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Table of Contents Preface to PDF Version Micah ... 537 Preface to 1611 Translation Nahum ... 541 Old Testament Habakkuk ... 543 Genesis ... 1 Zephaniah ... 545 Exodus ... 31 Haggai ... 547 Leviticus ... 57 Zechariah ... 549 Numbers ... 77 Malachi ... 555 Deuteronomy ... 103 New Testament Joshua ... 125 Matthew ... 559 Judges ... 141 Mark ... 579 Ruth ... 157 Luke ... 591 1 Samuel ... 159 John ... 611 2 Samuel ... 179 Acts ... 627 1 Kings ... 195 Romans ... 647 2 Kings ... 215 1 Corinthians ... 655 1 Chronicles ... 233 2 Corinthians ... 663 2 Chronicles ... 251 Galatians ... 669 Ezra ... 273 Ephesians ... 673 Nehemiah ... 279 Philippians ... 677 Esther ... 289 Colossians ... 679 Job ... 295 1 Thessalonians ... 681 Psalms ... 309 2 Thessalonians ... 683 Proverbs ... 395 1 Timothy ... 685 Ecclesiastes ... 407 2 Timothy ... 687 Song of Songs ... 413 Titus ... 689 Isaiah ... 417 Philemon ... 691 Jeremiah ... 447 Hebrews ... 693 Lamentations ... 479 James ... 699 Ezekiel ... 483 1 Peter ... 701 Daniel ... 513 2 Peter ... 703 Hosea ... 523 1 John ... 705 Joel ... 527 2 John ... 707 Amos ... 529 3 John ... 709 Obadiah ... 533 Jude ... 711 Jonah ... 535 Revelation ... 713 www.holybooks.com

Preface to PDF Version Preface to PDF Version of the King James Holy Bible Original Publish Date: March, 2001, Revised: January 2004 The text of the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Bible (also called the Authorized Version (AV) by some) is in the public domain. You may copy and publish it freely. This Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the King James Holy Bible is also placed into the public domain. It was created directly from the public domain text and converted to PDF format using \"DaVince Tools\", a software product that converts text files and other file formats into PDF (http://www.davince.com). Minor formatting changes were made to the public domain text, which consisted of removal of the public domain notice in each book. Instead, the public domain notice has been placed in this preface. The text was automatically word wrapped by the software to fit into a column representation, and a bookmark and article thread was created for each book. The bookmark allows the reader to easily switch between books of the Bible by simply clicking on the appropriate bookmark. The article thread allows easy reading of each book by guiding the reader through the text using mouse clicks. The January 2004 edition adds web optimization, a table of contents, duplex printing support and separate bookmark categories for for Old and New Testaments. The PDF version of this and other Bibles can be downloaded at the following URL: http://www.davince.com/bible Webmasters are encouraged to link to this URL. With the advent of the internet, temptation for sin has never been greater; however, the internet also brings a great opportunity for witnessing and spreading God’s word. It is my hope that by making this PDF version of the Holy Bible available in the public domain, more people will discover God’s word that may not have otherwise. Dan Cogliano publisher of the PDF Holy Bible and author of \"DaVince Tools\" www.holybooks.com

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iii Preface to 1611 Translation THE TRANSLATORS TO THE READER Preface to the King James Version of 1611 THE BEST THINGS HAVE BEEN CULMINATED Zeal to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath been laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteem, but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love, and with emulation instead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and cavil, if it do not find a hole, will make one) it is sure to be misconstrued, and in danger to be condemned. This will easily be granted by as many as know story, or have any experience. For, was there ever any-projected, that savoured any way of newness or renewing, but the same endured many a storm of gainsaying, or opposition? A man would think that Civility, wholesome Laws, learning and eloquence, Synods, and Church-maintenance, (that we speak of no more things of this kind) should be as safe as a Sanctuary, and out of shot, as they say, that no man would lift up the heel, no, nor dog move his tongue against the motioners of them. For by the first, we are distinguished from brute beasts lead with sensuality; By the second, we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by violence; By the third, we are enabled to inform and reform others, by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourselves; Briefly, by the fourth being brought together to a parley face to face, we sooner compose our differences than by writings which are endless; And lastly, that the Church be sufficiently provided for, is so agreeable to good reason and conscience, that those mothers are holden to be less cruel, that kill their children as soon as they are born, than those nursing fathers and mothers (wheresoever they be) that withdraw from them who hang upon their breasts (and upon whose breasts again themselves do hang to receive the Spiritual and sincere milk of the word) livelihood and support fit for their estates. Thus it is apparent, that these things which we speak of, are of most necessary use, and therefore, that none, either without absurdity can speak against them, or without note of wickedness can spurn against them. Yet for all that, the learned know that certain worthy men [Anacharsis with others] have been brought to untimely death for none other fault, but for seeking to reduce their Countrymen to god order and discipline; and that in some Commonwealths [e.g. Locri] it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old, though the same were most pernicious; And that certain [Cato the elder], which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a long time to give way to good Letters and refined speech, but bare themselves as averse from them, as from rocks or boxes of poison; And fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great clerk [Gregory the Divine], that gave forth (and in writing to remain to posterity) in passion peradventure, but yet he gave forth, that he had not seen any profit to come by any Synod, or meeting of the Clergy, but rather the contrary; And lastly, against Church-maintenance and allowance, in such sort, as the Ambassadors and messengers of the great King of Kings should be furnished, it is not unknown what a fiction or fable (so it is esteemed, and for no better by the reporter himself [Nauclerus], though superstitious) was devised; Namely, that at such a time as the professors and teachers of Christianity in the Church of Rome, then a true Church, were liberally endowed, a voice forsooth was heard from heaven, saying: Now is poison poured down into the Church, etc. Thus not only as oft as we speak, as one saith, but also as oft as we do anything of note or consequence, we subject ourselves to everyone’s censure, and happy is he that is least tossed upon tongues; for utterly to escape the snatch of them it is impossible. If any man conceit, that this is the lot and portion of the meaner sort only, and that Princes are privileged by their high estate, he is deceived. \"As the sword devoureth as well one as the other,\" as it is in Samuel [2 Sam 11:25], nay as the great Commander charged his soldiers in a certain battle, to strike at no part of the enemy, but at the face; And as the King of Syria commanded his chief Captains to \"fight neither with small nor great, save only against the King of Israel:\" [1 Kings 22:31] so it is too true, that Envy striketh most spitefully at the fairest, and at the chiefest. David was a worthy Prince, and no man to be compared to him for his first deeds, and yet for as worthy as act as www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation iv ever he did (even for bringing back the Ark of God in solemnity) he was scorned and scoffed at by his own wife [2 Sam 6:16]. Solomon was greater than David, though not in virtue, yet in power: and by his power and wisdom he built a Temple to the Lord, such a one as was the glory of the land of Israel, and the wonder of the whole world. But was that his magnificence liked of by all? We doubt it. Otherwise, why do they lay it in his son’s dish, and call unto him for easing the burden, \"Make\", say they, \"the grievous servitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, lighter?\" [1 Kings 12:4] Belike he had charged them with some levies, and troubled them with some carriages; Hereupon they raise up a tragedy, and wish in their heart the Temple had never been built. So hard a thing it is to please all, even when we please God best, and do seek to approve ourselves to every ones conscience. If we will descend to later times, we shall find many the like examples of such kind, or rather unkind acceptance. The first Roman Emperor [C. Caesar. Plutarch] did never do a more pleasing deed to the learned, nor more profitable to posterity, for conserving the record of times in true supputation; than when he corrected the Calendar, and ordered the year according to the course of the Sun; and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogance, and procured to him great obloguy. So the first Christened Emperor [Constantine] (at the least-wise that openly professed the faith himself, and allowed others to do the like) for strengthening the Empire at his great charges, and providing for the Church, as he did, got for his labour the name Pupillus, as who would say, a wasteful Prince, that had need of a Guardian or overseer [Aurel. Victor]. So the best Christened Emperor [Theodosius], for the love that he bare unto peace, thereby to enrich both himself and his subjects, and because he did not see war but find it, was judged to be no man at arms [Zosimus], (though indeed he excelled in feats of chivalry, and showed so much when he was provoked) and condemned for giving himself to his ease, and to his pleasure. To be short, the most learned Emperor of former times [Justinian], (at the least, the greatest politician) what thanks had he for cutting off the superfluities of the laws, and digesting them into some order and method? This, that he had been blotted by some to be an Epitomist, that is, one that extinguishes worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgments into request. This is the measure that hath been rendered to excellent Princes in former times, even, Cum bene facerent, male audire, For their good deeds to be evil spoken of. Neither is there any likelihood, that envy and malignity died, and were buried with the ancient. No, no, the reproof of Moses taketh hold of most ages; \"You are risen up in your fathers’ stead, and increase of sinful men.\" [Num 32:14] \"What is that that hath been done? that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the Sun,\" saith the wiseman: [Ecc 1:9] and S. Stephen, \"As your fathers did, so do you.\" [Acts 7:51] HIS MAJESTY’S CONSTANCY, NOTWITHSTANDING CULMINATION, FOR THE SURVEY OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS This, and more to this purpose, His Majesty that now reigneth (and long, and long may he reign, and his offspring forever, \"Himself and children, and children’s always) knew full well, according to the singular wisdom given unto him by God, and the rare learning and experience that he hath attained unto; namely that whosoever attempteth anything for the public (especially if it pertain to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himself upon a stage to be gloated upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himself headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharp tongue. For he that medleth with men’s Religion in any part, medleth with their custom, nay, with their freehold; and though they find no content in that which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering. Notwithstanding his Royal heart was not daunted or discouraged for this that colour, but stood resolute, \"as a statue immovable, and an anvil not easy to be beaten into plates,\" as one [Suidas] saith; he knew who had chosen him to be a Soldier, or rather a Captain, and being assured that the course which he intended made for the glory of God, and the building up of his Church, he would not suffer it to be broken off for whatsoever speeches or practices. It doth certainly belong unto Kings, yea, it doth specially belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, it doth specially belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, to know it aright, yea, to profess it zealously, yea to promote it to the uttermost of their power. This is their glory before all nations which mean well, and this will bring unto them a far most www.holybooks.com

v Preface to 1611 Translation excellent weight of glory in the day of the Lord Jesus. For the Scripture saith not in vain, \"Them that honor me, I will honor,\" [1 Sam 2:30] neither was it a vain word that Eusebius delivered long ago, that piety towards God was the weapon and the only weapon, that both preserved Constantine’s person, and avenged him of his enemies [Eusebius lib 10 cap 8]. THE PRAISE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES But now what piety without truth? what truth (what saving truth) without the word of God? What word of God (whereof we may be sure) without the Scripture? The Scriptures we are commanded to search. John 5:39. Isa 8:20. They are commended that searched and studied them. Acts 17:11 and 8:28,29. They are reproved that were unskillful in them, or slow to believe them. Matt 22:29. Luke 24:25. They can make us wise unto salvation. 2 Tim 3:15. If we be ignorant, they will instruct us; if out of the way, they will bring us home; if out of order, they will reform us; if in heaviness, comfort us; if dull, quicken us; if cold, inflame us. Tolle, lege; Tolle, lege, Take up and read, take up and read the Scriptures [S. August. confess. lib 8 cap 12], (for unto them was the direction) it was said unto S. Augustine by a supernatural voice. \"Whatsoever is in the Scriptures, believe me,\" saith the same S. Augustine, \"is high and divine; there is verily truth, and a doctrine most fit for the refreshing of men’s minds, and truly so tempered, that everyone may draw from thence that which is sufficient for him, if he come to draw with a devout and pious mind, as true Religion requireth.\" [S. August. de utilitcredendi cap. 6] Thus S. Augustine. and S. Jerome: \"Ama scripturas, et amabit te sapientia etc.\" [S. Jerome. ad Demetriad] Love the Scriptures, and wisdom will love thee. And S. Cyril against Julian; \"Even boys that are bred up in the Scriptures, become most religious, etc. [S. Cyril. 7 contra Iulianum] But what mention we three or four uses of the Scripture, whereas whatsoever is to be believed or practiced, or hoped for, is contained in them? or three or four sentences of the Fathers, since whosoever is worthy the name of a Father, from Christ’s time downward, hath likewise written not only of the riches, but also of the perfection of the Scripture? \"I adore the fulness of the Scripture,\" saith Tertullian against Hermogenes. [Tertul. advers. Hermo.] And again, to Apelles an heretic of the like stamp, he saith; \"I do not admit that which thou bringest in (or concludest) of thine own (head or store, de tuo) without Scripture.\" [Tertul. de carne Christi.] So Saint Justin Martyr before him; \"We must know by all means,\" saith he, \"that it is not lawful (or possible) to learn (anything) of God or of right piety, save only out of the Prophets, who teach us by divine inspiration.\" So Saint Basil after Tertullian, \"It is a manifest falling way from the Faith, and a fault of presumption, either to reject any of those things that are written, or to bring in (upon the head of them) any of those things that are not written. We omit to cite to the same effect, S. Cyril B. of Jerusalem in his 4::Cataches., Saint Jerome against Helvidius, Saint Augustine in his 3::book against the letters of Petilian, and in very many other places of his works. Also we forebear to descend to later Fathers, because we will not weary the reader. The Scriptures then being acknowledged to be so full and so perfect, how can we excuse ourselves of negligence, if we do not study them, of curiosity, if we be not content with them? Men talk much of [an olive bow wrapped about with wood, whereupon did hang figs, and bread, honey in a pot, and oil], how many sweet and goodly things it had hanging on it; of the Philosopher’s stone, that it turned copper into gold; of Cornucopia, that it had all things necessary for food in it, of Panaces the herb, that it was good for diseases, of Catholicon the drug, that it is instead of all purges; of Vulcan’s armor, that it was an armor of proof against all thrusts, and all blows, etc. Well, that which they falsely or vainly attributed to these things for bodily god, we may justly and with full measure ascribe unto the Scripture, for spiritual. It is not only an armor, but also a whole armory of weapons, both offensive and defensive; whereby we may save ourselves and put the enemy to flight. It is not an herb, but a tree, or rather a whole paradise of trees of life, which bring forth fruit every month, and the fruit thereof is for meat, and the leaves for medicine. It is not a pot of Manna, or a cruse of oil, which were for memory only, or for a meal’s meat or two, but as it were a shower of heavenly bread sufficient for a whole host, be it never so great; and as it were a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our necessities may be provided for, and our debts discharged. In a word, it is a Panary of wholesome food, against fenowed traditions; a Physician’s shop (Saint Basil called it) [S. Basil in Psal. primum.] of preservatives against poisoned heresies; a Pandect of profitable laws, against rebellious spirits; a treasury of most costly jewels, against beggarly rudiments; finally a www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation vi fountain of most pure water springing up unto everlasting life. And what marvel? The original thereof being from heaven, not from earth; the author being God, not man; the inditer, the holy spirit, not the wit of the Apostles or Prophets; the Penmen such as were sanctified from the womb, and endued with a principal portion of God’s spirit; the matter, verity, piety, purity, uprightness; the form, God’s word, God’s testimony, God’s oracles, the word of truth, the word of salvation, etc.; the effects, light of understanding, stableness of persuasion, repentance from dead works, newness of life, holiness, peace, joy in the holy Ghost; lastly, the end and reward of the study thereof, fellowship with the Saints, participation of the heavenly nature, fruition of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, and that never shall fade away: Happy is the man that delighted in the Scripture, and thrice happy that meditateth in it day and night. TRANSLATION NECESSARY But how shall men meditate in that, which they cannot understand? How shall they understand that which is kept close in an unknown tongue? as it is written, \"Except I know the power of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh, a Barbarian, and he that speaketh, shall be a Barbarian to me.\" [1 Cor 14] The Apostle excepteth no tongue; not Hebrew the ancientest, not Greek the most copious, not Latin the finest. Nature taught a natural man to confess, that all of us in those tongues which we do not understand, are plainly deaf; we may turn the deaf ear unto them. The Scythian counted the Athenian, whom he did not understand, barbarous; [Clem. Alex. 1 Strom.] so the Roman did the Syrian, and the Jew (even S. Jerome himself called the Hebrew tongue barbarous, belike because it was strange to so many) [S. Jerome. Damaso.] so the Emperor of Constantinople [Michael, Theophili fil.] calleth the Latin tongue, barbarous, though Pope Nicolas do storm at it: [2::Tom. Concil. ex edit. Petri Crab] so the Jews long before Christ called all other nations, Lognazim, which is little better than barbarous. Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, there was one or other that called for an interpreter: [Cicero 5::de finibus.] so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent, it is necessary to have translations in a readiness. Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water, even as Jacob rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, by which means the flocks of Laban were watered [Gen 29:10]. Indeed without translation into the vulgar tongue, the unlearned are but like children at Jacob’s well (which is deep) [John 4:11] without a bucket or something to draw with; or as that person mentioned by Isaiah, to whom when a sealed book was delivered, with this motion, \"Read this, I pray thee,\" he was fain to make this answer, \"I cannot, for it is sealed.\" [Isa 29:11] THE TRANSLATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT OUT OF THE HEBREW INTO GREEK While God would be known only in Jacob, and have his Name great in Israel, and in none other place, while the dew lay on Gideon’s fleece only, and all the earth besides was dry; then for one and the same people, which spake all of them the language of Canaan, that is, Hebrew, one and the same original in Hebrew was sufficient. [S. August. lib 12 contra Faust c32] But, when the fulness of time drew near, that the Sun of righteousness, the Son of God should come into the world, whom God ordained to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood, not of the Jew only, but also of the Greek, yea, of all them that were scattered abroad; then lo, it pleased the Lord to stir up the spirit of a Greek Prince (Greek for descent and language) even of Ptolemy Philadelph King of Egypt, to procure the translating of the Book of God out of Hebrew into Greek. This is the translation of the Seventy Interpreters, commonly so called, which prepared the way for our Saviour among the Gentiles by written preaching, as Saint John Baptist did among the Jews by vocal. For the Grecians being desirous of learning, were not wont to suffer books of worth to lie moulding in Kings’ libraries, but had many of their servants, ready scribes, to copy them out, and so they were dispersed and made common. Again, the Greek tongue was well www.holybooks.com

