Yahuwah Bible

¹ In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
² Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was upon the surface of the deep. The Ruach (Spirit) of Elohim was hovering over the surface of the waters.
³ Elohim said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
⁴ Elohim saw the light, and saw that it was good. Elohim divided the light from the darkness.
⁵ Elohim called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one day.
⁶ Elohim said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
⁷ Elohim made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
⁸ Elohim called the expanse “sky.” There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
⁹ Elohim said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
¹⁰ Elohim called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas.” Elohim saw that it was good.
¹¹ Elohim said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
¹² The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and Elohim saw that it was good.
¹³ There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
¹⁴ Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
¹⁶ Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
¹⁷ Elohim set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. Elohim saw that it was good.
¹⁹ There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
²⁰ Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”
²¹ Elohim created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. Elohim saw that it was good.
²² Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
²³ There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
²⁴ Elohim said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
²⁵ Elohim made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. Elohim saw that it was good.
²⁶ Elohim said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
²⁷ Elohim created man in his own image. In Elohim‘s image he created him; male and female he created them.
²⁸ Elohim blessed them. Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
²⁹ Elohim said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
³⁰ To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
³¹ Elohim saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

¹ The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.
² On the seventh day Elohim finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
³ Elohim blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
⁴ This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahuwah Elohim made the earth and the heavens.
⁵ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahuwah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
⁶ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
⁷ Yahuwah Elohim formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
⁸ Yahuwah Elohim planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
⁹ Out of the ground Yahuwah Elohim made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
¹⁰ A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Chavilah, where there is gold;
¹² and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
¹⁴ The name of the third river is Chidekel (Tigris): this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Perat (Euphrates).
¹⁵ Yahuwah Elohim took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
¹⁶ Yahuwah Elohim commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.”
¹⁸ Yahuwah Elohim said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
¹⁹ Out of the ground Yahuwah Elohim formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
²⁰ The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
²¹ Yahuwah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
²² He made the rib, which Yahuwah Elohim had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
²³ The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Isha ‘(woman),’ because she was taken out of Ish (Man).”
²⁴ Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
²⁵ They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahuwah Elohim had made. He said to the woman, “Has Elohim really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
² The woman said to the serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,
⁵ for Elohim knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
⁶ When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
⁷ The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
⁸ They heard the voice of Yahuwah Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahuwah Elohim among the trees of the garden.
⁹ Yahuwah Elohim called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
¹⁰ The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
¹¹ Elohim said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
¹² The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
¹³ Yahuwah Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
¹⁴ Yahuwah Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
¹⁵ I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
¹⁶ To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the adama (the ground), for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
²⁰ The man called his wife Chava, because she was the mother of all living.
²¹ Yahuwah Elohim made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
²² Yahuwah Elohim said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever…”
²³ Therefore Yahuwah Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

¹ The man knew Chava his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Kayin, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahuwah‘s help.”
² Again she gave birth, to Kayin‘s brother Hevel. Hevel was a keeper of sheep, but Kayin was a tiller of the ground.
³ As time passed, it happened that Kayin brought an offering to Yahuwah from the fruit of the ground.
⁴ Hevel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahuwah respected Hevel and his offering,
⁵ but he didn’t respect Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
⁶ Yahuwah said to Kayin, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
⁷ If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
⁸ Kayin said to Hevel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” It happened when they were in the field, that Kayin rose up against Hevel, his brother, and killed him.
⁹ Yahuwah said to Kayin, “Where is Hevel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
¹⁰ Yahuwah said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
¹¹ Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
¹² From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
¹³ Kayin said to Yahuwah, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
¹⁴ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”
¹⁵ Yahuwah said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Kayin, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahuwah appointed a sign for Kayin, lest any finding him should strike him.
¹⁶ Kayin went out from Yahuwah‘s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
¹⁷ Kayin knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Chanoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Chanoch.
¹⁸ To Chanoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mechuyael. Mechuyael became the father of Metushael. Metushael became the father of Lamech.
¹⁹ Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
²⁰ Adah gave birth to Yabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
²¹ His brother’s name was Yubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
²² Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Kayin, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Kayin‘s sister was Naamah.
²³ Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
²⁴ If Kayin will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
²⁵ Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Shet, “for Elohim has appointed me another child instead of Hevel, for Kayin killed him.”
²⁶ There was also born a son to Shet, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahuwah‘s name.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created man, he made him in Elohim‘s likeness.
² He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name “Adam,” in the day when they were created.
³ Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Shet.
⁴ The days of Adam after he became the father of Shet were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
⁵ All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
⁶ Shet lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.
⁷ Shet lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
⁸ All the days of Shet were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
⁹ Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
¹⁰ Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹¹ All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
¹² Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
¹³ Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
¹⁴ and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
¹⁵ Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Yared.
¹⁶ Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Yared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹⁷ All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
¹⁸ Yared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Chanoch.
¹⁹ Yared lived after he became the father of Chanoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²⁰ All the days of Yared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
²¹ Chanoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Metushelah.
²² Chanoch walked with Elohim after he became the father of Metushelah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²³ All the days of Chanoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
²⁴ Chanoch walked with Elohim, and he was not, for Elohim took him.
²⁵ Metushelah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
²⁶ Metushelah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²⁷ All the days of Metushelah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
²⁸ Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
²⁹ and he named him Noach, saying, “This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahuwah has cursed.”
³⁰ Lamech lived after he became the father of Noach five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
³¹ All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
³² Noach was five hundred years old, and Noach became the father of Shem, Cham, and Yefet.

