Genesis 1:1 i Genesis 1:10

The Targum of Onkelos

on
The Book Bereshith,
or
Genesis
1 In the first times the Lord created the heavens
and the earth. 2 And the earth was waste and
empty, and darkness was upon the face of the
abyss; and a wind from before the Lord blew
upon the face of the waters. 3 And the Lord said,
Let there be light; and there was light. 4 And the
Lord saw the light that it was good. And the Lord
distinguished between the light and between the
darkness. 5 And the Lord called the light the Day,
and the darkness He called the Night. And there
was evening, and there was morning, Day the
First.
6 And the Lord said, Let there be an expanse
in the midst of the waters, and let it distinguish
between waters and waters. 7 And the Lord
made the expanse, and distinguished between
the waters which were under the expanse, and
between the waters which were above the ex-
panse: and it was so. 8 And the Lord called the
expanse the Heavens. And it was evening, and it
was morning, the Second Day.
9 And the Lord said, The waters shall be
collected under the heavens into one region, and
the dry land shall appear. And it was so. 10 And
the Lord called the dry land Earth, and the place
of the collection of waters He called Sea. And the
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Lord saw that it was good. 11 And the Lord said,

The earth shall bring forth grass; the plant whose
germ-seed is to be sown; the fruit-tree making
fruit according to its kind, whose germ-seed is
in it upon the earth; and it was so. 12 And the
earth put forth grass; the herb, whose germ-seed
is sown after its kind; and the tree making fruit,
whose seed is in it after its kind. And the Lord
saw that it was good. 13 And it was evening, and
it was morning, Day the Third.
14 And the Lord said, There shall be Lights in
the expanse of heaven, to distinguish between
the day and the night; and they shall be for signs
and for times, for the numbering of days and
years. 15 And they shall be for luminaries in
the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth;
and it was so. 16 And the Lord made the two
great luminaries: the greater luminary to rule in
the day; and the smaller luminary to rule in the
night, and the stars. 17 And the Lord set them in
the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth,
18 and to rule in the day and in the night, and
to distinguish between light and darkness. And
the Lord saw that it was good. 19 And there was
evening, and there was morning, Day the Fourth.
20 And the Lord said, Let the waters generate
the moving creature (having) life; and the fowl
which flieth over the earth on the face of the
expanse of heaven. 21 And the Lord created
the great taninia and every living animal which
moveth, which the waters generated according
to their kind, and every fowl which flieth ac-
cording to his kind; and the Lord saw that it
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was good. 22 And the Lord blessed them, saying,

Spread abroad and become many, and fill the
waters of the seas; and let the fowl become many
on the earth. 23 And it was evening, and it was
morning, Day the Fifth.
24 Andthe Lord said, Let the earth produce the
living animal after its kind, cattle, and reptile,
and beast of the earth, according to its kind; and
it was so. 25 And the Lord mad, the beast of the
earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every reptile of the earth after its kind; and
the Lord saw that it was good.
26And the Lord said, Let us make Man in Our
image, as Our likeness; and shall have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every reptile which moveth upon
the earth. 27 And the Lord created the Adam in
His image, in the image of the Lord He created
him; male and female He created them. 28 And
the Lord blessed them, and said to them, spread
abroad, and become many, and fill the earth, and
be strong upon it; and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens,
and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth. 29 And the Lord said, Behold, I have
given to you every plant which seedeth green-
seed which is upon all the earth; and every tree
in which is the fruit of the tree which seedeth
germ-seed; unto you it shall be for food, 30 and
unto every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the heavens, and to every reptile upon the
earth in which is the breath of life, every green
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herb to eat; and it was so. 31 And the Lord

saw all that He had made, and, behold, it was
very steadfast. And it was evening, and it was
morning, Day the Sixth.

2
1And the heavens and the earth and all their
host were completed. 2 And the Lord finished
in the Seventh Day His work which He had
wrought, and rested in the Seventh Day from
all His work which He had wrought. 3 And the
Lord blessed the Seventh Day and made it holy,
because in it He rested from all His work which
the Lord had created to make.
4 These are the memorials of the heavens and
the earth, when they were created in the day
when the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens. 5 And all trees of the field were not
yet in the earth, and every herb of the field had
not yet sprung up, because the Lord God had not
caused rain to come upon the earth, and there
was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 And a mist
ascended from the earth, and moistened all the
face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God created
Adam from dust of the ground, and breathed
upon his face the breath of lives, and it became
in Adam a Discoursing Spirit. 8 And the Lord God
planted a garden in a region of pleasantness in
the time of the beginning, and He made to dwell
there the man whom He had created. 9 And the
Lord God caused to grow from the earth every
tree desirable to look upon, and good for food,
and the Tree of Life (Lives) in the midst of the
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garden, and the Tree of whose fruit they who

eat know between good and evil.
10 And a river went forth from Eden to water
the garden, and from thence it was divided and
became four heads of rivers (or four chief rivers).
11 The name of the first is Pishon, that which
encompasseth all the land of Havilah, where is
gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; there is
bedalcha and Burilla stones. 13 And the name of
the second river is Gichon, which encompasseth
all the land of Kush. 14 And the name of the
third river is Digelatlh, which goeth to the east
of Athur. And the fourth river is Pherat.
15 And the Lord God took Adam and placed him
in the garden of Eden to culture it and keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying,
Of every tree of the garden eating thou mayest
eat; 17 but of the tree of whose fruit they who eat
know between good and evil thou shalt not eat;
for in the day that thou eatest of it dying thou
shalt die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not right that
Adam should be solitary; I will make for him
a helper as for his sake (or, as suited to him:
Heb., kenegdo, as his counterpart). 19 And the
Lord God created from the earth every beast
of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and
brought them to Adam to see what he would call
him; and every (name by) which Adam called the
living animal, that was its name. 20 And Adam
called the name of all cattle, and of the fowl
of the heaven, and of every beast of the field;
but to Adam was not found a helper as for him.
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21 And the Lord God threw a sleep upon Adam,

and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and
filled with flesh in place thereof; 22 and the Lord
God builded the rib which He took from Adam
into Woman, and He brought her unto Adam.
23 And Adam said, This now (this time) is bone
of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: this shall be
called Woman, because from her husband this
was taken. 24 Therefore shall a man forsake the
couch (beth mishkeb, the sleeping-house) of his
father and his mother, and shall cleave to his
wife, and they shall be of one flesh. 25 And they
were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were
not ashamed.

3
1 And
the serpent (chivja) was more crafty than
all the animals of the field which the Lord God
bad made. And he said to the woman, Is it in
truth (that) the Lord said, You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said
to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the
garden we may eat; 3 but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, the Lord hath
said, You shall not eat of it, nor approach to it,
lest you die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman.
Not to die will you die: 5 for it is manifest before
the Lord, that in the day in which you eat of it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be (ki-
rabrebin) as the Great-ones, knowing good and
evil. 6 And the woman saw that the tree was
good to eat, and that it was salutary to the eyes,
and a tree desirable to contemplate; and she took
of its fruitage (aiba) and ate; and she gave to
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her husband with her, and he ate. 7 And the

eyes of both of them were opened, and they
knew that they were naked; and they sewed for
themselves the leaves of the fig tree, and made
for themselves cinctures.
8 And they heard the voice of the Word of the
Lord God walking in the garden in the evening of
the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from before the Lord God among the trees of the
garden. 9 And the Lord God called to Adam and
said to him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, The
voice of Thy Word heard I in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I (was) naked, and I would
hide. 11 And He said, Who showed thee that thou
wast naked? Of the tree of which I commanded
that eating of it thou shouldst not eat, hast thou
eaten? 12 And Adam said, The woman whom
Thou gavest (to be) with me, she gave to me of the
tree, and I did eat. 13 And the Lord God said to the
woman, What is this that thou hast done? And
the woman said, The serpent led me astray, and
I did eat. 14 And the Lord God said to the serpent,
Because thou hast done this, more accursed art
thou than all cattle, and than all the beasts of the
held; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and the dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15 And I
will put enmity between thee and between the
woman, and between thy son and her son. He
will remember thee, what thou didst to him (at)
from the beginning, and thou shalt be observant
unto him at the end.
16 And to the woman He said, Multiplying, I will
multiply thy sorrows and thy pains. In sorrow
shalt thou bring forth children; and unto thy
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husband shall be thy desire, and lie. He shall rule

over thee. 17 And unto Adam He said, Because
thou hast obeyed the word of thy wife, and hast
eaten of the tree (about) which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, accursed
is the ground on thy account. With labour shalt
thou eat from it all the days of thy life. 18 Thorns
and thistles it shall put forth for thee, and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until that thou
return to the earth, because from it thou wast
created; for dust thou art, and to dust thou wilt
return.
20 And Adam called the name of his wife Hava,
because she was the mother of all the children of
men. 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and
for his wife vestments of honor upon the skin of
their flesh, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, man is
become singular (or alone, yechid) in the world
by himself, knowing good and evil; and now, lest
he stretch forth his hand and take also of the
Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever. 23 And
the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden
of Eden to till the ground from whence he had
been created. 24 And He drove out the man, and
before the garden of Eden he caused to dwell the
kerubaya, and the sharp sword which revolved
to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

4
1And Adam knew Hava his wife, and she
conceived, and gave birth to Kain; and she said
I have acquired the man from before the Lord.
2 And she added to give birth to his brother,
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Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock,

and Kain a man working on the ground. 3 And it
was at the end (or complement) of days, that Kain
brought of the product of the earth an oblation
before the Lord; 4 and Habel he brought also of
the first-born of his sheep and of their fatlings.
And there was acceptableness before the Lord
in Habel and in his oblation; 5 but in Kain
and his oblation there was not acceptableness.
And it was greatly displeasing to Kain, and his
countenance was downcast. 6 And the Lord said
to Kain, Why art thou displeased, and why is
thy countenance downcast? 7 If thou doest thy
work well, is it not remitted to thee? And if thou
doest not thy work well, thy sin unto the day of
judgment is reserved, when it will be exacted of
thee, if thou convert not: but if thou convert, it
is remitted to thee.
8And Kain spake with Habel his brother; and
it was in their being in the field that Kain
arose against Habel his brother, and killed him.
9 And the Lord said to Kain, Where is Habel
thy brother? And he said, I know not; am
I the keeper of my brother? 10 And He said,
What hast thou done? The voice of the blood
of generations which were to come from thy
brother complaineth before Me, from the earth!
11 And now, accursed art thou from the earth,
which hath opened her mouth and received the
blood of thy brother from thy hand. 12 When
thou tillest the earth, it shall not add to give its
virtue to thee; a castaway and a wanderer shalt
thou be in the earth. 13 And Kain said before the
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Lord, Greater is my guilt than may be forgiven.

14 Behold, Thou hast rejected me this day from
the face of the earth, and from Thy presence it
is not possible to hide; and I shall be a castaway
and a wanderer in the earth, and anyone who
findeth me will slay me. 15 And the Lord said
to him, Therefore anyone who killeth Kain, unto
seven generations it shall be exacted of him. And
the Lord set unto Kain a sign, lest anyone who
found him should kill him. 16 And Kain went out
from before the Lord, and dwelt in the land of
the wanderer and outcast, which was made for
him in the beginnings in the Garden of Eden.
17 And Kain knew his wife, and she conceived
and bare Hanoch, and he became the builder
of a city, and called the name of the city after
the name of his son Hanoch. 18 And there was
born to Hanoch Irad, and Irad begat Mahujael;
and Mahujael begat Methu-sael, and Methusael
begat Lemek. 19 And Lemek took unto him two
wives, the name of the one Ada, and the name
of the second Zillah. 20 And Ada bare Javal; he
was the master (rab) of all dwellers in tents and
lords of cattle. 21 And the name of his brother
was Juval. He was the master of all who play
upon the mouth of the pipe, who know the song
of the harp and of the organ. 22 And Zillah also,
she bare Tuval-kain, the master of all them who
understand the working of brass and iron. And
the sister of Tuval-kain was Naamah.
23 And Lemek said to his wives Ada and
Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lemek, attend
to my words: I have not slain a man, that on
his account I should bear the condemnation of
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death; or destroyed a young man, that on his

account my posterity should be consumed. 24 If
seven generations are suspended unto Kain, will
there not be to Lemek his son seventy and seven?
25 And Adam knew yet his wife, and she bare
a son, and called his name Sheth; Because, said
she, the Lord hath given me another son instead
of Habel, whom Kain slew. 26 And to Sheth also
was born a son, and he called his name Enosh.
Then in his days the sons of men desisted (or
forbore) from praying in the name of the Lord.

5
1This is the book of the generations of Adam.
In the day that the Lord God created man, in the
resemblance of Elohim He made him; 2 Male and
female He created them; and He blessed them,
and called their name Man, in the day that they
were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and
thirty years, and begat in his resemblance (one)
who was like to himself, and he called his name
Sheth. 4 And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Sheth were eight hundred years, and
be begat sons and daughters. 5 And all the days
of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and
thirty years, and he died.
6 And Sheth lived a hundred and five years,
and begat Enosh. 7 And Sheth lived after he had
begotton Enosh eight hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters. 8 And all the days
of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years,
and he died.
9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat
Keinan. 10 And Enosh lived after he had begotten
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Keinan eight hundred and fifteen years, and

begat sons and daughters. 11 And all the days
of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and
he died.
12 And Keinan lived seventy years, and begat
Mahalalel. 13 And Keinan lived after he had
begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And all
the days of Keinan were nine hundred and ten
years, and be died.
15 And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and
begat Jered. 16 And Mahalalel lived after he had
begotten Jered eight hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters. 17 And all the days
of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety and
five years, and he died.
18 And Jered lived an hundred and sixty and
two years, and begat Hanok. 19 And Jered
lived after he had begotten Hanok eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And all
the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty
and two years, and he died.
21 And Hanok lived sixty and five years, and
begat Methushelach. 22 And Hanok walked in
the fear of the Lord, after he had begotten
Methushelach, three hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Hanok
were three hundred and sixty and five years.
24 And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord; and
he was not; for the Lord had not made him to die.
25 And Methushelach lived an hundred and
eighty and seven years, and begat Lemek. 26 And
Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemek
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seven hundred and eighty and two years, and

begat sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of
Methushelach were nine hundred and sixty and
nine years, and he died.
28 And Lemek lived a hundred and eighty and
two years, and begat a son. 29 And he called his
name Noach, saying, This shall console us from
the works and from the labour of our hands from
the earth which the Lord bath cursed. 30 And
Lemek lived, after he had begotten Noach, five
hundred and ninety and five years, and begat
sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of
Lemek were seven hundred and seventy and
seven years, and he died.
32 And Noach was a son of five hundred years,
and Noach begat Shem, Cham, and Japheth.

6
1And it was when the sons of men had begun
to multiply upon the earth, and daughters were
born to them, 2 that the sons of the mighty saw
the daughters of men that they were beautiful,
and took to them wives of all whom they pleased.
3 And the Lord said, This evil generation shall not
stand before me forever, because they are flesh,
and their works are evil. A term (or length) will I
give them, an hundred and twenty years, if they
may be converted. 4 Giants were in the earth in
those days; and also when, after that the sons
of the mighty had gone in unto the daughters
of men, there were born from them giants who
from of old were men of name.
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5 And the Lord saw that the wickedness of

man had multiplied in the earth, and that every
formation (or image) of the thought of his heart
was only evil every day. 6 And it repented the
Lord in His Word that He had made men upon
the earth. 7 And He said, (in His Word,) that
He would break their strength according to His
pleasure. And the Lord said, Man whom I have
made will I blot out I from the face of the earth;
from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the
fowls of heaven; because it repenteth Me in My
Word that I have made them. 8 But Noach found
mercy before the Lord.
9 These are the memorials of Noach. Noach
was a man righteous and perfect in his gener-
ation; in the fear of the Lord walked Noach.
10 And Noach begat three sons, Shem, Cham, and
Yapeth.
11 And the earth was corrupted before the
Lord, and the earth was filled with violences.
12 And the Lord saw the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted, each
one, his way upon the earth. 13 And the Lord said
to Noach, The end of all flesh cometh before Me,
because the earth is filled with violences from
the face of their wicked works; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee
an ark with the wood of cedar; dwellings shalt
thou make in the ark, and overlay it within and
without with pitch. 15 And thus shalt thou make
it: three hundred cubits shall be the length of
the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits
its height. 16 A light shalt thou make to the ark,
and at a cubit shalt thou complete it above, and
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the door of the ark thou shalt place in its side.

Lower dwellings, second and third, shalt thou
make in it. 17 And I, behold, I do bring the
deluge of waters upon the earth to destroy all
flesh in which is the breath of life from under
the heavens. Everything that is on the earth shall
die. 18 And I will establish My covenant with
thee; and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and
thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons
with thee. 19 And of all that liveth of all flesh two
and two of all that enter into the ark to abide
with thee, male and female shall they be. 20 Of
fowl according to its kind, and of cattle according
to her kind, and of every creeping thing of the
earth after his kind, two of all shall enter with
thee to abide. 21 And thou, take with thee of all
food which is eaten, and gather to be with thee;
and it shall be for thee and for them to eat. 22 And
Noach did according to all which the Lord had
commanded him, so did he.

7
1And the Lord said to Noach, Enter thou
and all the men of thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before Me in
this generation. 2 Of all clean animals take
thou seven and seven, male and female; and
of animals not clean, two and two, male and
female. 3 Also of the fowls of heaven, seven
and seven, male and female, to continue the
seed upon the face of all the earth. 4 Because
yet a time of seven days and I will cause rain
to descend upon the earth forty days and forty
nights, and I will blot out every subsistence
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which I have made upon all the face of the earth.

5 And Noach did according to all that the Lord
had instructed him.
6 And Noach was a son of six hundred years;
and the deluge of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noach entered, and his sons, and his wife,
and the wives of his sons with him, into the ark
from before the water of the deluge. 8 Of animals
clean, and of animals not clean, and of birds, and
of all which creepeth upon the earth, 9 two and
two, they entered with Noach into the ark, male
and female, as the Lord had instructed Noach.
10 And it was at the time of seven days, and the
waters of the deluge were upon the earth.
11 In the six-hundredth year of the life of
Noach, in the second month, in the seven-teenth
day of the month, in that day were all the springs
of the great abyss upbroken, and the windows of
heaven opened, 12 and the rain came down upon
the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In that
very day entered Noach, and Shem, Cham, and
Yapheth, sons of Noach, and the wife of Noach,
and the three wives of his sons with them, into
the ark; 14 They, and every animal after his kind,
and all cattle after its kind, and every, reptile
which creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and
every fowl after its kind, every bird, everyone
that flieth: 15 And they entered with Noach into
the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is
the breath of life; 16 And they, entering, male
and female of all flesh, entered, as the Lord had
commanded him, and the Lord protected them
by His Word.
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17And there was a deluge forty days upon the

earth, and the waters increased, and took up the
ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 And
the waters prevailed and increased mightily
upon the earth, and the ark went upon the faces
of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed most
mightily over the earth, and all the high hills
were covered which were under all the heavens.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail,
and the mountains were covered; 21 And all flesh
died which moved upon the earth, of fowl, and of
cattle, and of the wild beast, and of every reptile
which creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
22 Everything in whose nostrils was the breath
of the Spirit of life, of all which was upon the
dry ground, died. 23 And every subsistence was
blotted out that was upon the faces of the earth,
from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the
fowl of heaven, it was blotted out from the earth,
and Noach was left alone, and they who were
with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed
upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

8
1And the Lord remembered Noach, and every
living thing, and all the cattle which were with
him in the ark; and the Lord caused a wind
to pass over the earth, and the waters rested,
2 and the springs of the abyss were shut, and the
windows of the heavens, and the rain from the
heavens was restrained, and the waters turned
from on the earth, going and returning; 3 And the
waters diminished from the end of a hundred
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and fifty days. 4 And the ark rested on the

seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, upon the mountains of Kardu. 5 And
the waters went and diminished until the tenth
month: in the tenth, on the first of the mouth,
the heads of the mountains appeared.
6 And it was at the end of forty days, and Noach
opened the windows of the ark which he had
made. 7 And he sent forth a raven, and going
he went out, and returned until the waters were
dried upon the earth. 8 And he sent forth a dove
from (being) with him, to see whether the waters
were lightened (or consumed) from the surface
of the earth. 9 But the dove found no rest for the
dividing of her foot, and she returned unto him
into the ark, because the waters were upon all
the earth; and he stretched forth his hand, and
took her, and brought her to be with him in the
ark. 10 And he prolonged yet seven days, and
afterward added to send forth the dove from the
ark. 11 And the dove came to him at the time
of evening, and, behold, a leaf of olive broken
off was in her mouth; and Noach knew that
the waters were lightened from upon the earth.
12 And he prolonged yet other seven days, and
sent forth the dove, and she added not to return
to be with him again.
13 And it was in the six-hundredth and first
year, in the beginning of the first month, the
waters were dried from off the earth; and Noach
removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
and, behold, the faces of the ground were dry.
14 And in the second month, in the seventeenth
day of the month, the earth was fully dry. 15 And
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the Lord spake with Noach, saying: 16 Go forth

from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons,
and the wives of thy sons with thee. 17 Every
living thing which is with thee of all flesh, of
fowl, and of cattle, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee,
and they shall generate in the earth, and spread
abroad and multiply upon the earth. 18 And
Noach went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
the wives of his sons with him; 19 Every animal,
every reptile and bird, everything which moveth
upon the earth after their kind, went forth from
the ark.
20 And Noach builded an altar before the Lord,
and took of every clean beast and of every
clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the
altar. 21 And the Lord received with approval
his oblation; and the Lord said in His Word, I
will not add to curse again the earth on account
of the guilt of man, because the creations of the
heart of man are evil from his infancy; and I will
not add again to smite every living thing as I have
done. 22 Yet all the days of the earth, seed-time
and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