vii Preface to 1611 Translation known and made familiar to most inhabitants in Asia, by reason of the conquest that there the Grecians had made, as also by the Colonies, which thither they had sent. For the same causes also it was well understood in many places of Europe, yea, and of Africa too. Therefore the word of God being set forth in Greek, becometh hereby like a candle set upon a candlestick, which giveth light to all that are in the house, or like a proclamation sounded forth in the market place, which most men presently take knowledge of; and therefore that language was fittest to contain the Scriptures, both for the first Preachers of the Gospel to appeal unto for witness, and for the learners also of those times to make search and trial by. It is certain, that that Translation was not so sound and so perfect, but it needed in many places correction; and who had been so sufficient for this work as the Apostles or Apostolic men? Yet it seemed good to the holy Ghost and to them, to take that which they found, (the same being for the greatest part true and sufficient) rather than making a new, in that new world and green age of the Church, to expose themselves to many exceptions and cavillations, as though they made a Translations to serve their own turn, and therefore bearing a witness to themselves, their witness not to be regarded. This may be supposed to be some cause, why the Translation of the Seventy was allowed to pass for current. Notwithstanding, though it was commended generally, yet it did not fully content the learned, no not of the Jews. For not long after Christ, Aquila fell in hand with a new Translation, and after him Theodotion, and after him Symmachus; yea, there was a fifth and a sixth edition, the Authors whereof were not known. [Epiphan. de mensur. et ponderibus.] These with the Seventy made up the Hexapla and were worthily and to great purpose compiled together by Origen. Howbeit the Edition of the Seventy went away with the credit, and therefore not only was placed in the midst by Origen (for the worth and excellency thereof above the rest, as Epiphanius gathered) but also was used by the Greek fathers for the ground and foundation of their Commentaries. Yea, Epiphanius above named doeth attribute so much unto it, that he holdeth the Authors thereof not only for Interpreters, but also for Prophets in some respect [S. August. 2::de dectrin. Christian c. 15]; and Justinian the Emperor enjoining the Jews his subjects to use especially the Translation of the Seventy, rendreth this reason thereof, because they were as it were enlightened with prophetical grace. Yet for all that, as the Egyptians are said of the Prophet to be men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit [Isa 31:3]; so it is evident, (and Saint Jerome affirmeth as much) [S. Jerome. de optimo genere interpret.] that the Seventy were Interpreters, they were not Prophets; they did many things well, as learned men; but yet as men they stumbled and fell, one while through oversight, another while through ignorance, yea, sometimes they may be noted to add to the Original, and sometimes to take from it; which made the Apostles to leave them many times, when they left the Hebrew, and to deliver the sense thereof according to the truth of the word, as the spirit gave them utterance. This may suffice touching the Greek Translations of the Old Testament. TRANSLATION OUT OF HEBREW AND GREEK INTO LATIN There were also within a few hundred years after CHRIST, translations many into the Latin tongue: for this tongue also was very fit to convey the Law and the Gospel by, because in those times very many Countries of the West, yea of the South, East and North, spake or understood Latin, being made Provinces to the Romans. But now the Latin Translations were too many to be all good, for they were infinite (Latini Interprets nullo modo numerari possunt, saith S. Augustine.) [S. Augustin. de doctr. Christ. lib 2 cap II]. Again they were not out of the Hebrew fountain (we speak of the Latin Translations of the Old Testament) but out of the Greek stream, therefore the Greek being not altogether clear, the Latin derived from it must needs be muddy. This moved S. Jerome a most learned father, and the best linguist without controversy, of his age, or of any that went before him, to undertake the translating of the Old Testament, out of the very fountain with that evidence of great learning, judgment, industry, and faithfulness, that he had forever bound the Church unto him, in a debt of special remembrance and thankfulness. THE TRANSLATING OF THE SCRIPTURE INTO THE VULGAR TONGUES Now through the Church were thus furnished with Greek and Latin Translations, even before the faith of CHRIST was www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation viii generally embraced in the Empire; (for the learned know that even in S. Jerome’s time, the Consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the Senate also) [S. Jerome. Marcell.Zosim] yet for all that the godly-learned were not content to have the Scriptures in the Language which they themselves understood, Greek and Latin, (as the good Lepers were not content to fare well themselves, but acquainted their neighbors with the store that God had sent, that they also might provide for themselves) [2 Kings 7:9] but also for the behoof and edifying of the unlearned which hungered and thirsted after righteousness, and had souls to be saved as well as they, they provided Translations into the vulgar for their Countrymen, insomuch that most nations under heaven did shortly after their conversion, hear CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue, not by the voice of their Minister only, but also by the written word translated. If any doubt hereof, he may be satisfied by examples enough, if enough will serve the turn. First S. Jerome saith, Multarum gentium linguis Scriptura ante translata, docet falsa esse quae addita sunt, etc. i.e. \"The Scripture being translated before in the languages of many Nations, doth show that those things that were added (by Lucian and Hesychius) are false.\" [S. Jerome. praef. in 4::Evangel.] So S. Jerome in that place. The same Jerome elsewhere affirmeth that he, the time was, had set forth the translation of the Seventy suae linguae hominibus, i.e., for his countrymen of Dalmatia [S. Jerome. Sophronio.] Which words not only Erasmus doth understand to purport, that S. Jerome translated the Scripture into the Dalmatian tongue, but also Sixtus Senensis [Six. Sen. lib 4], and Alphonsus a‘ Castro [Alphon. lb 1 ca 23] (that we speak of no more) men not to be excepted against by them of Rome, do ingenuously confess as much. So, S. Chrysostom that lived in S. Jerome’s time, giveth evidence with him: \"The doctrine of S. John [saith he] did not in such sort [as the Philosophers’ did] vanish away: but the Syrians, Egyptians, Indians, Persians, Ethiopians, and infinite other nations being barbarous people translated it into their [mother] tongue, and have learned to be [true] Philosophers,\" he meaneth Christians. [S. Chrysost. in Johan. cap.I. hom.I.] To this may be added Theodoret, as next unto him, both for antiquity, and for learning. His words be these, \"Every Country that is under the Sun, is full of these words (of the Apostles and Prophets) and the Hebrew tongue [he meaneth the Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue] is turned not only into the Language of the Grecians, but also of the Romans, and Egyptians, and Persians, and Indians, and Armenians, and Scythians, and Sauromatians, and briefly into all the Languages that any Nation useth. [Theodor. 5. Therapeut.] So he. In like manner, Ulfilas is reported by Paulus Diaconus and Isidor (and before them by Sozomen) to have translated the Scriptures into the Gothic tongue: [P. Diacon. li. 12.] John Bishop of Sevil by Vasseus, to have turned them into Arabic, about the year of our Lord 717; [Vaseus in Chron. Hispan.] Bede by Cistertiensis, to have turned a great part of them into Saxon: Efnard by Trithemius, to have abridged the French Psalter, as Beded had done the Hebrew, about the year 800: King Alfred by the said Cistertiensis, to have turned the Psalter into Saxon: [Polydor. Virg. 5 histor.] Methodius by Aventinus (printed at Ingolstadt) to have turned the Scriptures into Slavonian: [Aventin. lib. 4.] Valdo, Bishop of Frising by Beatus Rhenanus, to have caused about that time, the Gospels to be translated into Dutch rhythm, yet extant in the Library of Corbinian: [Circa annum 900. B. Rhenan. rerum German. lib 2.] Valdus, by divers to have turned them himself into French, about the year 1160: Charles the Fifth of that name, surnamed the Wise, to have caused them to be turned into French, about 200 years after Valdus his time, of which translation there be many copies yet extant, as witnesseth Beroaldus. Much about that time, even in our King Richard the second’s days, John Trevisa translated them into English, and many English Bibles in written hand are yet to be seen with divers, translated as it is very probable, in that age. So the Syrian translation of the New Testament is in most learned men’s Libraries, of Widminstadius his setting forth, and the Psalter in Arabic is with many, of Augustinus Nebiensis’ setting forth. So Postel affirmeth, that in his travel he saw the Gospels in the Ethiopian tongue; And Ambrose Thesius allegeth the Pslater of the Indians, which he testifieth to have been set forth by Potken in Syrian characters. So that, to have the Scriptures in the mother tongue is not a quaint conceit lately taken up, either by the Lord Cromwell in England, [Thuan.] or by the Lord Radevile in Polony, or by the Lord Ungnadius in the Emperor’s dominion, but hath been thought upon, and put in practice of old, even from the first times of the conversion of any Nation; no doubt, because it was esteemed most profitable, to cause faith to grow in men’s hearts the sooner, and to make them to be able to say with the words of the Psalms, \"As we have heard, so we have seen.\" [Ps 48:8] www.holybooks.com

ix Preface to 1611 Translation THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OUR CHIEF ADVERSARIES, THAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE DIVULGED IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, ETC. Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bear a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: [Sophecles] they must first get a licence in writing before they may use them, and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor, that is, to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the Eighth that there should be any Licence granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth. [See the observation (set forth by Clemen. His authority) upon the 4. rule of Pius the 4. his making in the index, lib. prohib. pag. 15. ver. 5.] So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugae Scripturarum, as Tertulian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the Licence of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yea, so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the people’s understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills. This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. Sure we are, that it is not he that hath good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit; [Tertul. de resur. carnis.] neither is it the true man that shunneth the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved [John 3:20]: neither is it the plaindealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meteyard brought in place, but he that useth deceit. But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation. THE SPEECHES AND REASONS, BOTH OF OUR BRETHREN, AND OF OUR ADVERSARIES AGAINST THIS WORK Many men’s mouths have been open a good while (and yet are not stopped) with speeches about the Translation so long in hand, or rather perusals of Translations made before: and ask what may be the reason, what the necessity of the employment: Hath the Church been deceived, say they, all this while? Hath her sweet bread been mingled with leaven, here silver with dross, her wine with water, her milk with lime? (Lacte gypsum male miscetur, saith S. Ireney,) [S. Iren. 3. lib. cap. 19.] We hoped that we had been in the right way, that we had the Oracles of God delivered unto us, and that though all the world had cause to be offended and to complain, yet that we had none. Hath the nurse holden out the breast, and nothing but wind in it? Hath the bread been delivered by the fathers of the Church, and the same proved to be lapidosus, as Seneca speaketh? What is it to handle the word of God deceitfully, if this be not? Thus certain brethren. Also the adversaries of Judah and Jerusalem, like Sanballat in Nehemiah, mock, as we hear, both the work and the workmen, saying; \"What do these weak Jews, etc. will they make the stones whole again out of the heaps of dust which are burnt? although they build, yet if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stony wall.\" [Neh 4:3] Was their Translation good before? Why do they now mend it? Was it not good? Why then was it obtruded to the people? Yea, why did the Catholics (meaning Popish Romanists) always go in jeopardy, for refusing to go to hear it? Nay, if it must be translated into English, Catholics are fittest to do it. They have learning, and they know when a thing is well, they can manum de tabula. We will answer them both briefly: and the former, being brethren, thus, with S. Jerome, \"Damnamus veteres? Mineme, sed post priorum studia in domo Domini quod possums laboramus.\" [S. Jerome. Apolog. advers. Ruffin.] That is, \"Do we condemn the ancient? In no case: but after the endeavors of them that were before us, we take the best pains we can in the house of God.\" As if he said, Being provoked by the example of the learned men that lived before my time, I have thought it my duty, to assay whether my talent in the knowledge of the tongues, may be profitable in any measure to God’s Church, lest I should seem to laboured in them in vain, and lest I should be thought to glory in men, (although ancient,) above that which was in them. Thus S. Jerome may be thought to speak. www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation x A SATISFACTION TO OUR BRETHREN And to the same effect say we, that we are so far off from condemning any of their labors that travailed before us in this kind, either in this land or beyond sea, either in King Henry’s time, or King Edward’s (if there were any translation, or correction of a translation in his time) or Queen Elizabeth’s of ever renowned memory, that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, for the building and furnishing of his Church, and that they deserve to be had of us and of posterity in everlasting remembrance. The judgment of Aristotle is worthy and well known: \"If Timotheus had not been, we had not had much sweet music; but if Phrynis [Timotheus his master] had not been, we had not had Timotheus.\" Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that break the ice, and giveth onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of souls. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver God’s book unto God’s people in a tongue which they understand? Since of a hidden treasure, and of a fountain that is sealed, there is no profit, as Ptolemy Philadelph wrote to the Rabbins or masters of the Jews, as witnesseth Epiphanius: [S. Epiphan. loco ante citato.] and as S. Augustine saith; \"A man had rather be with his dog than with a stranger (whose tongue is strange unto him).\" [S. Augustin. lib. 19. de civil. Dei. c. 7.] Yet for all that, as nothing is begun and perfected at the same time, and the later thoughts are thought to be the wiser: so, if we building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, do endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, hath cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. The vintage of Abienzer, that strake the stroke: yet the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim was not to be despised. See Judges 8:2. Joash the king of Israel did not satisfy himself, till he had smitten the ground three times; and yet he offended the Prophet, for giving over then. [2 Kings 13:18-19] Aquila, of whom we spake before, translated the Bible as carefully, and as skilfully as he could; and yet he thought good to go over it again, and then it got the credit with the Jews, to be called accurately done, as Saint Jerome witnesseth. [S. Jerome. in Ezech. cap. 3.] How many books of profane learning have been gone over again and again, by the same translators, by others? Of one and the same book of Aristotle’s Ethics, there are extant not so few as six or seven several translations. Now if this cost may be bestowed upon the gourd, which affordeth us a little shade, and which today flourisheth, but tomorrow is cut down; what may we bestow, nay what ought we not to bestow upon the Vine, the fruit whereof maketh glad the conscience of man, and the stem whereof abideth forever? And this is the word of God, which we translate. \"What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?\" [Jer 23:28] Tanti vitreum, quanti verum margaritum (saith Tertullian,) [Tertul. ad Martyr.] if a toy of glass be of that reckoning with us, how ought we to value the true pearl? [Jerome. ad Salvin.] Therefore let no man’s eye be evil, because his Majesty’s is good; neither let any be grieved, that we have a Prince that seeketh the increase of the spiritual wealth of Israel (let Sanballats and Tobiahs do so, which therefore do bear their just reproof) but let us rather bless God from the ground of our heart, for working this religious care in him, to have the translations of the Bible maturely considered of and examined. For by this means it cometh to pass, that whatsoever is sound already (and all is sound for substance, in one or other of our editions, and the worst of ours far better than their authentic vulgar) the same will shine as gold more brightly, being rubbed and polished; also, if anything be halting, or superfluous, or not so agreeable to the original, the same may be corrected, and the truth set in place. And what can the King command to be done, that will bring him more true honour than this? and wherein could they that have been set a work, approve their duty to the King, yea their obedience to God, and love to his Saints more, than by yielding their service, and all that is within them, for the furnishing of the work? But besides all this, they were the principal motives of it, and therefore ought least to quarrel it: for the very Historical truth is, that upon the importunate petitions of the Puritans, at his Majesty’s coming to this Crown, the Conference at Hampton Court having been appointed for hearing their complaints: when by force of reason they were put from other grounds, they had recourse at the last, to this shift, that they could not with good conscience subscribe to the Communion book, since it maintained the Bible as it was there translated, which was as they said, a most corrupted translation. And although this was judged to be but a very poor and empty shift; yet even hereupon did his Majesty begin to bethink himself of the good that might ensue by a new translation, and presently after gave order for this Translation which is now presented unto thee. Thus much to satisfy our scrupulous Brethren. www.holybooks.com

