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Kejadian 17:1--32:32

The Sign of the Covenant

17:1 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless. 17:2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

17:3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him, 10  17:4 “As for me, 11  this 12  is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 17:5 No longer will your name be 13  Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham 14  because I will make you 15  the father of a multitude of nations. 17:6 I will make you 16  extremely 17  fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. 18  17:7 I will confirm 19  my covenant as a perpetual 20  covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 21  17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing 22  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent 23  possession. I will be their God.”

17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep 24  the covenantal requirement 25  I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: 26  Every male among you must be circumcised. 27  17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder 28  of the covenant between me and you. 17:12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old 29  must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants. 17:13 They must indeed be circumcised, 30  whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant 31  will be visible in your flesh as a permanent 32  reminder. 17:14 Any uncircumcised male 33  who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off 34  from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.” 35 

17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; 36  Sarah 37  will be her name. 17:16 I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. 38  Kings of countries 39  will come from her!”

17:17 Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed 40  as he said to himself, 41  “Can 42  a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? 43  Can Sarah 44  bear a child at the age of ninety?” 45  17:18 Abraham said to God, “O that 46  Ishmael might live before you!” 47 

17:19 God said, “No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. 48  I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual 49  covenant for his descendants after him. 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. 50  I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. 51  He will become the father of twelve princes; 52  I will make him into a great nation. 17:21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.” 17:22 When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. 53 

17:23 Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) 54  and circumcised them 55  on that very same day, just as God had told him to do. 17:24 Now Abraham was 99 years old 56  when he was circumcised; 57  17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old 58  when he was circumcised. 17:26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day. 17:27 All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Three Special Visitors

18:1 The Lord appeared to Abraham 59  by the oaks 60  of Mamre while 61  he was sitting at the entrance 62  to his tent during the hottest time of the day. 18:2 Abraham 63  looked up 64  and saw 65  three men standing across 66  from him. When he saw them 67  he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low 68  to the ground. 69 

18:3 He said, “My lord, 70  if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant. 71  18:4 Let a little water be brought so that 72  you may all 73  wash your feet and rest under the tree. 18:5 And let me get 74  a bit of food 75  so that you may refresh yourselves 76  since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” 77  “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.”

18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take 78  three measures 79  of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” 80  18:7 Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant, 81  who quickly prepared it. 82  18:8 Abraham 83  then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food 84  before them. They ate while 85  he was standing near them under a tree.

18:9 Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, 86  in the tent.” 18:10 One of them 87  said, “I will surely return 88  to you when the season comes round again, 89  and your wife Sarah will have a son!” 90  (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him. 91  18:11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; 92  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 93  18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, 94  “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, 95  especially when my husband is old too?” 96 

18:13 The Lord said to Abraham, “Why 97  did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really 98  have a child when I am old?’ 18:14 Is anything impossible 99  for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.” 100  18:15 Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.” 101 

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

18:16 When the men got up to leave, 102  they looked out over 103  Sodom. (Now 104  Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.) 105  18:17 Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 106  18:18 After all, Abraham 107  will surely become 108  a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 109  using his name. 18:19 I have chosen him 110  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep 111  the way of the Lord by doing 112  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give 113  to Abraham what he promised 114  him.”

18:20 So the Lord said, “The outcry against 115  Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant 116  18:21 that I must go down 117  and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. 118  If not, 119  I want to know.”

18:22 The two men turned 120  and headed 121  toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord. 122  18:23 Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked? 18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare 123  the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it? 18:25 Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge 124  of the whole earth do what is right?” 125 

18:26 So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

18:27 Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord 126  (although I am but dust and ashes), 127  18:28 what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy 128  the whole city because five are lacking?” 129  He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

18:29 Abraham 130  spoke to him again, 131  “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

18:30 Then Abraham 132  said, “May the Lord not be angry 133  so that I may speak! 134  What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

18:31 Abraham 135  said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

18:32 Finally Abraham 136  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

18:33 The Lord went on his way 137  when he had finished speaking 138  to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home. 139 

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while 140  Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. 141  When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

19:2 He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night 142  and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” 143  “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” 144 

19:3 But he urged 145  them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate. 19:4 Before they could lie down to sleep, 146  all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. 147  19:5 They shouted to Lot, 148  “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex 149  with them!”

19:6 Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him. 19:7 He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly! 150  19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with 151  a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. 152  Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection 153  of my roof.” 154 

19:9 “Out of our way!” 155  they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, 156  and now he dares to judge us! 157  We’ll do more harm 158  to you than to them!” They kept 159  pressing in on Lot until they were close enough 160  to break down the door.

