Douay Rheims Audio Bible - Book Of Genesis

the douay-rheims bible the book of Genesis chapter 1 God created heaven and earth and all things therein in six days in the beginning God created heaven and earth and the earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved over the waters and God said be light made and light was made and God saw the light that it was good and he divided the light from the darkness and he called the light day and the darkness night and there was evening and morning one day and God said let there be a firmament made amidst the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and God made a firmament and divided the waters that were under the firmament from those that were above the firmament and it was so and God called the firmament heaven and the evening and morning were the second day God also said let the waters that are under the heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear and it was so done and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas and God saw that it was good and he said let the earth bring forth the green herb and such as may seed and the fir tree yielding fruit after its kind which may have seed in itself upon the earth and it was so done and the earth brought forth the green herb and such as yield a seed according to its kind and the tree that bears fruit having seed each one according to its kind and God saw that it was good and the evening in the morning were the third day and God said let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven to divide the day and the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years to shine in the firmament of heaven and to give light upon the earth and it was so done and God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night and the Stars and he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth and to rule the day in the night and to divide the light and the darkness and God saw that it was good and the evening and morning were the fourth day God also said let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven and God created the great whales and every living and moving creature in which the waters brought forth according to their kinds and every winged fowl according to its kind and God saw that it was good and he blessed them saying increase in multiply and fill the waters of the sea and let the birds we multiplied upon the earth and the evening and morning were the fifth day and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind cattle and creeping things and the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and it was so done and God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and cattle and everything that creepeth on the earth after its kind and God saw that it was good and he said let us make man to our image and likeness and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air and the beasts and the whole earth and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth and God created man to his own image to the image of God he created him male and female he created them and God blessed them saying increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air and all living creatures that move upon the earth and God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth and all trees that have in themselves see to their own kind to be your meat and to all beasts of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to all that move upon the earth and wherein there is life that they may have to feed upon and it was so done and God saw all the things that he had made and they were very good and the evening and morning were the sixth day chapter 2 God rested on the seventh day and blessed it the earthly paradise in which God placed if man he commandeth him not to eat of the tree of knowledge and forma the woman of his rib so the heavens and the earth were finished and all the furniture of them and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done and he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made these are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth and every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth and every herb of the ground before it grew for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth and there was not a man to till the earth but a spring rose out of the earth watering all the surface of the earth and the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth and breathed into his face the breath of life and man became a living soul and the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning where any placed man whom he had formed and the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees fair to behold and pleasant to eat of the Tree of Life also in the midst of paradise and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise which from thence is divided into four heads the name of the one is fie son that is it which compasseth all the land of havilah --the where gold groweth and the gold of that land is very good there is found Eliam and the Onyx stone and the name of the second river is gate on the same is it that compasseth all the land of ethiopia and the name of the third river is Tigris the same passeth along by the Assyrians and the fourth River is Euphrates and the Lord God took man and put him into the paradise of pleasure to dress it and to keep it and he commanded him saying of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat for in what day so ever thou shalt eat of it thou shalt die the death and the Lord God said it is not good for man to be alone let us make him a help like unto himself and the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth and all the fowls of the air brought them to Adam to see what he would call them for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name an Adam called all the beasts by their names and all the fowls of the air and all the cattle of the field but for Adam there was not found to help her like himself then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam and when he was fast asleep he took one of his ribs and filled up flesh for it and the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman and brought her to Adam and Adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man wherefore a man shall leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be two in one flesh and both were naked to wit Adam and his wife and were not ashamed chapter 3 the Serpent's craft the fall of our first parents their punishment the promise of a redeemer now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman why have God commanded you that you should not eat of every tree of paradise and the woman answered him saying of the fruit of the trees that are in Paradise we do eat but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise god hath commanded us that we should not eat and then we should not touch it less perhaps we died and the serpent said to the woman no you shall not die the death for God doth know that in what day so ever you shall eat thereof your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God's knowing good and evil and the woman saw that the tree was good to eat and fair to the eyes and delightful to behold and she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave to her husband who did eat and the eyes of them both were opened and when they perceived themselves to be naked they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves aprons and when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in Paradise at the afternoon air Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God amidst the trees of paradise and the Lord God called Adam and said to him where art thou and he said I heard thy voice in paradise and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself and he said to him and who hath told thee that thou was naked but that thou has eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou should us not eat and God said the woman whom thou gavest to me to be my companion gave me in the tree and I did eat and the Lord God said to the woman why has thou done this and she answered the serpent deceived me and I did eat and the Lord God said to the serpent because thou has done this thing thou art cursed among all cattle and beasts of the earth upon thy breast shalt thou go and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life I will put enmity between thee and the woman and by seed and her seed she shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie and wait for her heel to the woman also he said I will multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children and thou shalt be under thy husband's power and he shall have dominion over thee and to Adam he said because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou should not eat curse is the earth and I work with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the earth and the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou was taken for dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return an atom called the name of his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living and the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed them and he said behold Adam has become as one of us knowing good and evil now therefore unless perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever and the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure - till the earth from which he was taken and he cast out Adam in place before the paradise of pleasure cherubims and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life chapter 4 the history of Cain and Abel and Adam knew Eve his wife who conceived and brought forth Cain saying I've gotten a man through God and again she brought forth his brother Abel and Abel was a shepherd and Cain a husbandmen and it came to pass after many days the Cain offered of the fruits of the earth gifts to the Lord Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat and the Lord had respect to Abel and his offerings but the cane in his offerings he had no respect and Cain was exceedingly angry and his countenance fell and the Lord said to him why art thou angry and why is thy countenance fallen if thou do well shalt thou not receive but if ill shall not sin forthwith be present at the door but the lust thereof shall be under thee and thou shall have dominion over it and Cain said to Abel his brother let us go forth abroad and when they were in the field Cain rose up against his brother Abel and slew him and the Lord said to Cain where is thy brother Abel and he answered I know not am I my brother's keeper and he said to him what hast thou done the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand when thou shalt iliyan it shall not yield to thee its fruit a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth and Cain said to the Lord my iniquity is greater than I may deserve pardon behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth and I shall be hidden from thy face and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth everyone therefore that findeth me shall kill me and the Lord said to him no it shall not be so but whosoever shall kill Cain shall be punished Sevenfold now the Lord said a mark upon Cain that whosoever found him should not kill him and Cain went out from the face of the Lord and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden and Cain knew his wife and she conceived and brought forth Enoch and he built a city and called the name thereof by the name of his son he knock and he knock begot ear add an ear add begot Mayville and Maivia begot Methuselah and Mithu zeo begot lamech who took two wives the name of the one was Adah and the name of the other Scylla and Ada brought forth table who was the father of such as dwell in tents and of herdsmen and his brother's name was Jubal he was a father of them that play upon the harp and the organs Sylla also brought forth tubal-cain who is a hammer and artificer in every work of brass and iron and the sister of tubal-cain was Naamah and Lamech said to his wives Adah and Sela hear my voice ye wives of Lamech hearken to my speech for I've slain a man to the wounding of myself and stripling to my own bruising Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain but for Lamech seventy times seven fold Adam also knew his wife again and she brought forth a son and called his name Seth saying God hath given me another scene for Abel whom Cain slew but to Seth also was born a son whom he called eNOS this man began to call upon the name of the Lord chapter five the genealogy age and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah the translation of he knock this is the book of the generation of Adam and the day that God created man he made him to the likeness of God he created the male and female and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day when they were created and Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begot a son to his own image and likeness and called his name Seth and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters and all the time that Adam lived came to 930 years and he died Seth also lived a hundred and five years and begat enos and Seth lived after he begat enos eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died and eNOS lived ninety years and begat Cainan after whose birth he lived 815 years and begot sons and daughters in all the days of eNOS were nine hundred and five years and he died and Kanan lives seventy years and begot mallalieu and Canaan lived after he begot Mel allele eight hundred and forty years and begot sons and daughters and all the days of Canaan were nine hundred and ten years and he died and mallalieu lived sixty-five years and begot Jaron and mallalieu lived after he begot gerund eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of mallalieu were eight hundred and ninety-five years and he died and Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and begat Enoch and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years and he died and he NOK lived sixty-five years and begot Methuselah and he NOK walked with God and lived after he begot Methuselah three hundred years and begot sons and daughters in all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years and he walked with God and was seen no more because God took him and Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years and begot lamech and Methuselah lived after he begot lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years and begot sons and daughters and all the days of Methuselah were 969 years and he died and Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years and begot a son and he called his name Noah saying the same shall comfort us from the works and labors of our hands on the earth which the LORD hath cursed and Lamech lived after he begat five hundred ninety five years and begot sons and daughters and all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy seven years and he died and Noah when he was five hundred years old begot some jam and Japeth Chapter six man's sin is the cause of the deluge Noah is commanded to build the ark and after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth and daughters were born to them the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair took to themselves wives of all which they chose and God said my spirit shall not remain in man forever because he is flesh and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years now Giants were upon the earth in those days frat to the sons of God went into the daughters of men and they brought forth children these are the mighty men of old men of renown and God seeing that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times it repented him that he had made man on the earth and being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart he said I will destroy man whom I have created for the face of the earth for man even two beasts from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them but Noah found grace before the Lord these are the generations of Noah Noah was a just and perfect man in his generations he walked with God and he begot three sons Shem ham and Japeth and the earth was corrupted before God and was filled with iniquity and when God had seen that the earth was corrupted for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth he said to Noah the end of all flesh has come before me the earth is filled with iniquity through them and I will destroy them with the earth make the NARC of timber planks thou shalt make little rooms in the Ark and thou shalt pitch it within and without and thus shalt thou make it the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits thou shalt make a window in the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side with lower-middle chambers and third stories shalt thou make it behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life under heaven all things that are in the earth shall be consumed and I will establish my covenant with thee and thou shall enter into the ark thou and thy sons and thy wife and the wives of thy sons with thee and of every living creature of all flesh thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark that they may live with thee of the male sex and the female a fowls according to their kind and of beasts according to their kind and of everything that creepeth on the earth according to its kind two of every sort shall go in Whitby that they may live thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten and thou shalt lay it up with Dean and it shall be food for thee in them and Noah did all things which God commanded him chapter seven Noah with his family go into the ark the deluge overflows the earth and the Lord said to him go in now and all thy house into the ark for thee I have seen just before me in this generation of all clean beasts take seven and seven the male and the female but of the beasts that are unclean two and two the male and the female of the fowls also of the air seven and seven the male and the female that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth for yet a while and after seven days I will reign upon the earth forty days and forty nights and I will destroy every substance that I have made from the face of the earth and Noah did all things which the Lord had commanded him and he was 600 years old when the waters of the flood ever flowed the earth and Noah went in and his sons his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the because of the waters the flood and of beasts clean and unclean and the fowls and of everything that moveth upon the earth - and - when into Noah into the ark male and female as Lord had commanded Noah and after seven days were passed the waters of the flood overflowed the earth in the six hundredth year of the life of Noah in the second month in the seventeenth day of the month all the Fountains of the great deep were broken up and the floodgates of heaven were opened and the rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights in the South same day Noah and SEM and Cham and Japeth his sons his wife and the three wives of his sons with them went into the ark they and every beast according to its kind and all the cattle in their kind and everything that moveth upon the earth according to its kind and every fowl according to its kind all birds and all the fly when into Noah into the ark two and two of all flesh wherein was the breath of life and they that went in went in male and female of all flesh as God had commanded him and the Lord shut him in on the outside and the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters increased and lifted up the ark on high from the earth for they overflowed exceedingly and filled all on the face of the earth and the ark was carried upon the waters and the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered the water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered and all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth both of fowl and of cattle and of beasts and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all men and all things were in there's the breath of life on the earth died and he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth for man even to beast and the creeping things and fowls of the air and they were destroyed from the earth and only Noah remained and they there were with him in New York and the waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days chapter 8 the deluge ceaseth noah goeth out of the ark and offer a sacrifice god's covenant to him and god remembered noah and all the living creatures and all the cattle which were with him in the ark and brought a wind upon the earth and the waters were abated the Fountains also of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were shut up and the rain from heaven was restrained and the waters returned from off the earth going and coming and they began to be abated after 150 days and the ark rested in the seventh month the seven and twentieth day of the month upon the mountains of armenia and the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month for in the tenth month the first day of the month the tops of the mountains appeared and after that forty days were passed Noah opening the window of the ark which he had made sent forth a raven which went forth and did not return so the waters were dried up upon the earth he sent forth also a dove after him to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth but she not finding where her foot might rest returned to him into the ark for the waters were upon the whole earth and he put forth his hand and caught her and brought her into the ark and having waited yet seven other days he again sent forth the dove out of the ark and she came to him in the evening carrying about van all a tree with green leaves in her mouth Noah therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth and he stayed yet other seven days and he sent forth the Dove which returned not any more unto him therefore in the six hundredth and first year in the first month the first day of the month the waters were lessened upon the earth and Noah opening the covering of the ark looked and saw that the face of the earth was dried and the second month in the seventh and twentieth day of the month the earth was dry and God spoke to Noah saying go out of the ark thou and thy wife bye sons and the wives of thy sons with thee all living things that are with thee of all flesh as well in phalluses and beasts in all creeping things that creep upon the earth bring out with B and go ye upon the earth increase and multiply upon it so Noah went out he and his sons his wife and the wives of his sons with him and all living things and cattle and creeping things that creep upon the earth according to their kinds and went out of the ark and Noah built an altar unto the Lord and taking a Vulcan and fowls