xi Preface to 1611 Translation AN ANSWER TO THE IMPUTATIONS OF OUR ADVERSARIES Now to the latter we answer; that we do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God. As the King’s speech, which he uttereth in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it be not interpreted by every Translator with the like grace, nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere. For it is confessed, that things are to take their denomination of the greater part; and a natural man could say, Verum ubi multa nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendor maculis, etc. [Horace.] A man may be counted a virtuous man, though he have made many slips in his life, (else, there were none virtuous, for in many things we offend all) [James 3:2] also a comely man and lovely, though he have some warts upon his hand, yea, not only freckles upon his face, but also scars. No cause therefore why the word translated should be denied to be the word, or forbidden to be current, notwithstanding that some imperfections and blemishes may be noted in the setting forth of it. For whatever was perfect under the Sun, where Apostles or Apostolic men, that is, men endued with an extraordinary measure of God’s spirit, and privileged with the privilege of infallibility, had not their hand? The Romanists therefore in refusing to hear, and daring to burn the Word translated, did no less than despite the spirit of grace, from whom originally it proceeded, and whose sense and meaning, as well as man’s weakness would enable, it did express. Judge by an example or two. Plutarch writeth, that after that Rome had been burnt by the Gauls, they fell soon to build it again: but doing it in haste, they did not cast the streets, nor proportion the houses in such comely fashion, as had been most slightly and convenient; [Plutarch in Camillo.] was Catiline therefore an honest man, or a good patriot, that sought to bring it to a combustion? or Nero a good Prince, that did indeed set it on fire? So, by the story of Ezra, and the prophecy of Haggai it may be gathered, that the Temple built by Zerubbabel after the return from Babylon, was by no means to be compared to the former built by Solomon (for they that remembered the former, wept when they considered the latter) [Ezra 3:12] notwithstanding, might this latter either have been abhorred and forsaken by the Jews, or profaned by the Greeks? The like we are to think of Translations. The translation of the Seventy dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither doth it come near it, for perspicuity, gravity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did condemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it, (as it is apparent, and as Saint Jerome and most learned men do confess) which they would not have done, nor by their example of using it, so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy of the appellation and name of the word of God. And whereas they urge for their second defence of their vilifying and abusing of the English Bibles, or some pieces thereof, which they meet with, for that heretics (forsooth) were the Authors of the translations, (heretics they call us by the same right that they call themselves Catholics, both being wrong) we marvel what divinity taught them so. We are sure Tertullian was of another mind: Ex personis probamus fidem, an ex fide personas? [Tertul. de praescript. contra haereses.] Do we try men’s faith by their persons? we should try their persons by their faith. Also S. Augustine was of another mind: for he lighting upon certain rules made by Tychonius a Donatist, for the better understanding of the word, was not ashamed to make use of them, yea, to insert them into his own book, with giving commendation to them so far forth as they were worthy to be commended, as is to be seen in S. Augustine’s third book De doctrina Christiana. [S. August. 3. de doct. Christ. cap. 30.] To be short, Origen, and the whole Church of God for certain hundred years, were of another mind: for they were so far from treading under foot, (much more from burning) the Translation of Aquila a Proselyte, that is, one that had turned Jew; of Symmachus, and Theodotion, both Ebionites, that is, most vile heretics, that they joined together with the Hebrew Original, and the Translation of the Seventy (as hath been before signified out of Epiphanius) and set them forth openly to be considered of and perused by all. But we weary the unlearned, who need not know so much, and trouble the learned, who know it already. Yet before we end, we must answer a third cavil and objection of theirs against us, for altering and amending our Translations so oft; wherein truly they deal hardly, and strangely with us. For to whomever was it imputed for a fault (by such as were wise) to go over that which he had done, and to amend it where he saw cause? 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Preface to 1611 Translation xii to exhort S. Jerome to a Palinodia or recantation; [S. Aug. Epist. 9.] and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities. [S. Aug. Epist. 8.] If we be sons of the Truth, we must consider what it speaketh, and trample upon our own credit, yea, and upon other men’s too, if either be any way an hindrance to it. This to the cause: then to the persons we say, that of all men they ought to be most silent in this case. For what varieties have they, and what alterations have they made, not only of their Service books, Portesses and Breviaries, but also of their Latin Translation? The Service book supposed to be made by S. Ambrose (Officium Ambrosianum) was a great while in special use and request; but Pope Hadrian calling a Council with the aid of Charles the Emperor, abolished it, yea, burnt it, and commanded the Service book of Saint Gregory universally to be used. [Durand. lib. 5. cap. 2.] Well, Officium Gregorianum gets by this means to be in credit, but doth it continue without change or altering? No, the very Roman Service was of two fashions, the New fashion, and the Old, (the one used in one Church, the other in another) as is to be seen in Pamelius a Romanist, his Preface, before Micrologus. the same Pamelius reporteth out Radulphus de Rivo, that about the year of our Lord, 1277, Pope Nicolas the Third removed out of the Churches of Rome, the more ancient books (of Service) and brought into use the Missals of the Friers Minorites, and commanded them to be observed there; insomuch that about an hundred years after, when the above name Radulphus happened to be at Rome, he found all the books to be new, (of the new stamp). Neither were there this chopping and changing in the more ancient times only, but also of late: Pius Quintus himself confesseth, that every Bishopric almost had a peculiar kind of service, most unlike to that which others had: which moved him to abolish all other Breviaries, though never so ancient, and privileged and published by Bishops in their Dioceses, and to establish and ratify that only which was of his own setting forth, in the year 1568. Now when the father of their Church, who gladly would heal the sore of the daughter of his people softly and slightly, and make the best of it, findeth so great fault with them for their odds and jarring; we hope the children have no great cause to vaunt of their uniformity. But the difference that appeareth between our Translations, and our often correcting of them, is the thing that we are specially charged with; let us see therefore whether they themselves be without fault this way, (if it be to be counted a fault, to correct) and whether they be fit men to throw stones at us: O tandem maior parcas insane minori: they that are less sound themselves, out not to object infirmities to others. [Horat.] If we should tell them that Valla, Stapulensis, Erasmus, and Vives found fault with their vulgar Translation, and consequently wished the same to be mended, or a new one to be made, they would answer peradventure, that we produced their enemies for witnesses against them; albeit, they were in no other sort enemies, than as S. Paul was to the Galatians, for telling them the truth [Gal 4:16]: and it were to be wished, that they had dared to tell it them plainlier and oftener. But what will they say to this, that Pope Leo the Tenth allowed Erasmus’ Translation of the New Testament, so much different from the vulgar, by his Apostolic Letter and Bull; that the same Leo exhorted Pagnine to translate the whole Bible, and bare whatsoever charges was necessary for the work? [Sixtus Senens.] Surely, as the Apostle reasoneth to the Hebrews, that if the former Law and Testament had been sufficient, there had been no need of the latter: [Heb 7:11 and 8:7] so we may say, that if the old vulgar had been at all points allowable, to small purpose had labour and charges been undergone, about framing of a new. If they say, it was one Pope’s private opinion, and that he consulted only himself; then we are able to go further with them, and to aver, that more of their chief men of all sorts, even their own Trent champions Paiva and Vega, and their own Inquisitors, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, and their own Bishop Isidorus Clarius, and their own Cardinal Thomas a Vio Caietan, do either make new Translations themselves, or follow new ones of other men’s making, or note the vulgar Interpreter for halting; none of them fear to dissent from him, nor yet to except against him. And call they this an uniform tenor of text and judgment about the text, so many of their Worthies disclaiming the now received conceit? Nay, we will yet come nearer the quick: doth not their Paris edition differ from the Lovaine, and Hentenius his from them both, and yet all of them allowed by authority? Nay, doth not Sixtus Quintus confess, that certain Catholics (he meaneth certain of his own side) were in such an humor of translating the Scriptures into Latin, that Satan taking occasion by them, though they thought of no such matter, did strive what he could, out of so uncertain and manifold a variety of Translations, so to mingle all things, that nothing might seem to be left certain and firm in them, etc.? [Sixtus 5. praefat. fixa Bibliis.] Nay, further, did not the same Sixtus ordain by an inviolable decree, and that with the counsel and consent of his Cardinals, that the Latin edition of the old and new Testament, which the Council of Trent would have to be authentic, is the same without controversy which he then set forth, www.holybooks.com

xiii Preface to 1611 Translation being diligently corrected and printed in the Printinghouse of Vatican? Thus Sixtus in his Preface before his Bible. And yet Clement the Eighth his immediate successor, published another edition of the Bible, containing in it infinite differences from that of Sixtus, (and many of them weighty and material) and yet this must be authentic by all means. What is to have the faith of our glorious Lord JESUS CHRIST with Yea or Nay, if this be not? Again, what is sweet harmony and consent, if this be? Therefore, as Demaratus of Corinth advised a great King, before he talked of the dissensions of the Grecians, to compose his domestic broils (for at that time his Queen and his son and heir were at deadly feud with him) so all the while that our adversaries do make so many and so various editions themselves, and do jar so much about the worth and authority of them, they can with no show of equity challenge us for changing and correcting. THE PURPOSE OF THE TRANSLATORS, WITH THEIR NUMBER, FURNITURE, CARE, ETC. But it is high time to leave them, and to show in brief what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held in this our perusal and survey of the Bible. Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some sort, that our people had been fed with gall of Dragons instead of wine, with whey instead of milk:) but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavor, that our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen, that were greater in other men’s eyes than in their own, and that sought the truth rather than their own praise. Again, they came or were thought to come to the work, not exercendi causa (as one saith) but exercitati, that is, learned, not to learn: For the chief overseer and [NOTE: Greek letters omitted] under his Majesty, to whom not only we, but also our whole Church was much bound, knew by his wisdom, which thing also Nazianzen taught so long ago, that it is a preposterous order to teach first and to learn after, yea that [NOTE: Greek letters omitted] to learn and practice together, is neither commendable for the workman, nor safe for the work. [Idem in Apologet.] Therefore such were thought upon, as could say modestly with Saint Jerome, Et Hebreaeum Sermonem ex parte didicimus, et in Latino pene ab ipsis incunabulis etc. detriti sumus. \"Both we have learned the Hebrew tongue in part, and in the Latin we have been exercised almost from our very cradle.\" S. Jerome maketh no mention of the Greek tongue, wherein yet he did excel, because he translated not the old Testament out of Greek, but out of Hebrew. And in what sort did these assemble? In the trust of their own knowledge, or of their sharpness of wit, or deepness of judgment, as it were in an arm of flesh? At no hand. They trusted in him that hath the key of David, opening and no man shutting; they prayed to the Lord the Father of our Lord, to the effect that S. Augustine did; \"O let thy Scriptures be my pure delight, let me not be deceived in them, neither let me deceive by them.\" [S. Aug. lib. II. Confess. cap. 2.] In this confidence, and with this devotion did they assemble together; not too many, lest one should trouble another; and yet many, lest many things haply might escape them. If you ask what they had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the Greek of the New. These are the two golden pipes, or rather conduits, where-through the olive branches empty themselves into the gold. Saint Augustine calleth them precedent, or original tongues; [S. August. 3. de doctr. c. 3. etc.] Saint Jerome, fountains. [S. Jerome. ad Suniam et Fretel.] The same Saint Jerome affirmeth, [S. Jerome. ad Lucinium, Dist. 9 ut veterum.] and Gratian hath not spared to put it into his Decree, That \"as the credit of the old Books\" (he meaneth of the Old Testament) \"is to be tried by the Hebrew Volumes, so of the New by the Greek tongue,\" he meaneth by the original Greek. If truth be tried by these tongues, then whence should a Translation be made, but out of them? These tongues therefore, the Scriptures we say in those tongues, we set before us to translate, being the tongues wherein God was pleased to speak to his Church by the Prophets and Apostles. Neither did we run over the work with that posting haste that the Septuagint did, if that be true which is reported of them, that they finished it in 72 days; [Joseph. Antiq. lib. 12.] neither were we barred or hindered from going over it again, having once done it, like S. Jerome, if that be true which himself reporteth, that he could no sooner write anything, but presently it was caught from him, and published, and he could not have leave to mend it: [S. Jerome. ad Pammac. pro libr. advers. Iovinian.] neither, to be short, were we the first that fell in hand with translating the Scripture into English, and consequently destitute of former helps, as it is written of Origen, that he was the first in a manner, that put his hand to write Commentaries www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation xiv upon the Scriptures, [Sophoc. in Elect.] and therefore no marvel, if he overshot himself many times. None of these things: the work hath not been huddled up in 72 days, but hath cost the workmen, as light as it seemeth, the pains of twice seven times seventy two days and more: matters of such weight and consequence are to be speeded with maturity: for in a business of movement a man feareth not the blame of convenient slackness. [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess. cap. 2.] Neither did we think much to consult the Translators or Commentators, Chaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek or Latin, no nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch; neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see. REASONS MOVING US TO SET DIVERSITY OF SENSES IN THE MARGIN, WHERE THERE IS GREAT PROBABILITY FOR EACH Some peradventure would have no variety of senses to be set in the margin, lest the authority of the Scriptures for deciding of controversies by that show of uncertainty, should somewhat be shaken. But we hold their judgment not to be sound in this point. For though, \"whatsoever things are necessary are manifest,\" as S. Chrysostom saith, [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess. cap. 2.] and as S. Augustine, \"In those things that are plainly set down in the Scriptures, all such matters are found that concern Faith, Hope, and Charity. [S. Aug. 2. de doctr. Christ. cap. 9.] Yet for all that it cannot be dissembled, that partly to exercise and whet our wits, partly to wean the curious from the loathing of them for their everywhere plainness, partly also to stir up our devotion to crave the assistance of God’s spirit by prayer, and lastly, that we might be forward to seek aid of our brethren by conference, and never scorn those that be not in all respects so complete as they should be, being to seek in many things ourselves, it hath pleased God in his divine providence, here and there to scatter words and sentences of that difficulty and doubtfulness, not in doctrinal points that concern salvation, (for in such it hath been vouched that the Scriptures are plain) but in matters of less moment, that fearfulness would better beseem us than confidence, and if we will resolve upon modesty with S. Augustine, (though not in this same case altogether, yet upon the same ground) Melius est debitare de occultis, quam litigare de incertis, [S. Aug li. S. de Genes. ad liter. cap. 5.] \"it is better to make doubt of those things which are secret, than to strive about those things that are uncertain.\" There be many words in the Scriptures, which be never found there but once, (having neither brother or neighbor, as the Hebrews speak) so that we cannot be holpen by conference of places. Again, there be many rare names of certain birds, beasts and precious stones, etc. concerning the Hebrews themselves are so divided among themselves for judgment, that they may seem to have defined this or that, rather because they would say something, than because they were sure of that which they said, as S. Jerome somewhere saith of the Septuagint. Now in such a case, doth not a margin do well to admonish the Reader to seek further, and not to conclude or dogmatize upon this or that peremptorily? For as it is a fault of incredulity, to doubt of those things that are evident: so to determine of such things as the Spirit of God hath left (even in the judgment of the judicious) questionable, can be no less than presumption. Therefore as S. Augustine saith, that variety of Translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures: [S. Aug. 2. De doctr. Christian. cap. 14.] so diversity of signification and sense in the margin, where the text is no so clear, must needs do good, yea, is necessary, as we are persuaded. We know that Sixtus Quintus expressly forbiddeth, that any variety of readings of their vulgar edition, should be put in the margin, [Sixtus 5. praef. Bibliae.] (which though it be not altogether the same thing to that we have in hand, yet it looketh that way) but we think he hath not all of his own side his favorers, for this conceit. They that are wise, had rather have their judgments at liberty in differences of readings, than to be captivated to one, when it may be the other. If they were sure that their high Priest had all laws shut up in his breast, as Paul the Second bragged, [Plat. in Paulo secundo.] and that he were as free from error by special privilege, as the Dictators of Rome were made by law inviolable, it were another matter; then his word were an Oracle, his opinion a decision. But the eyes of the www.holybooks.com

