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HALLELUYAH SCRIPTURES t '' ■ ( ■1 4*\" 4 r./ This translation, HALLELUYAH SCRIPTURES, are not sold, they are given free! Our Mashiah said,\" You have received without paying, give without being paid.\" (Matt. 10:8) Why? Because He gave His all, He gave His hai on the cruel stake, in order to save us from all sin, to redeem us from all lawlessness. SPECIAL THANKS 4? All thanks and praise to 'ATA^and to His Ben, CWWT without whom nothing is possible. FREE - NEVER TO BE SOLD

INTRODUCTION This translation of the Scriptures uses a number of words and names that may be unfamiliar to some. THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY The Name of the Creator, YHWH known as the 'tetragrammaton' is rendered using the ancient Hebrew letters: yod, hay, waw, hay in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The practice of copying the Scriptures into modern Hebrew was applied by the scribes, while the Name of YHWH was rendered in the Paleo Hebrew script - This English translation uses the same script throughout. It is believed to be the form used by Himself when He gave the Commandments in stone to Mosheh. THE NAME OF HA'MASHIAH The Name of the Messiah which means 'Yah is salvation' is spelled in Hebrew: yod, hay, waw, shin, ayin - spoken and spelled similar to Yahoshua, the successor to Mosheh and is also rendered in the Paleo Hebrew Script - OW5^ throughout the Renewed Covenant. ORDER OF BOOKS The order of Books in the First Covenant follow the traditional Hebraic TaNaK (Torah, Nebi'im, Ketubim) while the Letters of Sha'ul have been arranged in approximate chronological order. FOOTNOTES In this translation you will find no comments or footnotes! It is vitally important that if you do not understand a certain issue from Scripture that you ask to teach you through the Ruah ha'Qodesh (see 1Jn 2:27, 1Co 2:13) He is your teacher-not man. THE PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES All the names throughout this translation have been transliterated to give an accurate pronunciation in the Hebrew language. The following table gives the vocal sounds necessary for correct pronunciation. a - ah as in Srm b - (bh) v as in vet e - eh as in elm d - (dh) th as in them i - ee as in eel e - ey as in eight •r o - oh as in on g - (gh) The ’g’ is pronounced as u - oo as in Uno a soft aspirated g sound. h - (ch) k - (kh) The ’h’ and 'k' are pronounced as the 'ch' in the German composer Bach, or the Scottish Loch, like a guttural, aspirated h sound. OTHER USE OF LANGUAGE The Torah commands not to speak the names of false mighty ones (Exo 23:13, Jos 23:7, Psa 16:4), and in an effort to reduce the number of English words derived from pagan deities or pagan titles, especially when pertaining to \"WW, His Ben and His people, the Halleluyah Scriptures contains a number of Hebrew words, also reflecting the Hebrew origin of Scripture. As these terms will be foreign to many, a GLOSSARY is included to familiarise the user with these new words. FREE - NOT FOR RESALE

TANAK (FIRST COVENANT) I TORAH (TEACHING) min TITLE (TRANSLATION) ALTERNATE NAME PAGE BERESHITH 1 SHEMOTH (In the Beginning) GENESIS WAYYIQRA 58 BEMIDBAR- (Names) EXODUS 105 DEBARIM 139 (And He Called) LEVITICUS 187 ' ■ (In the Wilderness) NUMBERS (Words) DEUTERONOMY NEBI'IM (PROPHETS) □^\"□3 'W'k YAHOSHUA (Yah is Salvation) JOSHUA 227 SHOPHETIM 255 SHEMU'EL 1 (Judges) 1 JUDGES 283 SHEMU'EL2 . 319 M ELAKI M 1 (Heard of El) 1 SAMUEL . 350 MELAKIM 2 386 YESHAYAHU (Heard of El) 2 SAMUEL 420 YIRMEYAHU > 473 YEHEZQEL (Sovereigns) 1 KINGS . 535 DANI'EL • 591 HOSHEA (Sovereigns) 2 KINGS . 609 YO'EL 617 AMOS (Salvation of Yah) ISAIAH 620 OBADYAH .u 627 YONAH ' (Exultation of Yah) JEREMIAH 628 MIKAH 630 NAHUM (Strength of El) EZEKIEL • •'* ' 635 HABAQQUQ 637 TSEPHANYAH - (Judgment of El) ' ■ DANIEL 640 HAGGAI 643 ZEKARYAH (Salvation) ' HOSEA 645 MAL'AKI (Yah Is El) ' ; JOEL 654 (Burden) AMOS (Servant of Yah) OBADIAH (Dove) JONAH (Who is Like Yah?). MICAH (Comfort) NAHUM (Embrace) HABAKKUK •- (Treasured of Yah) ZEPHANIAH (Festive) • ■ HAGGAI (Remembered of Yah) ZECHARIAH (My Messenger) ' MALACHI KETHUBIM (WRITINGS) □’’□IDD \"WM TEHILLIM (Psalms) PSALMS 657 736 MISHLEY (Proverbs) PROVERBS 763 791 IYOB (Hated) JOB 796 (Song of Songs) 800 SHIR HA'SHIRIM (Friend) ♦j (* 807 RUTH 4 SONG OF SONGS 815 824 RUTH i 836 853 EYKAH (How) LAMENTATIONS 886 QOHELETH , (Convener) ECCLESIASTES HADASSAH (Myrtle Tree) ESTHER EZRA (Help) EZRA NEHEMYAH (Consolation of Yah) NEHEMIAH DIBREY HA'YAMIM 1 (Annals of Time) 1 CHRONICLES DIBREY HA'YAMIM 2 (Annals of Time) 2 CHRONICLES

B/RHT HADASHAH (RENEWED COVENANT) MESSIANIC WRITINGS TITLE (TRANSLATION) ALTERNATE NAME PAGE MATTITHYAHU MARQOS (Gift of Yah) MATTHEW 926 LUQAS 963 YOHANAN (Defence) MARK 986 MA'ASEH 1025 (Illuminating) LUKE 1055 (Yah has Favoured) JOHN 1093 1098 (Actions) ACTS 1101 1103 GALATIYIM LETTERS OF SHA'UL GALATIANS 1118 TAS'LONIQIM 1 (Of the Gauls) 1 THESSALONIANS 1128 TAS'LONIQIM 2 (Victory of Falsity) 2 THESSALONIANS 1143 QORIN'TIYIM 1 (Victory of Falsity) 1 CORINTHIANS 1144 QORIN'TIYIM 2 (Satiated) 2 CORINTHIANS 1148 ROMIYIM (Satiated) ROMANS 1153 PILEYMON (Strength) PHILEMON 1157 QOLASIM (One who Kisses) COLOSSIANS 1161 EPH'SIYIM (Colossal) , «•••_ EPHESIANS 1163 PILIPPIYIM (Permitted) PHILIPPIANS TIMOTIYOS 1 (Lover of Horses) 1 TIMOTHY 1166 TITOS (Honouring Elohim) TITUS 1177 TIMOTIYOS 2 (Nurse) 2 TIMOTHY 1181 (Honouring Elohim) 1185 IBRIM 1188 YA’AQOB OTHER WRITINGS HEBREWS 1192 KEPHA 1 (Those From Beyond) JAMES 1193 KEPHA2 (Supplanter) 1 PETER 1194 YOHANAN 1 (Rock) 2 PETER 1196 YOHANAN 2 (Rock) 1 JOHN YOHANAN 3 2 JOHN YAHUDAH (Yah has Favoured) 3 JOHN HAZON (Yah has Favoured) JUDE (Yah has Favoured) REVELATION (Yah is Praised) (Vision) NOTES GLOSSARY WEIGHTSAND MEASURES MAPS 6th Edition-2015 .

1 A TANAK. Tin THV (FIRST COVENANT) i FREE-NOT FOR SALE

1 GENESIS berEshith day. 14 And Elohim said, \"Let lights come to be in the expanse of the shamayim to separate the day from the night, and 4 In the beginning Elohim created let them be for signs and Appointed I the shamayim and the earth. Times, and for days and years, 2 And the earth came to be formless 15 and let them be for lights in the i and empty, and darkness was on the expanse of the shamayim to give light face of the deep. And the Ruah of on the earth.\" And it came to be so. Elohim was moving on the face of the 16 And Elohim made two great lights: waters. the greater light to rule the day, and 3 And Elohim said, \"Let light come to the lesser light to rule the night, and be,\" and light came to be. the stars. 4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was 17 And Elohim placed them in the good. And Elohim separated the light expanse of the shamayim to give light from the darkness. on the earth, v. ■ 5 And Elohim called the light ’day' and 18 and to rule over the day and over the darkness He called 'night.' And the night, and to separate the light i there came to be evening and there from the darkness. And Elohim saw came to be morning, day one. that it was good. '. 6 And Elohim said, \"Let an expanse 19 And there came to be evening and come to be in the midst Of the waters, there came to be morning, the fourth and let it separate the waters from the day. : • waters.\" 20 And Elohim said, \"Let the waters 7 And Elohim made the expanse, and teem with shoals of living creatures, separated the waters which were and let birds fly above the earth on the under the expanse from the waters face of the expanse of the shamayim.\" which were above the expanse. And it 21 And Elohim created great sea came to be so.• '• creatures and every living creature that 8 And Elohim called the expanse moves, with which the waters teemed, 'shamayim.' And there came to be according to their kind, and every evening and there came to be winged bird according to its kind. And morning, the second day. : - Elohim saw that it was good. 9 And Elohim said, \"Let the waters 22 And Elohim barak them, saying, under the shamayim be gathered \"Bear fruit and increase, and fill the together into one place, and let the dry waters in the seas, and let the birds land appear.\" And it came to be so. increase on the earth.\" 10 And Elohim called the dry land 23 And there came to be evening and 'earth,' and the collection of the waters there came to be morning, the fifth day. He called 'seas.' And Elohim saw that 24 And Elohim said, \"Let the earth it was good. • .u - bring forth the living creature according 11 And Elohim said, \"Let the earth bring to its kind: livestock and creeping forth grass, the plant that yields seed, creatures and beasts of the earth, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind.\" And it came to according to its kind, whose seed is in be so. itself, on the earth.\" And it came to be 25 And Elohim made the beast of the so. , . '• L ■ earth according to its kind, livestock 12 And the earth brought forth grass, according to its kind, and all that creep the plant that yields seed according to on the earth according to its kind. And its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, Elohim saw that it was good. whose seed is in itself according to its 26 And Elohim said, \"Let Us make kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. man in Our image, according to Our 13 And there came to be evening and likeness, and let them rule over the there came to be morning, the third fish of the sea, and over the birds of

BERESHITH 2 the shamayim, and over the livestock, out of dust from the ground, and and over all the earth and over all the breathed into his nostrils breath of life. creeping creatures that creep on the And the man became a living being. earth.\".;.- . - 8 And Elohim planted a garden in 27 And Elohim created the man in His Eden, to the east, and there He put the image, in -the image of Elohim He man whom He had formed. created him - male and female He 9 And out of the ground Elohim created them. made every tree grow that is pleasant 28 And Elohim barak them, and Elohim to the sight and good for food, with the said to them, \"Bear fruit and increase, tree of hai in the midst of the garden and fill the earth and subdue it, and and the tree of the knowledge of good rule over the fish of the sea, and over and evil. • <- .w the birds of the shamayim, and over all 10 And a river went out of Eden to creatures moving on the earth.\" ,~ water the garden, and from there it 29 And Elohim said, \"See, I have given divided and became four riverheads. you every plant that yields seed which 11 The name of the first is Pishon, it is is on the face of all the earth, and the one surrounding the entire land of every tree whose fruit yields seed, to Hawilah, where there is gold. you it is for food. , •? . 12 And the gold of that land is good. 30 \"And to every beast of the earth, Bdellium is there, and the shoham and to every bird of the shamayim, and stone... . to every creeping creature on the 13 And the name of the second river is earth, in which there is breath of life, Gihon, it is the one surrounding the every green plant is for food.\" And it entire land of Kush. .’. came to be so. - 14 And the name of the third river is 31 And Elohim saw all that He had Hiddeqel, it is the one which goes made, and see, it was very good. And toward the east of Ashshur.. And the there came to be evening and there fourth river is Perath. ; .. . . came to be morning, the sixth day. . 15 And Elohim took the man and O'Thus the shamayim and the put him in the garden of Eden to work earth were ' completed,. and all it and to guard it. their array. • r- ? ■ • r • r 16 And Elohim commanded the 2 And on . the seventh day Elohim man, saying, \"Eat of every tree of the completed His work which He. had garden, .. ’ , . - done, and He rested on the seventh 17 but do not eat of the tree of the day from all His. work which He had knowledge of good and evil, for in the made. ; . •■ > day that you eat of it you shall certainly 3 And Elohim barak the seventh day die.\" -.-.r and made it qodesh, because on it He 18 And WW Elohim said, \"It is not rested from, all His work which Elohim good for the man to be alone, I am in creating had made. • ' ■ going to make a helper for him, as his 4 These are the births of the shamayim counterpart.\"-., and the earth when they were created, 19 And from the ground Elohim in the day that MW Elohim made formed every beast of the field and earth and shamayim. , 9r’ every, bird of the shamayim, and 5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on brought them to the man to see what the earth, and no plant of the field had he would call them. And whatever the yet sprung up, for Elohim had man called each living creature, that not sent rain on the earth, and there was its name. was no man to till the ground, 20 So the man gave names to all 6 but a mist went up from the earth livestock, and to the birds of the and watered the entire surface of the shamayim, and to every beast of the ground. field. But for the man there was not 7 And MW Elohim formed the man found . a helper for him, as his

3 GENESIS counterpart. garden. 21 So Elohim caused a deep 9 And Elohim called unto Adam sleep to fall on the man, and he slept and said to him, \"Where are you?\" And He took one of his ribs, and 10 And he said, \"I heard Your voice closed up the flesh in its place. in the garden, and I was afraid 22 And the rib which Elohim had because I was naked, so I hid myself.\" taken from the man He made into a 11 And He said, \"Who made you know woman, and He brought her to the that you were naked? Have you eaten man. ■. -\\ : of the tree of which I commanded you 23 And the man said, \"This is now bone that you should not eat?\".; . of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This 12 And the man said, \"The woman one is called 'woman', because she whom You gave to be with me, she was taken out of man.\" A gave me of the tree and I ate.\" 24 For this cause a man shall leave his 13 And Elohim said to the father and mother, and join unto his woman, \"What is this you have done?\" wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the woman said, \"The serpent 25 And they were both naked, the deceived me, and I ate.\" man and his wife, yet they were not 14 And Elohim said to the ashamed. • *«• • ' serpent, \"Because you have done this, O And the serpent was more crafty you are cursed more than all livestock O than any beast of the field which and more than every beast of the field. Elohim had made, and he said On your abdomen you are to go, and to the woman, \"Is it true that Elohim eat dust all the days of your life. has said, 'Do not eat of every tree of 15 \"And I put enmity between you and the garden'?\" 7 . the woman, and between your seed 2 And the woman said to the serpent, and her Seed. He shall crush your \"We are to eat of the fruit of the trees head, and you shall crush His heel.\" of the garden, 1' • • 1 : 16 To the woman He said, \"I greatly 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in increase \" your sorrow and your the midst of the garden, Elohim has conception - bring forth children in said, 'Do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest pain. And your desire is for your you die.'\" . A• husband, and he rules over you.\" 4 And the serpent said to the woman, 17 And to the man He said, \"Because \"You shall certainly not die. you have listened to the voice of your 5 \"For Elohim knows that in the day wife,' and have eaten of the tree of you eat of. it your eyes shall be which I commanded you, saying, 'Do opened, and you shall be like Elohim, not eat of it': \"Cursed is the ground knowing good and evil.\" because of you, in toil you are to eat of 6 And the woman saw that the tree was it all the days of your life, > good for food, that it was pleasant to 18 and it shall bring forth thorns and the eyes, and a tree desirable to make thistles for you, and you shall eat the one wise, and she took of its fruit and plants of the field. ate. And she also gave to her husband 19 \"By the sweat of your face you are with her, and he ate. .. ■ - , to eat bread until you return to the 7 Then the eyes of both of them were ground, for out of it you were taken. opened, and they knew that they were For dust you are, and to dust you naked. And they sewed fig leaves return.\" together and made loin coverings for 20 And the man called his wife's name themselves. ■ • Hawwah, because she became the 8 And they heard the sound of mother of all living. Elohim walking about in the garden in 21 And Elohim made coats of the cool of the day, and Adam and his skin for the man and his wife and wife hid themselves from the presence dressed them. of Elohim among the trees of the 22 And Elohim said, \"See, the

