will show thee and i will make of thee a great nation and i will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and i will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed so abram departed as the lord had spoken unto him and lot went with him and abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of haron and abram took sarah his wife and lot his brother's son and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in haran and they went forth to go into the land of canaan and into the land of canaan they came and abram passed through the land unto the place of sikkim unto the plain of moray and the canaanite was then in the land and the lord appeared unto abram and said unto thy seed will i give this land and there builded he an altar unto the lord who appeared unto him and he removed from fence unto a mountain on the east of bethel and pitched his tent having bethel on the west an ai on the east and there he builded an altar unto the lord and called upon the name of the lord and abram journeyed going on still toward the south and there was a famine in the land and abram went down into egypt to sojourn there for the famine was grievous in the land and came to pass when he was come near to enter into egypt that he said unto sarai his wife behold now i know that thou art a fair woman to look upon therefore shall come to pass when the egyptians shall see thee that they shall say this is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive say i pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee and it came to pass that when abram was come into egypt the egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair the princes also of pharaoh saw her and commended her before pharaoh and the woman was taken into pharaoh's house and he entreated abram well for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and men servants and maidservants and she asses and camels and the lord plagued pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of sarai abram's wife and pharaoh called abram and said what is this that thou hast done unto me why does thou not tell me that she was thy wife why sadist thou she is my sister so i might have taken her to be my wife now therefore behold thy wife take her and go thy way and pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away and his wife and all that he had genesis 13 and abram went up out of egypt he and his wife and all that he had and lot with him into the south and abram was very rich in cattle in silver and in gold and he went on his journeys from the south even to bavel under the place where his tent had been at the beginning between bethel and ai unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first and there abram called in the name of the lord and lot also which went with abram had flocks and herds and tents and the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together for their substance was great so that they could not dwell together and there was a strife between the herdman of abram's cattle and the herdman of lot's cattle and the canaanite and the preside dwelled then in the land and abram said unto lot let there be no strife i pray thee between me and thee and between my herdman and thy herdman for we be brethren is not the whole land before thee separate thyself i pray thee from me if thou will take the left hand then i will go to the right or if thou depart to the right hand then i will go to the left and lord lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plane of jordan that it was well watered everywhere before the lord destroyed sodom and gomorrah even as the garden of the lord like the land of egypt as thou comest unto zohar then lot chose him all the plain of jordan and lord journeyed east and they separated themselves the one from the other abram dwelled in the land of canaan and lot dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward sodom but the men of sodom were wicked and sinners before the lord exceedingly and the lord said unto abram after that lot were separated from him lift up now thine eyes and look from the place with our art northward and southward and eastward and westward for all the land which thou seest to thee will i give it and to thy seed forever and i will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed also be numbered arise walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for i will give it unto thee then abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of mamre which is in hebron and built there an altar unto the lord [Music] genesis 14. and it came to pass in the days of umrah fell king of shanna aryak king of el asar chattaloma king of alam and tadaal king of nations that these made war with bearer king of sodom and with birsha king of gomorrah shinnab king of admah and shimabu king of zebu and the king of bella which is zoa all these were joined together in the veil of siddim which is the salt sea twelve years they served chaturloama and in the thirteenth year they rebelled and in the fourteenth year came chetaloma and the kings that were with him and smote the rephaims in ashtaroth and the zazims in ham and their mims in shave and the horites in their mount seer unto el puran which is by the wilderness and they returned and came to n mishpat which is kadesh and smote all the country of the amalekites and also the amorites that dwelt in hazazan tamar and they went out the king of sodom and the king of gomorrah and the king of admah and the king of zebuim and the king of bella the same as zoa and they joined battle with them in the veil of siddhim with chetaloma the king of ilam and with tidal king of nations and four kings with five and the veil of sedim was full of slime pits and the kings of sodom and gomorrah fled and fell there and they that remained fled to the mountain and they took all the goods of sodom and gomorrah in all their vittles and went their way and they took lot abram's brother's son who dwelt in sodom and his goods and departed and there came one that had escaped and told abram the hebrew for he dwelt in the plain of mamre the amorite brother of eshkal and brother of and these were confederate with abram and when abram heard that his brother was taken captive he armed his trained servants born in his own house 318 and pursued them unto dan and he divided himself against them he and his servants by night and smote them and pursued them unto hobart which is on the left hand of damascus and he brought back all the goods and also brought again his brother lot and his goods and the women also and the people and the king of sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of tetelo omar and of the kings that were with him at the valley of chavez which is the king's dale and milkisdec king of salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the most high god and he blessed him and said blessed be abram of the most high god possessor of heaven and earth and blessed be the most high god which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he gave him tithes of all and the king of sodom said unto abram give me the persons and take the goods to thyself and abram said to the king of sodom i have lift up mine hand unto the lord the most high god the possessor of heaven and earth that i will not take from a thread even to a shulatchet and that i will not take anything that is thine lest thou shouldst say i have made abram rich save only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men which went with me an heir escal and mom ray let them take their portion genesis 15 after these things the word of the lord came unto abram in a vision a saying fear not abram i am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward and abram said lord god what wilt thou give me seeing i go childless and the steward of my house is this eleazar of damascus and abram said behold to me thou hast given no seed and lo one born in my house is mine heir and behold the word of the lord came unto him saying this shall not be thine air but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir and he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars if they'll be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be and he believed in the lord and he counted it to him for righteousness and he said unto him i am the lord that brought the out of ur of the chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it and he said lord god whereby shall i know that i shall inherit it and he said unto him take me and hafer three years old and a she-goat of three years old and a ram of three years old and a turtle dove and a young pigeon and he took unto him all these and divided them in the midst and laid each piece one against another but the birds divided he not and when the fowls came down upon the carcasses abram drove them away and when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon abram and lo and horror of great darkness fell upon him and he said unto abram no other surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years and also that nation whom they shall serve will i judge and afterwards shall they come out with great substance and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried in a good old age but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again for the iniquity of the amorites is not yet full and it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces in the same day the lord made a covenant with abram saying unto thy seed have i given this land from the river of egypt unto the great river the river euphrates the canaanites and the canazites and the karma knights and the hittites and the perisites and the rephaims and the amorites and the canaanites and the gergescides and the jebusites [Music] genesis 16. now sarai abram's wife bear him no children and she had a handmaid an egyptian whose name was hagar and sarah i said unto abram behold now the lord hath restrained me from bearing i pray thee going unto my maid it may be that i may obtain children by her and abram hearkened to the voice of sarai and sarai abram's wife took hagar her maid the egyptian after abram had dwelt 10 years in the land of canaan and gave her to her husband abram to be his wife and he went in under hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes and sir i said unto abram my wrong be upon thee i have given my maid into thy bosom and when she saw that she had conceived i was despised in her eyes the lord judge between me and thee but abram said unto sarai behold thy maid is in thy hand due to her as it pleaseth thee and when sarai dealt hardly with her she fled from her face and the angel of the lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to shore and he said hey god sarah is made whence came as thou and wither will thou go and she said i flee from the face of my mistress sarai and the angel of the lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands and the angel of the lord said unto her i will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude and the angel of the lord said unto her behold thou art with child and shall bear a son and shall call his name ishmael because the lord hath heard thy affliction and he will be a wild man his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren and she called the name of the lord that spake unto her thou god seest me for she said have i also here looked after him that seeth me wherefore the well was called behold it is between kadesh and the red and he and abram was four score and six years old when hagar bear ishmael to abram [Music] genesis 17 and when abram was 90 years old and nine the lord appeared to abram and said unto him i am the almighty god walk before me and be thou perfect and i will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly and abram fell on his face and god talked with him saying as for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations neither shall thy name any more be called abram but thy name shall be abraham for a father of many nations have i made thee and i will make the exceeding fruitful and i will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee and i will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a god unto thee and to thy seed after thee and i will give unto thee unto thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger all the land of canaan for an everlasting possession and i will be their god and god said unto abraham thou shalt keep my covenant therefore thou and thy seed after thee in their generations this is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and i seed after thee every man child among you shall be circumcised and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you and he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you every man child in your generations he that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed he that is born in thy house and he that is bought with thy money must needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant and the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised that soul shall be cut off from his people he hath broken my covenant and god said unto abraham as for sarai thy wife thou shalt not call her name sarai but sarah shall her name be and i will bless her and give thee a son also of her yea i will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations kings of people shall be of her then abram fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born unto him that is 100 years old until sarah that is 90 years old bear and abraham said unto god oh that ishmael might live before thee and god said sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shalt call his name isaac and i will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him and as for ishmael i have heard thee behold i have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly twelve princes shall he beget and i will make him a great nation but my covenant will i establish with isaac which sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year and he left off talking with him and god went up from abraham and abraham took ishmael his son and all that were born in his house and all that were bought with his money every male among the men of abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the self-same day as god had said unto him and abraham was 90 years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin and ishmael his son was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin in the self-same day was abraham circumcised and ismail his son and all the men of his house born in the house and bought with money of the stranger was circumcised with him [Music] genesis 18 and the lord appeared unto him in the plains of monreal and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day and he lift up his eyes and looked and lo three men stood by him and when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward the ground and said my lord if now i have found favor in thy sight pass not away i pray thee from thy servant let a little water i pray you be fetched and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree and i will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort ye your hearts after that ye shall pass on for therefore are ye come to your servant and they said so do as thou has said and abraham hastened into the tent unto sarah and said make ready quickly three measures of fine meal needed and make cakes upon the hearth and abraham ran unto the herd and fetched a car tender and good and gave it unto a young man and he hasted to dress it and he took butter and milk in the calf which he had dressed and set it before them and he stood by them under the tree and they did eat and they said unto him where is sarah thy wife and he said behold in the tent and he said i will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life and lo sarah thy wife shall have a son and sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him now abraham and sarah were old and well stricken in age and it ceased to be with sarah after the manner of women therefore sarah laughed within herself saying after i have waxed old shall i have pleasure my lord being old also and the lord said unto abraham wherefore did sarah laugh saying shall i of a surety bear a child which i am old is anything too hard for the lord at the time appointed i will return unto thee according to the time of life and sarah shall have a son then sarah denied saying i laughed not or she was afraid and he said nay but thou didst laugh and the men rose up from thence and looked toward sodom and abraham went with them to bring them on the way and the lord said shall i hide from abraham that thing which i do seeing that abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him but i know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the lord to do justice and judgment that the lord may bring upon abraham that which he had spoken of him and the lord said because the cry of sodom and gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous i will go down now and see whether they have done all together according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not i will know and the men turned their faces from fence and went toward sodom but abraham stood yet before the lord and abraham drew near and said wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked for adventure there be fifty righteous within the city will thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein that be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee shall not the judge of all the earth do right and the lord said if i find in sodom 50 righteous within the city then i will spare all the place for their sakes and abraham answered and said behold now i have taken upon me to speak unto the lord which am but dust and ashes for adventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous will thou destroy all the city for lack of five and he said if i find there forty and five i will not destroy it and he spake unto him yet again and said per adventure there shall be forty found there and he said i will not do it for forties sake and he said unto him o let not the lord be angry and i will speak per adventure there shall thirty be found there and he said i will not do it if i find thirty