xv Preface to 1611 Translation world are now open, God be thanked, and have been a great while, they find that he is subject to the same affections and infirmities that others be, that his skin is penetrable, and therefore so much as he proveth, not as much as he claimeth, they grant and embrace. REASONS INDUCING US NOT TO STAND CURIOUSLY UPON AN IDENTITY OF PHRASING Another things we think good to admonish thee of (gentle Reader) that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some learned men somewhere, have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified that same in both places (for there be some words that be not the same sense everywhere) we were especially careful, and made a conscience, according to our duty. But, that we should express the same notion in the same particular word; as for example, if we translate the Hebrew or Greek word once by PURPOSE, never to call it INTENT; if one where JOURNEYING, never TRAVELING; if one where THINK, never SUPPOSE; if one where PAIN, never ACHE; if one where JOY, never GLADNESS, etc. Thus to mince the matter, we thought to savour more of curiosity than wisdom, and that rather it would breed scorn in the Atheist, than bring profit to the godly Reader. For is the kingdom of God to become words or syllables? why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free, use one precisely when we may use another no less fit, as commodiously? A godly Father in the Primitive time showed himself greatly moved, that one of newfangledness called [NOTE: Greek omitted but was a dispute over the word for \"a bed\"] [Niceph. Calist. lib.8. cap.42.] though the difference be little or none; and another reporteth that he was much abused for turning \"Cucurbita\" (to which reading the people had been used) into \"Hedera\". [S. Jerome in 4. Ionae. See S. Aug: epist. 10.] Now if this happens in better times, and upon so small occasions, we might justly fear hard censure, if generally we should make verbal and unnecessary changings. We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain great Philosopher, that he should say , that those logs were happy that were made images to be worshipped; for their fellows, as good as they, lay for blocks behind the fire: so if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, Stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always, and to others of like quality, Get ye hence, be banished forever, we might be taxed peradventure with S. James his words, namely, \"To be partial in ourselves and judges of evil thoughts.\" Add hereunto, that niceness in words was always counted the next step to trifling, and so was to be curious about names too: also that we cannot follow a better pattern for elocution than God himself; therefore he using divers words, in his holy writ, and indifferently for one thing in nature: [see Euseb. li. 12. ex Platon.] we, if we will not be superstitious, may use the same liberty in our English versions out of Hebrew and Greek, for that copy or store that he hath given us. Lastly, we have on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the Puritans, who leave the old Ecclesiastical words, and betake them to other, as when they put WASHING for BAPTISM, and CONGREGATION instead of CHURCH: as also on the other side we have shunned the obscurity of the Papists, in their AZIMES, TUNIKE, RATIONAL, HOLOCAUSTS, PRAEPUCE, PASCHE, and a number of such like, whereof their late Translation is full, and that of purpose to darken the sense, that since they must needs translate the Bible, yet by the language thereof, it may be kept from being understood. But we desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar. Many other things we might give thee warning of (gentle Reader) if we had not exceeded the measure of a Preface already. It remaineth, that we commend thee to God, and to the Spirit of his grace, which is able to build further than we can ask or think. He removeth the scales from our eyes, the vail from our hearts, opening our wits that we may understand his word, enlarging our hearts, yea correcting our affections, that we may love it to the end. Ye are brought unto fountains of living water which ye digged not; do not cast earth into them with the Philistines, neither prefer broken pits before them with the wicked Jews. [Gen 26:15. Jer 2:13.] Others have laboured, and you may enter into their labours; O receive not so great things in vain, O despise not so great salvation! Be not like swine to tread under foot so precious things, neither yet like dogs www.holybooks.com

Preface to 1611 Translation xvi to tear and abuse holy things. Say not to our Saviour with the Gergesites, Depart out of our coast [Matt 8:34]; neither yet with Esau sell your birthright for a mess of pottage [Heb 12:16]. If light be come into the world, love not darkness more than light; if food, if clothing be offered, go not naked, starve not yourselves. Remember the advice of Nazianzene, \"It is a grievous thing\" (or dangerous) \"to neglect a great fair, and to seek to make markets afterwards: also the encouragement of S. Chrysostom, \"It is altogether impossible, that he that is sober\" (and watchful) \"should at any time be neglected:\" [S. Chrysost. in epist. ad Rom. cap. 14. oral. 26.] Lastly, the admonition and menacing of S. Augustine, \"They that despise God’s will inviting them, shall feel God’s will taking vengeance of them.\" [S. August. ad artic. sibi falso object. Artic. 16.] It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; [Heb 10:31] but a blessed thing it is, and will bring us to everlasting blessedness in the end, when God speaketh unto us, to hearken; when he setteth his word before us, to read it; when he stretcheth out his hand and calleth, to answer, Here am I, here we are to do thy will, O God. The Lord work a care and conscience in us to know him and serve him, that we may be acknowledged of him at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with the holy Ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving. Amen. www.holybooks.com

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Page 1 Genesis The First Book of Moses, called Genesis and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. {1:27} So God created man in his {1:1} In the beginning God created the heaven and the [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and earth. {1:2} And the earth was without form, and void; and female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them, and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish God moved upon the face of the waters. 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. {1:3} And God said, Let there be light: and there was {1:29} And God said, Behold, I have given you every light. {1:4} And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, God divided the light from the darkness. {1:5} And God and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And seed; to you it shall be for meat. {1:30} And to every beast the evening and the morning were the first day. of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have {1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. {1:31} And of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] {1:7} And God made the firmament, and divided the waters very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth which [were] under the firmament from the waters which day. [were] above the firmament: and it was so. {1:8} And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the {2:1} Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and morning were the second day. all the host of them. {2:2} And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the {1:9} And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be seventh day from all his work which he had made. {2:3} gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because appear: and it was so. {1:10} And God called the dry [land] that in it he had rested from all his work which God created Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he and made. Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:11} And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] {2:4} These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD itself, upon the earth: and it was so. {1:12} And the earth God made the earth and the heavens, {2:5} And every plant brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:13} And the rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the evening and the morning were the third day. ground. {2:6} But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. {2:7} And the LORD {1:14} And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: soul. {1:15} And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. {1:16} {2:8} And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. {2:9} day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every also. {1:17} And God set them in the firmament of the tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree heaven to give light upon the earth, {1:18} And to rule over of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the knowledge of good and evil. {2:10} And a river went out of darkness: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:19} And the Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, evening and the morning were the fourth day. {1:20} And and became into four heads. {2:11} The name of the first God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the Havilah, where [there is] gold; {2:12} And the gold of that earth in the open firmament of heaven. {1:21} And God land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone. created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, {2:13} And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it {2:14} And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that was] good. {1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fourth river [is] Euphrates. {2:15} And the LORD God took fowl multiply in the earth. {1:23} And the evening and the the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and morning were the fifth day. to keep it. {2:16} And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: {1:24} And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living {2:17} But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof of the earth after his kind: and it was so. {1:25} And God thou shalt surely die. made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after {2:18} And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {2:19} And out of the ground the LORD God formed every {1:26} And God said, Let us make man in our image, beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 2 the name thereof. {2:20} And Adam gave names to all also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the and clothed them. {3:22} And the LORD God said, Behold, field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and him. {2:21} And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and life, and eat, and live for ever: {3:23} Therefore the LORD closed up the flesh instead thereof; {2:22} And the rib, God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a ground from whence he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out woman, and brought her unto the man. {2:23} And Adam the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of keep the way of the tree of life. Man. {2:24} Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one {4:1} And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, flesh. {2:25} And they were both naked, the man and his and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the wife, and were not ashamed. LORD. {4:2} And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the {3:1} Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of ground. {4:3} And in process of time it came to pass, that the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every LORD. {4:4} And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of tree of the garden? his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: {4:5} But unto Cain and to {3:2} And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, of the fruit of the trees of the garden: {3:3} But of the fruit and his countenance fell. {4:6} And the LORD said unto of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye fallen? {4:7} If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? die. {3:4} And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto not surely die: {3:5} For God doth know that in the day ye thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. {4:8} eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, as gods, knowing good and evil. {3:6} And when the when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it his brother, and slew him. [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 {4:9} And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. {3:7} brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that keeper? {4:10} And he said, What hast thou done? the voice they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. made themselves aprons. {3:8} And they heard the voice of {4:11} And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of thy hand; {4:12} When thou tillest the ground, it shall not the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. {3:9} And henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. {4:13} And Cain said Where [art] thou? {3:10} And he said, I heard thy voice in unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear. the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I {4:14} Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the hid myself. {3:11} And he said, Who told thee that thou face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? {3:12} And to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me. the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with {4:15} And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. {3:13} And the slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, should kill him. and I did eat. {3:14} And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed {4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of the above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of {4:17} And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and thy life: {3:15} And I will put enmity between thee and the bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {4:18} And unto thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. {3:16} Unto the Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over {4:19} And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name thee. {3:17} And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the {4:20} And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle. {4:21} And his of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt brother’s name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; {3:18} Thorns also handle the harp and organ. {4:22} And Zillah, she also bare and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the Tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: herb of the field; {3:19} In the sweat of thy face shalt thou and the sister of Tubal-cain [was] Naamah. {4:23} And eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my thou taken: for dust thou [art,] and unto dust shalt thou voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I return. {3:20} And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my because she was the mother of all living. {3:21} Unto Adam hurt. {4:24} If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly www.holybooks.com

Page 3 Genesis Lamech seventy and sevenfold. hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. {5:32} And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, {4:25} And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a Ham, and Japheth. son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she,] hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply slew. {4:26} And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon {6:2} That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that the name of the LORD. they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. {6:3} And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always {5:1} This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made be an hundred and twenty years. {6:4} There were giants in he him; {5:2} Male and female created he them; and the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare they were created. [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. {5:3} And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called {6:5} And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] his name Seth: {5:4} And the days of Adam after he had great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. {6:6} And and daughters: {5:5} And all the days that Adam lived were it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. {5:6} And Seth and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And the LORD said, I lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: {5:7} And will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:8} And all the days fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. {6:8} But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. {5:9} And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: {6:9} These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a {5:10} And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:11} And walked with God. {6:10} And Noah begat three sons, all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} The earth also was corrupt he died. before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12} And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; {5:12} And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. {6:13} Mahalaleel: {5:13} And Cainan lived after he begat And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons before me; for the earth is filled with violence through and daughters: {5:14} And all the days of Cainan were nine them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. hundred and ten years: and he died. {6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt {5:15} And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without begat Jared: {5:16} And Mahalaleel lived after he begat with pitch. {6:15} And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and make it [of:] The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred daughters: {5:17} And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it hundred ninety and five years: and he died. thirty cubits. {6:16} A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the {5:18} And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second, and he begat Enoch: {5:19} And Jared lived after he begat and third [stories] shalt thou make it. {6:17} And, behold, I, Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy {5:20} And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; and two years: and he died. [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. {6:18} But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come {5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ Methuselah: {5:22} And Enoch walked with God after he wives with thee. {6:19} And of every living thing of all begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to daughters: {5:23} And all the days of Enoch were three keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} And Enoch walked {6:20} Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. {5:25} And kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive. begat Lamech: {5:26} And Methuselah lived after he begat {6:21} And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for and daughters: {5:27} And all the days of Methuselah were thee, and for them. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. that God commanded him, so did he. {5:28} And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two {7:1} And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all years, and begat a son: {5:29} And he called his name thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our me in this generation. {7:2} Of every clean beast thou shalt work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of LORD hath cursed. {5:30} And Lamech lived after he begat beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and {7:3} Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 4 {7:4} For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} But the dove that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto earth. {7:5} And Noah did according unto all that the him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the LORD commanded him. {7:6} And Noah [was] six hundred whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. pulled her in unto him into the ark. {8:10} And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of {7:7} And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and the ark; {8:11} And the dove came in to him in the evening; his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah of the flood. {7:8} Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. {8:12} not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; upon the earth, {7:9} There went in two and two unto Noah which returned not again unto him any more. into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after seven {8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. year, in the first [month,] the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed {7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same the ground was dry. {8:14} And in the second month, on the day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. the windows of heaven were opened. {7:12} And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. {7:13} In the {8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three sons’ wives with thee. {8:17} Bring forth with thee every wives of his sons with them, into the ark; {7:14} They, and living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. {8:18} And Noah sort. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. {7:16} with him: {8:19} Every beast, every creeping thing, and And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. their kinds, went forth out of the ark. {7:17} And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up {8:20} And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and above the earth. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and were took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the offered burnt offerings on the altar. {8:21} And the LORD face of the waters. {7:19} And the waters prevailed smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; [were] under the whole heaven, were covered. {7:20} for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth; Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I mountains were covered. {7:21} And all flesh died that have done. {8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the and night shall not cease. earth, and every man: {7:22} All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land,] died. {7:23} {9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto And every living substance was destroyed which was upon them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the {9:2} And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive,] air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the and they that [were] with him in the ark. {7:24} And the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. {9:3} waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. {9:4} But {8:1} And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God ye not eat. {9:5} And surely your blood of your lives will I made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at asswaged; {8:2} The fountains also of the deep and the the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven require the life of man. {9:6} Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, was restrained; {8:3} And the waters returned from off the by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty made he man. {9:7} And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; days the waters were abated. {8:4} And the ark rested in the bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} And the waters decreased {9:8} And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month,] on him, saying, {9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains with you, and with your seed after you; {9:10} And with seen. 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 {8:6} And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. {9:11} And I Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh {8:7} And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. {8:8} there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. {9:12} And www.holybooks.com