BERESHITH 4 man has become like one of Us, to longer yield its strength to you. You know good and evil. And now, lest he shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on put out his hand and take also of the the earth.\" tree of hai, and eat, and live forever...\" 13 And Qayin said to 3W; \"My 23 so Elohim sent him out of the wickedness is too great to bear! garden of Eden to till the ground from 14 \"See, You have driven me from the which he was taken, face of the ground today, and I am 24 and He drove the man out. And He hidden from Your face. I shall be a placed kerubim at the east of the fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, garden of Eden, and a flaming sword and it shall be that anyone who finds which turned every way, to guard the me kills me.\" way to the tree of hai. 15 And MW said to him, \"Well, if And Adam knew Hawwah his anyone kills Qayin, vengeance is taken HT wife, and she conceived and bore on him sevenfold.\" And placed a Qayin, and said, \"I have gained a man sign for Qayin, lest anyone finding him from W kills him. 2 And again, she gave birth to his 16 So Qayin went out from the brother Hebei. And Hebei became a presence of and dwelt in the keeper of sheep, but Qayin became a land of Nod on the east of Eden. tiller of the ground. . 17 And Qayin knew his wife, and she 3 And it came to be, in the course of conceived and bore Hanok. And he time, that Qayin brought an offering of built a city, and called the name of the fruit of the ground to the city after the name of his son, 4 And Hebei also brought of the first­ Hanok. , born of his flock and of their fat. And 18 And to Hanok was born Irad. looked to Hebei and his offering, And Irad brought forth Mehuya'el, and 5 but He did not look to Qayin and his Mehuya'el brought forth Methusa'el, offering. And Qayin was very wroth, and Methusa'el brought forth Lemek. and his face fell. 19 And Lemek took for himself two 6 And MW said to Qayin, \"Why are wives, the name of one was Adah, and you wroth? And why is your face the name of the second was Tsillah. fallen? 20 And Adah bore Yabal. He was the 7 \"If you'- do well, is there not father of those who dwell in tents, with acceptance? And if you do not do well, livestock. sin is crouching at the door. And its 21 And his brother's name was Yubal. desire is for you, but you should He was the father of all those who play master it.\" the lyre and flute. 8 And Qayin told Hebei his brother, 22 As for Tsillah, she also bore Tubal- \"Come, let us go into the field.\" And it Qayin, a smith of all kinds of tools in came to be when they were in the bronze and iron. And the sister of field, that Qayin rose up against Hebei Tubal-Qayin was Na'amah. his brother and killed him. 23 And Lemek said to his wives Adah 9 And MW said to Qayin, \"Where is and Tsillah, \"Hear my voice! Wives of Hebei your brother?\" And he said, \"I Lemek, listen to my words! For I have do not know. Am I my brother's killed a man for wounding me, even a guard?\" young man for hurting me. 10 And He said, \"What have you done? 24 \"For Qayin is avenged sevenfold, The voice of your brother's blood cries and Lemek seventy-sevenfold.\" out to Me from the ground. 25 And Adam knew his wife again, and 11 \"And now you are cursed from the she bore a son and called his name earth, which has opened its mouth to Sheth, \"For Elohim has appointed receive your brother's blood from your me another seed instead of Hebei,\" hand. because Qayin had slain him. 12 \"If you till the ground, it shall no 26 And to Sheth, to him also a son was

5 GENESIS born. And he called his name Enosh. eight hundred and ninety-five years, Then it was begun to call on the Name and he died. of w. 18 And Yered lived one hundred and This is the book of the genealogy sixty-two years, and brought forth vJ of Adam. In the day that Elohim Hanok. ’. created man, He made him in the 19 And after he brought forth Hanok, likeness of Elohim. Yered lived eight hundred years, and 2 Male and female He created them, brought forth sons and daughters. and He barak them, and called their 20 So all the days of Yered were nine name 'Adam' in the day they were hundred and sixty-two years, and he created. died. 3 And Adam lived one hundred and 21 And Hanok lived sixty-five years, thirty years, and brought forth a son in and brought forth Methushelah. his own likeness, after his image, and 22 And after he brought forth called his name Sheth. Methushelah, Hanok walked with 4 And after he brought forth Sheth, the Elohim three hundred years, and days of Adam were eight hundred brought forth sons and daughters. years. And he brought forth sons and 23 So all the days of Hanok were three daughters. ■ • ■ ■ , hundred and sixty-five years. 5 So all the days that Adam lived were 24 And Hanok walked with Elohim. nine hundred and thirty years, and he Then he was no more, for Elohim took died. ' -'- ! him. 6 And Sheth lived one hundred and five 25 And Methushelah lived one hundred years, and brought forth Enosh. and eighty-seven years, and brought 7 And after he brought forth Enosh, forth Lemek. Sheth lived eight hundred and seven 26 And after he brought forth Lemek, years, and brought forth sons and Methushelah lived seven hundred and daughters. - eighty-two years, and brought forth 8 So all the days of Sheth were nine sons and daughters. hundred and twelve > years, and he 27 So all the days of Methushelah were died. ... nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and he died. '- brought forth Qeynan. 28 And Lemek lived one hundred and 10 And after he brought forth Qeynan, eighty-two years, and brought forth a Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen son, years, and brought forth sons and 29. and called his name Noah, saying, daughters. \"This one comforts us concerning 11 So all the days of Enosh were nine our work and the toil of our hands, hundred and five years, and he died. because of the ground which WW 12 And Qeynan lived seventy years, has cursed.\" and brought forth Mahalal'el. 30 And after he brought forth Noah, 13 After he brought forth Mahalal'el, Lemek lived five hundred and ninety- Qeynan lived eight hundred and forty five years, and brought forth sons and years, and brought forth sons and daughters. daughters. 31 So all the days of Lemek were 14 So all the days of Qeynan were nine seven hundred and seventy-seven hundred and ten years, and he died. years, and he died. 15 And Mahalal'el lived sixty-five years, 32 And Noah was five hundred years and brought forth Yered. old, and Noah brought forth Shem, 16 And after he brought forth Yered, Ham, and Yepheth. Mahalal'el lived eight hundred and £2 And it came to be, when men thirty years, and brought forth sons O began to increase on the face of and daughters. the earth, and daughters were born to them, 17 So all the days of Mahalal'el were

BERESHITH 6 2. that the sons of Elohim saw the 16 \"Make a window for the ark, and daughters of men, that they were complete it to an ammah from above. good. And they took wives for And put the door of the ark in its side. themselves of all whom they chose. Make it with lower, second, and third 3 And said, \"My Ruah shall not decks. 17 \"And see, I Myself am bringing strive with mankind forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall floodwaters on the earth, to destroy.all flesh in which is the breath of life from be one hundred and twenty years.\" 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in under the shamayim - all that is on the those days, and also afterward, when earth is to die. r < \" the sons of Elohim came in to the 18 \"And I shall establish My Covenant daughters of men and they bore with you, and you shall come into the children to them. Those were the ark, you and your sons and your wife mighty men who were of old, the men and your sons' wives with you. 19 \"And of all the living creatures of all of name. -‘ ■ r flesh, two of each, you are to bring into 5 And WW saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that the ark, to keep them alive with you - a every inclination of the thoughts of his male and a female. ’ heart was only evil continually. 20 \"Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, and of all 6 And 'XVW was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was creeping creatures of the earth after grieved in His heart. their kind, two of each are to come to 7 And said, \"I am going to wipe you, to keep them alive. 21 \"As for you, take of all food that off man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, is eaten and gather it to yourself. And it shall be food for you and for them.\" creeping creature and birds of the shamayim, for I am sorry that I have 22 And Noah did according to all that made them.\" , .. Elohim commanded him, so he did. 8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of 7 And MW said to Noah, \"Come / into the ark,- you and all your ■• 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah household, because I have seen that was a righteous man, perfect in his you are righteous before Me in this generations. Noah walked with Elohim. generation. 10 And Noah brought forth three sons: 2 \"Of all the clean beasts take with you Shem, Ham, and Yepheth. seven pairs, a male and his female; 11 And the earth was corrupt before and of the beasts that are unclean two, Elohim, and the earth was filled with a male and his female; violence. ; •< ; 3 and of birds of the shamayim seven 12 And Elohim looked upon the earth pairs, male and female, to keep and saw that it was corrupt - for all offspring alive on the face of all the flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. earth - .• 4 \"For after seven more days I am 13 and Elohim said to Noah, \"The end sending rain on the earth, forty days of all flesh has come before Me, for the and forty nights, and shall wipe from earth is filled with violence through the face of the earth all that stand that I created.\" them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth. 5 And Noah did according to all that 14 \"Make yourself an ark of gopher­ commanded him. wood. Make rooms in the ark, and 6 Now Noah was six hundred years old cover it inside and outside with tar. when the flood-waters were on the earth. 15 \"And this is how you are to make it: The length of the ark is three hundred 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife ammah, its width fifty ammah, and its and his sons' wives went into the ark height thirty ammah. because of the waters of the flood.

7 GENESIS 8 Of the clean beasts and of the beasts 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath that are unclean, and of birds, and of of the spirit of life, all that was on the all that creep on the earth,. , .. dry land, died. 9 two by two they went into the ark to 23 So He wiped off all that stand, which Noah, male and female, as Elohim had were on the face of the ground - both commanded Noah. man and beast, creeping creature and 10 And it came to be after seven days bird of the shamayim. And they were that the waters of the flood were on the wiped off from the earth. And only earth. f . .< V r Noah was left, and those with him in 11 In the six hundredth year of the ark. .. Noah's life, in the second month, the 24 And the waters were mighty on the seventeenth day of the month, on that earth, one hundred and fifty days. day all the fountains of the great deep Q And Elohim remembered Noah, O and all the beasts and all the were broken up, and the windows of the shamayim were opened. cattle that were with him in the ark. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty And Elohim made a wind to pass over days and forty nights. . the earth, and the waters subsided. 13 On that same day Noah and Shem 2 And the fountains of the deep and and Ham and Yepheth, the sons of the windows of the shamayim were Noah, and Noah's wife and the three stopped, and the rain from the wives of his sons with them, went into shamayim was withheld. the ark, 3 And the waters receded steadily 14 they and every living creature after from the earth, and at the end of its kind, and every beast after its kind, the hundred and fifty days the waters and every creeping creature that diminished. ' ■> ■ • • creeps on the earth after its kind, and 4 And in the seventh month, the every bird after its kind,, every bird of seventeenth day of the month, the ark every sort. > •. rested on the mountains of Ararat. 15 And they went into the ark to Noah, 5 And the waters decreased steadily two by two, of all flesh in which is the until the tenth month. In the tenth breath of life. month, on the first day of the month, 16 And those going in, male and female the tops of the mountains became of all flesh, went in as Elohim had visible. commanded him, and shut him 6 And it came to be, at the end of forty in. :> • w ' days, that Noah opened the window of 17 And the flood was on the earth forty the ark which he had made, days, and the waters increased and 7 and he sent out a raven, which kept lifted up the ark, and it rose high above going out and turning back until the the earth. . • • .: waters had dried up from the earth. 18 And the waters were mighty and 8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to greatly increased on the earth, and the see if the waters had receded from the ark moved about on the surface of the face of the ground. waters. : • -■ • 9 But the dove found no resting place 19 And the waters were exceedingly for its feet and returned into the ark to mighty on the earth, and all the high him, for the waters were on the face of mountains under all the shamayim all the earth. So he put out his hand were covered. and took it, and pulled it into the ark to 20 The waters became mighty, fifteen himself. ammah upward, and the mountains 10 And he waited yet another seven were covered. . ' c? . days, and again he sent the dove out 21 And all flesh died that moved on the from the ark. earth - birds and cattle and beasts and 11 And the dove came to him in the every creeping creature that creeps on evening, and see, a freshly plucked the earth, and all mankind. olive leaf was in its mouth. And Noah

BERESHITH 8 knew that the waters had receded from have been given. 3 \"Every moving creature that lives is the earth. food for you. I have given you all, as the green plants. 12 And he waited yet another seven 4 \"But do not eat flesh with its life, its blood. days and sent out the dove, which did 5 \"But only your blood for your lives I require, from the hand of every beast I not return to him again. require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I 13 And it came to be in the six hundred require the life of man. 6 \"Whoever sheds man's blood, by and first year, in the first month, the man his blood is shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man. first day of the month, that the waters 7 \"As for you, bear fruit and increase, bring forth teemingly in the earth and were dried up from the earth. And increase in it.\" 8 And Elohim spoke to Noah and to his Noah removed the covering of the ark sons with him, saying, 9 \"And I, see, I establish My Covenant and looked, and saw the surface of the with you and with your seed after you, 10 and with every living creature that is ground was dry. with you: of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of 14 And in the second month, on the all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. twenty-seventh day of the month, the n\"And I shall establish My Covenant with you, and never again is all flesh earth was dry. u .■ cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to destroy 15 And Elohim spoke to Noah, saying, the earth.\" 12 And Elohim said, \"This is the sign of 16 \"Go out of the ark, you and your wife the Covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature and your sons and your sons' wives that is with you, for all generations to come: with you. .‘ • 13 \"I shall put My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the 17 \"Bring out with you every living Covenant between Me and the earth. 14 \"And it shall be, when I bring a cloud creature of all flesh that is with you: over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud, of birds, of cattle and all creeping 15 and I shall remember My Covenant creatures that creep on the earth. And which is between Me and you and let them teem on the earth, and bear every living creature of all flesh, and never again let the waters become a and increase on the earth.\" flood to destroy all flesh. 16 \"And the rainbow shall be in the 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and cloud, and I shall see it, to remember his wife and his sons' wives with him, the everlasting Covenant between 19 every beast, every creeping Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.\" creature, and every bird, whatever 17 And Elohim said to Noah, \"This is creeps on the earth, according to their the sign of the Covenant which I have kinds, went out of the ark. 20 And Noah built an altar to ^W/', and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. .• 21 And 'WW smelled a soothing fragrance, and said in His heart, \"Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all life, as I have done, 22 as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.\" Q And Elohim barak Noah and his Z/ sons, and said to them, \"Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth. 2 \"And the fear of you and the dread of you is on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the shamayim, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea - into your hand they

9 GENESIS established between Me and all flesh their nations. that is on the earth.\" 6 And the sons of Ham: Kush, and Mitsrayim, and Put, and Kena'an. 18 And the sons of Noah who went out 7 And the sons of Kush: Seba, and Hawilah, and Sabtah, and Ra'mah, of the ark were Shem and Ham and and Sabteka. And the sons of Ra'mah: Sheba and Dedan. Yepheth. And Ham was the father of 8 And Kush brought forth Nimrod, he began to be a mighty one on the earth. Kena'an. ‘ , -• 9 He was a mighty hunter before therefore it is said, \"Like Nimrod the 19 These three were the sons of Noah, mighty hunter before 10 And the beginning of his reign and all the earth was overspread from was Babel, and Erek, and Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin'ar. them. 11 From that land he went to Ashshur and built Nineweh, and Rehoboth Ir, 20 And Noah, a man of the soil, began and Kelah, 12 and Resen between Nineweh and and planted a vineyard. Kelah, the great city. 13 And Mitsrayim brought forth Ludim, 21 And he drank of the wine and was and Anamim, and Lehabim,- and Naphtuhim, drunk, and became uncovered in his 14 and Pathrusim, and Kasluhim, from whom came the Pelishtites and tent. . . Kaphtorim. 15 And Kena'an brought forth Tsidon 22 And Ham, the father of Kena'an, his first-born, and Heth, 16 and the Yebusite, and the Amorite, saw the nakedness of his father, and and the Girgashite, 17 and the Hiwwite, and the Arqite, and told his two brothers outside. the Sinite, 18 and the Arwadite, and the 23 So Shem and Yepheth took a Tsemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the clans of the Kena'anites garment, laid it on both their shoulders, were spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Kena'anites and went backward and covered the was from Tsidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Azzah, as you go nakedness of their father, but their toward Sedom, and Amorah, and Admah, and Tseboyim, as far as faces were turned away, and they did Lasha. 20 These were the sons of Ham, not see their father's nakedness., according to their clans, according to their languages, in their lands, in their 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and nations. 21 And also to Shem, the father of all he knew what his younger son had the children of Eber, the brother of Yepheth the elder, brought forth. done to him, 22 The sons of Shem: Eylam, and 25 and he said, \"Cursed is Kena'an, let Asshur, and Arpakshad, and Lud, and Aram. him become a servant of servants to 23 And the sons of Aram: Uts, and Hui, his brothers.\" and Gether, and Mash. 26 And he said, \"Baruk be the Elohim of Shem, and let Kena'an become his servant. 27 \"Let Elohim enlarge Yepheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Kena'an become his servant.\" 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. d And this is the genealogy of I w the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Yepheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Yawan, and Tubal, and Meshek, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the nations were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their clans, into

BERESHITH 10 24 And Arpakshad brought forth understand one another's speech.\" Shelah, and Shelah brought forth 8 And scattered them from there, Eber. over the face of all the earth, and they 25. And to Eber were born two sons, ceased building the city. the name of one was Peleg, for in his 9 That is why its name was called days the earth was divided, and his Babel, because there WW confused brother's name was Yoqtan. the language of all the earth, and from 26 And Yoqtan brought forth Almodad, there WW scattered them over the and Sheleph, and Hatsarmaweth, and face of all the earth. Yerah, 10 This is the genealogy of Shem: 27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diqlah, Shem was a hundred years old and 28 and Obal, and Abima'el, and Sheba, brought forth Arpakshad, two years 29 and Ophir, and Hawilah, and Yobab. after the flood. All these were sons of Yoqtan. 11 And after he brought forth 30 And their dwelling place was from Arpakshad, Shem lived five hundred Meysha as you go toward Sephar, a years, and brought forth sons and mountain of the east. daughters. 31 These were the sons of Shem, 12 And Arpakshad lived thirty-five according to their clans, according years, and brought forth Shelah. to their languages, in their lands, 13 And after he brought forth Shelah, according to their nations. Arpakshad lived four hundred and 32 These were the clans of the sons of three years, and brought forth sons Noah, according to their generations, and daughters. '• in their nations. And from these the 14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and nations were divided on the earth after brought forth Eber. the flood. 15 And after he brought forth Eber, d d And it came to be, all the earth Shelah lived four hundred and three I I had one • language and one years, and brought forth sons and speech. ■ daughters. 2 And it came to be, as they departed 16 And Eber lived thirty-four years, and from the east, that they found a plain in brought forth Peleg. ; ■ the land of Shin'ar, and they dwelt 17 And after he brought forth Peleg, there. ’■ ’ Eber lived four hundred and thirty 3 And they said to each other, \"Come, years, and brought forth sons and let us make bricks and bake them daughters. • thoroughly.\" And they had brick for 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. brought forth Re'u. 4 And they said, \"Come, let us build 19 And after he brought forth Re'u, ourselves a city, and a tower whose Peleg lived two hundred and nine top is in the shamayim, and make years, and brought forth sons and a name for ourselves, ~ lest we be daughters. scattered over all the face of the 20 And Re'u lived thirty-two years, and earth.\" • ' brought forth Serug. 5 Then came down to see the 21 And after he brought forth Serug, city and the tower which the sons of Re'u lived two hundred and seven men had built. years, and brought forth sons and 6 And WW said, \"Look, they are daughters. one people and they all have one 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and language, and this is what they begin brought forth Nahor. to do! And now, they are not going to 23 And after he brought forth Nahor, be withheld from doing whatever they Serug lived two hundred years, and plan to do. brought forth sons and daughters. 7 \"Come, let Us go there and confuse 24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, their language, so that they do not and brought forth Terah.

