Jacob's complaint of Laban. GENESIS. to kiss my sons, and my daugh- B.C.1739. B.C.1739. ters? thou hast now done fool-b ver. 55. ver. 53. ishly in so doing. Ru. 1. 9, Is. 8. 13. 14.1KL.19. Pch 29.32. 20.Ac. 20. Ex. 3. 7. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the dGod of your father spake unto me "yes-37. ternight, saying,Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 1 Sa. 13.41Ch. 12. 13. 2 Ch. 17. Jude 16. 9. ver. 53. 30 And now,though thou would-d est needs be gone, because thou ch. 28. 13. sore longedst after thy father's house; yet wherefore hast thou fstolen my gods? 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. ver. 24. f ver. 19. See ch. 32 With whomsoever thou find- 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maid-servants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. † Heb. 9. The covenant between them ther, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction. and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 43 And Laban answered, and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this dayunto these my daughters, or unto their chil dren which they have borne? 44 Now therefore come thou, "let us make a covenant, I and thou; "and let it be for a wit ness between me and thee. tch.28.18. get it up for a pillar. Tch.26.28. Jos. 24 27. That is, the heap of wit ness. Chald. ness. 34 Now Rachel had taken the 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered, and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 29 That which was torn of iEx.22.10. beasts, I brought not unto thee; &c. I bare the loss of it; ofkmy hand k Ex. 22. didst thou require it, whether 12 stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served Ich.29.27. thee fourteen years for thy two 28. daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed m ver. 7. my wages ten times. " Ps. 124. 42 "Except the God of my fa-1,2 Heb. u Jos. 24. 5. That is, a beacon, or,watchtower. 7 ch. 16.5. 45 And Jacob 'took a stone, and 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed: 48 And Laban said, "This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50 Ifthou shalt afHict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other no man is with us; see, God is wives besides my daughters; witness betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not passover this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. ch.21.23. And Jacob 'sware by the "fear of his father Isaac. a ver. 42. 54 Then Jacob offered sacriOr, killed beasts. fice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters,and bblesbcn. 28. 1. sed them: and Laban departed, ch.18.33. and returned unto his place. Jacob's message to Esan. CHAPTER XXXII He wrestleth with an angel twixt drove. AND Jacob went on his way; B.C.1739. B.C.1739. before me, and put a space beand the angels of God met àim. 2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's bhost: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, Cunto the land of Seir, the t country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: Ps.91.11. He. 1. 14. bJos.5.14 Ps.103.21. & 148. 2. Lu. 2. 13. That is, two hosts, or, camps. ch.33.14, 16. deh. 36. 6, 7.8.De. 2. 5. Jos. 24. 4. † Heb. field. Pr. 15. 1. tPr.21.14. fch.30.45. 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and men-servants, and women-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. 61 And the messengersreturn- ch. 33. 8, ed to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also the cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 15. hcl. 33. tHeb.my 1. face. Job 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he ich. 35. 3. divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels into two bands; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.. Ps. 50. 15. 9And Jacob said, 10 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD Ich. 28.13. which saidst unto me, Return meh.31.3, unto thy country, and to thy 13 kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 42.8, 9. "De.3.16. † Heb. caused to pass. Ho.12.3, 4.Ep.6.12. † Heb.as rending of the morning. YSeeMat. 26. 41. 2 Co. 12. 7. See Lu. 24.28. 10 I am not worthy of the least ofall the "mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant: for with "my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am becometwo bands. Il PDeliver me, I pray thee, PPs. 59.1, from the hand of my brother, 2. from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother 9 Ho. 10. t with the children. 14. 12 And thou saidst, I will sure-t Heb. ly do thee good, and make thy upon. seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 And he lodged there that same night, and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred awes and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said anto his servants, Pass over Pr. 18.16. 17 And hecommanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these beforethee? 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold also he is behind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said I will 'appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept f of me. 21 So went the present over be fore him; and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, "and passed over the ford Jabbok. 