Page 5 Genesis God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make Girgasite, {10:17} And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the between me and you and every living creature that [is] with Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the you, for perpetual generations: {9:13} I do set my bow in Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the me and the earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass, when I Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and the cloud: {9:15} And I will remember my covenant, which Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20} These [are] [is] between me and you and every living creature of all the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to their countries, [and] in their nations. destroy all flesh. {9:16} And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting {10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were that [is] upon the earth. {9:17} And God said unto Noah, [children] born. {10:22} The children of Shem; Elam, and This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. {10:23} And between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. {10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. {9:18} And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, {10:25} And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and Canaan. {9:19} These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of his brother’s name [was] Joktan. {10:26} And Joktan begat them was the whole earth overspread. {9:20} And Noah Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah, began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: {10:27} And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} And {9:21} And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} And Ophir, and was uncovered within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan. of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two {10:30} And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest brethren without. {9:23} And Shem and Japheth took a unto Sephar a mount of the east. {10:31} These [are] the garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their lands, after their nations. {10:32} These [are] the their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father’s families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nakedness. {9:24} And Noah awoke from his wine, and nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth knew what his younger son had done unto him. {9:25} And after the flood. he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. {9:26} And he said, Blessed [be] the {11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed {9:27} God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they {9:28} And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {11:4} fifty years. {9:29} And all the days of Noah were nine And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, hundred and fifty years: and he died. whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the {10:1} Now these [are] the generations of the sons of whole earth. {11:5} And the LORD came down to see the Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons city and the tower, which the children of men builded. born after the flood. {10:2} The sons of Japheth; Gomer, {11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the have imagined to do. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. there confound their language, that they may not understand {10:5} By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they in their nations. left off to build the city. {11:9} Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the {10:6} And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush begat {11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is the flood: {11:11} And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:12} {10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. {11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four {10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And {11:14} And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great {11:15} And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and and three years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:16} And Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: {11:17} Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:18} And Peleg {10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, lived thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} And Peleg lived {10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 6 sons and daughters. {11:20} And Reu lived two and thirty commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken years, and begat Serug: {11:21} And Reu lived after he into Pharaoh’s house. {12:16} And he entreated Abram well begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and and daughters. {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. begat Nahor: {11:23} And Serug lived after he begat Nahor {12:17} And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:24} with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. {12:18} And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that] {11:25} And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:26} [was] thy wife? {12:19} Why saidst thou, She [is] my And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now and Haran. therefore behold thy wife, take [her,] and go thy way. {12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning {11:27} Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. had. {11:28} And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. {11:29} And Abram {13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the {13:2} And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of gold. {13:3} And he went on his journeys from the south Iscah. {11:30} But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child. even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the {11:31} And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of beginning, between Bethel and Hai; {13:4} Unto the place Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Abram called on the name of the LORD. Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. {11:32} And the days of Terah {13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. and herds, and tents. {13:6} And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their {12:1} Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s {13:7} And there was a strife between the herdmen of house, unto a land that I will shew thee: {12:2} And I will Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. {13:8} thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: {12:3} And I And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. herdmen; for we [be] brethren. {13:9} [Is] not the whole {12:4} So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if five years old when he departed out of Haran. {12:5} And [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left. Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and {13:10} And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of {12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite themselves the one from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled [was] then in the land. {12:7} And the LORD appeared unto in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom. {13:13} But the there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD unto him. {12:8} And he removed from thence unto a exceedingly. mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there {13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look name of the LORD. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on from the place where thou art northward, and southward, still toward the south. and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. {12:10} And there was a famine in the land: and Abram {13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] grievous in the land. {12:11} And it came to pass, when he shall thy seed also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then Abram removed look upon: {12:12} Therefore it shall come to pass, when [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. {12:13} Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be {14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of thee. Elam, and Tidal king of nations; {14:2} [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of {12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. {14:3} All very fair. {12:15} The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is www.holybooks.com

Page 7 Genesis the salt sea. {14:4} Twelve years they served now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. {14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and {15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I [am] Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to in Shaveh Kiriathaim, {14:6} And the Horites in their give thee this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness. GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? {15:9} {14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, [is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar. {14:8} old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. {15:10} And he And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they not. {15:11} And when the fowls came down upon the joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; {14:9} With carcases, Abram drove them away. {15:12} And when the Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he Ellasar; four kings with five. {14:10} And the vale of said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to and they shall afflict them four hundred years; {15:14} And the mountain. {14:11} And they took all the goods of also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their afterward shall they come out with great substance. {15:15} way. {14:12} And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of {14:13} And there came one that had escaped, and told the Amorites [is] not yet full. {15:17} And it came to pass, Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between [were] confederate with Abram. {14:14} And when Abram those pieces. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan. {14:15} And he river Euphrates: {15:19} The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the Hittites, and the and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is] Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the Amorites, on the left hand of Damascus. {14:16} And he brought back and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. {16:1} Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] {14:17} And the king of Sodom went out to meet him Hagar. {16:2} And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. which [is] the king’s dale. {14:18} And Melchizedek king And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} And of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him, Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, her to her husband Abram to be his wife. possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy {16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the king and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take despised in her eyes. {16:5} And Sarai said unto Abram, the goods to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23} That I despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I {16:6} But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt say, I have made Abram rich: {14:24} Save only that which hardly with her, she fled from her face. the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their {16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a portion. fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. {16:8} And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, {15:1} After these things the word of the LORD came whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. {16:9} And shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. {15:2} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go and submit thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine {16:11} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, heir. {15:4} And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. {16:12} And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] {15:5} And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 8 he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. {16:13} {17:23} And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, were born in his house, and all that were bought with his Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; after him that seeth me? {16:14} Wherefore the well was and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and day, as God had said unto him. {17:24} And Abraham Bered. [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son {16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the selfsame day was Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And all Ishmael to Abram. the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. {17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the {18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. {17:2} Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and {18:2} And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on men stood by him: and when he saw [them,] he ran to meet his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found father of many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for servant: {18:4} Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and a father of many nations have I made thee. {17:6} And I wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5} will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to {18:6} And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land knead [it,] and make cakes upon the hearth. {18:7} And wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and everlasting possession; and I will be their God. good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. {18:8} And he took butter, and milk, and the calf {17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their by them under the tree, and they did eat. generations. {17:10} This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every {18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy man child among you shall be circumcised. {17:11} And ye wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said, shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him. {18:11} Now man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age; or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. seed. {17:13} He that is born in thy house, and he that is {18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. old also? {18:13} And the LORD said unto Abraham, {17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard for the from his people; he hath broken my covenant. LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. {17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy {18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. her name [be. ]{17:16} And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a {18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her. {17:17} toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in on the way. {18:17} And the LORD said, Shall I hide from his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18} Seeing that years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, {17:18} And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? live before thee! {17:19} And God said, Sarah thy wife {18:19} For I know him, that he will command his children shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him. {17:20} bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have {18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will {18:21} I will go down now, and see whether they have make him a great nation. {17:21} But my covenant will I done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this unto me; and if not, I will know. {18:22} And the men set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but with him, and God went up from Abraham. Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the www.holybooks.com

Page 9 Genesis righteous with the wicked? {18:24} Peradventure there be went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein? LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that {18:25} That be far from thee to do after this manner, to mocked unto his sons in law. slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the {19:15} And when the morning arose, then the angels Judge of all the earth do right? {18:26} And the LORD hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the will spare all the place for their sakes. {18:27} And iniquity of the city. {19:16} And while he lingered, the men Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being ashes: {18:28} Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? without the city. And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it. ]{18:29} And he spake unto him yet again, and said, {19:17} And it came to pass, when they had brought them Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not will not do [it] for forty’s sake. {18:30} And he said [unto behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the him,] Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: mountain, lest thou be consumed. {19:18} And Lot said Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: {19:19} Behold now, thy will not do [it,] if I find thirty there. {18:31} And he said, servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest I will not destroy [it] for twenty’s sake. {18:32} And he some evil take me, and I die: {19:20} Behold now, this city said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. {18:33} And the {19:21} And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. city, for the which thou hast spoken. {19:22} Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come {19:1} And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward {19:23} The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot the ground; {19:2} And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn entered into Zoar. {19:24} Then the LORD rained upon in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on LORD out of heaven; {19:25} And he overthrew those your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, street all night. {19:3} And he pressed upon them greatly; and that which grew upon the ground. and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and {19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and they did eat. she became a pillar of salt. {19:4} But before they lay down, the men of the city, {19:27} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both place where he stood before the LORD: {19:28} And he old and young, all the people from every quarter: {19:5} looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out country went up as the smoke of a furnace. unto us, that we may know them. {19:6} And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, {19:7} {19:29} And it came to pass, when God destroyed the And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8} cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye the cities in the which Lot dwelt. to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my {19:30} And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the roof. {19:9} And they said, Stand back. And they said mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to [again,] This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than daughters. {19:31} And the firstborn said unto the younger, with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to and came near to break the door. {19:10} But the men put come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: {19:32} forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie shut to the door. {19:11} And they smote the men that with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33} [were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small And they made their father drink wine that night: and the and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it {19:12} And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] place: {19:13} For we will destroy this place, because the lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; {19:35} And they made their father drink wine that night and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. {19:14} And Lot also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 10 perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {21:6} And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so {19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by that] all that hear will laugh with me. {21:7} And she said, their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son, old age. {21:8} And the child grew, and was weaned: and and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was the children of Ammon unto this day. weaned. {20:1} And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the {21:9} And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. {21:10} sojourned in Gerar. {20:2} And Abraham said of Sarah his Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to Abimelech in a shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. {21:11} dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] because of his son. a man’s wife. {20:4} But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? {21:12} And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be {20:5} Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. {21:13} {20:6} And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also because he [is] thy seed. {21:14} And Abraham rose up withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, thee not to touch her. {20:7} Now therefore restore the man and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and [his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. {21:15} And the that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine. water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under {20:8} Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and one of the shrubs. {21:16} And she went, and sat her down called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for and the men were sore afraid. {20:9} Then Abimelech she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done over against [him,] and lift up her voice, and wept. {21:17} unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast called Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. {20:10} And thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou lad where he [is. ]{21:18} Arise, lift up the lad, and hold hast done this thing? {20:11} And Abraham said, Because I him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and {21:19} And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of they will slay me for my wife’s sake. {20:12} And yet water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father, gave the lad drink. {21:20} And God was with the lad; and but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. wife. {20:13} And it came to pass, when God caused me to {21:21} And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. [is] thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother. {21:22} And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech {20:14} And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest: Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. {20:15} And {21:23} Now therefore swear unto me here by God that Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor where it pleaseth thee. {20:16} And unto Sarah he said, with my son’s son: [but] according to the kindness that I Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all wherein thou hast sojourned. {21:24} And Abraham said, I that [are] with thee, and with all [other:] thus she was will swear. {21:25} And Abraham reproved Abimelech reproved. because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. {21:26} And Abimelech said, I wot {20:17} So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they neither yet heard I [of it,] but to day. {21:27} And Abraham bare [children. ]{20:18} For the LORD had fast closed up took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah both of them made a covenant. {21:28} And Abraham set Abraham’s wife. seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. {21:29} And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven {21:1} And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? {21:30} And the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} For he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged the set time of which God had spoken to him. {21:3} And this well. {21:31} Wherefore he called that place Beer- Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, sheba; because there they sware both of them. {21:32} Thus whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. {21:4} And Abraham they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they commanded him. {21:5} And Abraham was an hundred returned into the land of the Philistines. years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. www.holybooks.com