11 GENESIS 25 And after he brought forth Terah, to the place of Shekem, as far as the Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time years, and brought forth sons and the Kena'anites were in the land. daughters. 7 And appeared to Abram and 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and said, \"To your seed I give this land.\" brought forth Abram, Nahor, and And he built there an altar to Haran. .. >• . . ■ . ■ ■ .■ who had appeared to him. 27 And this is the genealogy of Terah: 8 And from there he moved to the Terah brought forth Abram, Nahor, and mountain east of Beyth El, and he Haran. And Haran brought forth Lot. pitched his tent, with Beyth El on the 28 And Haran died before his father west and Ai on the east. And he built Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur- there an altar to and called on Kasdim. ■ .. the Name of . 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives: 9 And Abram departed, continuing the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, toward the Negeb. and the name of Nahor's wife, Milkah, 10 And a scarcity of food came to be the daughter of Haran the father of in the land, and Abram went down Milkah and the father of Yiskah. to Mitsrayim to dwell there, for the 30 And Sarai was barren, she had no scarcity of food was severe in the land. child. . 11 And it came to be, when he was 31 And Terah took his son Abram and close to entering Mitsrayim, that he his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and said to Sarai his wife, \"See, I know that his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son you are a lovely woman to look at. Abram's wife, and they went out with 12 \"And it shall be, when the Mitsrites them from Ur-Kasdim to go to the land see you, that they shall say, 'This is his of Kena'an. And they came to Haran wife.' And they shall kill me, but let you and dwelt there. live. 32 And the days of Terah came to be 13 \"Please say you are my sister, so two hundred and five years, and Terah that it shall be well with me for your died in Haran. sake, and my life be spared because 4 O And said to Abram, \"Go of you.\" I yourself out of your land, from 14 And it came to be, when Abram your relatives and from your father's came into Mitsrayim, that the Mitsrites house, to a land which I show you. saw the woman, that she was very 2 \"And I shall make you a great nation, lovely. . - . ’. and barak you and make your name 15 And Pharaoh's officials saw her and great, and” you shall be a berakah! • praised her before Pharaoh, and the 1 3 \"And I shall barak those who barak woman was taken to Pharaoh's house. you, and curse him who curses you. 16 And he treated Abram well for her And in you all the clans of the earth sake, and he had sheep, and cattle, shall be baruk.\" ■ - and male donkeys, and male and 4 So Abram left, as had female servants, and female donkeys, commanded him, and Lot went with and camels. him. And Abram was seventy-five 17 But plagued Pharaoh and his years old when he departed from house with great plagues because of Haran. Sarai, Abram's wife. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife and 18 And Pharaoh called Abram and Lot his brother's son, and all their said, \"What is this you have done to possessions that they had gathered, me? Why did you not inform me that and the beings whom they had she was your wife? . ,. acquired in Haran, and they departed 19 \"Why did you say, 'She is my sister'? for the land of Kena'an. And they came And so I was going to take her for my to the land of Kena'an. wife. Look, here is your wife, take her 6 And Abram passed through the land and go.\"

BERESHITH 12 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men ward and eastward and westward, concerning him, and they sent him 15 for all the land which you see I shall away, with his wife and all that he had. give to you and your seed forever. 4 Q And Abram went up from 16 \"And I shall make your seed as the I O Mitsrayim into the Negeb, he dust of the earth, so that, if a man and his wife and all that he had, and could count the dust of the earth, then Lot with him. your seed also could be counted. 2 And Abram was very rich in livestock, 17 \"Arise, walk in the land through its in silver, and in gold. length and its width, for I give it to 3 And he went on his journey from the you.\" Negeb as far as Beyth El, to the place 18 So Abram moved his tent, and went where his tent had been at the and dwelt by the terebinth trees of beginning, between Beyth El and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar which he had Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to • made there at first. And there Abram 4 4 And it came to be in the days called on the Name of 'ZRW. I nr of Amraphel sovereign of 5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also Shin'ar, Aryok sovereign of Ellasar, had flocks and herds and tents. Kedorla'omer sovereign of Eylam, and 6 And the land was not able to bear Tid'al sovereign of Goyim, them, that they might dwell together, 2 that they fought against Bera for their possessions were great, so sovereign of Sedom, Birsha sovereign that they could not dwell together. of Amorah, Shinab sovereign of 7 And there was strife between the Admah, Shem'eber sovereign of herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the Tseboyim, and the sovereign of Bela, herdsmen of Lot's livestock. And at that is Tso'ar. that time the Kena'anites and. the 3 All these joined together in the Valley Perizzites dwelt in the land. of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea. 8 Then Abram said to Lot, \"Please let 4 Twelve years they served there be no strife between you and Kedorla'omer, and in the thirteenth me, and between my herdsmen and year they rebelled. • your herdsmen, for we are brothers. 5 And in the fourteenth year 9 \"Is not all the land, before you? Kedorla'omer and the sovereigns that Please separate from me. If you take were with him came and smote the the left, then I go to the right; or, if you Repha'im in Ashteroth Qarnayim, and go to the right, then I go to the left.\" the Zuzim in Ham, and the Eymites in w And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all Shaweh Qiryathayim, the plain of the Yarden, that it was well 6 and the Horites in their mountain of watered everywhere - before Se'ir, as far as El Paran, which is by destroyed Sedom and Amorah - like the wilderness. the- garden of WW, like the land of 7 And they turned back and came Mitsrayim as you go toward Tso'ar. to Eyn Mishpat, that is Qadesh, 11 So Lot chose for himself all the plain and smote all the country of the of the Yarden, and Lot moved east. Amaleqites, and also the Amorites who Thus they separated from each other, dwelt in Hatsetson Tamar. 12 Abram dwelling in the land of 8 And the sovereign of Sedom, Kena'an, and Lot dwelling in the cities and the sovereign of Amorah, and of the plain and pitched his tent as far the sovereign of Admah, and the as Sedom. i sovereign of Tseboyim, and the 13 But the men of Sedom were evil and sovereign of Bela, that is Tso'ar, went sinned before W, exceedingly so. out and joined together in battle in the 14 And after Lot had separated from Valley of Siddim, him, said to Abram, \"Now lift 9 against Kedorla'omer sovereign of up your eyes and look from the place Eylam, and Tid'al sovereign of Goyim, where you are, northward and south­ and Amraphel sovereign of Shin'ar,

13 GENESIS and Aryok sovereign of Ellasar - four of the shamayim and earth, sovereigns against five. * •- ■ 23 not to take a thread or a sandal 10 And the Valley of Siddim had many strap or whatever is yours, lest you tar pits. And the sovereigns of Sedom should say, 'I have made Abram rich,' and Amorah fled and fell there, and the 24 except only what the young men remainder fled to the mountains. have eaten, and the portion of the men 11 And they took all the goods of who went with me: Aner, Eshkol, and Sedom and Amorah, and all their food, Mamre. Let them take their portion.\" and went away. , .» . . d After these events the word 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's I of came to Abram in a son who dwelt in Sedom, and his vision, saying, \"Do not be afraid, goods, and left. -. . Abram. I am your shield, your reward 13 And one who had escaped came is exceedingly great.\" • and informed Abram the Ibri, for he 2 And Abram said, \"Adonai 'WAY, what dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre would You give me, seeing I go the Amorite.i brother of Eshkol and childless, and the heir of my house is brother «of Aner, and they had a Eli'ezer of Dammeseq?\" covenant with Abram. , r •. . 3 And Abram said, \"See, You have 14 And when Abram heard that his given me no seed, , and see, one born brother was taken captive, he armed in my house is my heir!\" : his three hundred and eighteen trained 4 And see, the word of WAY came to servants who were born in his own him, saying, \"This one is not your heir, house, and went in pursuit as far as but he who comes from your own body Dan.-’ . • ■ r . ■ : .. is your heir.\" .j 15 And he and his servants divided 5 And He brought him ■ outside against them by night, and smote them and said, \"Look now toward the and pursued them as far as Hobah, shamayim, and count the stars if you which is on the left of Dammeseq. are able to count them.\" And He said 16 So he brought back all the goods, to him, \"So are your seed.\" and also brought back his brother Lot 6 And he believed in. and He and his goods, as well as the women reckoned it to him for righteousness. and the people. < 7 And He said to him, \"I am who 17 And after his return from the defeat brought you out of Ur-Kasdim, to give of Kedorla'omer 'and the sovereigns you this land to inherit it.\" who were with him, the sovereign of 8 And he said, \"Adonai whereby Sedom came out to meet him at do I know that I possess it?\" tA the Valley of Shaweh,. that is, the 9 And He said to him, \"Bring Me a Sovereign's Valley, ? • ■ . three-year-old heifer, and a three-year- 18 And Malkitsedeq sovereign of old female goat, and a three-year-old Shalem brought out bread and wine. ram, and a turtledove, and a young Now he was the kohen of the Most pigeon.\" High El. . w And he took all these to Him and cut 19 And he barak him and said, \"Baruk them in the middle, and placed each be Abram of the Most High El, half opposite the other, but he did not Possessor of the shamayim and earth. cut the birds. 20 \"And baruk be the Most High El who 11 And the birds of prey came down on has delivered your enemies into your the carcasses, and Abram drove them hand.\" And he gave him a tenth of all. away. 21 And the sovereign of Sedom said to 12 And it came to be, when the sun Abram, \"Give me the people, and take was going down, and a deep sleep fell the goods for yourself.\" upon Abram, that see, a frightening 22 But Abram said to the sovereign of great darkness fell upon him. Sedom, \"I have lifted my hand to 13 And He said to Abram, \"Know for the Most High El, the Possessor certain that your seed are to be

BERESHITH 14 sojourners in a land that is not theirs, Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled and shall serve them, and they shall from her presence.. , - . afflict them four hundred years. 7 And the Messenger of found 14 \"But the nation whom they serve I her by a spring of water in the am going to judge, and afterward let wilderness, by the spring on the way to them come out with great possessions. Shur, 8 and He said, \"Hagar, Sarai's female 15 \"Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be servant, where , have you come from, buried at a good old age. ' . - . and where are you going?\" And she 16 \"Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the wickedness of said, \"l am fleeing from the presence the Amorites is not yet complete.\" of Sarai, my mistress.\" said 9 And the Messenger of 17 And it came to be, when the sun to her, \"Return to your mistress, and went down and it was dark, that see, a humble yourself under her hand.\" smoking oven and a burning torch 10 And the Messenger of said to passing between those pieces. her, \"I am going to increase your seed 18 On the same day KW made a greatly, too numerous to be counted.\" Covenant with Abram, saying, \"I have 11 And the Messenger of said given this land to your seed, from the to her, \"See, you are conceiving and river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the bearing a son, and shall call his name River Perath, ?• .■ Yishma'el, because 3W\" has heard 19 with the .Qeynite, and the Qenizzite, your affliction.» . • 12 \"And he is to be. a wild man, his and the Qadmonite, . ■. 1 hand against every one and every one's hand against him, and dwell over 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha'im, •: 21 and the Amorite, and the Kena'anite, against all his brothers.\" ■ • ’■ ' and the Girgashite, and the Yebusite.\" 13 And she called the Name of *4 /C And Sarai, Abram's wife, had who spoke to her, \"You are the El who I O borne him no child. And she sees,\" for she said, \"Even here have I had a Mitsrite female servant whose seen after Him who sees me?\" name was Hagar. . • . .. 14 That is why the well was called 2 And Sarai said to Abram, \"See, Be'er Lahai Ro'i, see, it is between has kept me from bearing children. Qadesh and Bered. Please, go in to my female servant. It 15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and might be that I am built up by her.\" And Abram called the name of his son, Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.. ' whom Hagar bore, Yishma'el. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar 16 And Abram was eighty-six years old her female servant, the Mitsrite, and when Hagar bore Yishma'el to Abram. gave her to her husband Abram to be d \"T And it came to be when I f Abram was ninety-nine years his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kena'an. old, that WVK appeared to Abram and 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she said to him, \"I am El Shaddai - walk conceived. And when she saw that before Me and be perfect. she had conceived, her mistress was 2 \"And I give My Covenant between despised in her eyes. 'i Me and you, and shall greatly increase you.\" 5 And Sarai said to Abram, \"My wrong be upon you! I gave my female 3 And Abram fell on his face, and servant into your bosom. And when Elohim spoke with him, saying, she saw that she had conceived, I was 4 \"As for Me, look, My Covenant is with despised in her eyes. Let judge you, and you shall become a father of between you and me.\" many nations. 6 And Abram said to Sarai, \"See, your 5 \"And no longer is your name called female servant is in your hand, do to Abram, but your name shall be her what is good in your eyes.\" And Abraham, because I shall make you a

15 GENESIS father of many nations. 18 And Abraham said to Elohim, \"Oh, 6 \"And I shall make you bear fruit let Yishma'el live before You!\" • exceedingly, and make nations of you, 19 And Elohim said, \"No,- Sarah your and sovereigns shall come from you. wife is truly bearing a son to you, and 7 \"And I shall establish My Covenant you shall call his name Yitshaq. And I between Me and you and your seed shall establish My Covenant with him after you in their generations, for an for an everlasting Covenant, and with everlasting Covenant, to be Elohim to his seed after him. you and your seed after you. . <.-»• 20 \"And as for Yishma'el, I have heard 8 \"And I shall give to you and your you. See,.I shall barak him, and shall seed after you the land of your make him bear fruit,- and greatly sojournings, all the land of Kena'an, as increase him. He is to bring forth an everlasting possession. And I shall twelve princes, and I shall make him a be their Elohim.\" •_ ” o'\\ - >... great nation. . ■ >■ 9 And Elohim said to Abraham,; \"As 21 \"But My Covenant I establish with for you, guard My Covenant, you and Yitshaq, whom Sarah is to bear to you your , seed after you throughout their at this appointed time next year.\" generations. '■ ■ . ry 22 And when He had ended speaking 10 \"This is My Covenant which you with him, Elohim went up from guard between Me and you, and your Abraham. . / ; • ’ ' seed after you: Every male child 23 And Abraham took Yishma'el his among you is to be circumcised.- son, and all those born in his house 11 \"And you shall circumcise the flesh and all those bought with his silver, of your foreskin, and it shall become a every male among the ‘ men of sign of the Covenant between Me and Abraham's house, and circumcised the you. • ' flesh of their foreskins that same day, 12 \"And a son of eight days is as Elohim told him. circumcised by you,’ every male child 24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years in your generations, he who is born in old when he was circumcised in the your house or bought with silver from flesh of his foreskin. ■ any foreigner who is not of your seed. 25 And Yishma'el his son was thirteen 13 \"He who is born in your house, and years old when he was circumcised in he who is bought with your- silver, the flesh of his foreskin. has to be circumcised. So shall My 26 Abraham and his son Yishma'el Covenant be in your flesh, - for an were circumcised that same day. everlasting Covenant. -• • 27 And all the men of his house, born in 14 \"And an uncircumcised male child, the house or bought with silver from a who is not circumcised in the flesh of foreigner, were circumcised with him. his foreskin, his life shall be cut off 4 O And appeared to him by from his people - he has broken My I O the terebinth trees of Mamre, Covenant.\" k> i . while he was sitting in the tent door in 15 And Elohim said to Abraham, \"As the heat of the day. • for Sarai your wife, do not call her 2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and name Sarai, for Sarah is her name. saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from 16 \"And I shall barak her and also give the tent door to meet them, and bowed you a son by her. And I shall barak her, and she shall become nations - himself to the ground, sovereigns of peoples are to be from 3 and said, if I have now found her.\" •. favour in Your eyes, please do not 17 And Abraham fell on his face and pass Your servant by. laughed, and said in his heart, \"Is a 4 \"Please let a little water be brought, child born to a man who is a hundred and wash your feet, and rest years old? Or is Sarah, who is ninety yourselves under the tree. years old, to bear a child?\" 5 \"And let me bring a piece of bread