there and he said behold now i have taken upon me to speak unto the lord per adventure there shall be twenty found there and he said i will not destroy it for twenties sake and he said oh let not the lord be angry and i will speak yet but this once per adventure ten shall be found there and he said i will not destroy it for tens sake and the lord went his way as soon as he had left communing with abraham and abraham return unto his place [Music] genesis 19 and there came two angels to sodom at even and lot sat in the gate of sodom and lord seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground and he said behold now my lord turn me and i pray you into your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet and ye shall rise up early and go on your ways and they said nay but we will abide in the street all night and he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat but before they lay down the men of the city even the men of sodom compassed the house round both old and young all the people from every quarter and they called on to lot and said unto him where are the men which came into thee this night bring them out unto us that we may know them and lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door after him and said i pray you brethren do not so wickedly behold now i have two daughters which have not known man let me i pray you bring them out unto you and do ye to them as is good in your eyes only unto these men do nothing for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof and they said stand back and they said again this one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a judge now will we deal worse with thee than with them and they pressed sore upon the man even lot and came near to break the door but the men put forth their hand and pulled lot into the house to them and shut to the door and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great so that they wearied themselves to find the door and the men said unto lot as thou hear and he besides son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city bring them out of this place for we will destroy this place because the cry of them is wax and great before the face of the lord and the lord hath sent us to destroy it and lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law which married his daughters and said up get you out of this place for the lord will destroy this city but he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law and when the morning arose then the angels hastened the lord saying arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city and while he lingered the man laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters the lord being merciful unto him and they brought him forth and set him without the city and it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed [Music] and lord said unto them oh not so my lord behold now thy servant hath found grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life and i cannot escape to the mountain lest some evil take me and i die behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one oh let me escape thither is it not a little one and my soul shall live and he said unto him see i have accepted thee concerning this thing also that i will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken haste thee escape thither for i cannot do anything to thou become thither therefore the name of the city was called zoar the sun was risen upon the earth when lot entered into zoa then the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord out of heaven and he overthrew those cities and all the plane and all the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew up on the ground but his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt and abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the lord and he looked toward sodom and gomorrah and toward all the land of the plane and beheld and lo the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace and it came to pass when god destroyed the cities of the plain that god remembered abraham and sent lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in the which lord dwelt [Music] and lot went up out of zoar and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him for he feared to dwell in zoar and he dwelt in a cave he and his two daughters and the firstborn said unto the younger our fathers old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve seed of our father and they made their father drink wine that night and the firstborn went in and lay with her father and he perceived not when she lay down nor when she arose and it came to pass on the morrow that the firstborn said unto the younger behold i lay yester-night with my father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in and lie with him that we may preserve seed of our father and they made their father drink wine that night also and the yonko rose and lay with him and he perceived not when she lay down nor when she arose thus were both the daughters of lot with child by their father and the firstborn a son and called his name moab the same is the father the moabites unto this day and the younger she also bear a son and called his name ben ami the same as the father the children of amman unto this day [Music] genesis and abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country and dwelled between kadesh and sure and sojourned in gerar and abraham said of sarah his wife she is my sister an abimelech king of gerard sent and took sarah but god came to abimelech in a dream by night and said to him behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken for she is a man's wife but abimelech had not come near her and he said lord wilt thou slay also a righteous nation said he not unto me she is my sister and she even she herself said he is my brother in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have i done this and god said unto him in a dream yea i know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart for i also withheld thee from sinning against me therefore suffered i thee not to touch her now therefore restore the man his wife for he is a prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live and if thou restore her not know thou that thou shalt surely die thou and all that are thine therefore abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their ears and the men were so afraid then abimelech called abraham and said unto him what has thou done unto us and what have i offended thee that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin thou has done deeds unto me that ought not to be done in abimelech and unto abraham what sauce thou that thou has done this thing and abraham said because i thought surely the fear of god is not in this place and they will slay me for my wife's sake and yet indeed she is my sister she is the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife and it came to pass when god caused me to wander from my father's house that i said unto her this is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me at every place whether we shall come say of me he is my brother and abimelech took sheep and oxen and men servants and women servants and gave them unto abraham and restored him sarah his wife and abimelech said behold my land is before thee dwell where it pleaseth thee and unto sarah he said behold i have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver behold he is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee and with all other thus she was reproved so abraham prayed unto god and god healed abimelech and his wife and his maidservants and they bear children but the lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of abimelech because of sarah abraham's wife [Music] genesis 21 and the lord visited sarah as he had said and the lord did unto sarah as he had spoken or sarah conceived and bear abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which god had spoken to him and abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him whom sarah bear to him isaac and abraham circumcised his son isaac being eight days old as god had commanded him and abraham was 100 years old when his son isaac was born unto him and sarah said god hath made me to laugh so that all that here will laugh with me and she said who would have said unto abraham that sarah should have given children suck for i have borne him a son in his old age and the child grew and was weaned and abraham made a great feast the same day that isaac was weaned and sarah saw the son of hagar the egyptian which he had born unto abraham mocking wherefore she said unto abraham cast out this bond woman and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son even with isaac and the thing was very grievous in abraham's sight because of his son and god said unto abraham let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bound woman in all that sarah had said unto thee hearken unto her voice for in isaac shall thy seed be called and also of the son of the bondwoman will i make a nation because he is thy seed and abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread in a bottle of water and gave it unto hagar putting it on her shoulder and the child and sent her away and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of dear sheba and the water was spent in the bottle and she cast the child under one of the shrubs and she went and sat her down over against him a good way off as it were a bow shot or she said let me not see the death of the child and she sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept and god heard the voice of the lad and the angel of god called to hagar out of heaven and said unto her what aylath thee hagar fear not for god have heard the voice of the lad where he is arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand for i will make him a great nation and god opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the lord drink and god was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer and he dwelt in the wilderness of paran and his mother took him a wife out of the land of egypt and it came to pass at that time that abimelech and veko the chief captain of his host spake unto abraham saying god is with thee in all that thou doest now therefore swear unto me hereby god that thou wilt not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son but according to the kindness that i have done unto thee thou shalt do unto me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned and abraham said i will swear and abraham reproved abimelech because of a well of water which abimelech servants had violently taken away and abimelech said i watch not who have done this thing neither did thou tell me neither yet heard i of it but today and abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto abimelech and both of them made a covenant and abraham set seven new lambs of the flock by themselves and abimelech said unto abraham what mean these seven ulams which thou has set by themselves and he said for these seven ulams shalt thou take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that i have digged this well wherefore he called that place beer sheba because there they swear both of them thus they made a covenant at beersheba then abimelech rose up and foco the chief captain of his host and they returned into the land of the philistines and abraham planted a grove in beersheba and called there on the name of the lord the everlasting god and abraham sojourned in the philistines land many days [Music] genesis 22 and it came to pass after these things that god did tempt abraham and said unto him abraham and he said behold here i am and he said take now thy son thine only son isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which i will tell thee of and abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and isaac his son enclaved the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which god had told him then on the third day abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place so far off and abraham said unto his young men abide here with the ass and i and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you and abraham took the word of the burnt offering and laid it upon isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both of them together and isaac spake unto abraham his father and said my father and he said here am i my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering and abraham said my son god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of them together and they came to the place which god had told him of and abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood and abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the lord called unto him out of heaven and said abraham abraham and he said here am i and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him for now i know that thou fearest god seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me and abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son and abraham called the name of that place jehovah jireh as it is said to this day in the mount of the lord it shall be seen and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time and said by myself have i sworn saith the lord for because thou hast done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son that in blessing i will bless thee and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice so abraham returned unto his young men and they rose up and went together to beer sheba and abraham dwelt at beersheba and it came to pass after these things that it was told abraham saying behold milka she hath also born children unto thy brother nahor has his firstborn and buzz his brother and kamuel the father of aram and chased and hazel and pildash and jidlaf and bethuel and bethuel begat rebecca these eight milka did bear to nahor abraham's brother and his concubine whose name was rumah shiba also teva and gaham and thahash and makkah [Music] genesis 23 and sarah was 107 and 20 years old these were the years of the life of sarah and sarah died in kirjath same as hebron in the land of canaan and abraham came to mourn for sarah and to weep for her and abraham stood up from before his dead and spake unto the sons of hep saying i am a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a possession of a burying place with you that i may bury my dead out of my sight and the children of hath answered abraham saying unto him hear us my lord thou art a mighty prince among us in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher but that thou mayest bury thy dead and abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of hath and he communed with them saying if it be your mind that i should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and entreat for me to ephren the son of zoar that he may give me the cave of mapila which he hath which is in the end of his field for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a bearing place amongst you an ephraim dwelt among the children of heth and ephraim the hittite answered abraham in the audience of the children of heth even of all that went in at the gate of his city saying name i lord hear me the field give i thee and the cave that is therein i give it thee in the presence of the sons of my people give i yet thee bury thy dead and abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land and he spake unto ephraim in the audience of the people of the land saying but if thou wilt give it i pray thee hear me i will give thee money for the field take it of me and i will bury my dead there and effort answered abraham saying unto him my lord hearken unto me the land is worth 400 shackles of silver what is that betwixt me and thee bury therefore thy dead and abraham hearkened unto ephraim and abraham wade to ephrain the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of heth 400 shekels of silver current money with the merchant and the field of efferent which was in machpilar which was before monre the field in the cave which was therein and all the trees that were in the field that were in all the borders round about were made sure unto abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of health before all that went in at the gate of his city and after this abraham buried sarah his wife in the cave of the field of makbila before monre the same is hebron in the land of canaan and the field and the cave that is therein were made sure unto abraham for a possession of a bearing place by the sons of heth genesis 24 and abraham was old and well stricken in age and the lord had blessed abraham in all things and abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house that ruled over all that he had put i pray thee thy hand under my thigh and i will make thee swear by the lord the god of heaven and the god of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the canaanites among whom i dwell but thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son isaac and the servant said unto him per adventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land must i needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest and abraham said unto him beware thou that thou bring not my son litter again the lord god of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred and which spake unto me and that swear unto me saying unto thy seed will i give this land he shall send his angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence and if the woman will not be willing to follow thee then thou shalt be clear from this my oath only bring not my son lither again and the servant put his hand under the thigh of abraham his master and swear to him concerning that matter and the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed for all the goods of his master were in his hand and he arose and went to mesopotamia unto the city of naha and he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening even the time that women go out to draw water and he said o lord god of my master abraham i pray thee send me good speed this day and show kindness unto my master abraham behold i stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water and let it come to pass that the damsel to whom i shall say let down