¹ It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
² that Elohim‘s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
³ Yahuwah said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years.”
⁴ The Nefilim (giants) were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when Elohim‘s sons came in to men’s daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
⁵ Yahuwah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
⁶ Yahuwah was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
⁷ Yahuwah said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”
⁸ But Noach found favor in Yahuwah‘s eyes.
⁹ This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with Elohim.
¹⁰ Noach became the father of three sons: Shem, Cham, and Yefet.
¹¹ The earth was corrupt before Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence.
¹² Elohim saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
¹³ Elohim said to Noach, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
¹⁴ Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
¹⁵ This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
¹⁶ You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
¹⁷ I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
¹⁹ Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
²⁰ Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
²¹ Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
²² Thus Noach did. According to all that Elohim commanded him, so he did.

¹ Yahuwah said to Noach, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
² You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
³ Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
⁴ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.”
⁵ Noach did everything that Yahuwah commanded him.
⁶ Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
⁷ Noach went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the waters of the flood.
⁸ Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
⁹ went by pairs to Noach into the ship, male and female, as Elohim commanded Noach.
¹⁰ It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noach‘s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
¹² The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
¹³ In the same day Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach‘s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;
¹⁴ they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
¹⁵ They went to Noach into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
¹⁶ Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as Elohim commanded him; and Yahuwah shut him in.
¹⁷ The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
¹⁸ The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
¹⁹ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
²¹ All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the Spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
²³ Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
²⁴ The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

¹ Elohim remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and Elohim made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
² The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
³ The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat‘s mountains.
⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the ship which he had made,
⁷ and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
⁸ He sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
¹⁰ He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
¹³ It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noach removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
¹⁵ Elohim spoke to Noach, saying,
¹⁶ “Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
¹⁸ Noach went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
²⁰ Noach built an altar to Yahuwah, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
²¹ Yahuwah smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahuwah said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

¹ Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
² The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
³ Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
⁴ But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
⁵ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
⁶ Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for Elohim made man in his own image.
⁷ Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
⁸ Elohim spoke to Noach and to his sons with him, saying,
⁹ “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
¹¹ I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
¹² Elohim said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
¹³ I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
¹⁴ It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
¹⁶ The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
¹⁷ Elohim said to Noach, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
¹⁸ The sons of Noach who went out from the ship were Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Cham is the father of Kanaan.
¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
²⁰ Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
²¹ He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
²² Cham, the father of Kanaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
²³ Shem and Yefet took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
²⁴ Noach awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
²⁵ He said, “Kanaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers.”
²⁶ He said, “Blessed be Yahuwah, the Elohim of Shem. Let Kanaan be his servant.
²⁷ May Elohim enlarge Yefet. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Kanaan be his servant.”
²⁸ Noach lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
²⁹ All the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

¹ Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood.
² The sons of Yefet: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
⁴ The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
⁵ Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
⁶ The sons of Cham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Kanaan.
⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Chavilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Yahuwah. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahuwah.”
¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
¹¹ Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
¹³ Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
¹⁵ Kanaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
¹⁶ the Yebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
¹⁷ the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
¹⁸ the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Kanaanites were spread abroad.
¹⁹ The border of the Kanaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
²⁰ These are the sons of Cham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
²¹ To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born.
²² The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
²³ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
²⁴ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
²⁵ To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Yoktan.
²⁶ Yoktan became the father of Almodad, Shelef, Hazarmaveth, Yerah,
²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
²⁹ Ophir, Chavilah, and Yobab. All these were the sons of Yoktan.
³⁰ Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sefar, the mountain of the east.
³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
³² These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

¹ The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
² It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
³ They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
⁴ They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
⁵ Yahuwah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
⁶ Yahuwah said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
⁷ Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
⁸ So Yahuwah scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
⁹ Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahuwah confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahuwah scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
¹⁰ This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
¹¹ Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹² Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
¹³ Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹⁴ Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
¹⁵ and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹⁶ Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
¹⁷ Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
¹⁸ Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
¹⁹ Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²⁰ Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
²¹ Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²² Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
²³ Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²⁴ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
²⁵ Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran.
²⁷ Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
²⁸ Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
²⁹ Avram and Nahor took wives. The name of Avram‘s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor‘s wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
³⁰ Sarai was barren. She had no child.
³¹ Terah took Avram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram‘s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Kanaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
³² The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