Page 11 Genesis {21:33} And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beer-sheba, {23:1} And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2} God. {21:34} And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the land many days. land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. {22:1} And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, {23:3} And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and Behold, [here] I [am. ]{22:2} And he said, Take now thy spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, {23:4} I [am] a son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. sight. {23:5} And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, {23:6} Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a {22:3} And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. {23:7} And and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the him. {22:4} Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his land, [even] to the children of Heth. {23:8} And he eyes, and saw the place afar off. {22:5} And Abraham said communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you, for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, {23:9} That he may give {22:6} And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. {22:7} And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, {23:10} And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his burnt offering? {22:8} And Abraham said, My son, God city, saying, {23:11} Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the went both of them together. {22:9} And they came to the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an dead. {23:12} And Abraham bowed down himself before altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his the people of the land. {23:13} And he spake unto Ephron son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. {22:10} And in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay [wilt give it,] I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money his son. {22:11} And the angel of the LORD called unto for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there. him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he {23:14} And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, said, Here [am] I. {22:12} And he said, Lay not thine hand {23:15} My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thee? bury therefore thy dead. {23:16} And Abraham thy son, thine only [son] from me. {22:13} And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the with the merchant. stead of his son. {22:14} And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the {23:17} And the field of Ephron, which [was] in mount of the LORD it shall be seen. Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the {22:15} And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made out of heaven the second time, {22:16} And said, By myself sure {23:18} Unto Abraham for a possession in the have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son: the gate of his city. {23:19} And after this, Abraham buried ]{22:17} That in blessing I will bless thee, and in Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan. heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and {23:20} And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; {22:18} And made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; by the sons of Heth. because thou hast obeyed my voice. {22:19} So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went {24:1} And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. {24:2} And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that {22:20} And it came to pass after these things, that it was ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born my thigh: {24:3} And I will make thee swear by the LORD, children unto thy brother Nahor; {22:21} Huz his firstborn, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the {22:22} And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, Canaanites, among whom I dwell: {24:4} But thou shalt go and Bethuel. {22:23} And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. {22:24} my son Isaac. {24:5} And the servant said unto him, And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? {24:6} And Abraham said www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 12 unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the again. words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood {24:7} The LORD God of heaven, which took me from by the camels at the well. {24:31} And he said, Come in, my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before camels. thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. {24:8} And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, {24:32} And the man came into the house: and he then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the my son thither again. {24:9} And the servant put his hand camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him [were] with him. {24:33} And there was set [meat] before concerning that matter. him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. {24:34} And he said, I [am] {24:10} And the servant took ten camels of the camels of Abraham’s servant. {24:35} And the LORD hath blessed his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath [were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and unto the city of Nahor. {24:11} And he made his camels to menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of {24:36} And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all [water. ]{24:12} And he said, O LORD God of my master that he hath. {24:37} And my master made me swear, Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the shew kindness unto my master Abraham. {24:13} Behold, I daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: {24:38} stand [here] by the well of water; and the daughters of the But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my men of the city come out to draw water: {24:14} And let it kindred, and take a wife unto my son. {24:39} And I said come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, me. {24:40} And he said unto me, The LORD, before Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto and of my father’s house: {24:41} Then shalt thou be clear my master. from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one,] thou shalt be clear from my oath. {24:15} And it came to pass, before he had done {24:42} And I came this day unto the well, and said, O speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s my way which I go; {24:43} Behold, I stand by the well of brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. {24:16} And water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither cometh forth to draw [water,] and I say to her, Give me, I had any man known her: and she went down to the well, pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; {24:44} And and filled her pitcher, and came up. {24:17} And the she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD a little water of thy pitcher. {24:18} And she said, Drink, hath appointed out for my master’s son. {24:45} And before my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came hand, and gave him drink. {24:19} And when she had done forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down giving him drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy unto the well, and drew [water:] and I said unto her, Let me camels also, until they have done drinking. {24:20} And she drink, I pray thee. {24:46} And she made haste, and let hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran down her pitcher from her [shoulder,] and said, Drink, and I again unto the well to draw [water,] and drew for all his will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made camels. {24:21} And the man wondering at her held his the camels drink also. {24:47} And I asked her, and said, peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of prosperous or not. {24:22} And it came to pass, as the Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands. {24:48} And I bowed down my head, and hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; {24:23} And said, worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take room [in] thy father’s house for us to lodge in? {24:24} And my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son. {24:49} And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. {24:25} She said and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender left. {24:50} Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, enough, and room to lodge in. {24:26} And the man bowed The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak down his head, and worshipped the LORD. {24:27} And he unto thee bad or good. {24:51} Behold, Rebekah [is] before said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham, thee, take [her,] and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his wife, as the LORD hath spoken. {24:52} And it came to truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he my master’s brethren. {24:28} And the damsel ran, and told worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth. [them of] her mother’s house these things. {24:53} And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he {24:29} And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. {24:54} And they did eat and drink, he and the men that {24:30} And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and [were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in www.holybooks.com

Page 13 Genesis the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. {25:17} And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an {24:55} And her brother and her mother said, Let the hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. {25:18} she shall go. {24:56} And he said unto them, Hinder me And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the away that I may go to my master. {24:57} And they said, presence of all his brethren. We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. {24:58} And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go {25:19} And these [are] the generations of Isaac, with this man? And she said, I will go. {24:59} And they Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: {25:20} And Isaac sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the Abraham’s servant, and his men. {24:60} And they blessed daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou Laban the Syrian. {25:21} And Isaac intreated the LORD [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was possess the gate of those which hate them. intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. {25:22} And the children struggled together within her; and she said, {24:61} And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to enquire of rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the the LORD. {25:23} And the LORD said unto her, Two servant took Rebekah, and went his way. {24:62} And Isaac nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be south country. {24:63} And Isaac went out to meditate in stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, the younger. and, behold, the camels [were] coming. {24:64} And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she {25:24} And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, lighted off the camel. {24:65} For she [had] said unto the behold, [there were] twins in her womb. {25:25} And the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore called his name Esau. {25:26} And after that came his she took a vail, and covered herself. {24:66} And the brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his servant told Isaac all things that he had done. {24:67} And name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was] threescore years old Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took when she bare them. {25:27} And the boys grew: and Esau Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a Isaac was comforted after his mother’s [death. plain man, dwelling in tents. {25:28} And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved ]{25:1} Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name Jacob. [was] Keturah. {25:2} And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. {25:29} And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the {25:3} And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons field, and he [was] faint: {25:30} And Esau said to Jacob, of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage;] for I {25:4} And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom. {25:31} Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. {25:32} children of Keturah. And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? {25:33} And Jacob {25:5} And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he {25:6} But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham sold his birthright unto Jacob. {25:34} Then Jacob gave had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] {25:7} And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham’s birthright. life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. {25:8} Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good {26:1} And there was a famine in the land, beside the first old age, an old man, and full [of years;] and was gathered to famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went his people. {25:9} And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. {26:2} him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre; {25:10} The into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there {26:3} Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware {25:11} And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, unto Abraham thy father; {26:4} And I will make thy seed that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy Lahai-roi. seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; {26:5} Because that Abraham {25:12} Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s my statutes, and my laws. handmaid, bare unto Abraham: {25:13} And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to {26:6} And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: {26:7} And the men of their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {25:14} And Mishma, and sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest, [said he,] Dumah, and Massa, {25:15} Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because Naphish, and Kedemah: {25:16} These [are] the sons of she [was] fair to look upon. {26:8} And it came to pass, Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns, and by when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 14 behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife. {26:9} of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? {27:1} And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau {26:10} And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy him, Behold, [here am] I. {27:2} And he said, Behold now, wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. I am old, I know not the day of my death: {27:3} Now {26:11} And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison; death. {26:12} Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received {27:4} And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee him. {26:13} And the man waxed great, and went forward, before I die. {27:5} And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake and grew until he became very great: {26:14} For he had to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great venison, [and] to bring [it. store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. {26:15} For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in ]{27:6} And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, them, and filled them with earth. {26:16} And Abimelech saying, {27:7} Bring me venison, and make me savoury said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before we. my death. {27:8} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. {27:9} Go now to {26:17} And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. {26:18} And Isaac goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in such as he loveth: {27:10} And thou shalt bring [it] to thy the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called death. {27:11} And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, their names after the names by which his father had called Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a them. {26:19} And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, smooth man: {27:12} My father peradventure will feel me, and found there a well of springing water. {26:20} And the and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, curse upon me, and not a blessing. {27:13} And his mother The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey Esek; because they strove with him. {26:21} And they my voice, and go fetch me [them. ]{27:14} And he went, digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his the name of it Sitnah. {26:22} And he removed from mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove {27:15} And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be upon Jacob her younger son: {27:16} And she put the skins fruitful in the land. {26:23} And he went up from thence to of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the Beer-sheba. {26:24} And the LORD appeared unto him the smooth of his neck: {27:17} And she gave the savoury meat same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and son Jacob. multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake. {26:25} And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of {27:18} And he came unto his father, and said, My father: the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son? {27:19} servants digged a well. And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, {26:26} Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain {27:20} And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou of his army. {26:27} And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away the LORD thy God brought [it] to me. {27:21} And Isaac from you? {26:28} And they said, We saw certainly that the said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not. betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a {27:22} And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he covenant with thee; {26:29} That thou wilt do us no hurt, as felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob’s voice, but the we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee hands [are] the hands of Esau. {27:23} And he discerned nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s [art] now the blessed of the LORD. {26:30} And he made hands: so he blessed him. {27:24} And he said, [Art] thou them a feast, and they did eat and drink. {26:31} And they my very son Esau? And he said, I [am. ]{27:25} And he rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son’s and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] peace. {26:32} And it came to pass the same day, that near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well he drank. {27:26} And his father Isaac said unto him, Come which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found near now, and kiss me, my son. {27:27} And he came near, water. {26:33} And he called it Shebah: therefore the name and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and of the city [is] Beer-sheba unto this day. blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: {27:28} {26:34} And Esau was forty years old when he took to Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: {27:29} the daughter of Elon the Hittite: {26:35} Which were a grief Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be www.holybooks.com

Page 15 Genesis lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and to thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed Esau’s mother. [be] he that blesseth thee. {28:6} When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and {27:30} And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of came in from his hunting. {27:31} And he also had made Canaan; {28:7} And that Jacob obeyed his father and his savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; {28:8} And Esau his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his that thy soul may bless me. {27:32} And Isaac his father father; {28:9} Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael thy firstborn Esau. {27:33} And Isaac trembled very Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before {28:10} And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be toward Haran. {28:11} And he lighted upon a certain place, blessed. {27:34} And when Esau heard the words of his and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and took of the stones of that place, and [put] them for his said unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father. pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. {28:12} And he {27:35} And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the hath taken away thy blessing. {27:36} And he said, Is not top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these ascending and descending on it. {28:13} And, behold, the two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon reserved a blessing for me? {27:37} And Isaac answered thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; {28:14} and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the now unto thee, my son? {27:38} And Esau said unto his families of the earth be blessed. {28:15} And, behold, I father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will and wept. {27:39} And Isaac his father answered and said not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the to thee of. earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; {27:40} And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and {28:16} And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not. that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. {28:17} And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this [is] {27:41} And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing the gate of heaven. {28:18} And Jacob rose up early in the wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the slay my brother Jacob. {27:42} And these words of Esau top of it. {28:19} And he called the name of that place her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy first. {28:20} And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will [purposing] to kill thee. {27:43} Now therefore, my son, give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, {28:21} So that obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Haran; {27:44} And tarry with him a few days, until thy LORD be my God: {28:22} And this stone, which I have brother’s fury turn away; {27:45} Until thy brother’s anger set [for] a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? {29:1} Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the {27:46} And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life land of the people of the east. {29:2} And he looked, and because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well’s mouth. {29:3} And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they {28:1} And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his of the daughters of Canaan. {28:2} Arise, go to Padan- place. {29:4} And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we. {29:5} thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? mother’s brother. {28:3} And God Almighty bless thee, and And they said, We know [him. ]{29:6} And he said unto make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, multitude of people; {28:4} And give thee the blessing of Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. {29:7} And he Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time that the mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and God gave unto Abraham. {28:5} And Isaac sent away go [and] feed [them. ]{29:8} And they said, We cannot, Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of until all the flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 16 the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep. children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. {30:2} And Jacob’s anger was {29:9} And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God’s stead, with her father’s sheep: for she kept them. {29:10} And it who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? {30:3} came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s she shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the by her. {30:4} And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s wife: and Jacob went in unto her. {30:5} And Bilhah brother. {29:11} And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his conceived, and bare Jacob a son. {30:6} And Rachel said, voice, and wept. {29:12} And Jacob told Rachel that he God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and [was] her father’s brother, and that he [was] Rebekah’s son: hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. and she ran and told her father. {29:13} And it came to {30:7} And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, bare Jacob a second son. {30:8} And Rachel said, With that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. {30:9} When things. {29:14} And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. {30:10} And Zilpah a month. Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. {30:11} And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. {30:12} And {29:15} And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. {30:13} And my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be? ]{29:16} And Laban blessed: and she called his name Asher. had two daughters: the name of the elder [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel. {29:17} Leah [was] {30:14} And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his {29:18} And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. {29:19} And thee, of thy son’s mandrakes. {30:15} And she said unto Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? should give her to another man: abide with me. {29:20} and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her. for thy son’s mandrakes. {30:16} And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and {29:21} And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. {29:22} thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and night. {30:17} And God hearkened unto Leah, and she made a feast. {29:23} And it came to pass in the evening, conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. {30:18} And Leah that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my he went in unto her. {29:24} And Laban gave unto his maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid. {29:25} {30:19} And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was] sixth son. {30:20} And Leah said, God hath endued me Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done [with] a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore because I have born him six sons: and she called his name then hast thou beguiled me? {29:26} And Laban said, It Zebulun. {30:21} And afterwards she bare a daughter, and must not be so done in our country, to give the younger called her name Dinah. before the firstborn. {29:27} Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve {30:22} And God remembered Rachel, and God with me yet seven other years. {29:28} And Jacob did so, hearkened to her, and opened her womb. {30:23} And she and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away to wife also. {29:29} And Laban gave to Rachel his my reproach: {30:24} And she called his name Joseph; and daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. {29:30} And said, The LORD shall add to me another son. he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. {30:25} And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I {29:31} And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, may go unto mine own place, and to my country. {30:26} he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren. {29:32} And Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon which I have done thee. {30:27} And Laban said unto him, my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I {29:33} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath for thy sake. {30:28} And he said, Appoint me thy wages, therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name and I will give [it. ]{30:29} And he said unto him, Thou Simeon. {29:34} And she conceived again, and bare a son; knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, with me. {30:30} For [it was] little which thou hadst before because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name I [came,] and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the called Levi. {29:35} And she conceived again, and bare a LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore shall I provide for mine own house also? {30:31} And he she called his name Judah; and left bearing. said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will {30:1} And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no again feed [and] keep thy flock: {30:32} I will pass through www.holybooks.com