thy picture i pray thee that i may drink and she shall say drink and i will give thy camels drink also but the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant isaac and thereby shall i know that thou hast shown kindness unto my master and it came to pass before he had done speaking that behold rebecca came out who was born to bethuel son of milka the wife of nahor abraham's brother with her picture upon her shoulder and the damsel was very fair to look upon a virgin neither had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled her picture and came up and the servant ran to meet her and said let me i pray thee drink a little water of thy picture and she said drink my lord and she hasted and let down her picture upon her hand and gave him drink and when she had done giving him drink she said i will draw water for thy camels also until they have done drinking and she hasted and emptied her picture into the trough and ran again unto the well to draw water and drool for all his camels and the man wandering at her held his peace to wit whether the lord had made his journey prosperous or not and it came to pass as the camels had done drinking that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold and said whose daughter arthur tell me i pray thee is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in and she said unto him i am the daughter of bethuel the son of milka would she bear unto the she said move unto him we have both straw and provender enough and room to lodge in and the man bowed down his head and worshiped the lord and he said blessed be the lord god of my master abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth i being in the way the lord led me to the house of my master's brethren and the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house these things and rebecca had a brother and his name was laban and laban ran out unto the man unto the well and it came to pass when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands and when he heard the words of rebecca his sister saying thus spake the man unto me that he came unto the man and behold he stood by the camels at the well and he said come in thou blessed of the lord wherefore standeth thou without for i have prepared the house and room for the camels and the man came into the house and he ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that were with him and there was set meat before him to eat but he said i will not eat until i've told mine aaron and he said speak on and he said i am abraham's servant and the lord hath blessed my master greatly and he has become great and he had given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and men servants and maidservants and camels and asses and sarah my master's wife bear a son to my master when she was old and unto him hath he given all that he hath and my master made me swear saying thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the canaanites in whose land i dwell but thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son and i said unto my master for adventure the woman will not follow me and he said unto me the lord before whom i walk will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife of my son of my kindred and of my father's house then shalt thou be clear from this my oath when thou comest to my kindred and if they give not thee one thou shalt be clear from my oath and i came this day unto the well and said o lord god of my master abraham if now thou do prosper my way which i go behold i stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and i say to her give me i pray the little water of thy picture to drink and she said to me both drink thou and i will also draw for thy camels let the same be the woman whom the lord hath appointed out for my master's son [Music] and before i had done speaking in my heart behold rebecca came forth with her picture on her shoulder and she went down into the well and drew water and i said unto her let me drink i pray thee and she made haste and let down her picture from her shoulder and said drink and i will give thy camel's drink also so i drank and she made the camel's drink also and i asked her and said whose daughter out thou and she said the daughter of bethuel or her son who milker bear unto him and i put the earring upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands and i bowed down my head and worshiped the lord and blessed the lord god of my master abraham which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son and now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master tell me and if not tell me that i may turn to the right hand or to the left then laban and bethuel answered and said the thing proceedeth from the lord we cannot speak unto thee bad or good behold rebecca is before thee take her and go and let her be thy master's son's wife as the lord hath spoken and it came to pass that when abraham's servant heard their words he worshipped the lord bowing himself to the earth and the servant brought forth jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raymond and gave them to rebecca he gave also to a brother and to her mother precious things and they did eat and drink he and the men that were with him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he said send me away unto my master and her brother and her mother said let the damsel abide with us a few days at the least ten after that she shall go and he said unto them hinder me not seeing the lord hath prospered my way send me a way that i may go to my master and they said we will call the damsel in choir at her mouth and they called rebecca and said unto her will thou go with this man and she said i will go and they sent away rebecca their sister and her nurse and abraham's servant and his men and they blessed rebecca and said unto her thou art our sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them and rebecca rose and her damsels and they rode upon the camels and followed the man and the servant took rebecca and went his way and as it came from the way of the well the high raw eye for he dwelt in the south country and isaac went out to meditate in the field at the even tide and he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold the camels were coming and rebecca lifted up her eyes and when she saw isaac she lighted off the camel for she had said unto the servant what man is this that walketh in the field to meet us and the servant had said it is my master therefore she took a veil and covered herself and the servant told isaac all things that he had done and isaac brought her into his mother sarah's tent and took rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her and isaac was comforted after his mother's death genesis 25 then again abraham took a wife and her name was ketra and she bear him zimran and jokshan and madan and the sons of midian ifa and effer and hanukkah and abider in elder are all these were the children of ketra and abraham gave all that he had under isaac but unto the sons of the concubines which abraham had abraham gave gifts and sent them away from isaac his son while he yet lived eastward unto the east country and these are the days of the years of abraham's life which he lived and hundred three score and fifteen years then abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people and his sons isaac and ishmael buried him in the cave of makbila in the field of ephraim the son of zoar the hittite which is before mom ray the field which abraham purchased of the sons of heth there was abraham buried and sarah his wife and it came to pass after the death of abraham that god blessed his son isaac and isaac dwelt by the well the high raw eye now these are the generations of ishmael abraham's son who hagar the egyptian sarah's handmade bear unto abraham and these are the names of the sons of ishmael by their names according to their generations the firstborn of ishmael nabajath [Music] these are the sons of ishmael and these are their names by their towns and by their castles twelve princes according to their nations and these are the years of the life of ishmael and hundred and thirty and seven years and he gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people and they dwelt from hafilah onto shore that is before egypt as thou goest toward assyria and he died in the presence of all his brethren and these are the generations of isaac abraham's son abraham begat isaac and isaac was 40 years old when he took rebecca to wife the daughter of bethuel the syrian of padan aram the sister to laban the syrian and isaac entreated the lord for his wife because she was barren and the lord was entreated of him and rebecca his wife conceived and the children struggled together within her and she said if it be so why am i thus and she went to inquire the lord and the lord said unto her two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger and when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb and the first came out red all over like an harry garment and they called his name esau and after that came his brother out and his hand took hold on esau's heel and his name was called jacob and isaac was three score years old when she bear them and the boys grew and he saw was a cunning hunter a man of the field and jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents and isaac loved esau because he did eat of his venison but rebecca loved her jacob and jacob sod pottage and he saw cain from the field and he was faint and he saw said to jacob feed me i pray thee with that same red pottage for i am faint therefore was his name called edom and jacob said sell me this day thy birthright and esau said behold i am at the point to die and what prophet shall this birthright do to me and jacob said swear to me this day and he swear unto him and he sold his birthright unto jacob then jacob gave esau bread and pottage of lentils and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus esau despised his birthright [Music] genesis 26 and there was a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of abraham and isaac went on to abimelech king of the philistines unto jerar and the lord appeared unto him and said go not down into egypt dwell in the land which i shall tell thee of surgeon in this land and i will be with thee and will bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed i will give all these countries and i will perform the oath which i swear unto abraham thy father i will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these countries and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because that abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws and isaac dwelt in gerar and the men of the place asked him of his wife and he said she is my sister for he feared to say she's my wife lest said he the men of the place should kill me for rebecca because she was fair to look upon and it came to pass when he had been there a long time that abimelech king of the philistines looked out at a window and saw and behold isaac was sporting with rebecca his wife and abimelech called isaac and said behold of a surety she is thy wife and how saddest thou she is my sister and isaac said unto him because i said lest i die for her and abimelech said what is this thou has done unto us one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife and thou shouldst have brought guiltiness upon us abimelech charged all his people saying he that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death then isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year and hundredfold and the lord blessed him and the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very great for he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants and the philistines envied him for all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of abraham his father the philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth and abimelech said unto isaac go from us for thou art much mightier than we and isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of gerar and dwelt there and isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of abraham his father but the philistines had stopped them after the death of abraham and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them and isaac's servants digged in the valley and found there a well of springing water and the herdman of gerar did strive with isaac's herdman saying the water is ours and he called the name of the well isek because they strove with him and they digged another well and strove for that also and he called the name of it sitna and he removed from thence and digged another well and for that they strove not and he called the name of it rehoboth and he said for now the lord hath made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land and he went up from fence to beersheba and the lord appeared unto him the same night and said i am the god of abraham thy father fear not for i am with thee and will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant abraham's sake and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the lord and pitched his tent there and there isaac's servants digged a well then abimelech went to him from jarrah and ahazat one of his friends and for cole the chief captain of his army and isaac said unto them wherefore come ye to me seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you and they said we saw certainly that the lord was with thee and we said let there be now an oath betwixt us even betwixt us and thee and let us make a covenant with thee that thou will do us no hurt as we have not touched thee and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent thee away in peace thou art now the blessed of the lord and he made them a feast and they did eat and drink and they rose up the times in the morning and swear one to another and isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace and it came to pass the same day that isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged and said unto him we have found water and he called it sheba therefore the name of the city is beer sheba unto this day and esau was 40 years old when he took to wife judith the daughter of birai the hittite and the shamath the daughter of elon the hittite which were a grief of mind unto isaac and to [Music] rebecca genesis 27 and it came to pass that when isaac was old and his eyes would dim so that he could not see he called he saw his eldest son and said unto him my son and he said unto him behold here am i and he said behold now i'm old i know not the day of my death now therefore take i pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and and go out to the field and take me some venison and make me savory meat such as i love and bring it to me that i may eat that my soul may bless thee before i die and rebecca heard when isaac spake to esau his son and esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it and rebecca spake unto jacob her son saying behold i heard thy father speak unto esau thy brother saying bring me venison and make me savory meat that i may eat and bless thee before the lord before my death now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which i command thee go now to the flock and fetch me from fence two good kids of the goats and i will make them savory meat for thy father such as he loveth and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death and jacob said to rebecca his mother behold he saw my brother is a hairy man and i am a smooth man my father per adventure will feel me and i shall seem to him as a deceiver and i shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing and his mother said unto him upon me be thy curse my son only obey my voice and go fetch me them and he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and his mother made savory meat such as his father loved and rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son esau which were with her in the house and put them upon jacob her younger son and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck and she gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son jacob and he came unto his father and said my father and he said here am i who art thou my son and jacob said unto his father i am esau thy firstborn i have done according to has thou based me arise i pray thee sit and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me and isaac said unto his son how is it that thou hast found it so quickly my son and he said because the lord thy god brought it to me and isaac said unto jacob come near i pray thee that i may feel thee my son whether thou be my very son esau or not and jacob went near unto isaac his father and he felt him and said the voice is jacob's voice but the hands of the hands of esau and he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother esau's hands so he blessed him and he said art thou my very son esau and he said i am and he said bring it near to me and i will eat of my son's venison that my soul may bless thee and he brought it near to him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank and his father isaac said unto him come near now and kiss me my son and he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said see the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the lord hath blessed therefore god give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be lord over thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee cursed be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee and it came to pass as soon as isaac had made an end of blessing jacob and jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of isaac his father that he saw his brother came in from his hunting and he also had made a savory meat and brought it unto his father and said unto his father let my father arise and eat of his son's venison that thy soul may bless me and isaac his father said unto him who art thou and he said i am thy son thy firstborn esau and isaac trembled very exceedingly and said who where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me and i have eaten of all before thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall be blessed and when esau heard the words of his father he cried with a great an exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father bless me even me also o my father and he said thy brother came with subtlety and hath taken away thy blessing and he said is not he rightly named jacob for he hath supplanted me these two times he took away my birthright and behold now he have taken away my blessing and he said hast thou not reserved a blessing for me and isaac answered and said unto esau behold i have made him thy lord you know his brethren have i given to him for servants and with corn and wine have i sustained him and what shall i do now unto thee my son and esau said unto his father hast thou but one blessing my father bless me even me also o my father and esau lifted up his voice and wept and isaac his father answered and said unto him behold thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above and by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother and it shall come to pass that when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck and he saw hated jacob because of the blessing where with his father blessed him and esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand then will i slay my brother jacob and these words of he saw her elder son were told to rebecca and she sent and called jacob her younger son and said unto him behold thy brother esau as touching thee doth comfort himself purposing to kill thee now therefore my son obey my voice and her eyes flee thou to laben my brother to haran and tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury turn away until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then i will send and fetch thee from fence why should i be deprived also of you both in one day and rebecca said to isaac i am weary of my life because of the daughters of heth if jacob take a wife of the daughters of heth such as these which are of the daughters of the land what good shall my life do me [Music] genesis 28 and isaac called jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan arise go to pradhan aram to the house of bethuel thy mother's father and take the away from fence of the daughters of laban thy mother's brother and god almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of abraham to thee did i seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger which god gave unto abraham and isaac sent away jacob and he went to badanaram unto laban son of bethuel the syrian the brother of rebecca jacobs and esau's mother when he saw saw that isaac had blessed jacob and sent him away to badanaram to take him away from fence and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan and that jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was gone to badanarama and he saw seeing that the daughters of canaan pleased not isaac his father then went esau under ishmael and took unto the wise which he had mahalath the daughter of ishmael abraham's son the sister of nabajath to be his wife and jacob went out from beersheba and went toward iran and he lighted upon a certain place and carried there all night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending on it and behold the lord stood above it and said i am the lord god of abraham thy father and the god of isaac the land whereon thou to thee will i give it and to thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed and behold i am with thee and will keep thee in all places whether thou goest and will bring thee again to this land for i will not leave thee until i have done that which i have spoken to the of and jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not and he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god and this is the gate of heaven and jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it and he called the name of that place bethel but the name of that city was called las at the first and jacob vowed a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me in this way that i go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that i come again to my father's house in peace [Music] then shall the lord be my god and this stone which i have set up for a pillar shall be god's house and of all that thou shalt give me i will surely give the tenth unto thee [Music] genesis 29 then jacob went on his journey and came into the land of the people of the east and he looked and behold a well in the field and lo there were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well they watered the flocks and a great stone was upon the well's mouth and this were all the flocks gathered and they rode the stone from the wells mouth and watered the sheep and put the stone again upon the wells of mouth in his place and jacob said unto them my brethren whence be and they said of haran are we and he said unto them know ye laban the son of naha and they said we know him and he said unto them is he well and they said he is well and behold rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep and he said lo it is yet high day neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together what are ye the sheep and go and feed them and they said we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together until they roll the stone from the well's mouth then we water the sheep and while he yet spake with them rachel came with her father's sheep for she kept them and it came to pass when jacob saw rachel the daughter of laban his mother's brother and the sheep of laban his mother's brother that jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of laban his mother's brother and jacob kissed rachel and lifted up his voice and wept and jacob told rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was rebecca's son and she ran and told her father and it came to pass when laban heard the tidings of jacob his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house and he told laban all these things and laban said to him surely thou art my bone and my flesh and he abode with him the space of a month and laban said unto jacob because thou art my brother shallust thou therefore serve me for naught tell me what shall thy wages be and laban had two daughters the name of the elder was leia and the name of the younger was rachel leah was tenderized the racer was beautiful and well favored and jacob loved rachel and said i will serve these seven years for rachel thy younger daughter and laban said it is better that i give her to thee than that i should give her to another man abide with me and jacob served seven years for rachel and they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her and jacob said unto laban give me my wife for my days are fulfilled that i may go in unto her and laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast and it came to pass in the evening that he took leah his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her and laban gave unto his daughter lea silva his maid for an handmaid and it came to pass that in the morning behold it was leia and he said laban what is this thou hast done unto me did not i serve with thee for rachel wherefore then hast thou beguiled me and laban said it must not be so done in our country to give the younger before the firstborn fulfill her weak and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years and jacob did so and fulfilled her week then he gave him rachel his daughter to wife also and laban gave to rachel his daughter billa his handmaid to be her maid and he went in also onto rachel and he loved also rachel more than leah and served with him yet seven other years and when the lord saw that leah was hated he opened her womb but rachel was barren and leia conceived and bear a son and she called his name reuben for she said surely the lord hath looked upon my affliction now therefore my husband will love me and she conceived again and bear a son and said because the lord hath heard that i was hated he hath therefore given me this son also and she called his name simeon and she conceived again and bear a son and said now this time will my husband be joined unto me because i have borne him three sons therefore was his name called levi and she conceived again and bear a son and she said now will i praise the lord therefore she called his name judah and left bering [Music] genesis 30 and when rachel saw that she'd bear jacob no children rachel envied her sister and said unto jacob give me children or else i die and jacob's anger was kindled against rachel and he said am i in god's stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb and she said behold my maid biller go in unto her and she shall bear upon my knees that i may also have children by her and she gave him billa her handmaid to wife and jacob went in unto her and biller conceived in their jacob's son and rachel said god hath judged me and hath also heard my voice and had given me a son therefore called she his name dan and billa rachel's made conceived again and bear jacob a second son and rachel said with great wrestlings have i wrestled with my sister and i have prevailed and she called his name naftali when leah saw that she had left bering she took zilpah her maid and gave her jacob to wife and zilpah leah's maid bear jacob's son and leah said a troop cometh and she called his name god and zilper lia's maid bear jacob a second son and leah said happy am i for the daughters will call me blessed and she called his name asha and reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them unto his mother leah then rachel said to leah give me i pray thee of thy sons mandrakes and she said unto her is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband and which thou take away my son's mandrakes also and rachel said therefore he shall lie with thee tonight for thy sons mandrakes and jacob came out of the field in the evening and leah went out to meet him and said thou must come in unto me for surely i have hired thee with my son's mandrakes and he lay with her that night and god hearkened unto leah and she conceived and bear jacob the fifth son and leah said god hath given me my higher because i have given my maiden to my husband and she called his name issachar and leah conceived again and bear jacob the sixth son and leah said god hath endued me with a good dowry now will my husband dwell with me because i have borne him six sons and she called his name zebulun and afterwards she bear a daughter and called her name dinah and god remembered rachel and god hearkened to her and opened her womb and she conceived and bear a son and said god hath taken away my reproach and she called his name joseph and said the lord shall add to me another son and it came to pass when rachel had borne not joseph that jacob said unto laban send me away that i may go unto mine own place and to my country give me my wives and my children for whom i have served thee and let me go for thou knowest my service which i have done thee and i've been said unto him i pray thee if i have found favored thine eyes terry for i have learned by experience that the lord hath blessed me for thy sake and he said appoint me thy wages and i will give it and he said unto him now knowest how i have served thee and how thy cattle was with me for it was little which thou hatched before i came and it is now increased unto a multitude and the lord hath blessed thee since my coming and now when shall i provide for my own house also and he said what shall i give thee and jacob said thou shalt not give me anything if thou will do this thing for me i will again feed and keep thy flock i will pass through all thy flock today removing from fence all the speckled and spotted cattle and all the brown cattle among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the goats and of such shall be my hire so shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come when it shall come for my higher before thy face everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep that shall be counted stolen with me and laban said behold i would it might be according to thy word and he removed that day the he goats that were ring straight and spotted and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted and everyone that had some white in it and all the brown among the sheep and gave them into the hand of his sons and he set three days journey betwixt himself and jacob and jacob fed the rest of laban's flocks and jacob took him rods of green poplar in of the hazel and chestnut tree and pilled white strikes in them and made the white appear which was in the rods and he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink that they should conceive when they came to drink and the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth cattle rings straight speckled and spotted and jacob did separate the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring straight and all the brown and the flock of laban and he put his own flocks by themselves and put them not unto laban's cattle and it came to pass whenever the stronger cattle did conceive that jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods but when the cattle were feeble he put them not in so the feebler were labans and the stronger jacobs and the man increased exceedingly and had much cattle and maidservants and med servants and camels and asses [Music] [Music] genesis 31 and he heard the words of laban's sons saying jacob hath taken away all that was our fathers and of that which was our fathers hath he gotten all this glory and jacob beheld the countenance of laban and behold it was not toward him as before and the lord said unto jacob return unto the land of thy fathers into thy kindred and i will be with thee and jacob sent and called rachel and leah to the field unto his flock and said unto them i see your father's countenance that it is not toward me as before but the god of my father hath been with me and ye know that with all my power i have served your father and your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times but god suffered him not to hurt me if he said thus the speckled shall be thy wages then all the cattle bear speckled and if he said thus the ring straight shall be thy higher then bear all the cattle rings straight thus god hath taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me and it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived that i lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring straight speckled and grizzled and the angel of god spake unto be in a dream saying jacob and i said here am i and he said lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring straight speckled and gristled for i've seen all that labored and doeth unto thee i am the god of bethel for thou anointest the pillar and where thou vowest a vow unto me now arise get thee out from this land and return unto the land of thy kindred [Music] and rachel and leah answered and said unto him is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house are we not counted of him strangers for he hath sold us and hath quite devoured also our money for all the riches which god had taken from our father that is ours and our children's now then whatsoever god hath said unto thee do then jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon camels and he carried away all his cattle and all his goods which he had gotten the cattle of his getting which he had gotten in padanaram or to go to isaac his father in the land of canaan and laban went to share his sheep and rachel had stolen the images that were her fathers and jacob stole away unawares to label the syrian in that he told him not that he fled so he fled with all that he had and he rose up and passed over the river and set his face toward the mount gilead and it was towed laban on the third day that jacob was fled and he took his brethren with him and pursued after him seven days journey and they overtook him in the mount gilead and god came to live in the syrian in a dream by night and said unto him take heed that thou speak not to jacob either good or bad then laban overtook jacob now jacob had pitched his tent in the mount and laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of gilead and they even said to jacob what has thou done that thou hast stolen away unawares to me and carried away my daughters as captives taken with the sword wherefore didst thou flee away secretly and steal away from me and ditch not tell me that i might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs with taberet and with harp and has not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters thou hast now done foolishly in so doing it is in the power of my hand do you hurt but the god of your father spake unto me yes tonight saying take thou he that thou speak not to jacob either good or bad and now though thou which needs be gone because thou saw longest after thy father's house yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods and jacob answered and said to layman because i was afraid but i said per adventure thou would take by force thy daughters from me with whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take it to thee or jacob knew not that rachel had stolen them and laban went into jacob's tent and into layers tent and into the two maidservants tents but he found them not then went he out of lear's tent and entered into rachel's tent now rachel had taken the images and put them in the camel's furniture and sat upon them and laven searched all the tent but found them not and she said to her father let it not displease my lord that i cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women was upon me and he searched but found not the images and jacob was wroth and chode with laban and jacob answered and said to laban what is my trespass what is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me whereas thou hast searched all my stuff what has thou found of all thy household stuff said it here before my brethren and thy brethren that they may judge betwixt us both this twenty years have i been with thee thy yous and thy she-goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock have i not eaten that which was torn of beasts i brought not unto thee i bear the loss of it of my hand it's now require it whether stolen by day or stolen by night thus i was in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes thus have i been