9
1 And the Lord blessed Noach and his sons, and
said to them, Spread abroad, and multiply, and
fill the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread
of you shall be upon every beast of the earth,
and upon every fowl of the heavens, in all which
creepeth upon the earth, and in all fish of the sea;
Genesis 9:3 xx Genesis 9:14

into your hands shall they be delivered. 3 Every

moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat;
as the green herb I have given you the whole.
4 But the flesh with its life-blood you shall not
eat. 5 And also your blood of your lives will I
require, from every beast will I require it, and
from the hand of man. From the hand of the
man who sheddeth the blood of his brother will
I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth the
blood of man, by witnesses, upon the sentence
of the judges, his blood shall be shed; because in
the image of the Lord made He man. 7 And you,
spread abroad and multiply; bring forth in the
earth and multiply therein.
8 And the Lord spake to Noach, and to his
sons with him, saying, 9 and I, behold, I establish
my covenant with you and with your children
after you, 10 and with every living thing which
is with you, of fowl, of cattle, and of every
beast of the field that is with you, of all going
forth from the ark of every animal of the earth.
11 And I will establish My covenant with you,
and all flesh shall not again be consumed by
the waters of a deluge, nor shall there be again
a deluge to destroy the earth. 12 And the Lord
said, This is the sign of the covenant which I
appoint (give) between My Word, and between
you, and between every living soul that is with
you unto perpetual generations. 13 I have set
My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign
of the covenant between My Word and between
the earth. 14 And it shall be that when clouding
I becloud the earth, the bow shall be seen in
Genesis 9:15 xxi Genesis 9:27

the cloud, 15 and I will remember the covenant

which is between My Word, and between You,
and between every living soul of all flesh; and
there shall not be again the waters of a deluge to
destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the
cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the
everlasting covenant between the Word of the
Lord and between every living soul of all flesh
that is upon the earth. 17 And the Lord said,
This is the sign of the covenant which I have
established between My Word and between all
flesh which is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noach who went forth from
the ark were Shem and Cham and Yapheth: and
Cham is the father of Kenaan. 19 These three are
the sons of Noach and from them was the whole
earth Overspread.
20 And Noach began to be a man working on
the earth; and he planted a vineyard, 21 and
he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he
was uncovered in the midst of his tent. 22 And
Cham the father of Kenaan saw the nakedness
of his father, and he showed to his two brethren
without. 23 And Shem and Yapheth took a
mantle, and laid it upon the shoulders of both,
and went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their father; and their faces were averted,
and the nakedness of their father they saw not.
24 And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew
that which his youngest son had done unto him;
25 and he said; Accursed be Kenaan, A working
servant shall he be to his brethren. 26 And he
said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Shem, And
Kenaan shall be servant unto them. 27 The Lord
Genesis 9:28 xxii Genesis 10:12

shall enlarge Yapheth, And He shall make his

Shekinah to dwell in the tabernacles of Shem:
And Kenaan shall be servant unto them. 28 And
Noach lived after the deluge three hundred and
fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noach were
nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

10
1And these are the generations of the sons of
Noach, Shem, Cham, and Yapheth; and sons were
born to them after the deluge.
2 The sons of Yepheth, Gomer, and Magog,
and Madai, and Yavan, and Thuval, and Meshek,
and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz,
and Rephath, and Thogarmah. 4 And the sons
of Yavan, Elishah and Tharshish, and Dodanim.
5 From these were the isles (nagvath) of the
peoples divided in their lands, each according to
his language, according to their families in their
nations.
6 And the sons of Cham, Kush, and Mizraim,
and Phut, and Kenaan. 7 And the sons of Kush,
Seba, and Chavilah, and Sabetha, and Raamah,
and Sabtekah. And the sons of Raamah, Sheba
and Dedan. 8 And Kush begat Nimrod: he began
to be a powerful man in the earth. 9 He was
a powerful man before the Lord: therefore it
is said, Like Nimrod the man of might before
the Lord. 10 And the head (beginning) of his
kingdom was Bavel, and Erek, and Akad, and
Kalneh in the land of Bavel. 11 From that land
he went forth to Athura, and built Nineveh,
and the city of Rechov, and Kalach, 12 and
Resen, between Nineveh and Kalach, which was
Genesis 10:13 xxiii Genesis 10:31

a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat the Ludaee,

and Anamaee, and Lehabaee, and Naphtuhaee,
14 and Pathrusaee, and Kasluchaee, from whom
came forth the Pelishtaee and Kaputkaee.
15And Kenaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and
Cheth, 16 and the Jebusaee, and Amoraee, and
Girgashee, 17 and Hivaaee, and Arkaee, and
Antasaee, 18 and Arvadaee, and Zemaraee, and
Chamathaee: and afterwards the seed of the
Kenaanaee were scattered abroad. 19 And the
frontier of Kenaanaah was from Zidon, coming
to Gerar and to Azza, coming unto Sedom, and
Amorah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Cham, according to their
progenies, to their languages, in their lands, in
their peoples.
21And of Shem was born: (also he is the
father of all the sons of Eber, and the brother
of Yapheth the Great:) 22 The sons of Shem,
Elim, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram, Uz, and Chul,
and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat
Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber. 25 And to Eber
were born two sons: the name of the one was
Peleg: because in his day the earth was divided.
And the name of his brother was Yoktan. 26 And
Yoktan begat Almodad, and Shaleph, and Chat-
sarmaveth, and Yarech, 27 and Chadoram, and
Uzal, and Dikelah, 28 and Obal, and Avimael, and
Sheba, 29 and Ophir, and Chavilah, and Yobab:
all these are the sons of Yoktan. 30 And their
dwelling was from Mesha, coming to Sephar, an
eastern mountain. 31 These are the sons of Shem,
Genesis 10:32 xxiv Genesis 11:9

according to their progenies, according to their

languages, in their lands, in their peoples.
32 These are the progenies of the sons of Noach,
by their generations, in their peoples: and by
them were the peoples outspread in the earth
after the deluge.

11
1And all the earth was of one language and
one speech. 2 And it was in their migrations at
the beginning, that they found a plain in the land
of Babel; and dwelt there. 3 And they said, a man
to his companion, Come, let us cast bricks and
bake them in the fire. And they had brick for
stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 And they said,
Come, let us build a city, and a tower, the bead
of it coming to the pinnacle of the heavens. And
we will make to us a name, lest we be dispersed
upon the face of all the earth. 5 And the Lord
was revealed to punish the work of the city and
the tower which the sons of men had builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people are one
and the language one with all of them: and this
is what they begin to do. And now nothing will
be restrained from them of what they imagine
to do. 7 Come, We will be manifest, and will
confuse their language there, that a man shall
not bear the language of his companion. 8 And
the Lord dispersed them from thence upon the
face of all the earth, and they were restrained
from building the city. 9 Therefore the name
of it is called Confusion, because the Lord there
confused the tongue of all the earth, and from
Genesis 11:10 xxv Genesis 11:23

thence the Lord dispersed them upon the face of

all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem
was a son of a hundred years, and he begat
Arphaxad, two years after the deluge. 11 And
Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived thirty and five years,
and begat Shelach. 13 And Arphaxad lived after
he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat
Eber. 15 And Shelach lived after he had begotten
Eber four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived thirty and four years, and
begat Peleg. 17 And Eber lived after he had
begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
19 And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two
hundred and nine years, and begat sons and
daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty and two years, and
begat Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he had
begotten Serug two hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat
Nachor. 23 And Serug lived after he had begotten
Nachor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.
Genesis 11:24 xxvi Genesis 12:3

24And Nachor lived twenty and nine years,

and begat Terach. 25 And Nachor lived after he
had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terach lived seventy years, and begat
Abram, Nachor, and Haran.
27 And these are the generations of Terach.
Terach begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and
Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before
Terach his father in the land of his nativity, in
Ura of the Kasdaee. 29 And Abram and Nachor
took to them wives: the name of the wife of
Abram, Sara; and the name of the wife of Nachor,
Milcha, daughter of Haran the father of Milcha
and the father of Yiska. 30 And Sara was barren,
she had no child.
31 And Terach took Abram his son, and Lot the
son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sara his
daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and went
forth with them from Ura of the Kasdaee to go to
the land of Kenaan. And they came to Charan,
and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terach were
two hundred and five years, and Terach died in
Charan.

12
1And the Lord said to ABRAM, Go thou away
from thy country, and from the house of thy
father, to the land which I will show thee. 2 And
I will make thee to (be) a great people, and will
bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt
be blessed. 3 And I will bless him who blesseth
thee, and him who curseth thee I will curse; and
Genesis 12:4 xxvii Genesis 12:13

through thee all the progenies of the earth shall

be blessed.
4 And Abram went away, according as the Lord
had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And
Abram was a son of seventy and five years in
his forthgoing from Charan. 5 And Abram took
Sara his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all
the possessions which they possessed, and the
souls whom they had made subject to the law
in Charan, and went forth to go into the land of
Kenaan; and they came unto the land of Kenaan.
6 And Abram traversed through the land unto the
place of Shekim unto the plain of Moreh; and the
Kenaanah was then in the land. 7 And the Lord
revealed Himself unto Abram, and said, To thy
sons will I give this land. And he builded there
an altar before the Lord who had been revealed
to him. 8 And he ascended from thence to the
mountain east of Beth El, and spread out his
tabernacle, having Beth El on the west and Ai
on the east; and he builded there an altar before
the Lord, and prayed in the name of the Lord.
9 And Abram migrated, going and migrating to
the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land, and
Abram went down to Mizraim, to sojourn there,
because the famine was strong in the land.
11 And it was that as he drew nigh to enter
Mizraim he said to Sara his wife, Behold, now
I know that thou art a woman beautiful in sight;
12 And it will be that when the Mizraee see thee
they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill
me, and thee will they reserve. 13 Say now, thou
art my sister, that it may be well with me through
Genesis 12:14 xxviii Genesis 13:5

thee, and my life may be preserved through

thy words. 14 And it was that when Abram
had entered into Mizraim, the Mizraee saw the
woman that she was singularly fair; 15 And the
princes of Pharaoh saw her, and extolled her to
Pharaoh; and the woman was taken to the house
of Pharaoh. 16 And Abram was well treated on
account of her. And he had sheep, and oxen, and
asses, and servants, and maidens, and camels.
17 And the Lord brought upon Pharaoh great
plagues, and upon the men of his house, for the
affair of Sara the wife of Abram. 18 And Pharaoh
called Abram and said, What is this that thou
hast done to me? Why didst thou not show me
that she is thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou, She is
my sister, so that I would have taken her to me
to wife? And now, behold thy wife: take, and go.
20 And Pharaoh instructed the men concerning
him, and they, conducted him away, and his
wife, and all that he had.

13
1 And Abram went up from Mizraim, he and
his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him,
unto the south.
2 And Abram was exceeding strong in cattle, in
silver, and in gold; 3 And he proceeded according
to his encampments from the south, and unto
Bethel, unto the place where he had spread his
tabernacle at the first, between Bethel and Ai;
4 To the place of the altar which he had there
made at the first: and Abram prayed there in
the Name of the Lord. 5 And Lot also, who
went with Abram, had sheep and oxen and tents.
Genesis 13:6 xxix Genesis 13:17

6 And the land could not support them, that they

might dwell together. 7 And there was contention
between the shepherds of the flock of Abram
and the shepherds of the flock of Lot; and the
Kenaanah and: the Pherizaah then dwelt in the
land.
8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there not now be
contention between me and thee, and between
my shepherds and thy shepherds; for men,
brethren, are we. 9 Is not all the land before
thee? Separate now from me: if thou to the
north, I to the south; and if thou to the south,
I to the north. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and
saw all the plain of Yardena that it was altogether
a watered place, before the Lord had destroyed
Sedom and Amorah, as the garden of the Lord,
as the land of Mizraim coming unto Zoar. 11 And
Lot chose to him all the plain of Yardena; and
Lot went forth before, and they were separated
each man from his brother. 12 Abram dwelt in
the land of Kenaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of
the plain, and extended unto Sedom. 13 And the
men of Sedom were wicked in their riches, and
guilty in their bodies before the Lord greatly.
14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was
separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes and
see, from the place where thou art, thence to the
north and to the south, and to the east and to the
west; 15 For all this land that thou seest, to thee
will I give it, and to thy children forever. 16 And
I will place thy children numerous as the dust
of the earth; so that as it is not possible for a
man to number the dust of the earth, so also thy
sons shall not be numbered. 17 Arise, go through
Genesis 13:18 xxx Genesis 14:9

the land, in its length and in its breadth; for unto

thee will I give it. 18 And Abram spread (his tent),
and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which
is near Hebron, and builded there an altar before
the Lord.

14
1And it was in the days of Amraphel, king
of Babel, Ariok, king of Elasar, Kedar-laomer,
king of Elam, and Thidal, king of peoples, 2 they
made war with Bera, king of Sedom, and with
Birsha, king of Amora, Shenab, king of Admah,
Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela,
which is Zoar. 3 All these were assembled at
the plain of the field, which is (now) the place
of the sea of salt. 4 Twelve years they had
served Kedar-laomer, and in the thirteenth year
they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year
came Kedar-laomer, and the kings who were
with him, and smote the giants who were in
Ashtaroth Karnaim, and the mighty who were
in Chemta, and the terrible ones who were in
Shaveh Kiryathaim, 6 and the Horaee who were
in the mountain of Seir, unto the plain of Paran
which lieth upon the desert. 7 And they turned,
and came to the plain of the division of judgment,
which is Rekam, and smote all the fields of the
Amalkaah, and also the Amoraah who dwelt in
Ein-gadey. 8 And the king of Sedom, and the
king of Amoraah, and the king of Admah, and
the king of Zeboim, and tile king of Bela, which
is Zoar, went forth and set the battle in array
against them in the plain of the field, 9 with
Genesis 14:10 xxxi Genesis 14:19

Kedar-laomer king of Elam, and Thidal, king of

peoples, and Amraphel, king of Babel, and Ariok,
king of Elasar; four kings against five. 10 And
the plain of the field had many pits, from which,
they raised asphalta; and the kings of Sedom and
Amorah fled, and they fell there; and they who
remained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took
all the possession of Sedom and Amorah, and, all
their food, and went. 12 And they captured Lot
and his substance, son of the brother of Abram,
and went. And he had dwelt in Sedom.
13 And (one) came from those escaped, and
showed to Abram the Ivraah; and he had re-
mained in the plain of Moreh Amoraah, the
brother of Eshkol and brother of Aner; and they
were Abram’s men of covenant. 14 And Abram
heard that his brother had been captured; and
he armed the young men born in his house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued unto Dan.
15 And he divided against them by night, he and
his servants, and smote them, and pursued them
unto Hoba, which was northward of Damasek.
16 And he recovered all the substance, and Lot
also, the son of his brother; and his substance he
recovered, the women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sedom came out to meet him
after returning from the smiting of Kedar-laomer
and the kings who were with him, at the plain of
Mephana, which was the king’s place of racing.
18 And Malki-zedek, king of Yerushelem, brought
forth bread and wine (chemar), and he was
minister (meshamesh) before EL ILLAAH, 19 and
he blessed him, and said: “Blessed be Abram
Genesis 14:20 xxxii Genesis 15:6

before El Illah, Whose possession is heaven and

earth; 20 And blessed be El Illah (Most High), Who
hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand.”
And he gave him one in ten of the whole. 21 And
the king of Sedom said to Abram, Give me the
souls, and the substance take thou. 22 And Abram
said to the king of Sedom, I have uplifted my
hands in prayer before the Lord God most high,
whose possession is heaven and earth: 23 If from
a thread unto the sole of a sandal I take of all
that is thine, (and not that thou shouldst say, I
have enriched Abram,) 24 except of the food for
the young men, and the share of the men who
went with me, Amer, Eshkol, and Mamre, these
will receive their shares.

15
1After these things the word (pithgama) of
the Lord came to Abram in prophecy, saying,
Fear not, Abram: My Word (Memra) shall be
thy strength, and thy exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt Thou
give me, and I go without a child: and this son
of business (bar phargama) who is in My house
is the Damasekah Elieser? 3 And Abram said,
Behold, Thou hast not given me a child, and,
behold, the son of my house is my heir. 4 And,
lo, the word (pithgama) of the Lord was with
him, saying, This shall not be thy heir, but a son
whom thou shalt beget will be thine heir. 5 And
He led him without, and said, Behold now the
heavens, and number the stars, if thou art able
to number them; and He said to him, So will be
thy sons. 6 And he believed in the Word of the
Genesis 15:7 xxxiii Genesis 15:18

Lord, (Memra da Yeya,) and He reckoned it to him

unto justification.
7 And He said to him, I am the Lord, who
brought thee forth from Ura of the Kasdaee, to
give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said,
Lord God, by what may I know that I shall inherit
it? 9 And He said to him, Bring Me three calves,
and three goats, and three rams, and a turtle
dove, and the young of a pigeon. 10 And he
brought before Him all these. And be divided
them equally, and set the divisions a division
against his fellow; but the birds he did not divide.
11 And the fowl descended upon the divisions,
and Abram drave them away.
12 And it was sunset, and sleep fell upon
Abram: and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell
upon him. 13 And He said unto Abram, Knowing
thou shalt know that thy sons will be sojourners
(or aliens) in a land not theirs, and they will serve
among them; and they will afflict them four
hundred years. 14 And the people whom they
will serve I will judge, and go forth with much
substance. 15 And thou shalt be gathered to thy
fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in good old
age. 16 And in the fourth age (or generation) they
will return hither; because not (yet) complete is
the guilt of the Amoraah.
17 And it was at the going away of the sun,
and there was darkness. And behold a furnace
that burned, and a flame of fire which passed
between those divisions. 18 In that day the Lord
compacted with Abram a covenant, saying, To
thy sons will I give this land; from the river
Genesis 15:19 xxxiv Genesis 16:8

of Mizraim unto the great river, the river of

Pherat, the Shalmaee, 19 and the Kenizaee, and
the Kadmonaee, 20 and the Hittaee, and the Pher-
izaee, and the Gibbaraee, 21 and the Amoraee,
and the Kenaanaee, and the Girgashaee, and the
Yebusaee.

16
1 AndSara wife of Abram had no child; and she
had an handmaid, a Mizretha, and her name was
Hagar. 2 And Sara said to Abram, Behold now,
the Lord hath restrained me from childbearing;
go in now to my handmaid, if, perhaps, I may
have sons from her. And Abram received the
word of Sara. 3 And Sara wife of Abram took
Hagar her handmaid, the Mizretha, at the end
of ten years of Abram’s dwelling in the land of
Kenaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to
be his wife; 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived, and she saw that she had conceived,
and her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And
Sara said to Abram, I have (a cause of) judgment
against thee. I have given my handmaid to thee,
and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am
despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me
and thee. 6 And Abram said to Sara, Behold, thy
handmaid is in thy hand, do to her as is pleasing
in thine eyes: and Sara afflicted her, and she fled
from before her.
7 And the Angel of the Lord found her at
the fountain of water in the wilderness, at the
fountain in the way of Hagra. 8 And he said,
Hagar handmaid of Sara, whence comest thou,
and whither art thou going? And she said, From
Genesis 16:9 xxxv Genesis 17:3

before Sara my mistress do I escape. 9 And the

Angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy
mistress and be subject under her hand. 10 And
the Angel of the Lord said to her: Multiplying
I will multiply thy sons, and they shall not be
numbered for multitude. 11 And the Angel of the
Lord said to her, Behold, thou hast conceived,
and shalt give birth to a son, and thou shalt call
his name Yishmael, because the Lord hath heard
thy prayer. 12 And he will be untameable by man,
and he will be needy to everyone, and also all
men will be needy to him, and before the face of
all his brethren will he dwell. 13 And she prayed
in the Name of the Lord who had spoken with
her; and she said: Thou art Eloha, seeing all: for
she said, I also have begun to see after that He
hath been revealed to me. 14 Therefore she called
the name of the well, The well at which appeared
the Angel of the Covenant: behold, it is between
Rekam and Hagra.
15 And Hagar bare to Abram a son, and Abram
called the name of his son whom Hagar bare
Yishmael. 16 And Abram was son of eighty
and six years when Hagar bare Yishmael unto
Abram.

17
1 AndAbram was son of ninety and nine years:
and the Lord was revealed to Abram, and said
to him, I am EI-shadai; serve before Me, and
be perfect; 2 And I will set a covenant between
My Word and thee, and I will multiply thee
exceedingly much. 3 And Abram fell on his face:
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and the Lord spake with him, saying, 4 Behold,

I have dedicated My covenant with thee, and
thou shalt be the father of many peoples, 5 and
thy name shall no more be called Abram; but
thy name shall be Abraham, because the father
of many peoples have I appointed (given) thee.
6 And I will spread thee abroad very greatly,
and I will appoint to thee that assemblies and
kings who shall rule the peoples, from thee shall
come forth. 7 And I will establish My covenant
between My Word and thee, and thy sons after
thee unto perpetual generations, to be unto thee
a God, and to thy sons after thee. 8 And I will
give to thee and to thy sons after thee the land
of thy habitation, all the land of Kenaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be unto them
Eloha.
9 And the Lord said to Abraham, And thou
My covenant shalt keep, thou and thy sons after
thee in their generations. 10 This is My covenant
which you shall keep between My Word and you
and thy sons after thee, to circumcise every male
that is among you. 11 And you shall circumcise
the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for the
sign of the covenant between My Word and you.
12 And the son of eight days shall be circumcised
among you; every male in your generations,
born in the house, or bought with money, of
every son of the peoples, who is not of thy sons,
circumcising you shall circumcise 13 the one born
in the house, and him bought with money; and it
shall be My covenant in your flesh for a covenant
forever. 14 And the male who is not circumcised
Genesis 17:15 xxxvii Genesis 17:24

in the flesh of his foreskin, that man shall perish

from the people (because) he hath made void My
covenant.
15 And the Lord said to Abraham, The name of
Sara thy wife shall not be called Sara, for Sarah
shall be her name: 16 And I will bless her, and
I will also give thee a son from her; and I will
bless her, and assemblies and kings which have
dominion over peoples from her shall be. 17 And
Abraham fell upon his face and rejoiced, and
said in his heart, Will the son of a hundred years
have a child, and Sarah the daughter of ninety
years bring forth? 18 And Abraham said before
the Lord, O that Yishmael may be established
before thee! 19 And the Lord said, In verity
Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou
shalt call his name Izhak; and I will establish My
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to
his sons after him. 20 And concerning Yishmael I
have accepted thy prayer. Behold, I have blessed
him, and I will spread him abroad very greatly.
Twelve princes will he beget, and I will set him
(as) a great people. 21 But My covenant I will
establish with Izhak, whom Sarah shall bear to
thee, at this time, in the year following.
22 And when He had ended to speak with him,
the Glory of the Lord ascended up from Abra-
ham. 23 And Abraham took Yishmael his son,
and everyone born in his house, and everyone
bought with his money, every male, the men
of the house of Abraham, and circumcised the
flesh of their foreskin in that very same day
when the Lord had spoken with him. 24 And
Genesis 17:25 xxxviii Genesis 18:8

Abraham was son of ninety and nine years, when

he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And
Yishmael his son was son of thirteen years, when
the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised. 26 In
that same day Abraham was circumcised, and
Yishmael his son, 27 And all the men of his
house, (whether) born in his house, or bought
with money from the sons of the Gentiles, were
circumcised with him.