that were clean offered holocaust upon the altar and the Lord smelled a sweet savour and said I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done all the days to the earth seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter night and day shall not cease chapter 9 god blessed if Noah for biddeth blood and promised it never more to destroy the world by water the blessing of SEM and Japheth and God blessed Noah and his sons and he said to them increase and multiply and fill the earth and let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the fowls of the air and all that move upon the earth all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand and every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat for I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast and at the hand of man and at the hand of every man and of his brother will I require the life of man whosoever shall shed man's blood his blood shall be shed for man was made to the image of God but increase you and multiply and go upon the earth and fill it thus also said God to Noah and to his sons with him behold I will establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living soul that is with you as well as in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth that are come forth out of the ark and in all the beasts of the earth I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth and God said this is a sign of the Covenant which I give between me and you and to every living soul that is with you for perpetual generations I will set my bow in the clouds and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth and when I shall cover the sky with clouds my bow shall appear in the clouds and I will remember my covenant with you and with every living soul that beareth flesh and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh and the bow shall be in the clouds and I shall see it and shall remember the everlasting covenant that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth and God said to Noah this shall be the sign of the Covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth and the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were some Jam and Japeth and Jam is the father of Canaan these three are the sons of Noah and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth and Noah husbandmen began to tell the ground and planted a vineyard and the drinking of the wine was made drunk and was uncovered in his tent which when Cham the father of Canaan had seen to it that his father's nakedness was uncovered he told it to his two brethren without but Simon Japeth put a cloak upon their shoulders and going backward covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were turned away and they saw not their fathers nakedness and Noah awakening from the wine when he had learned what his younger son had done to him he said cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren and he said blessed be the Lord God of Sam be Canaan his servant may God enlarge Japheth and may he dwell in the tents of Sam and Canaan be his servant and Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years and all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years and he died chapter 10 the genealogy of the children of Noah by whom the world was peopled after the flood these are the generations of the sons of Noah some Cham and Japheth and unto them sons were born at two the flood the sons of Japheth Gomer and Magog and meda and Javan and tool and moussaka and Tyrus and the sons of Gomer asons and repass and two korma and the sons of Jabin Eliza and Tharsis kademan do annum by these were divided the islands of the Gentiles and their lands everyone according to his tongue and their families and their Nations and the sons of Cham Coosh and mez ROM and puth and Canaan in the sons of Koosh saba and a villa and Sabitha and Rhema and sabotager the sons of regna saba and dannan now Koosh begat Nimrod he began to be mighty on the earth and he was a stout hunter before the Lord hence came a proverb even as Nimrod the stout hunter before the Lord and the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon in Iraq and a Chad and shaylen and the land of sin are out of that land came forth Essaouira and built nineveh and the streets of the city and kale resin also between Nineveh and kale this is the great city and mezrab Badal Ludum and annum and laabh 'm net foam and paestum and Cha slalom of whom came forth the philistines and the cap theorem and Kanan big outside on has first formed the headlight and the jebusite and the amorite and the Jirga site they have ie and the AK site the Sinai and the Iranian and the samurai and the hematite and afterwards the families of the K Knights were spread abroad and the limits of Canaan were from sidon as one comes to Guerrera even to Gaza until they'll enter Sodom and Gomorrah and Adama and submarine even to Lhasa these are the children of cham in their Kindred's and tongues and generations in lands and nations of some also the father of all the children of ever the elder brother of Japheth sons were born the sons of Sam Alam and a sewer and a frac side and loom and Arum the sons of Arum us and HUL and gether and mess but a frack side begat sale of whom was born ever and habour were born two sons the name of one was felt like because in his days the earth was divided and his brother's named checked and which checked and begot elma dan and sail off' and a therm off jer and a durham and ooze ole and de colo an devil and a bee mole Szabo and no fear and hvala and jobab all these were the sons of joktan and their dwelling was from Mesa as we go on as far as suffer a mountain in the east these are the children of Sam according to their Kindred's and tongues and countries in their Nations these are the families of Noah according to their peoples and nations by these were the nation's divided on the earth after the Floyd chapter 11 the Tower of Babel the confusion of tongues the genealogy of Sam down to Abram and the earth was of one tongue and of the same speech and when they removed from the east they found a plain in the land of Sonora and dwelt on in and each one said to his neighbor come let us make break and bake them with fire and they had brick instead of stones and slime instead of mortar and they said come let us make a city in a tower the top wear of may reach to heaven and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands and the Lord came down to see the city in the tower which the children of Adam were building and he said Behold it is one people and all have one tongue and they have begun to do this neither will they leave off from their designs till they accomplish them indeed come ye therefore let us go down and there confound their tongue that they may not understand one another speech and so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands and they ceased to build the city and therefore the name thereof was called Babel because there the language of the whole earth was confounded and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries these are the generations of SEM Sam was one hundred years old when he begot our facade two years after the flood and Sam lived after he begot our facade five hundred years and begat sons and daughters in our facade lived 35 years to dig out sale and our facade lived after he begot sale three hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters sale also lived 30 years and begot ever and sale lived after he begot ever four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters and ever lived thirty-four years and begat fail egg and ever lived after he begat fail a four hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters failing also lived thirty years and begat room and failing lived after he begat room 209 years and begat sons and daughters Andrew lived 32 years and Beyond sarig Andrew lived after begot Surak two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters and sarig lived thirty years and begot nature and Sarah lived after he begot nature two hundred years and begat sons and daughters an h or lived nine and twenty years and begot fair and nature lived after he begot fair one hundred and nineteen years and begat sons and daughters and fair lived seventy years and begat Abram and chor and are on and these are the generations of their thier begot Abram nature an are on in our on B Galan an are on died before their his father and a land of his Nativity in ur of the Chaldees an Abram and nature married wives the name of Abraham's wife was Sara in the name of neech's wife Melcher and the daughter of aran father of Mel Joe and the father of jess.joy and Sarah was barren and had no children and fair took Abram his son and lot the son of Aaron his son son and Sarah has daughter-in-law the wife of Abram his son and brought them out of ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan and they came as far as Horan and dwelt there and the days of there were 205 years and he died in Horan chapter 12 the call of Abram and the promise made to him he sojourneth and Canaan and then by occasion of a famine goeth down to Egypt and the Lord said to Abram go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred and out of thy father's house and come into the land which I shall show thee and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and magnify thy name and thou shalt be blessed I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all the Kindred's of the earth be blessed so Abram went out as Lord had commanded him and lot went with him Abram was 75 years old when he went forth from Haran and he took Sarai his wife and lot his brother's son and all the substance which they gathered and the souls which they had gotten in Haran and they went out to go into the land of Canaan and when they were come into it Abram passed through the country into the place of Shechem as far as the noble Valley now the Canaanite was at this time in the land and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him to thy seed I will give this land and he built there an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him and passing on from thence to a mountain it was on the east side of Bethel he there pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and high on the east he built there also an altar to the Lord and called upon his name and Abram went forward going and proceeding on to the south and there came a famine in the country and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was very Grievous in the land and when he was near to enter into Egypt he said to Sarai his wife I know that thou art a beautiful woman and that when the Egyptians shall see thee they will say she is his wife and they will kill me and keep thee say therefore I pray thee that thou art my sister that I may be well used for thee and that my soul may live for thy sake and when Abram was come into Egypt the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful and the princess told Pharaoh and praised her before him and the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh and they used Abram well for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menservants and maidservants and she asses and camels but the Lord scourge Pharaoh and his house with the most grievous stripes for Sarai Abrams wife and Pharaoh called Abram and said to him what is this that thou has done to me why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife for what cause did it thou say she was thy sister that I might take her to my wife now therefore there is thy wife take her and go thy way and Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram and they led him away and his wife and all that he had chapter 13 Abram and laut part from each other God's promise to Abram and Abram went up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and laught with him into the south and he was very rich in possesion of gold and silver and he returned by the way that he came from the south to Bethel to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and High in the place of the altar which he had made before and there he called upon the name of the Lord but lot also who is with Abram had flocks of sheep and herds of beasts and tents neither was a land able to bear them that they might dwell together for their substance was great and they could not dwell together whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of laud and at that time the Canaanite and the Fez arrayed weld in that country Abram therefore said to lon let there be no quarrel I beseech thee between me and thee and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen for we are brethren behold the whole land is before thee depart from me I pray thee if thou will go to the left hand I will take the right if thou choose the right hand I will pass to the left and law lifting up his eyes saw all the country about the Jordan which was watered throughout before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah as the paradise of the Lord and like Egypt as one comes to Segura and lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan and he departed from the east and they were separated one brother from the other Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan and lawd abode in the towns that were about the Jordan and dwelt in Sodom and the men of Sodom were very wicked and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure and the Lord said to Abram after lot was separated from him lift up thy eyes and look from the place we're in now now art to the north and to the south to the east and to the west all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and to thy seed forever I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth If any man be able to number the dust of the earth he shall be able to number thy seed also arise and walk through the land in the length and at the breadth thereof for I will give it to thee so Abram removing his tent came into Walt by the valley of mom bruh which have run and he built there an altar to the Lord chapter 14 the expedition of the four kings the victory of Abram he is blessed by Melchizedek and it came to pass at that time that M Rafael king of cenar and arioch king of Pontus and total Homer king of the elements and that al king of Nations made war against bara king of sodom and against bear saw king of gomorrah and against senna king of admah and against some mber king of stepmum and against the king of bala which is psycho are all these came together into the woodland valley which is now the salt sea for they had served Codel a home war of 12 years and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him and in the fourteenth year came KO de l'homme lor and the kings that were with him and they smote the raphe aim and Astaroth car name and the Xu's him with them and the innum and the save of Caria fame and the trans in the mountain of Ser even to the plains of fahren which is in the wilderness and they returned and came to the mountain to miss fat the same as Cadiz and they smote all the country of the Alma science the amberyan dwelt in hacen el Mar and the king of sodom and the king of gomorrah and the king of admah the king of salem and the king of ball on which is say or went out and they set themselves against them in battle array in the woodland valley to wit against kolja king of the elements and fat al king of nations and M ratio king of sin arm and arioch king of Pontus four kings against five now the woodland Valley had many pits of slime and the king of sodom and the king of gomorrah turned their backs and were overthrown there and they that remained fled to the mountain and they took all the substance of the sodomites and gomorrah its and all their victims and went their way and lot also the son of Abraham's brother who dwelt in Sodom and his substance and behold one that it escaped told Abram the Hebrew who dwelt in the valley of mom / the amorite the brother of s Kol and the brother of our Nair for these had made league with Abram which when Abram had heard to it that his brother lot was taken he numbered of the servants born in his house 318 well-appointed and pursued them to Dan and dividing his company he rushed upon them in the night and defeated them and pursued them as far as Hoba which is on the left hand of damascus and he brought back all the substance and laud his brother with his substance the women also and the people and the king of sodom went out to meet him after he returned from the slaughter of co de l'homme war and other kings that were with him in the valley of sabe which is the king's valley but Melchizedek the king of solemn bringing forth bread and wine for he was the priest of the Most High God blessed him and said blessed be Abram by the Most High God who created heaven and earth and blessed be the Most High God by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands and he gave him the tithes of all and the king of Sodom said to Abram give me the persons and the rest take to thyself and he answered him I lift up my hand to the Lord God the Most High the possessor of heaven and earth then from the very woof thread unto the shul Asha I will not take of any things that are thine lest thou say I have enriched Abram except such things as the young men of Eden and the shares of the men that came with me and heir s Cole and mom bruh these shall take their shares chapter 15 God promises seed to Abram his faith sacrifice and vision now when these things were done the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision saying fear not Abram I am thy protector and I reward exceeding great and Abram said Lord God what will doubt give me I shall go without children and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer and Abram added but to me that has not given seen and lo my servant born in my house shall be my heir and immediately the word of the Lord came to him saying he shall not be thy heir but he that shall come out of thy bowels him shalt thou have for thy heir and he brought him forth abroad and said to him look to heaven and Number the Stars if thou canst and he said to him so shall thy seed be him Abram believed God and it was reputed to him unto justice and he said to him I am the Lord who brought thee out from ur the called knees to give thee this land and that thou mightest possess it but he said Lord God whereby may I know that I shall possess it and the Lord answered and said take me a cow of three years old and a she-goat of three years and a ram of three years a turtle also and a pigeon and he took all these and divided them in the midst and laid the two pieces of each one against the other but the birds he divided not and the fowls came down upon the carcasses and Abram drove them away and when the Sun was setting a deep sleep fell upon Abram and a great and darksome horror seized upon him and it was said unto Him know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own and they shall bring them under bondage and afflict them for hundred years but I will judge the nation which they shall serve and after this they shall come out with great substance and thou shalt go to thy fathers and peace and be buried in a good old age but in the fourth generation they shall return hither for as yet the iniquities the amorite s' are not at the full until this present time and when the son was said there arose a dark mist and there appeared a smoking furnace in a lamp of fire passing between those divisions that day God made a covenant with Abram saying to thy seed I will give this land from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates the canyons and the kehna sites the kidman heights and the hittites and the perizzites and the raping also and the amorite and the canaanites and the girgashites and the jebusites chapter 16 Abram marrieth Hagar who bringeth forth Ishmael now say Rai the wife of Abram had brought forth no children but having a handmaid an Egyptian named Hagar she said to her husband behold the LORD hath restrained me from bearing go in unto my handmaid it may be I may have children of her at least and when he agreed to her request she took Hagar the Egyptian her handmaid ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband to wife and he went into her but she perceiving that she was with child despised her mistress and say where I said to Abram foul dust unjustly with me I gave my handmaid into thy bosom and she perceiving herself to be with child despiseth me the Lord judge between me and thee a neighbor made answer and said to her behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand use her as it pleases thee and when saver I afflicted her she ran away and the angel of the Lord having found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness which is in the way - sure in the desert he said to her Hagar handmaid of suraíh whence comest thou and whither goest thou and she answered I flee from the face of suraíh my mistress and the angel the Lord said to her return to thy mistress and humble thyself under her hand and again he said I will multiply thy seed exceedingly and it shall not be numbered for multitude and again behold said he thou art with child and thou shalt bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Ishmael because the LORD hath heard thy affliction he shall be a wild man his hand will be against all men and all men's hands against him and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren and she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her now the God who has seen me before she said verily here have I seen the hinder parts of him that see if me therefore she called that well the well of him that liveth and see if me the same is between Cadiz and barren and Hank are brought forth the son to Abram who called his name Ishmael Abram was four score and six years old when Hagar brought him forth Ishmael chapter 17 the Covenant of circumcision and after he began to be ninety and nine years old the Lord appeared to him and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be perfect and I will make my covenant between me and thee and I will multiply thee exceedingly Abram fell flat on his face and God said to him I am and my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations neither shall thy name be called any more Abram but thou shalt be called Abraham because I've made the father of many nations and I will make the increase exceedingly and it will make nations of thee and Kings shall come out of thee now I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations by a perpetual covenant to be a god to thee and to thy seed after thee and I will give to thee and to thy seed the land of thy so German all the land of Canaan for a perpetual possession and I will be their God again God said to Abraham and now therefore shall keep my covenant and thy seed after thee in their generations this is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you