19:10 So the men inside 161  reached out 162  and pulled Lot back into the house 163  as they shut the door. 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, 164  with blindness. The men outside 165  wore themselves out trying to find the door. 19:12 Then the two visitors 166  said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? 167  Do you have 168  any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? 169  Get them out of this 170  place 19:13 because we are about to destroy 171  it. The outcry against this place 172  is so great before the Lord that he 173  has sent us to destroy it.”

19:14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. 174  He said, “Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy 175  the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them. 176 

19:15 At dawn 177  the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, 178  or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” 179  19:16 When Lot 180  hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. 181  They led them away and placed them 182  outside the city. 19:17 When they had brought them outside, they 183  said, “Run 184  for your lives! Don’t look 185  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! 186  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord! 187  19:19 Your 188  servant has found favor with you, 189  and you have shown me great 190  kindness 191  by sparing 192  my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because 193  this disaster will overtake 194  me and I’ll die. 195  19:20 Look, this town 196  over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. 197  Let me go there. 198  It’s just a little place, isn’t it? 199  Then I’ll survive.” 200 

19:21 “Very well,” he replied, 201  “I will grant this request too 202  and will not overthrow 203  the town you mentioned. 19:22 Run there quickly, 204  for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.) 205 

19:23 The sun had just risen 206  over the land as Lot reached Zoar. 207  19:24 Then the Lord rained down 208  sulfur and fire 209  on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord. 210  19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, 211  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew 212  from the ground. 19:26 But Lot’s 213  wife looked back longingly 214  and was turned into a pillar of salt.

19:27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went 215  to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 19:28 He looked out toward 216  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. 217  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. 218 

19:29 So when God destroyed 219  the cities of the region, 220  God honored 221  Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 222  from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 223  the cities Lot had lived in.

19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 19:31 Later the older daughter said 224  to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby 225  to have sexual relations with us, 226  according to the way of all the world. 19:32 Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine 227  so we can have sexual relations 228  with him and preserve 229  our family line through our father.” 230 

19:33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, 231  and the older daughter 232  came and had sexual relations with her father. 233  But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 234  19:34 So in the morning the older daughter 235  said to the younger, “Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. 236  Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” 237  19:35 So they made their father drunk 238  that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. 239  But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 240 

19:36 In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 19:37 The older daughter 241  gave birth to a son and named him Moab. 242  He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today. 19:38 The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. 243  He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Abraham and Abimelech

20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev 244  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident 245  in Gerar, 20:2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

20:3 But God appeared 246  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead 247  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” 248 

20:4 Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, 249  would you really slaughter an innocent nation? 250  20:5 Did Abraham 251  not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, 252  ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience 253  and with innocent hands!”

20:6 Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. 254  That is why I have kept you 255  from sinning against me and why 256  I did not allow you to touch her. 20:7 But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed 257  he is a prophet 258  and he will pray for you; thus you will live. 259  But if you don’t give her back, 260  know that you will surely die 261  along with all who belong to you.”

20:8 Early in the morning 262  Abimelech summoned 263  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, 264  they 265  were terrified. 20:9 Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? 266  You have done things to me that should not be done!” 267  20:10 Then Abimelech asked 268  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” 269 

20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, 270  ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of 271  my wife.’ 20:12 What’s more, 272  she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife. 20:13 When God made me wander 273  from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: 274  Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

20:14 So Abimelech gave 275  sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him. 20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” 276 

20:16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver 277  to your ‘brother.’ 278  This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.” 279 

20:17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children. 20:18 For the Lord 280  had caused infertility to strike every woman 281  in the household of Abimelech because he took 282  Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

The Birth of Isaac

21:1 The Lord visited 283  Sarah just as he had said he would and did 284  for Sarah what he had promised. 285  21:2 So Sarah became pregnant 286  and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. 21:3 Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. 287  21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, 288  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. 289  21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) 290 

21:6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. 291  Everyone who hears about this 292  will laugh 293  with me.” 21:7 She went on to say, 294  “Who would 295  have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

21:8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared 296  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 297  21:9 But Sarah noticed 298  the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. 299  21:10 So she said to Abraham, “Banish 300  that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. 301  21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset 302  about the boy or your slave wife. Do 303  all that Sarah is telling 304  you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. 305  21:13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took 306  some food 307  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, 308  and sent her away. So she went wandering 309  aimlessly through the wilderness 310  of Beer Sheba. 21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved 311  the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot 312  away; for she thought, 313  “I refuse to watch the child die.” 314  So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. 315 

21:17 But God heard the boy’s voice. 316  The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, 317  Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard 318  the boy’s voice right where he is crying. 21:18 Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” 21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. 319  She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

21:20 God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. 320  His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. 321 

21:22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you 322  in all that you do. 21:23 Now swear to me right here in God’s name 323  that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. 324  Show me, and the land 325  where you are staying, 326  the same loyalty 327  that I have shown you.” 328 

21:24 Abraham said, “I swear to do this.” 329  21:25 But Abraham lodged a complaint 330  against Abimelech concerning a well 331  that Abimelech’s servants had seized. 332  21:26 “I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, 333  you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”

21:27 Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. 334  21:28 Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves. 21:29 Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these 335  seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” 21:30 He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof 336  that I dug this well.” 337  21:31 That is why he named that place 338  Beer Sheba, 339  because the two of them swore 340  an oath there.

