8 And Rachel said, With † great wrestlings have I lings of wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and God. she called his name || Naphtali. That is, 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 Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name || Gad.

My wrestling. a Called, Matth.

4. 13.

Nephthalim. cir. 1749.

That is,

12 And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, +Happy am I, for the daughters cir. 1748. will call me blessed and she called his name || Asher. 14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat-harA troop, vest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought pany. them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to cir. 1747. Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

or, com.

+ Heb.

In my

happi

ness.

15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Happy. Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's cir. 1748. mandrakes.

That is,

cir. 1747.

16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband and That is, she called his name || Issachar.

An hire. cir. 1746.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his That is, name Zebulun. Dwell

ing.

21 Änd afterwards she bare a daughter, and called b Called, her name || Dinah.

Matth.

4. 18.

22 ¶ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearZabulon, kened to her, and opened her womb.

cir. 1745.

23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, That is, God hath taken away my reproach: Judg

ment.

24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, cir. 1745. The LORD shall add to me another son. That is, 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Adding Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that

I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy

sake.

28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

33 So shall my righteousness answer for me tin † Heb. time to come, when it shall come for hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-straked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his 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 green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and pilled white strakes 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 watering-troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-straked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-straked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he 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.

1 Jacob, upon displeasure, departeth secretly. 19 Rachel stealeth her father's images: 22 Laban pursueth after Jacob, and complaineth of the wrong. 34 Rachel's policy to hide the images. 36 Jacob's complaint of Laban. 43 The covenant of Laban and Jacob at Galeed. AND he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 1739. 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.

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 hath 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 God suffered him not to hurt me.

8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-straked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-straked.

9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10 And it came to pass, at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a Or, dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon he-goats. the cattle were ring-straked, speckled, and grisled.

a Chap.

28. 18

11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob. And I said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-straked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

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 out 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?

15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our

16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

17¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

16 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel He had stolen the + images that were her father's. Leraphim 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the the heart Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

+Heb.

Rachel's policy to hide the images.

25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob Before had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with CHRIST his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

f

1739.

+ Heb.

27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that hast I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with stolen songs, with tabret, and with harp?

28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast 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.

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.

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.

35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

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?

me.

+ Hep felt.

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.

b

from

and passed over the river, and set his face toward the

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.

Heb. 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.

good to

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 thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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

22.12

Before seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and 170 rebuked thee yesternight.

CHRIST

1739.

That is, Theheap of wit

ness.

That is,

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 day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones: and they took stones, and made an heap; and theydid eat there upon the heap.

47 And Laban called it || Jegar-sahadutha; 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 Abeacon, between me and thee, when we are absent one from

or,

another.

50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is 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 pass over 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. 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 blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. CHAP. XXXII.

1 Jacob's vision at Mahanaim: 3 his message to Esau: 6 he is afraid of Esau's coming: 9 he prayeth for his deliverance: 13 he sendeth a present to Esau: 24 he wrestleth with an angel at Peniel, where he is called Israel: 31 he halteth upon his thigh. AND Jacob went on his way, and the angels of

God met him.

2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's That is, host: and he called the name of that place || Mahanaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau camps. his brother, unto the land of Seir, the † country of + Heb. Edom. field.

hosts, or,

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:

5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and women-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

6

Jacob sendeth a present to Esau.

CHRIST 1739.

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, Before We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company; and smite it, then the other company which is left shall 9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kin- 31. 13. dred, and I will deal well with thee:

escape.

+ Heb.

10 +I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, am less and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy than all, servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, &c. and now I am become two bands.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the + Heb. children.

12 And thou sáidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy 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 ewes 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 unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

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 of me,

upon.

+ Heb.

21 So went the present over before him; and him- my face. self 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 sent them over the + Heb. brook, and sent over that he had.

caused to pass.

+ Heb. ascend

24 And Jacob was left alone: and there wrestled a man with him until the + breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against ing of the him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the morning hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrest led with him,

Jacob's name changed:

Before CHRIST

CHRIST 1739,

b Hosea 12. 4.

c Chap.

35. 10.

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 me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. That is, 30 And Jacob called the name of the place || Peniel: The face for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preof God. served.

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. CHAP. XXXIII.

1 The kindness of Jacob and Esau at their meeting. 17 Jacob cometh to Succoth: 18 at Shalem he buyeth a field, buildeth an altar, and calleth it El-elohe-Israel. AND

ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four 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 bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and. saw the women +Heb. and the children, and said, Who are those with o thee? thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

+ Heb.

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.

What is 8 And he said, +What meanest thou by all this drove all this which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in band to the sight of my lord.

thee 2

+ Heb. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; +keep be that to that thou hast unto thyself.

thee that 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I is thine, have found grace in thy sight, then receive my pre

sent at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

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

accord

work,&c.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead on softly, according † as the t cattle that goeth before me and the children be able ing to the to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. foot of the 15 And Esau said, Let me now + leave with thee and ac some of the folk that are with me., And he said, cording to thefoot +What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of of the my lord.

16 So Esau returned that day on his

Seir.

children. + Heb. set, or,

place.

way unto 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built + Heb. him an house, and made booths for his cattle: there- fore is fore the name of the place is called || Succoth.

Where

this?

That is,

Booths. || Called,

18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of || Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram, and pitched his tent before the city. Acts 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had 7. 16. Sychem. spread his tent, at the hand of the children of || Called, Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred || pieces Acts of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and called it elohe-Israel.

CHAP. XXXIV.

7. 16.
Emmor.

El-Or,

lumbs.

That is, God the

1 Dinah is defiled by Shechem: 4 he sueth to marry her. God of 13 The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision Israel. to the

them tochemites: 20 Hamor and Shechem persuade

them to accept it. 25 The sons of Jacob, taking advantage thereof, slay them, and spoil their city. 30 Jacob reproveth Simeon and Levi.

AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare cir. 1792. unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the

land.

4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his

daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob, held 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, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

1

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 us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you,

10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

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.

t

to her

heart.

The sons of Jacob slay the Shechemites.

CHRIST

Before 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I cir. 1782. will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.

49. 5.

13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, (because he had defiled Dinah their sister :)

14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach 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 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 their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

a

25¶ And it came to pass on the third day, when they a Chap. 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 Heb. with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

mouth.

27 The sons of Jacob came upon 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.

God blesseth Jacob at Beth-el.

CHAP. XXXV.

Before CHRIST

1 God sendeth Jacob to Beth-el: 6 he buildeth an altar at cir. 1732 Beth-el. 8 Deborah dieth. 9 Jacob blessed at Beth-el. 16 Rachel travaileth of Benjamin, and dieth, in the way to Ephrath. 23 The sons of Jacob. 27 Jacob cometh to Isaac at Hebron. 28 Isaac's age, death, and burial. AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el,

and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest a Chap. from the face of Esau thy brother.

2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their ear-rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, (that is, Beth-el) he, and all the people that were with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared unto him,

b

when he fled from the face of his brother.

27. 43,

That is of Beth8 ¶ But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she cl was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the b Chap. name of it was called || Allon-bachuth. That is,

9

28, 13.

oak of weeping.

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he The came out of 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, I 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:

12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked 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.

c Chap. 22 32.28.

+ Heb.

a little

piece of ground. cir. 1729. That is, The son of my

sorrow.

18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died,) that she called his name || Ben-oni; That is, but his father called him || Benjamin.

The son

19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to right Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.ne

of the

hand.