18
1 And the Lord was revealed to him in the Vale
of Mamre; and he sat in the door of the tent while
the day was hot. 2 And lie lifted up his eyes and
looked, and, behold, three men stood towards
him; and he saw, and ran from the door of the
tent to meet them, and worshipped upon the
earth. 3 And he said, Lord, if now I have found
favour in Thine eyes, pass not, I pray, from Thy
servant. 4 Accept now a little water, and wash
your feet, and recline under the tree, 5 and take
a mouthful of bread, and strengthen your hearts,
afterward you shall pass on; because for this
you have come over unto your servant. And He
said, So do as thou hast spoken. 6 And Abraham
hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said, Make
haste with three seyin of the flour of meal, mix
and make cakes. 7 And to the herd ran Abraham,
and took a calf, tender and good, and gave to
a young man, and he hastened to dress him.
8 And he took butter and milk, and the calf which
he had prepared, and set before them, and he
waited upon them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 18:9 xxxix Genesis 18:20

9 AndHe said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife?

And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And He
said, Returning I will return to thee, according
to the time that you shall revive, and, behold,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah
heard in the door of the tent, and it was behind
Him. 11 And Abraham and Sarah were old and
advanced in days, and with Sarah had ceased
to be the way of women. 12 And Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, After that I am old shall I
have a child, and my lord (being also) old? 13 And
the Lord said to Abraham, Wherefore laughed
Sarah, saying, Can it be in truth that I shall bring
forth, and I being old? 14 What word is hidden
from before the Lord? At the time I will return to
thee, according to the time that you shall revive,
and Sarah shall have a son. 15 And Sarah denied,
saying, I laughed not: for she was afraid. And
He said, No, but thou didst laugh.
16And the men arose thence, and looked
towards the face of Sedom; and Abraham went
with them to accompany them. 17 And the Lord
said, Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am
doing? 18 And Abraham shall be indeed a people
many and strong, and in him shall all the peoples
of the earth be blessed; 19 because it is manifest
before me that he will instruct his children,
and the men of his house after him, to keep
the ways which are right before the Lord, to
do righteousness and judgment; that the Lord
may bring upon Abraham that which He hath
spoken concerning him. 20 And the Lord said,
The cry of Sedom and Amorah (is heard before
Genesis 18:21 xl Genesis 18:30

Me) because it is great, and the guilt of them is

very mighty: 21 I will now see, and will judge,
whether they do according to the report of them
which hath ascended before me. I will deal with
them thoroughly unless they convert; but if they
convert, I will not punish.
22 And the men turned away from thence,
and went toward Sedom. 23 And Abraham yet
ministered in prayer before the Lord. And
Abraham approached, and said, Wilt Thou, in
anger, destroy the righteous with the guilty? 24 If
perhaps there be fifty righteous within the city,
wilt Thou in anger destroy and not forgive the
place for the fifty righteous who are within it?
25 More true are Thy judgments than that Thou
shouldst do a thing like that, to destroy the just
with the guilty, and that the just should be as
the guilty! Thy judgments are true! Can the
Judge of all the earth but do justice? 26 And the
Lord said, If I find in Sedom fifty righteous in
the midst of the city, I will spare all the place
for their sake. 27 And Abraham answered and
said, Behold, I have done a great thing, to speak
before the Lord, and I dust and ashes! 28 Perhaps
of the fifty righteous there may be wanting five:
shall all the city perish through five? And He
said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and
five. 29 And he added yet to speak before Him,
and said, Perhaps forty may be found there. And
He said, I will not make the end on account of
the forty. 30 And he said, Let not the anger of
the Lord now kindle, and I will speak. Perhaps
thirty shall be found there. And He said, I will
Genesis 18:31 xli Genesis 19:6

not make the end if I find there thirty. 31 And he

said, Behold, I have done a great thing to speak
before the Lord: perhaps twenty shall be found
there. And He said, I will not destroy for the sake
of twenty. 32 And he said, Let not now the anger
of the Lord kindle, and I will speak only this time:
perhaps ten may be found there. And He said, I
will not destroy for the sake of the ten! 33 And the
Glory of the Lord ascended when He had ceased
to speak with Abraham, and Abraham returned
to his place.

19
1And two angels entered into Sedom in the
evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. And
Lot saw, and arose to present himself before
them, and he bowed with his face to the earth.
2 And he said, I pray my lords (ribboni) to turn
aside unto the house of your servant and lodge,
and wash your feet; and rising early you shall go
on your way. And they said, Not so, but in the
wide place will we lodge. 3 And he was greatly
in earnest with them, and they turned aside with
him, and entered into his house: and he made
them a supper, and dressed unleavened cakes
for them, and they ate. 4 As yet they had not
slept; and the men of the city, the men of Sedom,
gathered against the house, from the youth unto
the old man, all the people from the extremes;
5 And they cried to Lot, and said to him, Where
are the men who came to thee tonight? Bring
them forth to us, and we will know them. 6 And
Lot went out to them to the gate, and the door
Genesis 19:7 xlii Genesis 19:16

he shut after him. 7 And he said, I pray you,

my brethren, do not (so) wickedly. 8 Behold,
now, I have two daughters, who have not known
man, I would bring them to you, and you should
do to them what pleases in your eyes; only to
these men do nothing, because they have entered
under the shadow of my dwelling. 9 And they
said, Go in, however! And they said, One came to
sojourn, and, behold, he judgeth judgment! Now
will we do worse to thee than to them; and they
prevailed against the man, against Lot, greatly,
and came nigh to shatter the door. 10 And the
men put forth their hands, and brought in Lot
to be with them in the house, and shut the door.
11 And the men who were at the gate of the house
they smote with blindness, from the little to the
great, and they were wearied to find the gate.
12 And the men said to Lot, Whomsoever thou
hast yet here, thy son-in-law, and thy sons, and
thy daughters, and all that thou hast in the city,
lead out from the place: 13 For we will destroy
this place, because their cry is great before the
Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went forth, and spake with his sons-in-
law, the takers of his daughters, and said, Arise,
come forth from this place; for the Lord will
destroy the city. And he was as a trifler in the
eyes of his sons-in-law.
15 And it was as the morning rose that the
angels were urgent upon Lot, saying, Arise, take
thy wife and thy two daughters who are found
faithful with thee, lest thou be smitten with
the punishment of the city. 16 But he delayed;
Genesis 19:17 xliii Genesis 19:28

and the men laid hold of his hands, and of the

hand of his wife, and of the hand of his two
daughters; for the Lord had mercy upon him;
and they brought him forth, and set him without
the city. 17 And it was when he had brought them
without, he said, Be merciful on thy life, look
not behind thee, and stand not in all the plain,
escape to the mountain for deliverance, lest thou
perish. 18 And Lot said to them, Be entreated,
O Lord; 19 behold now, Thy servant hath found
mercy before Thee, and Thou hast magnified Thy
goodness which Thou hast shown me in saving
my life, and I cannot take refuge in the mountain,
lest evil befall me, and I die. 20 Behold now, this
city is nigh, to flee there; and it is (but) small;
let me now escape thither. Is it not small? And
my life shall be sustained. 21 And He said to him,
Behold, I have accepted thee in this thing also,
in that I will not overthrow the city for which
thou hast prayed. 22 Haste, escape thither; for I
cannot do anything until thou be come thither.
Therefore be called the name of the city Zoar.
23 The sun had come forth upon the earth, and
Lot entered Zoar.
24 And the Lord rained upon Sedom and upon
Amorah sulphur and fire from before the Lord
from the heavens, 25 and destroyed those cities
and all the plain, and all the dwellers in the cities
and the herbage of the earth. 26 And his wife
looked behind her, and she became a statue of
salt. 27 And Abraham ascended in the morning
to the place where he had ministered in prayer
before the Lord; 28 And he looked toward Sedom
Genesis 19:29 xliv Genesis 19:38

and Amorah, and upon all the place of the plain

land, and saw, and, behold, the smoke of the land
went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it was when the Lord destroyed the
cities of the plain, that the Lord remembered
Abraham, and sent Lot from the midst of the
overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in
which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in
the mountain, and his two daughters with him:
for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in
a cavern, he and his two daughters. 31 And the
elder said to the younger, Our father is aged, and
there is no man in the earth to go in unto us
according to the way of all the earth. 32 Come,
we will pour father wine, and will lie with him,
and raise up sons from our father. 33 And they
poured their father wine in that night; and the
elder went in and lay with her father; and he
knew not, in her lying down nor in her rising
up. 34 And it was in the day which followed
that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I lay
yesterday with the father: let us give wine also
in the night, and go thou in, lie with him, and
we will raise up sons from our father. 35 And
they gave that night also wine to their father,
and the younger arose and lay with him; and he
knew not, in her lying down nor in her rising up.
36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived from
their father; 37 And the elder brought forth a son,
and called his name Moab: he is the father of the
Moabaee unto this day. 38 And the younger also
brought forth a son, and she called his name Bar
Genesis 20:1 xlv Genesis 20:9

Ammi: he is the father of the B’ni Ammon unto

this day.

20
1And Abraham migrated from thence to the
southern land, and dwelt between Rekam and
Hagra; and he sojourned in Gerar. 2 And
Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister.
And Abimelek, king of Gerar, sent and took
Sarah. 3 And the word came from the presence
of the Lord to Abimelek in a dream of the night,
and said to him, Behold, thou diest, on account
of the woman whom thou hast taken, and she a
man’s wife. 4 But Abimelek had not come nigh
her. And he said, Lord, wilt Thou also kill the
innocent people? 5 Did he not say to me, She is
my sister? And she also said, He is my brother.
In the rectitude of my heart, and the cleanness
of my bands, have I done this. 6 And the Lord
said to him in a dream, It is also manifest to Me
that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done
this, and I have also restrained thee from sinning
before Me; therefore I have not permitted thee
to approach to her. 7 And now return the mares
wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for
thee, and thou shalt live. But if thou wilt not
return (her), know that dying thou shalt die,
thou, and all who are thine.
8 And Abimelek arose in the morning, and
called all his servants, and spake all these words
before them; and the men feared greatly. 9 And
Abimelek called Abraham, and said to him, What
hast thou done to us, and in what have I sinned
Genesis 20:10 xlvi Genesis 20:18

against thee, that thou shouldst have brought

upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin?
Works which are not worthy to be done hast
thou done with me. 10 And Abimelek said to
Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou didst this
thing? 11 And Abraham spake, Because I said,
Perhaps the fear of the Lord is not in this place,
and they will kill me on account of my wife.
12 Nevertheless, in truth she is my sister, the
daughter of my father, but not the daughter of
my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And
it was, when the people erred after the works
of their hands, the Lord did bring me near to
the fear of Himself, from (among) the house
of my father. And I said to her, This is thy
favour which thou canst do for me; in every
place through which we pass, say of me, He is
my brother. 14 And Abimelek took sheep, and
oxen, and servants, and handmaidens, and gave
to Abraham, and returned to him Sarah his wife.
15 And Abimelek said, Behold, my land is before
thee: where it is pleasant in thine eyes, dwell.
16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a
thousand seleen of silver to thy brother; behold,
that is to thee a veil of honour, for my having
sent to take thee, and to see thee, and all that
is with thee; and concerning all whatever thou
hast spoken thou art reproved. 17 And Abraham
prayed before the Lord, and the Lord healed
Abimelek, and his wife, and his handmaids, and
they were revived: 18 For the Lord had shut all
the wombs of the house of Abimelek, on account
of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.
Genesis 21:1 xlvii Genesis 21:14

21
1 And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had
said; and the Lord did unto Sarah according as
He had spoken. 2 And Sarah conceived and bare
unto Abraham a son in his old age, in the time
of which the Lord had told him. 3 And Abraham
called the name of his son who was born to him,
whom Sarah bare to him, Izhak. 4 And Abraham
circumcised Izhak his son (when) the son of eight
days, as the Lord had commanded him. 5 And
Abraham was the son of a hundred years when
Izhak his son was born to him. 6 And Sarah
said, The Lord hath made me to have gladness;
everyone who heareth will give me joy. 7 And
she said, Faithful is He who spake unto Abraham,
and certified that Sarah should suckle children;
for she hath born a son in his old age.
8And the child grew, and was weaned; and
Abraham made a great feast in the day when
Izhak was weaned. 9 And Sarah observed the
son of Hagar the Mizritha, whom she bare to
Abraham, deriding. 10 And she said, Cast out
this handmaid and her son; for the son of the
handmaid shall not inherit with my son, with
Izhak. 11 And the word was evil exceedingly
in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son.
12 And the Lord said to Abraham, Let it not
be evil in thine eyes concerning the youth and
concerning thine handmaid. All that Sarah saith
to thee receive from her, because in Izhak shall
thy sons be called to thee. 13 And also the son
of the handmaid will I set for a people, because
he is thy son. 14 And Abraham rose up in the
Genesis 21:15 xlviii Genesis 21:23

morning, and took bread and a skin of water,

and gave to Hagar, setting upon her shoulder,
and the youth, and dismissed her. And she went,
and wandered in the desert of the well of Shava
(Beara de Shava).
15 And the water was finished from the skin;
and she laid the youth under one of the trees,
16 And (she) went and sat over against, as far off
as a bow flight: for she said, I cannot see the
death of the child. And she sat over against, and
lifted up her voice and wept. 17 And the voice
of the youth was heard before the Lord; and
the Angel of the Lord called to Hagar from the
heavens, and said to her, What to thee, Hagar?
Fear not, for the voice of the youth is heard
before the Lord in the place where he is. 18 Arise,
take up the youth and strengthen thine hand in
him, because for a great people have I appointed
him. 19 And the Lord opened her eyes, and she
saw the well of waters, and went and filled the
skin with water, and gave the youth to drink.
20 And the Word of the Lord was the Helper of the
youth, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness,
and became a master of the bow. 21 And he dwelt
in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took
for him a wife from the land of Mizraim.
22 And it was in that time that Abimelek and
Phikol, chief of his host, spake to Abraham,
saying, The Word of the Lord is thy Helper in
everything thou doest; 23 And now swear to me
here, by the Word of the Lord, that thou wilt not
be false with me, nor with my son, nor with my
son’s son; and that according to the good which I
Genesis 21:24 xlix Genesis 22:2

have done to thee thou wilt do with me and with

the land in which thou art a sojourner. 24 And
Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelek, on ac-
count of the well of waters which the servants of
Abimelek had taken by force. 26 And Abimelek
said, I knew not if this thing had been done,
and thou also hadst not shown me, nor have I
heard, but this day. 27 And Abraham took sheep
and oxen, and gave to Abimelek, and they struck
both of them a covenant. 28 And Abraham made
seven lambs stand apart; and 29 Abimelek said
to Abraham, What are these seven lambs which
thou hast made to stand apart? 30 And he said,
That thou mayest take the seven lambs seven
lambs from my hand, to testify for me that I
have digged that well. 31 Therefore he called
that place Beer Shava, because there they sware
together. 32 And they struck a covenant at Beer
Shava. And Abimelek and Phikol, the chief of
his host, arose, and returned to the land of the
Phelishtaee. 33 And he planted a tree in Beer
Shava, and prayed there in the name of the Lord,
the Most High God. 34 And Abraham sojourned
in the land of the Phelislitaee many days.

22
And it was after these things that the Lord
1
tempted Abraham; and He said to him, Abraham!
And he said, Behold, I am. 2 And He said, Take
now thy son, thy only, whom thou lovest, Izhak,
and go into the land of worship, and offer him
before Me there, a burnt offering, upon one of
Genesis 22:3 l Genesis 22:13

the mountains which I will tell thee. 3 And

Abraham arose in the morning, and saddled his
ass, and took two of his young men with him,
and Izhak his son, and clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and arose and went to the place
of which the Lord had spoken to him. 4 And in
the third day Abraham lifted, up his eyes, and
saw the place from afar. 5 And Abraham said
to his young men, Wait you here with the ass,
and I and the young man will ascend yonder and
worship, and return to you. 6 And Abraham took
the wood of the burnt offering, and laid on Izhak
his son; and he took in his hand the fire and
the knife, and they went both of them as one.
7 And Izhak spake to Abraham his father, and
said, Father! And he said, Behold, I am, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but
where is the lamb for the burnt offering? 8 And
Abraham said, The lamb for the burnt offering
is revealed before the Lord, my son. And they
went, both of them, as one.
9 And they came to the place of which the Lord
had told him. And Abraham builded there the
altar, and set in order the woods, and bound
Izhak his son, and laid him upon the altar above
the woods. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his
hand and took the knife to cut off his son. 11 And
the Angel of the Lord called to him from the
heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And
he said, Behold, I am. 12 And he said to him,
Stretch not out thy hand upon the youth, neither
do anything to him: for now I know that thou
fearest the Lord, and that thou hast not spared
thy only son for Me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his
Genesis 22:14 li Genesis 22:24

eyes after these (words), and saw, and behold,

one ram, holden in the bush by his horns. And
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered
him for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 And Abraham worshipped and prayed there
in that place, and said before the Lord, Here
shall generations worship: wherefore it shall
be paid in that day, In this mountain Abraham
worshipped before the Lord.
15 And the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham
the second time from the heavens, 16 And said, By
my Word have I sworn, saith the Lord, because
thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy
only son, 17 therefore, blessing I will bless thee,
and multiplying I will multiply thy sons as the
stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the
sea shore; and thy sons shall inherit the cities of
their enemies. 18 And all the peoples of the earth
shall be blessed through thy son: forasmuch as
thou hast received My word. 19 And Abraham
returned to his young men, and they arose and
went together unto Beer Shava, and Abraham
dwelt in Beer Shava.
20 And it was after these things it was shown to
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcha, also, hath born
sons to Nachor, thy brother: 21 Uts his first-born,
and Booz his brother, and Kemuel the father of
Aram, 22 and Kesed, and Chazu, and Phildash,
and Yedlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat
Revekah. These eight bare Milcha to Nahor,
brother of Abraham. 24 And his concubine,
whose name was Reuma, she also bare Tebach,
and Gacham, and Tachash, and Maaka.
Genesis 23:1 lii Genesis 23:11

23
1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and
twenty and seven years, the years of the life of
Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kiryath-arba, which
is Hebron, in the land of Kenaan. And Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her.
3 And Abraham rose up from the presence of his
dead, and spake with the sons of Hittah, saying,
4 I am a guest and a sojourner with you: give
me the possession of a sepulchre with you, that
I may bury my dead from before me. 5 And
the sons of Hittah answered Abraham, saying to
him, 6 Receive from us Ribbona; a prince before
the Lord art thou among us; in the best of our
sepulchres bury thy dead. No man of us will
refuse his sepulchre to thee for the burial of thy
dead. 7 And Abraham rose and bowed to the
people of the land, the sons of Hittah. 8 And
he spake with them, saying, If you are willing
in your minds that I should bury my dead from
before me, receive from me, and request for me
of Ephron bar Zochar 9 That he will give me
the Double Cavern, which is in the side of his
field: for the full amount (shelim) of silver he
shall give it to me among you for the possession
of a sepulchre. 10 But Ephron was sitting in
the midst of the sons of Hittah; and Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham before the sons of
Hittah, of all entering the gate of the city, saying,
11 No, my lord; receive of me; I will present to
thee the field and the cavern which is in it; to
thee will I present it; in sight of the sons of
my people will I present it to thee. Bury thy
Genesis 23:12 liii Genesis 24:3

dead. 12 And Abraham bowed before the people

of the land. 13 And he spake with Ephron before
the people of the land, saying, Nevertheless, if
thou wilt do me a grace, receive from me; I will
give money for the field; take of me, and I will
bury my dead there. 14 And Ephron answered
Abraham, saying to him, 15 My lord, receive of
me: the land is worth four hundred sileen of
silver; between me and thee what is it? Bury
thy dead. 16 And Abraham agreed with Ephron,
and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of
which be had spoken before the sons of Hittah,
four hundred sileen of silver, which is received
in merchandise in every city.
17 And Ephron confirmed the field in which is
the double cavern which is before Mamre; the
field, and the cavern that is therein, and all the
trees which were in the field, in all its boundaries
round about, 18 To Abraham, for a purchase, in
the sight of the sons of Hitah, of all entering the
gate of the city. 19 And after this Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the double cavern of the field
which is before Mamre, that is Hebron, in the
land of Kenaan. 20 And the field and the cavern
which is in it were confirmed to Abraham for the
possession of a sepulchre from the sons of Hittah.