21:32 So they made a treaty 341  at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned 342  to the land of the Philistines. 343  21:33 Abraham 344  planted a tamarisk tree 345  in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, 346  the eternal God. 21:34 So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time. 347 

The Sacrifice of Isaac

22:1 Some time after these things God tested 348  Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham 349  replied. 22:2 God 350  said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac 351  – and go to the land of Moriah! 352  Offer him up there as a burnt offering 353  on one of the mountains which I will indicate to 354  you.”

22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. 355  He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out 356  for the place God had spoken to him about.

22:4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of 357  the place in the distance. 22:5 So he 358  said to his servants, “You two stay 359  here with the donkey while 360  the boy and I go up there. We will worship 361  and then return to you.” 362 

22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, 363  and the two of them walked on together. 22:7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, 364  “My father?” “What is it, 365  my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, 366  “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 22:8 “God will provide 367  for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

22:9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there 368  and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up 369  his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter 370  his son. 22:11 But the Lord’s angel 371  called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. 22:12 “Do not harm the boy!” 372  the angel said. 373  “Do not do anything to him, for now I know 374  that you fear 375  God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”

22:13 Abraham looked up 376  and saw 377  behind him 378  a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he 379  went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” 380  It is said to this day, 381  “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” 382 

22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ 383  decrees the Lord, 384  ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 I will indeed bless you, 385  and I will greatly multiply 386  your descendants 387  so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession 388  of the strongholds 389  of their enemies. 22:18 Because you have obeyed me, 390  all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 391  using the name of your descendants.’”

22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together 392  for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. 393 

22:20 After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah 394  also has borne children to your brother Nahor – 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 395  22:22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 22:23 (Now 396  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor. 22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children – Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 397  23:2 Then she 398  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 399 

23:3 Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife 400  and said to the sons of Heth, 401  23:4 “I am a temporary settler 402  among you. Grant 403  me ownership 404  of a burial site among you so that I may 405  bury my dead.” 406 

23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, 407  23:6 “Listen, sir, 408  you are a mighty prince 409  among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you 410  from burying your dead.”

23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, 411  the sons of Heth. 23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree 412  that I may bury my dead, 413  then hear me out. 414  Ask 415  Ephron the son of Zohar 23:9 if he will sell 416  me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly 417  for the full price, 418  so that I may own it as a burial site.”

23:10 (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite 419  replied to Abraham in the hearing 420  of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate 421  of his city – 23:11 “No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell 422  you both the field and the cave that is in it. 423  In the presence of my people 424  I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”

23:12 Abraham bowed before the local people 23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 425  to you the price 426  of the field. Take it from me so that I may 427  bury my dead there.”

23:14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 428  400 pieces of silver, 429  but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price 430  and weighed 431  out for him 432  the price 433  that Ephron had quoted 434  in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. 435 

23:17 So Abraham secured 436  Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border, 23:18 as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city. 437 

23:19 After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 23:20 So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site 438  from the sons of Heth.

The Wife for Isaac

24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, 439  and the Lord had blessed him 440  in everything. 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the senior one 441  in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh 442  24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise 443  by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 444  a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living. 24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 445  to find 446  a wife for my son Isaac.”

24:5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is not willing to come back with me 447  to this land? Must I then 448  take your son back to the land from which you came?”

24:6 “Be careful 449  never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him. 450  24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, 451  promised me with a solemn oath, 452  ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel 453  before you so that you may find 454  a wife for my son from there. 24:8 But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, 455  you will be free 456  from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!” 24:9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes. 457 

24:10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. 458  He journeyed 459  to the region of Aram Naharaim 460  and the city of Nahor. 24:11 He made the camels kneel down by the well 461  outside the city. It was evening, 462  the time when the women would go out to draw water. 24:12 He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. 463  Be faithful 464  to my master Abraham. 24:13 Here I am, standing by the spring, 465  and the daughters of the people 466  who live in the town are coming out to draw water. 24:14 I will say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ 467  In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.” 468 

24:15 Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah 469  with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor). 470  24:16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. 471  She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up. 24:17 Abraham’s servant 472  ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.” 24:18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering 473  her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink. 24:19 When she had done so, 474  she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.” 24:20 She quickly emptied 475  her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels. 24:21 Silently the man watched her with interest to determine 476  if the Lord had made his journey successful 477  or not.

24:22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka 478  and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels 479  and gave them to her. 480  24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. 481  “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

24:24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor. 482  24:25 We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, 483  “and room for you 484  to spend the night.”