and thy seed after thee all the male kind of you shall be circumcised and you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you an infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you every man child in your generations he that is born in the house as well as the boat's servant shall be circumcised and whosoever is not of your stock and my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant the male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised that soul shall be destroyed out of his people because he hath broken my covenant God said also to Abraham say Rai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai but Sarah and I will bless her and of her I will give the asila whom I will bless and he shall become nations and kings of people shall spring from him Abraham fell upon his face and laughed saying in his heart shall son thinkest thou be born to him that is a hundred years old and shall sorrow that is 90 years old bring forth and he said to God oh that ishmael may live before thee and God said to Abraham Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant and with his seed after him and as for Ishmael I have also heard thee behold I will bless him and increase and multiply him exceedingly he shall be got twelve Chiefs and I will make him a great nation but my covenant I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year and when he had left off speaking with him God went up from Abraham and Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in his house and all whom he had bought every male among the men of his house and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day as God had commanded him Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin and Ishmael his son was full 13 years old at the time of his circumcision the self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son and all the men of his house as well they that were born in his house as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him chapter 18 angels are entertained by Abraham they foretell the birth of Isaac Abraham's prayer for the men of Sodom and the Lord appeared to him in the valley of Moreh as he was sitting at the door of his tent and the very heat of the day and when he had lifted up his eyes there appeared to him three men standing near him and as soon as he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent and a door down to the ground and he said lord if I found favor in thy sight pass not away from thy servant but I will fetch a little water and wash your feet and rest ye under the tree and I will set a morsel of bread and strengthen you your heart afterwards you shall pass on for therefore are you come aside to your servant and they said do as thou has spoken Abraham made haste into the tent to Sarah and said to her make haste tempered together three measures of flour and make cakes upon the hearth and he himself ran to the herd and took from thence a calf very tender and very good and he gave it to young man who made haste and boiled it he took also butter and milk and the calf which he had boiled and set before them but he stood by them under the tree and when they had eaten they said to him where is Sarah thy wife he answered lo she is in the tent and he said to him I will return and come to thee at this time life accompanying and Sarah thy wife shall have a son which one Sarah heard she laughed behind the door of the tent now they were both old and far advanced in years and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women and she laughed secretly saying after I am grown old and my Lord is an old man shall I give myself to pleasure and the Lord said to Abraham why did Sarah laugh saying shall I Who am an old woman bear child indeed is there anything hard to God according to appointment I will return to thee at the time-life accompany and Sarah shall have a son sarah denied saying I did not laugh for she was afraid but the Lord said nay but thou did his laugh and when the men rose up from thence they turned their eyes towards Sodom and Abraham walked with them bringing them on the way and the Lord said can I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed for I know that he will come in his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord and do judgment and justice that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to affect all the things he has spoken unto him and the Lord said the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has multiplied and their sin has become exceedingly Grievous I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that has come to me or whether it be not so that I may know and they turn themselves from thence and went their way to Sodom but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord and drawing nigh he said will thou destroy the just with the wicked if there be fifty just men in that city shall they perish with all and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of a fifty just if they be therein far be it from thee to do this thing and to slay the just with the wicked and for the just to be in like cases the wicked this is not beseeming me now who judges all the earth will not make this judgment and the Lord said to him if I find in Sodom fifty just within the city I will spare the whole place for their sake and Abraham answered and said seeing I have once begun I will speak to my lord whereas I am dust and ashes what if there be five less than fifty just persons wilt thou for five and forty and destroy the whole city and he said I will not destroy it if I find five and forty and again he said to him but if forty be found there what wilt thou do he said I will not destroy it for the sake of the forty lord sathi be not angry I beseech thee if I speak what if thirty shall be found there he answered I will not do it if I find thirty they're seeing say if he I've once begun and will speak to my lord what if twenty be found there he said I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty I beseech thee say if he be not angry Lord defeat yet once more what if ten should be found there and he said I will not destroy it for the sake of ten and the Lord departed after he had left speaking to Abraham and Abraham returned to his place chapter nineteen lot entertaining angels in his house is delivered from Sodom which is destroyed his wife for looking back is turned into a statue of salt and the two angels came to Sodom in the evening and lot was sitting in the gate of the city and seeing them he rose up and went to meet them and worship prostrate to the ground and said I beseech you my lord turn into the house of your servant and launch there wash your feet and in the morning you shall go on your way and they said no but we will abide in the street he pressed them very much to turn in unto him and when they were come into his house he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread and they ate but before they went to bed the men of the city beset the house both young and old all the people together and they called lot and said to him where are the men that came in to the at night bring them out hither that we may know them lot went out to them and shut the door after him and said do not so I beseech you my brethren do not commit this evil I have two daughters who is yet have not known man I will bring them out to you and abuse you them as it shall please you so that you do no evil to these men because they are come in under the shadow of my room but they said get thee back hither and again thou camest in said they as a stranger was it to be a judge therefore we will afflict thee more than them and they pressed very violently upon lawn and they were even at the point breaking open the doors and behold the men put out their hand and drew in law unto them and shut the door and them that were without they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest so that they could not find the door and they said to lot hast thou here any a vine son-in-law or sons or daughters all that are thine bring them out of this city for we will destroy this place because their cries groan loud before the Lord who has sent us to destroy them so lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law that were to have his daughters and said arise get you out of this place because the Lord will destroy this city and he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest and when it was morning the Angels pressed him saying arise take thy wife and the two daughters which thou hast lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city and as he lingered they took his hand and the hand of his wife and of his two daughters because the Lord spared him and they brought him forth and set him without the city and there they spoke to him saying save thy life look not back neither stay thou in all the country about but save thyself in the mountain lest thou be also consumed and lot said to them I beseech thee my lord because thy servant hath found grace before thee and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou has shown to me and saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain with some evil sees me and I die there is this City here at hand to which I may flee it is a little one and I shall be saved in it is it not a little one and my soul shall live and he said to him behold also in this I have heard thy prayers not to destroy the city for which has spoken make haste and be saved there because I cannot do anything till thou go in hither therefore the name of that city was called zag or the Sun was risen upon the earth and lot entered into Zagar and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven and he destroyed these cities and all the country about all the inhabitants of these cities and all things that spring from the earth and his wife looking behind her was turned into a statue of salt and Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole land of that country and he saw ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace now when God destroyed the cities of that country remembering Abraham he delivered lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt and lot went up out of zagor and abode in the mountain and his two daughters with him for he was afraid to stay and zeg war and he dwelt in a cave he and his two daughters with him and the elders said to the younger our father is old and there is no man left on the earth to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth come let us make him drunk with wine and let us lie with him that we may preserve seed of our father and they made their father drink of wine that night and the elder went in and lay with her father but he perceived not neither when his daughter lay down nor when she rose up and the next day the elder said to the younger behold i lay last night with my father let us make him drink wine also tonight and thou shalt lie with him that we may save seed of our father they made their father drink one that night also and the younger daughter went in and lay with him and neither then did he perceive when she lay down nor when she rose up so the two daughters of lawd were with child by their father and the elder bore son and she called his name Moab he is the father of the Moabites and this day the younger also bore a son and she called his name Ammon that is the son of my people he is the father of the ammonites unto this day chapter 20 Abraham sojourned injur ara Serra is taken into King Abimelech house but by God's commandment is restored untouched Abraham removed from thence to the South Country and dwelt between Cadiz and sure and sojourned injure ara and he said of Sara his wife she is my sister so a bimolecular king of Gerar assent and took her and God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and he said to him lo thou shalt die for the woman thou hast taken for she half a husband now Abimelech had not touched her and he said Lord wilt out slay a nation that is ignorant and just did he not say to me she is my sister and she say he is my brother in the simplicity of my heart and cleanness of my hands have I done this and God said to him and I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart and therefore I would held be from sinning against me and I suffered thee not to touch her now therefore restore the man his wife for he is a prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live but if thou wilt not restore her know that thou shalt surely die thou and all that are thine and Abimelech forth width rising up in the night called all his servants and spoke all these words in their hearing and all the men were exceedingly afraid and Abimelech called also for Abraham and said to him what hast thou done to us what have we offended the end that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin thou has done to us what thou oughtest not to do and again he expostulate it with him and said what sauce now that thou hast done this Abraham answered I thought with myself saying perhaps there's not the fear of God in this place and they will kill me for the sake of my wife howbeit otherwise also she is truly my sister the daughter of my father and not the daughter of my mother and I took her to wife and after God brought me out of my father's house I said to her thou shalt do me this kindness in every place to which we shall come thou shalt say that I am thy brother and Abimelech took sheep and oxen and servants and handmaids and gave to Abraham and restored to him Sarah his wife and said the land is before you do all wheresoever it shall please thee and to Sarah he said Behold I've given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee and whithersoever thou shalt go and Remembered out what's taken and when Abraham prayed God healed Abimelech and his wife and his hand maids and they bore children for the Lord had closed up every wound of the house of Abimelech on the account of Sarah Abraham's wife chapter 21 Isaac is born Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth and the Lord visited Sara as he had promised and fulfilled what he had spoken and she conceived and bore a son in her old age at the time that God had foretold her and Abraham called the name of a son whom Sarah bore him Isaac and he circumcised him the eighth day as God had commanded him when he was a hundred years old for at this age of his father was Isaac born and Sarah said God hath made a laughter for me whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me and again she said who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sarah gave sucked to a son whom she bought him in his old age and the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning and when Sarah had seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son she said to Abraham cast out this bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac Abraham took this grievously for his son and God said to him let it not seem Grievous to thee for the boy and for thy bondwoman and all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice for in Isaac shall thy seed be called but I will make the son also of the bonds woman a great nation because he is thy seed so Abraham rose up in the morning and taking bread in a bottle of water put it upon her shoulder and delivered the boy and sent her away and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of beer City and when the water in the bottle was spent she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there and she went her way and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry for she said I will not see the boy die and sitting over against she lifted up her voice and wept and God heard the voice of the boy and an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven saying what art they're doing Hagar fear not for God hath heard the voice of the boy for the place wherein he is arise take up the boy and hold him by the hand for I will make him a great nation and God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and went and filled the bottle and gave the boy to drink and God was with him and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became a young man an orchard and he dwelt in the wilderness of fahren and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt at the same time Abimelech and pike hold the general of his army said to Abraham God is with thee and all that thou dost swear therefore by God that thou will not hurt me nor my posterity nor my stalk but according to the kindness that I have done to thee thou shalt do to me and to the land wherein thou has live a stranger and Abraham said I will swear and he reproved Abimelech for a well of water which his servants had taken away by force and have been alike answered I knew not who did this thing and thou did us not tell me and I heard not of it till today and Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to of him like and both of them made a league and Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock and Abimelech said to him what mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hath set apart but he said thou shalt take seven ewe lambs in my hand that they may be a testimony for me that I Douglas well therefore that place was called beer City because there both of them did swear and they made a league for the well of both and Abimelech and Paykel the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestine but Abraham planted a Grove in bare Sabine and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal and he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestine many days chapter 22 the faith and obedience of Abraham has proved in his readiness to sacrifice his son Isaac he stayed from the act by an angel former promises are renewed to him his brother natures issue after these things God tempted Abraham and said to him Abraham Abraham and he answered Here I am he said to him take my only begotten son Isaac whom thou lovest and go into the land of vision and there thou shall offer him for a holocaust on one of the mountains which I will show thee so Abraham rising up in the night saddled his ass and took with him two young men and Isaac his son and when he had cut wood for the Holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him and on the third day lifting up his eyes he saw the place afar off and he said to his young men stay you here with the ass I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder and after we have worshipped will return to you and he took the wood for the Holocaust and laid it upon Isaac his son and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword and as they two went on together Isaac said to his father my father and he answered what wilt thou son behold say if he fire in wood where's the victim for the Holocaust and Abraham said God will provide himself a victim for a Holocaust my son so they went on together and they came to the place which God had shown him where he built an altar and laid the wood in order upon it and when he had bound Isaac his son he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood and he put forth his hand and took the sword to sacrifice his son and behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him saying Abraham Abraham and he answered Here I am and he said to him lay not thy hand upon the boy neither do thou anything to him now I know that thou fearest God and it's not spared thy only begotten son for my sake Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briars sticking fast by the horns which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son and he called the name of that place the Lord sayeth whereupon even to this day it is said and the mountain the Lord will see and the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven saying by my own self I have sworn saith the Lord because thou has done this thing and has not spared thy only begotten son for my sake I will bless thee and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand that is by the seashore thy seed shall possess the gates their enemies and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice Abraham returned to his young men and they went to Bierce to vote together and he dwelt there after these things it was told Abraham that Melcher also had borne children to nature his brother HUS the firstborn and buz his brother and Tom well the father of the Syrians and Khasan and his ow and felled us and Jed laughs and bought two well of whom was born Rebecca these eight did milchem bear to nature Abraham's brother and his clunky bar named Romo bore tabby Gotham and Taha'a and Makkah chapter 23 Sara's death and burial in the field bought of EPROM and Sara lived a hundred and twenty seven years and she died in the city of our B which is Hebron and the land of Canaan and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her and after he rose up from the funeral obsequies he spoke to the children of Heth saying I'm a stranger in Sojourner among you give me the right of a burying-place with you that I may bury my dead the children of Heth answered saying my lord hear us thou art a prince of God among us bury thy dead in our principal Sepulcher and no man shall have the power to hinder thee from bearing by dead in his sepulchre Abraham rose up and bowed down to the people of the land to wit the children of half and he said to them if it please your soul that I should bury my dead hear me and intercede for me to ever on the son of Zion that he may give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you for a possession of a burying-place now a Perron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth a nephron maid answered to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city saying let it not be so my lord but do that rather hearken to what I say the field I delivered to thee and the cave that is therein in the presence of the children of my people bury thy dead Abraham bowed before the people of the land and he spoke to ever on in the presence of the people I beseech thee to hear me I will give money for the field take it and so I will bury my dead in it an emperor answered my lord hear me the ground which thou desirest is worth four hundred sickles of silver this is the price between me and thee but what is this bury thy dead and when Abraham had heard this he weighed out the money that upon had asked in hearing of the children of Heth the 406 of silver of common current money and the field that before was a perón's where n was the double cave looking towards Marah both it in the cave and all the trees thereof in all its limits around the bow was made sure to Abraham for a possession in the sight of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gate of a city and so Abraham buried Sarah his wife in a double cave of the field that looked towards Marah this is Hebron in the land of Canaan and the field was made sure to Abraham and the cave that was in it for possession to Berrien by the