BERESHITH 16 and refresh your hearts, and then go Right-Ruling, so that WW brings on, for this is why you have come to to Abraham what He has spoken to your servant.\" And they said, \"Do as him.\" you have said.\" 20 And ^WKsaid, \"Because the outcry 6 So Abraham ran into the tent to against Sedom and Amorah is great, Sarah and said, \"Hurry, make ready and because their sin is very heavy, three se'im of fine flour, knead it and 21 \"I am going down now to see make cakes.\" whether they have done altogether 7 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a according to the outcry against it that tender and good calf,, gave it to a has come to Me, and if not, I know.\" young man, and he hurried to prepare 22 So the men turned away from there it. and went toward Sedom, but Abraham 8 And he took curds and milk and the still stood before W*. calf which he had prepared, and put it 23 And Abraham drew near and said, before them, and he stood by them \"Would You also destroy the righteous under the tree as they ate. with the wicked? , 9 And they said to him, \"Where is 24 \"Suppose there are fifty righteous Sarah your wife?\" And he said, \"See, within the city, would You also destroy in the tent.\" the place and not spare it for the fifty 10 And He said, \"I shall certainly return righteous that were in it? to you according to the time of life, and 25 \"Far be it from You to act in this way, see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!\" to slay the righteous with the wicked, And Sarah was listening in the tent so that the righteous should be as the door which was behind him. wicked. Far be it from You! Does the 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, Judge of all the earth not do right?\" well advanced in age, and Sarah was 26 And WXV said, \"If I find in Sedom past the way of women. fifty righteous within the city, then I 12 And Sarah laughed within herself, shall spare all the place for their saying, \"After I have grown old, shall I sakes.\" • •• , have pleasure, my master being old 27 And Abraham answered and said, too?\" •, \"Look, please, I who am but dust and 13 And said to Abraham, \"Why ashes have taken it upon myself to did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I truly speak to WAV, have a child, since I am old?' • x;. x 28 \"Suppose there are five less than 14 \"Is any matter too hard for At the fifty righteous, would You destroy the appointed time I am going to return all of the city for lack of five?\" And He to you, according to the time of life, said, \"If I find there forty-five, I do not and Sarah is to have a son.\" destroy it.\" • 15 But Sarah denied it, saying, \"I did 29 And he spoke to Him yet again and not laugh,\" for she was afraid. And He said, \"Suppose there are found forty?\" said, \"No, but you did laugh!\" And He said, \"I would not do it for the 16 And the men rose up from there and sake of forty.\" looked toward Sedom, and Abraham 30 And he said, \"Let not WAV be went with them to send them away. displeased, and let me speak: 17 And said, \"Shall I hide from Suppose there are found thirty?\" And Abraham what I am doing, He said, \"I would not do it if I find thirty 18 since Abraham is certainly going to there.\" become a great and mighty nation, 31 And he said, \"Look, please, I have and all the nations of the earth shall be taken it upon myself to speak to WAV.’ barak in him? Suppose there are found twenty?\" And 19 \"For I have known him, so that he He said, \"I would not destroy it for the commands his children and his sake of twenty.\" household after him, to guard the 32 And he said, \"Let not WAV be Way of to do righteousness and displeased, and let me speak only this

17 GENESIS time: Suppose there are found ten?\" them, and shut the door. And He said, \"I would not destroy it for 11 Then they struck the men who were the sake of ten.\" at the doorway of the house with 33 Then went away as soon as blindness, both small and great, and He had ended speaking to Abraham. they wearied themselves to find the And Abraham returned to his place. door. d Q And the two messengers 12 And the men said to Lot, \"Have you I Z7 came to Sedom in . the anyone else here? A son-in-law, and evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate your sons, and your daughters, and of Sedom. And when Lot saw them, he whomever you have in the city - bring rose up to meet them, and he bowed them out of this place! himself with his > face toward the 13 \"For we are going to destroy this ground, place, because the cry against them 2 and he said, \"Look, please my has grown great before the face of masters, please turn in to your and has sent us to servant's house and spend the night, destroy it.\" and wash your feet, and rise early and 14 And Lot went out and spoke to his go your way.\" And they said, \"No, but sons-in-law, who had married ’bis let us spend the night in the open daughters, and said, \"Get up, get out square.\" .. u • ' > of this place, for is going to 3 But he urged them strongly, and they destroy this city!\" But to his sons-in- turned in to him and came into his law he seemed to be as one joking. house. And he made them a feast, and 15 And when morning dawned, the baked unleavened bread, and they messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, ate.- . ’ ' •. \"Get up, take your wife and your two 4 Before they lay down, the men of the daughters who are here, lest you be city, the men of Sedom, both old and consumed in the punishment of the young, all the people from every part, city.\" surrounded the house. 16 And while he lingered, the men took 5 And they called to Lot and said to hold of his hand, and his wife's hand, him, \"Where are the men who came to and the hands of his two daughters, you tonight? Bring them out to us, and having compassion on him, and let us 'know' them.\" they brought him out and put him 6 So Lot went out to them through the outside the city. -. ■ doorway, and shut the door behind 17 And it came to be, when they had him, brought them outside, that he said, 7 and said, \"Please, my brothers, do \"Escape for your life! Do not look not do evil! behind you nor stay anywhere in the 8 \"Look, please, I have two daughters plain. Escape to the mountains, lest who have not known a man. Please, you be consumed.\" let me bring them out to you, and do to 18 And Lot said to them, \"Oh no, 3W! them as is good in your eyes, only do 19 \"Look, please, your servant has no deed to these men, because they found favour in your eyes, and you have come under the shadow of my have increased your kindness which roof.\" ‘ . •. y you have shown me by saving my life, 9 But they said, \"Stand back!\" And they but I am unable to escape to the said, \"This one came in to sojourn, and mountains, lest calamity overtake me should he always judge? Now we are and I die. - • • '< going to treat you worse than them.\" 20 \"Look, please, this city is near So they pressed hard against the man enough to flee to, and it is small. Lot, and came near to break down the Please let me escape there - is it not a door. small matter - and let my life be 10 But the men reached out their hands saved?\" and pulled Lot into the house with 21 And He said to him, \"Look, I have

BERESHITH 18 favoured you concerning this matter well, and you go in and lie with him, so also, without overthrowing this city for that we keep the seed of our father.\" which you have spoken. 35 So they made their father drink wine 22 \"Hurry, escape there. For I am not that night as well. And the younger able to do any deed until you arrive arose and lay with him, and he was not there.\" So the name of the city was aware of it when she lay down or when called Tso'ar. L shearose.' 23 The sun had risen upon the earth 36 Thus both the daughters of Lot when Lot entered Tso'ar. became pregnant by their father. 24 And WW rained sulphur and fire on 37 And the first-born bore a son and Sedom and Amorah, from out of called his.name Mo'ab, he is the father the shamayim. •. of the Mo'abites to this day. 25 So He overthrew those cities, and 38 And the younger, she also bore a all the plain, and all the inhabitants son and called his name Ben-Ammi, of the cities, and what grew on the he is the father of the children of ground. Ammon to this day. 26 But his wife looked back from 00 And Abraham departed from behind him, and she became a post of there to the land of the Negeb, salt. and dwelt between Qadesh and Shur, 27 And Abraham arose early in the and stayed in Gerar. morning to the place where he had 2 And Abraham /said concerning stood before -• Sarah his wife, \"She is my sister.\" And 28 and he looked toward Sedom and Abimelek sovereign of Gerar sent and Amorah, and toward all the land of the took Sarah. .• plain. And he looked and saw the 3 But Elohim came to Abimelek in a smoke of the land which went up like dream by night, and said to him, \"See, the smoke of a furnace. c • - you are a dead man because of the 29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim woman whom you have taken, for she destroyed the cities of the plain, that is a man's wife.\" Elohim remembered Abraham, and 4 However, Abimelek had not come A sent Lot out of the midst of the near her, and he said, would overthrow, when He overthrew the You slay a righteous nation also? cities in which Lot had dwelt. 5 \"Did he not say to me, 'She is my 30 And Lot went up out of Tso'ar and sister'? And she, even she herself said, dwelt in the mountains, and his two 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of daughters were with him, for he was my heart and in the innocence of my afraid to dwell in Tso'ar. And he and his hands I have done this.\" two daughters dwelt in a cave. . 6 And Elohim said to him in a dream, 31 And the first-born said to the \"Though I know that you did this in the younger, \"Our father is old, and there integrity of your heart, and so I kept is no man on the earth to come in to you from sinning against Me, for this us, as is the way of all the earth. reason I did not let you touch her. 32 \"Come, let us make our father drink 7 \"And now, return the man's wife, for wine and lie with him, so that we he is a nabi, and let him pray for you preserve the seed of our father.\" and you live. But if you do not return 33 So they made their father drink wine her, know that you shall certainly die, that night. And the first-born went in you and all that are yours.\" and lay with her father, and he was not 8 So Abimelek rose early in the aware of it when she lay down or when morning, and called all his servants, shearose. n and spoke all these words in their 34 And it came to be on the next day hearing. And the men were greatly that the first-born said to the younger, frightened. \"See, I lay with my father last night. Let 9 And Abimelek called Abraham and us make him drink wine tonight as said to him, \"What have you done to

19 GENESIS us? In what have I sinned against you, as Elohim had commanded him. that you have brought on me and on 5 And Abraham was one hundred my reign a great sin? You have done years old when his son Yitshaq was matters to me that should not be born to him. done.\" 6 And Sarah said, \"Elohim has made 10 And Abimelek said to Abraham, me laugh, and everyone who hears of \"What did you have in view, that you it laughs with me.\" have done this matter?\" 7 And she said, \"Who would have said 11 And Abraham said, \"Only because I to Abraham that Sarah would nurse said, the reverence of Elohim is not in children? For I have borne him a son this place, and they shall kill me for the in his old age.\" sake of my wife. 8 And the child grew and was weaned, 12 \"And yet, she is truly my sister. She and Abraham made a great feast on is the daughter of my father, but not the day that Yitshaq was weaned. the daughter of my mother, and she 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the became my wife. . ' .■ Mitsrite, whom she had borne to 13 \"And it came to be,, when Elohim Abraham, mocking. .. caused me to wander from my father's 10 So she said to Abraham, \"Drive out house, that I said to her, 'This is your this female servant and her son, for kindness that you should do for me: in the son of this female servant shall not every place, wherever we go, say of inherit with my son, with Yitshaq.\": me, \"He is my brother.\" '\" 11 And the matter was very evil in the 14 Then Abimelek took sheep, and eyes of Abraham because of his son. cattle, and male and female servants, 12 But Elohim said to Abraham, \"Let and gave them to Abraham. And he it not be evil in your eyes because of returned Sarah his wife to him. the boy and because of your female 15 And Abimelek said, \"See, my land is servant. Whatever Sarah has said to before you, dwell wherever it is good in you, listen to her voice, for in Yitshaq your eyes.\" • . . : ■: your seed is called. 16 And to Sarah he said, \"See, I have 13 \"And of the son of the female given your brother a thousand pieces servant I also make a nation, because of silver. See, it is to you a covering of he is your seed.\" • eyes before all who are with you and 14 And Abraham rose early in the before all others, and you are cleared morning, and took bread and a skin of before everyone.\" • ■ water, which he gave to Hagar; putting 17 And Abraham prayed to Elohim, and it on her shoulder, also the boy, and Elohim healed Abimelek, and his wife, sent - her away. And she left and and his female servants, so they bore wandered in the Wilderness of children, 18 for WW had closed up all the Be'ersheba. 15 And the water in the skin was used wombs of the house of Abimelek up, and she placed the boy under one because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. O d And WW visited Sarah as He of the shrubs. I had said, and WW did for 16 And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, \"Let me Sarah as He had spoken, r • not see the death of the boy.\" And she 2 So Sarah conceived and bore sat opposite him, and lifted her voice Abraham a son in his old age, at the and wept. appointed time of which Elohim had 17 And Elohim heard the voice of the spoken to him. • boy, and the messenger of Elohim 3 And Abraham called the name of his called to Hagar from the shamayim, son who was born to him, whom Sarah and said to her, \"What is the matter bore to him, Yitshaq. with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Elohim has heard the voice of the boy Yitshaq when he was eight days old, where he is.

BERESHITH 20 18 \"Arise, lift up the boy and hold him <of the Pelishtites many days. with your hand, for I make a great O O And it came to be after these nation of him.\" events that Elohim tried 19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and Abraham, and said to him, \"Abraham!\" she saw a well of water. And she went <And he said, \"Here I am.\" and filled the skin with water, and gave 2 And He said, \"Take your son, now, the boy a drink. ’your only son Yitshaq, whom you 20 And Elohim was with the boy, and Ilove, and go to the land of Moriyah, he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, <and offer him there as a burnt offering and became an archer. ion one of the mountains which I 21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of icommand you.\" Paran, and his mother took a wife for 3 And Abraham rose early in the him from the land of.Mitsrayim. ~ • mi orning and saddled his donkey, and 22 And it came to be at that time that 1took two of his young men with him, Abimelek and Pikol, the commander of a; nd Yitshaq his son. And he split the his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, ’wood for the burnt offering, and arose \"Elohim is with you in all that you do. ;and went to. the place which Elohim 23 \"And now, swear to me by Elohim, Ihad commanded him., . • • not to be untrue to me, to my offspring, 4 And on the third day Abraham lifted or to my descendants. Do to me Ihis eyes and saw the place from a according to the kindness that I have idistance. . • done to you and to the land in which !5 So Abraham said to his young men, you have dwelt.\" \"Stay here with the donkey while the 24 And Abraham said, \"I swear.\" ‘ . 1 Iboy and I go over there and worship, 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelek ;and come back to you.\" because of a well of water which 6i And Abraham took the wood of the Abimelek's servants had seized. Iburnt offering and laid it on Yitshaq his 26 And Abimelek said, \"I do not know ;son. And he took the fire in his hand, who has done this deed. Neither did ;and a knife, and the two of them went you inform me, nor did I hear until tI ogether. today.\" -i :7 And Yitshaq spoke to Abraham his 27 So Abraham took sheep and cattle f1 ather and said, \"My father!\" And he and gave them to Abimelek, and the isaid, \"Here I am, my son.\" And he two of them made a covenant. isaid, \"See, the fire and the wood! But 28 And Abraham put seven ewe lambs 'where is the lamb for a burnt offering?\" of the flock by themselves. • i8 And Abraham said, \"My son, Elohim 29 And Abimelek asked Abraham, |provides for Himself the lamb for a \"What are these seven ewe lambs Iburnt offering.\" And the two of them which you have put by themselves?\" . iwent together. 30 And he said, \"Take these seven ewe <9 And they came to the place which lambs from my hand, to be my witness IElohim had commanded him, and that I have dug this well.\" ,Abraham built an altar there and 31 So he called that place Be'ersheba, p| laced the wood in order. And he because the two of them swore an bI ound Yitshaq his son and laid him on oath there. Ithe altar, upon the wood. 32 Thus they made a covenant at 10 And Abraham stretched out his Be'ersheba. And Abimelek rose with Ihand and took the knife to slay his son, Pikol, the commander of his army, and 11 but the Messenger of called they, returned to the land i of the t1 o him from the shamayim and said, Pelishtites. \"Abraham, Abraham!\" And he said, 33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in '\"Here I am.\" Be'ersheba, and there called on the 12 And He said, \"Do not lay your Name of the Everlasting El. hI and on the boy, nor touch him. For 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land inow I know that you revere Elohim,

21 GENESIS seeing you have not withheld your son, 3 Then Abraham rose up from beside his dead, and spoke to the sons of your only son, from Me.\" Heth, saying, 4 \"I am a foreigner and a sojourner 13 And Abraham lifted his eyes and among you. Give me property for a burial site among you, so that I bury looked and saw behind him a ram my dead from my presence.\" 5 And the sons of Heth answered caught in a bush by its horns, and Abraham, saying to him, 6 \"Hear us, my master: You are a Abraham went and took the ram and prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial offered it up for a burnt offering instead places. None of us withholds from you his burial site, from burying your of his son. dead.\" 7 So Abraham rose and bowed himself 14 And Abraham called the name of to the people of the land, the sons of Heth. the place, 'fflW Yireh,' as it is said to 8 And he spoke with them, saying, \"If it is your desire that I bury my dead from this day, \"On the mountain KW my presence, hear me, and approach Ephron son of Tsohar for me, provides.\" 9 and let me have the cave of Makpelah which he has, which is at 15 And the Messenger of 'XVW called the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the complete amount of silver, to Abraham a second time from the as property for a burial site among you.\" shamayim, . \" *> ■ .■ v ? • 10 And Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth. And ■ Ephron the Hittite 16 and said, \"By Myself I have sworn, answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, all who entered at declares WW; because you have the gate of his city, saying, . 11 \"No, my master, listen to me! I shall done this, and have not withheld your give you the field and the cave that is in it. I shall give it to you in the son, your only son, . •- presence of the sons of my people. I shall give it to you. Bury your dead!\" 17 that I shall certainly barak you, and 12 And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land, I shall certainly increase your seed as 13 and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, the stars of the shamayim and as the saying, \"If only you would hear me. I shall give the amount of silver for the sand which is on the seashore, and let field, take it from me, and let me bury your seed possess the gate of their my dead there.\" 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, enemies. saying to him, 18 \"And in your seed all the nations of 15 \"My master, listen to me! The land is the earth shall be baruk, because you worth four hundred sheqels of silver. have obeyed My voice.\" What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.\" 19 Then Abraham returned to his 16 And Abraham listened to Ephron, young men, and they rose up and went and Abraham weighed out the silver together to Be'ersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Be'ersheba. 20 And it came to be after these events that it was reported to Abraham, saying, \"See, Milkah too has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 \"Uts his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Qemu'el the father of Aram, 22 and Kesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Yidlaph, and Bethu'el.\" 23 And Bethu'el brought forth Ribqah. These eight, Milkah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Re'uwmah, also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Ma'akah. QQ And Sarah lived one hundred ZO and twenty-seven years, the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Qiryath Arba, that is Hebron, in the land of Kena'an, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