Page 17 Genesis all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. {31:16} and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] [is] ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God shall be my hire. {30:33} So shall my righteousness answer hath said unto thee, do. for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted {31:17} Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be wives upon camels; {31:18} And he carried away all his counted stolen with me. {30:34} And Laban said, Behold, I cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of would it might be according to thy word. {30:35} And he his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. {31:19} And Laban spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all that [were] her father’s. {31:20} And Jacob stole away the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he of his sons. {30:36} And he set three days journey betwixt fled. {31:21} So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead. {31:22} And it was told Laban on the third {30:37} And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of day that Jacob was fled. {31:23} And he took his brethren the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and and made the white appear which [was] in the rods. {30:38} they overtook him in the mount Gilead. {31:24} And God And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. bad. {30:39} And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. {31:25} Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had {30:40} And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the pitched in the mount of Gilead. {31:26} And Laban said to flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away and put them not unto Laban’s cattle. {30:41} And it came unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that [taken] with the sword? {31:27} Wherefore didst thou flee Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. {30:42} me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the songs, with tabret, and with harp? {31:28} And hast not feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. {30:43} suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, now done foolishly in so doing. {31:29} It is in the power and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak {31:1} And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, not to Jacob either good or bad. {31:30} And now, [though] Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father’s; and of thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst [that] which [was] our father’s hath he gotten all this glory. after thy father’s house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my {31:2} And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, gods? {31:31} And Jacob answered and said to Laban, behold, it [was] not toward him as before. {31:3} And the Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, take by force thy daughters from me. {31:32} With and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. {31:4} And whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take flock, {31:5} And said unto them, I see your father’s [it] to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the {31:33} And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s God of my father hath been with me. {31:6} And ye know tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found that with all my power I have served your father. {31:7} [them] not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages into Rachel’s tent. {31:34} Now Rachel had taken the ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. {31:8} If he images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked not. {31:35} And she said to her father, Let it not displease shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. {31:9} my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the given [them] to me. {31:10} And it came to pass at the time images. that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the {31:36} And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. {31:11} Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying,] what [is] my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I. {31:12} And he said, Lift up {31:37} Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the thou found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. {31:13} I [am] the God us both. {31:38} This twenty years [have] I [been] with of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. {31:39} That land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. {31:14} And which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I bare Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there] yet the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? stolen by day, or stolen by night. {31:40} [Thus] I was; in {31:15} Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 18 and my sleep departed from mine eyes. {31:41} Thus have I and now I am become two bands. {32:11} Deliver me, I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] hast changed my wages ten times. {31:42} Except the God the mother with the children. {32:12} And thou saidst, I of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. {32:13} empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight. came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; {32:14} Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred {31:43} And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, ewes, and twenty rams, {32:15} Thirty milch camels with [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all ten foals. {32:16} And he delivered [them] into the hand of that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his these my daughters, or unto their children which they have servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt born? {31:44} Now therefore come thou, let us make a drove and drove. {32:17} And he commanded the foremost, covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh and thee. {31:45} And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and a pillar. {31:46} And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather whose [are] these before thee? {32:18} Then thou shalt say, stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they [They be] thy servant Jacob’s; it [is] a present sent unto my did eat there upon the heap. {31:47} And Laban called it lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us. {32:19} And Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. {31:48} And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; unto Esau, when ye find him. {32:20} And say ye {31:49} And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before {31:50} If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; accept of me. {32:21} So went the present over before him: see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee. {31:51} And and himself lodged that night in the company. {32:22} And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; {31:52} This womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will ford Jabbok. {32:23} And he took them, and sent them over not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass the brook, and sent over that he had. over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. {31:53} The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of {32:24} And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear man with him until the breaking of the day. {32:25} And of his father Isaac. {31:54} Then Jacob offered sacrifice when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. out of joint, as he wrestled with him. {32:26} And he said, {31:55} And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban thee go, except thou bless me. {32:27} And he said unto departed, and returned unto his place. him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob. {32:28} And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: {32:1} And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and met him. {32:2} And when Jacob saw them, he said, This hast prevailed. {32:29} And Jacob asked [him,] and said, [is] God’s host: and he called the name of that place Tell [me,] I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore Mahanaim. {32:3} And Jacob sent messengers before him [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of him there. {32:30} And Jacob called the name of the place Edom. {32:4} And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I preserved. {32:31} And as he passed over Penuel the sun have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. {32:32} {32:5} And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank. {32:6} And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, {33:1} And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, and four hundred men with him. {32:7} Then Jacob was behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto [was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, the two handmaids. {33:2} And he put the handmaids and into two bands; {32:8} And said, If Esau come to the one their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and company, and smite it, then the other company which is left Rachel and Joseph hindermost. {33:3} And he passed over shall escape. before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. {33:4} And Esau ran to {32:9} And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, kissed him: and they wept. {33:5} And he lifted up his eyes, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal and saw the women and the children; and said, Who [are] well with thee: {32:10} I am not worthy of the least of all those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed graciously given thy servant. {33:6} Then the handmaidens unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; came near, they and their children, and they bowed www.holybooks.com

Page 19 Genesis themselves. {33:7} And Leah also with her children came because he had defiled Dinah their sister: {34:14} And they near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. {33:8} And he one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach unto said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? us: {34:15} But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my be as we [be,] that every male of you be circumcised; lord. {33:9} And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; {34:16} Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we keep that thou hast unto thyself. {33:10} And Jacob said, will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then and we will become one people. {34:17} But if ye will not receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast daughter, and we will be gone. {34:18} And their words pleased with me. {33:11} Take, I pray thee, my blessing pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son. {34:19} And that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he [was] more honourable he took [it. ]{33:12} And he said, Let us take our journey, than all the house of his father. and let us go, and I will go before thee. {33:13} And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, {34:20} And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. saying, {34:21} These men [are] peaceable with us; {33:14} Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that the land, behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us take goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our come unto my lord unto Seir. {33:15} And Esau said, Let daughters. {34:22} Only herein will the men consent unto me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the among us be circumcised, as they [are] circumcised. sight of my lord. {34:23} [Shall] not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto {33:16} So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. them, and they will dwell with us. {34:24} And unto Hamor {33:17} And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that the place is called Succoth. went out of the gate of his city. {33:18} And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, {34:25} And it came to pass on the third day, when they which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan- were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, aram; and pitched his tent before the city. {33:19} And he Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the city boldly, and slew all the males. {34:26} And they the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the hundred pieces of money. {33:20} And he erected there an sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. out. {34:27} The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. {34:1} And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare {34:28} They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. {34:2} asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of in the field, {34:29} And all their wealth, and all their little the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all defiled her. {34:3} And his soul clave unto Dinah the that [was] in the house. {34:30} And Jacob said to Simeon daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among kindly unto the damsel. {34:4} And Shechem spake unto the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather {34:5} And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and destroyed, I and my house. {34:31} And they said, Should Jacob held his peace until they were come. he deal with our sister as with an harlot? {34:6} And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto {35:1} And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, Jacob to commune with him. {34:7} And the sons of Jacob and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that came out of the field when they heard [it:] and the men were appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought Esau thy brother. {35:2} Then Jacob said unto his folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the ought not to be done. {34:8} And Hamor communed with strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and change them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your your garments: {35:3} And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. {34:9} And make and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters unto us, and in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which take our daughters unto you. {34:10} And ye shall dwell I went. {35:4} And they gave unto Jacob all the strange with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings therein, and get you possessions therein. {34:11} And which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me oak which [was] by Shechem. {35:5} And they journeyed: find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round give. {34:12} Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. {34:13} And the sons of Jacob answered {35:6} So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, Canaan, that [is,] Bethel, he and all the people that [were] www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 20 with him. {35:7} And he built there an altar, and called the brother Jacob. {36:7} For their riches were more than that place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were when he fled from the face of his brother. {35:8} But strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. {36:8} Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom. Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon- bachuth. {36:9} And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: {36:10} These [are] the {35:9} And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. {35:10} And Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. {36:11} God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall not And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and Gatam, and Kenaz. {36:12} And Timna was concubine to he called his name Israel. {35:11} And God said unto him, I Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a [were] the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. {36:13} And these company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and out of thy loins; {35:12} And the land which I gave Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. {35:13} And God went up {36:14} And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the from him in the place where he talked with him. {35:14} daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. {35:15} And Jacob {36:15} These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons called the name of the place where God spake with him, of Eliphaz the firstborn [son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke Bethel. Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, {36:16} Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke Amalek: these [are] the dukes [that {35:16} And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was came] of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these [were] the sons but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, of Adah. and she had hard labour. {35:17} And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear {36:17} And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; not; thou shalt have this son also. {35:18} And it came to duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she these [are] the dukes [that came] of Reuel in the land of called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Edom; these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. Benjamin. {35:19} And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem. {35:20} And Jacob {36:18} And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah Esau’s set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel’s wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were] grave unto this day. the dukes [that came] of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. {36:19} These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is] {35:21} And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Edom, and these [are] their dukes. the tower of Edar. {35:22} And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his {36:20} These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who father’s concubine: and Israel heard [it.] Now the sons of inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Jacob were twelve: {35:23} The sons of Leah; Reuben, Anah, {36:21} And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and [are] the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the Issachar, and Zebulun: {35:24} The sons of Rachel; Joseph, land of Edom. {36:22} And the children of Lotan were Hori and Benjamin: {35:25} And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister [was] Timna. {36:23} And handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: {35:26} And the sons of the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and Manahath, Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. {36:24} And these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the {35:27} And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto asses of Zibeon his father. {36:25} And the children of Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Anah [were] these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Abraham and Isaac sojourned. {35:28} And the days of Anah. {36:26} And these [are] the children of Dishon; Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. {35:29} And Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. {36:27} The Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. people, [being] old and full of days: and his sons Esau and {36:28} The children of Dishan [are] these: Uz, and Aran. Jacob buried him. {36:29} These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, {36:30} {36:1} Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are] the dukes Edom. {36:2} Esau took his wives of the daughters of [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon {36:31} And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land the Hivite; {36:3} And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of sister of Nebajoth. {36:4} And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; Israel. {36:32} And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and Bashemath bare Reuel; {36:5} And Aholibamah bare and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah. {36:33} And Bela Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these [are] the sons of Esau, died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. {36:6} stead. {36:34} And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, Temani reigned in his stead. {36:35} And Husham died, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his [was] Avith. {36:36} And Hadad died, and Samlah of www.holybooks.com

Page 21 Genesis Masrekah reigned in his stead. {36:37} And Samlah died, Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead. some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured {36:38} And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. reigned in his stead. {36:39} And Baal-hanan the son of {37:21} And Reuben heard [it,] and he delivered him out of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. {37:22} And of his city [was] Pau; and his wife’s name [was] Mehetabel, Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but] cast him into the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. {36:40} this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; And these [are] the names of the dukes [that came] of Esau, that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to according to their families, after their places, by their his father again. names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, {36:41} Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, {36:42} Duke {37:23} And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, {36:43} Duke Magdiel, his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat duke Iram: these [be] the dukes of Edom, according to their of [many] colours that [was] on him; {37:24} And they took habitations in the land of their possession: he [is] Esau the him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there father of the Edomites. was] no water in it. {37:25} And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a {37:1} And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels a stranger, in the land of Canaan. {37:2} These [are] the bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, down to Egypt. {37:26} And Judah said unto his brethren, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] What profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his blood? {37:27} Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother report. {37:3} Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his [and] our flesh. And his brethren were content. {37:28} children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they made him a coat of [many] colours. {37:4} And when his drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably brought Joseph into Egypt. unto him. {37:29} And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, {37:5} And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. {37:30} brethren: and they hated him yet the more. {37:6} And he And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child [is] said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have not; and I, whither shall I go? {37:31} And they took dreamed: {37:7} For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; coat in the blood; {37:32} And they sent the coat of [many] and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made colours, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This obeisance to my sheaf. {37:8} And his brethren said to him, have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have no. {37:33} And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son’s coat; dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt dreams, and for his words. rent in pieces. {37:34} And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many {37:9} And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his days. {37:35} And all his sons and all his daughters rose up brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. made obeisance to me. {37:10} And he told [it] to his Thus his father wept for him. {37:36} And the Midianites father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, said unto him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? [and] captain of the guard. Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? {37:11} And his {38:1} And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah. {38:2} And Judah {37:12} And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name in Shechem. {37:13} And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. {38:3} thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? come, and I will And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here [am] I. Er. {38:4} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and {37:14} And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it she called his name Onan. {38:5} And she yet again be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of he was at Chezib, when she bare him. {38:6} And Judah Hebron, and he came to Shechem. took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar. {38:7} And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of {37:15} And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he the LORD; and the LORD slew him. {38:8} And Judah said was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, What seekest thou? {37:16} And he said, I seek my and raise up seed to thy brother. {38:9} And Onan knew brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks. that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he ]{37:17} And the man said, They are departed hence; for I went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled [it] on the heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. {38:10} his brethren, and found them in Dothan. {37:18} And when And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, wherefore he slew him also. {38:11} Then said Judah to they conspired against him to slay him. {37:19} And they Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. {37:20} house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 22 peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did.] And Tamar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put went and dwelt in her father’s house. into his hand. {39:5} And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all {38:12} And in process of time the daughter of Shuah that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah that he had in the house, and in the field. {39:6} And he left the Adullamite. {38:13} And it was told Tamar, saying, all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a] sheep. {38:14} And she put her widow’s garments off from goodly [person,] and well favoured. her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for {39:7} And it came to pass after these things, that his she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie him to wife. {38:15} When Judah saw her, he thought her with me. {39:8} But he refused, and said unto his master’s [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face. {38:16} wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what [is] with me in And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she hand; {39:9} [There is] none greater in this house than I; [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? {38:17} And because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And she said, wickedness, and sin against God? {39:10} And it came to Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it? ]{38:18} pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her. {39:11} And Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went into the hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of conceived by him. {38:19} And she arose, and went away, the house there within. {39:12} And she caught him by his and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her widowhood. {38:20} And Judah sent the kid by the hand of hand, and fled, and got him out. {39:13} And it came to his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, woman’s hand: but he found her not. {38:21} Then he and was fled forth, {39:14} That she called unto the men of asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the harlot, her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto was no harlot in this [place. ]{38:22} And he returned to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: {39:15} Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place. ]{38:23} and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: him out. {39:16} And she laid up his garment by her, until behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. his lord came home. {39:17} And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, {38:24} And it came to pass about three months after, that which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath me: {39:18} And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out. whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be {39:19} And it came to pass, when his master heard the burnt. {38:25} When she [was] brought forth, she sent to words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] kindled. {39:20} And Joseph’s master took him, and put these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. {38:26} And him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners Judah acknowledged [them,] and said, She hath been more [were] bound: and he was there in the prison. righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. {39:21} But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the {38:27} And it came to pass in the time of her travail, prison. {39:22} And the keeper of the prison committed to that, behold, twins [were] in her womb. {38:28} And it Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it. ]{39:23} hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was] scarlet thread, saying, This came out first, {38:29} And it under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and [that] came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his which he did, the LORD made [it] to prosper. brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called {40:1} And it came to pass after these things, [that] the Pharez. {38:30} And afterward came out his brother, that butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was their lord the king of Egypt. {40:2} And Pharaoh was wroth called Zarah. against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. {40:3} And he put them {39:1} And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound. {40:4} And the Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he had brought him down thither. {39:2} And the LORD was served them: and they continued a season in ward. with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. {39:3} And his master {40:5} And they dreamed a dream both of them, each saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that the LORD man his dream in one night, each man according to the made all [that] he did to prosper in his hand. {39:4} And interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison. {40:6} www.holybooks.com