children of Heth chapter 24 Abraham's servant sent by him into Mesopotamia bringeth from thence Rebecca who was married to Isaac now Abraham was old and advanced in age and the Lord had blessed him in all things and he said to the elder servant of his house who was ruler over all he had put thy hand under my thigh that I may make the swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth that they'll take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell but that thou go to my own country in kindred and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac the servant answered if the woman will not come with me into this land must I bring my son back again to the place from whence thou camest out and Abraham said beware thou never bring my son back again hither the Lord God of heaven who took me out of my father's house out of my native country who spoke to me and swore to me saying to thy seed will I give this land he will send his angel before thee and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son but if the woman will not follow thee thou shalt not be bound by the oath when they bring not my son back hither again the servant therefore put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his Lord and swore to him upon this word and he took ten camels of his master's herd and departed carrying something of all his Goods with him and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of nature and when he had made the camels lie down without the town near a well of water in the evening at the time when women are want to come out to draw water he said O Lord the God of my master Abraham meet me today I beseech thee and show kindness to my master Abraham behold i stand nigh the spring of water and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water now therefore the maid to whom I shall say let down thy pitcher that I may drink and she shall answer drink and I will give thy camels drink also let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac and by this I shall understand that thou has shown kindness to my master he had not yet ended these words within himself and behold Rebekah came out the daughter of Batou all son of melchi wife to nature the brother of Abraham having a pitcher on her shoulder and exceedingly comely maid and a most beautiful virgin and not known to man and she went down to the spring and filled her pitcher and was coming back and the servant ran to meet her and said give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher and she answered drink my lord and quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm and gave him drink and when he had drunk she said I will draw water for thy camels also until they all drink and pouring out the pitcher into the trials she ran back to the well to draw water and having drawn she gave to all the camels but he musing beheld her with silence desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not and after that the cane was a drunk the man took out golden earrings weighing two sickles and as many bracelets of ten sickles way and he said to her whose daughter art thou tell me is there any place in thy father's house to lodge and she answered I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah who she boarded a chore and she said moreover town we have good store of bull straw and hay and a large place to lodge it the man bowed himself down and adored the Lord saying blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham I've not taken away his mercy and truth from my master and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my Master's brother then the maid ran and told in her mother's house all that she had heard and Rebekah had a brother named Loven who went out in haste to the man to the well and when he had seen the earrings and bracelets and his sister's hands and it heard all that she related saying thus and thus the man spoke to me he came to the man who stood by the camels and near to the spring of water and said to him come in now blessed of the Lord why standest that without I have prepared the house in a place for the camels and he brought him into his lodging and he unhonest the camels and gave straw and hay and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were come with him and bread was set before him but he said I will not eat till I tell my message he answered him speak and he said I am the servant of Abraham and the LORD hath blessed my master wonderfully and he has become great and he hath given him sheep and oxen silver and gold men servants and woman sermons camels and asses and Sarah my Master's wife hath borne my master a son in her old age and he hath given him all that he had and my master made me swear saying thou shalt not take a wife for my son at the Canaanites in whose land I dwell but thou shalt go to my father's house and shall take a wife of my own Kidron for my son but I answered my master what if the woman will not come with me Lord said he in whose sight I walked will send his angel with thee and will direct thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred and of my father's house but if thou shalt be clear for my curse when thou shalt come to my kindred if they will not give thee one and I came today to the well of water and said O Lord God of my master Abraham if thou hast prospered my way wherein I now walk behold I stand by the well of water and the virgin that shall come out to draw water who shall hear me say give me a little water to drink the vibe pitcher and shall say to me both drink now and I will also draw for that camels let the same be woman whom the Lord hath prepared for my master son and whilst I ponder these things secretly within myself Rebecca appeared coming with a pitcher as she carried on her shoulder and she went down to the well and drew water and I said to her give me a little to drink and she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder and said to me both drink thou and to thy camels I will give drink I drank and she watered the camels and I asked her and said whose daughter art down and she answered I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of nature whom L CH abhorred him so I put earrings on her to adorn her face and I put bracelets on her hands and falling down I adored the Lord blessing the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son wherefore if you do according to mercy and truth with my mask tell me but if it please you otherwise tell me that also that I may go to the right hand or to the left and lob on and battle answered the word hath proceeded from the Lord we cannot speak any other thing to be but his pleasure behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go thy way and let her be the wife of thy master's son as the LORD hath spoken which when Abraham's servant heard falling down to the ground he had dord the Lord and bringing forth vessels of silver and gold and garments he gave them to Rebecca for a present he offered gifts also to her brothers and to her mother and a banquet was made and they ate and drank together and launched there and in the morning the servant aroused and said let me depart that I may go to my master and her brother and mother answered let the maid stay at least ten days with us and afterwards she shall depart stay me Noah said he because the Lord hath prospered my way send me away that I may go to my master and they said let us call the maid and ask her well and they called her and when she was come they asked wilt thou go with this man she said I will go so they sent her away and her nurse and Abraham's servant and his company wishing prosperity to their sister and saying thou art our sister may us now increased to thousands of thousands and made IC possess the gates of their enemies so Rebecca and her maids being set upon camels followed the man who with speed returned to his master at the same time Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called of the living and the seeing before he dwelt in the south country and he was gone forced to meditate in the field the day being now well spent and when he had lifted up his eyes he saw camels coming afar off Rebecca also when she saw Isaac lighted off the camel and said to the servant who is that man that cometh towards us along the field and he said to her man is my master but she quickly took her cloak and covered herself and the servant told Isaac all that he had done who brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took her to wife and he loved her so much that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death chapter 25 Abraham's children by cateura his death and that of Ishmael Isaac half Esau and Jacob twins Esau selleth his first birthright to Jacob and Abraham married another wife named Keturah who bore hems Omron and Jackson and Madonna and ma Dion and JS Bach and soo Jackson also begat Saba and Dawn the children of gabon were as room and lattice iam and looming but of ma Dion was born epi' and au pair and Enoch and a Buddha in a Lada all these were the children of keturah and Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac and to the children of the concubines he gave gifts and separated them from Isaac his son while yet he lived to the east country and the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years and decaying he died in a good old age and having lived a long time and being full of days and was gathered his people and Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the double cave which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar over against Mara which he had bought of the children of Heth there he was buried and Sarah his wife and after his death god blessed Isaac his son who dwelt by the well-named of the living and seeing these are the generations of Ishmael the son of Abraham whom Eggar the Egyptian Sarah servant bore unto him and these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations the firstborn of Ishmael was knavish off then Keter and advil and mob some and Maas ma and Duma and masa Heydar and Tamar and je thir and novice and kid ma these are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by their castles and towns twelve princes of their tribes and the years of Ishmael's life for a hundred and thirty seven and decaying he died and was gathered unto his people and he dwelt from heavy law as far as sure which looketh towards Egypt to them that go toward the Assyrians he died in the presence of all his brethren these also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham Abraham begot Isaac who when he was forty years old took to wife Rebekah the daughter about to Elam the Syrian of Mesopotamia sister to love honor and Isaac besought the Lord for his wife because she was barren and he heard him and made Rebekah to conceive but the children struggled in her womb and she said if it were to be so with me what need was there to conceive and she went to consult the Lord and he answering said two nations are in thy womb and two people shall be divided out of thy womb and one people shall overcome the other and the elder shall serve the younger and when her time was come to be delivered Behold twins were found in her womb he that came forth first was red and hairy like a skin and his name was called Esau immediately the other coming forth held his brother's foot in his hand and therefore he was called Jacob knew Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him and when they were grown up Esau became a skillful hunter and the husbandmen but Jacob a plain man and dwelt in tents Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his hunting and Rebecca loved Jacob and Jacob boiled pottage tongue Esau coming faint out of the field said give me of this red pottage for I am exceedingly faint for which reason his name was called Edom and Jacob said to him sell me thy first birthright he answered lo I die what will the first birthright avail me Jacob said swear therefore to me Esau swore to him and sold his first birthright and so taking bread and the pottage of lentils he ate and drank and went his way making little account of having sold his first birthright chapter 26 Isaac sojourneth and Arara were God renew a--the to him the promise made to Abraham King Abimelech maketh leek with him and when a famine came in the land after that Berenice which happened in the days of Abraham Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestine stooge Arara and the Lord appeared to him and said go not down into Egypt but stay in the land that I shall tell thee and sojourn in it and I will be with thee and will bless thee for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father and I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven and I will give to thy posterity all these countries and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my precepts and Commandments and observe my ceremonies and laws so Isaac abode in Drori and when he was asked by the men of that place concerning his wife he answered she is my sister for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife was thinking less perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty and when very many days were passed and he abode their Abimelech king of the palestine's looking out through a window saw him playing with Rebecca his wife and calling for him he said it is evidence she is thy wife why did a stile feign her to be thy sister he answered I feared lest I should die for her sake and Abimelech said why has thou deceived us some man of the people might have lain with my wife and now had us brought upon us a great sin and he commanded all the people saying he that shall touch this man's wife shall surely be put to death and I was exciting that land and he found the same year 100 fold and the Lord blessed him and the man was enriched and he went on prospering and increasing till he became exceedingly grave and he had possessions of sheep and of herds and a very great family wherefore the Palestine envying him stalked up at that time all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had digged filling them up with earth and so much that Abimelech himself said to Isaac depart from us for thou art become much mightier than we so he departed and came to the torrent of Gerar ax to dwell there and he digged again in other wells which servants his father Abraham had inked and which after his death the Palestine said of old stopped-up and he called them by the same names by which his father before it called them and they digged in the torrent and found living water but they're also the herdsmen of Gerar strove against the herdsmen of Isaac saying it is our water wherefore he called the name of the well on occasion of that which happened calumny and they digged also another and for that they quarreled likewise and he called the name of it M natee going forward from thence he dated another well for which they contended not therefore he called the name thereof Latitude saying now hath the Lord given us room and made us to increase upon the earth and he went up from that place to beer City where the Lord appeared to him that same night saying I am the God of Abraham thy father do not fear for I am with thee I will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake and he built there an altar and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent and commanded his servants to dig a well to which place when a beam like Anoka saw his friend and Paykel chief captain of his soldiers came from girar isaac said to them why are you come to me a man whom you hate and have thrust out from you and they answered we saw that the Lord is with thee and therefore we said let there be an oath between us and let us make a covenant that thou do us no harm as we on our part have touched nothing of thine nor have done anything to hurt thee but with peace has sent the away increased with the blessing of the Lord and he made them a feast and after they had eaten and drunk arising in the morning they swore one to another and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home and behold the same day the servants of Isaac came telling him of a well which they had digged and saying we have found water whereupon he called it abundance and the name of the city was called be heirs to be even to this day and esau being 40 years old married wives Judith the daughter of Barry the hittite and bass man the daughter of a lawn of the same place and they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebekah Doctor 27 jacob by him mother's counsel obtaineth his father's blessing instead of Esau and by her as advised to fly to his uncle Laban now Isaac was old and his eyes were dim and he could not see and he called he saw his elder son and said to him my son and he answered Here I am and his father said to him thou seest that I am old and know not the day of my death take thy arms thy quiver and bow and go abroad and when thou has taken something by hunting make me savory meat thereof as thou knowest I like and bring it that I may eat and my soul may bless thee before I die and when Rebekah had heard this and he was gone into the field to fulfill his father's commandment she said to her son Jacob I heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother and saying to him bring me of thy hunting and make me meats that I may eat and bless thee in the sight of the Lord before I die now therefore my son to follow my counsel and go thy way to the flock bring me two kids of the best that I may make of them meat for thy father such as he gladly eateth which one though hast brought in and he hath eaten he may bless thee before he died and he answered her thou knowest that Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am smooth if my father shall feel me and perceive it I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing and his mother said to him upon me be this curse my son only hear thou my voice and go fetch me the things which I have said he went and brought and gave them to his mother she dressed meats such as she knew his father liked and she put on him very good garments of Esau which he had at home with her and the little skins of the kids she put about his hands and covered the bear of his neck and she gave him the savoury mean and delivered him bread that she had baked which when he had carried in he said my father but he answered I hear who art thou my son and Jacob said I am Esau thy firstborn I have done this thou did as command me arrives sit and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me and Isaac said to his son how could a stile find it so quickly my son he answered it was the will of God that what I saw it came quickly in my way and Isaac said come hither that I may feel D my son and may prove whether thou be my son Esau or not he came near to his father and when he had felt him Isaac said the voice is indeed the voice of Jacob but the hands were the hands of Esau and he knew him not because his hairy hands made him like to the elder then blessing him he said art thou my son he saw he answered I am then he said bring me the meats of thy hunting my son that my soul may bless thee and when they were brought and he had eaten he offered him wine also which after he had drunk he said to him come near me and give me a kiss my son he came near and kissed him and immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments blessing him he's behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field which the LORD hath blessed God give thee the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth abundance of corn and wine and let people serve thee and tribes worship thee be thou Lord of thy brethren and let thy mother's children bow down before thee perspi he that curseth thee and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings isaac had scarce ended his words when jacob being now gone out abroad esau came and brought in to his father meats made of what he had taken in hunting saying arise my father and eat of thy sons venison that thy soul may bless me and Isaac said to him why who art thou he answered I am thy first for son Esau Isaac was struck with fear and astonished exceedingly and wondering beyond what can be believed said who is he then but even now brought me venison that he had taken my eighth of all before thou camest and I have blessed him and he shall be blessed Esau having heard his father's words root out with a great cry and being in a great consternation said bless me also my father and he said thy brother came deceitfully and Gotha blessing but he said again rightly is his name called jacob for he hath supplanted me lo this second time my first birthright he took away before and now the second time he has stolen away my blessing and again he said to his father hast thou not reserved me also a blessing Isaac answered I have appointed him thy Lord and have made all his brethren his servants I have established him with corn and wine and after this what shall I do more for thee my son and he saw said to him past the only one blessing father I beseech thee bless me also and when he wept with a loud cry Isaac being moved said to him in the fat of the earth and in the dew of the heaven from above shall thy blessing be there shall live by the sword and shalt serve thy brother and the time shall come when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from by neck Esau therefore always hated Jacob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him and he said in his heart the days will come the morning of my father and I will kill my brother Jacob these things were told to Rebekah and she sent a called Jacob her son and said to him behold Esau thy brother threat enough to kill thee now therefore my son hear my voice arise and flee to Laban my brother and Haran and thou shalt dwell with him a few days till the wrath of my brother BIA swage and his indignation cease and he forget the things thou hast done to him afterwards I will send and bring thee from thence hither why shall I be deprived to both of my sons in one day and Rebekah said to Isaac I am weary of my life because of the daughters of hath if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land I choose not to live chapter 28 Jacob's journey to Mesopotamia his vision and vow and Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him saying take not a wife from the stock of Canaan but go take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria to the house of back to all thy mother's father and take the wife thence of the daughters of Laban die uncle and God Almighty bless thee and make thee to increase and multiply thee that thou may'st be a multitude of people and give the blessings of Abraham to thee and to thy seed after thee the DAO may has possessed the land of thy sojourn on which he promised to that grand father and when Isaac had sent him away he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban the son of battle while the Syrian brother to Rebekah his mother