BERESHITH 22 for Ephron which he had named in the 9 Then the servant put his hand under hearing of the sons of Heth, four the thigh of Abraham his master, and hundred sheqels of silver,, currency of swore to him concerning this matter. the merchants. :■ 10 And the servant took ten of his 17 Thus the field of Ephron which was master's camels and left, for all his in Makpelah, which was < before master's goods were in his hand. Mamre, the field and the cave which And he arose and - went to Aram was in it, and all the trees that were in Naharayim, to the city of Nahor. the field, which were within all the 11 And he made his camels kneel down surrounding borders, were deeded outside the city by a fountain of water 18 to Abraham as a possession in the at evening time, the time when women presence of the sons of tleth, before go out to draw water. all who went in at the gate of his city. 12 And he said, Elohim of my 19 And after this Abraham buried master Abraham, please meet before Sarah his wife in the cave of the field me this day, and show kindness to my of Makpelah,> before Mamre, .that is master Abraham. . . : ‘ *’ z Hebron, in the land of Kena'an. 13 \"See, I am standing here by the 20 Thus the field and the cave that is in fountain of water, and the daughters of it were deeded to Abraham by the the men of the city are coming out to sons of Heth as property for a burial draw water. .> site. - a u \"Now let it be that the young woman And Abraham was old, to whom I say, 'Please let down your advanced in years. And jar to let me drink,' and she says, had barak Abraham in every way. 'Drink, and let me water your camels 2 And Abraham said to the oldest too,' let her be the one whom You servant of his house, who ruled over have appointed for Your servant all that he had, \"Please, put your hand Yitshaq. And let me know by this that under my thigh, You have shown kindness to my 3 so that I make you swear by master.\" . • • • • the Elohim of the shamayim and the 15 And it came to be, before he had Elohim of the earth, that you do not ended speaking, that see, Ribqah, who take a wife for my son from the was born to Bethu'el, son of Milkah, daughters of the Kena'anites, among the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, whom I dwell, •i came out with her jar on her shoulder. 4 but go to my land and to my relatives, 16 And the young woman was very and take a wife for my son Yitshaq.\" good-looking/ a maiden, no man 5 And the servant said to him, \"What if having known her. And she went down the woman refuses to follow me to this to the fountain, filled her jar, and came land? Do I then take your son back to up. the land from which you came?\" 17 And the servant ran to meet her and 6 And Abraham said to him, \"Beware said, \"Please let me drink a little water lest you take my son back there! from your jar.\" 7 Elohim of the shamayim, who 18 And she said, \"Drink, my master.\" took me from my father's house and And she hurried and let her jar down to from the land of my relatives, and who her hand, and gave him a drink. spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 19 And when she had finished giving 'To your seed I give this land,' He him a drink, she said, \"Let me draw sends His messenger before you, and water for your camels too, until they you shall take a wife for my son from have finished drinking.\" there. . .%• 20 And she hurried and emptied her 8 \"And if the woman refuses to follow jar into the trough, ran back to the you, then you shall be released from fountain to draw water, and drew for all this oath; only, do not take my son his camels. back there.\" 21 And watching her, the man

23 GENESIS remained silent 1 in ..order to know 35 \"And has barak my master whether had prospered his way exceedingly, and he has become or not. great. And He has given him flocks 22 And it came to be, when the camels and herds, and silver and gold, and had finished drinking, that the man male and female servants, and camels took a golden nose ring weighing half and donkeys. a sheqel, and two bracelets for her 36 \"And Sarah my master's wife bore a wrists weighing ten sheqels of gold, c son to my master after she was old. 23 and said, \"Whose daughter are And he has given to him all that he you? Please inform me, is there room has.'■ • in your father's house for us to spend 37 \"And my master made me swear, the night?\", saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son 24 And she said to him, \"I am the from the daughters of the Kena'anites, daughter of Bethu'el, Milkah's son, in whose land I dwell, . ■< ■ whom she bore to Nahor.\" • ■ • 38 but go to my father's house and to 25 And she said to him, \"We have both my relatives, and take a wife for my straw and fodder enough, and room to son.'/-■ ; spend the night.\" . . :. 39 \"And I said to my master, What if 26 And the man bowed down his head the woman does not follow me?' and worshipped . 40 \"But he said to me, before 27 <-And he said, \"Baruk be whom I walk, sends His messenger Elohim of my master Abraham, who with you and shall prosper your way. has not forsaken His kindness and His And you shall take a wife for my son truth toward my master. As for me, from my relatives and from my father's being on the way, led me to the house. house of my master's brothers.\" 41 'Then, when you go to my relatives, 28 Then the young woman ran and you are to be released from this oath. informed those of her mother's house And if they do not give her to you, then these matters. you are released from my oath.' • 29 And Ribqah had a brother whose 42 \"And this day I came to the name was Laban, and Laban ran out fountain and said, Elohim of my to the man, to the fountain. * master Abraham, please, if You are 30 And it came to be, when he saw the prospering the way .in which I am nose ring, and the bracelets on his going, sister's wrists, and when he heard the 43 see, I am standing by the fountain of words of his sister Ribqah, saying, water, and when the maiden comes \"Thus the man spoke to me,\" that he out to draw water, and I say to her, went to the man and saw him standing \"Please give me a little water from by the camels at the fountain. • your jar to drink,\" 31 And he said, \"Come in, O baruk of 44 and she says to me, \"Drink, and let Why do you stand outside? I me draw for your camels too,\" let her myself have prepared the house, and be the woman whom has a place for the camels.\" appointed for my master's son.' 32 So the man came into the house, 45 \"I had not yet ended speaking in my • while he unloaded the camels and heart, then see,. Ribqah was coming provided straw and fodder for the out with her jar on her shoulder. And camels and water to wash his feet and she went down to the fountain and the feet of the men who were with him, drew water. And I said to her, 'Please 33 and put food before him to eat. But let me drink.' he said, \"Let me not eat until I have 46 \"And she hurried and let her jar spoken my word.\" And he said, \"Speak down from her shoulder, and said, on.\" ‘ ’ v 'Drink, and let me water your camels 34 And he said, \"I am Abraham's too.' So 1 drank, and she watered the servant. camels too. <

BERESHITH 24 47 \"And I asked her, and said, 'Whose of thousands of ten thousands, and let daughter are you?' And she said, 'The your seed possess the gates of those daughter of Bethu'el, Nahor's son, who hate them.\" whom Milkah bore to him.' then I put 61 And Ribqah and her young women the nose ring on her nose and the arose, and they rode on the camels bracelets on her wrists. : and followed the man. So the servant 48 \"And I bowed , my head and took Ribqah and left. worshipped and barak 62 And Yitshaq came from the way of Elohim of my master Abraham, who Be'er Lahai Ro'i, .for he dwelt in the had led me in the true way to take the Negeb. ' -. daughter of my master's brother for his 63 And Yitshaq went out to meditate in son. • / ? the field in the evening. And he lifted 49 \"And now, if you are going to show his eyes and• looked and saw the kindness and truth to my master, let camels coming. • •• ' me know, and if not, let me know, so 64 And Ribqah lifted her eyes, and that I turn to the right or to the left.\" when she saw Yitshaq she dismounted 50 And Laban answered - Bethu'el too - from her camel, .. • ■ ■ ~ ■ and said, \"The • matter comes from 65 and she said to the servant, \"Who is we are not able to speak to you this man walking in the field to meet either evil or good. us?\" And the servant said, \"It is my 51 ^\"See, Ribqah is before you. Take master.\" So she took a veil and her and go, and let her be your covered herself. .. • master's son's' wife, as has 66 And the servant told Yitshaq all the spoken.\" ' matters he had done. 52 And it came to be, when Abraham's 67 And Yitshaq brought her into his servant heard their words, that he mother Sarah's tent. And he took bowed himself, towards the earth Ribqah and she became his wife, and before 'WW. he loved her. Thus Yitshaq was 53 And the servant brought out comforted after his mother's death. ornaments of silver, and ornaments of 25 And Abraham took another wife, whose name was gold, and garments, and gave them to Ribqah. He also gave costly gifts to Qeturah. her brother and to her mother. 2 And she bore him Zimran, and 54 And he and the men who were with Yoqshan, and Medan, and Midyan, him ate and drank and spent the night. and Yishbaq, and Shuwah. , When they arose in the morning he 3 And Yoqshan brought forth Sheba said, \"Let me go to my master.\" and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan 55 But her brother and her mother said, were Asshurim, and Letushim, and \"Let the young woman stay with us a Le'ummim. few days, at least ten, then you go.\" 4 And the sons of Midyan were Ephah, 56 And he said to them, \"Do not delay and Epher, and Hanok, and Abida, and me, since has prospered my Elda'ah. All these were the children of way. Let me go so that I go to my Qeturah. master.\" ■' 5 Now Abraham gave all that he had to 57 And they said, \"Let us call the young Yitshaq, woman and ask her.\" • 6 but to the sons of the concubines 58 So they called Ribqah and said to whom Abraham had, Abraham gave her, \"Are you going with this man?\" gifts while he was still living, and sent And she said, \"I shall go.\" them away from his son Yitshaq, 59 So they let go Ribqah their sister eastward, to the land of the east. and her nurse, and Abraham's servant 7 And these are all the years of and his men. Abraham's life which he lived: one 60 And they barak Ribqah and said to hundred and seventy-five years. her, \"Let our sister become the mother 8 And Abraham breathed his last and

25 GENESIS died in a good old age, aged and why am I this way?\" So she went to satisfied, and was gathered to his ask-A^-F. people. 23 And said to her, \"Two nations 9 And his sons Yitshaq and Yishma'el are in your womb, and two peoples buried him in the cave of Makpelah, shall be separated from your body. which is before Mamre, in the field of And one people shall be stronger than Ephron son of Tsoharthe Hittite, the other, and the older serve the 10 the field which Abraham purchased younger.\" from the sons of Heth. There Abraham 24 And when the days were filled for was buried with Sarah his wife. her to give birth, and see, twins were 11 And it came to be, after the death of in her womb! Abraham, that Elohim barak his son 25 And the first came out reddish all Yitshaq. And Yitshaq dwelt at Be'er over, like a hairy, garment,, so they Lahai Ro'i. - called his name Esaw. 12 And this is the genealogy of 26 And afterward his brother came out, Yishma'el, Abraham's son, whom with his hand holding on to Esaw's Hagar the. Mitsrite, Sarah's female heel, so his name was called Ya'aqob. servant, bore to Abraham. And Yitshaq was sixty years old when 13 And these were the names of the she bore them. ■• sons of Yishma'el, by their names, 27 And the boys grew up. And Esaw according to their - generations: The became a man knowing how to hunt, a first-born of Yishma'el, Nebayoth; then man of the field, while Ya'aqob was a Qedar, and Adbe'el, and Mibsam, complete man, dwelling in tents. 14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and 28 And Yitshaq loved Esaw because Massa, he ate of his wild game, but Ribqah 15 Hadad, and Tema, Yetur, Naphish, loved Ya'aqob. and Qedemah. 29 And Ya'aqob cooked a stew, and 16 These were the sons of Yishma'el Esaw came in from the field, and he and these were their names, by their was weary. > towns and their settlements, twelve 30 And Esaw said to Ya'aqob, \"Please chiefs according to their tribes. feed me with that same red stew, for I 17 And these were the years of the life am weary.\" That is why his name was of Yishma'el: one hundred and thirty­ called Edom. seven years. And he breathed his last 31 But Ya'aqob said, \"Sell me your and died, and was gathered to his birthright today.\" people. ■ ' • • >7. ' 32 And Esaw said, \"Look, I am < 18 And they dwelt from Hawilah as far going to die, so why should I have as Shur, which is east of Mitsrayim as birthright?\" you go toward Ashshur. He settled 33 Then Ya'aqob said, \"Swear to me before all his brothers. today.\" And he swore to him, and sold 19 And this is the genealogy of Yitshaq, his birthright to Ya'aqob. Abraham's son. Abraham brought forth 34 Ya'aqob then gave Esaw bread and Yitshaq. stew of lentils. And he ate and drank, 20 And Yitshaq was forty years old and rose up and left. Thus Esaw when he took Ribqah as wife, the despised his birthright. daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of O/S And there was a scarcity of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the food in the land, besides the Aramean. first scarcity of food which was in the 21 And Yitshaq prayed to for days of Abraham. And Yitshaq went to his wife, because she was barren. Abimelek, sovereign of the Pelishtites, And answered his prayer, and in Gerar. Ribqah his wife conceived. 2 And WW appeared to him and said, 22 And within her the children struggled \"Do not go down to Mitsrayim, live in together, and she said, \"If all is right, the land which I command you.

BERESHITH 26 3 \"Sojourn in this land. And I shall be away from us, for you are much with you and barak you, for I give all mightier than we.\" these lands to you and your seed. And 17 So Yitshaq went from there and I shall establish the oath which I swore pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and to Abraham your father. dwelt there. 4 \"And I shall increase your seed like 18 And Yitshaq dug again the wells the stars of the shamayim, and I shall of water which they had dug in the give all these lands to your seed. And days of Abraham his father, for the in your seed all the nations of the earth Pelishtites had stopped them up after shall be baruk, the death of Abraham.. And he called 5 because Abraham obeyed My them by the names which his father voice and guarded My Charge: My had called them. Commands, My Laws, and My Torot.\" 19 But when Yitshaq's servants dug in 6 And Yitshaq dwelt in Gerar. j • the wadi and found a well of running 7 And when the men of the place water there, asked about his wife, he said, \"She is 20 the herdsmen of Gerar strove my sister.\" For he was afraid to say, with Yitshaq's herdsmen, saying, \"The \"She is my wife.\" \"Lest the men of water is ours.\" And he called the name the place should kill me for Ribqah, of the well Eseq, because they strove because she is good-looking.\" with him. 8 And it came to be, when he had been 21 And they dug another well, and they there a long time, that Abimelek strove over that one too, and he called sovereign of the Pelishtites looked its name Sitnah. through a window, and he watched 22 And he moved from there and dug and saw Yitshaq playing with Ribqah another well, and they did not strive hiswife. >•. ; over it. And he called its name 9 So Abimelek called Yitshaq and said, Rehoboth, and said, \"For now 'XW '•'See, truly she is your wife! So how has made room for us, and we shall could you say, 'She is my sister'?\" And bear fruit in the land.\" Yitshaq said to him, \"Because I said, 23 And from there he went up to 'Lest I die on account of her.'\" Be'ersheba. •< 10 And Abimelek said, \"What is this 24 And WW appeared to him the you have done to us? One of the same night and said, \"I am the Elohim people had almost lain with your wife, of your father Abraham. Do not fear, and you would have brought guilt on for I am with you, and shall barak you us.\" ‘ and increase your seed for My servant 11. And Abimelek commanded all his Abraham's sake.\" people, saying, \"He who touches this 25 And he built an altar there, and man or his wife shall certainly be put to called on the Name of ^VW', and he death.\" . \" ■ pitched his tent there, and the servants 12 And Yitshaq sowed in that land, and of Yitshaq dug a well there. reaped in the same year a hundred­ 26 And Abimelek came to him from fold, and barak him. Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his 13 And the man grew great and went friends, and Pikol the commander of forward until he became very great. his army. « 14 And he came to have possessions 27 And Yitshaq said to them, \"Why of flocks and possessions of herds and have you come to me, seeing you a great body of servants, and the have hated me and have sent me Pelishtites envied him. away from you?\" ■' * 15 And the Pelishtites had stopped up 28 But they said, \"We have clearly all the wells which his father's servants seen that is with you. And we had dug in the days of Abraham his said, 'Please, let there be an oath father, and filled them with dirt. between us, between you and us. And 16 And Abimelek said to Yitshaq, \"Go let us make a covenant with you,

27 GENESIS 29 that you do no evil to us, as we have 9 \"Please go to the flock and bring me not touched you, and as we have done two choice young goats, and I make a only good toward you, and have sent tasty dish from them for your father, you away in peace. You are now baruk such as he loves. by \" 10 \"And you shall take it to your father, 30 And he made them a feast, and they and he shall eat it, so that he might ate and drank. barak you before his death.\" .< 31 And they rose early in the morning 11 And Ya'aqob said to Ribqah his and swore an oath with one another. mother, \"See, Esaw my brother is a And Yitshaq let them go, and they hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned departed from him in peace. man. '■ t 32 And on the same day it came to be 12 \"What if my father touches me? that the servants of Yitshaq came and Then I shall be like a deceiver in his informed him about the well which they eyes, and shall bring a curse on myself had dug, and said to him, \"We have and not a berakah.\"- ‘ found water.\" 13 But his mother said to him, \"Let your 33 So he called it Shibah. Therefore curse be on me, my son. Only obey the name of the city is Be'ersheba to my voice, and go, get them for me.\" this day. . • 14 And he went and fetched them and 34 And when Esaw was forty years old, brought them to his mother, and his he took as wives Yahudith the mother made a tasty dish, such as his daughter of Be'eri the Hittite, and father loved. ■ Basemath the daughter of Eylon the 15 And Ribqah took the best garments Hittite. of her elder son Esaw, which were with 35 And they were a bitterness of spirit her in the house, and put them on to Yitshaq and Ribqah. Ya'aqob her younger son. And it , came to be, when 16 And she put the skins of the young i Yitshaq was old and his eyes goats on his hands and on the smooth were too dim to see, that he called part of his neck. Esaw his elder son and said to him, 17 Then she gave the tasty dish and \"My son.\" And he answered him, \"Here the bread, which she had prepared, 1 am.\" into the hand of her son Ya'aqob. 2 And he said, \"See now, I am old, I do 18 And he went to his father and said, not know the day of my death. \"My father.\" And he said, \"Here I am. 3 J'Now then, please take your Who are you, my son?\" weapons, your quiver and your, bow, 19 And Ya'aqob said to his father, \"I am and go out to the field and hunt wild Esaw your first-born, I have done as game for me. you said to me. Please rise, sit and eat 4 \"And make me a tasty dish, such as I of my wild game, so that your being love, and bring it to me to eat, in order might barak me.\" that my being may barak you before I 20 But Yitshaq said to his son, \"How is die.\" ■ • ■ ' .' it that you have found it so quickly, my 5 And Ribqah heard when Yitshaq son?\" And he said, \"Because spoke to Esaw his son. And Esaw your Elohim brought it to me.\" went to the field to hunt wild game and 21 Then Yitshaq said to Ya'aqob, to bring it. \"Please come near, so that I feel you, 6 And Ribqah spoke to Ya'aqob her my son, whether you truly are my son son, saying, \"See, I heard your father Esaw or not.\" speak to Esaw your brother, saying, 22 And Ya'aqob went near to Yitshaq 7 'Bring me wild game and make me a his father, and he felt him and said, tasty dish to eat, , and barak you in the \"The voice is the voice of Ya'aqob, but presence of before my death.' the hands are the hands of Esaw.\" 8 \"And now my son, listen to my voice 23 And he did not recognise him, for according to what I command you. his hands were hairy like his brother