¹ Now Yahuwah said to Avram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
² I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
³ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
⁴ So Avram went, as Yahuwah had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Avram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
⁵ Avram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Kanaan. Into the land of Kanaan they came.
⁶ Avram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kanaanite was then in the land.
⁷ Yahuwah appeared to Avram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” He built an altar there to Yahuwah, who appeared to him.
⁸ He left from there to the mountain on the east of Beit-El, and pitched his tent, having Beit-El on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahuwah and called on the name of Yahuwah.
⁹ Avram traveled, going on still toward the South.
¹⁰ There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
¹¹ It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
¹² It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
¹³ Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
¹⁴ It happened that when Avram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh‘s house.
¹⁶ He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
¹⁷ Yahuwah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Avram‘s wife.
¹⁸ Pharaoh called Avram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
²⁰ Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

¹ Avram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
² Avram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Beit-El , to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and Ai,
⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name of Yahuwah.
⁵ Lot also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Avram‘s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot‘s livestock: and the Kanaanite and the Perizite lived in the land at that time.
⁸ Avram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
⁹ Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahuwah destroyed Sodomand Gomorah , like the garden of Yahuwah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
¹¹ So Lot chose the Plain of the Yarden for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
¹² Avram lived in the land of Kanaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
¹³ Now the men of Sodomwere exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahuwah.
¹⁴ Yahuwah said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
¹⁶ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.”
¹⁸ Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahuwah.

¹ It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goyim,
² that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorah , Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
³ All these joined together in the valley of Sidim (the same is the Salt Sea).
⁴ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
⁵ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Refaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Cham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriataim,
⁶ and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
⁷ They returned, and came to Ein Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
⁸ The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorah , and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Sidim;
⁹ against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
¹⁰ Now the valley of Sidim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
¹¹ They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorah , and all their food, and went their way.
¹² They took Lot, Avram‘s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
¹³ One who had escaped came and told Avram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshkol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Avram.
¹⁴ When Avram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
¹⁵ He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
¹⁶ He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
¹⁷ The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
¹⁸ Malki-Tzedek king of Shalem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of El-Elyon (the Most High).
¹⁹ He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Avram of Elohim Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
²⁰ and blessed be El-Elyon (the Most High), who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Avram gave him a tenth of all.
²¹ The king of Sodom said to Avram, “Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself.”
²² Avram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahuwah, El-Elyon (the Most High), possessor of heaven and earth,
²³ that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Avram rich.’
²⁴ I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

¹ After these things the word of Yahuwah came to Avram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
² Avram said, “Lord Yahuwah, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
³ Avram said, “Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
⁴ Behold, the word of Yahuwah came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
⁵ Yahuwah brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Avram, “So shall your seed be.”
⁶ He believed in Yahuwah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
⁷ He said to him, “I am Yahuwah who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
⁸ He said, “Lord Yahuwah, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
⁹ He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
¹⁰ He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
¹¹ The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram drove them away.
¹² When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
¹³ He said to Avram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
¹⁴ I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
¹⁵ but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
¹⁶ In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
¹⁷ It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
¹⁸ In that day Yahuwah made a covenant with Avram, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Perat (Euphrates):
¹⁹ the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
²⁰ the Hitites, the Perizites, the Refaim,
²¹ the Amorites, the Kanaanites, the Girgashites, and the Yebusites.”

¹ Now Sarai, Avram‘s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
² Sarai said to Avram, “See now, Yahuwah has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.
³ Sarai, Avram‘s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kanaan, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.
⁴ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
⁵ Sarai said to Avram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahuwah judge between me and you.”
⁶ But Avram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
⁷ Melech Yahuwah (King Yahuwah) (transl.: the Angel of the Lord) found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
⁸ He said, “Hagar, Sarai‘s handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
⁹ Melech Yahuwah said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
¹⁰ Melech Yahuwah said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.”
¹¹ Melech Yahuwah  said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahuwah has heard your affliction.
¹² He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”
¹³ She called the name of Yahuwah who spoke to her, “You are an Elohim who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer Lachai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
¹⁵ Hagar bore a son for Avram. Avram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
¹⁶ Avram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Avram.

¹ When Avram was ninety-nine years old, Yahuwah appeared to Avram, and said to him, “I am El-Shadai (the Almighty Elohim). Walk before me, and be blameless.
² I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
³ Avram fell on his face. Elohim talked with him, saying,
⁴ “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
⁵ Neither will your name any more be called Avram, but your name will be Avraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
⁷ I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be an Elohim to you and to your seed after you.
⁸ I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Kanaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their Elohim.”
⁹ Elohim said to Avraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
¹⁰ This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
¹¹ You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
¹² He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.
¹³ He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
¹⁴ The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
¹⁵ Elohim said to Avraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
¹⁷ Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
¹⁸ Avraham said to Elohim, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
¹⁹ Elohim said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Yitzchak. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
²¹ But my covenant I establish with Yitzchak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
²² When he finished talking with him, Elohim went up from Avraham.
²³ Avraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Avraham‘s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as Elohim had said to him.
²⁴ Avraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
²⁵ Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
²⁶ In the same day both Avraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
²⁷ All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