and he saw seeing that his father had blessed Jacob and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria to marry a wife then and that after the blessing he had charged him saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan and that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria experiencing also that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Canaan he went to Ishmael and took two wife besides them he had before may Allah the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son the sister of naba Joff but Jacob departed from beer sippy and went on to Haran and when he was come to a certain place and would rest in it after sunset he took of the stones that lay there and putting under his head slept in the same place and he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth and the top there of touching heaven the angels also of God ascending and descending by it and the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father and the god of Isaac the land wherein thou sleepest I will give to thee and to thy scene and I see shall be as the dust of the earth thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and thy seed all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed and I will be thy keeper whatsoever thou goest and will bring thee back into this land neither will I leave thee till I have accomplished all that I have said and when Jacob awakened out of sleep he said indeed the Lord is in this place and I knew it not and trembling he said how terrible is this place this is no other but the house of God and the gate of heaven and Jacob rising in the morning took the stone which he had laid under his head and set it up for a title pouring oil upon the top of it and he called the name of the city Bethel which before was called loose' and he made a vow saying if God shall be with me and shall keep me in the way by which I walked and shall give me bread to eat and raiment to put on and I shall return prosperously to my father's house the Lord shall be my god and this stone which I have set up for a title shall be called the house of God and of all things that thou shalt give to me I will offer tithe to thee chapter 29 Jacob's service lob on seven years for Rachel but it's deceived with Leah he afterwards marrieth Rachel Leah bears him four sons then Jacob went on in his journey and came into the east country and he saw well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying by it for the beasts were watered out of it and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone and the custom was when all the sheep were gathered together to roll away the stone and after the sheep are watered to put it on the mouth of the well again and he said to the Shepherd's brethren whence are you they answered of Haran and he asked them saying P no lob on the Sun of nature they said we know him he said is he in health he is in health say they and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with his flock and Jacob said there is yet much day remaining neither is it time to bring the flocks into the fold again first give the sheep drink and so lead them back to feed they answered we cannot till all the cattle be gathered together and we removed the stone from the wells mouth that we may water the flocks they were yet speaking and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep for she fed the flock and when Jacob saw her he knew her to be his cousin German and that they were the sheep of Labuan his uncle he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed and having watered the flock he kissed her and lifting up his voice wept and he told her that he was their father's brother and the son of Rebekah but she went in haste and told her father who when he heard the Jacob his sister son was come ran forth to meet him and embracing him and heartily kissing him brought him into his house and when he had heard the causes of his journey he answered thou art my bone in my flesh and after the days of one month were expired he said to him because thou art my brother shalt thou serve me without wages tell me what wages that will have now he had two daughters the name of the elder was Leah and the younger was called Rachel but Leah was blear-eyed Rachel was well favoured enough a beautiful countenance and Jacob being in love with her said I will serve these seven years for Rachel by a younger daughter LaVon answered it is better that I give her to thee than to another man stay with me so Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed but a few days because of the greatness of his love and he said to LaVon give me my wife for now the time is fulfilled that I may go in unto her and he having invited a great number of his friends to the feast made the marriage and at night he brought in Leah his daughter to him giving his daughter a handmaid names Elfa now when Jacob had gone in to her according to the custom when morning was come he saw it was Leah and he said to his father-in-law what is it that thou did it mean to do did I not serve thee for Rachel why has thou deceived me LaVon answered it is not the custom in this place to give the younger in marriage first make up the week of days of this match and I will give thee her also for the service that thou shall render me other seven years he yielded to his pleasure and after the week was passed he married Rachel to whom her father gave Paul off for her servant and having at length obtained the marriage he wished for he preferred the love of the latter before the former and served with him other seven years and the Lord seeing that he despised Leah opened her womb but her sister remained barren and she conceived and bore a son and called his name reuben saying the lord saw my affliction now my husband will love me and again she conceived and bore a son and said because the lord heard that i was despised he hath given this also to me and she called his name Simeon and she conceived the third time and bore another son and said now also my husband will be joined to me because I have borne him three sons and therefore she called his name Levi the fourth time she conceived and bore a son and said now I will praise the Lord for this she called him Judah and she left bearing chapter 30 Rachel being barren delivers her handmaid to Jacob she Bharath two sons Leah ceasing to bear giveth also array and made and she Bharath two more then leah Bharath two other sons and one daughter Rachel birth Joseph Jacob desirous to return home is hired to stay for a certain part of the flocks increase whereby he becometh exceeding rich and Rachel seeing herself without children envy her sister and said to her husband give me children otherwise I shall die and Jacob being angry with her answered am I is God who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb but she said I have here my surf and Bala go in unto her that she may bear upon my knees and I may have children by her and she gave him bala in marriage who when her husband had gone in unto her conceived and bore a son and Rachel said the Lord hath judged for me and hath heard my voice giving me a son and therefore she called his name Dan and again Bala conceived and bore another for whom Rachel said God hath compared me with my sister and I have prevailed and she called in Neftali leah perceiving that she had left off bearing gaves alpha her handmaid to her husband and when she conceived in brought forth the son she said happily and therefore called his name gad sulfa also bore another and Leah said this is for my happiness for women will call me blessing therefore she called him a Sarah and Reuben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field found and drinks which he brought to his mother Leah and Rachel said give me part of thy sons Mandrake's she answered thus thou think at a small matter that thou has taken my husband from me unless thou take also my son's Mandrake's Rachel said he shall sleep with thee this night for thy sons Mandrake's and when Jacob returned it even from the field Leah went out to meet him and said thou shalt come in unto me because I have hired thee for my son's Mandrake's and he slept with her that night and God heard her prayers and she conceived and bore the fifth son and said I've given your reward because I gave my handmaid to my husband as she called his name Isaac R and Milla conceived again and bore the sixth son and said God hath endowed me with a good dowry this turn also my husband will be with me because I have borne him six sons and therefore she called his name's Abba lon after whom she bore a daughter named Dina the Lord also remembering Rachel heard her and opened her womb and she conceived and bore a son saying God hath taken away my reproach and she called his name Joseph saying the Lord give me also another son and when Joseph was born Jacob said to his father-in-law send me away that I may return into my country and to my land give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee that I may depart thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee LaVon said to him let me find favor in thy sight I've learned by experience that God hath blessed me for thy sake appoint those which I shall give to thee but he answered thou knowest how I have served thee and how great thy possession hath been in my hands thou hast but little before I came to thee and now thou art become rich and the LORD hath blessed thee at my coming it is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house and Labuan said what shall I give thee but he said I require nothing but if thou will do what I demand I will feed and keep the sheep again go round through all the flocks and separate all the Sheep of divers colours and speckled and all that is brown and spotted and have divers colours as well among the sheep is among the goats shall be my wages and my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee when the time of the bargain shall come and all that is not of divers colours and spotted and brown as well among the sheep is among the goats shall choose me of theft and LaVon said I like well what thou demand us and he separated the same day the she coats and the sheep and the he goats and the Rams of divers colours and spotted and all the flock of one colour that is of white and black fleece he delivered into the hands of his sons and he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law who fed the rest of his flock and Jacob took green rods of poplar and of almond and of plain trees and piled them in part so when the bark was taken off in the parts that were piled there appeared whiteness but the parts that were whole remain green by this means the color was diverse and he put them in the troughs where the water was poured out that when the flock should come to drink they might have the rods before their eyes and in the sight of them might conceive and it came to pass that in the very heat of coit on the sheep held the rods and brought forth spotted and have divers colors and speckled and jacob separated the flock and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams and all the white and the black were lavon's and the rest for jacob's when the flocks were separated from one another so when the ewes went first to ram jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of rams and of the eyes of use that they might conceive while they were looking upon them but when the latter coming was and the last conceiving he did not put them and those that were late word became law bonds and they are the first time jacob's and the man was enriched exceedingly and he had many flocks maidservants and menservants camels and asses chapter 31 Jacobs departure he is pursued and overtaken by la bond they make a covenant but after that he heard the words of the sons of la bonne Jacob hath taken away all that was our fathers and being rich by his substance is become great and perceiving also the law wants countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day especially the Lord saying to him return into the land of thy fathers into thy kindred and I will be with thee he sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where he fed the flocks and said to them I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day but the god of my father hath been with me and you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power yay your father also hath overreached me and has changed my wages ten times and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me if at any time he said the speckled shall be thy wages all the sheep brought forth speckled but when he said on the contrary thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages all the flocks brought forth white ones and God hath taken your father's substance and given it to me for after that time came of the ewes conceiving I lifted up my eyes and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours and spotted and speckled and the angel of God said to me on my sleep Jacob and I answered Here I am and he said lift up thy eyes and see that all the males leaping upon the females or of divers colours spotted and speckled for I have seen all the law one hath done to thee I am the God of Bethel where thou didst anoint the stone and make a vow to me now therefore arise and go out of this land and return into thy native country and Rachel and Leah answered have we anything left the goods and inheritance of our father's house have he not counted us as strangers and sold us and eaten up the price of us but God hath taken our father's riches and delivered them to us and to our children wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee then Jacob rose up and having said his children and wives upon camels went his way and he took all his substance and flocks and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan at that time LaVon was gone to share his sheep and Rachel stole away her father's idols and Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away and when he was gone together with all that belonged to him and having passed the river was going on towards mount Gallen it was told LaVon on the third day the Jacob fled and he took his brethren with him and pursued after him seven days and overtook him in the Mount of gallen and he saw in a dream God saying to him take heed thou speak not anything harshly against Jacob now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain and he with his brethren had overtaken him he pitched his tent in the same mount of gallon and he said to Jacob why hast thou done this to carry away without my knowledge my daughters as captives taken with the sword why would a snail run away privately and not acquaint me that I might have brought thee on the way with joy and with songs and with timbrels and with harps thou has not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters thou hast done foolishly and now indeed it is in my power to return the evil but the God of your father said to me yesterday take heed thou speak not anything harshly against Jacob suppose they did as desire to go to thy friends and had us to longing after thy father's house why has thou stolen way my gods Jacob answered that I heard it unknown to thee it was for fear less thou wouldest take away my daughters by force but whereas thou charges me with theft with whomsoever thou shalt find thy God's let him be slain before our brethren search and if thou find any of the things with me take them away now when he had said this he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols so LaVon went into the tent of Jacob and of Leah and of both The Handmaid's and found them not and when he was entered into Rachel's tent she in haste hid the idols under the chaos furniture and sat upon them and when he had searched all the tent and found nothing she said let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women so his careful search was in vain and Jacob being angry said in a chiding manner for what fault of mine and for what offense on my part as though so hotly pursued me and searched all my household stuff what hast thou found of all the substance of thy house lay it here before my brethren and my brethren and let them judge between me and thee have I therefore been with the twenty years by use and goats were not barren the Rams of thy flocks I did not eat neither did I show thee that which the Beast had torn I made good all the damage whatsoever was lost by theft thou did us the exact it of me day and night was i parched with heat and with frost and sleep departed from my eyes and in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years fourteen for thy daughters and six for thy flocks thou has changed also my wages ten times and lest the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaac had stood by me peradventure now thou had a sent me away naked God beheld my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked the yesterday Livan answered him the daughters are mine and the children and the flocks and all the things that thou seest our mind what can I do to my children and grandchildren come therefore let us enter into a league that it may be for a testimony between me and thee and Jacob took a stone and set it up for a title and he said to his brethren bring hither stones and they gathering stones together made a heap and they ate upon it and LaVon called it the witness he and Jacob the hillock of testimony each of them according to the propriety of his language and Lebon said this heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day and therefore the name thereof was called gal ad that is the witness heap the Lord behold and judged between us when we shall be gone from the other if thou flicked my daughters and if thou bring in other wives over them none is witness of our speech but God who is present and behold if and he said again to Jacob behold this Eve and the stone which I've set up between me and thee shall be a witness this heap I say and the stone be they for a testimony if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me the God of Abraham and the god of nature the God of their father judged between us and Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac and after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain he called his brethren to eat bread and when they had eaten they lodged there but la bond rose in the night and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them and returned to his place chapter 32 Jacob's vision of angels his message and presence to Esau his wrestling with an angel Jacob also went on the journey he had begun and the angels of God met him and when he saw them he said these are the camps of God and he called the name of that place Mahanaim that camps and he sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of se year to the country of Edom and he commanded them saying thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau thus saith thy brother Jacob I have sojourned with lawmen and have been with him until this day I have oxen and asses and sheep and men servants and women servants and now I send a message to my Lord that I might find favor in thy sight and the messengers returned to Jacob saying we came to Esau thy brother and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with 400 men then Jacob was greatly afraid and in his fear divided the people that was with him and the flocks and the sheep and the oxen and the camels into two companies saying if he saw come to one company and destroy it the other company that his left shall escape and Jacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac o Lord who said us to me return to thy land and to the place of thy birth and I will do well for thee I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I return with two companies deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau for I am greatly afraid of him lest perhaps he come and killed the mother with the children thou did it say that thou wouldest do well by me and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude and when he had slept there that night he said apart of the things which he had presents for his brother Esau two hundred she-goats 20 he goats two hundred ewes and twenty Rams thirty milk camels with their Colts forty kine and twenty Bulls twenty she asses and ten of their foals and he sent them by the hands of his servants every drove by itself and he said to his servants go before me and let there be a space between drove and drove and he commanded the first saying if thou mean my brother Esau and he asked thee whose art thou or whither goest thou or whose are these before thee thou shalt answer thy servant Jacobs he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau and he cometh after us in like manner he commanded the second and the third and all that followed the drove saying speak II the same words to Esau when he find him and ye shall add thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us for he said I will appease him with the presence that go before and afterwards I will see him perhaps he will be gracious to me so the presence went before him but himself lodged that night in the camp and rising early he took his two wives and his two hand mades with his eleven sons and passed over the Ford of jae bok and when all things were brought over that belonged to him he remained alone and behold a man wrestled with him till morning and when he saw that he could not overcome him he touched the sinew of his thigh and forth with a shrink and he said to him let me go for it his break of day he answered I will not let thee go except thou bless me and he said what is thy name he answered Jacob but he said thy name shall not be called Jacob but Israel for if thou has been strong against God how much more shalt thou prevail against men Jacob asked him tell me by what name art thou called he answered why dost thou ask my name and he blessed him in the same place and Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel saying I have seen God face to face and my soul has been saved and immediately the Sun rose upon him after he was passed farewell but he halted on his foot therefore the children of Israel unto this day eat not the sinew that shrank and Jacob's thigh because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank chapter 33 Jacob and Esau meet Jacob goeth to Salem where he raiseth an altar and Jacob lifting up his eyes saw Esau coming and with him four hundred men and he divided the children of Leah and of Rachel and of the two hand maids and he put both the hand maids and their children foremost and Leah and her children in the second place and Rachel and Joseph last and he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times until his brother came near then he saw ran to meet his brother and embraced him and clasping him fast about the neck and kissing him wept and lifting up his eyes he saw the women and their children and said what mean these and