BERESHITH 28 Esaw's hands, and he barak him. then, called Ya'aqob? For he has caught me by the heel these two 24 And he said, \"Are you truly my son times. He took my birthright, and see, now he has taken my berakah!\" And Esaw?\" And he said, \"I am.\" he said, \"Have you not reserved a 25 And he said, \"Bring it near to me, berakah for me?\" - 37 Then Yitshaq answered and said to and let me eat of my son's wild game, Esaw, \"See, I have made him your so that my being might barak you.\" So master, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants. And I have he brought it near to him, and he ate. sustained him with grain and wine. And And he brought him wine/ and he what; then, shall I do for you, my son?\" 38 And Esaw said to his father, \"Have drank. • .! you only one berakah, my father? Barak me, me too, O my father!\" And 26 And his father Yitshaq said to him, Esaw lifted up his voice and wept. 39 And Yitshaq his father answered \"Please come near and kiss me, my and said to him, \"See, your dwelling is of the fatness of the earth, and of the son.\" - ■< dew of the shamayim from above. 40 \"And by your sword you are to live, 27 And he came near and kissed him. and serve your brother. And it shall be, when you grow restless, that you shall And he smelled the smell of his break his yoke from your neck.\" 41 And Esaw hated Ya'aqob because garments, and barak him and said, of the berakah with which his father barak him, and Esaw said in his heart, \"See, the smell of my son is like the \"The days of mourning for my father smell of a field which ^W^has barak. draw near, then I am going to kill my brother Ya'aqob.\" 28 \"And Elohim give you of the dew of 42 And the words of Esaw her older son were reported to Ribqah, and she the shamayim, of the fatness of the sent and called Ya'aqob her younger earth, and plenty of grain and wine. son, and said to him, \"See, your brother Esaw comforts himself 29 \"Let peoples serve you, and nations concerning you, to kill you. 43 \"And now, my son, listen to my bow down to you. Be master over your voice, and rise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran. brothers, and let your mother's sons 44 \"And stay with him a few days, until your brother's wrath turns away, bow down to you. Cursed be those 45 until your brother's displeasure turns away from you, and he forgets what cursing you, and baruk be those you have done to him. And I shall send and bring you from there. Why should I berakah you!\" ■ be bereaved of you both in one day?\" 46 And Ribqah said to Yitshaq, \"I am 30 And it came to be, as soon as disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Ya'aqob takes a Yitshaq had finished berakah Ya'aqob, wife from the daughters of Heth, like and Ya'aqob had hardly left the these who are the daughters of the presence of Yitshaq his father, that land, what is my life to me?\" QO And Yitshaq called Ya'aqob Esaw his brother came in from his and barak him, and hunting. 31 And he too had made a tasty dish and brought it to his father, and said to his father, \"Let my father rise and eat of his son's wild game, so that your being might barak me.\" 32 And his father Yitshaq said to him, \"Who are you?\" And he said, \"I am your son, your first-born, Esaw.\" 33 Then Yitshaq shuddered with exceedingly great trembling, and said, \"Who was it then who hunted wild game and brought it to me? And I ate all of it before you came, and I have barak hinr Even so, he is baruk.\" 34 When Esaw heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, \"Barak me, me too, O my father!\" 35 And he said, \"Your brother came with deceit and took your berakah.\" 36 And Esaw said, 'Was his name,

29 GENESIS commanded him, and said to him, \"Do said, \"I am Elohim of Abraham not take a wife from the daughters of your father and the Elohim of Yitshaq. Kena'an. :. The land on which you are lying, I give 2 \"Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the it to you and your seed. house of Bethu'el your mother's father. 14 \"And your seed shall be as the dust And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban your of the earth, and you shall break forth mother's brother. to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans 3 \"And El Shaddai barak you, and of the earth shall be baruk in you and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of in your seed. peoples, 4 and give you the.. berakah of 15 \"And see, I am with you and shall Abraham, to you and your seed with guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you. back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have you, so that you inherit the land of your done what I have spoken to you.\" sojournings, which Elohim gave to 16 And Ya'aqob awoke from his sleep Abraham.\" - •■ ' and said, \"Truly, WW is in this place, 5 So Yitshaq sent Ya'aqob away, and and I did not know it.\" he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban 17 And he was afraid and said, \"How son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the awesome is this place! This is none • brother of Ribqah, the mother of other than the house of Elohim, and Ya'aqob and Esaw. this is the gate of the shamayim!\" 6 And Esaw • saw that Yitshaq had barak Ya'aqob and sent him away to 18 And Ya'aqob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he Paddan Aram to take himself a wife had put at his head, put it up as a from there, and that as he barak him standing column, and poured oil on top he gave him a command, saying, \"Do of it. not take a wife from the daughters of 19 And he called the name of that place Kena'an,\" Beyth El, however, the name of that 7 and that Ya'aqob had obeyed his city had been Luz previously. father and his mother and had gone to 20 And Ya'aqob made a vow, saying, Paddan Aram. \"Seeing Elohim is with me, and has 8 So Esaw saw that the daughters of kept me in this way that I am going, Kena'an did not please his father and has given me bread to eat and a Yitshag, ' ■ ■. ■ '. garment to put on - 9 and Esaw went to Yishma'el and took 21 when I have returned to my father's Mahalath the daughter of Yishma'el, house in peace, and WW shall be my Abraham's son, the sister of Nebayoth, Elohim, to be his wife, besides the wives he 22 then this stone which I have placed had. as a standing column shall be Elohim's 10 And Ya'aqob went out from house, and of all that You give me, I Be'ersheba and went toward Haran. shall certainly give a tenth to You.\" 11 And he came upon a place and OQ And Ya'aqob moved on and Z— Zz came to the [and of the people stopped over for the night, for the sun was down. And he took one of the of the East. stones of that place and put it at his 2 And he looked and saw a well in the • head, and he lay down in that place to field, and saw three flocks of sheep sleep. lying by it, for out of that well they 12 And he dreamed and saw a ladder watered the flocks, and a large stone standing on the earth, and its top was on the well's mouth. reached to the shamayim, and saw 3 And all the flocks would be gathered messengers of Elohim going up and there, then they would roll the stone coming down on it. from the well's mouth and water the 13 And see, stood above it and sheep, and put the stone back in its

BERESHITH 30 place on the well's mouth. Rahel was lovely of form and 4 So Ya'aqob said to them,' \"My appearance. brothers, where are you from?\" And 18 And Ya'aqob loved Rahel, so he they said, 'We are from Haran.\" :• r. said, \"Let me serve you seven years 5 And he said to them, \"Do you know for Rahel your younger daughter.\" Laban son of Nahor?\" And they said, 19 And Laban said, \"It is better that I \"We know him.\" give her to you than that I should give 6 So he said to them, \"Is he well?\" And her to another man. Stay with me.\" they said, \"Well. And see, his daughter 20 So Ya'aqob served seven years for Rahel is coming with the sheep.\" . / Rahel, and they seemed to him but a 7 And he said, \"See, it is still high day, few days because of the love he had not the time for the livestock to be for her. gathered together. Water the sheep, 21 Then Ya'aqob said to Laban, and go and feed them.\" \"Give me my wife, for my days are 8 But they said, \"We are not allowed completed, and let me go in to her.\" until all the flocks are gathered 22 And Laban gathered all the men of together, and they have • rolled the the place and made a feast. stone from the well's mouth, then we 23 And it came to be in the evening, shall water the sheep.\" ’. that he took Le'ah his daughter and 9 While he was still speaking with brought her to Ya'aqob. And he went in them, Rahel came with her father's to her. qj sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 24 And Laban gave his female servant 10 And it came to be, when Ya'aqob Zilpah to his daughter Le'ah as a saw Rahel the daughter of Laban female servant. his mother's brother, and the sheep 25 And in the morning it came to be, of Laban his mother's brother, that that see, it was Le'ah. So he said to Ya'aqob went near and rolled the Laban, \"What is this you have done to stone from the well's • mouth, and me? Was it not for Rahel that I served watered the flock of Laban his you? Why then have you deceived mother's brother. me?\" 11 And Ya'aqob kissed Rahel, and 26 And Laban said, \"It is not done this lifted up his voice and wept. way in our place, to give the younger 12 And when Ya'aqob told Rahel that before the first-born. he was her father's relative and that he 27 \"Complete the week of this one, was Ribqah's son, she ran and told her then we give you this one too, for the father. / -; service which you shall serve with me 13 And it came to be, when Laban still another seven years.\" heard the report about Ya'aqob his 28 And Ya'aqob did so and completed sister's son, that he ran to meet him, her week. Then he gave him his and embraced him and kissed him, daughter Rahel too, as wife. and brought him to his house. Then he 29 And Laban gave his female servant told Laban all these matters. Bilhah to his daughter Rahel as a 14 And Laban said to him, \"You are female servant. indeed my bone and my flesh.\" And he 30 And he also went in to Rahel, and stayed with him for a month. . he also loved Rahel more than Le'ah. 15 Then Laban said to Ya'aqob, And he served with Laban still another \"Because you are my relative, should seven years. ; ■ you therefore serve me for naught? Let 31 And saw that Le'ah was me know, what should your wages unloved, and He opened her womb, be?\" but Rahel was barren. 16 And Laban had two daughters, the 32 And Le'ah conceived and bore a name of the elder was Le'ah, and the son, and she called his name Re'uben, name of the younger was Rahel. for she said, \"For has looked 17 And Le'ah's eyes were weak, but on my affliction, because now my

31 GENESIS husband is going to love me.\" 13 And Le'ah said, \"I am baruk, for the 33 And she conceived again and bore a daughters shall call me baruk.\" So she son, and said, \"Because has called his name Asher. ■■ heard that I am unloved, He gave me u And Re'uben went in the days of this son too.\" And she called his name wheat harvest and found love-apples Shim'on. >: • in the field, and brought them to his 34 And she conceived again and bore a mother Le'ah. And Rahel said to Le'ah, son, and said, \"Now this time my \"Please give me some of your son's husband is joined to me, because I love-apples.\" have borne him three sons.\" So his 15 But she said to her, \"Is it a small name was called Lewi.- . matter that you have taken away my 35 And she conceived again and bore a husband? Would you take away my son,, and said,-\"Now I praise son's love-apples too?\" And Rahel So she called his name Yahudah. And said, \"Therefore let him lie with you she ceased bearing. . . k tonight for your son's love-apples.\" * O O And when Rahel saw that 16 And when Ya'aqob came out of the OL/ she bore Ya'aqob no children, field in the evening, Le'ah went out to Rahel envied her sister,, and said to meet him and said, \"Do come in to me, Ya'aqob;'\"Give me children, or else I for indeed, I have hired you with my am:going to die!\" ■. . son's love-apples.\" And he lay with her 2 And Ya'aqob's displeasure burned that night. • .. ~ ' against Rahel, and he said, \"Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld 17 And Elohim listened to Le'ah, and from you the fruit of the womb?\" ■ • 3 And she said,/\"See, my - female she conceived and bore Ya'aqob a fifth servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let her son. : 18 And Le'ah said, \"Elohim has given me my hire, because I have given my bear over my knees, and let me be female servant to my husband.\" So built up from her as well.\" • ' she called his name Yissaskar. 4 So she gave him Bilhah her female 19 And Le'ah conceived again and bore servant as wife, and Ya'aqob went in Ya'aqob a sixth son. .? to her. •s 20 And Le'ah said, \"Elohim has 5 And Bilhah conceived and bore presented me with a good present. Ya'aqob a son. Now my husband is going to dwell 6 And Rahel said, \"Elohim has rightly with me, because I have borne him ruled my case, and has also heard my six sons.\" So she called his name voice and given me a son.\" So she Zebulun. .r called his name Dan. • 21 And afterward she bore a daughter, 7 And Rahel's female servant Bilhah and called her name Dinah. conceived again and bore Ya'aqob a 22 And Elohim remembered Rahel, and second son. 5 ’ . > Elohim listened to her and opened her 8 And - Rahel said, \"With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my womb. 23 And she conceived, and bore a son, sister, and I have overcome.\" So she and said, \"Elohim has taken away my called his name Naphtali. reproach.\" 9 And Le'ah saw that she had ceased 24 So she called his name Yoseph, and bearing, and she took Zilpah her said, has added to me another female servant and gave her to Ya'aqob as wife. son.\" 25 And it came to be, when Rahel had w And Le'ah's female servant Zilpah borne Yoseph, that Ya'aqob said to bore Ya'aqob a son. Laban, \"Send me on my way, to go to 11 And Le'ah said, \"What luck!\" So she my own place and to my land. called his name Gad. 26 \"Give my wives and my children for 12 And Le'ah's female servant Zilpah whom I have served you, and let me bore Ya'aqob a second son. go, for you yourself know my service

BERESHITH 32 which I have done for you.\" rods, and the flocks brought forth 27 And Laban said to him, \"If I have streaked, speckled, and spotted. found favour in your eyes, please stay, 40 And Ya'aqob separated the lambs, for I have diligently watched that and made the flocks face toward the has barak me for your sake.\" streaked and all the black in the flock 28 And he said, \"Name me your wages, of Laban, but he put his own flocks by and I give it.\" •■ themselves and did not put them with 29 So he said to him, \"You know how Laban's flock. I have served you and how your 41 And it came to be, whenever the livestock has been with me. • strong ones of the flock conceived, 30 \"For the little you had before I came that Ya'aqob placed the rods before has increased greatly, and has the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so barak you since my coming. But now, they would conceive among the rods. when am I to provide for my own 42 But when the flocks were weak, house too?\" / :• > he did not put them in, so the weak 31 And he said, \"What do I give you?\" ones were Laban's and the strong And Ya'aqob said, \"Give me naught! If ones Ya'aqob's. you do this for me, I shall again feed 43 Thus the man increased very much, and guard your flocks: and had many flocks, and female 32 \"Let me pass through all your flock and male servants, and camels and today, removing from there all the donkeys. : j ■ speckled and spotted sheep, and all Q d And he heard the words w I of Laban's sons, saying, the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the \"Ya'aqob has taken away all that was goats. And these shall be my wages. our father's, and from what belonged 33 \"And my righteousness shall answer to our father he has made all this for me in time to come, when you wealth.\" come concerning my wages: every 2 And Ya'aqob would look at the face one that is not speckled and spotted of Laban and see that it- was not among the goats, and black among the toward him as before. lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.\" 3 And said to Ya'aqob, \"Return 34 And Laban said, \"See, let it be to the land of your fathers and to your according to your word!\" relatives. And I am with you.\" 35 And on that day he put aside the 4 And Ya'aqob sent and called Rahel male goats that were speckled and and Le'ah to the field, to his flock, spotted, and all the female goats that 5 and said to them, \"I see your father's were speckled and spotted, every one face, that it is not toward me as before, that had some white in it, and all the but the Elohim of my father has been black ones among the lambs, and with me. gave them into the hand of his sons. 6 \"And you know that I have served 36 And he put three days' journey your father with all my strength. between himself and Ya'aqob, and 7 \"Yet your father has deceived me Ya'aqob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. and changed my wages ten times, but 37 And Ya'aqob took for himself rods of Elohim did not allow him to do evil to green poplar and of the almond and me. chestnut trees, peeled white strips in 8 \"When he said this, 'The speckled them, and exposed the white which are your wages,' then all the flocks was in the rods. bore speckled. And when he said this, 38 And he put the rods which he had 'The streaked are your wages,' then all peeled before the flocks in the gutters, the flocks bore streaked. in the watering troughs where the 9 \"So Elohim has taken away the flocks came to drink, and they livestock of your father and given them conceived when they came to drink. to me. 39 So the flocks conceived before the 10 \"And it came to be, at the time when

33 GENESIS the flocks conceived, that I lifted my came to Laban the Aramean, and said eyes and looked in a dream and saw to him, \"Guard yourself, that you do the rams which leaped upon the flocks not speak to Ya'aqob either good or were streaked, speckled, and mottled. evil.\" 11 \"And the Messenger of Elohim 25 Then Laban overtook Ya'aqob, spoke to me in a dream, saying, Now Ya'aqob had pitched his tent in 'Ya'aqob.' And I said, 'Here I am.' the mountains, and Laban with his 12 \"And He said, 'Lift your eyes now brothers pitched in the mountains of and see, all the rams which leap on Gil'ad. the flocks are streaked, speckled, and 26 And Laban said to Ya'aqob, \"What mottled, for I have seen all that Laban have you done, that you have stolen is doing to you. my heart, and driven my daughters off 13 'I am the El of Beyth El, where you like captives taken with the sword? anointed, the standing column and 27 \"Why did you flee secretly and where you made a vow to Me. Now deceive me, and not inform me, and I rise up, get out of this land, and return would have sent you away with joy and to the land of your relatives.'\" songs, with tambourine and lyre? 14 And Rahel and Le'ah answered and 28 \"And you did not allow me to kiss said to him, \"Do we still have any my sons and my daughters. Now you portion or inheritance in our father's have been foolish to do this. house? 29 \"It is in the power of my hand to do 15 \"Are we not reckoned by him as evil to you,, but the Elohim of your strangers? For he has sold us, and father spoke to me last night, saying, also entirely consumed our silver. 'Guard yourself, that you do not speak 16 \"For all the wealth which Elohim has to Ya'aqob either good or evil.' taken from our father are ours and 30 \"And now you have gone because our children's. Now then, do whatever you greatly long for your father's Elohim has told you.\" house, but why did you steal my 17 So Ya'aqob rose and put his sons mighty ones?\" and his wives on camels, * 31 And Ya'aqob answered and said to 18 and he drove off. all his livestock and Laban, \"Because I was afraid, for I all his possessions which he had said, 'Lest you tear your daughters acquired, his property of the livestock away from me.' which he had acquired in Paddan 32 \"With whomever you find your Aram, to go to his father Yitshaq in the mighty ones, let him not live. In the land of Kena'an. presence of our brothers, see for 19 And when Laban had gone to shear yourself what is with me and take it his sheep, Rahel stole the house idols with you.\" For Ya'aqob did not know that were her father's. that Rahel had stolen them. 20 And Ya'aqob stole the heart of 33 And Laban went into Ya'aqob's tent, Laban the Aramean, because he did and into Le'ah's tent, and into the tents not inform him that he was about to of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he came out of flee. Le'ah's tent and entered Rahel's tent. 21 And he fled with all that he had. And 34 Now Rahel had taken the house idols and put them in the camel's he rose up and passed over the river, saddle, and sat on them. And Laban and headed toward the mountains of searched all about the tent but did not find them. Gil'ad. 35 And she said to her father, \"Let it not 22 And on the third day Laban was told displease my master that I am unable that Ya'aqob had fled. to rise before you, for the way of 23 Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days' women is with me.\" And he searched journey, and he overtook him in the but did not find the house idols. mountains of Gil'ad. 24 But in a dream by night Elohim

