GENESIS 33
1 Now Jacob looked up and
saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children
among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
2 He put the maids with
their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last
of all.
3 He himself went on ahead
of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his
brother.
4 But Esau ran to meet him,
and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
5 When Esau looked up and saw the
women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said,
"The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
6 Then the maids drew near,
they and their children, and bowed down;
7 Leah likewise and her
children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and
they bowed down.
8 Esau said, "What do
you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favour
with my lord."
9 But Esau said, "I
have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
10 Jacob said, "No,
please; if I find favour with you, then accept my present from my hand; for
truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God—since you have received
me with such favour.
11 Please accept my gift
that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I
have everything I want." So he urged him, and he took it.
12 Then Esau said, "Let
us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you."
13 But Jacob said to him,
"My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds,
which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day,
all the flocks will die.
14 Let my lord pass on ahead
of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle
that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to
my lord in Seir."
15 So Esau said, "Let
me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said,
"Why should my lord be so kind to me?"
16 So Esau returned that day
on his way to Seir.
17 But Jacob journeyed to
Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore
the place is called Succoth.
18 Jacob came safely to the
city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram;
and he camped before the city.
19 And from the sons of
Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of
land on which he had pitched his tent.
20 There he erected an altar
and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
GENESIS 34
1 Now Dinah the daughter of
Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the
region.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor
the Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by
force.
3 And his soul was drawn to
Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the girl, and spoke tenderly to her.
4 So Shechem spoke to his
father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl to be my wife."
5 Now Jacob heard that
Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in
the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6 And Hamor the father of
Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him,
7 just as the sons of Jacob
came in from the field. When they heard of it, the men were indignant and very
angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's
daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
8 But Hamor spoke with them,
saying, "The heart of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give
her to him in marriage.
9 Make marriages with us;
give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You shall live with us;
and the land shall be open to you; live and trade in it, and get property in
it."
11 Shechem also said to her
father and to her brothers, "Let me find favour with you, and whatever you
say to me I will give.
12 Put the marriage present
and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me
the girl to be my wife."
13 The sons of Jacob
answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their
sister Dinah.
14 They said to them,
"We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised,
for that would be a disgrace to us.
15 Only on this condition
will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male among you
be circumcised.
16 Then we will give our
daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will
live among you and become one people.
17 But if you will not
listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be
gone."
18 Their words pleased Hamor
and Hamor's son Shechem.
19 And the young man did not
delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he
was the most honoured of all his family.
20 So Hamor and his son
Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,
saying,
21"These people are friendly
with us; let them live in the land and trade in it, for the land is large
enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and let us give them
our daughters.
22 Only on this condition
will they agree to live among us, to become one people: that every male among
us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23 Will not their livestock,
their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and
they will live among us."
24 And all who went out of the
city gate heeded Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all
who went out of the gate of his city.
25 On the third day, when
they were still in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brothers, took their swords and came against the city unawares, and killed all
the males.
26 They killed Hamor and his
son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went
away.
27 And the other sons of
Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had
been defiled.
28 They took their flocks
and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the
field.
29 All their wealth, all
their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured
and made their prey.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon
and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the
inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few,
and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed,
both I and my household."
31 But they said,
"Should our sister be treated like a whore?"
GENESIS 35
1 God said to Jacob,
"Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God
who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
2 So Jacob said to his
household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that
are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes;
3 then come, let us go up to
Bethel that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of
my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
4 So they gave to Jacob all
the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and
Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.
5 As they journeyed, a
terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued
them.
6 Jacob came to Luz (that
is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were
with him,
7 and there he built an
altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had
revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
8 And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse,
died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called
Allon-bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob
again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.
10 God said to him,
"Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall
be your name." So he was called Israel.
11 God said to him, "I
am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations
shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.
12 The land that I gave to
Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your
offspring after you."
13 Then God went up from him
at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 Jacob set up a pillar in
the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a
drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15 So Jacob called the place
where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16 Then they journeyed from
Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in
childbirth, and she had hard labour.
17 When she was in her hard labour,
the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid; for now you will have another
son."
18 As her soul was departing (for
she died), she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died, and she
was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
20 and Jacob set up a pillar
at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this
day.
21 Israel journeyed on, and
pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22 While Israel lived in
that land, Reuben went and laid with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel
heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23 The sons of Leah: Reuben
(Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Bilhah,
Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Zilpah,
Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him
in Paddan-aram.
27 Jacob came to his father
Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had
resided as aliens.
28 Now the days of Isaac
were one hundred eighty years.
29 And Isaac breathed his
last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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