23 And he took them, and t sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him, until the t breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and 'the hollow of Jacob's thign was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh: and he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 Andhe said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And hesaid, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and dwith men, and hast prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and name: and he said, Wherefore said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy is it that thou dost ask after my name? And heblessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place | Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. $3 The kindness of Jacob CHAPTER XXXIII. The kindness of Jacob and Esan at their meeting, 1. 17 Jacob cometh to Succoth. 18 At Shalem he buyeth a field, and buildeth an altar called El-Elohe-Israel. ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, A and looked, and behold, B.C.1739. B.C.1739. endure; until I come unto my 1 ch. 32.3. lord lunto Seir. 15 And Esau said, Let me now +Heb,set, t leave with thee some of the or, place. folk that are with me: And he said, † What needeth it? "Let me find grace in the sight of my lord. † Heb. wherefore is this? 11. & 47. 25. Ru. 2. Esau came, and with him four ch. 32. 6. m ch. 34. hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he passed over before them, and bbowed himselftothe bch. 18. ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, dand fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 2. &42.6. & 13. n Jos. 13. 27.Ju.8.5. Ps. 60. 6. That is, booths. o John 3. 23. 16 ¶ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to "Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called || Succoth. 18 And Jacob came to "Shalem, a city of PShechem, which is in the land of Caanan, when hecame from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. Called, 19 And he bought a parcel of Ac. 7. 16, ch.32.28. Sychem.a field, where he had spread his dcl..45.14, P Jos. 24. tent, at the hand of the children 15. 1. Ju. 9. 1. of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred | pieces of mo 43. 26. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those f with thee? And he said, The Heb. children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, † What meanest thou by fall this drove which I met? And he said, These are gto find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. to thee. ech. 48. 9. Ps. 127. 3. ls. 8. 18. ↑ Heb. What is all this band to 4 Jos. 24. 32.Johnney. 5. Called, Ac. 7. 16, Emmor. Or, lambs. Tch. 35. 7. That is, God the God of Israel. cir. 1732. ach.30 21. 20 And he erected there an altar, and 'called it | El-EloheIsrael. CHAPTER XXXIV. Dinah is ravished by Shechem, 1. 4 He sueth to marry her. 13 The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it. 25 The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, 27 and spoil their city. 30 Jacob reproveth Simeon and Levi. AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, bwent out to see the bTit. 2. 5. daughters of the land. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as heh. 43. though I had seen the face of 2Sa. 3. 13. God, and thou wast pleased with me. her De. 22. 29. † Heb. to the heart of the & 14. 24, damsel: See Is.40. 2.Ho.2.14. eJu. 14. 2. 28, 32. Mat. 18. 10. iJu. 1. 15. 11 Take, I pray thee, i my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt gra-sa.25.27. f1 Sa. 10 ciously with me, and because I & 30.26, 227.2Sa.13. have fenough: kand he urged Ki. 5. 15. 20. him, and he took it. tHeb. all 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me, and if men should over-drive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, passover before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according fas the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to things. Phi. 4. 18. k2Ki.5.23. ch. 49.7 2Sa.13.21. † Heb.ac-hJos.7.15. cording. 20. 6. tothe foot i De. 23. of the 17.2Sa. 13. work, &c. 12. and according tothe foot of the children. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and † defiled her. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake t kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem "spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinahhisdaughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob fheld his peace until they were come 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth be cause he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with unto you: The Senecnemites circumcised, CHAPTER XXXV. 11 And Shechem said unto her father, and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me, I will give. m ch. 47. 27. 12 Ask me neverso much"down Ex. 22. their sister: 14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncir ch. 49.5, ↑ Heb. cumcised: for Pthat were a re- P.Jos. 5.9. ch. 49. 6. proach unto us: 15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable 42Ch.4.9. than all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein: for the land, behold, it is large enough for them: let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not their cattle, and theirsubstance, and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 21 And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and every male was cirenncised, all that went out of the gate of his city. ch.23.10. and put to the sword. 