¹ Yahuwah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
² He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
³ and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
⁴ Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
⁵ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
⁶ Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
⁷ Avraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
⁸ He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
⁹ They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”
¹⁰ He said, “I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
¹¹ Now Avraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
¹² Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
¹³ Yahuwah said to Avraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
¹⁴ Is anything too hard for Yahuwah? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
¹⁶ The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Avraham went with them to see them on their way.
¹⁷ Yahuwah said, “Will I hide from Avraham what I do,
¹⁸ since Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahuwah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahuwah may bring on Avraham that which he has spoken of him.”
²⁰ Yahuwah said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
²¹ I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
²² The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Avraham stood yet before Yahuwah.
²³ Avraham drew near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
²⁶ Yahuwah said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.”
²⁷ Avraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
²⁸ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.”
²⁹ He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
³⁰ He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”
³¹ He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
³² He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
³³ Yahuwah went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.

¹ The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
² and he said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
³ He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
⁵ They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
⁶ Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
⁷ He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
⁸ See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
⁹ They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
¹⁰ But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
¹¹ They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
¹² The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahuwah that Yahuwah has sent us to destroy it.”
¹⁴ Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahuwah will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
¹⁵ When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
¹⁶ But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahuwah being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
¹⁷ It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
¹⁸ Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
¹⁹ See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
²⁰ See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
²¹ He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
²² Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
²³ The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
²⁴ Then Yahuwah rained on Sodom and on Gomorah sulfur and fire from Yahuwah out of the sky.
²⁵ He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
²⁷ Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahuwah.
²⁸ He looked toward Sodom and Gomorah , and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
²⁹ It happened, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
³⁰ Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
³¹ The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
³² Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”
³³ They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
³⁴ It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”
³⁵ They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
³⁶ Thus both of Lot‘s daughters were with child by their father.
³⁷ The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
³⁸ The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

¹ Avraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
² Avraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
³ But Elohim came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”
⁴ Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
⁵ Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this.”
⁶ Elohim said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
⁷ Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
⁸ Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
⁹ Then Abimelech called Avraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
¹⁰ Abimelech said to Avraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
¹¹ Avraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of Elohim is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
¹² Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
¹³ It happened, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
¹⁴ Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Avraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
¹⁵ Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
¹⁶ To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
¹⁷ Avraham prayed to Elohim. Elohim healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
¹⁸ For Yahuwah had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Avraham‘s wife.

¹ Yahuwah visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahuwah did to Sarah as he had spoken.
² Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
³ Avraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitzchak.
⁴ Avraham circumcised his son, Yitzchak, when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.
⁵ Avraham was one hundred years old when his son, Yitzchak, was born to him.
⁶ Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
⁷ She said, “Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
⁸ The child grew, and was weaned. Avraham made a great feast on the day that Yitzchak was weaned.
⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking.
¹⁰ Therefore she said to Avraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Yitzchak.”
¹¹ The thing was very grievous in Avraham‘s sight on account of his son.
¹² Elohim said to Avraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.
¹³ I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.”
¹⁴ Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
¹⁵ The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
¹⁶ She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
¹⁷ Elohim heard the voice of the boy. The Melech of Elohim (King, transl: Angel) called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
¹⁸ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
¹⁹ Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
²⁰ Elohim was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
²² It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Avraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.
²³ Now, therefore, swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
²⁴ Avraham said, “I will swear.”
²⁵ Avraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech‘s servants had violently taken away.
²⁶ Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.”
²⁷ Avraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
²⁸ Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
²⁹ Abimelech said to Avraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”
³⁰ He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
³³ Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahuwah, the El-Elyon (Everlasting Elohim).
³⁴ Avraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

¹ It happened after these things, that Elohim tested Avraham, and said to him, “Avraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
² He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Yitzchak, and go into the land of Moriyah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
³ Avraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitzchak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which Elohim had told him.
⁴ On the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
⁵ Avraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”
⁶ Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitzchak his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
⁷ Yitzchak spoke to Avraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
⁸ Avraham said, “Elohim will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.
⁹ They came to the place which Elohim had told him of. Avraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Yitzchak his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
¹⁰ Avraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
¹¹ Melech Yahuwah (King Yahuwah) (transl.: the Angel of the Lord) called to him out of the sky, and said, “Avraham, Avraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
¹² He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
¹³ Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
¹⁴ Avraham called the name of that place Yahuwah–Yire. As it is said to this day, “On Yahuwah‘s mountain, it will be provided (or: seen/shown/chosen).”
¹⁵ Melech Yahuwah called to Avraham a second time out of the sky,
¹⁶ and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahuwah, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
¹⁷ that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
¹⁸ In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
¹⁹ So Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Avraham lived at Beersheba.
²⁰ It happened after these things, that it was told Avraham, saying, “Behold, Milkah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
²¹ Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
²² Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Yidlaf, and Betuel.”
²³ Betuel became the father of Rivkah. These eight Milkah bore to Nahor, Avraham‘s brother.
²⁴ His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