24:26 The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord, 24:27 saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love 485  for my master! The Lord has led me 486  to the house 487  of my master’s relatives!” 488 

24:28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about 489  these things. 24:29 (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) 490  Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring. 24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring 491  and heard his sister Rebekah say, 492  “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing 493  by the camels near the spring. 24:31 Laban said to him, 494  “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! 495  Why are you standing out here when I have prepared 496  the house and a place for the camels?”

24:32 So Abraham’s servant 497  went to the house and unloaded 498  the camels. Straw and feed were given 499  to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. 500  24:33 When food was served, 501  he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” 502  “Tell us,” Laban said. 503 

24:34 “I am the servant of Abraham,” he began. 24:35 “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. 504  The Lord 505  has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. 24:36 My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him 506  when she was old, 507  and my master 508  has given him everything he owns. 24:37 My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 24:38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find 509  a wife for my son.’ 24:39 But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go 510  with me?’ 511  24:40 He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, 512  will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family. 24:41 You will be free from your oath 513  if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’ 24:42 When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, 514  may events unfold as follows: 515  24:43 Here I am, standing by the spring. 516  When 517  the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.” 24:44 Then she will reply to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’

24:45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, 518  along came Rebekah 519  with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ 24:46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water. 24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ 520  I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. 24:48 Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter 521  of my master’s brother for his son. 24:49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.” 522 

24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. 523  Our wishes are of no concern. 524  24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become 525  the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” 526 

24:52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord. 24:53 Then he 527  brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother. 24:54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. 528 

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.” 529  24:55 But Rebekah’s 530  brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.” 24:56 But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord 531  has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return 532  to my master.” 24:57 Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.” 533  24:58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want 534  to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men. 24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: 535 

“Our sister, may you become the mother 536  of thousands of ten thousands!

May your descendants possess the strongholds 537  of their enemies.”

24:61 Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with 538  the man. So Abraham’s servant 539  took Rebekah and left.

24:62 Now 540  Isaac came from 541  Beer Lahai Roi, 542  for 543  he was living in the Negev. 544  24:63 He 545  went out to relax 546  in the field in the early evening. 547  Then he looked up 548  and saw that 549  there were camels approaching. 24:64 Rebekah looked up 550  and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 24:65 and asked 551  Abraham’s servant, 552  “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “That is my master,” the servant replied. 553  So she took her veil and covered herself.

24:66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened. 24:67 Then Isaac brought Rebekah 554  into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her 555  as his wife and loved her. 556  So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. 557 

The Death of Abraham

25:1 Abraham had taken 558  another 559  wife, named Keturah. 25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. 560  The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites. 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants 561  of Keturah.

25:5 Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac. 25:6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines 562  and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac. 563 

25:7 Abraham lived a total of 564  175 years. 25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. 565  He joined his ancestors. 566  25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah 567  near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite. 25:10 This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. 568  There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 25:11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed 569  his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi. 570 

The Sons of Ishmael

25:12 This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, 571  whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

25:13 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: 572  Nebaioth (Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes 573  according to their clans.

25:17 Ishmael lived a total of 574  137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors. 575  25:18 His descendants 576  settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next 577  to Egypt all the way 578  to Asshur. 579  They settled 580  away from all their relatives. 581 

Jacob and Esau

25:19 This is the account of Isaac, 582  the son of Abraham.

Abraham became the father of Isaac. 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, 583  the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 584 

25:21 Isaac prayed to 585  the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 25:22 But the children struggled 586  inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” 587  So she asked the Lord, 588  25:23 and the Lord said to her,

“Two nations 589  are in your womb,

and two peoples will be separated from within you.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.”

25:24 When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, 590  there were 591  twins in her womb. 25:25 The first came out reddish 592  all over, 593  like a hairy 594  garment, so they named him Esau. 595  25:26 When his brother came out with 596  his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. 597  Isaac was sixty years old 598  when they were born.

25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled 599  hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents. 600  25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, 601  but Rebekah loved 602  Jacob.

25:29 Now Jacob cooked some stew, 603  and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished. 25:30 So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed 604  me some of the red stuff – yes, this red stuff – because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called 605  Edom.) 606 

25:31 But Jacob replied, “First 607  sell me your birthright.” 25:32 “Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?” 608  25:33 But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” 609  So Esau 610  swore an oath to him and sold his birthright 611  to Jacob.

25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. 612  So Esau despised his birthright. 613 

Isaac and Abimelech

26:1 There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred 614  in the days of Abraham. 615  Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar. 26:2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; 616  settle down in the land that I will point out to you. 617  26:3 Stay 618  in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, 619  for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, 620  and I will fulfill 621  the solemn promise I made 622  to your father Abraham. 26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them 623  all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. 624  26:5 All this will come to pass 625  because Abraham obeyed me 626  and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” 627  26:6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.