24
1And Abraham was old, (and) advanced in
days, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all
things. 2 And Abraham said to his servant, the
elder of his house, who had authority over all
which was his, Put now thy hand under my
thigh, 3 And I will adjure thee by the Word of
Genesis 24:4 liv Genesis 24:13

the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of

the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my
son from the daughters of the Kenaanaee among
whom I dwell. 4 But to my country and to my
kindred thou wilt go, and take a wife for my son
Izhak. 5 And the servant said to him, Perhaps
the woman will not be willing to come after me
to this land, returning am I to return thy son
to the land from which thou hast gone forth?
6 And Abraham said to him, Take care that thou
return not my son thither; 7 The Lord, the God
of heaven, who took me from the house of my
father and from the land of my birth, and who
spake to me, and sware to me, saying, I will
give thee this land, will send His angel before
thee, and thou wilt take a wife for my son from
thence. 8 And if the woman be not willing to
come after thee, thou shalt be absolved from
this my oath; only cause not my son to return
thither. 9 And the servant put his hand under
the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to
him concerning that matter.
10 And the servant took ten camels of the
camels of his lord and went. And all the goods of
his master were in his hand. And he arose and
went to Aram, which is upon Phrath, the river,
to the city of Nachor. 11 And he made the camels
rest without the city at a well of waters in the
evening time, at the time when they came forth
to fill. 12 And he said, Lord God of my master
Abraham, let it, I pray, be opportune with me this
day, and deal thou graciously with my master
Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand by the fountain of
Genesis 24:14 lv Genesis 24:23

waters, and the daughters of the men of the city

will come forth to draw water. 14 Let the maiden
to whom I shall say, Reach thy waterpot, I pray,
that I may drink; and she say, Drink, and I will
also give thy camels drink, be she whom Thou
hast prepared for Thy servant, for Izhak: and in
this I shall know that Thou hast dealt graciously
with my master.
15 And it was while he had not ceased to speak
that, behold, Revekah came forth, (she) who
was born to Bethuel the son of Milcha, wife of
Nachor, brother of Abraham, and her pitcher
upon her shoulder. 16 And the maiden was very
fair to behold; a virgin, and man had not known
her; and she descended to the fountain, and filled
her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant
hasted to her presence; and said, Let me taste, I
pray, a little water from thy pitcher. 18 And she
said, Drink, Ribboni; and she made haste, and
held her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him
to drink. 19 And when she had ended giving him
drink, she said, For thy camels also I will draw,
until they shall have enough to drink. 20 And
she hastened and poured out her pitcher into the
place of watering, and ran again to the well to
fill, and she filled for all his camels. 21 And the
man wondered at her, gazing silently, to know
whether the Lord had prospered his way or not.
22 And it was when the camels had drunk
enough, the man took a ring (qadasha) of gold
weighing a shekel, and two bracelets (sherin) for
the hand weighing ten sileen of gold. 23 And he
said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray,
Genesis 24:24 lvi Genesis 24:35

whether there be room in thy father’s house

sufficient for us to lodge? 24 And she said to him,
I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcha,
whom she bare to Nachor. 25 And she said to
him, There is much straw and provender with
us, also room enough to lodge. 26 And the man
kneeled, and worshipped before the Lord, 27 and
said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master
Abraham, who hath not withheld His grace and
His truth from my master; and me hath the Lord
led in a right way to the house of my master’s
brother.
28 And the maiden ran and showed these things
to her mother’s house. 29 And Revekah had a
brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran
to the man without at the fountain. 30 And it was
when he saw the ring and the bracelets upon
the hands of his sister, and heard the words of
Revekah his sister, saying, As this spake the man
with me, that he came to the man, and, behold,
he stood by the camels at the fountain; 31 And
he said, Enter, blessed of the Lord; why standest
thou without? And I have a prepared house and
a proper place for the camels. 32 And the man
entered the house, and he loosed the camels, and
gave straw and provender for the camels, and
water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men
who were with him. 33 And they set before him
to eat. And he said, I will not eat until I have
spoken my words. And he said, Speak.
And he said, I am a servant of Abraham;
34
35And the Lord hath blessed my master much,
and increased, and hath given to him sheep and
Genesis 24:36 lvii Genesis 24:46

oxen, silver and gold, servants and handmaid-

ens, camels and asses. 36 And Sarah the wife of
my master bare a son to my master after she was
old, and he hath given to him all that he hath.
37 And my master adjured me, saying, Thou shalt
not take a wife for my son from the daughters
of Kenaan in whose land I dwell; 38 But thou
shalt go to my father’s house, and to my kindred,
and take a wife for my son. 39 And I said to my
master, Perhaps the woman will not come after
me. 40 And he said to me, The Lord before whom
I worship will send His angel with thee, and will
prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for
my son from my kindred and from my father’s
house. 41 Then shalt thou be absolved from my
oath when thou hast gone to my kindred: and
if they will not give unto thee, thou shalt be
absolved from my oath.
42 And I came this day to the fountain, and I
said, Lord God of my master Abraham, if now
it is pleasing before thee to prosper the way in
which I go, 43 Behold, I stand at the fountain of
waters, and a damsel may come forth to fill; and
I will say to her, Give me to drink, I entreat, a
little water from thy pitcher; 44 And she shall say
to me, Both for thee and thy camels also I will fill,
let her be the wife whom the Lord hath ordained
for my master’s son.
45 And I had not left speaking in my heart,
when, behold, Revekah came forth, with her
pitcher upon her shoulder, and went down to
the fountain and filled. And I said to her, Let
me now drink. 46 And she hastened and let
Genesis 24:47 lviii Genesis 24:56

down her pitcher, and said, Drink, and I will

give thy camels also drink. And I drank, and
the camels also she watered. 47 And I asked her
and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
said, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of
Nachor, whom Milcha bare to him. And I set
an ornament on her face, and bracelets upon
her hand, 48 and bowed down and worshipped
before the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my
master Abraham who had led me in a true way,
to take the daughter of my master’s brother for
his son. 49 And now, if you will act with goodness
and truth with my master, show me; and if not,
I will turn to the right or to the left.
50 And Laban answered, and Bethuel, and said,
From before the Lord the word hath come forth:
we have no power to say to thee either evil or
good. 51 Behold, Revekah is before thee; take
(her) and go; and let her be the wife of thy
master’s son, as the Lord hath spoken.
52 And it was, when the servant of Abraham
heard these words, he worshipped on the earth
before the Lord. 53 And the servant brought
out vessels of silver and vessels of gold and
vestments, and gave to Revekah, and presents
gave he to her brother and to her mother. 54 And
they ate and drank, he and the men who were
with him, and they lodged and arose in the
morning. And he said, Send me to my master.
55 And her brother said, and her mother, Let the
maiden abide with us a season of time, or ten
months; after that she shall go. 56 And he said
to them, Keep me not back: the Lord will direct
Genesis 24:57 lix Genesis 24:67

my way, and I will proceed to my master. 57 And

they said, We will call the maiden, and hear what
she will say. 58 And they called Revekah, and
said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she
said, I will go. 59 And they dismissed Revekah
their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of
Abraham, and his men. 60 And they blessed
Revekah, and said to her, Thou art our sister; be
thou (multiplied) unto thousands and myriads,
and may thy children inherit the cities of those
who hate them. 61 And Revekah arose, and her
maidens; and they rode upon camels, and went
after the man. And the servant took Revekah and
went.

62 And Izhak ascended in coming from the well

over which the Angel of Life (malak qayama,
“the Eternal Angel”) had appeared; and he dwelt
in the land of the south. 63 And Izhak went
forth to pray in the field, at the presence of the
evening; and he lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, the camels came. 64 And Revekah
lifted up her eyes, and saw Izhak; and she bowed
herself on the camel. 65 And she said to the
servant, Who is the man who is walking in the
field to meet us? And the servant said, He is
my master. And she took a mantle and covered
herself. 66 And the servant recounted to Izhak
all the things which he had done. 67 And Izhak
brought her to the tabernacle: and he saw, and,
behold, her works were right as the works of
Sarah his mother. And he took Revekah, and she
became his wife, and he loved her. And Izhak
was comforted after his mother.
Genesis 25:1 lx Genesis 25:13

25
1 And Abraham added, and took a wife, and
her name was Keturah; 2 And she bare to him
Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midyan,
and Yeshbach, and Shuvach. 3 And Yokshan
begat Sheba, and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan
have been in camps and tabernacles and islands.
4 And the sons of Midyan, Eipha, and Epher, and
Hanok, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these the
sons of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that
he had unto Izhak. 6 But to the sons of the
concubine of Abraham gave Abraham portions,
and sent them from his son Izhak, while he yet
lived, eastward in the land of the sunrise.
7 And these are the days of the years of the
life of Abraham that he lived, an hundred and
seventy and five years. 8 And Abraham expired,
and died in a good old age, aged, and full of
days; and he was gathered unto his people. 9 And
Izhak and Ishmael his sons buried him in the
twofold cave in the field of Ephron bar Zochar,
the Hittah, which is before Mamre; 10 the field
that Abraham bought from the sons of Hittah:
there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife.
11 And it was after the death of Abraham that
the Lord blessed Izhak his son, and Izhak dwelt
at the well over which the Eternal Angel had
appeared.
12 And these are the generations of Ishmael
bar Abraham, whom Hagar the Mizretha, the
handmaid of Sarah, bare to Abraham. 13 And
these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by
their names in their generations. The firstborn
of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel,
Genesis 25:14 lxi Genesis 25:26

14 and Mibsam, and Mishma, and Duma, and

Massa; 15 Hadad, and Thema, Yetoor, Naphish,
and Kedemah. 16 These are the sons of Ishmael,
and these are their names in their villages and
their towns, twelve chiefs of their peoples. 17 And
these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hun-
dred and thirty and seven years. And he expired
and died, and was gathered to his people. 18 And
they have dwelt from Havilah unto Hagra, which
looketh toward Mizraim, reaching unto Athoor.
In the presence of all his brethren he dwelt.
And these are the generations of Izhak bar
19
Abraham. Abraham begat Izhak; 20 And Izhak
was a son of forty years when he took Revekah,
the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan
Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramite, to be
his wife. 21 And Izhak prayed before the Lord
for his wife, because she was barren; and the
Lord hearkened to his prayer, and Revekah his
wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled
in her womb; and she said, If thus, why have
I conceived? And she went to seek instruction
before the Lord: 23 And the Lord said to her, Two
nations are in thy womb, and two kingdoms from
thy womb shall be divided, and (one) kingdom
(shall be) stronger than (the other) kingdom, and
the greater shall be subject to the less. 24 And her
days were fulfilled to give birth. And, behold,
twins were in her womb. 25 And the first came
forth red, all of him as a garment (covering) of
hair; and they called his name Esau. 26 And
afterwards came forth his brother, and his hand
grasped the heel of Esau, and they called his
Genesis 25:27 lxii Genesis 26:4

name Jakob. And Izhak was sixty years old when

he begat them.
27 And the youths grew; and Esau was a man
of idleness, a man going out into the field; and
Jakob was a man of peace, a minister of the
house of instruction. 28 And Izhak loved Esau,
because he ate of his hunting, and Rivekah loved
Jakob.
29 And Jakob dressed pottage, and Esau came
from the field, and he was faint. 30 And Esau
said to Jakob, Let me taste now of that red, that
red! For I am faint: (therefore he called his
name Edom:) 31 and Jakob said, Sell this day thy
birthright to me. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am
going to die, and what is this birthright to me?
33 And Jakob said, Swear to me today; and he
sware to him and he sold his birthright to Jakob.
34 And Jakob gave to Esau bread and pottage of
lentiles. And he ate and drank, and arose, and
went: and Esau despised the birthright.

26
1And there was a famine in the land, besides
the former famine that was in the days of
Abraham; and Izhak went to Abimelek, king of
the Philistaee, to Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared
to him and said, Go not down into Mizraim,
remain in the land as I have told thee; 3 Dwell
in this land, and My Word shall be to thee for
a helper; and I will bless thee. For to thee and
to thy son will I give all these lands; and I will
confirm the oath that I have sworn to Abraham
thy father; 4 And I will multiply thy son as the
Genesis 26:5 lxiii Genesis 26:15

stars of heaven, and will give thy son all these

lands, and through thy son shall all the peoples of
the earth be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed
My word, and kept the keeping of My word, My
commandments, My covenant, and My law.
6 And Izhak dwelt at Gerar; 7 and the men of
the place asked respecting his wife. And he said,
She is my sister; for he feared to say, My wife, lest
the men of the place should kill him on account
of Revekah; for she was of beautiful aspect. 8 And
it was when be had been there many days that
Abimelek the king of the Philistaee looked from
a window, and, behold, Izhak was sporting with
Revekah his wife. 9 And Abimelek called Izhak
and said, Nevertheless, behold, she is thy wife:
why then hast thou said, She is my sister? And
Izhak said to him, Because I said, Lest I be killed
on account of her. 10 And Abimelek said, What
is this that thou hast done to us? It might have
been that some one of the people had lain with
thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought upon
us the guilt. 11 And Abimelek commanded all the
people saying, Whoever injureth this man shall
surely be put to death.
12 And Izhak sowed in the land, and found
in that year a hundred fold on that which he
had expended, (or estimated,) and the Lord
blessed him; 13 And the man increased, and
went on multiplying and increasing, until he had
increased greatly. 14 And he had flocks of sheep,
and herds of cattle, and many servants; and the
Philistaee were envious of him. 15 And all the
wells that the servants of his father had digged
Genesis 26:16 lxiv Genesis 26:25

in the days of Abraham the Philistaee stopped

up, and filled with dust. 16 And Abimelek said
to Izhak, Go from us; for thou art much stronger
than we.
17 And Izhak went thence, and sojourned in
the vale of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Izhak
returned, and digged the well of water which
they had digged in the days of Abraham his
father, and which the Philistaee had stopped
after the death of Abraham; and he called their
names after the names by which his father had
called them. 19 And the servants of Izhak digged
in the valley, and found there a well of flowing
waters. 20 And the shepherds of Gerar strove
with the shepherds of Izhak, saying, The water
is ours; and he called the name of the well
Contention, because they had contended with
him. 21 And they digged another well, and they
strove also on account of it, and he called the
name of it Hatred. 22 And he went up from
thence, and digged another well; and for that
they strove not: and he called the name of it
Spaciousness. For he said, Because now hath the
Lord enlarged us, and we shall spread abroad in
the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beer Shava;
24 and the Lord appeared to him in the night, and
said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear
not: for in thy help is My Word; and I will bless
thee, and will multiply thy sons for the sake of
Abraham My servant. 25 And he builded there an
altar, and prayed in the name of the Lord. And
he spread there his tabernacle; and the servants
Genesis 26:26 lxv Genesis 27:1

of Izhak digged there a well.

26 And Abimelek came to him from Gerar, and
a company of his friends, and Phikol the chief
of his host. 27 And Izhak said to him, Why have
you come to me, when you have hated me, and
sent me from you? 28 And they said, Seeing we
have seen that the Word of the Lord is for thy
help; and we have said, Let the oath which was
between our fathers be now confirmed between
us and thee, and let us enter into a covenant
with thee, 29 that thou do us no evil, as we have
not injured thee, and as we have done thee only
good, and we will leave thee in peace; thou art
now blessed of the Lord. 30 And he made them a
feast, and they ate and drank. 31 And they arose
in the morning and covenanted, each man with
his brother; and Izhak dismissed them, and they
went from him in peace. 32 And it was in that day
that the servants of Izhak came and showed him
concerning the well that they had digged. And
they said to him, We have found water. 33 And
he called it Sheva, (the swearing). Wherefore the
name of the city is Beer-sheva unto this day.
34 And Esau was the son of forty years, and
he took to wife Jehudith, daughter of Beeri the
Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the
Hittite; 35 And they were rebels and irritators
against the word of Izhak and Revekah.

27
1 Andit was, when Izhak was old, and his eyes
were darkened from seeing, that he called Esau,
his eldest son, and said to him, My son. And he
Genesis 27:2 lxvi Genesis 27:15

said to him, Behold, I am. 2 And he said, Behold

now, I am old, I know not the day that I shall
die: 3 And now take thy weapons, thy knife and
thy bow, and go out into the field, and hunt me
venison, 4 And make me food I such as I like, and
bring it to me, and I will eat, and my soul shall
bless thee before I die.
5And Revekah listened as Izhak was speaking
with his son Esau. And Esau went into the field to
hunt venison to bring it. 6 And Revekah spake to
Jakob, her son, saying, Behold, I have heard thy
father speaking with Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me now venison, and make me food, and
I will eat and bless thee in the presence of the
Lord before I die. 8 And now, my son, obey me
in what I command thee. 9 Go now to the flock,
and take thee from thence two good goat-kids,
and make them into food for thy father such as
he loves, 10 And carry in to thy father, that he
may eat, and bless thee before he die. 11 And
Jakob said to Revekah his mother, Behold, Esau
my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth
man. 12 It may be that my father will feel me,
and I shall be in his eyes as a deceiver, and shall
bring upon me curses, and not blessings. 13 And
his mother said to him, Unto me it hath been said
in prophecy, that there shall be no curses upon
thee, my son; only obey me, and go, and take for
me. 14 And he went, and took, and brought to his
mother, and his mother made food such as his
father loved. 15 And Revekah took the vestments
of Esau her elder son, (which were) clean, and
were with her in the house, and clothed Jakob
Genesis 27:16 lxvii Genesis 27:28

her younger son. 16 And with the skins of the kids

she covered his hands, and upon the smoothness
of his neck. 17 And she gave the food and the
bread that she had made into the hand of Jakob
her son.
18 And he went in to his father, and said,
Father! And he said, Behold me. Who art thou,
my son? 19 And Jakob said to his father, I am
Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou hast
told me. Arise now, turn thyself, and eat of my
venison, that thy soul may bless me. 20 And Izhak
said to his son, What is this, thou hast so quickly
found, my son? And he said, Because the Lord
thy God prepared it before me. 21 And Izhak said
to Jakob, Draw near now, and I will feel thee, my
son, whether thou be my son Esau or not. 22 And
Jakob drew near to Izhak his father, and he felt
him, and said, The voice is the voice of Jakob;
but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And
he could not be known, because his hands were
hairy, like the hands of Esau his brother; and he
blessed him. 24 And he said, But art thou my son
Esau? And he said, I am! 25 And he said, Bring
before me, and I will eat of my sons venison, that
my soul may bless thee. And he offered to him,
and he did eat; and he brought him wine, and
he drank. 26 And Izhak his father said to him,
Approach now, and kiss me, my son. 27 And he
approached, and kissed him, and he smelled the
fragrance of his vestments, and blessed him, and
said, Lo, the smell of my son is as the fragrance
of a field which the Lord hath blessed. 28 And the
Lord shall give thee of the dew of heaven, and of
Genesis 27:29 lxviii Genesis 27:37

the goodness of the earth, and abundance of corn

and of wine. 29 Let the peoples serve thee, and
kingdoms be subservient to thee: be thou chief
of thy brethren, and let the sons of thy mother
worship thee: cursed shall they be who curse
thee, and blessed shall they be who bless thee!
30And it was when Izhak had completed to
bless Jakob, and Jakob had, going, only gone out
from Izhak his father, that Esau his brother came
in from his hunting. 31 And he had also made
food, and he brought it to his father, and said to
his father, Arise, my father, and eat of thy son’s
venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Izhak
his father said to him, Who art thou? And he
said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau. 33 And
Izhak was wonderstruck with exceeding great
wonder, and said, Who was he who prepared
venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten
of all before thou camest, and I have blessed
him? And blessed shall he be. 34 When Esau
heard the words of his father, he cried a cry,
great and bitter exceedingly. And he said to his
father, Bless me, also, me, father! 35 And he
said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath
received thy blessing. 36 And he said, Rightly is
his name called Jakob, he hath dealt subtilly with
me these two times; my birthright he took, and,
behold, now he hath received my blessing. And
he said, Hast thou not left me a blessing? 37 And
Izhak answered, and said to Esau, Behold, I have
set him a chief over thee, and all his brethren
I have given to him for servants, and with corn
and wine have I sustained him: and for thee now
Genesis 27:38 lxix Genesis 27:46

what can I do, my son? 38 And Esau said to his

father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless
me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice and wept.
39 And Izhak his father answered and said to
him, Behold, thy habitation shall be of the best
of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from
above. 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and
thy brother obey; and it will be that when his
sons shall have transgressed the words of the
law, thou wilt cast his yoke from off thy neck.
41 And Esau kept enmity towards Jakob for the
blessing wherewith his father had blessed him.
And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning
for father draw near and I wilt kill Jakob my
brother. 42 And the words of Esau her eldest
son were shown to Revekah, and she sent and
called Jakob her younger son, and said to him,
Behold, Esau thy brother plotteth against thee
to kill thee. 43 And now, my son, receive from
me, and arise and go to Laban my brother at
Haran, 44 And dwell with him a few days, until
thy brother’s wrath turn away, 45 Until the anger
of thy brother turn from thee, and what thou
hast done to him be forgotten; and I will send
and bring thee thence. Why should I be bereaved
of both of you in one day?
46 And Revekah said to Izhak, I am grieved in
my life at the sight of the daughters of Hittah. If
Jakob take a wife of the daughters of Hittah, like
these of the daughters of the land, what to me is
life?
Genesis 28:1 lxx Genesis 28:11

28
1 And Izhak called Jakob and blessed him. And
he commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt
not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan;
2 Arise, go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel
the father of thy mother, and take to thee from
thence a wife of the daughters of Laban, the
brother of thy mother. 3 And the All-sufficient
God bless thee, and make thee to increase and
multiply, and become an assemblage of tribes;
4 And give the blessing of Abraham to thee and
thy sons with thee, that thou mayest inherit the
land of thy habitation which the Lord gave to
Abraham. 5 And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he
went to Padan Aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the
Aramite, the brother of Revekah, the mother of
Jakob and Esau.
6 And Esau, when he saw that Izhak had
blessed Jakob, and sent him to Padan Aram to
take from thence a wife, and, as he blessed him,
commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife from the daughters of Kenaan, 7 and that
Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and
had gone to Padan Aram, 8 Esau, considering that
the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes
of Izhak his father, 9 went to Ishmael, and took
Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael bar Abraham, the
sister of Nebaioth, over his wives, unto him to
wife.
10 And Jakob went forth from Beersheva, and
went to Haran; 11 and he arrived at a place, and
lodged there, because the sun had gone. And
he took of the stones of the place, and set his
Genesis 28:12 lxxi Genesis 28:20

pillow, and lay down in that place. 12 And he

dreamed: and, behold, a ladder was planted in
the earth, and the head of it reached unto the
height of heaven; and, behold, the angels of the
Lord ascended and descended upon it; 13 and,
behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and
He said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and
the God of Izhak. The land where thou sleepest,
unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons. 14 And
thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth,
and shall prevail to the west and to the east, and
to the north and to the south; and through thee
shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed, and
through thy sons. 15 And, behold, My Word shall
be for thy help, and I will keep thee in every
place whither thou goest, and I will bring thee
again to this land; for I will not leave thee until
I have done what I say to thee. 16 And Jakob
awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory
of the Lord dwelleth in this place, and I knew it
not. 17 And he feared and said, How awful is this
place! This place is not common (ground), but
a place where there is pleasantness before the
Lord; and this is nigh the gate of heaven.
18 And Jakob rose up early in the morning, and
took the stone which he had set for his pillow,
and set it up, a pillar, and poured oil upon the
top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place
The House of God (Bethel). But Luz was the name
of the city at the first. 20 And Jakob vowed a vow,
saying, If the Word of the Lord will be my help,
and will keep me in that way in which I go, and
will give me bread to eat, and raiment to wear,
Genesis 28:21 lxxii Genesis 29:10

21 and bring me again in peace to the Lord shall

be my God. 22 And at this stone which I have set
up (as) a pillar, will I worship before the Lord;
and of all that Thou shalt give me, the tenth will
I separate before Thee.