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the fedge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27 The sons of Jacob came up on the slain, and spoiled the city; because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field. 29 And all their wealth and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have "troubled "Jos.7.25. me xto make me to stink among *Ex.5.21. the inhabitants of the land, 1Sa. 13. 4. among the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and I being few in Ps 105.12. selves together against me, and number,they shall gather themslay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. YDe.4.27. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? CHAPTER XXXV. God sendeth Jacob to Bethel, 1. 2 He purgeth his house of idols. 6 He buildeth an altar at Beth-el. 8 Deborah dieth at Allon-bachuth. 9 God blesseth Jacob at Beth-el. 16 Rache! travaileth of Benjamin, and dieth in the way to Edar. 22 Reuben lieth with Billah. 23 The sons of Jacob. 27 Jacob cometh to Isaac at Hebron. 28 The age, death, and burial of Isaac. AND God said unto Jacob, ch.28.19. Arise, go up to "Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an bch.28.13. altar unto God, that appeared "ch.27.43. unto thee when thou feddest from the face of Esau thy bro dch.18.19. ther. 7. 3. f Ex. 19. Ech. 32.7 24.Ps.107. 6. 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who anhch.28.20. swered me in the day of my dis& 31.3,42. tress, hand was with me in the iHo.2.13. way which I went. 26.Ju.9.6. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all k Jos. 24. the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earEx.15.16 rings which were in their ears; &23.27.& and Jacob hid them under kthe 34.24. De. 11.25.Jos. oak which was by Shechem. 2.9. & 5.1. 5 And they journeyed: and the 1Sa.14.15. terror of God was upon the ci 2C1414 ties that were round about them, 35 Raches areth in travail. and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. GENESIS. B. C. Esau's family in Canan. Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, cir. 1732. cir. 1729. and Levi, and Judah, and Issa6 So Jacob came to "Luz, m ch. 28. char, and Zebulun: which is in the land of Canaan 19, 22. (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he "built there an altar," Ec. 5. 4. and called the place El-beth-That is, el; because there God appear- The God ed unto him, when he fled from of Beththe face of his brother. 8 But PDeborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. el ch.28.13. Pch.24.59. That is. hch.13.18. the oak of & 23.2,19. weeping. i Jos. 14. Ho.12.4. 15. & 15. ch. 17. 5. 91 And God appeared unto Jacob again when hecame outof Padan-aram; and blessed him. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: "thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, "but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, Itch. 17. 1. am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; "a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. 13. 1716. kch.15.15. ch.32. 28. & 25. 8. 1So ch.25. 9.& 49.31. & 48.3, 4. 3. & 48. 4 ch. 12.7. 12 And the land "which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I& 13, 15. will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13 And God went up from * ch. 17. him, in the place where he talk- 22. ed with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink-offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, "Beth-el. 16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but fa little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 17 And it came to pass when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; "thou shalt have this son also. 18 And it came to pass as her soul was in departing, (for she died,) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. ch.25.30. bch.26.34. 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Ra chel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. 27 1 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto hMamre, unto the icity of Arbah (which is Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and kwas gathered unto his people, being old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. CHAPTER XXXVI. Esau's three wives, 2. 6 His removing to mount Seir. 9 His sons. 15 The dukes which descended of his sons. 20 The sons and dukes of Seir. 24 Anah findeth mules. 31 The kings of Edom. 40 The dukes that descended of Esau. tions of Esau, who is Edom. 2 bEsau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon cir. 1760. the Hivite; NOW these are the genera That is, the son of the right hand. fch. 13. 6, bch. 48. 7. 11. Ru. 1. 2. ch. 17. 8. & 4. 11. & 28. 4. Mi. 5. 2. heh. 32. 3. 20 And Jacob set a pillar upon Mat. 2. 6. De. 2. 5. her grave: that is the pillar of d 1Sa. 10. Jos. 24. Rachel's grave dunto this day. 2. 2Sa. 18. i ver. 1. 21 And Israeljourneyed, and 18. spread his tent beyond the tow-e Mi. 4. 8. t Heb. er of Edar. Edom. fch. 49. 4. 3 And Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And Adah bare to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. 7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell to gether: and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them, because of their cattle. 8 Thus dwelt Esau in bmount Seir: Esau is Edom. 9 And these are the generations of Esan the father of the Edomites, in mount Seir: 10 These are the names of Esau's sons; kEliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. 11 And the sons of Eliphaz |