26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” 628  He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, 629  “The men of this place will kill me to get 630  Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

26:8 After Isaac 631  had been there a long time, 632  Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed 633  Isaac caressing 634  his wife Rebekah. 26:9 So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really 635  your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.” 636 

26:10 Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? 637  One of the men 638  might easily have had sexual relations with 639  your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!” 26:11 So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches 640  this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” 641 

26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, 642  because the Lord blessed him. 643  26:13 The man became wealthy. 644  His influence continued to grow 645  until he became very prominent. 26:14 He had 646  so many sheep 647  and cattle 648  and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous 649  of him. 26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up 650  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

26:16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, 651  for you have become much more powerful 652  than we are.” 26:17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley. 653  26:18 Isaac reopened 654  the wells that had been dug 655  back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up 656  after Abraham died. Isaac 657  gave these wells 658  the same names his father had given them. 659 

26:19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing 660  water there, 26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled 661  with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac 662  named the well 663  Esek 664  because they argued with him about it. 665  26:21 His servants 666  dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it 667  Sitnah. 668  26:22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac 669  named it 670  Rehoboth, 671  saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

26:23 From there Isaac 672  went up to Beer Sheba. 26:24 The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.” 26:25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped 673  the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well. 674 

26:26 Now Abimelech had come 675  to him from Gerar along with 676  Ahuzzah his friend 677  and Phicol the commander of his army. 26:27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me 678  and sent me away from you.” 26:28 They replied, “We could plainly see 679  that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be 680  a pact between us 681  – between us 682  and you. Allow us to make 683  a treaty with you 26:29 so that 684  you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed 685  you, but have always treated you well 686  before sending you away 687  in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.” 688 

26:30 So Isaac 689  held a feast for them and they celebrated. 690  26:31 Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. 691  Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms. 692 

26:32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported. 693  26:33 So he named it Shibah; 694  that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba 695  to this day.

26:34 When 696  Esau was forty years old, 697  he married 698  Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 26:35 They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety. 699 

Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing

27:1 When 700  Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, 701  he called his older 702  son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau 703  replied. 27:2 Isaac 704  said, “Since 705  I am so old, I could die at any time. 706  27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game 707  for me. 27:4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then 708  I will eat it so that I may bless you 709  before I die.”

27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 710  When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, 711  27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, 27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat 712  it and bless you 713  in the presence of the Lord 714  before I die.’ 27:8 Now then, my son, do 715  exactly what I tell you! 716  27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare 717  them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take 718  it to your father. Thus he will eat it 719  and 720  bless you before he dies.”

27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! 721  27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him 722  and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, 723  my son! Just obey me! 724  Go and get them for me!”

27:14 So he went and got the goats 725  and brought them to his mother. She 726  prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. 27:15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. 27:16 She put the skins of the young goats 727  on his hands 728  and the smooth part of his neck. 27:17 Then she handed 729  the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

27:18 He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac 730  replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?” 731  27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up 732  and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” 733  27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world 734  did you find it so quickly, 735  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” 736  he replied. 737  27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, 738  my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” 739  27:22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.” 27:23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob. 740  27:24 Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob 741  replied. 27:25 Isaac 742  said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. 743  Then I will bless you.” 744  So Jacob 745  brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac 746  drank. 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.” 27:27 So Jacob 747  went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent 748  of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,

“Yes, 749  my son smells

like the scent of an open field

which the Lord has blessed.

27:28 May God give you

the dew of the sky 750 

and the richness 751  of the earth,

and plenty of grain and new wine.

27:29 May peoples serve you

and nations bow down to you.

You will be 752  lord 753  over your brothers,

and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. 754 

May those who curse you be cursed,

and those who bless you be blessed.”

27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left 755  his father’s 756  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 757  27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau 758  said to him, “My father, get up 759  and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” 760  27:32 His father Isaac asked, 761  “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” 762  he replied, “Esau!” 27:33 Isaac began to shake violently 763  and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. 764  He will indeed be blessed!”

27:34 When Esau heard 765  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. 766  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!” 27:35 But Isaac 767  replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away 768  your blessing.” 27:36 Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! 769  He has tripped me up 770  two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

27:37 Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” 771  Then Esau wept loudly. 772 

27:39 So his father Isaac said to him,

“Indeed, 773  your home will be

away from the richness 774  of the earth,

and away from the dew of the sky above.

27:40 You will live by your sword

but you will serve your brother.

When you grow restless,

you will tear off his yoke

from your neck.” 775 

27:41 So Esau hated 776  Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. 777  Esau said privately, 778  “The time 779  of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill 780  my brother Jacob!”