Page 23 Genesis And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad. {40:7} And he of the guard’s house, both [me] and the chief baker: {41:11} asked Pharaoh’s officers that [were] with him in the ward of And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his day? {40:8} And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream. {41:12} And [there was] there with us a young man, dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man [them,] I pray you. {40:9} And the chief butler told his according to his dream he did interpret. {41:13} And it dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he vine [was] before me; {40:10} And in the vine [were] three restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. branches: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth {41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they ripe grapes: {40:11} And Pharaoh’s cup [was] in my hand: brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, [himself,] and changed his raiment, and came in unto and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. {40:12} And Pharaoh. {41:15} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation of it: The dreamed a dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it: three branches [are] three days: {40:13} Yet within three and I have heard say of thee, [that] thou canst understand a days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto dream to interpret it. {41:16} And Joseph answered thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. answer of peace. {41:17} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In {40:14} But think on me when it shall be well with thee, my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention {41:18} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a {40:15} For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the meadow: {41:19} And, behold, seven other kine came up Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such put me into the dungeon. {40:16} When the chief baker saw as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: {41:20} that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets seven fat kine: {41:21} And when they had eaten them up, on my head: {40:17} And in the uppermost basket [there it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds [were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. did eat them out of the basket upon my head. {40:18} And {41:22} And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation came up in one stalk, full and good: {41:23} And, behold, thereof: The three baskets [are] three days: {40:19} Yet seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off sprung up after them: {41:24} And the thin ears devoured thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat the seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but thy flesh from off thee. [there was] none that could declare [it] to me. {40:20} And it came to pass the third day, [which was] {41:25} And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his Pharaoh [is] one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is] servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of about to do. {41:26} The seven good kine [are] seven years; the chief baker among his servants. {40:21} And he and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he one. {41:27} And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: {40:22} But he hanged came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. {40:23} ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat famine. {41:28} This [is] the thing which I have spoken him. unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years of great {41:1} And it came to pass at the end of two full years, plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: {41:30} And there that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the {41:2} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a famine shall consume the land; {41:31} And the plenty meadow. {41:3} And, behold, seven other kine came up shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and following; for it [shall be] very grievous. {41:32} And for stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river. {41:4} that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is] And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the because the thing [is] established by God, and God will seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} shortly bring it to pass. {41:33} Now therefore let Pharaoh And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. of Egypt. {41:34} Let Pharaoh do [this,] and let him appoint {41:6} And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land east wind sprung up after them. {41:7} And the seven thin of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} And let them ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream. {41:8} And it came to corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent the cities. {41:36} And that food shall be for store to the and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. {41:37} And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, {41:9} Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I and in the eyes of all his servants. {41:38} And Pharaoh do remember my faults this day: {41:10} Pharaoh was said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is,] www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 24 a man in whom the Spirit of God is? {41:39} And Pharaoh and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all From the land of Canaan to buy food. {42:8} And Joseph this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art: knew his brethren, but they knew not him. {42:9} And ]{41:40} Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of will I be greater than thou. {41:41} And Pharaoh said unto the land ye are come. {42:10} And they said unto him, Nay, Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. {42:11} We {41:42} And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and [are] all one man’s sons; we [are] true [men,] thy servants put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of are no spies. {42:12} And he said unto them, Nay, but to fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; {41:43} And see the nakedness of the land ye are come. {42:13} And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest [ruler] over all the land of Egypt. {41:44} And Pharaoh said [is] this day with our father, and one [is] not. {42:14} And unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you, lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. {41:45} And saying, Ye [are] spies: {42:15} Hereby ye shall be proved: Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti- pherah priest your youngest brother come hither. {42:16} Send one of of On. And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt. you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be {41:46} And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from [are] spies. {42:17} And he put them all together into ward the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of three days. {42:18} And Joseph said unto them the third Egypt. {41:47} And in the seven plenteous years the earth day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God: {42:19} If ye [be] brought forth by handfuls. {41:48} And he gathered up all true [men,] let one of your brethren be bound in the house the food of the seven years, which were in the land of of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the houses: {42:20} But bring your youngest brother unto me; field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And same. {41:49} And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the they did so. sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number. {41:50} And unto Joseph were born two sons {42:21} And they said one to another, We [are] verily before the years of famine came, which Asenath the guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of daughter of Poti- pherah priest of On bare unto him. his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; {41:51} And Joseph called the name of the firstborn therefore is this distress come upon us. {42:22} And Manasseh: For God, [said he,] hath made me forget all my Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, toil, and all my father’s house. {41:52} And the name of the saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be therefore, behold, also his blood is required. {42:23} And fruitful in the land of my affliction. they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake unto them by an interpreter. {42:24} And he turned himself {41:53} And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and the land of Egypt, were ended. {41:54} And the seven years communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and bound him before their eyes. the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. {41:55} And when all the land of Egypt was {42:25} Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them. he saith to you, do. {41:56} And the famine was over all the {42:26} And they laded their asses with the corn, and face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and departed thence. {42:27} And as one of them opened his sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his land of Egypt. {41:57} And all countries came into Egypt to money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack’s mouth. {42:28} Joseph for to buy [corn;] because that the famine was so And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, sore in all lands. lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them,] and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] {42:1} Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, God hath done unto us? Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? {42:2} And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn {42:29} And they came unto Jacob their father unto the in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; that we may live, and not die. saying, {42:30} The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. {42:3} And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn {42:31} And we said unto him, We [are] true [men;] we are in Egypt. {42:4} But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent no spies: {42:32} We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our mischief befall him. {42:5} And the sons of Israel came to father in the land of Canaan. {42:33} And the man, the lord buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye land of Canaan. {42:6} And Joseph [was] the governor over [are] true [men;] leave one of your brethren [here] with me, the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down gone: {42:34} And bring your youngest brother unto me: themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth. {42:7} then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; traffick in the land. www.holybooks.com

Page 25 Genesis {42:35} And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it that, behold, every man’s bundle of money [was] in his again in our hand. {43:22} And other money have we sack: and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who of money, they were afraid. {42:36} And Jacob their father put our money in our sacks. {43:23} And he said, Peace said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children:] [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. Benjamin [away:] all these things are against me. {42:37} And he brought Simeon out unto them. {43:24} And the And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave [them] sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses and I will bring him to thee again. {42:38} And he said, My provender. {43:25} And they made ready the present son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the eat bread there. which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. {43:26} And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and {43:1} And the famine [was] sore in the land. {43:2} And bowed themselves to him to the earth. {43:27} And he it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive? {43:28} again, buy us a little food. {43:3} And Judah spake unto And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. and made obeisance. {43:29} And he lifted up his eyes, and {43:4} If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, [Is] down and buy thee food: {43:5} But if thou wilt not send this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And [him,] we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. {43:30} And shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his {43:6} And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? {43:7} And [his] chamber, and wept there. {43:31} And he washed his they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] bread. {43:32} And they set on for him by himself, and for brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not your brother down? {43:8} And Judah said unto Israel his eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that unto the Egyptians. {43:33} And they sat before him, the we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest little ones. {43:9} I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him another. {43:34} And he took [and sent] messes unto them before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: {43:10} from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with second time. {43:11} And their father Israel said unto them, him. 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 {44:1} And he commanded the steward of his house, little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and saying, Fill the men’s sacks [with] food, as much as they almonds: {43:12} And take double money in your hand; can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth. and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your {44:2} And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according oversight: {43:13} Take also your brother, and arise, go to the word that Joseph had spoken. {44:3} As soon as the again unto the man: {43:14} And God Almighty give you morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their mercy before the man, that he may send away your other asses. {44:4} [And] when they were gone out of the city, brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children,] I [and] not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, am bereaved. follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? {43:15} And the men took that present, and they took {44:5} [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. {43:16} And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler {44:6} And he overtook them, and he spake unto them of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make these same words. {44:7} And they said unto him, ready; for [these] men shall dine with me at noon. {43:17} Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the servants should do according to this thing: {44:8} Behold, men into Joseph’s house. {43:18} And the men were afraid, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold? the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion {44:9} With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen. our asses. {43:19} And they came near to the steward of {44:10} And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant; the house, {43:20} And said, O sir, we came indeed down and ye shall be blameless. {44:11} Then they speedily took at the first time to buy food: {43:21} And it came to pass, down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, man his sack. {44:12} And he searched, [and] began at the behold, [every] man’s money [was] in the mouth of his eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 26 Benjamin’s sack. {44:13} Then they rent their clothes, and {45:6} For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest. {45:7} And God sent me {44:14} And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to house; for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on save your lives by a great deliverance. {45:8} So now [it the ground. {44:15} And Joseph said unto them, What deed was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath [is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and can certainly divine? {44:16} And Judah said, What shall a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. {45:9} Haste ye, we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come servants: behold, we [are] my lord’s servants, both we, and down unto me, tarry not: {45:10} And thou shalt dwell in [he] also with whom the cup is found. {44:17} And he said, the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose hand and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get and thy herds, and all that thou hast: {45:11} And there will you up in peace unto your father. I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to {44:18} Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my poverty. {45:12} And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for unto you. {45:13} And ye shall tell my father of all my thou [art] even as Pharaoh. {44:19} My lord asked his glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? {44:20} haste and bring down my father hither. {45:14} And he fell And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is wept upon his neck. {45:15} Moreover he kissed all his dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren him. {44:21} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him talked with him. down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. {44:22} And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: {45:16} And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die. house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased {44:23} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your Pharaoh well, and his servants. {45:17} And Pharaoh said youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your no more. {44:24} And it came to pass when we came up beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; {45:18} unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my And take your father and your households, and come unto lord. {44:25} And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and little food. {44:26} And we said, We cannot go down: if our ye shall eat the fat of the land. {45:19} Now thou art youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring [be] with us. {44:27} And thy servant my father said unto your father, and come. {45:20} Also regard not your stuff; us, Ye know that my wife bare me two [sons: ]{44:28} And for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours. {45:21} And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, pieces; and I saw him not since: {44:29} And if ye take this according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down provision for the way. {45:22} To all of them he gave each my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. {44:30} Now man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad hundred [pieces] of silver, and five changes of raiment. [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s {45:23} And to his father he sent after this [manner;] ten life; {44:31} It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses lad [is] not [with us,] that he will die: and thy servants shall laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with way. {45:24} So he sent his brethren away, and they sorrow to the grave. {44:32} For thy servant became surety departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto the way. thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. {44:33} Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide {45:25} And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, {45:26} And told up with his brethren. {44:34} For how shall I go up to my him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he the evil that shall come on my father. believed them not. {45:27} And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw {45:1} Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to Jacob their father revived: {45:28} And Israel said, [It is] go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. {45:2} And before I die. he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. {45:3} And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] {46:1} And Israel took his journey with all that he had, Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. {45:4} of his father Isaac. {46:2} And God spake unto Israel in the And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your Here [am] I. {46:3} And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. {45:5} Now therefore be father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me of thee a great nation: {46:4} I will go down with thee into hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again:] and www.holybooks.com

Page 27 Genesis Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. {46:5} And direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel Goshen. {46:29} And Joseph made ready his chariot, and carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his {46:6} And they took their cattle, and their goods, which neck a good while. {46:30} And Israel said unto Joseph, they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou Jacob, and all his seed with him: {46:7} His sons, and his [art] yet alive. {46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren, sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; {46:8} And these [are] the names of the children of Israel, {46:32} And the men [are] shepherds, for their trade hath which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and Jacob’s firstborn. {46:9} And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, their herds, and all that they have. {46:33} And it shall and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation? {46:34} That ye shall say, Thy {46:10} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell Canaanitish woman. in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians. {46:11} And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {47:1} Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, {46:12} And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of and, behold, they [are] in the land of Goshen. {47:2} And Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. {47:3} And Pharaoh said {46:13} And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and unto his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said Job, and Shimron. unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers. {47:4} They said moreover unto Pharaoh, {46:14} And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants Jahleel. {46:15} These [be] the sons of Leah, which she have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy the souls of his sons and his daughters [were] thirty and servants dwell in the land of Goshen. {47:5} And Pharaoh three. spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: {47:6} The land of Egypt [is] before thee; {46:16} And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers {46:17} And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and over my cattle. {47:7} And Joseph brought in Jacob his Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. {46:18} These [are] the sons Pharaoh. {47:8} And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and [art] thou? {47:9} And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls. {46:19} The of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 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 {46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. {47:10} Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti- And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before pherah priest of On bare unto him. Pharaoh. {46:21} And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and {47:11} And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. {46:22} These [are] the of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls commanded. {47:12} And Joseph nourished his father, and [were] fourteen. his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to [their] families. {46:23} And the sons of Dan; Hushim. {47:13} And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the {46:24} And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] Jezer, and Shillem. {46:25} These [are] the sons of Bilhah, the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. {47:14} which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the these unto Jacob: all the souls [were] seven. {46:26} All the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls [were] house. {47:15} And when money failed in the land of threescore and six; {46:27} And the sons of Joseph, which Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] in thy presence? for the money faileth. {47:16} And Joseph threescore and ten. said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. {47:17} And they brought their cattle unto {46:28} And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for www.holybooks.com

Genesis Page 28 horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their Bethlehem. {48:8} And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and cattle for that year. {47:18} When that year was ended, they said, Who [are] these? {48:9} And Joseph said unto his came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will father, They [are] my sons, whom God hath given me in this not hide [it] from my lord, how that our money is spent; my [place.] And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in will bless them. {48:10} Now the eyes of Israel were dim the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: {47:19} for age, [so that] he could not see. And he brought them Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land {48:11} And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. {47:20} {48:12} And Joseph brought them out from between his And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine {48:13} And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s. {47:21} hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought [them] near end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof. unto him. {48:14} And Israel stretched out his right hand, {47:22} Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who [was] the younger, priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn. sold not their lands. {47:23} Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land {48:15} And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God land. {47:24} And it shall come to pass in the increase, that which fed me all my life long unto this day, {48:16} The ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers and for them of your households, and for food for your little Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in ones. {47:25} And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let the midst of the earth. {48:17} And when Joseph saw that us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it Pharaoh’s servants. {47:26} And Joseph made it a law over displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head. {48:18} And the fifth [part;] except the land of the priests only, [which] Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is] became not Pharaoh’s. the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. {48:19} And his father refused, and said, I know [it,] my son, I know [it:] {47:27} And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} And Jacob lived his seed shall become a multitude of nations. {48:20} And in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. {47:29} And saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} And Israel said unto son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal you again unto the land of your fathers. {48:22} Moreover I kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I {47:30} But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he my bow. said, I will do as thou hast said. {47:31} And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself {49:1} And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather upon the bed’s head. yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the last days. {49:2} Gather yourselves {48:1} And it came to pass after these things, that [one] together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with your father. him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. {48:2} And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto {49:3} Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the {48:3} And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty excellency of power: {49:4} Unstable as water, thou shalt appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then me, {48:4} And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee defiledst thou [it:] he went up to my couch. fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after {49:5} Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of thee [for] an everlasting possession. cruelty [are in] their habitations. {49:6} O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, {48:5} And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I their selfwill they digged down a wall. {49:7} Cursed [be] came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was Simeon, they shall be mine. {48:6} And thy issue, which cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. {49:8} Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall {48:7} And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet father’s children shall bow down before thee. {49:9} Judah [there was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I [is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: www.holybooks.com

Page 29 Genesis he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; {50:1} And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept who shall rouse him up? {49:10} The sceptre shall not upon him, and kissed him. {50:2} And Joseph commanded depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the physicians embalmed Israel. {50:3} And forty days were people [be. ]{49:11} Binding his foal unto the vine, and his fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: {49:12} His threescore and ten days. {50:4} And when the days of his eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, {49:13} Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, {50:5} My he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which unto Zidon. 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 {49:14} Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between my father, and I will come again. {50:6} And Pharaoh said, two burdens: {49:15} And he saw that rest [was] good, and Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to swear. bear, and became a servant unto tribute. {50:7} And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with {49:16} Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his Israel. {49:17} Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, {50:8} And in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s fall backward. {49:18} I have waited for thy salvation, O house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their LORD. herds, they left in the land of Goshen. {50:9} And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a {49:19} Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall very great company. {50:10} And they came to the overcome at the last. threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and {49:20} Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall he made a mourning for his father seven days. {50:11} And yield royal dainties. when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous {49:21} Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was words. called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan. {50:12} And his sons did unto him according as he commanded {49:22} Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful them: {50:13} For his sons carried him into the land of bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall: Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of {49:23} The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a him,] and hated him: {49:24} But his bow abode in possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the Mamre. hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) {49:25} [Even] by the God of {50:14} And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of after he had buried his father. the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: {49:26} The blessings of thy father have prevailed {50:15} And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was {50:16} And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, separate from his brethren. Thy father did command before he died, saying, {50:17} So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the {49:27} Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the spoil. servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. {50:18} And his brethren also went {49:28} All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we [is it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; [be] thy servants. {50:19} And Joseph said unto them, Fear every one according to his blessing he blessed them. not: for [am] I in the place of God? {50:20} But as for you, {49:29} And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive. cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite, {49:30} In {50:21} Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham unto them. bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. {49:31} There they buried Abraham and {50:22} And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. {50:23} wife; and there I buried Leah. {49:32} The purchase of the And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children [generation:] the children also of Machir the son Manasseh of Heth. {49:33} And when Jacob had made an end of were brought up upon Joseph’s knees. {50:24} And Joseph commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware www.holybooks.com