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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse;…

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made…

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree,…

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth…

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused…

but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a…

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned…

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the…

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a…

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign…

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…

Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became…

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister…

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child…

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him…

The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons…

Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.

Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and…

Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and…

Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.

Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and…

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.

Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and…

Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.

Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and…

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.

Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other…

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground…

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and…

Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its…

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the…

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’…

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in…

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing…

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the…

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and…

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface…

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth.…

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake…

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will…

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no…

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad…

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and…

Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and…

Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and…

Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and…

Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and…

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became…

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife.…

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who…

It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will…

When Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go…

Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they…

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh…

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.

for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…

They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim,…

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…

They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his…

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other…

The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram…

Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He…

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide…

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will…

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of…

the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and…

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of…

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an…

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an…

God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their…

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people.…

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of…

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant…

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him…

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among…

Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we…

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to…

But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied…

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent…

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this…

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t…

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…

He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of…

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow,…

Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when…

It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father.…

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down,…

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld…

Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were…

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me.…

Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his…

Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my…

I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…

The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of…

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you,…

Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.…

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife.…

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…

Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not…

Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham…

and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son,…

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold…

He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to…

that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him…

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the…

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…

Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury…

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of…

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the…

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…

Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who…

If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son…

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says,…

When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,…

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male…

Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to…

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right…

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”

They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your…

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his…

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.

The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,…

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban…

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of…

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these…

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your…

Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you…

Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had…

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with…

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of…

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My…

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…

Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her…

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my…

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau…

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father,…

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now…

Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have…

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will…

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him,…

until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you…

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you…

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as…

So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s…

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not…

Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…

He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the…

He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”

They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then…

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.

Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for…

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me…

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then…

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then…

Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes,…

Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.”…

Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have…

Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I…

That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and…

He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They…

Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering…

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this…

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my…

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and…

Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had…

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in…

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the…

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with…

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For…

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but…

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for…

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is…

May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will…

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the…

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children…

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He…

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held…

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he…

Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their…

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will…

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large…

They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went…

They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was…

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…

They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify…

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was…

They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob…

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named…

The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the…

Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons,…

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter…

and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.

Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because…

Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s…

These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush,…

These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed…

Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his…

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his…

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of…

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak…

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the…

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and…

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.”…

He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the…

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it,…

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…

The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up…

The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but…

Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There…

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he…

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for…

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife.…

When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his…

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was…

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there,…

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that…

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t…

The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into…

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup…

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me…

In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my…

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will…

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the…

He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told…

Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief…

There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted…

As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,…

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one…

Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will…

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s…

Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen,…

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife.…

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He…

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my…

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The…

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He…

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the…

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is…

He put them all together into custody for three days.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen?…

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…

Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give…

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the…

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers…

Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will…

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their…

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you…

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will…

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along…

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a…

If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still…

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it…

Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am…

The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and…

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an…

The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was…

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our…

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks.…

The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys…

They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down…

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of…

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each…

Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word…

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men.…

He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity…

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of…

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the…

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were…

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you…

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and…

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your…

You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will…

Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and…

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry…

Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives,…

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and…

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,…

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were…

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in…

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in…

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their…

Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which…

They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and…

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be…

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine…

As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which…

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for…

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of…

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and…

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and…

Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed…

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward…

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on…

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my…

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my…

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s…

He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in your name, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’”…

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in…

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and…

even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above,…

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed…

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in…

in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with…

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered…

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy…

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…

Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the…

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous…

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham…

Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried…

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully…

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land…

Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones…

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.