twenty years in thy house i served the fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy cattle and thou has changed to my wages ten times except the god of my father the god of abraham and the fear of isaac had been with me surely thou hast sent me away now empty god hath seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked thee yesterday and laban answered and said unto jacob these daughters are my daughters and these children are my children and these cattle are my cattle and all that thou seest is mine and what can i do this day unto these my daughters or unto their children which they have borne now therefore come thou let us make a covenant iron thou and let it be for a witness between me and thee and jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar and jacob said unto his brethren gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and they did eat there upon the heap and they even called it sahadatha but jacob called it galead and laban said this heap is a witness between me and thee this day therefore was the name of it called galead and mitzba for he said the lord watched between me and thee when we are absent one from another if thou shalt afflict my daughters or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters no man is with us see god is witness betwixt me and thee and laban said to jacob behold this heap and behold this pillar which i have cast betwixt me and thee this heat be witness and this pillar be witness that i will not pass over this heap to thee and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me for harm the god of abraham and the god of nahor the god of their father judge betwixt us and jacob swear by the fear of his father isaac then jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his brethren to eat bread and they did eat bread and tarried all night in the mount and early in the morning laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them and laban departed and returned onto his place [Music] genesis 32 and jacob went on his way and the angels of god met him and when jacob saw them he said this is god's host and he called the name of that place mahanayim and jacob sent messengers before him to esau his brother unto the land of seer the country of edom 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 and i have oxen and asses flocks and men servants and women servants and i have sent to tell my lord that i may find grace in thy sight and the messengers returned to jacob saying we came to thy brother esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred men with him then jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided the people that was with him and the forks and herds and the camels into two bands and said if he saw come to the one company and smite it then the other company which is left shall escape and jacob said o god of my father abraham and god of my father isaac the lord which said this unto me return unto thy country into thy kindred and i will deal well with thee i'm not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shown unto thy servant but with my staff i passed over this jordan now i am become two bands deliver me i pray thee from the hand of my brother from the hand of esau for i fear him bless he will come and smite me and the mother with the children and thou saidest i will surely do the good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude and he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand a present for esau his brother two hundred she-goats and twenty he goats two hundred ewes and twenty rams thirty milch camels with their coats forty kine and ten bulls twenty she asses and ten folds and he delivered them into the hand of his servants every drove by themselves and said unto his servants passover before me and put a space betwixt drove and drove and he commanded the foremost saying when he saw my brother meet at thee and asketh thee saying who's artlow and with a goes to thou and whose are these before thee then thou shalt say they be thy servant jacobs it is a presence sent unto my lord esau and behold also he is behind us and so commanded he the second and the third in all that followed the drove saying on this manner shall ye speak unto esau when you find him 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 per adventure he will accept of me so went the present over before him and himself lodged at that night in the company and he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two women's servants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford jabberk and he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over that he had and jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day 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 and he said let me go for the day breaketh and he said i will not let thee go except thou bless me and he said unto him what is thy name and he said jacob and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel for as a prince hast thou power with god and with men and hast prevailed and jacob asked him and said tell me i pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name and he blessed him there and jacob called the name of the place penal for i have seen god face to face and my life is preserved and as he passed over penuel the sun rose upon him and he halted upon his thigh therefore the children of israel eat naught 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 genesis 33 and jacob lifted up his eyes and looked and behold esau came and with him four hundred men and he divided the children unto leah and unto rachel and unto the two handmaids and he put the handmaids and their children foremost and lea and her children after and rachel and joseph indomost and he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother and he saw ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept 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 then the handmaidens came near they and their children and they bowed themselves and leah also with her children came near and bowed themselves and after came joseph near and rachel and they bowed themselves and he said what meanest thou by all this drove which i met and he said these are to find grace in the sight of my lord and esau said i have enough my brother keep that thou hast unto thyself and jacob said nay i pray thee if now i have found grace in thy sight then receive my present at my hand for therefore have seen thy face as though i had seen the face of god and thou wasted pleased with me take i pray thee my blessing that is brought to thee because god hath dealt graciously with me and because i have enough and he urged him and he took it and he said let us take our journey and let us go and i will go before thee and he said unto him my lord knoweth that the children are tender and the flocks and herds with young are with me and if men should overdrive them one day all the flock will die let my lord i pray thee passover before his servant and i will lead on softly according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure until i come unto my lord unto seer and esau said let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me and he said what needeth it let me find grace in the sight of my lord so he saw return that day on his way under seer and jacob journeyed to sukkoth and built him a house and made booths for his cattle therefore the name of the place is called sukhov and jacob came to shalem a city of shechem which is in the land of canaan when he came from padhana ram and pitched his tent before the city and he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent at the hand of the children of hamur shekham's father for 100 pieces of money and he erected there an altar and called it l a israel genesis 34 and dinah the daughter of leia which she bear unto jacob went out to see the daughters of the land and when checkum the son of hamor the hivite prince of the country saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her and his soul claimed unto dinah the daughter of jacob and he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damsel and chekham spake unto his father hamor saying get me this damsel to wife and jacob heard that he had defiled dinah his daughter now his sons were with his cattle in the field when jacob held his peace until they were come and hamur the father of shechem went out unto jacob to commune with him and the sons of jacob came out of the field when they heard it and the men were grieved and they were very roth because he had wrought folly in israel in lying with jacob's daughter which thing ought not to be done and hamor communed with them saying the soul of my son longeth for your daughter i pray you give her him to wife and make ye marriages with us and give your daughters unto us and take our daughters unto you and ye shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you dwell and trade ye there in and get you possessions there in and shechem said unto her father and her brethren let me find grace in your eyes and what you shall say unto me i will give 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 and the sons of jacob answer chechem and hamur his father deceitfully and said because he had defiled dinah their sister and they said unto them we cannot do this thing to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised for that were a reproach unto us but in this will we consent unto you if ye will be as we be that every male of you be circumcised 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 but if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised then we will take our daughter and we will be gone and their words pleased hamur and shekham hamur's son and the young man deferred not to do the thing because he had delight in jacob's daughter and he was more honorable than all the house of his father and hamor and shechem his son came unto the gate of their city and communed with the men of their city saying 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 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 shall not their cattle and their substance in every beast of theirs be ours only let us consent unto them and they will dwell with us and unto hamur and unto his son hearken all that went out of the gate of his city and every male was circumcised all that went out of the gate of his city and it came to pass on the third day when they were sore that two of the sons of jacob simeon and levi dina's brethren took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males and they slew hamor and shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took dinah out of shechem's house and went out the sons of jacob came upon the slain and spoiled to the city because they had defiled their sister they took their sheep and their oxen and their asses and that which was in the city and that which was in the field and all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives took their captive and spoiled even all that was in the house [Music] 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 perisites and i being few in number they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me and i shall be destroyed i in my house and they said should he deal with our sister as with an harlot [Music] genesis 35 and god said unto jacob arise go up to bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto god that appeared unto thee when thou fledest 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 be clean and change your garments and let us arise and go up to bethel 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 strange gods which were in their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears and jacob hid them under the oak which was by shechem 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 so jacob came to lars which is in the land of canaan that is bethel he and all the people that were with him and he built there an altar and called the place el bethel because there god appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother but deborah rebecca's nurse died and she was buried beneath bethel under an oak and the name of it was called elon barkoff and god appeared unto jacob again when he came out of pradhan aram and blessed him and god said unto him thy name is jacob thy name shall not be called anymore 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 king shall come out of thy loins and the line which i gave 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 talked with him 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 there on and he poured oil there on and jacob called the name of the place where god spake with him bethel and they journeyed from bethel and there was but a little way to come to ephrath and rachel travailed and she had hard labor and it came to pass when she was in hard labor that the midwife said unto her fear not thou shalt have this son also and it came to pass as her soul was in departing or she died that she called his name ben ony but his father called him benjamin and rachel died and was buried in the way to ephrath which is bethlehem and jacob set a pillar upon her grave that is the pillar of rachel's grave unto this day in israel journeyed and spread his tent beyond the tower of adar and it came to pass when israel dwelt in that land that reuben went and lay with billa his father's concubine and israel heard it now the sons of jacob were twelve the sons of leia reuben jacob's firstborn and simeon and levi and judah and issachar the sons of rachel joseph and benjamin and the sons of billah rachel's handmaid dan and naftali and the sons of zilpah leah's handmaid gad and asha these are the sons of jacob which were born to him in pradhanaram and jacob came unto isaac his father unto mom ray unto the city of arba which is hebron where abraham and isaac sojourned and the days of isaac were 104 score years and isaac gave up the ghosts and died and was gathered unto his people being old and full of days and his sons esau and jacob buried him [Music] genesis 36 now these are the generations of esau who is edom he saw took his wives of the daughters of canaan adar the daughter of allah and the hittite and the daughter of anna the daughter of zibian the hivite and bashamath ishmael's daughter sister of nabajith anada bear to esau alifars and bashemeth bear ruel and halibama bear jeus jalam and korra these are the sons of esau which were born unto him in the land of canaan and esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the 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 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 thus dwelt esau in mount sir esau is edom and these are the generations of esau the father of the in mount sir these are the names of esau's sons eliphaz the son of ada the wife of esau ruel the son of bashemeth the wife of esau and the sons of eliphaz were temen omar zepho and gatam and kanaz and timna was concubine delhi fires he saw son and she bear two eliphaz amalek these were the sons of ada esau's wife and these are the sons of rawal mahath and zerah shama and miser these were the sons of the shemeth esau's wife and these were the sons of ahalibama the daughter of anna the daughter of zibian esau's wife and she bear to esau jayush and jalam and korra these were dukes of the sons of esau the sons of elifast the firstborn son of esau duke tamann duke omar dukxifo duke canaz duke korra dukatam and duke amalek these are the dukes that came of eliphaz in the land of edom these were the sons of darth and these are the sons of rawal esau's these are the dukes that came of rewell in the land of edom these are the sons of bashemoth esau's wife and these are the sons of a holy bomber esau's wife duke josh duke jalan dukora these were the dukes that came of aholi obama the daughter of anna esau's wife these are the sons of esau who is edom and these are their dukes these are the sons of seer the horite who inhabited the land lotan and chobal and zibian and anna and deshon and ezra and bishan these are the dukes of the horites the children of seer in the land of edom and the children of lotan were horai and himam and lotan's sister was timna and the children of shabbat were these alban and manahath and dibal shafa and onam and these are the children of zibian both ajah and anna this was that anna that found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of zibby and his father and the children of anna were these deshawn and ahalibam are the daughter of anna and these are the children of deshawn hemden and eshban and ithran and chiran the children of ezer are these bilhan and zavan and akan the children of deshan are these az and iran these are the dukes that came of the horites duklothan duke shobal duke zibian duke anna duke deshawn duke azer deshaan these are the dukes that came of horai among their dukes in the land of seer and these are the kings that reigned in the land of edom before they have reigned any king over the children of israel and bella the son of beor reigned in edom and the name of his city was dinah and bella died and job the son of zarah of beaujora reigned instead and jobar died and husham of the land of gemini reigned in his stead and usham died and haddad the son of the dad who smote midian in the field of moab reigned in his stead when the name of his city was a vic and a dog died and samla of mazreka reigned in his stead and samla died and saul of rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead and saul died and baal hanan the son of akbar reigned in his stead and baal hanan the son of akbar died and had reigned in his stead and the name of his city was paul and his wife's name was maher tabel and the daughter of matred the daughter of mezahab and these are the names of the dukes that came of esau according to their families after their places by their names duke timna dukalva theft duke holy baba bukila dukpinon duke canars duke taman these be the dukes of edom according to their habitations in the land of their possession he is esau the father of the genesis 37 and jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger in the land of canaan these are the generations of jacob joseph being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren and the lad was with