Jacob is entertained by Laban. GENESIS. He serves for Leah and Rachet. ban the son of Nahor? And tney said, We 25 And it came to pass, that in the know him. morning, behold, it was Leah : and he said 6 And he said unto them, Is he well? to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto And they said, He is well and behold, me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? : 7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, 26 And Laban said. It must not be so neither is it time that the cattle should be done in our country, to give the younger gathered together: water ye the sheep,efore the first-born. and go and feed them. 27 Fulfil her week, and we will give 8 And they said, We cannot, until all thee this also, for the service which thou the flocks be gathered together, and till shalt serve with me yet seven other years. they roll the stone from the well's mouth; 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her then we water the sheep. week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went Dear, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29 And Labangave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid, to be her maid. 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31 ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was my affliction; now therefore my husband her father's brother, and that he was Rebe-will love me. kah's son; and she ran and told her father. 33 And she conceived again, and bare 13 And it came to pass when Laban a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, heard that I was hated, he hath therefore that he ran to meet him, and embraced given me this son also: and she called his him, and kissed him, and brought him to his name Simeon. house. And he told Laban all these things. 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing. CHAP. XXX. saw her bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid,conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel said, With great wrest Rachel bears Joseph. CHAP. XXX. Tacob's covenant with Laban, fings have I wrestled with my sister, and thee, if I have found favour in thine eyey I have prevailed: and she called his name tarry: for I have learned by experience Naphtali. that the LORD hath blessed me forthy sake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 29 And he said unto him, Thou knowhow I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 10 And Zilpah, Leah's maid,bare Ja-est cob a son. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah, Leah's maid,bare Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. 14 ¶ And Reuben went in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in I the field, and brought them unto his mo- 32 I will pass through all thy flock tother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give day, removing from thence all the speckme, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. led and spotted cattle, and all the brown 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small cattle among the sheep, and the spotted matter that thou hast taken my husband? and speckled among the goats: and of and wouldest thou take away my son's such shall be my hire. mandrakes also? And Rachel said, There- 33 So shall my righteousness answer for fore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy me in time to come, when it shall como son's mandrakes. for my hire before thy face: every one that 16 And Jacob came out of the field in is not speckled and spotted among the the evening, and Leah went out to meet goats, and brown among the sheep, that bim, and said, Thou must come in unto shall be counted stolen with me. me; for surely I have hired thee with my 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would son's mandrakes. And he lay with her it might be according to thy word. that night. 35 And he removed that day the he17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. and all the she-goats that were speckled 18 And Leah said, God hath given me and spotted, and every one that had some my hire, because I have given my white in it, and all the brown among the maiden to my husband: and she called sheep, and gave them into the hands of his his name Issachar. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed theo since my coming: and now, when shall I provide for mine own house also? 31 And he said, What shall I give thee! And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing. If thou wilt do this thing for me, will again feed and keep thy flock: 20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. sons. 36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37¶ And Jacob took him rods of greca poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22 And God remembered Rachel, and watering-troughs when the flocks came to God hearkened to her, and opened her drink; that they should conceive when womb. they came to drink. 23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted. 24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto by themselves, and put them not unto LaLaban, Send me away, that I may go unto ban's cattle. mine own place, and to my country. 41 And it came to pass whensoever the 26 Give me my wives and my children, stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob for whom I have served thee, and let me laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle go: for thou knowest my service which I in the gutters, that they might conceive bave done thee. among the rods. 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he He is parsed by him. GENESIS. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: Jacob departs from Laban: put them not in so the feebler were LaBan's, and the stronger Jacob's. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses. CHAP. XXXI. he saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before but the God of my father bath been with me. 6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but pitched in the mount of Gilead. God suffered him not to hurt me. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thou done, that thou hast stolen away unthy wages; then all the cattle bare speck-awares to me, and carried away my daughled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked ters, as captives taken with the sword? shall be thy hire: then bare all the cattle ring-streaked. 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? her father's 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee eut from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. 14 And Rachel and Leah answered, and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 22 And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fled. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons, and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do 11 And the angel of God spake unto you hurt: but the God of your father spake me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou said, Here am I. heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the 30 And now, though thou wouldest cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and needs be gone, because thou sore longedst grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban after thy father's house; yet wherefore hast doeth unto thee. thou stolen 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. 