29
And Jakob lifted up his feet, and came to the
1
land of the children of the East. 2 And he looked,
and saw a well in a field; and, behold, three
flocks of sheep lying near it, because from that
well they watered the flocks; and a great stone
was upon the mouth of the well. 3 And thither
all the flocks were gathered together; and they
withdrew the stone from the mouth of the well,
and watered the flock, and returned the stone
upon the mouth of the well unto its place.
4 And Jakob said to them, My brethren, whence
are you? And they said, We are from Haran.
5 And Jakob said to them, Know you Laban bar
Nachor? And they said, We know. 6 And he
said, Hath he peace? And they said, Peace;
and, behold, Rahel his daughter cometh with the
flock. 7 And he said, Behold, the day is yet great,
it is not time to gather the cattle; water the sheep,
and go to the pasture. 8 And they said, We cannot
till all the flocks are gathered, and we remove the
stone from the mouth of the well, and water the
flock.
9 While he spake with them, Rahel came,
with the flock of her father; for she was a
shepherdess. 10 And it was, when Jakob saw
Rahel the daughter of Laban, the brother of his
Genesis 29:11 lxxiii Genesis 29:22

mother, and the flock of Laban the brother of

his mother, that Jakob went near, and withdrew
the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered
the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother. 11 And
Jakob kissed Rahel, and lifted up his voice and
wept. 12 And Jakob showed Rahel that he was
the son of her father’s sister, and that he was
the son of Revekah. And she ran and showed to
her father.
13 And it was when Laban heard the hearing
of Jakob the son of his sister, that he ran to meet
him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and
brought him into his house; and he narrated to
Laban all these words. 14 And Laban said to him,
Thou art, however, my near (kinsman), and thou
art my flesh. And he abode with him a month of
days.
15 And Laban said to Jakob, Because thou art
my brother, shalt thou serve me for nothing? Tell
me, what shall be thy wages? 16 And Laban had
two daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and
the name of the younger Rahel. 17 And the eyes of
Leah were beautiful; but Rahel was admirable in
form, and beautiful in aspect. 18 And Jakob loved
Rahel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years
for Rahel thy younger daughter. 19 And Laban
said, It is better that I give her to thee than give
her to another man; reside with me. 20 And Jakob
served for Rahel seven years; and they were in
his eyes as a few days, inasmuch as he loved her.
21 And Jakob said to Laban, Give me my wife;
for the days of my service are fulfilled, and I will
go to her. 22 And Laban assembled all the men
Genesis 29:23 lxxiv Genesis 29:35

of the place, and made a feast. 23 And it was

in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter,
and introduced her to him, and he entered to her.
24 And Laban gave her Zilpha his handmaid unto
Leah his daughter, to attend on her. 25 And it was
in the morning, and, behold, she was Leah! And
he said to Laban, What is this that thou hast done
to me? Was it not for Rahel that I served thee?
And why hast thou been false with me? 26 And
Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give
the younger before the elder. 27 Fulfil this week,
and I will give thee also that, for the service that
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jakob did so, and fulfilled the week of this;
and he gave him Rahel his daughter to be his
wife. 29 And Laban gave to Rahel his daughter
Bilhah her handmaid to wait upon her. 30 And he
went in also to Rahel, and he loved Rahel more
than Leah. And he served yet with him seven
other years.
31And the Lord saw that Leah was hated, and
He gave her to conceive, but Rahel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived and bare a son, and she
called his name Reuben; for she said, Because my
affliction was manifest before the Lord; for now
will my husband love me. 33 And she conceived
again and bare a son, and she said, Because it
was heard before the Lord that I had hatred,
and He gave me this also; and she called his
name Shemeon. 34 And she conceived again and
bare a son: and she said, This time will my
husband adhere to me; for I have born him three
sons: therefore she called his name Levi. 35 And
Genesis 30:1 lxxv Genesis 30:11

she conceived again and bare a son; and she

said, This time will I give praise before the Lord:
therefore she called his name Jehudah. And she
ceased (stood) from bearing.

30
1And Rahel saw that she did not bear unto
Jakob; and Rahel envied her sister, and she said
to Jakob, Give me children; and if not, I die. 2 And
the anger of Jakob was incensed against Rahel,
and he said, Why ask of me? Is it not before the
Lord that thou shouldest ask, who hath denied
thee the generation of the womb? 3 And she
said, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto
her, and she shall bear, and I also shall nourish
(children), and be builded up from her. 4 And
she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and
Jakob went in unto her, 5 and Bilhah conceived,
and bare to Jakob a son. 6 And Rahel said, The
Lord hath judged me, and hath also received my
prayer, and given me a son: therefore she called
his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah the handmaid of
Rahel conceived again, and bare a second son to
Jakob. 8 And Rahel said, The Lord hath received
my request: when I entreated in my prayer, I
desired that I might have offspring as my sister,
and also it is given me. And she called his name
Naphtali.
9 And Leah saw that she had ceased from
bearing, and she took Zilpha her handmaid, and
gave her to Jakob to wife. 10 And Zilpha the
handmaid of Leah bare a son to Jakob, 11 and
Leah said, There cometh prosperity; and she
Genesis 30:12 lxxvi Genesis 30:23

called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpha the handmaid

of Leah bare a second son to Jakob; 13 And
Leah said, Praise shall be mine; now will women
praise me; and she called his name Asher.
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat
harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and
he brought them to Leah his mother. And
Rahel said to Leah, Give me now of thy son’s
mandrakes. 15 And she said to her, Is it a little
that thou hast taken my husband, and thou wilt
take also my son’s mandrakes? And Rahel said,
Therefore shall he lie with thee at night for
thy son’s mandrakes. 16 And Jakob came in
from the field at evening, and Leah went out
to anticipate him, and said, With me thou wilt
go in, because with hire have I hired thee, with
the mandrakes of my son; and he lay with her
that night. 17 And the Lord received the prayer
of Leah, and she conceived, and bare to Jakob a
fifth son. 18 And Leah said, The Lord hath given
me my reward, because I gave my handmaid to
my husband. And she called his name Issakar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth
son to Jakob. 20 And Leah said, The Lord hath
given me a good portion. This time will the
habitation of my husband be with me, because
I have born him six sons: therefore she called
his name Zebulon. 21 And afterward she bare
a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22 And
the remembrance of Rahel came before the Lord,
and the Lord received her prayer, and gave her
to conceive. 23 And she conceived and bare a
son, and she said, The Lord hath taken up my
Genesis 30:24 lxxvii Genesis 30:35

reproach. 24 And she called his name Joseph,

saying, The Lord shall add to me another son.
25 And it was when Rahel had born Joseph, that
Jakob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may
go to my place, and to my land. 26 Give me my
wives and my children, for whom I have served
thee, that I may go: for thou knowest the service
with which I have served thee. 27 And Laban
said to him, If now I have found grace in thine
eyes, I have proved that the Lord hath blessed
me for thy sake. 28 And he said, Certify thy wages
with me, and I will give. 29 And he said to him,
Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what
thy flocks have been with me; 30 For thou hadst
few before me, and they have increased into a
multitude: and the Lord hath blessed thee for
my sake. But now, what shall I do also for my
(own) house? 31 And he said, What shall I give
thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me
anything; but if thou wilt do with me this matter,
I will return, and, pasturing thy flocks, will keep
(them). 32 I will pass through all thy flocks today,
and set apart from them every lamb streaked
and speckled, and every black lamb among the
lambs, and the streaked and speckled among
the goats, and they shall be my wages. 33 And
my righteousness shall be testified in the day
following, when thou wilt come upon my reward
that shall be before thee: everyone which is not
streaked or speckled among the goats, and black
among the lambs, that shall be (as if) stolen by
me. 34 And Laban said, Let it be according to thy
word. 35 And he set apart that day the he goats
Genesis 30:36 lxxviii Genesis 30:43

of various colour, and all the goats which were

speckled or spotted, everyone which had (some)
white in him, and all that were black among the
lambs: and he gave them into the hand of his
sons. 36 And he set a walk of three days between
them and Jakob; and Jakob pastured the flock of
Laban which remained.
37 And Jakob took to him rods of white poplars,
and of almond, (or hazel,) and of plane tree,
and peeled in them white peelings, (so that,
where) peeled, the white which was in the rods
appeared. 38 And he fixed the rods that he had
peeled in the canals, in the place of the watering
of waters, the place to which they brought the
flocks to drink, to be over against the flocks, that
they might be incited when they came to drink.
39 And the sheep were incited before the rods,
and the sheep brought forth with chequered feet
and streaked. 40 And Jakob separated the lambs,
and set before the sheep which were various
coloured and all that were black among the
sheep of Laban; and placed them for himself a
flock apart, not mixing them with the sheep of
Laban. 41 And it was that whenever the early
(prime) sheep conceived, Jakob placed the rods
before the eyes of the sheep in the canals, that
they might conceive before the rods: but before
the late sheep he did not place them. 42 And (so)
the late ones were Laban’s, and the prime ones
Jacob’s. 43 And the man increased very greatly,
and had a multitude of flocks, and handmaids,
and servants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 31:1 lxxix Genesis 31:12

31
1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons,
saying, Jacob hath taken all that was our father’s;
and of that which was our father’s he hath gotten
all these possessions. 2 And Jakob saw the looks
of Laban, and, behold, they were not with him as
yesterday, and the time before. 3 And the Lord
said to Jacob, Return to thy country and to thy
native (place): and My Word shall be for thy
help. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rahel and Leah
to the field with his flocks: 5 And he said to them,
I see the looks of your father, that they are not
with me as yesterday and the time before; and
the God of my father hath been to my help. 6 And
you know that with all my strength I have served
your father; 7 But your father hath lied to me,
and hath changed my wages ten times; but the
Lord hath not permitted him to hurt me. 8 If now
he said, The streaked shall be thy wages; then
all the flock bare streaked: and if now he said,
The chequered shall be thy wages; all the flock
bare chequered. 9 And the Lord hath separated
them from the cattle of your father, and hath
given (them) to me. 10 And it was at the time
when the flocks conceived, I lifted up my eyes,
and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the flock were chequered, streaked,
and speckled. 11 And the angel of the Lord said
to me in a dream, Jacob. And I said, Behold, I
am. 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and
see, all the rams which leap upon the flock are
chequered, streaked, and speckled: because all
that Laban hath done to thee is manifest before
Genesis 31:13 lxxx Genesis 31:25

Me. 13 I am Eloha, who appeared to thee at

Bethel, where thou didst anoint the pillar, and
where before Me thou didst swear the oath: arise
now, go from this land, and return to the land of
thy birth. 14 And Rahel and Leah answered and
said to him, Have we yet a portion or inheritance
in our father’s house? 15 Are we not accounted
as strangers by him? For he hath sold us, and
hath devoured our money also. 16 Therefore, all
the wealth that the Lord hath separated from our
father is ours and our children’s: and now all
that the Lord hath said to thee, do.
17 And Jakob arose, and lifted up his sons and
his wives upon camels; 18 And led all his herds
and all his substance which he had obtained, his
herds and his substance which he had obtained
in Padan Aram, to go unto Izhak his father in
the land of Kenaan. 19 And Laban had gone to
shear his flock: and Rahel took the images that
were her father’s. 20 And Jakob concealed from
Laban the Aramite, and showed him not that he
went. 21 And he went, he and all that were his;
and he arose and passed the Phrat, and set his
face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 And it was shown to Laban on the third day
that Jakob had gone. 23 And he took his brethren
with him, and Pursued after him; going seven
days; and he overtook him in the Mountain of
Gilead. 24 And a word came from before the Lord
to Laban the Aramite in a dream of the night,
and He said to him, Beware, lest thou speak with
Jakob from good to evil.
25 And Laban overtook Jakob; and Jakob had
spread his tent in the mountain; and Laban made
Genesis 31:26 lxxxi Genesis 31:35

his brethren abide in the mountain of Gilead.

26 And Laban said to Jacob; What hast thou done,
that thou hast hidden from me, and taken away
my daughters, as captives of the sword? 27 Why
didst thou conceal thy going, (or conceal thyself
to go,) and didst hide it from me, and not show
me, that I might then have sent thee away with
mirth, and with hymns, and with tambourines,
and with harps? 28 Nor didst thou suffer me to
kiss my sons and my daughters. Now hast thou
done foolishly. 29 It is in the power of my bands
to do evil with thee: but the God of thy father
spake to me in the evening, saying, Beware lest
thou speak to Jakob from good to evil. 30 And
now, (though) going thou wouldest go, because
desiring thou bast desired the house of thy
father, why hast thou taken my religion? 31 And
Jakob answered and said to Laban, Because I
feared; for I said, Lest thou shouldst take away
thy daughters from me. 32 The place where thou
shalt find thy religious things shall not abide:
before our brethren ascertain thou what of thine
is with me, and take to thee. But Jakob knew not
that Rahel had carried them away.
33 AndLaban entered into the tent of Leah, and
into the tent of the two concubines, but found
not; and he went forth from the tent of Leah,
and entered the tent of Rahel. 34 But Rahel had
taken the images, and laid them in the panniers
of the camels, and sat upon them. And Laban
searched all the tent, but found not. 35 And she
said to her father, Let it not be displeasing in the
eyes of my lord, that I am not able to rise before
Genesis 31:36 lxxxii Genesis 31:43

thee; for the way of women is upon me. And he

scrutinized, but found not the images.
36 And Jakob was angry, and contended with
Laban. And Jakob answered and said to Laban,
What is my guilt, my crime, that thou hast pur-
sued after me? 37 Now that thou hast searched all
my things, what hast thou found, of all the things
of thy house? Set it here before my brethren and
thy brethren, and they shall decide between us
both. 38 These twenty years have I been with
thee; thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and
the rams of thy flock I have not eaten. 39 The
wounded I have not brought to thee; what was
deficient in number, from my hand hast thou
required it. I have watched by day, and I have
watched by night. 40 (Thus) have I been; in the
day the heat devoured me, and the frost came
down upon me at night, and sleep passed away
from my eyes. 41 These twenty years have I
served in thy house; fourteen years for thy two
daughters; and six years for thy sheep; and thou
hast changed my wages ten times. 42 Unless the
God of my fathers, the God of Abraham, and He
whom Izhak hath feared, had been my helper,
even now thou hadst sent me away empty: but
my labour, and the travail of my hands, have
been manifest before the Lord, and He rebuked
thee in the evening.
43 And Laban answered and said to Jakob,
The daughters are my daughters, and the sons
my sons, and the sheep are my sheep, and all
whatsoever thou seest is mine; and to these, my
daughters, what can I do this day, or unto their
Genesis 31:44 lxxxiii Genesis 31:54

children which they have born? 44 And now

come, let us enter into a covenant, I and thou,
and it shall be for a witness between me and
thee. 45 And Jakob took a stone, and set it up as a
pillar. 46 And Jakob said to his brethren, Collect
stones; and they took stones, and made a mound,
and ate there upon the mound. 47 And Laban
called it Yegar Sahadutha, but Jakob called it Gal-
Ed. 48 And Laban said, This mound testifieth
between me and thee today. 49 Therefore he
called the name of it The Heap of Witness, and
The Observatory; for he said, The Word of the
Lord will observe between me and thee, when
we are hidden each man from his neighbor. 50 If
thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt
take wives over my daughters, no man is with
us; see, the Word of the Lord is witness between
me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jakob, Behold this mound
and this pillar, which thou bast erected between
me and thee. 52 And Laban said, This mound
testifieth between me and thee today. And Laban
said, This mound testifieth between me and thee
today. This mound and pillar are a witness, that
I will not pass over this mound to thee; and that
thou shalt not pass over this mound and this
pillar, to do me evil. 53 The God of Abraham
and the God of Nachor shall judge between us,
the God of their fathers. And Jakob sware by
Him whom Izhak his father feared. 54 And Jakob
sacrificed victims in the mountain, and called his
brethren to eat bread; and they ate bread, and
tabernacled in the mountain.
Genesis 32:1 lxxxiv Genesis 32:11

32
1And Laban arose in the morning, and kissed
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them,
and went; and Laban returned to his place.
2 And Jakob went on his way, and the angels of
the Lord met him. 3 And when Jakob saw them,
he said, This is a host from before the Lord; and
he called the name of the place Mahanaim.
4 And Jakob sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother to the land of Seir, in the region
of Edom; 5 And he instructed them, saying, So
shall you tell to my lord, to Esau: Thus saith
thy servant Jakob, With Laban I have dwelt, and
have tarried, until now. 6 And I have oxen, and
asses, sheep, and servants, and handmaids, and
have sent to show my lord, to find grace in thine
eyes.
7 And the messengers returned to Jakob, say-
ing, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he
cometh also to meet thee, and four hundred men
with him. 8 And Jakob feared greatly, and it
distressed him. And he divided the people that
were with him, and the sheep, and oxen, and
camels, into two hosts, 9 And said, If Esau come
to the one host and smite it, the host that is left
may escape.
10 And Jakob said, God of my father Abraham,
and God of my father Izhak, the Lord, who didst
say to me, Return to thy country and to thy native
place, and I will do thee good; 11 less are my
righteousnesses than all the mercies and all the
benefits which Thou hast performed unto Thy
servant: for alone I passed this Yardena, and
Genesis 32:12 lxxxv Genesis 32:22

now I have become two bands. 12 Deliver me

now from the hand of my brother, from the band
of Esau; for I am afraid of him, lest he come
and smite me, and the mother with the children.
13 And Thou hast said, In doing good I will do
good with thee, and will make thy sons many as
the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered
for number.
14And he housed there that night, and took of
that which came to his hand, an offering for Esau
his brother; 15 Goats two hundred, rams twenty,
ewes two hundred, and rams twenty, 16 Camels
giving milk and their young ones thirty, cows
forty, and bulls ten, she-asses twenty, and colts
ten. 17 And he gave them into the hand of his
servants, herd by herd separately, and said to his
servants, Pass over before me, and put a space
between herd and herd. 18 And he commanded
the foremost, saying, If Esau my brother meet
thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? And,
Whither goest thou? And, Whose are these that
are before thee? 19 Thou shalt say, They are an
offering of thy servant Jakob, which he hath sent
to my lord, to Esau; and, behold, he also cometh
after us. 20 And he instructed also the second
and the third, and all of them who followed the
herds, saying, According to this word you shall
speak with Esau, when you find him; 21 And say
also, Behold, thy servant Jakob cometh after. For
he said, I will quiet his anger by the offering
that goeth before me, and afterward I will see
his face; perhaps he will accept me. 22 And
the offering went over before his face, and he
Genesis 32:23 lxxxvi Genesis 33:1

himself lodged that night in the camp.

23 And he arose in the night, and took his
two wives, and his two concubines, and his
eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jubeka;
24 And he took them and made them pass over
the torrent, and made what was his to pass
over. 25 And Jakob remained alone; and a Man
wrestled with him till the morning ascended.
26 And he saw that he prevailed not with him,
and he touched the hollow of his thigh, and
the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated in
wrestling with him. 27 And he said, Let me go;
for the morning ascendeth And he said, I will not
let Thee go, unless Thou bless me. 28 And He said
to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jakob.
29 And He said, Thy name shall be no longer
Jakob, but Israel; for a prince art thou before
the Lord, and with men, and thou hast prevailed.
30 And Jakob asked Him, and said, Show me now
Thy Name! And He said, Why dost thou ask My
Name? And He blessed him there. 31 And Jakob
called the name of the place Peniel: because I
have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face, and
my soul hath been saved! 32 And the sun arose
upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he went
lame upon his thigh. 33 Therefore the sons of
Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which
is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day,
because He touched the hollow of Jakob’s thigh
in the sinew that shrank.

33
1 And Jakob lifted up his eyes, and saw, and,
Genesis 33:2 lxxxvii Genesis 33:13

behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred

men; and he divided the children with Leah, and
with Rahel, and with the two concubines. 2 And
he set the concubines and their children first,
and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and
Joseph after them. 3 And he passed over before
them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until
he came nigh to his brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him; and
they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw
the women and the children, and said, What are
these to thee? And he said, The children whom
the Lord hath given to thy servant. 6 And the
concubines approached, they and their children,
and bowed. 7 And Leah also approached and her
children, and bowed; and afterward Joseph and
Rahel approached, and bowed. 8 And he said,
What to thee is all this troop which I have met?
And he said, To find mercy in the eyes of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have much, my brother; let
what is thine own profit thee. 10 And Jakob said,
I pray thee, if I have now found mercy in thine
eyes, that thou wouldst accept the present from
my hand, because I have now seen thy face as
the vision of the face of the Great, and thou art
pleased with me. 11 Receive, I pray, my offering
which is brought to thee, because the Lord hath
been merciful to me, and because I have all.
12 And he was urgent on him, and he took it.
And he said, Let us journey and go, and I will go
along with thee. 13 And he said, My lord knoweth
that the little ones are tender, and the sheep
Genesis 33:14 lxxxviii Genesis 34:3

and kine giving milk are with me; and if they

overdrive them one day, all the flock may die.
14 Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I
will lead on quietly, according to the foot of the
little ones, according to the foot of the work that
is before me, and according to the foot of the
sucklings, until I come to my lord at Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me leave with thee of
the people who are with me. And he said, Why
should this be? Let me find grace in the eyes of
my lord. 16 And Esau returned that day on his
way to Seir. 17 And Jakob journeyed to Succoth,
and builded him an house, and made tabernacles
for his cattle; therefore he called the name of the
place Succoth.
18 And Jakob came in peace to the city of
Shekem, which is in the land of Kenaan, in his
coming from Padan Aram, and he abode near the
face of the city. 19 And he bought the possession
of the field where he had spread his tent, of the
hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shekem,
for a hundred lambs. 20 And he raised there an
altar, and offered service upon it before God, the
God of Israel.