¹ Sarah lived one hundred years, and twenty years, and seven years. This was the length of Sarah‘s life.
² Sarah died in Kiriyat Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Kanaan. Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
³ Avraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Chet, saying,
⁴ “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
⁵ The children of Chet answered Avraham, saying to him,
⁶ “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
⁷ Avraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Chet.
⁸ He talked with them, saying, “If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Efron the son of Zohar,
⁹ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”
¹⁰ Now Efron was sitting in the middle of the children of Chet. Efron the Hitite answered Avraham in the hearing of the children of Chet, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
¹¹ “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
¹² Avraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
¹³ He spoke to Efron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”
¹⁴ Efron answered Avraham, saying to him,
¹⁵ “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
¹⁶ Avraham listened to Efron. Avraham weighed to Efron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Chet, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
¹⁷ So the field of Efron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
¹⁸ to Avraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Chet, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
¹⁹ After this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Kanaan.
²⁰ The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Avraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Chet.

¹ Avraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahuwah had blessed Avraham in all things.
² Avraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
³ I will make you swear by Yahuwah, the Elohim of heaven and the Elohim of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Kanaanites, among whom I live.
⁴ But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitzchak.”
⁵ The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
⁶ Avraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
⁷ Yahuwah, the Elohim of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your seed.’ He will send his Melech (King/Angel) before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
⁸ If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
⁹ The servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
¹⁰ The servant took ten camels, of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
¹¹ He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
¹² He said, “Yahuwah, the Elohim of my master Avraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Avraham.
¹³ Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
¹⁴ Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Yitzchak. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
¹⁵ It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rivkah came out, who was born to Betuel the son of Milkah, the wife of Nahor, Avraham‘s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
¹⁶ The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
¹⁷ The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
¹⁸ She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
¹⁹ When she had done giving him drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking.”
²⁰ She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
²¹ The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahuwah had made his journey prosperous or not.
²² It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
²³ and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”
²⁴ She said to him, “I am the daughter of Betuel the son of Milkah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
²⁵ She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”
²⁶ The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahuwah.
²⁷ He said, “Blessed be Yahuwah, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahuwah has led me in the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
²⁸ The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
²⁹ Rivkah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
³⁰ It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rivkah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
³¹ He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahuwah. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”
³² The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
³³ Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” He said, “Speak on.”
³⁴ He said, “I am Avraham‘s servant.
³⁵ Yahuwah has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
³⁶ Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
³⁷ My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Kanaanites, in whose land I live,
³⁸ but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
³⁹ I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
⁴⁰ He said to me, ‘Yahuwah, before whom I walk, will send his Melechwith you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father’s house.
⁴¹ Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
⁴² I came this day to the spring, and said, ‘Yahuwah, the Elohim of my master Avraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—
⁴³ behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
⁴⁴ and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahuwah has appointed for my master’s son.’
⁴⁵ Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rivkah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
⁴⁶ She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
⁴⁷ I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Betuel, Nahor‘s son, whom Milkah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
⁴⁸ I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahuwah, and blessed Yahuwah, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
⁴⁹ Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
⁵⁰ Then Laban and Betuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahuwah. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
⁵¹ Behold, Rivkah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahuwah has spoken.”
⁵² It happened that when Avraham‘s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahuwah.
⁵³ The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rivkah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
⁵⁴ They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
⁵⁵ Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
⁵⁶ He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahuwah has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
⁵⁷ They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”
⁵⁸ They called Rivkah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”
⁵⁹ They sent away Rivkah, their sister, with her nurse, Avraham‘s servant, and his men.
⁶⁰ They blessed Rivkah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.”
⁶¹ Rivkah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rivkah, and went his way.
⁶² Yitzchak came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
⁶³ Yitzchak went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
⁶⁴ Rivkah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Yitzchak, she dismounted from the camel.
⁶⁵ She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.
⁶⁶ The servant told Yitzchak all the things that he had done.
⁶⁷ Yitzchak brought her into his mother Sarah‘s tent, and took Rivkah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Yitzchak was comforted after his mother’s death.

¹ Avraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
² She bore him Zimran, Yokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
³ Yokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Ashurim, Letushim, and Leumim.
⁴ The sons of Midian: eifah, efer, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
⁵ Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchak,
⁶ but to the sons of Avraham‘s concubines, Avraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Yitzchak his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
⁷ These are the days of the years of Avraham‘s life which he lived: one hundred years and seventy years and five years.
⁸ Avraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
⁹ Yitzchak and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Efron, the son of Zohar the Hitite, which is before Mamre,
¹⁰ the field which Avraham purchased of the children of Chet. Avraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
¹¹ It happened after the death of Avraham that Elohim blessed Yitzchak, his son. Yitzchak lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
¹² Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Avraham‘s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah‘s handmaid, bore to Avraham.
¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Yetur, Napfish, and Kedemah.
¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
¹⁷ These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
¹⁸ They lived from Chavilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
¹⁹ This is the history of the generations of Yitzchak, Avraham‘s son. Avraham became the father of Yitzchak.
²⁰ Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of Betuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
²¹ Yitzchak entreated Yahuwah for his wife, because she was barren. Yahuwah was entreated by him, and Rivkah his wife conceived.
²² The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahuwah.
²³ Yahuwah said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”
²⁴ When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
²⁵ The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Eysav.
²⁶ After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Eysav‘s heel. He was named Ya’akov. Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.
²⁷ The boys grew. Eysav was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Ya’akov was a quiet man, living in tents.
²⁸ Now Yitzchak loved Eysav, because he ate his venison. Rivkah loved Ya’akov.
²⁹ Ya’akov boiled stew. Eysav came in from the field, and he was famished.
³⁰ Eysav said to Ya’akov, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
³¹ Ya’akov said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
³² Eysav said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
³³ Ya’akov said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Ya’akov.
³⁴ Ya’akov gave Eysav bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Eysav despised his birthright.