BERESHITH 34 36 And Ya'aqob was wroth and Gal'ed. contended with Laban, and Ya'aqob 48 And Laban said, \"This heap is a answered and said to Laban, \"What is witness between you and me today.\" my transgression? What is my sin, that That is why its name was called you have hotly pursued me? Gal'ed, 37 \"Now that you have searched all my 49 also Mitspah, because he said, \"Let goods what have you found of all your 'WAY watch between you and me household goods? Put it here before when we are out of each other's sight. my brothers and your brothers, and let 50 \"If you afflict my daughters, or if them decide between the two of us! you take other wives besides my 38 \"These twenty years I have been daughters, although no man is with us; with you. Your ewes and your female see, Elohim is witness between you goats have not miscarried their young, and me!\" • L •- and I have not eaten the rams of your 51 And Laban said to Ya’aqob, \"See sheep. . • • .: this heap :■ and see this standing 39 \"That which was torn by beasts I did column, which I have placed between not bring to you, I myself bore the loss you and me. of it. You required it from my hand, 52 \"This heap is a witness, and this whether stolen by day or stolen by standing column is a witness, that I do night. - not pass beyond this heap to you, and 40 \"I was! By day the heat consumed you do not pass beyond this heap and me, and the frost by night, and my this standing column to me, for evil. sleep fled from my eyes. . .< . / 53 \"The Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim 41 \"These twenty years I have been in of Nahor, and the Elohim of their father your house. I served you fourteen rightly rule between us!\" And Ya'aqob years for your two daughters, and six swore by the Awe of his father Yitshaq. years for your flock, - and you have 54 And Ya'aqob brought an offering on changed my wages ten times. the mountain, and called his brothers 42 \"Unless the Elohim of my father, to eat bread. And they ate bread and the Elohim of Abraham and the spent the night on the mountain. . Awe of Yitshaq, had been with me, 55 And Laban rose up early in the you would now have sent me away morning, and kissed his sons and empty-handed. Elohim • has seen daughters and barak them. And Laban my affliction and the labour of my left and returned to his place. hands, and rendered judgment last QQ And Ya'aqob went on his way, OZ. and the messengers of Elohim night.\" - 43 And Laban answered and said to met him. Ya'aqob, \"These daughters are my 2 And when Ya'aqob saw them, he daughters, and these children are my said, \"This is the camp of Elohim.\" And children, and this flock is my flock, and he called the name of that place all that you see is mine. But what shall Mahanayim. I do today to these, my daughters or to 3 And Ya'aqob sent messengers their children whom they have borne? before him to Esaw his brother in the 44 \"And now, come, let us make a land of Se'ir, the field of Edom covenant, you and I, and it shall be a 4 and he commanded them, saying, witness between you and me.\" \"Say this to my master Esaw, 'Your 45 So Ya'aqob took a stone and put it servant Ya'aqob said this, \"I have up as a standing column. sojourned with Laban and stayed there 46 And Ya'aqob said to his brothers, until now. \"Gather stones.\" And they took stones 5 \"And I have bulls, and donkeys, and made a heap, and they ate there flocks, and male and female servants. on the heap. • • ■ • .--i- And I have sent to inform my master, 47.. And Laban called it Yegar to find favour in your eyes...... Sahadutha, but Ya'aqob called - it 6 So the messengers returned to

35 GENESIS Ya'aqob^ saying, \"We came to your is behind us.1\" brother Esaw, and he also is coming to 19 So he commanded the second, and meet you, and four hundred men with the third, and all who followed the him.\"' < - • droves, saying, \"Speak to Esaw this 7 And Ya'aqob was greatly afraid and same word when you find him, distressed. So he divided the people 20 and you shall say, ’Also look, your that were with him, and the flocks and servant Ya'aqob is behind us.'\" For he herds and camels, into two groups, said, \"Let me appease him with the 8 and he said, \"If Esaw comes to the present that goes before me, and after one group and attacks it, then the that see his face. He might accept other group which is left shall escape.\" me.\" ■1 9 And Ya'aqob said, \"O Elohim of my 21 And the present passed over before father Abraham and Elohim of my him, but he himself spent the night in father Yitshaq, who said to me, the camp. ■ ... • ' 'Return to your land and to your 22 And he rose up that night and took relatives, and I do good to you,’ his two wives, and his two female 10 \"I do not deserve the least of all servants, and his eleven sons, and the kind acts and all the truth which passed over the ford of Yabboq. You have shown Your servant, for 23 And he took them and sent them I passed over this Yarden with my over the stream, and sent over what staff, and now I have become two he had. • . ■ ■ /* ' • groups. ■ • •. ■ 24 And Ya'aqob was left alone. And 11 \"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of a Man wrestled with him until the my brother, from the hand of Esaw, for breaking of day. . c; u. .L I fear him, lest he come and shall 25 And when He saw that He did not smite me and the mother with the overcome him, He touched the socket children... of his hip. And the socket of Ya'aqob's 12 \"For You said, 'I shall certainly do hip was dislocated as he wrestled with good to you, and shall make your seed Him. as the sand of the sea, which are too 26 And He said, \"Let Me go, for the day numerous to count.'\" breaks.\" But he said, \"I am not letting i' 13 And he spent the night there, and You go until You have barak me!\" ./ took what came to his hand as a 27 So He asked him, \"What is your present for Esaw his brother - name?\" And he said, \"Ya'aqob.\" 14 two hundred female, goats and 28 And He said, \"Your name is no twenty male goats, two hundred ewes longer called Ya'aqob, but Yisra'el, and twenty rams, because you have striven with Elohim < 15 thirty milk camels with their colts, and with men, and have overcome.\" forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female 29 And Ya'aqob asked Him, saying, donkeys and ten foals. ' \"Please let me know Your Name.\" And 16 And he gave into the hand of his He said, \"Why do you ask about My servants, every drove by itself, and Name?\" And He barak him there. said to his servants, \"Pass over before 30 And Ya'aqob called the name of the me, and put some distance between place Peni'el, \"For I have seen Elohim drove and drove.\" face to face, and my life is preserved.\" 17 And he commanded the first one, 31 And the sun rose on him as he saying, \"When Esaw my brother meets passed over Penu'el, and he limped on you and asks you, saying, 'To whom his hip. do you belong, and where are you 32 That is why the children of Yisra'el to going? And whose are these in front of this day do not eat the sinew of the you?' ' hip, which is on the socket of the thigh, 18 then you shall say, 'They are your because He touched the socket of the servant Ya'aqob's. It is a present sent thigh of Ya'aqob, in the sinew of the to my master Esaw. And see, he also hip. .

BERESHITH 36 QQ And Ya'aqob lifted his eyes shall die. vv and looked and saw Esaw 14 \"Please let my master go before his coming, and with him four hundred servant, and let me lead on slowly men. And he divided the children according to the pace of the livestock among Le'ah, and Rahel, and the two that go before me, and according to female servants. the pace of the children, until I come to 2 And he put the female servants and my master in Se'ir.\" their children in front, and Le'ah and 15 And Esaw . said, \"Please let me her children behind, and Rahel and leave with you some of the people who Yoseph last. are with me.\" But he said, \"Why this? 3 And he himself passed over before Let me find favour in the eyes of my them and bowed himself to the ground master. seven times, until he came near to his 16 And Esaw returned that day on his brother. _ ■. way to Se'ir. 4 And Esaw ran to meet him, and 17 And Ya'aqob departed to Sukkoth, embraced him, and fell on his neck and built himself a house, and made and kissed him, and they wept. booths for his livestock. That is why 5 And he lifted his eyes and saw the the name of the place is called women and children, and said, \"Who Sukkoth. *«• are these with you?\" And he said, \"The 18 And Ya'aqob came safely to the city children with, whom Elohim has of Shekem, which is in the land of favoured your servant.\" Kena'an, when he came from Paddan 6 Then the female servants came near, Aram. And he pitched his tent before they and their children, and bowed the city. . ? ■ •>’ themselves. 19 And he bought the portion of the 7 And Le'ah also came near with field where he had pitched his tent, her children, and they -bowed from the children of Hamor, Shekem's themselves. And Yoseph • and father, for one hundred qesitah. Rahel came near, and they bowed 20 And he put up an altar there and themselves. ■ -\" 1 called it El Elohey Yisra'el. 8 Then Esaw said, \"What do you mean O/J Ar|d Dinah, the daughter of by all this company which I met?\" And Le'ah, whom she had borne he said, \"To find favour in the eyes of to Ya'aqob, went out to see the my master.\" daughters of the land. 9 But Esaw said, \"I have enough, my 2 And Shekem, son of Hamor the brother, let what you have remain Hiwwite, prince of the land, saw her yours.\" and took her and lay with her, and 10 And Ya'aqob said, \"No, please, if I humbled her. have now found favour in your eyes, 3 And his being clung to Dinah the then receive my present from my daughter of Ya'aqob, and he loved the hand, because I have seen your face girl and spoke kindly to the girl. like seeing the face of Elohim, and you 4 And Shekem spoke to his father were pleased with me. Hamor, saying, \"Take this girl for me 11 \"Please, take my berakah that is for a wife.\" brought to you, because Elohim has 5 And Ya'aqob heard that he had favoured me, and because I have all.\" defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his And he urged him, and he took it. sons were with his livestock in the 12 And he said, \"Let us depart and go, field, so Ya'aqob kept silent until they and let me go before you.\" came. ■. - 13 But he said to him, \"My master 6 And Hamor, the father of Shekem, knows that the children are weak, and went out to Ya'aqob to speak with him. the flocks and herds which are nursing 7 And the sons of Ya'aqob came in are with me. And if the men should from the field when they heard it. And drive them hard one day, all the flocks the men were grieved and very wroth,

37 GENESIS because he had done a senseless enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us for wives, and let us deed in Yisra'el by lying with Ya'aqob's give them our daughters. daughter, which should not be done. 22 \"Only on this would the men agree to dwell with us, to be one people: if 8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, every male among us is circumcised \"My son Shekem's being longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. as they are circumcised. 9 \"And intermarry with us, give us your 23 \"Their herds and their possessions, daughters and take our daughters for and all their beasts, should they not be yourselves, ours? Only let us agree with them, and 10 and dwell with us, and. let the let them dwell with us.\" land be before you. Dwell and move 24 And all who went out of the gate of about in it, and have possessions his city listened to Hamor and Shekem in it.\" < • '. -i. his son; every male was circumcised, 11 And Shekem said to her father and all who went out of the gate of his city. her brothers, \"Let me find favour in 25 And it came to be on the third day, your eyes, and whatever you say to when they were in pain, that two of the me I give. . . • >’ ' • ~ sons of Ya'aqob, Shim'on and Lewi, 12 \"Ask of me a bride price and gift Dinah's brothers, each took his sword ever so high, and I give according to and came boldly upon the city and what you say to me, but give me the killed all the males. girl for a wife.\" 26 And they killed Hamor and Shekem 13 But the sons of Ya'aqob answered his son with the edge of the sword, Shekem and Hamor his father, and and took Dinah from Shekem's house, spoke with deceit, because he had and went out. defiled Dinah their sister. 27 The sons of Ya'aqob came upon the 14 And they said to them, \"We are not slain, and plundered the city, because able to do this matter, to give our sister they had defiled their sister. . - '• to one who is uncircumcised, for that 28 They took their flocks and their would be a reproach to us. herds, and their donkeys, and that 15 \"Only on this would we agree to which was in the city and that which you: If you become as we are, to have was in the field, every male of you circumcised, 29 and all their wealth. And all their little 16 then we shall give our daughters to ones and their wives they took captive, you, and take your daughters to us. and they plundered all that was in the And we shall dwell with you, and shall houses. ; become one people.-. . . 30 And Ya'aqob said to Shim'on and 17 \"But if you do not listen to us and Lewi, \"You have troubled me by be circumcised, we shall take our making me a stench among the daughter and go.\" inhabitants of the land, among the 18 And their words pleased Hamor and Kena'anites and the Perizzites. And I Shekem, Hamor's son.. am few in number, they shall gather themselves against me and shall smite 19 And the young man did not delay me, and I shall be destroyed, my household and I.\" to do this because he delighted in Ya'aqob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his 31 But they said, \"Should he treat our father. > sister like a whore?\" 20 And Hamor and Shekem his son QrZ And Elohim said to Ya'aqob, OU \"Arise, go up to Beyth El and came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, dwell there. And make an altar there to saying, El who appearedjo you when you fled 21 \"These men are at peace with us* from the face of Esaw your brother.\" so let them dwell in the land and move 2 And Ya'aqob said to his household about in it. And see, the land is large and to all who were with him, \"Put

BERESHITH 38 away the foreign mighty ones that are Beyth El. 16 Then they departed from Beyth El. among you, and cleanse yourselves, And it came to be, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, that and change your garments. • Rahel began to give birth, and had great difficulty giving birth. 3 \"And let us arise and go up to Beyth 17 And it came to be, as she was having great difficulty giving birth, that El, and let me make there an.altar to the midwife said to her, \"Do not fear, for it is another son for you.\" El, who answered me in the day of my 18 And it came to be, as her life was going out - for she died -. that she distress, and has been with me in the called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Binyamin. way which I have gone.\". i 19 So Rahel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, ‘ that is Beyth 4 So they gave Ya'aqob all the foreign mighty ones which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears. And Ya'aqob hid them under the terebinth tree which was near Shekem. . \\ 5 And they departed, and the fear of Elohim was upon the cities that were all around, them, ■and they did-not Lehem. : ' ; . < j ■ ; ■ pursue the sons of Ya'aqob. 20 And Ya'aqob put a standing column 6 And Ya'aqob came to Luz, that is on her grave, which is the monument Beyth El, which is in the land of of Rahel's grave to this day.. Kena'an, he and all the people who 21 And Yisra'el departed and pitched were with him.;...: \\ - . ■ > - his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 7 And he built there an altar and called 22 And it came to be, when Yisra'el the place El Beyth El, because there dwelt in that land, that Re'uben went Elohim appeared to him when he fled and lay with • Bilhah his father’s from the face of his brother. ’ concubine. And Yisra'el heard about it. 8 And Deborah, Ribqah's nurse, died, Now the sons of Ya'aqob were twelve: and she was buried below Beyth El 23 the sons of Le'ah were Re'uben, under the terebinth tree. So the name Ya'aqob's first-born, and Shim'on, and of it was called Allon Bakuth; ■ • > Lewi, and Yahudah, and Yissaskar, 9 And Elohim appeared to Ya'aqob and Zebulun; ' again, when he came from Paddan 24 the sons of Rahel were Yoseph and Aram, and barak him. ' Binyamin; 10 And Elohim said to him, \"Your name 25 the sons of Bilhah, Rahel's female is Ya'aqob,. your name is no longer servant, were Dan and Naphtali; called Ya'aqob, but Yisra'el is your 26 and the sons of Zilpah, Le'ah's name.\" So He called his name Yisra'eL female servant, were Gad and Asher. 11 And Elohim said to him,.\"I am El These were the sons of Ya'aqob who ShaddaL Bear fruit and increase, a were born to him in Paddan Aram. nation and a company of nations shall 27 And Ya'aqob came to his father be from you, and sovereigns come Yitshaq at Mamre, or Qiryath Arba, from your body. ■ that is Hebron,. where Abraham and 12 \"And the land which I gave Abraham Yitshaq had dwelt. and Yitshaq I give to you. And to your 28 And the days of Yitshaq were one seed after you I give this land.\" • ‘ hundred and eighty years. 13 And Elohim went up from him in the 29 So Yitshaq breathed his last and place where He had spoken with him. died, and was gathered to his people, 14 And Ya'aqob put up a standing aged and satisfied of days. And his column in the place where He had sons Esaw and Ya'aqob buried him. spoken with him, a monument of OiC And this is the genealogy of OU Esaw, who is Edom. stone. And he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. ’ ■> 2 Esaw took his wives from the daughters of_ Kena'an: Adah the 15 And Ya'aqob called the name of the daughter of Eylon the Hittite,. and place where Elohim spoke with him,