34
1And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she
bare to Jakob, went forth to see the daughters
of the land. 2 And Shekem bar Hamor the Hivite,
the prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and
lay with her, and humbled her. 3 And his soul
took pleasure in Dinah the daughter of Jakob,
and he loved the damsel, and spake to the heart
Genesis 34:4 lxxxix Genesis 34:16

of the damsel. 4 And Shekem spake to Hamor

his father, saying, Take to me this damsel for a
wife. 5 And Jakob heard that he had polluted
Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his
flocks in the field; and Jakob was silent until they
were come. 6 And Hamor the father of Shekem
came forth to Jakob to speak with him. 7 And
the sons of Jakob came up from the field when
they heard. And the men were indignant and
very angry, because shame had been wrought in
Israel by his lying with the daughter of Jacob; for
so it should not have been done.
8 Hamor spake with them, saying, The soul of
Shekem my son hath pleasure in your daughter;
give her now to him to wife. 9 And marry with
us, and take our daughters to you; 10 And the
land shall be before you; inhabit and do business
in it, and possess it. 11 And Shekem said to her
father and to her brethren, Let me find favour
in your eyes, and what you shall tell me I will
give. 12 Multiply upon me dowry and present,
and I will give as you may tell me; but give me
the damsel to wife.
13 And the sons of Jakob answered Shekem and
Hamor his father, and with subtlety they spake,
because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 14 And
they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to
give our sister to a man uncircumcised; for that
(would be) a reproach to us. 15 Nevertheless in
this we will agree with you, if you will be as
we are, by circumcising every male among you,
16 and we will give our daughters to you, and
your daughters will we take to us, and will dwell
Genesis 34:17 xc Genesis 34:26

with you and be one people. 17 But if you will

not consent to us to be circumcised, we will take
our daughter and go.
18 And their words were pleasing in the eyes
of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shekem the son of
Hamor. 19 And the young man delayed not to do
the thing, because he delighted in the daughter of
Jakob, and he was more honourable than all his
father’s house. 20 And Hamor came, and Shekem
his son, to the gate of the city, and spake to the
men of the city, saying, 21 These men are friendly
with us, and they may dwell in the land, and do
business in it, and the land, behold, it is wide
(on both) hands before them; their daughters
we will take to us for wives, and our daughters
we will give to them. 22 Only in this will the
men agree with us to dwell with us, to be one
people, in every male of us being circumcised,
as they are circumcised. 23 Their flocks, and their
possessions, and all their cattle, will they not be
ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will
dwell with us. 24 And everyone who went out
of the gate of his city received of Hamor and
of Shekem his son, and they were circumcised,
every male, everyone who went out of the gate
of his city.
25 And it was on the third day, when their pains
were strong upon them, that the two sons of
Jakob, Shemeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah,
took each man his sword, and came upon the
city, which dwelt in security, and slew every
male, 26 and Hamor and Shekem his son they
killed with the edge of the sword. And they
Genesis 34:27 xci Genesis 35:4

brought Dinah out of the house of Shekem, and

went. 27 And the sons of Jakob came up to the
spoil of the slain, and sacked the town, because
they had defiled their sister. 28 Their sheep, and
their oxen, and their asses, and all that was in
the city and the field, they took. 29 And all their
substance, and all their little ones, and their
wives, they captured and spoiled, and all which
was in the house. 30 And Jakob said to Shemeon
and Levi, You have troubled me, in putting strife
between me and the inhabitants of the land, the
Kenaanites and the Perrezites, and I a people
(few) for number; and they will gather against
me, and smite me, and I shall perish, I and the
men of my house. 31 And they said, As with an
outcast should he deal with our sister?

35
1And the Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to
Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar
unto Eloha, who appeared to thee when in thy
flight from before Esau thy brother. 2 And Jakob
said to the men of his house, and to all who
were with him, Put away the gentile idols that
are among you, and purify; and change your
raiment; 3 And we will arise and go up to Bethel,
and I will make there an altar unto Eloha, who
heard my prayer in the day of my distress, and
whose Word was my helper in the way that I
went. 4 And they gave Jakob all the gentile idols
that were in their hands, and the jewels that
were in their ears, and Jakob hid them under the
terebinth which was near Shekem.
Genesis 35:5 xcii Genesis 35:16

5 And they journeyed; and fear from before

the Lord was upon the peoples in the cities
surrounding them; and they followed not after
the sons of Jakob. 6 And Jakob came to Luz,
which is in the land of Kenaan, which is Bethel,
he and all the people who were with him.
7 And he builded there an altar, and called the
place El Bethel, because the Angel of the Lord
had appeared to him there when he fled from
before his brother. 8 And Deborah, the nurse of
Revekah, died, and was buried below Bethel, in
the declivity of the vale; and he called the name
of it, The vale of weeping.
9 And the Lord appeared unto Jakob again
when he had come from Padan Aram, and
blessed him. 10 And the Lord said to Jakob, Thy
name shall be no more Jakob, but Israel shall be
thy name; and he called his name Israel. 11 And
the Lord said to him, I am El Shadai; increase
and multiply; a people and an assemblage of
tribes shall be from thee, and kings who shall
reign over the peoples shall come forth from
thee. 12 And the land that I gave to Abraham
and to Izhak I will give unto thee, and to thy sons
after thee, will I give the land. 13 And the glory of
the Lord ascended above him, in the place where
He had spoken with him. 14 And Jakob erected
a pillar in the place where He had spoken with
him, a pillar of stone, and outpoured libations
upon it, and poured oil thereon. 15 And Jakob
called the name of the place where the Lord bad
spoken with him Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel, and there
Genesis 35:17 xciii Genesis 35:29

was yet a space of land to come unto Ephrath;

and Rahel travailed, and had hard (pain) in her
birth-labour. 17 And as she travailed in her
labour, the midwife said to her, Fear not, for
also this to thee is a son. 18 And it was in the
going forth of her soul, for she died, that she
called his name The son of my woe; but his father
called him Benjamin. 19 And Rahel died, and
was buried in the way of Ephrath, which is Beth-
Lechem. 20 And Jakob erected a pillar upon her
grave: that is the pillar of the tomb of Rahel unto
this day. 21 And Israel proceeded and spread his
tabernacle beyond the tower of Adar.

And it was while Israel dwelt in that land,

22
that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the
concubine of his father. And Israel heard it.
And the sons of Jakob were twelve. 23 The sons
of Leah, the firstborn of Jakob, Reuben, and
Shemeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar,
and Zebulon. 24 The sons of Rahel, Joseph and
Benjamin. 25 The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid
of Rahel, Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of
Zilpha, the handmaid of Leah, Gad and Asher.
These are the sons of Jakob, who were born to
him in Padan Aram.
27And Jakob came unto Izhak his father, unto
Mamre, the city of Arba, which is Hebron; for
Abraham and Izhak had dwelt there. 28 And the
days of Izhak were an hundred and eighty years.
29 And Izhak expired and died, and was gathered
unto his people, old and content with days; and
Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.
Genesis 36:1 xciv Genesis 36:14

36
1And these are the generations of Esau, who
is Edom. 2 Esau took his wives from the
daughters of Kenaan: Ada, daughter of Helon the
Hittite, and Ahalivama, the daughter of Ana, the
daughter of Sibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath,
the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth.
4 And Ada bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath
bare Reuel; 5 and Ahalivama bare Jehus, and
Jaalam, and Korach. These are the sons of Esau
who were born to him in the land of Kenaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and
his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and
his flocks, and all his cattle, and all his substance
which he had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and
went into another land from before Jakob his
brother; 7 Because their substance was too great
for them to dwell together, and the land of their
habitation could not sustain them with regard to
their cattle. 8 And Esau dwelt in the mountain of
Seir. Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau, the
father of the Edomai, in the mountain of Seir,
10 these are the names of the sons of Esau:
Eliphaz, the son of Ada, the wife of Esau; Reuel,
son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. 11 And the
sons of Eliphaz were Theman, Omar, Zepho, and
Gaetam, and Kenaz. 12 And Thimna was the
concubine of Eliphaz bar Esau, and she bare to
Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Ada, the
wife of Esau. 13 And these are the sons of Reuel,
Nahath and Zara, Shamma and Meza. These are
the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. 14 And
these are the sons of Ahalivama, the daughter of
Genesis 36:15 xcv Genesis 36:27

Ana, the daughter of Zebeon, the wife of Esau;

and she bare unto Esau Jehus, and Jaalam, and
Korach.
15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. Of
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau, Rabba
Theman, Rabba Omar, Rabba Zepho, Rabba
Kenaz, 16 rabba Korach, Rabba Gaetam, Rabba
Amalek These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the
land of Edom; these are the sons of Ada. 17 And
these are the sons of Reuel bar Esau: Rabba
Nachath, Rabba Zarach, Rabba Shamma, Rabba
Meza. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of
Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, the wife of
Esau. 18 And these are the sons of Ahalivama, the
wife of Esau: Rabba Jehus, Rabba Jaalam, Rabba
Korach. These are the chiefs of Ahalivama, the
daughter of Ana the wife of Esau. 19 These are
the sons of Esau, and these are their chieftains.
He is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Seir, the Chorites, the
inhabitants of the land, Lothan, and Shobal, and
Zibeon, and Ana, 21 and Dishon, and Etser, and
Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Choraai,
the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom. 22 And
the sons of Loti were Hori and Hemaim, and
the sister of Lotan was Timna. 23 And these
are the Beni Shobal, Alvan, and Manahath, and
Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. 24 And these are the
sons of Zebeon, Aya and Ana; he is Ana who
found the giants in the desert while he tended
the asses of his father Zibeon. 25 And these are
the children of Ana, Dishon, and Ahalivania the
daughter of Ana. 26 And these are the sons of
Dishan: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Jethran, and
Keran. 27 These are the sons of Etser: Bilan,
Genesis 36:28 xcvi Genesis 36:43

and Zaavan, and Akan. 28 These are the sons

of Dishan: Huts and Aran. 29 These are the
chieftains of the Choraai: Rabba Lotan, Rabba
Shobal, Rabba Zebeon, Rabba Ana, 30 Rabba
Dishon, Rabba Etser, Rabba Dishan. These are
the chieftains of the Choraai, according to their
principalities in the land of Seir.
31And these are the kings who reigned in the
land of Edom, before that kings reigned among
the sons of Israel: 32 Bela the son of Beor reigned
in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhava.
33 And Bela died, and instead of him reigned
Yobab the son of Zerah of Botsra. 34 And Yobab
died, and instead of him reigned Husham, of
the land of the south. 35 And Husham, died,
and instead of him reigned Hadad, the son of
Bedad, who slew the Medianae in the fields of
Moab; and the name of his city was Avith. 36 And
Hadad died, and in his stead reigned Simlah
of Masereka. 37 And Simlah died, and in his
stead reigned Shaul of Rechovoth, which is on
the Ph’rat. 38 And Shaul died, and in his stead
reigned Baal-Chanan bar Akbor. 39 And Baal-
Chanan bar Akbor died, and in his stead reigned
Hadar, and the name of his city was, Pau; and
the name of his wife Mehetavel, the daughter of
Matered, the daughter of a changer of gold.
40 And these are the names of the chieftains of
Esau, after their kindreds, by their places, with
their names: Rabba Timna, Rabba Alvah, Rabba
Jetheth, 41 Rabba Ahalivama, Rabba Elah, Rabba
Phinon, 42 Rabba Kenez, Rabba Teman, Rabba
Mabzar, 43 Rabba Magdiel, Rabba Iram: these
Genesis 37:1 xcvii Genesis 37:9

are the chieftains of Edom, after their habitations

in the land of their possessions. He is Esau, the
father of the Edomites.

37
1 And Jakob dwelt in the land of the habitation
of his father, in the land of Kenaan.
2 These are the generations of Jakob. Joseph
was a son of seventeen years; he kept the flock
with his brothers; and he had been brought
up with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons
of Zilpha, the wives of his father; and Joseph
brought their evil report to his father. 3 But Israel
loved Joseph more than all his sons, because
he had in him a wise son, and he made him
a variegated robe. 4 And his brothers saw
that their father loved him better than all his
brethren, and they hated him, and were not
willing to speak with him peaceably.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and showed it
to his brothers, and they hated him the more.
6 And he said to them, Hear now this dream
which I have dreamed: 7 Behold, we were
binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and lo!
My sheaf arose and became upright, and, behold,
your sheaves stood around and worshipped my
sheaf. 8 And his brothers said to him, Is it thy
fancy reigning to reign over us? Or a shultan,
dost thou think to govern us? And they added
yet to hate him for his dreams and for his
words. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream,
and described it to his brothers, saying, Behold,
I have dreamed a dream again; and lo, the
Genesis 37:10 xcviii Genesis 37:22

sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipped

me. 10 And he described it to his father and to
his brethren; and his father rebuked him and
said to him, What dream is this that thou hast
dreamed? Am I and thy mother and thy brothers
to come and worship thee on the earth? 11 And
his brothers envied him; but his father kept the
word.
12 And his brothers went to tend the flock of
their father in Shekem. 13 And Israel said to
Joseph, Do not thy brothers tend the flock in
Shekem? Come, I will send thee to them. And he
said. Behold me. 14 And he said to him, Go now,
and see the welfare of your brothers and the
welfare of the flock, and return me word. And he
sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came
to Shekem. 15 And a man found him, and, behold,
he wandered in the field. And the man inquired
of him, saying, Whom seekest thou? 16 And he
said, I look for my brothers: show me, I beseech
thee, where they feed. 17 And the man said, They
have gone hence; for I heard them say, We will go
to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren,
and found them in Dothan. 18 And they saw him
from afar; and before he came nigh, they devised
against him to kill him. 19 And they said, a man
to his brother, Behold, this master of dreams
cometh. 20 And now, come, we will kill him, and
cast him into one of the pits; and will say an evil
beast hath devoured him, and we shall see what
will be the end of his dreams. 21 And Reuben
heard, and delivered him out of their hands, and
said, Let us not slay his life. 22 And Reuben said,
Do not shed blood; cast him into this pit in the
Genesis 37:23 xcix Genesis 37:33

wilderness, but stretch not forth a hand against

him, that he might deliver him from their hands
to bring him back to his father. 23 And it was
when Joseph had come to his brethren that they
took off his robe, the variegated robe which was
upon him, 24 And they took him and cast him into
the pit; but the pit was empty, no water was in
it.
25 And they reclined to eat bread. And they
lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold,
a band of Arabaee were coming from Gilead,
with their camels bearing spices, and resin, and
myrrh, to go down to Mizraim. 26 And Jehuda
said to his brethren, What gain should we have
by killing our brother and covering his blood?
27 Come, and we will sell him to the Arabaee, and
our hand shall not be upon him; for he is our
brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened
to him. 28 And there passed by Midianite men,
(gabree Mid-ya-naee,) merchants, and they drew
and lifted up Joseph from the pit, and sold Joseph
to the Arabaee for twenty of silver; and they
brought Joseph into Mizraim.
29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold,
Joseph was not in the pit. And he rent his clothes,
30 And returned to his brethren, and said, The
youth is not; and I, whither shall I go? 31 But
they took Joseph’s robe, and killed a kid of the
goats, and dabbled the robe in the blood. 32 And
they sent the variegated robe, and they brought
to their father, and said, This have we found;
know now whether it is the robe of thy son, or
not. 33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s
Genesis 37:34 c Genesis 38:10

robe; an evil beast hath devoured him: slain,

slain is Joseph! 34 And Jakob rent his clothes, and
wrapped sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned
for his son many days. 35 And all his sons, and all
his house, arose to comfort him; but he refused
to take comfort, and said, For I will go down unto
my son, mourning into Sheol. And his father
wept for him. 36 And the Midianites sold him
in Mizraim to Potiphar, a prince of Pharoh, chief
of the killers.

38
1And it was at that time that Jehuda went
down from his brethren, and turned aside to an
Adulamite man whose name was Hira. 2 And
Jehuda saw there the daughter of a merchant
man whose name was Shuva, and he took her
and went in with her; 3 And she conceived and
bare a son, and he called his name Her; 4 And
she conceived again, and bare a son, and called
his name Onan. 5 And she added again, and bare
a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was
in Kezib when she bare him. 6 And Jehuda took
a wife for Her his firstborn, and her name was
Tamar. 7 And Her the firstborn of Jehuda was
evil before the Lord, and the Lord caused him to
die. 8 And Jehuda said to Onan, Go in with the
wife of thy brother, and associate with her, and
raise up seed to thy brother. 9 And Onan knew
that after his name the seed would not be called;
and it was that when he went in with the wife of
his brother, he corrupted his way upon the earth
that he might not raise up seed unto his brother;
10 And what he did was evil before the Lord, and
Genesis 38:11 ci Genesis 38:19

he caused him also to die. 11 And Jehuda said to

Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in
thy father’s house until Shelah my son be grown
up. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers:
and Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12 And after many days the daughter of Shuva,
Jehuda’s wife, died: and Jehuda was comforted;
and he went up to the shearers of his sheep, he
and Hira the Adulamite his friend unto Timnath.
13 And it was shown to Tamar, saying, Behold,
thy father-in-law cometh to Timnath to shear his
sheep. 14 And she laid aside the dress of her
widowhood, and covered herself with a mantle
(or a large veil), and adorned herself, and sat
in the dividing of Aynin which is in the way to
Timnath. For she saw that Shelah had grown up,
and she had not been given to him for a wife.
15 And Jehuda saw her, and thought that she was
an outcast, because she had covered her face.
16 And he declined to her by the way, and said,
Give me now to go in unto thee; for he did not
know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she
said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest
come to me? 17 And he said, I will send thee a kid
of the goats from the flock. And she said, If thou
wilt give me a pledge until thou send. 18 And he
said, What is the pledge that I shall give thee?
And she said, Thy seal-ring, and thy scarf, and
thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave to her,
and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
19 And she arose, and went, and put off the veil
from her, and dressed herself in the dress of her
widowhood.
Genesis 38:20 cii Genesis 38:29

20 And Jehuda sent the kid of the goats, by the

hand of his friend the Adulamite, to receive the
pledge from the hand of the woman; but he could
not find her. 21 And he inquired of the men of
the place, saying, Where is the harlot who was
in Aynin upon the way? And they said to him,
There is no harlot here. 22 And he returned to
Jehuda, and said, I could not find her; the men
of the place also said there is no harlot there.
23 And Jehuda said, Let her take it to her, lest we
be in contempt: behold, I sent this kid, and thou
hast not found her.
24 And it was three months, and it was showed
to Jehuda, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law
hath committed fornication, and, behold, she is
with child by fornication. And Jehuda said, Bring
her out, and let her be burned. 25 And she was
brought out. And she sent to her father-in-law,
saying, By the man to whom these belong I am
with child. And she said, Acknowledge now,
whose are these, the seal, the scarf, and the staff?
26 And Jehuda acknowledged and said, She is
justified in having conceived from me, because I
have not given her Shelah my son. And he added
not again to know her.
27 And it was the time of her giving birth,
and, behold, twins were in her womb. 28 And
it was in giving birth that one of them put forth
a hand; and the midwife took and tied scarlet
upon his hand, saying, This came the first. 29 And
it was when he had drawn back his hand that
his brother came forth: and she said, How much
greater strength is with thee, that thou hast
prevailed! And she called his name Pharets.
Genesis 38:30 ciii Genesis 39:9

30And afterwards came forth his brother who

had the crimson on his hand, and she called his
name Zarah.

39
But Joseph was brought down into Mizraim,
1
and Potiphar, a chief of Pharoh, a chief of the
killers, a Mizraite man, bought him from the
hand of the Arabaee who had brought him down
thither. 2 And the Word of the Lord was the
helper of Joseph, and he became a prosperous
man, and was in the house of his Mizraite
master. 3 And his master saw that the Word of
the Lord was his helper, and that all that he did
the Lord prospered in his hand. 4 And Joseph
found favour in his eyes, and he served him. And
he appointed him over his house, and all that he
had he delivered into his hand. 5 And it was from
the time that he appointed him over his house,
and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed
the house of the Mizraite for Joseph’s sake, and
the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had,
in the house and in the field.
6 And he left all that belonged to him in the
hand of Joseph; and he knew of nothing that was
with him, except the bread which he ate. Now
Joseph was of goodly appearance, beautiful in
aspect. 7 And it was after these things that the
wife of his master lifted up her eyes to Joseph,
and said, Lie with me. 8 But be refused, and said
to his master’s wife, Behold, my master knoweth
not what is with me in the house, and all that he
hath he hath delivered unto my hand; 9 There is
no one in this housegreater than I, and be hath
Genesis 39:10 civ Genesis 39:21

not prohibited anything from me but thyself,

because thou art his wife: and how can I do this
great wickedness and become guilty before the
Lord? 10 And it was when she spake with Joseph
daily that he would not hearken to her to lie with
her, or be with her. 11 And it was about this
day that he came into the house to examine the
writings of his affairs, and no man of the men of
the house was there in the house. 12 And she laid
hold of his garments, saying, Lie with me. But he
left his garment in her hand, and fled, and went
forth into the street. 13 [no translation*] 14 And
she called to the men of her house, and spake to
them, saying, See, he brought us a Hebrew man
to mock at us. He came in to me to lie with me;
and I cried with a high voice. 15 And it was when
he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he
left his robe with me, and fled and went forth
into the street. 16 And she let his robe remain
with her until his master came into his house.
17 And she spake with him these words, saying,
The Hebrew servant whom thou broughtest us
came in to me to mock at me. 18 And it was when
I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his robe
with me and fled into the street.
19 And when his master heard the words of
his wife which she spake with him, saying,
According to these things hath thy servant done
to me, his anger waxed strong, 20 And his master
took Joseph, and delivered him to the house of
the bound, where the prisoners of the king were
bound; and he was there in the house of the
bound. 21 But the Word of the Lord was the
* 39:13 Etheridge, p. 125.
Genesis 39:22 cv Genesis 40:8

helper of Joseph, and showed him mercy, and

gave him favour in the eyes of the captain of the
prison. 22 And the captain of the prison gave into
the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were
in the house of the bound, and all that they did
there was done according to his word. 23 The
captain of the prison saw no fault in his hand,
because the Word of the Lord was his helper, and
that which he did the Lord made to prosper.