the sons of biller and with the sons of zilpah his father's wives and joseph brought unto his father their evil report 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 and when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him and joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more and he said unto them here i pray you this dream which i have dreamed or behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my sheep arose and also stood upright and behold your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf and his brethren said to him shalt thou indeed reign over us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words and he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren and said behold i have dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me and he told it to his father and to his brethren and his father rebuked him and said unto him what is this dream that thou hast dreamed shall i and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth and his brethren envied him but his father observed the saying and his brethren went to feed their fathers flock in shechem and israel said unto joseph do not thy brethren feed the flock in shechem come and i will send thee unto them and he said to him here am i and he said to him go i pray thee see whether it be well with thy brethren and well with the flocks and bring me word again so he sent him out of the veil of hebron and he came to shechem and a certain man found him and behold he was wandering in the field and the man asked him saying what seekest thou and he said i seek my brethren tell me i pray thee where they feed their flocks and the man said they are departed hence i heard them say let us go to dothan and joseph went after his brethren and found them in dothan and when they saw him afar off even before he came near unto them they conspired against him to slay him and they said one to another behold this dreamer cometh come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say some evil beast hath devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams and reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands and said let us not kill him and reuben said unto them shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again it came to pass when joseph was come unto his brethren that they stripped joseph out of his coat his coat of many colors that was on him and they took him and cast him into a pit and the pit was empty there was no water in it and they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked and behold a company of ishmaelites came from gilead with their camels bearing spicery and bomb and myrrh going to carry it down to egypt and judah said unto his brethren what profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood come and let us sell him to the ishmaelites and let not our hand be upon him for he is our brother and our flesh and his brethren were content then there passed by midianites merchant men and they drew and lifted up joseph out of the pit and sold joseph to the ishmeelites for 20 pieces of silver and they brought joseph into egypt and reuben returned unto the pit and behold joseph was not in the pit and he rent his clothes and he returned unto his brethren and said the child is not and i whether shall i go and they took joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood and they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father and said this have we found know now whether it be thy son's coat or no and he knew it and said it is my son's coat an evil beast hath devoured him joseph is without doubt rent in pieces and jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourn for his son many days and all his sons nor his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said for i will go down into the grave unto my son mourning thus his father wept for him and the midianites sold him into egypt unto potiphar an officer of pharaohs and captain of the god [Music] genesis 38 and it came to pass at that time that judah went down from his brethren and turned into a certain edulamite whose name was hira and judah saw there a daughter of a certain canaanite whose name was sure and he took her and went in unto her and she conceived in their son and he called his name heir and she conceived again in their son she called his name onan and she yet again conceived and bear a son and called his name shellah and he was at jazeb when she bare him and judah took a wife for air his first born whose name was tamar and heir judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of the lord and the lord slew him and judah said unto onan go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother and onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother and the thing which he did displeased the lord wherefore he slew him also then said judah to tamar his daughter-in-law remain a widow at thy father's house till sheller my son be grown for he said blessed per adventure he die also as his brethren did and tamar went and dwelt in her father's house and in process of time the daughter of shua judah's wife died and judah was comforted and went up unto his sheepshearers to timnath he and his friend hira the edulamite and it was told tamar saying behold thy father-in-law goeth up to timnath to share his sheep and she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in an open place which is by the way to timnath for she saw that shella was grown and she was not given unto him to wife when judah saw her he thought her to be in harlot because she had covered her face and he turned unto her by the way and said go too i pray thee let me come in unto thee for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law and she said what will thou give me that thou mayest come in unto me and he said i will send thee a kid from the flock and she said wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it and he said what pledge shall i give thee and she said thy signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand and he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him and she arose and went away and laid by her veil from her and put on the garments of her widowhood and judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the edualamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand but he found her not then he asked the men of that place saying where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside and they said there was no harlot in this place and he returned to judah and said i cannot find her and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place and judah said let her take it to her unless we be shamed behold i sent this kid and that has not found her and it came to pass about three months after that it was told judah saying tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with child by whoredom and judah said bring her forth and let her be burnt when she was brought forth she sent to her father-in-law saying by the man whose these are am i with child. and she said discern i pray thee whose are these the signet and bracelets and staff and you to acknowledge them and said she hath been more righteous than i because that i gave her not to shella my son and he knew her again no more and it came to pass in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb and it came to pass when she travailed that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread saying this came out first and it came to pass as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out and she said how hast thou broken forth this breach be upon thee therefore his name was called ferez and afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name was called zera genesis 39 and joseph was brought down to egypt and potiphar an officer of pharaoh captain of the god an egyptian bought him of the hands of the ishmaelites which had brought him down thither and the lord was with joseph and he was a prosperous man and he was in the house of his master the egyptian and his master saw that the lord was with him and that the lord made all that he did to prosper his hand and joseph found grace in his sight and he served him and he made him overseer over his house and all that he had he put into his hand and it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had that the lord blessed the egyptians house for joseph's sake and the blessing of the lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field and he left all that he had in joseph's hand and he knew not all he had saved the bread which he did eat and joseph was a goodly person and well favored and it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon joseph and she said lie with me but he refused and said unto his master's wife behold my master what if not what is with me in the house and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand there is none greater in this house than i neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee because thou art his wife how then can i do this great wickedness and sin against god and it came to pass as she spake to joseph day by day that he hearkened not unto her to lie by her or to be with her and it came to pass about this time that joseph went into the house to do his business and there was none of the men of the house there within and she caught him by his garment saying lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out and it came to pass when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled forth that she called unto the men of her house and spake unto them saying see he hath brought in in hebrew unto us to mock us he came in unto me to lie with me and i cried with a loud voice and it came to pass when he heard that i lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out and she laid up his garment by her until his lord came home and she spake unto him according to these words saying the hebrew servant which thou has brought unto us came in unto me to mock me and it came to pass as i lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled out and it came to pass when his master heard the words of his wife which he spake unto him saying after this manner did thy servant to me that his wrath was kindled then joseph's master took him and put him into the prison a place where the king's prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison but the lord was with joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor the sight of the keeper of the prison and the keeper of the prison committed to joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison and whatsoever they did there he was the doer of it the keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was under his hand because the lord was with him and that which he did the lord made it to prosper genesis 40 and it came to pass after these things that the butler of the king of egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of egypt and pharaoh was wrought against two of his officers against the chief of the butlers and against the chief of the bakers and he put them in war in the house of the captain of the god into the prison the place where joseph was bound and the captain of the god charged joseph with them and he served them and they continued a season in ward and they dreamed to dream both of them each man his dream in one night each man according to the interpretation of his dream the butler and the baker of the king of egypt which were bound in the prison and joseph came in unto them in the morning and looked upon them and behold they were sad and he asked pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house saying wherefore lookie so sadly today and they said unto him we have dreamed a dream and there is no interpreter of it and joseph said unto them do not interpretations belong to god tell me them i pray you and the chief butler told his dream to joseph and said to him in my dream behold a vine was before me in the vine were three branches and it was as though it budded and her blossoms shot forth and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes and 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 and joseph said unto him this is the interpretation of it three branches are three days yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thine head and restore thee unto thy place and thou shalt deliver pharaoh's cup into his hand after the form of manna when thou west his butler but think on me when it shall be well with thee and show kindness i pray thee unto me and make mention of me unto pharaoh and bring me out of this house for indeed i was sterling away out of the land of the hebrews in here also have i done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said unto joseph i also was in my dream and behold i had three white baskets on my head and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked meats for pharaoh and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head and joseph answered and said this is the interpretation thereof the three baskets are three days yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee and it came to pass the third day which was pharaoh's birthday that he made a feast unto all his servants and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants and he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again and he gave the cup into pharaoh's hand but he hanged the chief baker as joseph had interpreted to them yet did not the chief butler remember joseph but forget him genesis 41 [Music] and it came to pass at the end of two four years that pharaoh dreamed and behold he stood by the river and beholder came up out of the river seven well-favored kind and fat fleshed and they fed in a meadow and behold seven other kind came up after them out of the river ill-favored and lean fleshed and stood by the other kind upon the brink of the river and the ill-favored and lean fleshed kind did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kind so pharaoh awoke and he slept and dreamed that the second time and behold seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk rank and good and behold seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them and the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears and pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream and it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of egypt and all the wise men thereof and pharaoh told them his dream that there was none that could interpret them unto pharaoh then spake the chief butland to pharaoh saying i do remember my faults this day pharaoh was wrath with his servants and put me in ward of the captain the gods house both me and the chief baker and we dreamed a dream in one night i and he we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream there was there with us a young man and hebrew servant to the captain the god and we told him and he interpreted to us our dreams to each man according to his dream he did interpret and it came to pass as he interpreted to us so it was me he restored unto mine office and him he hanged then pharaoh sent and called joseph and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon and he shaved himself and changed his raiment and came in unto pharaoh and pharaoh said unto joseph i have dreamed a dream and there is none that can interpret it and i have heard say of thee that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it and joseph answered pharaoh saying it is not in me god shall give pharaoh an answer of peace and pharaoh said unto joseph in my dream behold i stood upon the bank of the river and behold they came up out of the river seven kind fat fleshed and well favored and they fed in a meadow and behold seven other kind came up after them poor and very ill favored and lean fleshed such as i never saw in all the land of egypt for badness and the lean and the ill-favored kind did eat up the first seven fat kind and when they had eaten them up it could not be known that they had eaten them but they were still ill-favored as at the beginning so i awoke and i saw in my dream and behold seven ears came up in one stalk full and good and behold seven ears withered thin and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them and the phineas devoured the seven goriers and i told this unto the magicians but there was none that could declare it to me joseph said unto pharaoh the dream of pharaoh is one god hath shown pharaoh what he is about to do the seven good kind are seven years and the seven good years are seven years the dream is one and the seventh in and ill-favored kind that came up after them are seven years and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine this is the thing which i have spoken unto pharaoh what god is about to do he showeth unto pharaoh behold there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of egypt and there shall arise after them seven years of famine and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of egypt and the famine shall consume the land and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following for it shall be very grievous and for that the dream was doubled unto pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by god and god will shortly bring it to pass now therefore let pharaoh look out a man discrete and wise and set him over the land of egypt let pharaoh do this and let him appoint officers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of egypt in the seven plenteous years and let them gather all the food of those good years that come and lay up corn under the hand of pharaoh and let them keep food in the cities and that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of egypt that the land perished not through the famine and the thing was good in the eyes of pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants and pharaoh said unto his servants can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the spirit of god is and pharaoh said unto joseph for as much as god hath shown thee all this there is none so discreet and wise as thou art thou shalt be over my house and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will i be greater than now and pharaoh said unto joseph see i have set thee over all the land of egypt and pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon joseph's hand and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him bow the knee and he made him ruler over all the land of egypt and pharaoh said unto joseph i am pharaoh and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of egypt and pharaoh called joseph's name zafnath panner and he gave him to wife asanath the daughter of potiphara priest of on and joseph went out over all the land of egypt and joseph was 30 years old when he stood before pharaoh king of egypt and joseph went out from the presence of pharaoh and went throughout all the land of egypt and in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls and 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 round about every city laid he up in the same and joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea very much until he left numbering for it was without number and unto joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came which azanath the daughter of potter pharaoh priest of ahn bear unto him and joseph called the name of the firstborn manasseh but god said he had made me forget all my toil in all my father's house and the name of the second called he ephraim but god hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction and the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of egypt were ended and the seven years of death began to come according as joseph had said and that earth was in all lands but in all the land of egypt there was bread and when all the land of egypt was famished the people cried to pharaoh for bread and pharaoh said unto all the egyptians go unto joseph what he saith to you do and the famine was over all the face of the earth and joseph opened all the storehouses and sold unto the egyptians and the famine waxed saw in the land of egypt and all countries came into egypt to joseph or to buy corn because that the famine was so sore in all lands [Music] genesis 42 now when jacob saw that there was corn in egypt jacob said unto his sons why do you look one upon another and he said behold i have heard that there is corn in egypt get you down there and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die and joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in egypt but benjamin joseph's brother jacob sent not with his brethren for he said lest per adventure mischief before him and the sons of israel came to buy corn among those that came for the famine was in the land of canaan and joseph was the governor of the land and he it was that so to all the people of the land and joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth and joseph saw his brethren and he knew them but made himself strange unto them and spake roughly unto them and he said unto them once come ye and they said from the land of canaan to buy food and joseph knew his brethren but they knew not him and joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said unto them ye are spies to see the nakedness of the land ye are come and they said unto him name i lord but to buy food are thy servants come we are all one man's sons we are true men thy servants are no spies and he said unto them nay but to see that nakedness of the land you are come and they said thy servants are twelve brethren the sons of one man in the land of canaan and behold the youngest is this day with our father and one is not and joseph said unto them that is it that i spake unto you saying ye are spies hereby he shall be proved by the life of pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence except your youngest brother come hither send one of you and let him fetch your brother and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved whether there be any truth in you or else by the life of pharaoh surely ye are spies and he put them all together into ward three days and joseph said unto them the third day this do and live for i fear god if you be true men let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison go ye carry corn for the famine of your houses but bring your youngest brother unto me so shall your words be verified and ye shall not die and they did so and they said one to another we are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distress come upon us and rubert answered them saying spake i not unto you saying do not sin against the child and ye would not hear therefore behold also his blood is required and they knew not that joseph understood them or he spake unto them by an interpreter and he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and communed with them and took from them simeon and bound him before their eyes then joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn and to restore every man's money into a sack and to give them provision for the way and thus did he unto them and they laid their asses with the corn and depotted fence and as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn he aspired his money for behold it was in his sacks mouth and he said unto his brethren my money is restored and lo it is even in my sack and their heart failed them and they were afraid saying one to another what is this that god hath done unto us and they came unto jacob their father unto the land of canaan and told him all that befell unto them saying the man who is the lord of the land spake roughly to us and took us for spies of the country and we said unto him we are true men we are no spies we be twelve brethren sons of our father one is not and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of canaan and the man the lord of the country said unto us hereby shall i know that ye are true men leave one of your brethren here with me and take food for the famine of your households and be gone and bring your youngest brother unto me then shall i know that ye are no spies but that ye are true men so will i deliver you your brother and ye shall traffic in the land and it came to pass as they emptied their sacks their behold every man's bundle of money was in his sack and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money they were afraid and jacob their father said unto them me have ye bereaved my children joseph is not and simeon is not and ye will take benjamin away all these things are against me and reuben spake unto his father saying slay my two sons if i bring him not to thee deliver him into my hand and i will bring him to thee again and he said my son shall not go down with you for his brother is dead and he is left alone if mischief before him by the way in the which ego then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave [Music] genesis 43 and the famine was saw on the land and it came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of egypt their father said unto them go again buy us a little food and judah spake unto him saying the man did solemnly protest unto us saying you shall not see my face except your brother be with you but thou wilt send our brother with us we will go down and by the food but if thou will not send him we will not go down for the man said unto us ye shall not see my face except your brother be with you and israel said wherefore delty so ill with me as to tell the man whether he had yet a brother and they said the man asked us straightly of our state and of our kindred saying is your father yet alive have ye another brother and we told him according to the tenor of these words could we certainly know that he would say bring your brother down and judah said unto israel his father send the lad with me and we will arise and go that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones i will be surety for him of my hand shalt thou require him if i bring him not unto thee and set him before thee then let me bear the blame forever for except we had lingered surely now we had returned this second time and their father israel said unto them if it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down the man a present a little bomb and a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds and take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks carry it again in your hand per adventure it was an oversight take also your brother and arise go again unto the man and god almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your other brother and benjamin if i be bereaved of my children i am bereaved and the men took that present and they took double money in their hand and benjamin and rose up and went down to egypt and stood before joseph and when joseph saw benjamin with them he said to the ruler of his house bring these men home and slay and make ready but these men shall dine with me at noon and the man did as joseph bade and the man brought the men into joseph's house and the men were afraid because they were brought into joseph's house and they said because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us and take us for bondmen and our asses and they came near to the steward of joseph's house and they communed with him at the door of the house and said oh sir we came indeed down at the first time to buy food and it came to pass when we came to the inn that we opened our sacks and behold every man's money was in the mouth of his sack our money in full weight and we have brought it again in our hand and other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks and he said peace be to you fear not your god and the god of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks i had your money and he brought simeon out unto them and the man brought the men into joseph's house and gave them water and they washed their feet and he gave their asses proven there and they made ready the present against joseph came at noon but they heard that they should eat bread there and when joseph came home they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house and bowed themselves to him to the earth and he asked them of their welfare and said is your father well the old man of whom ye spake is he yet alive and they answered thy servant our father is in good health he is yet alive and they bow down their heads and made obeisance and he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother benjamin his mother's son and said is this your younger brother of whom ye spake unto me and he said god be gracious unto thee my son and joseph made haste for his bowels did yearn upon his brother and he sought where to weep and he entered into his chamber and wept there and he washed his face and went out and refrained himself and said set on bread and they set on for him by himself and for them by themselves and for the egyptians which did eat with him by themselves because the egyptians might not eat bread with the hebrews for that is an abomination unto the egyptians and they sat before him the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth and the men marveled one at another and he took incent messes unto them from before him but benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs and they drank and were merry with him [Music] genesis 44 and 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 sacks mouth and put my cup the silver cup in the sacks mouth of the youngest in his corn money and he did according to the word that joseph had spoken as soon as the morning was light the men were sent away they in their asses and when they were gone out of the city and not yet far off joseph said unto his steward up follow after the men and when thou dost overtake them say unto them wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good is not this it in which my lord drinketh and whereby indeed he divineth ye have done evil in so doing and he overtook them and he spake unto them these same words and they said unto him wherefore saith my lord these words god forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing behold the money which we found in our sacks mouths we brought again unto thee out of the land of canaan how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold with whomsoever of thy servants it be found both let him die and we also will be my lord's bondman and he said now also let it be according unto your words he with whom it is found shall be my servant and ye shall be blameless then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground and open every man his sack and he searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest and the cup was found in benjamin's sack then they rent their clothes and laded every man his ass and returned to the city and judah and his brethren came to joseph's house for he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground and joseph said unto them what deed is this that ye have done what ye not that such a man as i can certainly divine and judah said what shall we say unto my lord what shall we speak or how shall we clear ourselves god hath found out the iniquity of thy servants behold we are my lord's servants both we and he also with whom the cup is found and he said god forbid that i should do so but the man in whose hand the cup is found he shall be my servant and as for you get you up in peace unto your father then judah came near unto him and said o my lord let thy servant i pray thee speaker word in my lord's ears and let not thine anger burn against thy servant for thou art even as pharaoh my lord asked his servants saying have you a father or a brother and we said unto 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 loveth him and thou sensed unto thy servants bring him down unto me that i may set mine eyes upon him and we said unto my lord the lord cannot leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die and thou sensed unto thy servants except your youngest brother come down with you ye shall see my face no more and it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father we told him the words of my lord and our father said go again and buy us a little food and we said we cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us then we will go down for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be with us and i serve it my father said unto us ye know that my wife bear me two sons and the one went out from me and i said surely he is torn in pieces and i saw him not since and if ye take this also from me and mischief before him ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave now therefore when i come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life it shall come to pass when he see it the lad is not with us that he will die and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave for thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying if i bring him not unto thee then i shall bear the blame to my father forever now therefore i pray thee let thy servant abide instead of the lad abondment to my lord and let the lad go up with his brethren for how shall i go up to my father and the lad be not with me lest per adventure i see the evil that shall come on my father genesis 45 then joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he cried cause every man to go out from me and there stood no man with him while joseph made himself known unto his brethren and he wept aloud and the egyptians in the house of pharaoh heard and joseph said unto his brethren i am joseph doth my father yet live and his brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence and joseph said unto his brethren come near to me i pray you and they came near and he said i am joseph your brother whom ye sold into egypt [Music] now therefore be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither for god did send me before you to preserve life for these two years hath the famine been in the land and yet there are five years in the which there shall neither be earring nor harvest and god sent me before you to preserve your posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance so now it was not you that sent me hither but god and he hath made me a father to pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of egypt haste ye and go up to my father and say unto him thus saith thy son joseph god hath made me lord of all egypt come down unto me tarry not and thou shalt dwell in the land of goshen and thou shalt be near unto me now and i children and thy children's children and thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast and there will i nourish thee for yet there are five years of famine lest thou in thy household and all that thou hast come to poverty and behold your eyes see in the eyes of my brother benjamin that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you and ye shall tell my father of all my glory in egypt and of all that ye have seen and he shall haste and bring down my father hither and he fell upon his brother benjamin's neck and wept and benjamin wept upon his neck moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him and the thing thereof was heard in pharaoh's house saying joseph's brethren are come and he pleased pharaoh well and his servants and pharaoh said unto joseph say unto thy brethren this do ye laid your beasts and go get you unto the land of canaan and take your father and your households and come unto me and i will give you the good of the land of egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land now thou art commanded this do ye take you wagons out of the land of egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come also regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of egypt is yours and the children of israel did so and joseph gave them wagons according to the commandment of pharaoh and gave them provision for the way to all of them he gave each man changes of raiment but to benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver and five changes of ramens and to his father he sent after this manner 10 asses laden with the good things of egypt and 10 she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way so he sent his brethren away and they departed and he said unto them see the ye fall not out by the way and they went up out of egypt and came into the land of canaan unto jacob their father and told him saying joseph is yet alive and he is governor over all the land of egypt and jacob's heart fainted for he believed them not and they told him all the words of joseph which he had said unto them and when he saw the wagons which joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of jacob their father revived and israel said it is enough joseph my son is yet alive i will go and see him before i die [Music] genesis 46 and israel took his journey with all that he had and came to beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the god of his father isaac and god spake unto israel in the visions of the night and said jacob jacob and he said here am i and he said i am god the god of thy father fear not to go down into egypt for i will there make of thee a great nation i will go down with thee into egypt and i will also surely bring thee up again and joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes and jacob rose up from beersheba and the sons of israel carried jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which pharaoh had sent to carry him and they took their cattle and their gourds which they had gotten in the land of canaan and came into egypt jacob and all his seed with him his sons and his son's sons with him his daughters and his son's daughters and all his seed brought he with him into egypt and these are the names of the children of israel which came into egypt jacob and his sons reuben jacob's firstborn and the sons of reuben hanukkah and falu and hezrun and karmai and the sons of simeon jamuel and jamin in ohad and jachin and zohar and show the son of a canaanitish woman and the sons of levi gershon kohath and mariah and the sons of judah heir and died in the land of canaan and the sons of foreign and hamal and the sons of issachar tola and fuva and job and shimron and the sons of zebulun sired and elon and jaleel these be the sons of leah which he bear unto jacob in puranaram with his daughter dinah all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three and the sons of god zephion in haggai shunai in espen erai in eredai and erelai and the sons of asher jimna and and sarah their sister and the sons of bariah heber and malkiel these are the sons of zilpah whom laban gave to leah his daughter and thee she bear unto jacob even sixteen souls the sons of rachel jacob's wife joseph and benjamin and unto joseph in the land of egypt were born manasseh and ethereum which asanath the daughter of polyphera priest of ahn bear unto him and the sons of benjamin were bella and baker and ashbel gera and naaman ehi and rosh muppim and hupim and aard these are the sons of rachel which were born to jacob all the souls were fourteen and the sons of dan hushem and the sons of naftali jaziel and gunai and jezer and shalem these are the sons of billah which laban gave unto rachel his daughter and she bear these unto jacob all the souls were seven all the souls that came with jacob into egypt which came out of his loins besides jacob's son's wives all the souls were three score and six and the sons of joseph which were born him in egypt were two souls all the souls of the house of jacob which came into egypt were three score and ten and he sent judah before him unto joseph to direct his face unto goshen and they came into the land of goshen and joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet israel his father to goshen and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while and israel said unto joseph now let me die since i have seen thy face because thou art yet alive and joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house i will go up and show pharaoh and say unto him my brethren and my father's house which were in the land of canaan are come unto me and the men are shepherds for their trade hath been to feed cattle and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have and it shall come to pass when pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your occupation that ye shall say thy servants trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now both we and also our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of goshen for every shepherd is an abomination unto the egyptians [Music] genesis 47 then joseph came and told pharaoh and said my father and my brethren and their flocks and their herds and all that they have are come out of the land of canaan and behold they are in the land of goshen and he took some of his brethren even five men and presented them unto pharaoh and pharaoh said unto his brethren what is your occupation and they said unto pharaoh thy servants are shepherds both we and also our fathers they said moreover unto pharaoh for two surgeon in the land are we come for thy servants have no pasture or their flocks for the famines saw in the land of canaan now therefore we pray thee let thy servants dwell in the land of goshen and pharaoh spake under joseph saying thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee the land of egypt is before thee in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell in the land of goshen let them dwell and if thou knowest any men of activity among them then make them rulers over my cattle and joseph brought in jacob his father and set him before pharaoh and jacob bless pharaoh and pharaoh said unto jacob how old are thou and jacob said unto pharaoh the days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage and jacob blessed pharaoh and went out from before pharaoh and joseph placed his father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land of egypt in the best of the land in the land of ramses as pharaoh had commanded and joseph nourished his father and his brethren in all his father's household with bread according to their families and there was no bread in all the land but the famine was very sore so that the land of egypt and all the land of canaan fainted by reason of the famine and joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of egypt and in the land of canaan for the corn which they bought and joseph brought the money into pharaoh's house and one money failed in the land of egypt and in the land of canaan all the egyptians came unto joseph and said give us bread but why should we die in thy presence for the money faileth and joseph said give your cattle and i will give you for your cattle if money fail and they brought their cattle unto joseph and joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses and for the flocks and for the cattle of the herds and for the asses and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year when that year was ended they came unto him the second year and said unto him we will not hide it from my lord how that our money is spent my lord also hath our herds of cattle there is not ought left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands wherefore shall we die before thine eyes both we and our land buy us now land for bread and we in our land will be servants unto pharaoh and give us seed that we may live and not die that the land be not desolate and joseph bought all the land of egypt for pharaoh for the egyptians sold every man his field because the famine prevailed over them so the land became pharaohs and as for the people he removed them two cities from one end of the borders of egypt even to the other end thereof only the land of the priests bought he not for the priests had a portion of sign them of pharaoh and did eat their portion which pharaoh gave them wherefore they sold not their lands then joseph said unto the people behold i have bought you this day in your land for pharaoh lo here is seed for you and ye shall sow the land and it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth part unto pharaoh and four part shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for them of your households and for food for your little ones and they said thou hast saved our lives let us find grace in the sight of my lord and we will be pharaoh's servants and joseph made it a law over the land of egypt unto this day that pharaoh should have the fifth part except the land of the priests only which became not pharaohs and israel dwelt in the land of egypt in the country of goshen and they had possessions therein and grew and multiplied exceedingly and jacob lived in the land of egypt 17 years so the whole age of jacob was 147 years and the time drew nigh that israel must die and he called his son joseph and said unto him if now i have found grace in thy sight put i pray thee thy hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me bury me not i pray thee in egypt but i will lie with my fathers and thou shalt carry me out of egypt and bury me in their burying place and he said i will do as thou hast said and he said swear unto me and he swear unto him and israel bowed himself upon the bed's head [Music] genesis 48 and it came to pass after these things that one told joseph behold my father is sick and he took with him his two sons manasseh and ephraim and one told jacob and said behold thy son joseph cometh unto thee and israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed and jacob said unto joseph god almighty appeared unto me at lars in the land of canaan and blessed me and said unto me behold i will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and i will make of thee a multitude of people and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession and now thy two sons ephraim and manasseh which were born unto thee in the land of egypt before i came unto thee into egypt are mine as reuben and simeon they shall be mine and thy issue which thou begist after them shall be thine and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance and as for me when i came from padan rachel died by me in the land of canaan in the way when yet there was but a little way to come unto ephrath and i buried her there in the way of ephrath the same as bethlehem and israel beheld joseph's sons and said who are these and joseph said unto his father they are my sons whom god hath given me in this place and he said bring them i pray thee unto me and i will bless them now the eyes of israel were dim for age so that he could not see and he brought them near unto him and he kissed them and embraced them and israel said unto joseph i had not thought to see thy face and lo god hath shown me also thy seed and joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himself with his face to the earth and 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 unto him and israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon ephraim's head who was the younger and his left hand upon manasseh's head guiding his hands wittingly for manasseh was the firstborn and he blessed joseph and said god before whom my fathers abraham and isaac did walk the god which fed me all my life long unto this day the angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads and let my name be named on them in the name of my fathers abraham and isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth and when joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of ephraim it displeased him and he held up his father's hand to remove it from ephraim's head unto manasseh's head and joseph said unto his father not so my father for this is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head and his father refused and said i know it my son i know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations and he blessed them that day saying in thee shall israel bless saying god make thee as ephraim and as manasseh and he said ephraim before manasseh and israel said unto joseph behold i die but god shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers moreover i have given to thee one portion above thy brethren which i took out of the hand of the amorite with my sword and with my bow [Music] genesis 49 and jacob called unto his sons and said gather yourselves together that i may tell you that which shall before you in the last days gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of jacob and hearken unto israel your father reuben thou art my firstborn my might and the beginning of my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power unstable as water thou shalt not excel because thou went us up to thy father's bed then defilest thou it he went up to my couch simeon and levi are brethren instruments of cruelty are in their habitations oh my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their self-will they digged down a wall 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 judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies thy father's children shall bow down before thee judah is a lion's whelp from the prey my son thou art gone up he stooped down he couched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up the scepter shall not depart from judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until shallow come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be binding his foe unto the vine and his asses coat unto the choice vine he washed his garments and wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes his eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall be for a haven of ships and his border shall be unto zeiden this occurs a strong ass couching down between two burdens and he saw that rest was good in the land that it was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant unto tribute dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of israel dan shall be a serpent by the way an adder in the path that biteth the horse heals so that his rider shall fall backward i have waited for thy salvation o lord god a troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome at the last out of asha his bread shall be fat and he shall yield royal dainties naphtali is a hind let loose he giveth goodly words joseph is a fruitful bow even a fruitful bow by a well whose branches run over the wall the archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him but his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty god of jacob from fence is the shepherd the stone of israel even by the god of thy father who shall help thee and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above blessings of the deep that lieth under blessings of the breasts and of the womb the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren benjamin shall raven as a wolf in the morning he shall devour the prey and at night he shall divide the spoil all these are the twelve tribes of israel and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them everyone according to his blessing he blessed them and he charged them and said unto them i am to be gathered unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of ephron the hittite in the cave that is in the field of matpila which is before mamre in the land of canaan which abraham bought with the field of ephron the hittite for a possession of a burying place there they buried abraham and sarah his wife there they buried isaac and rebecca his wife and there i buried leah the purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of heth and when jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people [Music] genesis 50 and joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him and joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father and the physicians embalmed israel and forty days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed and the egyptians mourned for him three score in ten days and when the days of his morning were passed joseph spake unto the house of pharaoh saying if now i have found grace in your eyes speak i pray you in the ears of pharaoh saying my father made me swear saying lo i die in my grave which i have digged for me in the land of canaan there shalt thou bury me now therefore let me go up i pray thee and bury my father and i will come again and pharaoh said go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear and joseph went up to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of pharaoh the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of egypt and all the house of joseph and his brethren and his father's house only their little ones and their flocks and their herds they left in the land of goshen and they went up with him both chariots and horsemen and it was a very great company and they came to the threshing floor of a which is beyond her jordan and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven days and when the inhabitants of the land the canaanites saw the morning in the floor of a they said this is a grievous morning to the egyptians wherefore the name of it was called abel mizraim which is beyond jordan and his sons did unto him according as he commanded them for his sons carried him into the land of canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of mapillar which abraham bought with the field for possession of a bearing place of ephron the hittite before monre and joseph returned into egypt he and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father and when joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead they said joseph will per adventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him and they sent a messenger unto joseph saying my father did command before he died saying so shall ye say unto joseph forgive i pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin for they did unto thee evil and now we pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants of the god of thy father and joseph wept when they spake unto him and his brethren also went and fell down before his face and they said behold we be thy servants and joseph said unto them fear not for am i in the place of god but as for you he thought evil against me but god meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive now therefore fear ye not i will nourish you and your little ones and he comforted them and spake kindly unto them and joseph dwelt in egypt he in his father's house and joseph lived 110 years and joseph saw ephraim's children of the third generation the children also of makir the son of manasseh were brought up upon joseph's knees and joseph said unto his brethren i die and god will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swear to abraham to isaac and to jacob and joseph took an oath of the children of israel saying god will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence so joseph died being 110 years old and then bombed him and he was put in a coffin in egypt [Music] you