27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, 781  she quickly summoned 782  her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. 783  27:43 Now then, my son, do what I say. 784  Run away immediately 785  to my brother Laban in Haran. 27:44 Live with him for a little while 786  until your brother’s rage subsides. 27:45 Stay there 787  until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. 788  Why should I lose both of you in one day?” 789 

27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed 790  because of these daughters of Heth. 791  If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!” 792 

28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman! 793  28:2 Leave immediately 794  for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 28:3 May the sovereign God 795  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! 796  Then you will become 797  a large nation. 798  28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham 799  so that you may possess the land 800  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” 801  28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 802  As he blessed him, 803  Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 804  28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram. 28:8 Then Esau realized 805  that the Canaanite women 806  were displeasing to 807  his father Isaac. 28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married 808  Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.

Jacob’s Dream at Bethel

28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran. 28:11 He reached a certain place 809  where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. 810  He took one of the stones 811  and placed it near his head. 812  Then he fell asleep 813  in that place 28:12 and had a dream. 814  He saw 815  a stairway 816  erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it 28:13 and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. 817  I will give you and your descendants the ground 818  you are lying on. 28:14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, 819  and you will spread out 820  to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 821  using your name and that of your descendants. 822  28:15 I am with you! 823  I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

28:16 Then Jacob woke up 824  and thought, 825  “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 28:17 He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

28:18 Early 826  in the morning Jacob 827  took the stone he had placed near his head 828  and set it up as a sacred stone. 829  Then he poured oil on top of it. 28:19 He called that place Bethel, 830  although the former name of the town was Luz. 28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food 831  to eat and clothing to wear, 28:21 and I return safely to my father’s home, 832  then the Lord will become my God. 28:22 Then this stone 833  that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely 834  give you back a tenth of everything you give me.” 835 

The Marriages of Jacob

29:1 So Jacob moved on 836  and came to the land of the eastern people. 837  29:2 He saw 838  in the field a well with 839  three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now 840  a large stone covered the mouth of the well. 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds 841  would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

29:4 Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.” 29:5 So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson 842  of Nahor?” “We know him,” 843  they said. 29:6 “Is he well?” 844  Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. 845  Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” 29:7 Then Jacob 846  said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, 847  it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.” 848  29:8 “We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water 849  the sheep.”

29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them. 850  29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, 851  and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he 852  went over 853  and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. 854  29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. 855  29:12 When Jacob explained 856  to Rachel that he was a relative of her father 857  and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father. 29:13 When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob 858  told Laban how he was related to him. 859  29:14 Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” 860  So Jacob 861  stayed with him for a month. 862 

29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work 863  for me for nothing because you are my relative? 864  Tell me what your wages should be.” 29:16 (Now Laban had two daughters; 865  the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel. 29:17 Leah’s eyes were tender, 866  but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) 867  29:18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with 868  Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.” 29:19 Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. 869  Stay with me.” 29:20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. 870  But they seemed like only a few days to him 871  because his love for her was so great. 872 

29:21 Finally Jacob said 873  to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. 874  I want to have marital relations with her.” 875  29:22 So Laban invited all the people 876  of that place and prepared a feast. 29:23 In the evening he brought his daughter Leah 877  to Jacob, 878  and Jacob 879  had marital relations with her. 880  29:24 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 881 

29:25 In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! 882  So Jacob 883  said to Laban, “What in the world have you done to me! 884  Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked 885  me?” 29:26 “It is not our custom here,” 886  Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage 887  before the firstborn. 29:27 Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. 888  Then we will give you the younger one 889  too, in exchange for seven more years of work.” 890 

29:28 Jacob did as Laban said. 891  When Jacob 892  completed Leah’s bridal week, 893  Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 894  29:29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 895  29:30 Jacob 896  had marital relations 897  with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban 898  for seven more years. 899 

The Family of Jacob

29:31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, 900  he enabled her to become pregnant 901  while Rachel remained childless. 29:32 So Leah became pregnant 902  and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, 903  for she said, “The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. 904  Surely my husband will love me now.”

29:33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, 905  he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon. 906 

29:34 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Now this time my husband will show me affection, 907  because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi. 908 

29:35 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” That is why she named him Judah. 909  Then she stopped having children.

30:1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she 910  became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children 911  or I’ll die!” 30:2 Jacob became furious 912  with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” 913  30:3 She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with 914  her so that she can bear 915  children 916  for me 917  and I can have a family through her.” 918 

30:4 So Rachel 919  gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with 920  her. 30:5 Bilhah became pregnant 921  and gave Jacob a son. 922  30:6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer 923  and given me a son.” That is why 924  she named him Dan. 925 

30:7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son. 926  30:8 Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” 927  So she named him Naphtali. 928 

30:9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave 929  her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 30:10 Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son. 930  30:11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” 931  So she named him Gad. 932 

30:12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son. 933  30:13 Leah said, “How happy I am, 934  for women 935  will call me happy!” So she named him Asher. 936 

30:14 At the time 937  of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants 938  in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 30:15 But Leah replied, 939  “Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,” 940  Rachel said, “he may sleep 941  with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.” 30:16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep 942  with me because I have paid for your services 943  with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had marital relations 944  with her that night. 30:17 God paid attention 945  to Leah; she became pregnant 946  and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time. 947  30:18 Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward 948  because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” 949  So she named him Issachar. 950 

30:19 Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time. 951  30:20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun. 952 

30:21 After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

30:22 Then God took note of 953  Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. 954  30:23 She became pregnant 955  and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.” 956  30:24 She named him Joseph, 957  saying, “May the Lord give me yet another son.”