do they belong to thee he answered they are the children which God hath given to me thy servant then The Handmaid's and their children came near and bowed themselves Leah also with her children came near and bowed down in like manner and last of all Joseph and Rachel bowed down and Esau said what are the droves that I met he answered that I might find favor before my Lord but he said I have plenty my brother keep what is thine for thyself and Jacob said do not so I beseech thee but if I found favor in thy eyes receive a little present at my hands for I've seen by face as if I should have seen the countenance of God be gracious to me and take the blessing which I have brought thee in which God hath given me who giveth all things he took it with much ado and his brother's earnest pressing him and said let us go on together and I will accompany be in thy journey and Jacob said my lord thou knowest that I have with me tender children and sheep and kin with young which if I should cause to be ever driven in one day all the flocks will may it please my lord to go before his servant and I will follow softly after him as I shall see my children to be able until I come to my Lord and say year he saw answered I beseech thee that some of the people at least her with me may stayed to accompany thee in the way and he said there is no necessity I want nothing else but only to find favor my lord in thy sight so II saw return that day the way that he came to say ear and Jacob came to soak off were having built a house and pitched hence he called the name of the place so cough that his tent and he passed over to Salem a city of the sick of mites which is in the land of Canaan after he returned from Mesopotamia Syria and he dwelt by the town and he bought part of the field in which he pitched his tents of the children of hem war the father Sikkim for a hundred lambs and raising an altar there he invoked upon it the most mighty God Israel chapter 34 Dina is ravished for which the seeker mites are destroyed and Dina the daughter of Leo went out to see the women of that country once seek him the son of he more the he vite the prince of that land saw her he was in love with her and took her away and lay with her ravishing the virgin and his soul was fast knit unto her and whereas she was sad he comforted her with sweet words and going to he more his father he said get me this damsel to wife but when Jacob had heard this his sons being absent and employed in feeding the cattle he held his peace till they came back and when he more the father of Sikkim was come out to speak to Jacob behold his sons came from the field in hearing what had passed they were exceedingly angry because he had done a foul thing in Israel and committed an unlawful act in ravishing Jacobs daughter and he more spoke to them the soul of my son cecum has a longing for your daughter give her him to wife and let us contract marriages one with another give us your daughters and take you our daughters and dwell with us the land is at your command till trade and possess it cecum also said to her father and to her brethren let me find favor in your sight and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give raise the dowry and ask gifts and I will gladly give what you shall demand only give me this damsel to wife the sons of Jacob answered cecum and his father deceitfully being enraged at the deflowering of their sister we cannot do what you demand nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised which with us is unlawful and abominable but in this we may be allied with you if you will be like us and all the male sex among you be circumcised then we will mutually give and take your daughter's in ours and we will dwell with you and we'll be one people but if you will not be circumcised we will take our daughter and depart they're offered please Timur and Sikkim his son and the young man made no delay but forthwith fulfilled what was required for he loved the damsel exceedingly and he was the greatest man in all his father's house and going into the gate of the city they spoke to the people these men are peaceable and willing to dwell with us let them trade in the land until it which being large and why and wanteth men to till it we shall take their daughters for wires and we will give them ours one thing there is for which so great a good is deferred we must circumcise every male among us following the manor of the nation and their substance and cattle and all they possess shall be ours only in this let us condescend and by dwelling together we shall make one people and they all agreed and circumcise all the males and behold the third day when the pain of the wound was the greatest - of the sons of Jacob Simeon and Levi the brothers of Dina taking their sores entered boldly into the city and slew all the men and they killed also he more in cecum and took away their sister Dina out of Seagram's house and when they were going out the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city in revenge of the rape and they took their sheep and their herds and their asses wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields and their children and wives they took captive and when they had boldly perpetrated these things Jacob said to Simeon and Levi you have troubled me and made me hateful to the Canaanites and parasites the inhabitants of this land we are few they will gather themselves together and kill me both I and my house shall be destroyed they answered should they abuse our sister as a strumpet chapter 35 Jacob purchased his family from idols goeth by God's commandment to Bethel and their build if an altar God appearing again to jacob bless of him and changes his name into Israel Rachel died in childbirth Isaac also diet in the meantime God said to Jacob arise and go up to Bethel and dwell there and make an altar to God who appeared to thee when thou did his flee from Esau thy brother and Jacob having called together all his household sin cast away the strange gods that are among you and be cleansed and change your garments arise let us go up to Bethel that we may make there an altar to God who heard me in the day of my affliction and accompany me in my journey so they gave him all the strange gods they had and the earrings which were in their ears and he buried them under the turpentine tree that is behind the city of Sikkim and when they were departed the terror of God fell upon all the cities roundabout and they Durst not pursue after them as they went away and Jacob came to loosen which is in the land of Canaan surnamed Bethel he and all the people that were with him and he built there an altar and called the name of that place the house of God for their God appeared to him when he fled from his brother at the same time Deborah the nurse of Rebecca died and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak and the name of that place was called the oak of weeping and God appeared again to Jacob after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria and he blessed him saying thou shalt not be called any more Jacob but Israel shall be thy name and he called him Israel and said to him I am God Almighty increased thou and be multiplied nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee and Kings shall come out of thy loins and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee and he departed from him but he set up a monument of stone in the place where God had spoken to him pouring drink offerings upon it and pouring oil thereon and calling the name of that place Bethel and going forth from thence he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata wherein when Rachel was in travail by reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger and the midwife said to her fear not for thou shalt have this son also and when her soul was departing for pain and death was now at hand she called the name of her son bonanni that is the son of my pain but his father called him Benjamin that is the son of the right hand so Rachel died and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata that is Bethlehem and Jacob erected a pillar over her Sepulcher this is the pillar of rachel's monument to this day departing dense he pitched his tent beyond the flock tower and when he dwelt in that country reuben went and slept with bala the occupying of his father which he was not ignorant of now the sons of Jacob were 12 the sons of Leah Ruud firstborn and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Isaac are and Sabol on the sons of Rachel Joseph and Benjamin the sons of Bala Rachel's handmaid Dan and Naphtali the sons of zell feh Leah's handmaid GAD and s heir these are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria and he came to Isaac his father in mom bruh the city of RB this is Hebron were in Abraham and Isaac sojourned and the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years and being spent with age he died and was gathered to his people being old and full of days and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him chapter 36 Esau with his wives and children parted from Jacob an account of his descendants and of the first kings of Edom and these are the generations of Esau the same as Edom Esau took wives of the daughters of canaan ada the daughter of L on the hittite a new lobe AMA of the daughter of anah the daughter of subby on the hivite and basemath the daughter of ishmael sister of naba Joff and a de Bourgh Elif as basemath bore ratio Al Houla bomb aboard Jay who's and Talon and corps these are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan and Esau took his wives and his sons and daughters in every soul of his house and his substance and cattle and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Canaan and went into another country and departed from his brother Jacob for they were exceeding rich and could not dwell together neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them for the multitude of their flocks and Esau dwelt in mounts a year he is Edom and these are the generations of Esau the father of Idi Amin mounts a heir and these the names of his sons elif as son of a doll the wife of Esau and Rey who L the son of basemath his wife an elephants had sons Taemin Omar Sefo and Gotham and Senna's and thomna was the concubine of Elif as the son of esau and she bore him Amalek these are the sons of ada the wife of Esau and the sons of Ray who L Werner Haase and Zara sama and Mesa these were the sons of basemath the wife of Esau and these were the sons of Alabama the daughter of anah the daughter Semyon the wife of Esau whom she bore to him Jay whose and alayan and corps these were the dukes of the sons of Esau the sons of Elif as the firstborn of Esau Duke Taemin Duke Omar dukes fo dukes NS Duke or Duke Gotham Duke Amalek these are the sons of Elif as in the land of Edom and these the sons of Ada and these were the sons of Rey who L the son of esau Duke may have to Zara Duke sama Duke Mesa and these are the dukes of Rey who L in the land of Edom B's the sons of basemath the wife of Esau and these the sons of Obama the wife of Esau duje whose Duke alayan Duke or these are the dukes of Lula Bama the daughter of anah and wife of Esau these are the sons of Esau and these the Dukes of them the same as Edom these are the sons of seir the horite the inhabitants of the land Lotan and Sobell and Savion and enna and dice on an S air and dice and these are the dukes of the whole rights a sons of Sayer in the land of Edom and Lotan had sons Horry and hemin and the sister of Lotan was thomna and these the sons of soballe al Vaughn and manihot Andy Bell and Sefo and Oman and these the sons of Sabaean ayiiia and Ana this is Ana has found the hot waters in the wilderness when he fed the asses of SEBI and his father and he had a son Dyson and a daughter Alabama and these were the sons of Dyson ham Dan and Esteban and Jethro and Carlin these also were the sons of S air ball one ands oven and a con and Dyson had sons who San Aram these were the dukes of the rights Duke Lotan Duke so ball Duke Savion Duke Anna Duke Dyson Duke s air Duke dice and these were the dukes of the whole riots that ruled in the land of say year and the Kings that ruled in land of edom before the children of Israel had a king were these Bella the son of Beor and the name of his city de nada and Bella died and jobab the son of zara of Basara reigned in his stead and when jobab was dead houssam of the land of the temanite strained in his stead and after his death a dad the son of bedad rein in his stead who defeated the Midianites in the country of moab and the name of his city was a death and when a dad was dead they reigned in his stead Simla of mass rekha and he being dead saw or the river Rehoboth reigned in his stead and when he also was dead beylin on the son of h of war succeeded to the kingdom this man also being dead Aadhaar reigned in his place and the name of his city was pal and his wife was called meta Bell the daughter of matron daughter of nezam and these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their Kindred's in places and callings Duke Tom no Duke Alva Duke JIT F do cool Obama Duke Ella Duke fine on Duke Senna's Duke came none Duke mob SAR Duke Magdi el duque ROM these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government the same as Esau the father of the chapter 37 josephs dreams he is sold by his brethren and carried into Egypt and jacob dwelt in the land of canaan where is his father sojourned and these are his generations Joseph when he was 16 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren but being a boy and he was with the sons of bala and of zell feh his father's wives and he accused his brethren - his father of a most wicked crime now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons because he had him in his old age and he made him a coat of divers colours and his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father more than all his sons hated him and could not speak peaceably to him now it fell out also that he told his brother in a dream that he had dreamed which occasioned them to hate him the more and he said to them hear my dream which I dreamed I thought we were binding sheaves in the field and my sheaf arose as it were and stood and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf his brethren answered shalt thou be our King or shall we be subject to thy Dominion therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred he dreamed also another dream which he told his brethren saying I saw in a dream as it were the Sun and the moon and eleven stars worshiping me and when he had told us to his father and brethren his father rebuked him and said what meaneth this dream that thou has dreamed shall I and thy mother and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth his brother and therefore envied him but his father considered the thing with himself and when his brethren abode in Sikkim feeding their fathers vlogs Israel said to him thy brethren feed the sheep and Sikkim come I will send thee to them and when he answered I am ready he said to him go and see if all things be with my brethren and the cattle and bring me word again what is doing so being sent from the vale of heaven he came to Sikkim and a man found him there wandering in the field and asked what he thought but he answered I seek my brethren tell me where they feed the flocks and the man said to him they are departed from this place for I heard them say let us go to doe Thane and Joseph went forward after his brethren and found them in doe Thane and when they saw him afar off before he came nigh them they thought to kill him and said to one another behold the dreamer cometh come let us kill him and cast him into some old pit and we will say some evil beast hath devoured him and then it shall appear what his dreams of a lamb and Reuben hearing this endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands and said do not take away his life nor shed his blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and keep your hands harmless now he said this being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father and as soon as he came to his brethren they forthwith stripped him of his outside coat that was of divers colours and cast him into an old pit where there was no water and sitting down to eat bread they saw some Ishmaelites on their way coming from Galen with their camels carrying spices and balm and myrrh to Egypt and Judah said to his brethren what will it profit us to kill our brother and conceal his blood it is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites and that our hands be not defiled for he is our brother and our flesh his brethren agreed to his words and when the maytee night merchants passed by they drew him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver and they led him into Egypt and Reuben returning to the pit found not the boy and renting his garments he went to his brethren and said the boy does not appear and whither shall I go and they took his coat and dipped it in the blood of a kid which they had killed sending some to carry it to their father and to say this we have found see whether it be thy sons coat or not and the father acknowledging had said it is my son's goin an evil wild beast hath eaten him a beast hath devoured Joseph and tearing his garments he put on sackcloth mourning his son a long time in all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow he would not receive comfort but said I will go down to my son into hell mourning and whilst he continued weeping the May Day night sold Joseph in Egypt aboot afar and única Pharaoh captain of the soldiers chapter 38 the sons of Judah the death of her and Onan the birth of fairies and Zara at that time Judah went down from his brethren and turned in to a certain a Dolomites name he rose and he saw there the daughter of a man of Canaan called soo and taking her to wife he went in unto her and she conceived and bore a son and called his name her and conceiving again she bore a son and called him Onan she bore also a third whom she named Sela after whose birth she ceased to bear anymore and Judah took a wife for her his firstborn whose name was Tom are and her the firstborn of Judah was wicked in the sight of the Lord and was slain by him Judah therefore said to Onan his son go into thy brother's wife and marry her that thou may astray seed to thy brother he knowing that the children should not be his when he went in to his brother's wife spilled his seed upon the ground less children should be born in his brother's name and therefore the Lord slew him because he did a detestable thing we're for Judah said to Tom NAR his daughter-in-law remain a widow in thy father's house till Sela my son grow up for he was afraid lest he also might die as his brethren did she went her way and dwelt in her father's house now her many days were past the daughter of Sue the wife of Judah died and when he had taken comfort after his warning he went up to Tom nose to the shears of his sheep he and he Rob's the adult mite the Shepherd of his flock and it was told Tom NAR that her father-in-law was come up to Tom Moss to share his sheep and she put off the garments of her widowhood and took a veil and changing her dress sat in the cross way that leadeth to Tom knows because cellar was grown up and she had not been married to him when Judah saw her he thought she was a harlot for she had covered her face lest she should be known and going to her he said suffer me to lie with thee for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law and she answered what wilt thou give me to enjoy my company he said I will send thee a kid out of the flock and when she said again I will suffer what thou wilt if thou give a pledge till thou send without promised Judah said what will they have for a pledge she answered tie ring and bracelet and the staff which thou holdest in my hand the woman therefore at one copulation conceived and she arose and went her way and putting off the apparel which she had taken put on the garments of her widowhood and Judah sent a kid by his Shepherd the Dolomites that he might receive the pledge again which he had given to the woman but he not finding her asked the men of that place where is the woman that sat in the cross way and when they all made answer there was no harlots in this place he returned to Judah and said to him I have not found her moreover the men of that place said to me that they are never sat on our left there Judah said let her take it to herself surely she cannot charge us with a lie I sent the kid which I promised and thou does not fight her may behold after three months they told Judah saying Tom art thy daughter-in-law have played the harlot and she appears to have a big belly and Judah said bring her out that she may be burnt and when she was led to execution she sent to her father-in-law saying by the man to whom these things belong I'm with child see whose ring and bracelet and staff this is but he acknowledging the gift said she is just ur than I because I did not give her to Sela my son however he knew her no more and when she was ready to be brought to bed there appeared twins in her womb and in the very delivery of the infant's one put forth a hand were on the Midwife tied a scarlet thread saying this shall come forth the first but he drawing back his hand the other came forth and the woman said why is this partition divided for thee and therefore called his name fairies after his brother came out on whose hand was the scarlet thread and she called him Zara chapter 39 Joseph hath charge of his master's house rejecteth his mistress solicitations is falsely accused by her and cast into prison where he hath the charge of all the prisoners and Joseph was brought into Egypt and putas far and eunuch of Pharaoh chief captain of the army an Egyptian bought him of the Ishmaelites by whom he was brought and the Lord was with him and he was a prosperous man in all things and he dwelt in his master's house who knew very well that the Lord was with him and made all that he did to prosper in his hand and Joseph found favor in the sight of his master and ministered to him and being set over all by him he governed the house committed to him and all the things that were delivered to him and the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake and multiplied all his substance both at home and in the fields neither knew he any other thing but the bread which he ate and Joseph was of a beautiful countenance and comely to behold and after many days his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph and said lie with me but he and no wise consenting to that wicked Act said to her behold my master hath delivered all things to me and knoweth not what he hath in his own house neither is there anything which is not in my power or that he hath not delivered to me but thee who art his wife how then can