40
1And after these things the cupbearer and
the baker of the king of Mizraim offended their
master, the king of Mizraim. 2 And Pharoh was
angry with two of his chiefs, with the chief of
the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers.
3 And he gave them into ward in the house of
the captain of the executioners (killers) in the
house of the prison, the place where Joseph was
confined. 4 And the captain of the executioners
appointed Joseph with them, and he ministered
to them, and they were certain days inward.
5 And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each
man his dream in one night, each man according
to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer
and the baker of the king of Mizraim, who were
confined in the house of the bound. 6 And Joseph
came to them in the morning, and saw them,
and, behold, they were melancholy. 7 And he
asked the chiefs of Pharoh who were with him
inward, in his master’s house, saying, Why are
your faces evil today? 8 And they said to him,
We have dreamed a dream, and there is no
Genesis 40:9 cvi Genesis 40:18

interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Are

not interpretations from before the Lord? Relate
it now to me.
9 And the chief of the cupbearers related his
dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream,
behold, a vine was before me, 10 and in the vine
were three branches: and it was, as it sprouted,
it produced buds, and, having flowered, ripened
clusters of grapes. 11 And the cup of Pharoh was
in my hand; and I took grapes and expressed
them into Pharohs cup, and gave the cup into
Pharoh’s hand. 12 And Joseph said to him, This is
the interpretation: the three branches are three
days. 13 At the end of three days, Pharoh will
remember thee and restore thee to thy service,
and thou wilt give the cup into Pharoh’s hand,
according to thy former custom when thou wast
cupbearer to him. 14 But let remembrance of me
be with thee when it shall be well with thee, and
do me favour, I beseech thee, and remember me
before Pharoh, and deliver me from this prison.
15 For I was verily taken by fraud from the land
of the Hivraee, and here have I done nothing evil
that I should be imprisoned.
16 And when the master of the bakers saw that
he had interpreted pleasantly, he said to Joseph,
I also (was) in my dream, and, behold, three
baskets of confectionery were upon my head,
17 and in the upper basket were all (sorts of)
food for Pharoh, the work of the baker; and the
birds ate them from the basket that was on my
head. 18 And Joseph answered and said, This is
the interpretation of it: The three baskets are
Genesis 40:19 cvii Genesis 41:7

three days; 19 At the end of three days will Pharoh

remove thy head from off thee, and will hang
thee upon a gibbet, and the birds will eat thy
flesh from off thee.
20 And it was on the third day, the day of
the nativity of Pharoh, that he made a feast for
all his servants and he took the, head of the
chief cupbearer and the head of the chief of
the bakers in the midst of his servants. 21 And
he restored the cupbearer to his office, and he
gave the cup into Pharoh’s hand. 22 And the
chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had
interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief cupbearer
did not remember Joseph, but forgat him.

41
1 And it was at the end of two years that
Pharoh dreamed, and, behold, he stood by the
River. 2 And, behold, there came up from the
River seven oxen, goodly in appearance, and
fat-fleshed; and they grazed in the meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other oxen came up from
the river after them, evil in appearance, and
leanfleshed; and they stood beside them by the
bank of the river. 4 And the evil-looking and lean-
fleshed oxen ate up the seven well-looking and
fat ones: and Pharoh awoke. 5 And he slept, and
dreamed a second (time); and, behold, seven ears
rose up from one stalk, large and good, 6 and,
behold, seven ears, thin, and blighted (with the)
east (wind), sprang up after them. 7 And the
seven wasted ears devoured the seven large and
full ears. And Pharoh awoke, and, behold, a
Genesis 41:8 cviii Genesis 41:18

dream. 8 And when it was morning his spirit

was troubled, and he sent and called all the
magicians of Mizraim, and all the wise men; and
Pharoh related the dreams to them, but they
could not interpret them to Pharoh.
9 And the chief of the cupbearers spake to
Pharoh, saying, My faults I do remember this
day. 10 Pharoh was displeased with his servants,
and gave me into custody at the house of the
chief executioner, and the chief baker with me.
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and
he, each man according to the interpretation
of his dream, we dreamed. 12 And with us
there was a Hebrew youth, a servant of the
chief executioner; and we recounted to him, and
he explained to us our dreams, to each man
according to his dream be explained; 13 And
according as he had explained to us, so it was:
me he restored to my service, and him he
hanged.
14 And Pharoh sent, and called Joseph, and
made him hasten from the prison; and he
dressed his hair, and changed his garments, and
came unto Pharoh. 15 And Pharoh said to Joseph,
I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to
interpret it. And I have heard of thee, saying,
that thou hearest a dream, and dost interpret
it. 16 And Joseph answered Pharoh, saying, Not
from my wisdom, but from before the Lord, will
there be an answer of peace unto Pharoh. 17 And
Pharoh spake with Joseph, saying, In my dream,
behold, I stood upon the bank of the River; 18 and,
behold, from the River rose up seven oxen,
Genesis 41:19 cix Genesis 41:31

fat-fleshed and goodly in appearance, and they

grazed in the meadow. 19 And, behold, seven
other oxen came up after them, lean and most
evil in appearance, so wanting in flesh, that their
like I have not seen in all the land of Mizraim
for badness. 20 And the lean oxen and evil ones
ate up the seven first fat oxen. 21 And they
entered into their stomachs; but it could not be
known that they had entered into their stomachs,
for their appearance was bad as before; and I
awoke. 22 I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven
ears of corn arose on one stalk, full and good.
23 And, behold, seven (other) ears, hard, thin, and
blasted (with the) east (wind), sprang up after
them. 24 And the thin ears devoured the seven
good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but
there was no one who could show it to me.
25 And Joseph answered Pharoh, The dream of
Pharoh is one. That which the Lord is about
to do He hath showed to Pharoh. 26 The seven
good oxen are seven years; and the seven good
ears of corn are seven years; the dream is one.
27 And the seven lean and evil oxen which came
up after them are seven years; and the seven
ears, thin, and blasted with the east wind, are
seven years of famine. 28 This is the word which
I have spoken to Pharoh. What the Lord is about
to do, He hath showed to Pharoh. 29 Behold,
there come seven years of great plenty in all
the land of Mizraim. 30 And after them will
arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty
in the land of Mizraim will be forgotten, and
the famine will consume the people of the land.
31 And plenty will not be known in the land
Genesis 41:32 cx Genesis 41:43

for that famine which will be afterward; for it

will be very mighty. 32 And forasmuch as the
dream was repeated to Pharoh twice, it is a
confirmed thing before the Lord, and the Lord
will hasten to do it. 33 And now let Pharoh
look out a prudent and wise man, and appoint
him over the land of Mizraim. 34 Let Pharoh do
this, and appoint officers (faithful men) over the
land, and let them sow the land of Mizraim in
the seven years of plenty, 35 And collect all the
produce of those good years that come, and lay
up provision under the hand of Pharoh’s officers,
and preserve it in the cities: 36 And it will be
provision for the people of the land in the seven
years of famine that are coming in the land of
Mizraim, that the people of the land may not be
consumed by the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of
Pharoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38 And
Pharoh said to his servants, Can we find a man
like this, in whom is the spirit of prophecy from
the Lord? 39 And Pharoh said to Joseph, Since the
Lord hath made all this known to thee, there is
none more prudent or wise than thou; 40 Thou
shalt be appointed over my house, and by thy
word shall all my people be governed; only in the
throne of this kingdom will I be more honorable
than thou. 41 And Pharoh said to Joseph, See, I
have appointed thee over all the land of Mizraim.
42 And Pharoh took off his ring from his hand,
and set it upon Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in
a robe of lawn, and put a chain of gold upon his
neck. 43 And he made him ride in his own second
Genesis 41:44 cxi Genesis 41:52

chariot, and they proclaimed before him, This is

the father of the king; and he appointed him over
all the land of Mizraim. 44 And Pharoh said to
Joseph, I am Pharoh; and without thy word shall
no man lift up his hand to hold a weapon, nor his
foot to mount a horse, in all the land of Mizraim.
45 And Pharoh called the name of Joseph, The
man to whom mysteries are revealed. And he
gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera,
prince of On, to be his wife; and Joseph went
forth ruling over the land of Mizraim.
46 And Joseph was a son of thirty years when
he stood before Pharoh, king of Mizraim. And
Joseph went out from before Pharoh, and passed
through all the land of Mizraim. 47 And the
inhabitants of the land collected in the seven
years of plenty the provision into granaries.
48 And he collected all the provision of the seven
years which was in the land of Mizraim, and laid
up the provision in cities, in the midst of each city
the provision of the land surrounding it. 49 And
Joseph gathered provision as the sand of the sea,
exceeding much, until he ceased to number, for
it was without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons, (be-
fore the year of famine came,) which Asenath,
daughter of Potiphera, prince of On, bare to him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Menasheh; because the Lord hath made me to
forget all my labour and all my father’s house.
52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim;
because the Lord hath made me to increase in
the land of my servitude.
Genesis 41:53 cxii Genesis 42:6

53 And the seven years of plenty which were in

the land of Mizraim were completed. 54 And the
seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph
had said; and the famine was in all the lands,
but in all the land of Mizraim there was bread.
55 Yet all the land of Mizraim was famished, and
the people cried before Pharoh for bread: and
Pharoh said to all the Mizraee, Go unto Joseph,
and what he shall say to you, do. 56 And the
famine was over all the face of the land; and
Joseph opened all the granaries in which was the
corn, and sold to the Mizraee, and the famine
became mighty in the land of Mizraim. 57 And all
the inhabitants of the earth came into Mizraim
to buy corn of Joseph, because the famine was
mighty in all the earth.

1 And
42
Jakob saw that corn was sold in Mizraim,
and Jakob said to his sons, Why look you (on
each other)? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard
that corn is sold in Mizraim: go down thither,
and buy us from thence, and we shall live, and
not die. 3 And the ten brothers of Joseph went
down to buy corn from Mizraim; 4 But Benjamin,
the brother of Joseph, Jakob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest death should befall
him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn
among them who came; for the famine was in
the land of Kenaan.
6 And Joseph, who was ruler over the land,
was he who sold the corn to all the people of
the earth. And the brothers of Joseph came,
and bowed before him with their faces upon the
Genesis 42:7 cxiii Genesis 42:20

ground. 7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and knew

them, and considered what he should say to
them. And he spake with them severely, and said
to them, Whence come you? And they said, From
the land of Kenaan, to buy corn. 8 And Joseph
knew his brothers, but they did not know him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he
had dreamed of them; and he said to them, You
are spies; to see the ruin of the land are you
come. 10 And they said, No, my lord, (ribboni,)
thy servants are come to buy corn. 11 We are all
the sons of one man. Right are we; thy servants
are not spies. 12 But he said to them, No, but you
are come to see the ruin of the land. 13 And they
said, Thy servants are twelve brothers, the sons
of one man, in the land of Kenaan; and, behold,
the youngest is with our father today, and one
is not! 14 And Joseph said to them, That is what
I have told you, saying, You are spies; 15 By this
you shall be proved: by the life of Pharoh you
shall not go hence, until your youngest brother
be come hither. 16 Send one of you, and bring
your brother; but you shall be bound, and your
words shall be proved, whether you have spoken
the truth; if not, by the life of Pharoh, you are
spies. 17 And he put them in the house of custody
three days.
18And Joseph said to them the third day, This
do, and live; for I fear before the Lord. 19 If you
be true, let one of your brethren be bound in the
prison; and go you, carry the provision which is
needed in your house, 20 and bring your youngest
Genesis 42:21 cxiv Genesis 42:30

brother to me, and your words will be verified,

and you shall not die. And they did so. 21 And
they said, a man to his brother, We are verily
guilty concerning our brother; that we saw the
anguish of his soul, when he implored us, and
we would not hearken to him: therefore is this
distress come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered
them, saying, Did not I tell you, saying, Do not sin
against the youth? But you, would not hearken.
Thus, behold, his blood is required. 23 But they
knew not that Joseph heard; for there was an
interpreter between them. 24 And he turned
himself away from them, and wept. And he
returned and spake to them, and took Shemeon
from them, and bound him before their eyes.
25 And Joseph commanded to fill their vessels
with corn, and return their money (that of each)
man in his sack, and give them food in the way.
And he did so by them.
26 And they laid their corn upon their asses,
and went thence. 27 And one opened his sack
to give provender to his ass at the house of
lodging, and saw his money, and, behold, it was
in the mouth of his package; 28 And he said to
his brothers, My money is returned, and, behold,
it is in my package. And the knowledge of
their hearts failed, and they were each of them
confounded, saying, What is this which the Lord
hath done to us?
29 And they came to Jakob their father in the
land of Kenaan, and showed him all that had
happened to them, saying, 30 The man, the lord
of the country, spoke hardly with us, and dealt
Genesis 42:31 cxv Genesis 43:2

with us as spies of the land. 31 And we told him,

We are true men, not spies: 32 We are twelve
brothers, sons of one father: one is not, and the
youngest is today with our father in the land of
Kenaan. 33 And the man, the lord of the country,
said to us, By this I shall know that you are true
men. Leave one of your brethren with me, and
take the corn which is needed in your house,
and go, 34 And bring your youngest brother to
me, and I shall know that you are not spies: and
when you (will be proved to) be true men, I will
give up your brother to you, and you shall trade
in the land.
35 And it was, as they emptied their sacks,
behold, each man’s money was bound up in
his sack; and when they and their father saw
the envelopes of their money, they were afraid.
36 And Jakob their father said to them, Me have
you made desolate; Joseph is not, and Shemeon is
not (here), and Benjamin you would take away;
upon me are all these! 37 And Reuben spake
with his father, saying, Thou shalt put my two
children to death if I do not bring him back to
thee. Deliver him into my hand, and I will return
him to thee. 38 But he said, My son shall not go
down with you; for his brother is dead, and he
alone remains; and if death should befall him
in the way in which you will go, you will bring
down my grey hairs with mourning unto Sheol.

43
1 But
the famine prevailed in the land. 2 And it
was when they had ended to eat the corn which
Genesis 43:3 cxvi Genesis 43:12

they had brought from Mizraim, that their father

said to them, Return, and buy for us a little
corn. 3 And Jehuda spake to him, saying, The
man attesting attested to us, saying, You shall
not see my face unless your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will
go down and buy thee corn; 5 But if thou wilt
not send, we will not go down: for the man
told us, You shall not see my face unless your
brother be with you. 6 And Israel said, Why did
you do me this evil, in showing the man that
you have a brother? 7 And they said, The man
asking asked us concerning our family, saying, Is
your father yet alive? Have you a brother? And
we showed him according to the word of these
things: knowing could we know that be would
say, Bring your brother to me? 8 And Jehuda said
to Israel his father, Send the youth with me, and
let us arise and go, that we may live and not die,
we, and thou, and our little ones. 9 I will be the
pledge for him; of my hand shalt thou require
him; if I do not bring him back to thee, and set
him before thee, let mine be the sin with thee all
the days. 10 For except we had delayed in this,
we might now have returned twice.
11 And Israel their father said to them, If then
it is to be, do this: take of what is praiseworthy
in the land in your vessels, and carry down to
the man an offering; a little gum, and a little
honey, storax and ladanum, nuts and almonds;
and silver, 12 two for one take in your hands,
even the silver which was returned in the mouth
of your bags take back in your hands; perhaps it
Genesis 43:13 cxvii Genesis 43:22

was an oversight. 13 And take your brother, and

arise, return to the man; 14 And God the Almighty
give you favour before the man, that he may
release to you your other brother and Benjamin.
And I, when desolated, shall be desolate! 15 And
the men took that offering, and the money two
for one took they in their hands; and they
took Benjamin, and arose, and went down into
Mizraim, and stood before Joseph.
16 And Joseph saw Benjamin with them; and he
said to him who was appointed over his house,
Bring the men into the house, and kill a killing
and prepare; for the men shall eat with me
at dinner. 17 And the man did as Joseph had
said; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s
house. 18 And the men were afraid because they
were brought into the, house of Joseph; and said,
It is on account of the money that was returned
in our baggage at first, that we are brought
in, that he might domineer over us, and find
occasion against us, and take possession of us
as slaves, and seize upon our asses. 19 And they
drew near the man who was set over Joseph’s
house, 20 and spake with him at the gate of the
house, and said, We entreat my lord (to hear us).
Descending we came down at first to buy corn.
21 And it was while we were at the resting-place,
we opened our baggage, and, behold, a man’s
silver was in the mouth of the bag; the silver in
its weight. But we have returned it in our hand.
22 And other silver have we brought in our hand
to buy corn. We knew not who put the silver in
Genesis 43:23 cxviii Genesis 43:33

our baggage. 23 And he said, Peace be to you:

fear not; your God, and the God of your father,
gave you treasure in, your bags; your money
came to me. And he brought out Shemeon to
them. 24 And the man brought the men into
Joseph’s house, and gave water, and they washed
their feet, and he gave provender for their asses.
25 And they made ready the offering against the
entrance of Joseph to dinner: for they had heard
that there they were to eat bread.
26 And Joseph entered the house, and they
brought to him the offering which was in their
hands into the house; and they bowed to him
upon the ground. 27 And he saluted them, and
said, Is your father well, the old man you spake
of? Is he yet alive? 28 And they said, It is well
with thy servant our father, he is yet alive; and
they bowed and worshipped. 29 And he lifted
up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, the
son of his mother; and he said, Is this your
youngest brother of whom you spake to me?
And he said, Mercy from the Lord be upon
thee, my son 30 And Joseph made haste, for his
bowels were commoved over his brother, and
he sought (where) to weep; and he entered into
the chamber, the place of sleeping, and wept
there. 31 And he washed his face, and came
out, and was comforted, and said, Put on bread;
32 And they set for him alone, and for them
alone, and for the Mizraee who ate with him,
alone. For the Mizraee might not eat bread
with the Hivraee, because the animals that the
Mizraee worshipped the Hivraee did eat. 33 And
Genesis 43:34 cxix Genesis 44:8

they reclined before him, the chief according

to his chiefship, and the less according to his
minority; and the men wondered, each man at
his companion. 34 And portions were brought
from him, and set before them, and greater was
Benjamin’s portion than the portions of them all
five portions. And they drank and were merry
with him.

44
1 And Joseph commanded the steward of his
house, saying, Fill the men’s bags with corn as
much as they can carry, and put each man’s
money in the mouth of his baggage. 2 And put my
cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the youngest
one’s baggage, and his purchase-money. And he
did according to Joseph’s word which he spake.
3 The morning lightened, and the men were sent
away, they and their asses. 4 They had not gone
far from the city, when Joseph said to him who
was set over his house, Arise, follow after the
men, and overtake them, and say to them, Why
have you rendered evil for good? 5 Is it not this
from which my lord drinketh, and, behold, by
which inquiring he inquireth? You have done
the thing that is evil.
6 And he overtook them, and spake with them
these words. 7 And they said, Why does my lord
speak these words? Be it far from thy servants to
do according to this thing! 8 Behold, the money
which we found in the mouth of our baggages we
brought to thee again from the land of Kenaan;
how then should we steal from the house of thy
Genesis 44:9 cxx Genesis 44:19

lord vessels of silver, or vessels of gold? 9 With

whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him
die; and we also will be servants to my lord.
10 And he said, According to your words, so let it
be. With whomsoever it is found, he shall be my
servant, but you will be acquitted. 11 And they
made haste, and brought down every man his
baggage to the ground; and every man opened
his baggage. 12 And he searched, beginning with
the greatest and finishing with the least; and the
chalice was found in the baggage of Benjamin.
13 And they rent their clothes, and laded every
man his ass, and returned to the city.
14 And Jehuda entered and his brothers into
Joseph’s house, for he was still there; and they
fell before him on the ground. 15 And Joseph
said to them, What work is this which you have
done? Did you not know that a man like me
divining can divine? 16 And Jehuda said to him,
What shall we say to my lord? What shall we
speak? How shall we be justified? Before the
lord there is sin found in thy servants. Behold,
we are the servants of my lord; we also and he in
whose hand the chalice hath been found. 17 But
he said, Far be it from me to do so: the man
in whose hand the chalice has been found shall
be my servant; but go you up in peace to your
father.
18 And Jehuda came near to him and said, We
beseech my lord, let thy servant speak a word
before my lord, and let not thine anger be great
with thy servant; for as Pharoh so art thou. 19 My
lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father
Genesis 44:20 cxxi Genesis 44:32

or a brother? 20 And we told my lord, We have

an aged father, and the youngest (son) is the
son of his old age; his brother is dead; and he
only remains of his mother, and his father loves
him. 21 And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring
him down to me, and let me set mine eyes upon
him. 22 And we told my lord, His father cannot
part with the youth; for if our father should part
with him, he would die. 23 And thou saidst to
thy servants, If your youngest brother come not
down with you, you shall not see my face again.
24 And it was when we had gone up to our father,
we told him these words of my lord. 25 And
our father said to us, Return, and buy us a little
corn. 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our
youngest brother go down with us, we will go
down; for we shall not be able to see the man’s
face unless our youngest brother go down with
us. 27 And thy servant our father said to us, You
know that my wife bare me two (sons). 28 One
went forth from me, and I have said, Dying he is
dead; and I have not beheld him since. 29 And
if you take this one also from me, and death
happen to him, you will bring down my age with
evil unto sheol. 30 And now, when I come to thy
servant my father, and the youth be not with
us, and his soul loveth him as his (own) soul;
31 When he seeth that the youth is not with us, he
will die; and thy servant will have brought down
the age of thy servant our father with mourning
unto Sheol. 32 For thy servant was surety for
the youth with our father, saying, If I bring him
not to thee, let my father hold me guilty all the
Genesis 44:33 cxxii Genesis 45:8

days. 33 And now let thy servant remain instead

of the youth, as the servant of my lord, and let
the youth go up with his brothers. 34 For how
can I go up to my father, and the youth be not
with me? Lest I should see the evil that will come
upon my father!