The Flocks of Jacob

30:25 After Rachel had given birth 958  to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send 959  me on my way so that I can go 960  home to my own country. 961  30:26 Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. 962  Then I’ll depart, 963  because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.” 964 

30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, 965  for I have learned by divination 966  that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.” 30:28 He added, “Just name your wages – I’ll pay whatever you want.” 967 

30:29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, 968  “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. 969  30:30 Indeed, 970  you had little before I arrived, 971  but now your possessions have increased many times over. 972  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. 973  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 974 

30:31 So Laban asked, 975  “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” 976  Jacob replied, 977  “but if you agree to this one condition, 978  I will continue to care for 979  your flocks and protect them: 30:32 Let me walk among 980  all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, 981  and the spotted or speckled goats. 982  These animals will be my wages. 983  30:33 My integrity will testify for me 984  later on. 985  When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, 986  if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.” 987  30:34 “Agreed!” said Laban, “It will be as you say.” 988 

30:35 So that day Laban 989  removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care 990  of his sons. 30:36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, 991  while 992  Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

30:37 But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible. 30:38 Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink. 993  30:39 When the sheep mated 994  in front of the branches, they 995  gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. 30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face 996  the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks. 30:41 When the stronger females were in heat, 997  Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches. 30:42 But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. 998  So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban 999  and the stronger animals to Jacob. 30:43 In this way Jacob 1000  became extremely prosperous. He owned 1001  large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

Jacob’s Flight from Laban

31:1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, 1002  “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich 1003  at our father’s expense!” 1004  31:2 When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed. 1005 

31:3 The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers 1006  and to your relatives. I will be with you.” 1007  31:4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah 1008  to come to the field 1009  where his flocks were. 1010  31:5 There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, 1011  but the God of my father has been with me. 31:6 You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could, 1012  31:7 but your father has humiliated 1013  me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm. 31:8 If he said, 1014  ‘The speckled animals 1015  will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring. 31:9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

31:10 “Once 1016  during breeding season I saw 1017  in a dream that the male goats mating with 1018  the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted. 31:11 In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied. 31:12 Then he said, ‘Observe 1019  that all the male goats mating with 1020  the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you. 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, 1021  where you anointed 1022  the sacred stone and made a vow to me. 1023  Now leave this land immediately 1024  and return to your native land.’”

31:14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance 1025  in our father’s house? 31:15 Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted 1026  the money paid for us! 1027  31:16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

31:17 So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels. 1028  31:18 He took 1029  away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac. 1030 

31:19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, 1031  Rachel stole the household idols 1032  that belonged to her father. 31:20 Jacob also deceived 1033  Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving. 1034  31:21 He left 1035  with all he owned. He quickly crossed 1036  the Euphrates River 1037  and headed for 1038  the hill country of Gilead.

31:22 Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left. 1039  31:23 So he took his relatives 1040  with him and pursued Jacob 1041  for seven days. 1042  He caught up with 1043  him in the hill country of Gilead. 31:24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, 1044  “Be careful 1045  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.” 1046 

31:25 Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too. 1047  31:26 “What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob. “You’ve deceived me 1048  and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war! 1049  31:27 Why did you run away secretly 1050  and deceive me? 1051  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? 1052  31:28 You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren 1053  good-bye. You have acted foolishly! 31:29 I have 1054  the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful 1055  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’ 1056  31:30 Now I understand that 1057  you have gone away 1058  because you longed desperately 1059  for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?” 1060 

31:31 “I left secretly because I was afraid!” 1061  Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought 1062  you might take your daughters away from me by force. 1063  31:32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! 1064  In the presence of our relatives 1065  identify whatever is yours and take it.” 1066  (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.) 1067 

31:33 So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. 1068  Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s. 1069  31:34 (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle 1070  and sat on them.) 1071  Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them. 1072  31:35 Rachel 1073  said to her father, “Don’t be angry, 1074  my lord. I cannot stand up 1075  in your presence because I am having my period.” 1076  So he searched thoroughly, 1077  but did not find the idols.