¹ There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. Yitzchak went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
² Yahuwah appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
³ Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Avraham your father.
⁴ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
⁵ because Avraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
⁶ Yitzchak lived in Gerar.
⁷ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rivkah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
⁸ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was caressing Rivkah, his wife.
⁹ Abimelech called Yitzchak, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Yitzchak said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
¹⁰ Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
¹¹ Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
¹² Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahuwah blessed him.
¹³ The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
¹⁴ He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
¹⁶ Abimelech said to Yitzchak, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
¹⁷ Yitzchak departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
¹⁸ Yitzchak dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Avraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
¹⁹ Yitzchak‘s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Yitzchak‘s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
²¹ They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
²² He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehobot. He said, “For now Yahuwah has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
²³ He went up from there to Beersheba.
²⁴ Yahuwah appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the Elohim of Avraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Avraham‘s sake.”
²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahuwah, and pitched his tent there. There Yitzchak‘s servants dug a well.
²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
²⁷ Yitzchak said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
²⁸ They said, “We saw plainly that Yahuwah was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahuwah.”
³⁰ He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
³¹ They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Yitzchak sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
³² It happened the same day, that Yitzchak‘s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
³⁴ When Eysav was forty years old, he took as wife Yehudit, the daughter of Beeri the Hitite, and Basemat, the daughter of Elon the Hitite.
³⁵ They grieved Yitzchak‘s and Rivkah‘s spirits.

¹ It happened, that when Yitzchak was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Eysav his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
² He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
³ Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
⁴ Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
⁵ Rivkah heard when Yitzchak spoke to Eysav his son. Eysav went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
⁶ Rivkah spoke to Ya’akov her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Eysav your brother, saying,
⁷ ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahuwah before my death.’
⁸ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
⁹ Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
¹⁰ You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
¹¹ Ya’akov said to Rivkah his mother, “Behold, Eysav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
¹² What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
¹³ His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
¹⁴ He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
¹⁵ Rivkah took the good clothes of Eysav, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Ya’akov, her younger son.
¹⁶ She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
¹⁷ She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya’akov.
¹⁸ He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
¹⁹ Ya’akov said to his father, “I am Eysav your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
²⁰ Yitzchak said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahuwah your Elohim gave me success.”
²¹ Yitzchak said to Ya’akov, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Eysav or not.”
²² Ya’akov went near to Yitzchak his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Ya’akov‘s voice, but the hands are the hands of Eysav.”
²³ He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Eysav‘s hands. So he blessed him.
²⁴ He said, “Are you really my son Eysav?” He said, “I am.”
²⁵ He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
²⁶ His father Yitzchak said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
²⁷ He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahuwah has blessed.
²⁸ Elohim give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
²⁹ Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
³⁰ It happened, as soon as Yitzchak had made an end of blessing Ya’akov, and Ya’akov had just gone out from the presence of Yitzchak his father, that Eysav his brother came in from his hunting.
³¹ He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
³² Yitzchak his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Eysav.”
³³ Yitzchak trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
³⁴ When Eysav heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
³⁵ He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
³⁶ He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Ya’akov? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
³⁷ Yitzchak answered Eysav, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?”
³⁸ Eysav said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Eysav lifted up his voice, and wept.
³⁹ Yitzchak his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
⁴⁰ By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”
⁴¹ Eysav hated Ya’akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Eysav said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya’akov.”
⁴² The words of Eysav, her elder son, were told to Rivkah. She sent and called Ya’akov, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Eysav comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
⁴³ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
⁴⁴ Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;
⁴⁵ until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
⁴⁶ Rivkah said to Yitzchak, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Chet. If Ya’akov takes a wife of the daughters of Chet, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