45
1 And Joseph was not able to sustain all that
was being upon him; and he cried, Let every
man go out from me; and no man stood with
him, while Joseph made himself known to his
brethren. 2 And he gave forth his voice with
weeping; and the Mizraee heard, and a man of
Pharoh’s house heard. 3 And Joseph said to his
brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father yet living?
And his brethren were not able to answer him a
word, for they were confounded before him.
4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near
now to me. And they came near. And he said,
I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into
Mizraim. 5 And now do not be troubled, and let
it not be afflictive in your eyes that you sold me
hither; for to sustain life did the Lord send me
before you. 6 For these two years hath famine
been in the land, and there are yet five years
in which there will be neither seed nor harvest.
7 And the Lord sent me before you to set a
remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a
great deliverance. 8 And now, it was not you who
sent me hither, but (it was) from before the Lord,
who hath set me to be a father unto Pharoh, and
to rule all the men of his house, holding power
Genesis 45:9 cxxiii Genesis 45:19

over all the land of Mizraim. 9 Hasten, (then,)

and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus
saith thy son Joseph, The Lord hath set me ruler
over the Mizraim: come down to me, delay not,
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen,
and be near me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons’
children, and thy sheep and thy oxen, and all that
thou hast. 11 And I will nourish thee there; for
there are yet five years of famine, lest thou, and
the men of thy house, and all that thou hast, be
wasted away. 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and
the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that in your
language I speak with you. 13 And you will show
my father all my glory in Mizraim, and all that
you see; and make haste, and bring down my
father hither. 14 And he fell upon the neck of
Benjamin his brother, and wept; and Benjamin
wept upon his neck. 15 And he kissed all his
brothers, and wept over them; and afterward his
brothers discoursed with him.
16 And a voice was heard in the house of
Pharoh, saying, The brothers of Joseph are come.
And it was pleasing in the eyes of Pharoh, and
in the eyes of his servants. 17 And Pharoh said
to Joseph, Tell my brethren, Do this; lade your
beasts and go; carry into the land of Kenaan;
18 and take your father and the men of your
house and come to me, and I will give you the
good of the land of Mizraim, and you shall eat
the good of the land. 19 And (now) thou art
commanded, this do. Take to you out of the
land of Mizraim waggons for your children, and
your wives; and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45:20 cxxiv Genesis 46:2

20 And let not your eye look wistfully upon your

furniture; for the good of all the land of Mizraim
is your own.
21 And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph
gave them waggons, according to the word of
Pharoh, and he gave them provisions for the
way. 22 And he gave to everyone of them
vestments for wearing; and to Benjamin gave
he three hundred shekels of silver, and five
vestments for wearing. 23 And to his father he
sent ten asses laden with the good things of
Mizraim, and ten she-asses laden with corn, and
bread and provisions for the way. 24 And he
dismissed his brethren, and they went, and he
said to them, Do not contend by the way. 25 And
they went up from Mizraim and came into the
land of Kenaan, unto Jakob their father. 26 And
they showed him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and
he ruleth over all the land of Mizraim! And these
words were uncertain upon his heart, because he
did not believe them. 27 And they told him all the
words of Joseph which he had spoken with them;
and he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent to
fetch him; and the Holy Spirit rested upon Jakob
their father. 28 And Israel said, Great to me is
the joy! Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go, and
behold him before I die.

46
1 And
Israel journeyed, and all that he had, and
came to Beer Shava; and he offered sacrifices
to the God of his father Izhak. 2 And the Lord
spake to Israel in a vision of the night, and said,
Genesis 46:3 cxxv Genesis 46:15

Jakob, Jakob. And he said, Behold, I am. 3 And

He said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear
not to go down into Mizraim; for a great people
will I make thee there. 4 I will go down with
thee into Mizraim, and will surely bring thee
up; but Joseph shall lay his hand upon thine
eyes. 5 And Jakob arose from Beer Shava. And
the sons of Israel carried Jakob their father, and
their children, and their wives, in the waggons
which Pharoh had sent to fetch them. 6 And they
took their flocks and their substance which they
had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and came to
Mizraim, Jakob and all his sons with him. 7 His
sons, and his son’s sons with him, his daughters,
and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed,
he brought with him into Mizraim.
8 And these are the names of the sons of Israel
which came into Mizraim, Jakob and his sons.
The firstborn of Jakob, Reuben. 9 And the sons of
Reuben. Hanuk and Phallu, Hesron and Karmi.
10 And the sons of Sheemon, Jemuel, and Janin,
and Ahad, and Jakin, and Zochar, and Shaul, the
son of a Kenaanitha. 11 And the sons of Levi,
Gershon, Kehath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of
Jehuda, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharets,
and Zarach. But Er and Onan had died in the
land of Kenaan And the sons of Pharets, Heshron
and Chamul. 13 And the sons of Issakar, Tola,
and Pheua, and Job, and Semeron. 14 And the
sons of Zabulon, Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These are the sons of Leah, which she bare to
Jakob in Padan Aram, and Dinah his daughter;
all the souls, his sons and his daughters, thirty
Genesis 46:16 cxxvi Genesis 46:29

and three. 16 And the children of Gad, Sephyon

and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher, Jemna,
and Jesva, and Jesvi, and Beriah, and Serach,
their sister. And the sons of Beriah, Heber
and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpha,
whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and
she bare these unto Jakob, sixteen souls. 19 The
sons of Rahel, the wife of Jakob, Joseph and
Benjamin. 20 And to Joseph were born in the
land of Mizraim Menashe and Ephraim, whom
Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, prince of On,
bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin, Bela,
and Bekor, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Achi,
and Rosh, Muppim, and Huphim, and Arede.
22 These are the sons of Rahel which were born
to Jakob; all the souls fourteen. 23 And the sons
of Dan, Hushim: 24 And the sons of Naphtali,
Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shilem. 25 These
are the children of Billah, whom Laban gave to
Rahel his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob;
all the souls seven. 26 All the souls which went
with Jakob into Mizraim, which came forth from
his loins, besides the wives of Jakob’s sons, all
the souls, sixty and six. 27 And the sons of Joseph,
which were born to him in Mizraim, two souls.
All the souls of the house of Jakob which went
into Mizraim were seventy.
28And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph, to
make the way clear before him at Goshen, and
he came to the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph
arrayed his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
his father in Goshen. And he saw him, and fell
Genesis 46:30 cxxvii Genesis 47:4

upon his neck, and wept. And he wept still upon

his neck! 30 And Israel said to Joseph, I could-
die at this time! I have consolation now that I
have seen thy face; for thou art yet alive. 31 And
Joseph said to his brothers, and to the house of
his father, I will go up and show Pharoh, and
will tell him, My brethren and the house of my
father, who were in the land of Kenaan, have
come to me. 32 But the men are shepherds of
sheep: for the men are masters of flocks, and
their sheep and oxen and all that they have they
have brought. 33 And it shall be when Pharoh
calleth you, and shall ask you, What is your
employment? 34 You will say, Thy servants have
been men, the masters of flocks from our youth
until now; both we and our fathers: that you may
dwell in the land of Goshen; because the Mizraee
keep at a distance all shepherds of flocks.

47
1And Joseph came and showed Pharoh, and
said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep
and their oxen, and all that they have, are come
from the land of Kenaan, and, behold, they are
in the land of Goshen. 2 And of the extreme of
his brethren he took five men, and made them
stand before Pharoh. 3 And Pharoh said to his
brethren, What are your employments? And
they said to Pharoh, thy servants are shepherds;
both we and our fathers. 4 And they said to
Pharoh, To dwell in the land are we come for
there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for
the famine prevails in the land of Kenaan, and
Genesis 47:5 cxxviii Genesis 47:14

we pray thee let thy servants dwell in the land

of Goshen. 5 And Pharoh spake to Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee;
6 The land of Mizraim is before thee in the best
of it let thy father and thy brethren dwell, (even)
in the land of Goshen: and if thou know any of
them to be men of ability, appoint them to be
chiefs over my flocks.
7 And Joseph brought Jakob his father, and
presented him before Pharoh: and Jakob blessed
Pharoh. 8 And Pharoh said to Jakob, How many
are the days of the years of thy life? 9 And
Jakob said to Pharoh, The days of the years of
my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years.
Few and evil have been the days of the years of
my life, and I have not attained to the days of
the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of
their pilgrimage. 10 And Jakob blessed Pharoh,
and went out from before Pharoh. 11 And Joseph
made his father and his brethren to dwell, and
gave them a possession in the land of Mizraim,
in the best of the land, in the land of Ramesis,
as Pharoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph
sustained his father and his brethren, and all the
house of his father, with bread, according to the
mouth of the family (of each).
13 And there was no bread in all the land; for
the famine prevailed greatly, and the people of
the land of Mizraim and the people of the land of
Kenaan failed before the famine. 14 And Joseph
collected all the money which was found in the
land of Mizraim and in the land of Kenaan, for
the corn which they bought. And Joseph brought
Genesis 47:15 cxxix Genesis 47:23

the money into the house of Pharoh. 15 And the

money was finished from the land of Mizraim
and from the land of Kenaan; and all the Mizraee
came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread: for why
should we die before thee? For the money is
finished. 16 And Joseph said, Bring your cattle,
and I will give you provision, if your money
is finished. 17 And they brought their cattle to
Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for their
horses, and for their flocks of sheep, and for their
herds of oxen, and for their asses, and for all
their cattle; he fed them with bread for that year.
18 And that year was completed; and they came
to him in the second year, and said to him, We
will not conceal it from our lord, but the money
is ended, and (we have delivered up) our cattle
to our lord, and there is nothing left before our
lord but our bodies and our land. 19 Why should
we perish before thee, both we and our land?
Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our
land will be servants to Pharoh, and give us seed
corn, that we may live and not die, and the land
may not be desolate.
20 And Joseph acquired all the land of Mizraim
for Pharoh; for the Mizraee sold every man
his portion, because the famine prevailed over
them, and the land became Pharoh’s. 21 And the
people he made him to pass from city to city,
from one end of the limit of Mizraim to the other.
22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for
a portion (was given) by Pharoh to the priests:
and they ate their portion which Pharoh gave
them; therefore they sold not their land. 23 And
Genesis 47:24 cxxx Genesis 47:31

Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought

you this day and your land for Pharoh. Behold, (I
give) you seed corn, that you may sow the land.
24 And it shall be, when it bringeth forth produce,
that you shall give one in five to Pharoh, and four
parts shall be yours, of the corn of the field, that
you and the men of your house may eat, and your
little ones have food. 25 And they said, Thou hast
preserved us; may we find grace in the eyes of
my lord, and we will be the servants of Pharoh.
26 And Joseph made it a statute unto this day
over the land of Mizraim, that one of five should
be given to Pharoh; only the land of the priests
alone was not Pharoh’s.
27And Israel dwelt in the land of Mizraim in
the land of Goshen, and possessed it: and they
increased and multiplied greatly. 28 And Jakob
lived in the land of Mizraim seventeen years.
And the days of the years of the life of Jakob were
a hundred and forty and seven years.

29 And the days of Israel drew near to die. And

he called to his son, to Joseph, and said to him,
If now I have found favour in thine eyes, put,
I beseech thee, thine hand under my thigh, and
deal with me in goodness and truth; nor bury
me, I beseech thee, in Mizraim; 30 But I will sleep
with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me from
Mizraim, and bury me in their sepulchre. And
he said, I will do according to thy word. 31 And
he said, Swear to me; and he sware to him. And
Israel worshipped upon the pillow of the bed.
Genesis 48:1 cxxxi Genesis 48:11

48
1And it was after these words that it was said
to Joseph, Behold, thy father is ill. And he took
his two sons with him, Menashe and Ephraim.
2 And it was shown to Jakob, and told (him,)
Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And
Israel was strengthened, and he sat upon the bed.
3 And Jakob said to Joseph, El Shadai revealed
Himself to me in Luz, in the land of Kenaan,
and blessed me; 4 And He said to me, Behold, I
will multiply thee, and make thee great, and will
set thee for an assembly of tribes, and will give
this land to thy sons after thee for an everlasting
inheritance. 5 And now thy two sons which were
born to thee in the land of Mizraim, before my
coming to thee into Mizraim, are mine; Ephraim
and Menashe shall be as Reuben and Shimeon
before me. 6 And the children whom thou mayest
beget after them, who shall be thine, after the
name of their brethren they shall be called in
their inheritance. 7 And I, in my coming from
Padan, Rahel died by me in the land of Kenaan, in
the way, while as yet there was a space of ground
to come unto Ephrath. And I buried her there, by
the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
8 And Israel saw the sons of Joseph, and said,
Who are these? 9 And Joseph said to his father,
They are my sons whom the Lord hath given me
here. And he said, Bring them now near to me,
that I may bless them. 10 But the eyes of Israel
were heavy from age, and he could not discern.
And he brought them near to him, and he kissed
them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said
Genesis 48:12 cxxxii Genesis 48:20

to Joseph, I had not hoped to see thy face, and,

behold, the Lord hath showed me thy sons also.
12 And Joseph led them from before him, and
worshipped with his face on the earth. 13 And
Joseph took both of them, Ephraim in his right
hand, on the left of Israel, and Menashe in his
left hand, on the right of Israel, and brought
them to him. 14 And Israel stretched out his
right hand, and laid it on the head of Ephraim,
who was the younger; and his left hand on the
head of Menashe, using his hands designingly;
(or, instructing his hands;) for Menashe was the
first-born. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said,
The Lord, before whom my fathers Abraham and
Izhak did serve; the Lord, who fed me from
my coming unto this day; 16 The Angel who
redeemed me from all evil, bless the youths; and
let my name be called upon them, and the name
of my fathers Abraham and Izhak; and as the fish
of the sea may they multiply among the children
of men upon the earth!
17 And Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim; and it was evil
in his eyes. And he uplifted his father’s hand, to
remove it from Ephraim’s head, that it might rest
on the head of Menashe. 18 And Joseph said to his
father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born:
lay thy right hand on his head. 19 But his father
willed not, and said, I know, my son, I know:
he also shall be for a people, and he also shall
be great; yet his younger brother will be greater
than he, and his sons shall have dominion among
the nations. 20 And he blessed them in that day,
Genesis 48:21 cxxxiii Genesis 49:7

saying, By thee shall Israel bless, saying, The

Lord set thee as Ephraim and as Menashe. And
he set Ephraim before Menashe. 21 And Israel
said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but the Word of
the Lord will be your Helper, and restore you to
the land of your fathers. 22 And I will give thee
one portion more than thy brethren, which I took
from the band of the Amoraah by my prayer and
by my deprecation.

49
1And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather
together, and I will show you what will befall
you in the end of the days; 2 Assemble, and
hearken, O sons of Jakob, and receive instruction
from Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my
first-born, my strength, and the beginning of
my power. Thine should it have been taking
to take the three portions, the birthright, the
priesthood, and the kingdom: but because thou
hast proceeded perversely, 4 Behold, as water
outpoured thou wilt not prosper, neither wilt
thou receive the excellent portion; because thou
wentest up to thy father’s place of sleep: then,
my son, didst thou become profane, when thou
wentest up to my bed. 5 Shimeon and Levi
are brothers; mighty men in the land of their
sojourning, they did mightily. 6 My soul was
not in their secret; into their company to come I
would not have descended from mine honour.
For in their anger they slew a slaughter, and
in their wilfulness they razed the wall of their
enemy. 7 Accursed was their anger, for it was
Genesis 49:8 cxxxiv Genesis 49:14

strong, and their wrath, for it was relentless.

I will divide them in Jakob, and I will scatter
them in Israel. 8 Jehuda, thou art praise and not
shame; thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand
shall prevail against thine adversaries, thine
enemies shall be dispersed; they will be turned
backward before thee, and the sons of thy father
will come before thee with salutations. The
dominion shall be (thine) in the beginning, and
in the end the kingdom shall be increased from
the house of Jehuda, because from the judgment
of death, my son, hast thou withdrawn. 9 He shall
repose, and abide in strength as a lion, and as
a lioness, there shall be no king that may cut
him off. 10 He who exerciseth dominion shall
not pass away from the house of Jehuda, nor the
saphra from his children’s children forever, until
the Meshiha come, whose is the kingdom, and
unto whom shall be the obedience of the nations
(or, whom the peoples shall obey). 11 Israel
shall pass round about in his cities; the people
shall build his temple, they will be righteous
round about him, and be doers of the law
through his doctrine. Of goodly purple will be his
raiment, and his vesture of crimson wool with
colours. 12 His mountains shall be red with his
vineyards, and his hills be dropping with wine;
his valleys shall be white with corn, and with
flocks of sheep. 13 Zebulon will dwell nigh the
haven of the sea; he will subdue provinces with
ships, and will eat the good of the sea, and his
boundary shall come unto Sidon. 14 Issakar, rich
in substance, will have his heritage between the
Genesis 49:15 cxxxv Genesis 49:24

boundaries; 15 And he, seeing his portion that it

is good, and the land that it is fruit-bearing, will
subdue the provinces of the people, and disperse
their inhabitants, and they who remain of them
will become servants to him and bringers of
tribute. 16 From the house of Dan will be chosen
and will arise a man in whose days his people
shall be delivered, and in whose years the tribes
of Israel have rest together. 17 A chosen man
will arise from the house of Dan, the terror of
whom shall fall upon the peoples; (a man) who
will smite the Philistines with strength, as the
serpent, the deadly serpent, lurking by the way,
be will slay the mighty of the Philistines host, the
horsemen with the foot; he will weaken (loosen)
the horses and chariots, and throw their riders
backward. 18 For thy salvation have I waited, O
Lord! 19 From the house of Gad will armed hosts
go over the Jardena before their brethren to the
battle; and with much substance will they return
unto their land. 20 The land of Asher will be good;
and he shall be nourished with the dainties of
kings. 21 In a good land will the lot of Naphtali be
cast, and his inheritance be fruitful; over them
will they give praise and benediction. 22 Joseph
is my son who shall increase, my son who shall
be blessed, as a vine planted by a fountain of
waters. Two tribes will come forth from his sons,
and they shall receive a portion and inheritance.
23 The mighty men, the men of division, were
bitter against him; they afflicted him and sorely
grieved him 24 And his prophecy shall be fulfilled
in them, because he was faithful to the law in
Genesis 49:25 cxxxvi Genesis 49:31

secret, and set his confidence firmly. Therefore

was gold laid upon his arm, and the kingdom
was strengthened and confirmed. This was to
him from the mighty God of Jacob, who by His
Word pastureth the fathers and the children of
the seed of Israel. 25 The Word of the God of thy
father shall be thy Helper, and the All-Sufficient
shall bless thee, with the blessings of the dew
that descends from the heavens above, with the
blessings that spring from the depths of the earth
beneath, with the blessings of thy father and of
thy mother. 26 The blessing of thy father shall be
added upon the blessing with which my fathers
blessed me; which the princes who are of the
world have desired: all of them shall be upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the man who was
separated from his brethren. 27 Benjamin: in his
land will dwell the Shekina, and in his possession
will the sanctuary be builded. In the morning
and evening will the priests offer the oblation,
and at eventime divide the remaining portions
of the residue of the sacred things.
28 All these the tribes of Israel are twelve; and
this it is which their father spake to them, and
blessed them; according to the blessing of each
man, blessed he them. 29 And he commanded
them, and said to them, I am to be gathered
unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the
cavern which is in the field of Ephron the Hitaah;
30 In the cavern which is in the double field over
against Mamre, in the land of Kenaan, which
field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hitaah for
an inheritancesepulchre. 31 There buried they
Genesis 49:32 cxxxvii Genesis 50:9

Abraham and Sarah his wife; there buried they

Izhak and Revekah his wife; and there buried I
Leah. 32 The field, and the cavern that is in it,
purchased of the sons of Hitaah. 33 And Jakob
ceased to instruct his sons, and drew his feet
together in the bed, and died, and was gathered
unto his people.

50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and
wept over him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph
commanded his servants, the physicians, to em-
balm his father; and the physicians embalmed
Israel. 3 And forty days were completed to him;
for so are completed the days of the embalmed;
and the Mizraee mourned for him seventy days.
4 And the days of his mourning passed: and
Joseph spake with the house of Pharoh, saying,
If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I
pray, before Pharoh, saying 5 My father adjured
me, saying, Behold, I die; in my sepulchre which
I have prepared for me in the land of Kenaan,
there shalt thou bury me. And now let me go
up, I pray, and I will bury my father and return.
6 And Pharoh said, Go up and bury thy father,
as he adjured thee. 7 And Joseph went up to
bury his father; and all the servants of Pharoh,
the elders of his house, and all the elders of the
land of Mizraim, 8 Went up with him; and all
the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the
house of his father: only the children, and the
flocks, and the cattle, they left in the land of
Goshen. 9 And with him went up, also, chariots
Genesis 50:10 cxxxviii Genesis 50:20

and horsemen; and there was a very great host.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad,
which is beyond Jardena, and lamented there
with lamentations great and very strong. And
he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And the inhabitants of the land of Kenaan saw
the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and
said, This is a mighty mourning of the Mizraee;
therefore its name is called Abel Mizraim; which
is beyond Jardena. 12 And his sons did as
he had commanded them. 13 And his sons
carried him into the land of Kenaan, and buried
him in the cavern of the Double Field, which
Abraham bought for an inheritancesepulchre of
Ephron the Hitaah, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph
returned into Mizraim, he and his brethren, and
all who went up with him to bury his father, after
he had buried his father.
15And the brethren of Joseph saw that their
father was dead; and they said, Perhaps Joseph
will retain enmity against us, and requiting will
requite us all the evil which we did him. 16 And
they made visitation to Joseph, saying, Thy father
commanded before his death, saying, 17 Thus
shall you speak to Joseph, I pray you to forgive
the guilt of thy brethren and their sin wherewith
they did evil against thee. And now forgive,
I beseech thee, the guilt of the servants of the
God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake with him. 18 And his brethren came and
fell before him, and said, Behold, we are thy
servants. 19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not,
for I fear the Lord. 20 When you thought evil
Genesis 50:21 cxxxix Genesis 50:26

against me, before the Lord it was intended

for good, to be done, as at this day, for the
preservation of much people. 21 And now do not
fear; I will sustain you and your children. And
he consoled them, and spake consolation to their
heart.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Mizraim, he and his
father’s house. And Joseph lived an hundred
and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw of Ephraim
three sons; also the sons of Makir, the son of
Menashe, were born, whom Joseph brought up.
24 And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; but
the Lord remembering will remember you, and
bring you up from, this land to the land of which
He sware to Abraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob.
25 And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying,
The Lord remembering will remember you, and
you shall carry my bones up from hence. 26 And
Joseph died, the son of a hundred and ten years,
and they embalmed him, and laid him in an ark
in Mizraim.
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Targum Onkelos Etheridge

The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel On
the Pentateuch With The Fragments of the Jerusalem
Targum From the Chaldee by J. W. Etheridge, M.A.
First Published 1862-65.
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