31:36 Jacob became angry 1078  and argued with Laban. “What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban. 1079  “What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit? 1080  31:37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? 1081  Set it here before my relatives and yours, 1082  and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! 1083 

31:38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. 31:39 Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. 1084  You always made me pay for every missing animal, 1085  whether it was taken by day or at night. 31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat 1086  during the day and by piercing cold 1087  at night, and I went without sleep. 1088  31:41 This was my lot 1089  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave 1090  for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times! 31:42 If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears 1091  – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, 1092  and he rebuked you last night.”

31:43 Laban replied 1093  to Jacob, “These women 1094  are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, 1095  and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today 1096  or the children to whom they have given birth? 31:44 So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, 1097  you and I, and it will be 1098  proof that we have made peace.” 1099 

31:45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar. 31:46 Then he 1100  said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. 1101  They ate there by the pile of stones. 31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, 1102  but Jacob called it Galeed. 1103 

31:48 Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement 1104  today.” That is why it was called Galeed. 31:49 It was also called Mizpah 1105  because he said, “May the Lord watch 1106  between us 1107  when we are out of sight of one another. 1108  31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize 1109  that God is witness to your actions.” 1110 

31:51 “Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob. 1111  31:52 “This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me. 1112  31:53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, 1113  the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared. 1114  31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice 1115  on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. 1116  They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

31:55 (32:1) 1117  Early in the morning Laban kissed 1118  his grandchildren 1119  and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home. 1120 

Jacob Wrestles at Peniel

32:1 So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God 1121  met him. 32:2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, 1122  “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim. 1123 

32:3 Jacob sent messengers on ahead 1124  to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region 1125  of Edom. 32:4 He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant 1126  Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now. 32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent 1127  this message 1128  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.” 32:7 Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels. 32:8 “If Esau attacks one camp,” 1129  he thought, 1130  “then the other camp will be able to escape.” 1131 

32:9 Then Jacob prayed, 1132  “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said 1133  to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’ 1134  32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love 1135  you have shown 1136  your servant. With only my walking stick 1137  I crossed the Jordan, 1138  but now I have become two camps. 32:11 Rescue me, 1139  I pray, from the hand 1140  of my brother Esau, 1141  for I am afraid he will come 1142  and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. 1143  32:12 But you 1144  said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper 1145  and will make 1146  your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’” 1147 

32:13 Jacob 1148  stayed there that night. Then he sent 1149  as a gift 1150  to his brother Esau 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 32:16 He entrusted them to 1151  his servants, who divided them into herds. 1152  He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.” 32:17 He instructed the servant leading the first herd, 1153  “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? 1154  Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’ 1155  32:18 then you must say, 1156  ‘They belong 1157  to your servant Jacob. 1158  They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. 1159  In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’” 1160 

32:19 He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 1161  32:20 You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” 1162  Jacob thought, 1163  “I will first appease him 1164  by sending a gift ahead of me. 1165  After that I will meet him. 1166  Perhaps he will accept me.” 1167  32:21 So the gifts were sent on ahead of him 1168  while he spent that night in the camp. 1169 

32:22 During the night Jacob quickly took 1170  his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons 1171  and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 1172  32:23 He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. 1173  32:24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man 1174  wrestled 1175  with him until daybreak. 1176  32:25 When the man 1177  saw that he could not defeat Jacob, 1178  he struck 1179  the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

32:26 Then the man 1180  said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” 1181  “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, 1182  “unless you bless me.” 1183  32:27 The man asked him, 1184  “What is your name?” 1185  He answered, “Jacob.” 32:28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, 1186  “but Israel, 1187  because you have fought 1188  with God and with men and have prevailed.”

32:29 Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” 1189  “Why 1190  do you ask my name?” the man replied. 1191  Then he blessed 1192  Jacob 1193  there. 32:30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, 1194  explaining, 1195  “Certainly 1196  I have seen God face to face 1197  and have survived.” 1198 

32:31 The sun rose 1199  over him as he crossed over Penuel, 1200  but 1201  he was limping because of his hip. 32:32 That is why to this day 1202  the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck 1203  the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.

Kejadian 23:1

The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 1204 

Kejadian 23:1

The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 1205 

Kejadian 39:1

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

39:1 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. 1206  An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, 1207  purchased him from 1208  the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

Kejadian 39:1

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

39:1 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. 1209  An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, 1210  purchased him from 1211  the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

Ulangan 4:1

The Privileges of the Covenant

4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances 1212  I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 1213  is giving you.

Ulangan 12:32

Idolatry and False Prophets

12:32 (13:1) 1214  You 1215  must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it! 1216 

Yesaya 8:20

8:20 Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. 1217  Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened. 1218 

Matius 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, 1219  I am with you 1220  always, to the end of the age.” 1221 

Matius 28:1

The Resurrection

28:1 Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

Kolose 4:2

Exhortation to Pray for the Success of Paul’s Mission

4:2 Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.


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