¹ Yitzchak called Ya’akov, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kanaan.
² Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Betuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
³ May El-Shadai (Elohim Almighty) bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
⁴ and give you the blessing of Avraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which Elohim gave to Avraham.”
⁵ Yitzchak sent Ya’akov away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Betuel the Syrian, Rivkah‘s brother, Ya’akov‘s and Eysav‘s mother.
⁶ Now Eysav saw that Yitzchak had blessed Ya’akov and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kanaan,”
⁷ and that Ya’akov obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
⁸ Eysav saw that the daughters of Kanaan didn’t please Yitzchak, his father.
⁹ Eysav went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Machalat the daughter of Ishmael, Avraham‘s son, the sister of Nebaiot, to be his wife.
¹⁰ Ya’akov went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
¹¹ He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
¹² He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the Melachim (messengers – kings – angels) of Elohim ascending and descending on it.
¹³ Behold, Yahuwah stood above it, and said, “I am Yahuwah, the Elohim of Avraham your father, and the Elohim of Yitzchak. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
¹⁴ Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
¹⁵ Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
¹⁶ Ya’akov awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahuwah is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
¹⁷ He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than Elohim‘s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
¹⁸ Ya’akov rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
¹⁹ He called the name of that place Beit-El , but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
²⁰ Ya’akov vowed a vow, saying, “If Elohim will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
²¹ so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahuwah will be my Elohim,
²² then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be Elohim‘s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”

¹ Then Ya’akov went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
² He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
³ There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
⁴ Ya’akov said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
⁵ He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
⁶ He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
⁷ He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
⁸ They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
¹⁰ It happened, when Ya’akov saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, that Ya’akov went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
¹¹ Ya’akov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
¹² Ya’akov told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rivkah‘s son. She ran and told her father.
¹³ It happened, when Laban heard the news of Ya’akov, his sister’s son, that he ran to meet Ya’akov, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya’akov told Laban all these things.
¹⁴ Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.
¹⁵ Laban said to Ya’akov, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
¹⁶ Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
¹⁷ Leah‘s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
¹⁸ Ya’akov loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
¹⁹ Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
²⁰ Ya’akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
²¹ Ya’akov said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
²² Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
²³ It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
²⁴ Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
²⁵ It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
²⁶ Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”
²⁸ Ya’akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
²⁹ Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.
³⁰ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
³¹ Yahuwah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
³² Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re’uben. For she said, “Because Yahuwah has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
³³ She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahuwah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Shimon.
³⁴ She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore was his name called Levi.
³⁵ She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahuwah.” Therefore she named him Yehudah. Then she stopped bearing.

¹ When Rachel saw that she bore Ya’akov no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Ya’akov, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
² Ya’akov‘s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in Elohim‘s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
³ She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
⁴ She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Ya’akov went in to her.
⁵ Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya’akov a son.
⁶ Rachel said, “Elohim has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.
⁷ Bilhah, Rachel‘s handmaid, conceived again, and bore Ya’akov a second son.
⁸ Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” She named him Naftali.
⁹ When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Ya’akov as a wife.
¹⁰ Zilpah, Leah‘s handmaid, bore Ya’akov a son.
¹¹ Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
¹² Zilpah, Leah‘s handmaid, bore Ya’akov a second son.
¹³ Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
¹⁴ Re’uben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
¹⁵ She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
¹⁶ Ya’akov came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.
¹⁷ Elohim listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Ya’akov a fifth son.
¹⁸ Leah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Yisachar.
¹⁹ Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Ya’akov.
²⁰ Leah said, “Elohim has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
²¹ Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
²² Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim listened to her, and opened her womb.
²³ She conceived, bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”
²⁴ She named him Yosef, saying, “May Yahuwah add another son to me.”
²⁵ It happened, when Rachel had borne Yosef, that Ya’akov said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
²⁷ Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahuwah has blessed me for your sake.”
²⁸ He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
²⁹ He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
³⁰ For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahuwah has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
³¹ He said, “What shall I give you?” Ya’akov said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
³² I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
³³ So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen.”
³⁴ Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
³⁵ That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
³⁶ He set three days’ journey between himself and Ya’akov, and Ya’akov fed the rest of Laban‘s flocks.
³⁷ Ya’akov took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
³⁸ He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
³⁹ The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
⁴⁰ Ya’akov separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban‘s flock.
⁴¹ It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Ya’akov laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
⁴² but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban‘s, and the stronger Ya’akov‘s.
⁴³ The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