39 GENESIS Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the Eliphaz in the land of Edom. They daughter of Tsib'on the Hiwwite; were the sons of Adah. 3 and Basemath, Yishma'el's daughter, 17 And these were the sons of sister of Nebayoth. Re'uw'el, Esaw's son: Chief Nahath, 4 And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esaw, and Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, and Basemath bore Re'uw'el. - Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of 5 And Oholibamah bore Ye'ush, and Re'uw'el in the land of Edom. These Ya'lam, and Qorah. These were the were the sons of Basemath, Esaw's sons of Esaw who were born to him in wife. ■ , the land of Kena'an. 18 And these werethe sons of 6 And Esaw took his wives, and his Oholibamah, Esaw's ‘ wife: Chief sons, and his daughters, and all the Ye'ush, Chief ■ Ya'lam, and Chief beings of his household, and his Qorah. These were the chiefs from herds and all his beasts, and all his Oholibamah, Esaw's wife, the daughter possessions which he had gained in ofAnah. j the land of Kena'an, and went to a land 19 These were the sons of Esaw, who away from the presence of his brother is Edom, and these were their chiefs, r- Ya'aqob. ■■ 20 These were the sons of Se'ir the 7 For their possessions were too great Horite who inhabited the land: Lotan, for them to dwell together, and the land and Shobal, and Tsib'on, and Anah, of their sojournings could not support 21 and Dishon, and Etser, and Dishan. them because of their herds. These were the chiefs of the Horites, 8 So Esaw dwelt in Mount Se'ir. Esaw the sons of Se'ir, in the land of Edom. is Edom. 22 And the sons of Lotan were Hori 9 And this is the genealogy of Esaw and Hemam. Lotan's sister was Timna. the father of the Edomites in Mount 23 And these were the sons of Shobal: Se'ir. ■, Alwan, and Manahath, and Eybal, 10 These were the names of Esaw's Shepho, and Onam. sons: Eliphaz son of Adah, wife of 24 And these were the sons of Tsib'on: Esaw, and Re'uw'el son of Basemath, both Ayah and Anah. This was the wife of Esaw. : Anah who found the water in the 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were wilderness as he fed the donkeys of Teman, Omar, Tsepho, and Gatam, his father Tsib'on. and Qenaz. ’ >• 25 And these were the children of 12 And Timna was the concubine of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the Eliphaz, Esaw's son, and she bore daughter of Anah. Amaleq to Eliphaz. These were the 26 And these were the sons of Dishon: sons of Adah, Esaw's wife. Hemdan, and Eshban, and Yithran, 13 These were the sons of Re'uw'el: and Keran. Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and 27 These were the sons of Etser: Mizzah. These were the sons of Bilhan, and Za'awan, and Aqan. ■ > Basemath, Esaw's wife. 1 28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uts 14 These were the sons of and Aran. Oholibamah, Esaw's wife, the daughter 29 These were the chiefs of the of Anah, the daughter of Tsib'on. And Horites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shobal, she bore to Esaw: Ye'ush, and Ya'lam, Chief Tsib'on, Chief Anah, and Qorah. 30 Chief Dishon, Chief Etser, and Chief 15 These were the chiefs of the sons of Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Esaw. The sons of Eliphaz, the first­ Horites, according to their chiefs in the born son of Esaw, were Chief Teman, land of Se'ir. • Chief Omar, Chief Tsepho; Chief 31 And these were the sovereigns who Qenaz, reigned in the land of Edom before any 16 Chief Qorah, Chief Gatam, Chief sovereign reigned over the children of Amaleq. These were the chiefs of Yisra'el. ■

BERESHITH 40 32 And Bela the son of Be'or reigned in brothers, they hated him and were not Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. .... . ” able to speak peaceably to him. 33 And Bela died, and Yobab son of Zerah of Botsrah reigned in his place. 5 And Yoseph dreamed a dream, and 34 And Yobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his told it to his brothers. So they hated place.. . r- ; him even more. 35 And Husham died, and Hadad son of Bedad, who smote Midyan in the 6 And he said to them, \"Please listen to field of Mo'ab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Awith. this dream which I have dreamed: 36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masreqah reigned in his place. 7 \"See, we were binding sheaves in 37 And Samlah died, and Sha'ul of Rehoboth ha'Nahar reigned in his the midst of the field, and see, my place. . 38 And Sha'ul died, and Ba'al-Hanan sheaf rose up and also stood up. And son of Akbor reigned in his place. 39 And Ba'al-Hanan son of Akbor died, see, your sheaves stood all around and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pa'u. And and bowed down to my sheaf.\" ■ his wife's name was Mehetab'el, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of 8 And his brothers said to him, \"Shall Mey-Zahab. • 40 And these were the names of the you indeed reign over us? Shall you chiefs of Esaw, according to their clans and their places, by their names: Chief indeed rule over us?\" So they hated Timnah, Chief Alwah, Chief Yetheth, 41 Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief him even more for his dreams and for Pinon, 42 Chief Qenaz, Chief Teman, Chief his words. <• . Mibtsar, 43 Chief Magdi'el, Chief Iram. These 9 And he dreamed still another dream were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling places in the land of their and related it to his brothers, and said, possession. Esaw was the father of the Edomites. \"See, I have dreamed another dream, And Ya'aqob dwelt in the land and see, the sun and the moon and Of of his father's sojournings, in the eleven stars bowed down to me.\" . the land of Kena'an. 2 This is the genealogy of Ya'aqob. 10 And he related it to his father and Yoseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. his brothers. And his father rebuked And the young man was with the sons him and said to him, \"What is this of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Yoseph brought an dream that you have dreamed? Shall evil report of them to his father. 3 And Yisra'el loved Yoseph more than we, your mother and I and your all his children, because he was the brothers, indeed come to bow down to son of his old age. And he made him a the earth before you?\" long robe. 4 But when his brothers saw that their 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father loved him more than all his father guarded the word. 12 And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shekem. 13 And Yisra'el said to Yoseph, \"Are not your brothers feeding in Shekem? Come, I send you to them.\" So he said to him, \"Here I am.\" 14 And he said to him, \"Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the sheep, and bring back word to me.\" So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shekem. 15 And a certain man found him, and see, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, \"What do you seek?\" 16 And he said, \"I am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where they are feeding their sheep.\" 17 And the man said, \"They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go towards Dothan.' \" So Yoseph went after his brothers and found them in

41 GENESIS Dothan. male goat, and dipped the robe in the 18 And they saw him from a distance, blood, and before he came near them, they 32 and sent the long robe and brought plotted against him, to kill him. it to their father and said, \"We have 19 And they said to each other, \"See, found this. Please look, is it the robe of this master of dreams is coming! your son or not?\" 20 \"Now, then, come and let us now kill 33 And he recognised it and said, \"It is him and throw him into some pit, and my son's robe. An evil beast has shall say, 'Some wild beast has devoured him. Yoseph is torn, torn to devoured him.' Let us then see what pieces.\" comes of his dreams!\" 34 And Ya'aqob tore his garments, 21 But Re'uben heard and rescued him and- put sackcloth on his waist, and from their hands, and said, \"Let us not mourned for his son many days. take his life.\" ■ t 35 And all his sons and all his 22 And Re'uben said to them, \"Shed no daughters arose to comfort him, but he blood. Throw him into this pit which is refused to be comforted, and he said, in the wilderness,, and do not lay a \"Now let me go down into the grave to hand on him\" - in order to rescue him my son in mourning.\" So his father out of their hands, and bring him back wept for him. to his father. 36 And the Medanites had sold him 23 So it came to be, when Yoseph had in Mitsrayim to Potiphar, an officer of come to his brothers, that they stripped Pharaoh and captain of the guard. Yoseph of his robe, the long robe O Q And at that time it came to be vO that Yahudah left his brothers, which was on him. • . - - '■ 24 And they took him and threw him and turned aside to a man, an into a pit. And the pit was empty, there Adullamite whose name was Hirah. was no water in it. 2 And Yahudah saw there a daughter 25 And they - sat down to eat a of a certain Kena'anite whose name meal. And they lifted their eyes and was Shuwa. And he took her and went looked and saw a company of in to her. . • : Yishma'elites, coming from Gil'ad with 3 So she conceived and bore a son, their camels, bearing spices, and and he called his name Er. balm, and myrrh, going to take them 4 And she conceived again and bore a down to Mitsrayim. .. son, and she called his name Onan. 26 And Yahudah said to his brothers, 5 And she conceived yet again and \"What would we gain if we kill our bore a son,- and called his name brother and conceal his blood? Shelah. And he was at Kezib when 27 \"Come and let us sell him to the she bore him. Yishma'elites, and let not our hand be 6 And Yahudah took a wife for Er his upon him, for he is our brother, our first-born, and her name was Tamar. flesh.\" And his brothers listened. 7 But Er, Yahudah's first-born, was evil 28 And men, Midyanite traders passed in the eyes of and WW took by, so they pulled Yoseph up and his life. ’ lifted him out of the pit, and sold him 8 And Yahudah said to Onan, \"Go in to to the Yishma'elites for twenty pieces your brother's wife and marry her, and of silver. And they took Yoseph to raise up an heir to your brother.\" Mitsrayim. 9 And Onan knew that the offspring 29 And Re'uben returned to the pit, and would not be his. And it came to be, see, Yoseph was not in the pit. And he when he went in to his brother's wife, tore his garments. that he spilled on the ground, lest he 30 And he returned to his brothers and should give an offspring to his brother. said, \"The boy is gone! And I, where 10 But what he did displeased W; am I to go?\" so He took his life too. 31 So they took Yoseph's robe, killed a 11 Then Yahudah said to Tamar his

BERESHITH 42 daughter-in-law, \"Remain a widow in 22 And he returned to Yahudah and said, \"I have not found her. And the your father's house until my son men of the place also said there was no cult prostitute in this place.\" Shelah is grown.\" For he said, \"Lest he 23 And Yahudah said, \"Let her take them for herself, lest we become also die as his brothers did.\" And despised, for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.\" Tamar went and dwelt in her father's 24 And it came to be, about three months after, that Yahudah house. . ;. was informed, saying, \"Tamar your daughter-in-law has whored, and see, 12 And. after a long time the daughter she has conceived by whoring.\" And Yahudah said, \"Bring her out and let of Shuwa, Yahudah's wife, died. And her be burned!\" 25 When she was brought out, she Yahudah was comforted, and went up sent to her father-in-law, saying, \"By the man to whom these belong, I am to his sheep-shearers at Timnah, he pregnant.\" And she said, \"Please examine whose these are: the seal and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. and the cord and the staff.\" 26 And Yahudah examined and said, 13 And it was reported to Tamar, \"She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah saying, . \"See, your father-in-law is my son.\" And he never knew her again. going up to Timnah to shear. his 27 And it came to be, at the time for giving birth, that see, twins were in her sheep.\" - womb.- 28 And it came to be, when she was 14 And she took off her widow's giving birth, that the one put out his hand. And the midwife took a scarlet garments, and covered herself with a thread and bound it on his hand, saying, \"This one came out first.\" veil and wrapped herself, and sat at 29 And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, that see, his brother came the entrance to Enayim which was on out! And she said, \"How did you break through? This breach be upon you!\" the way to Timnah. . For she saw that So his name was called Perets. 30 And afterward his brother came out Shelah was grown, and she was not who had the scarlet thread on his hand. So his name was called Zerah. given to him as a wife. <. - '■>: QQ And Yoseph had been O Zz taken down to Mitsrayim. And 15< And Yahudah saw her,- and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain reckoned her for a .whore, for she had of the guard, a Mitsrite, bought him covered her face. ' ■■■■ from the Yishma'elites who had taken 16 And he turned aside to her by the him down there. way, and said, \"Please let me come in 2 And it came to be that 'AW'was with to you,\" for he did not know that she Yoseph, and he became a prosperous was his daughter-in-law. And she said, man, and was in the house of his master the Mitsrite. \"What do you give me to come in to 3 And his master saw that AW was me?\" with him and that WW made all he 17 And he said,-\"Let me send you a young goat from the flock.\" And she said, \"Do you give me a pledge until you send it?\" , • - < \"• 18 So he said, \"What pledge should I give you?\" And she said, \"Your seal and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.\" And he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. •».,.« > . • 1 19 And she arose and went away, and removed her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood. < 20 And Yahudah sent the young goat by the • hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her. 21 And he asked the men of that place, saying,.. \"Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the way to Enayim?\" And they said, \"There was no cult prostitute in this place.'' /; •

43 GENESIS did to prosper in his hand. • 16 And she kept his garment with her 4 So Yoseph found favour in his eyes, until his master came home. and served him, and he appointed him 17 And she spoke to him these same over his house, and gave into his hand words, saying, \"The Ibri servant whom all that he had. you brought to us came in to me, to 5 And it came to be, from the time that mock me, he appointed him over his house and 18 so it came to be, as I lifted my voice all that he had, that barak the and cried out, that he left his garment Mitsrite's house for Yoseph's sake. with me and fled outside.\" And the berakah of KW was on all 19 And it came to be, when his master that he had in the house and in the heard the words which his wife spoke field. to him, saying, \"Your servant did to me 6 And he left in Yoseph's hand all that according to these words,\" that his he had, and he did not know what he displeasure burned. had except for the bread which he ate. 20 Then Yoseph's master took him And Yoseph was handsome in form and put him into the prison, a place and handsome appearance. where the sovereign's prisoners were 7 And after these events it came to be confined. And he was there in the that his master's wife lifted up her eyes prison. \\: to Yoseph and said, \"Lie with me.\" 21 But was with Yoseph and 8 But he refused and said to his extended kindness to him, and He master's wife, \"Look, my master does gave him favour in the eyes of the not know what is with, me in the house, prison warden. and he has given into my hand all that 22 And the prison warden gave into the he has. hand of Yoseph all the prisoners who 9 \"No one is greater in this house than were in the prison, and whatever was I, and he has not withheld whatever done there was his doing. from me but you, because you are his 23 The prison warden did not look into wife. And how shall I do this great evil any point that was under Yoseph's and sin against Elohim?\" ■ . s hand, because was with him. 10 And it came to be, as she spoke to And whatever he did, made it Yoseph day by day, that he did not prosper. listen to her, to lie with her, to be with /I O And after these events it came her. r '■ ' > to be that the cupbearer and 11 And it came to be on a certain day, the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim when Yoseph went into the house to sinned against their master, the do his work, and none of the men of sovereign of Mitsrayim. the house was inside, ■ 2 And Pharaoh was wroth with his two 12 that she caught him by his garment, officers, the chief cupbearer and the saying, \"Lie with me.\" But he left his chief baker. garment in her hand, and fled and ran 3 So he put them in confinement in the outside. house of the captain of the guard, in 13 And it came to be, when she saw the prison, the place where Yoseph that he had left his garment in her was a prisoner. hand and fled outside, 4 And the captain of the guard put 14 that she called to the men of her Yoseph in charge of them, and he house and spoke to them, saying, served them. So they were in \"See, he has brought in to us an Ibri to confinement for some time. mock us. He came in to me to lie with 5 Then the cupbearer and the baker of me, and I cried out with a loud voice. the sovereign of Mitsrayim, who were 15 \"And it came to be, when he heard confined in the prison, dreamed a that I lifted my voice and cried out, that dream, both of them, each man's he left his garment with me, and fled dream in one night and each man's and went outside.\" ■ dream with its own interpretation.

BERESHITH 44 6 And Yoseph came in to them in the gi oing to lift off your head from you and morning and looked at them and saw ihang you on a tree. And the birds shall <eat your flesh from you.\" that they were sad. :20 And on the third day, Pharaoh's bI irthday, it came to be that he made a 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers who 1feast for all his servants. And he lifted iup the head of the chief cupbearer and were with him in confinement of his <of the chief baker among his servants, :21 and he restored the chief cupbearer master's house, saying, \"Why do you t1 o his post of cupbearer again, and he p| laced the cup in Pharaoh's hand, look so sad today?\" ‘ :22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Yoseph had interpreted to them. 8 And they said to him, 'We each have 23 And the chief cupbearer did not remember Yoseph, but forgot him. dreamed a dream, and there is no one A A And it came to be, at the to interpret it.\" And Yoseph said to i\" I end of two years' time, that them, \"Do not interpretations belong to Pharaoh had a dream, and saw him standing by the river,- Elohim? Relate them to me, please.\" 2 and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine-looking and fat, and 9 So the chief cupbearer related his they fed amongst the reeds, 3 then saw seven other cows coming dream to Yoseph, and said to him, up after them out of the river, ugly and lean of flesh, and stood by the other \"See, in my dream a vine was before cows on the bank of the river. 4 And the ugly and lean of flesh cows me, . ... . ... . >t; ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke. 10 and in the vine were three branches, 5 And he slept and dreamed a second time and saw seven heads of grain and it was as though it budded - its coming up on one stalk, plump and good, blossoms shot forth, and its clusters 6 and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after brought forth ripe grapes. them. 7 And the seven lean heads swallowed 11 \"And Pharaoh's cup was in my the seven plump and complete heads. Then Pharaoh awoke and saw it was a hand. So I took the grapes and dream. pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and 8 And it came to be in the morning that his spirit was moved, and he sent placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.\" and called for all the magicians of Mitsrayim and all its wise men. And 12 And Yoseph said to him, \"This is the Pharaoh related to them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpretation of it: The three branches interpret them for Pharaoh. 9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke are three days. to Pharaoh, saying, \"I remember my 13 \"Yet, within three days Pharaoh is crimes this day. going to lift up your head and restore 10 \"When Pharaoh was wroth with his you to your place, and you shall put servants, and put me in confinement in Pharaoh's cup in his hand according to the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker, the former ruling, when you were his cupbearer. 14 \"But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me. And mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house. 15 \"For truly I was stolen away from the land of the Ibrim. And also I have done naught that they should put me into the dungeon.\" 16 And the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Yoseph, \"I also was in my dream and saw three white baskets were on my head, 17 and in the uppermost basket all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.\" 18 And Yoseph answered and said, \"This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days. 19 \"Yet, within three days Pharaoh is