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee: for Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two 16 For all the riches which God hath maid-servants' tents; but he found them taken from our father, that is ours, and our not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, children's: now then,whatsoever God hath and entered into Rachel's tent. said unto thee, do. 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his spns and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. Jacob's covenant with Laban: CHAP. XXXII. His message and present to Esan 35 And she said to her father, Let it 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold not displease my lord that I cannot rise up this heap, and behold this pillar, which I before thee; for the custom of women is have cast betwixt me and thee; upon me. And he searched, but found 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar not the images. be witness, that I will not pass over this 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass with Laban: and Jacob answered, and over this heap and this pillar unto me, for said to Laban, What is my trespass? what harm. is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued 53 The God of Abrahams, and the God after me? of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice 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 lessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. CHAP. XXXII. 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy housebold-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. 39 That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. A ND Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 42 Except the God of my father, 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 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, affliction, and the labour of my hands, and and men-servants, and women-servants: rebuked thee yesternight. and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may 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: 43 And Laban answered, and said unto find grace in thy sight. Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, 6 And the messengers returned to and these children are my children, and Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou Esau, and also he cometh to meet theo seest is mine; and what can I do this day and four hundred men with him. unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne ? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels into two bands; 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, 9¶ And Jacob said, O God of my fa Gather stones; and they took stones, and ther Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, made a heap and they did eat there the LORD which saidst unto me, Return upon the heap. unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadu- I will deal well with thee: tha: but Jacob called it Galeed: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all 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 become two bands. 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the absent one from another. hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or for I fear him, lest he will come and smite if thou shalt take other wives besides my me, and the mother with the children. daughters; no man is with us; see, God 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do is witness betwixt me and thee. thee good, and make thy seed as the sand 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witDess between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: Jacob wrestles with an angel: GENESIS. of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is 13 And he lodged there that same thigh. night, and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAP. XXXIII. Jains, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty king and ten bulls, twenty she-asses Aed, and behold, Esau came, and with ND his eyes, and look and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of him four hundred men. his servants, every drove by themselves; the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, And he divided and said unto his servants, Pass over before and unto the two handmaids. me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the foremost, children foremost, and Leah and her chil2 And he put the handmaids and their saying, When Esau my brother meeteth dren after, and Rachel and Joseph hinderthee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art most. thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 3 And he passed over before them, and 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy until he came near to his brother. bowed himself to the ground seven times, cervant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold also he is be-braced him, and fell on his neck, and kiss4 And Esau ran to meet him, and emhind us. ed him and they wept. women and the children, and said, Who are 5 And he lifted up his those with thee? And he said, The children eyes, and saw the vant. which God hath graciously given thy ser 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. I will appease him with the present that they and their children, and they bowed For he said, 6 Then the handmaidens came near, goeth before me, and afterward I will see themselves. His face; peradventure he will accept ofme. 21 So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the com His kind meeting with Esat. 31 And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell I pray thee, thy name: And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. me, pany. 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-ser- this drove which I met? And he said, vants, and his eleven sons, and passed ever the ford Jabbok. These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my 23 And he took them, and 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 breaking of the day. if now I have found grace in thy sight, then 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, receive my present at my hand: for thereseen the face of God, and thou wast pleasfore I have seen thy face, as though I had 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of ed with me. his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. is brought to thee; because God hath 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day dealt graciously with me, and because I breaketh: And he said, I will not let thee have enough: and he urged him, and he go, except thou bless me. took it. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. near, and bowed themselves; and after 7 And Leah also with her children came came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 12 And he said, Let us take our jour ney, and let us go, and I will go before thee. eth that the children are tender, and the before his servant and I will lead on 30 |