I do this wicked thing and sin against my God with such words as these day by day both the woman was important with the young man and he refused the adultery now it happened on a certain day that Joseph went into the house and was doing some business without any man with him and she catching the skirt of his garment said lie with me but he leaving the garment in her hand fled and went out and when the woman saw the garment in her hands and herself disregarded she called to her the men of her house and said to them see he hath brought in a Hebrew to abuse us he came in to me to lie with me and when I cried out and he heard my voice he left the garment that I held and got him out for a proof therefore of her fidelity she kept the garment and shewed it to her husband when he returned home and said the Hebrew servant whom thou has brought came to me to abuse me and when he heard me cry he left the garment which I held and fled out his master hearing these things and giving too much credit to his wife's words was very angry and cast Joseph into the prison where the Kings prisoners were kept and he was there shut up but the Lord was with Joseph and having mercy upon him gave him favor in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody and whatsoever was done under him neither did he himself know anything having committed all things to him for the Lord was with him and made all that he did to prosper chapter 40 Joseph interpreted the dreams of two of Pharaoh's servants in prison but the event declare the interpretations to be true but Joseph is forgotten after this it came to pass the two eunuchs the butler and the Baker of the king of Egypt offended their Lord and Pharaoh being angry with them now the one was chief Butler the other chief Baker he sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers in which Joseph also was prisoner but the keeper of the prison delivered them it's Joseph and he served them some little time passed and they were kept in custody and they both dreamed to dream the same night according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves and when Joseph was come into them in the morning and saw them sad he asked them saying why is your countenance sadder today than usual they answered we have dreamed a dream and there is nobody to interpret it to us and Joseph said to them doth not interpretation belonged to God tell me what you've dreamed the chief Butler first told his dream I saw before me a vine on which were three branches which little by little sent out buds and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes and the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand and I took the grapes and pressed them into the cup which I held and I gave the cup to Pharaoh Joseph answered this is the interpretation of the dream the three branches are yet three days after which Pharaoh will remember thy service and will restore thee to thy former place and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy Office as before thou was want to do only remember me when it shall be well with thee and do me this kindness to put Pharaoh in mind to take me out of this prison for I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon the chief Baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the Train said I also drained a dream but I had three baskets of meal upon my head and that in one basket was uppermost I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking and that the birds ate out of it Joseph answered this is the interpretation of the dream the three baskets are yet three days after which Pharaoh will take thy head from thee and hang me on a cross and the birds shall tear thy flesh the third day after this was the birthday of Pharaoh and he made a great feast for his servants and at the banquet remembered the chief Butler and the chief Baker and he restored the one to his place to present him the cup the other hand on a gibbet that the truth of the interpreter might be soon but the chief Butler when things prospered with him forgot his interpreter chapter 41 Joseph interpreted the two dreams of Pharaoh he is made ruler over all Egypt after two years Pharaoh had a dream he thought he stood by the river out of which came up 17 very beautiful and fat and they fed in marshy places other seven also came up out of the river ill-favored and leaned flushed and they fed on the very bank of the river in green places and they devoured them whose bodies were very beautiful and well-conditioned so Pharaoh awoke he slept again and dreamed another dream seven years of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair then seven other ears sprung up then and blasted and devoured all the beauty of the former Pharaoh awakened after his rest and when morning was come being struck with fear he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt and to all the wise men and they being called for he told them his dream and there was not anyone that could interpret it then at length the chief Butler remembering said I confess my sin the king being angry with his servants commanded me in the chief Baker to be cast into the prison captain of the soldiers we're in one night both of us dreamed a dream for voting things to come there was there a young man a Hebrew servant to the same captain of the soldiers to whom we told our dreams and we heard what afterwards the event to the thing proved to be so for I was restored to my office and he was hanged upon a gibbet forthe width that the king's command Joseph was brought out of prison and they shaved him and changing his apparel brought him in to him and he said to him I have dreamed dreams and there is no one that can expound them now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them Joseph answered without me God shall give Pharaoh a prosperous answer so fair told what he had dreamed he thought I stood upon the bank of a river and seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full flesh and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture and behold there followed these other seven kine so very ill favoured and leaned but I never saw the like in the land of Egypt and they devoured and consumed the former and yet gave no mark of their being full but were as lean and ill-favored as before I awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed a dream seven years of corn grew upon one stalk full and very fair other seven also thin and blasted sprung of the stalk and they devoured the beauty of the former I told this dream to the conjectures and there is no man that can expound it Joseph answered the keenest dream is one God hath shewn to Pharaoh what he is about to do the seven beautiful kind and the seven full ears are seven years of plenty and both contain the same meaning of the dream and the seven lean and thin kind that came up after them and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind are seven years of famine to come which shall be fulfilled in this order behold there shall come seven years of great Plenty and the whole land of Egypt after which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity that all the abundance before shall be forgotten for the famine shall consume all the land and the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the Plenty and for that thou did see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing it is a token of the certainty and that the Word of God cometh to pass and is fulfilled speedily now therefore let the King provide a wise and industrious man and make him ruler over the land of Egypt that he may appoint overseers over all the countries and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits during the seven fruitful years that shall now presently ensue and let all the corn be laid up under Pharaohs hands and be reserved in the cities and let it be in readiness against the famine of seven years to come which shall oppress Egypt and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity and the council please Pharaoh and all his servants and he said to them can we find such another man that is full of the Spirit of God he said therefore to Joseph seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said can I find one wiser and one like unto thee thou shalt be over my house and that the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey only in the kingly throne will I be above thee and again Pharaoh said to Joseph behold I've appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt and he took his ring from his own hand and gave it into his hand and he put upon him a robe of silk and put a chain of gold about his neck and he made him go up into his second chariot the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt and the king said to Joseph I am Pharaoh without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt and he turned his name and called him in the Egyptian tongue the savior of the world and he gave him to wife a Sanath the daughter of puta fara priest of Heliopolis then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt now he was 30 years old when he stood before King Pharaoh and he went round all the countries of Egypt and the fruitfulness of the seven years came and the corn being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt and all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city and there was so great abundance of wheat that it was equal to the sand of the sea and a plenty exceeded measure and before the famine came Joseph had two sons born who hasten up the daughter of puta Farah priest of Heliopolis bore on to him and he called the name of the firstborn Manassas saying God hath made me to forget all my laborers in my father's house and he named the second ephraim saying God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past the seven years of scarcity which Joseph had foretold began to come and the famine prevailed in the whole world but there was bread in all the land of Egypt and when there also they began to be famished the people cried to Pharaoh for food and he said to them go to Joseph and do all that he shall say to you and the famine increased daily in all the land and Joseph opened all the bars and sold to the Egyptians for the famine had oppressed them also in all provinces came into Egypt to buy food and to seek some relief of their want chapter 42 Jacob sent of his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt their treatment by Joseph and Jacob hearing the food was sold in Egypt said to his sons why are ye careless I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt go ye down and Bias necessaries that we may live and not be consumed with want so the 10 brethren if Joseph went down to buy corn in Egypt whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob who said to his brethren lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey and they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy for famine was in the land of Canaan and Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt and corn was sold by his direction to the people and when his brethren had bowed down to him and he knew them he spoke as it were two strangers somewhat roughly asking them whence came down they answered from the land of Canaan to buy necessaries of life and though he knew his brethren he was not known by them and remembering the dreams which formerly he had dreamed he said to them you are spies who are come to view the weaker parts of the land but they said it is not so my lord but thy servants are come to buy food we are all the sons of one man we are come as peaceable men neither do thy servants go about any evil and he answered them it is otherwise you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land but they said with our servants or twelve brethren the sons of one man in the land of Canaan the youngest is with our father the other is not living he saith this is it that I said you are spies I shall now presently try what you are by the health of Pharaoh you shall not depart hence until your youngest brother come send one of you to fetch him and you shall be in prison to what you have said be proved whether it be true or false or else by the health of Pharaoh you are spies so he put them in prison three days and the third day he brought them out of prison and said do as I have said and you shall live for I fear God if you be peaceable men let one of your brethren be bound in prison and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought unto your houses and bring your youngest brother to me that I might find your words to be true and you may not die they did as he had said and they talked to one another we deserve to suffer these things because we have sinned against our brother seeing the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this affliction come upon us and Reuben one of them said did I not say to you do not sin against the boy and you would not hear me behold his blood is required and they knew not that Joseph understood because he spoke to them by an interpreter and he turned himself away a little while and wept in returning he spoke to them and taking Simeon and binding him in their presence he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat and to put every man's money again in their sacks and to give them besides provisions for the way and they did so but they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way and one of them opening his sack to give his beasts prom endure in the end saw the money in the sacks mouth and said to his brethren my money has given me again behold it is in the sack and they were astonished and troubled and said to one another what is this that God hath done unto us and they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan with him all things that had befallen them saying the Lord of the land spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the country and we answered him we are peaceable men and we mean no plot we are twelve brethren born of one father one is not living the youngest is with our Father in the land of Canaan and he said to us hereby shall I know that your peaceable men leave one of your brethren with me and taking necessary provision for your houses and go your ways and bring your youngest brother to me that I may know you are not spies and you'll shall receive this man again has kept in prison and afterwards may have leaved to buy what you will when they had told this they poured out their corn and every man found his money tied in the mouth of a sack and all being astonished to other their father Jacob said you have made me to be without children Joseph is not living Simeon is kept in bonds and Benjamin you will take away all these evils are fallen upon me and Reuben answered him kill my two sons if I bring him not again to thee deliver him into my hand and I will restore him to thee but he said my son shall not go down with you his brother is dead and he is left alone if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to hell after 43 the sons of Jacob go again into Egypt with Benjamin they are entertained by Joseph in the meantime the famine was heavy upon all the land and when they had eaten up all the corn which they had brought out of Egypt Jacob said to his sons go again and Bias a little food Judah answered the man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath saying you shall not see my face unless you bring your youngest brother with you if therefore doubt wilt send him with us we will set out together and we'll buy necessaries for thee but if thou wilt not we will not go for the man as we have often said declared unto us saying you shall not see my face without your youngest brother Yisrael said to them you have done this for my misery and that you told him you had also another brother but they answered the man asked us in order concerning our kindred if our father lived and we had a brother and we answered him regularly according to what he demanded could we know that he would say bring hither your brother with you and Judah said to his father send the boy with me that we may set forward I may live lest both we and our children perish I take the boy upon me require him at my hand unless I bring him again and restore him to thee I will be guilty of sin against thee forever if the lay had not been made we had been here again the second time then Israel said to them if it must need to be so do what you will take it the best fruit to the land in your vessels and carry down presents to the man little balm and honey and storax myrrh turpentine and almonds and take with you double money and carry back what you found in your sacks less perhaps it was done by mistake and take also your brother and go to the man and may my Almighty God make him favourable to you and send back with you your brother whom he keepeth and this Benjamin and as for me I shall be desolate without children so the man took the presents and double money and Benjamin and went down into Egypt and stood before Joseph and when he had seen them in Benjamin with them he commanded the Stewart of his house saying bring in the men into the house and kill victims and prepare a feast because they shall eat with me at noon he did as he was commanded and brought the men into the house and they being much afraid said there to one another because of the money which we carried back the first time in our sacks we are brought in that he may bring upon us a false accusation and by violence make slaves of us in our asses wherefore going up to the steward of the house at the door they said sir we desire thee to hear us we came down once before to buy food and when we had brought and come to the end we opened our sacks and found our money in the mouths of the sacks which we have now brought again in the same weight and we have brought other money besides to buy what we want we cannot tell who put it in our bags but he answered peace be with you fear not your God and the god of your father have given you treasure in your sacks for the money which you gave me I have for good and he brought Simeon out to them and having brought them into the house he fetched water and they washed their feet and he gave provinces but they made ready the presence against Joseph came at noon for they had heard that they should eat bread there then Joseph came into his house and they offered him the presents holding them in their hands they bowed down with their face to the ground but he courteously saluting them again asked them saying is the old man your father and health of whom you told me is he yet living and they answered thy servant our Father is in health he is yet living and bowing themselves they made obeisance to him and Joseph lifting up his eyes saw Benjamin his brother by the same mother and said is this your young brother of whom you told me and he said God be gracious to thee my son and he made haste because his heart was moved upon his brother and tears gushed out and going into his chamber he wept and when he had washed his face coming out again he refrained himself and said set bread on the table and when it was sit on for Joseph apart and for his brethren apart for the Egyptians also the date with him apart for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews and they think such a feast profane they sat before him the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his age and they wondered very much taking the messes which they received of him and the greater mass came to Benjamin so that it exceeded by five parts and they drank and were merry with him chapter 44 Joseph's contrivance to stop his brethren the humble supplication of Judah and Joseph commanded the Stewart of his house saying fill their sacks with corn as much as they can hold and put the money of everyone in the top of a sack and in the mouths of the younger sack put my silver Cup and the price which he gave for the wheat and it was so done and when the mourning arose they were sent away with their asses and when they were now departed out of the city and had gone forward a little way Joseph's sending for the Stewart of his house and rise and pursue after the men and when thou hast overtaken them say to them why have you returned evil for good and the cup which you have stolen is that in which my lord drinketh and in which he is want to define you I've done a very evil thing he did as he had commanded him and having overtaken them he spoke to them the same words and they answered why doth our Lord speak so as though thy servants had Cammisa fact the money that we found in the top of our sacks we brought back to thee from the land of Canaan how then should it be that we should steal out of thy Lord's house gold or silver with whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest let him die and we will be the bondsman of my Lord and he said to them let it be according to your sentence with whomsoever it shall be found but him be my servant and you shall be blameless then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground and every man opened his sack which when he had searched beginning at the eldest and ending at the youngest he found the cup in Benjamin's sack then they rent their garments and loading their asses again returned into the town and Judah at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph for he was not yet gone out of the place and they all together fell down before him on the ground and he said to them why would you do so now you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining and Judah said to him what shall we answer my Lord or what shall we say or be able justly to allege God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants behold we are all bondsman to my Lord both we and he with whom the cup was found Joseph answered god forbid that I should do so that he stole the cup he shall be my bondsman and go you away free to your father then Judah coming nearer said boldly I beseech thee my lord let thy servant speak a word in my ears and be not angry with thy servant for after Pharaoh thou art my Lord thou did us ask the servants the first time have you a father or a brother and we answered thee my lord we have a father an old man and a young boy that was born in his old age whose brother by the mother is dead and he alone is left of his mother and his father loveth him tenderly and thou settest to thy servants bring him hither to me and I will set my eyes on him we suggested to my lord the boy cannot leave his father for if we leave him he will die and thou settest to thy servants except your youngest brother come with you and you shall see my face no more therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father we told him all that my Lord had said and our father said go again and Bias a little wheat and we said to him we cannot go if our youngest brother go down with us we will set out together otherwise without him we dare not see the man's face we run to he answered you know that my wife bore me too one went out and you said a beast devoured him and hitherto he appears not if he take this also and anything befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell therefore if I shall go to thy servant our Father and the boy be wanting whereas his life depended upon the life of him and he shall see that he is not with us he will die and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell let me be thy proper servant who took him into my trust and promised saying if I bring him not again I will be guilty of sin against my father forever therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my Lord and let the boy go up with his brethren for I cannot return to my father without the boy lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father chapter 45 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren and sendeth for his father Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by were appalled and he commanded that all should go out and no stranger be present at their knowing one another and he lifted up his voice with weeping which the Egyptians and all the house of Pharaoh and he said to his brethren I am Joseph is my father yet living his brethren can not answer him being struck with exceeding great fear and he said mildly to them come nearer to me and when they were come near him he said I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt be not afraid and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation for it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land and five years more remain wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping and God sent me before that you may be preserved upon the earth and may have food to live not by your counsel was I sent hither but by the will of God hath made me as it were a father to Pharaoh and Lord of his whole house and governor and all the land of Egypt make haste and go ye up to my father and say to him thus saith thy son Joseph God hath made me Lord of the whole land of Egypt come down to me linger not and thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen and thou shalt be near me now and thy sons and thy sons sons thy sheep and I heard in all things that thou hast and there I will feed thee for there are yet five years of famine remaining less bolt thou perish and thy house and all the things that thou hast behold your eyes in the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you you shall tell my father of all my glory and all things that you have seen in Egypt make haste and bring him to me and falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin he embraced him and wept and Benjamin in like manner what also on his neck and Joseph kissed all his brethren and wept upon every one of them after which they were emboldened to speak to him and it was heard and the fame was abroad in the king's court the brethren of Joseph ur come and Pharaoh with all his family was and he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren saying load your beasts and go into the land of Canaan and bring away from thence your father and kindred and come to me and I will give you all the good things of Egypt that you may eat the marrow of the land give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt for the carriage of their children and their wives and say take up your father and make haste and with all speed and leave nothing of your household stuff for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours and the sons of Israel did as they were bid and Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharaoh's commandment and provisions for the way he ordered also to be brought out for every one of them to robes but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with five robes of the best sending to his father as much money in Raymond adding besides ten he asses to carry off all the riches of Egypt and as many she asses carrying wheat and bread for the journey so he sent away his brethren and at their departing said to them be not angry in the way and they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan to their father Jacob and they told him saying Joseph thy son is living and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt which when Jacob heard he awakened as it were out of a deep sleep yet did not believe them they on the other side told the whole order of the thing and when they saw the wagons and all that he had sent his spirit revived and he said it is enough for me if Joseph my son be yet living I will go and see him before I die chapter 46 Israel warranted by a vision from God goeth down into Egypt with all his family and Israel taking his journey with all he had came to the well of the oath and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac he heard him by a vision in the night calling him and saying to him Jacob Jacob and he answered him lo Here I am God said to him I am the most mighty God of thy father fear not go down into Egypt for our we'll make a great nation of V there I will go down with the hither and will bring the back again from thence Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes and Jacob rose up from the well vos and his sons took him up with their children and wives in the wagons which Pharaoh sent to carry the old man and all that he had in the land of Canaan and he came into Egypt with all his seed his sons and grandsons and daughters and all his offspring together and these are the names of the children of Israel that entered into Egypt he and his children his firstborn Reuben the sons of Reuben Enoch and Paulo and hezron and Carmen the sons of Simeon Jamo well and jaemin and Nihad and jack in and Sohar and saw the son of a woman of Canaan the sons of Levi garrison and calf and Merari the sons of Judah her and Onan and Sela and parries and Zahra and her and onand died in the land of Canaan and sons were born to Perry's hezron and Hamel the sons of Isaac are Toula and puah and Jobe and simmer on the sons of zaba lon sir ed and Ellen and Jo Halil these are the sons of Leah whom she bore in Mesopotamia Syria with Deena his daughter all the souls of her sons and daughters 33 the sons of Gann sofyan and Haggai and sunni and essa bond and Harry and Aerodyne and a railing the sons of us are John nay and Joshua and gesturing and Baria and Sarah their sister the sons of Berea have air and melchio these are the sons of zell feh who LaVon gave to Leah his daughter and these she bore to Jacob 16 Souls the sons of Rachel Jacobs wife Joseph and Benjamin the sons were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt who maisonette the daughter of buta Farah priest of Halle apple is bore him manassas nephron the sons of Benjamin Bella and BEC and a spell and Gera and naman and ecchi and Ross and Moe FEM and o'them and arid these are the sons of Rachel whom she bought Jacob all the souls 14 the sons of Dan husam the sons of Neftali ja CL and Guney and Jess heir and solemn these are the sons of Bala whom LaVon gave to Rachel his daughter and B she bore to Jacob all the souls 7 all the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt and that came out of his thigh besides his sons wives 66 and the sons of Joseph that were born to him in the land of Egypt 2 souls all the souls of the house of Jacob that entered into Egypt were 70 and he sent Judah before him to Joseph to tell him and that he should meet him in guessing and when he was come hither Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet his father in the same place and seeing him he fell upon his neck and embracing him wept and the father said to Joseph now I shall die with joy because I have seen thy face and leave the alive and Joseph said to his brethren and to all his father's house I will go up and will tell Pharaoh and will say to him my brethren in my father's house that were in the land of Canaan or come to me and the men are Shepherds and their occupation is to feed cattle their flocks and herds and all they have they have brought with them and when he shall call you and shall say what is your occupation you shall answer we are thy servants are Shepherds from our infancy until now both we and our fathers and this you shall say that you may dwell in the land of Gessen because Egyptians have all Shepherds and abomination chapter 47 Jacob and his sons are presented before Pharaoh he giveth them the land of guessing the Faymann forsyth the Egyptians to sell all their possessions to the king then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh saying my father and brethren they're sheep in their herds and all that they possess are come out of the land of Canaan and behold they stay in the land of guessin five men also the last of his brethren he presented before the king and he asked them what is your occupation they answered we thy servants are shepherds both we and our fathers we are come to surge earn in thy land because there's no grass for the flocks of thy servants the famine being very Grievous in the land of Canaan and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of guessin the king therefore said to Joseph thy father and thy brethren are come to thee the land of Egypt is before thee make them dwell in the best place and give them the land of guessin and if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them make them rulers over my cattle after this Joseph brought his father to the king and presented him before him and he blessed him and being asked by him how many of the days of the years of my life he answered the days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years few and evil and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my father's and blessing the king he went out but Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt in the best place of the land in Rameses as Pharaoh had commanded and he nourished them and all his father's house aligned food to everyone for in the whole world there was want of bread and a famine had oppressed the land more especially of Egypt and Canaan out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they bought and brought it into the Kings treasure and when the buyers wanted money all Egypt came to Joseph saying give us bread why should we die in thy presence having now no money and he answered them bring me your cattle and for them I will give you food if you have no money and when they had brought them he gave them food in exchange for their horses and sheep and oxen and asses and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their and they came the second year and said to him we will not hide from our Lord how that our money is spent in our cattle also were gone neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our body is in our lands why therefore shall we die before thy eyes we will be thine both we and our lands bias to be the king's servants and give us seed lust for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness so joseph bought all the land of egypt every man selling his possessions because of the greatness of the famine and he brought it into pharaoh's hands and all its people from one end of the borders of egypt even to the other end thereof except the land of the priests which had been given them by the king to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions then joseph said to the people behold as you see both you and your lands belong to Pharaoh take seed in so the fields that you may have corn the 5th part you shall give to the king the other for you shall have four seed and for food for your families and children and they answered our life is in thy hand only let my lord look favorably upon us and we will gladly serve the king from that time unto this day and the whole land of Egypt the fifth part is paid to the king and it has become as a law except the land of the priests which was free from this covenant so Israel dwelt in Egypt that is in the land of Gessen and possessed it and grew and was multiplied exceedingly and he lived in it 17 years and all the days of his life came to one hundred and forty seven years and when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh he called his son Joseph and said to him if I have found favor in thy sight put thy hand under my thigh and thou shalt show me this kindness and truth not to bury me in Egypt but I will sleep with my fathers and thou shalt take me away out of this land and bury me in the bearing place of my ancestors and Joseph answered him I will do what thou has to come and he said swear then to me and as he were swearing is real adored God turning to the beds head chapter 48 Joseph's visit us his father in his sickness who adoptive his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim and bless them preferring the younger before the elder after these things it was told Joseph that his father was sick and he set out to go to him taking his two sons Manasseh sin Ephraim and it was told the old man behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee and being strengthened he sat on his bed and when Joseph was come into him he said God Almighty appeared to me at loose' which is in the land of Canaan and he blessed me and he said I will cause thee to increase and multiply and I'll make of thee a multitude of people and I will give this land to thee and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession so that two sons who are born to the in the land of Egypt before I came hither to the shall be mine a freeman manassas shall be reputed to me as Reuben and Simeon but the rest whom thou shall have after them shall be thine and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions for when I came out of Mesopotamia Rachel died for me in the land of Canaan in the very journey and it was springtime and I was going to Efrafa and I buried her near the way of a fraud ax which by another name is called Bethlehem then seeing his sons he said to him who were these he answered these are my sons whom God hath given me in this place and he said bring them to me that I may bless them for Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age and he could not see clearly and when they were brought to him he kissed and embraced them and he said to his son I am NOT deprived of seeing thee moreover God hath showed me my seed and when Joseph had taken them from his father's lab he bowed down with his face to the ground and he set Ephraim on his right hand that is toward the left hand of Israel but Ben asked us on his left hand to it towards his father's right hand and brought them near to him but he's stretching forth his right hand put it upon the head of from the younger brother and the left upon the head of manassas who is the elder changing his hands and Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph and said God in whose sight my father's Abraham and Isaac walked God that feedeth me from my youth until this day the angel that delivered me from all evils bless these boys and let my name be called upon them and the names of my father's Abraham and Isaac and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth and Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim was much displeased and taking his father's hand he tried to lift it from Ephraim's head and to remove it to the head of Manassas and he said to his father it should not be so my father for this is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head but he refusing said I know my son I know and this also shall become peoples and shall be multiplied but this younger brother shall be greater than he and his seed shall grow into nations and he blessed them at that time saying in thee shall Israel be blessed and it shall be said God due to the es2 Ephriam has to Manassas and he set ephraim before Manassas and he said to Joseph his son behold I die and God will be with you and will bring you back into the land of your father's I give the apportion above thy brethren which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and bow chapter 49 Jacob's prophetic Oh bless his twelve sons his death and Jacob called his sons and said to them gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days gather yourselves together in here o ye sons of Jacob hearken to Israel your father reuben my firstborn thou are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow excelling in gifts greater in command thou art poured out as water grow though not because thou wentest up to thy father's bed and did his defile his couch simeon and levi brethren vessels of iniquity waging war let not my soul go into their counsel nor my glory be in their assembly because in their fury they slew a man and in their self will they undermined a wall cursed be their fury because it was stubborn and their wrath because it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and will scatter them in Israel Judah thee shall thy brethren praised by hand shall be on the necks of my enemies the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee Judah is lion's whelp to the prey my son thou art gone up resting thou hast couched as a lion and as a lioness who shall rouse him the sceptre shall not be taken away from Judah nor a ruler from his thigh till he come that is to be sent and he shall be the expectation of Nations pieing has full to the vineyard in his ass o my son to the vine he shall wash his robe in wine and His garment in the blood of the grape his eyes are more beautiful than wine and his teeth whiter than milk zavulon shalt dwell on the seashore and in the road of ships reaching as far as Sidon isaac our shall be a strong-ass lying down between the borders he saw rest that it was good and the land that it was excellent and he bowed his shoulder to Carrie and became a servant under tribute Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel let Dan be a snake in the way a serpent in the paths that bite if the horses heels that his rider may fall backward I will look for thy salvation O Lord dad being girded shall fight before him and he himself shall be girded backward-ass ere his bread shall be fat and he shall yield dainty's to Kings Neftali a heart let loose in giving words of beauty Joseph is a growing son a growing son and comely to behold the daughters run to and fro upon the wall but they that held darts provoked him and quarrelled with him and he envied him his bow rested upon the strong and the bands of his arms and hands were loosed by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob thence he came forth a pastor the stone of Israel the God of thy father shall be the helper and the almighty shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath with the blings of the breasts and of the womb the blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his father's until the desire of everlasting hills should come may they be upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren Benjamin a ravenous wolf in the morning shall eat the prey and in the evening shall divide the spoil all these are the twelve tribes of Israel these things their father spoke to them and he blessed everyone with their proper blessings and he charged them saying I am now going to be gathered to my people bury me with my father's in the double cave which is in the land of Ephron the Hittite over against Marah and the land of Canaan which Abraham bought together with the field of Ephron the Hittite for possession to bury n there they buried him and Sarah his wife there was I sick buried with Rebecca his wife there also Leah daf librarian and when he had ended the commandments wherewith he instructed his sons he drew his feet upon the bed and died and he was gathered to his people chapter 50 the mourning for Jacob and his internment Joseph's kindness toward his brethren his death and what Joseph saw this he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him and he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father and while they were fulfilling his commands there passed 40 days for this was the manor with bodies that were embalmed in Egypt mourned him seventy days at the time of the morning being expired Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh if I have found favor in your sight speak in the ears of Pharaoh for my father made me swear to him saying behold I die thou shall bury me in my Sepulcher which I have digged for myself in the land of Canaan so I will go up and bury my father and return and Pharaoh said to him go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear so he went up and there went with him all the ancients of Pharaoh's house and all the elders the land of Egypt and the house of Joseph with his brethren except their children and their flocks and herds which they left in the land of Gessen he had also in his train chariots and horsemen and it was a great company and they came to the threshing floor of atad which is situated beyond the Jordan were celebrating the AXA Cui's with a great and vehement lamentation they spent full seven days and when the inhabitants of Canaan saw this they said this is a great morning to the Egyptians and therefore the name of that place was called the morning of Egypt so the sons of jacob did as he had commanded them and carrying him into the land of canaan they buried him in the double cave which abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying-place of a prawn the hittite over against mom bruh and Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren and all that were in his company after he had buried his father now he being dead his brethren were afraid and talked one with another lest perhaps he should remember that wrong he suffered and requite us all the evil that we did to him and they sent a message to him saying thy father commanded us before he died that we should say thus much to thee from him I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren and the sin and malice they practiced against thee we also pray thee to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness and when Joseph heard this he wept and his brethren came to him and worshiping prostrate on the ground they said we are thy servants and he answered them if you're not can we resist the will of God you thought evil against me but God turned it into good that he might exalt me as that present you see who might save many people fear not I will feed you in your children and he comforted them and spoke gently and mildly and he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house and lived a hundred and ten years and he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation the children also am h-here the son of Manassas were born on Joseph's knees after which he told his brethren God will visit you after my death and will make you go up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and he made them swear to him saying God will visit you carry my bones with you out of this place and he died being a hundred and ten years old and being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt

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