¹ He heard the words of Laban‘s sons, saying, “Ya’akov has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”
² Ya’akov saw the expression on Laban‘s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
³ Yahuwah said to Ya’akov, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
⁴ Ya’akov sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
⁵ and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the Elohim of my father has been with me.
⁶ You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
⁷ Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim didn’t allow him to hurt me.
⁸ If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
⁹ Thus Elohim has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
¹⁰ It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
¹¹ The Melech of Elohim (angel-messenger-king) said to me in the dream, ‘Ya’akov,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
¹² He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
¹³ I am the Elohim of Beit-El , where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
¹⁴ Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
¹⁵ Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
¹⁶ For all the riches which Elohim has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever Elohim has said to you, do.”
¹⁷ Then Ya’akov rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
¹⁸ and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Yitzchak his father, to the land of Kanaan.
¹⁹ Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the terafim that were her father’s.
²⁰ Ya’akov deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
²¹ So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
²² Laban was told on the third day that Ya’akov had fled.
²³ He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
²⁴ Elohim came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Ya’akov either good or bad.”
²⁵ Laban caught up with Ya’akov. Now Ya’akov had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
²⁶ Laban said to Ya’akov, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
²⁷ Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
²⁸ and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Ya’akov either good or bad.’
³⁰ Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my elohim?”
³¹ Ya’akov answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
³² Anyone you find your elohim with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Ya’akov didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
³³ Laban went into Ya’akov‘s tent, into Leah‘s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah‘s tent, and entered into Rachel‘s tent.
³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the terafim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find them.
³⁵ She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the terafim.
³⁶ Ya’akov was angry, and argued with Laban. Ya’akov answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
³⁷ Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
³⁸ “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
³⁹ That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
⁴⁰ This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
⁴² Unless the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Avraham, and the fear of Yitzchak, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. Elohim has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
⁴³ Laban answered Ya’akov, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
⁴⁴ Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”
⁴⁵ Ya’akov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
⁴⁶ Ya’akov said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
⁴⁷ Laban called it Yegar Sahadutha, but Ya’akov called it Galeed.
⁴⁸ Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed
⁴⁹ and Mitzpah, for he said, “Yahuwah watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
⁵⁰ If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, Elohim is witness between me and you.”
⁵¹ Laban said to Ya’akov, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
⁵² May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
⁵³ The Elohim of Avraham, and the Elohim of Nahor, the Elohim of their father, judge between us.” Then Ya’akov swore by the fear of his father, Yitzchak.
⁵⁴ Ya’akov offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
⁵⁵ Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

¹ Ya’akov went on his way, and the Melachim of Elohim (angels-messengers-kings) met him.
² When he saw them, Ya’akov said, “This is Elohim‘s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
³ Ya’akov sent messengers in front of him to Eysav, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
⁴ He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Eysav: ‘This is what your servant, Ya’akov, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
⁵ I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
⁶ The messengers returned to Ya’akov, saying, “We came to your brother Eysav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”
⁷ Then Ya’akov was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
⁸ and he said, “If Eysav comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
⁹ Ya’akov said, “Elohim of my father Avraham, and Elohim of my father Yitzchak, Yahuwah, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I have become two companies.
¹¹ Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Eysav: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
¹² You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can’t be numbered because there are so many.’”
¹³ He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Eysav, his brother:
¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
¹⁵ thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
¹⁶ He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
¹⁷ He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Eysav, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
¹⁸ Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Ya’akov‘s. It is a present sent to my lord, Eysav. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
¹⁹ He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Eysav, when you find him.
²⁰ You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Ya’akov, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
²¹ So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
²² He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Yabok.
²³ He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
²⁴ Ya’akov was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
²⁵ When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Ya’akov‘s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
²⁶ The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Ya’akov said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”
²⁷ He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Ya’akov.”
²⁸ He said, “Your name will no longer be called Ya’akov, but Yisra’el; for you have fought with Elohim and with men, and have prevailed.”
²⁹ Ya’akov asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.
³⁰ Ya’akov called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.”
³¹ The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
³² Therefore the children of Yisra’el don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ya’akov‘s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

¹ Ya’akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Eysav was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
² He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef at the rear.
³ He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
⁴ Eysav ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
⁵ He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom Elohim has graciously given your servant.”
⁶ Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
⁷ Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
⁸ Eysav said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Ya’akov said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
⁹ Eysav said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
¹⁰ Ya’akov said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of Elohim, and you were pleased with me.
¹¹ Please take the gift that I brought to you, because Elohim has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
¹² Eysav said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”
¹³ Ya’akov said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
¹⁴ Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
¹⁵ Eysav said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
¹⁶ So Eysav returned that day on his way to Seir.
¹⁷ Ya’akov traveled to Sukot, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukot.
¹⁸ Ya’akov came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Kanaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
¹⁹ He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
²⁰ He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Yisra’el.

¹ Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Ya’akov, went out to see the daughters of the land.
² Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
³ His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Ya’akov, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
⁴ Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
⁵ Now Ya’akov heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Ya’akov held his peace until they came.
⁶ Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Ya’akov to talk with him.
⁷ The sons of Ya’akov came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Yisra’el in lying with Ya’akov‘s daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.
⁸ Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
⁹ Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
¹⁰ You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
¹¹ Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
¹² Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
¹³ The sons of Ya’akov answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
¹⁴ and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
¹⁵ Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
¹⁶ then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
¹⁷ But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
¹⁸ Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
¹⁹ The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya’akov‘s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
²⁰ Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
²¹ “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
²² Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
²³ Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
²⁴ All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
²⁵ It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Ya’akov‘s sons, Shimon and Levi, Dinah‘s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
²⁶ They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
²⁷ Ya’akov‘s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
²⁸ They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
²⁹ and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
³⁰ Ya’akov said to Shimon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kanaanites and the Perizites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
³¹ They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

¹ Elohim said to Ya’akov, “Arise, go up to Beit-El , and live there. Make there an altar to Elohim, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Eysav your brother.”
² Then Ya’akov said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign elohim that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
³ Let us arise, and go up to Beit-El . I will make there an altar to Elohim, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”
⁴ They gave to Ya’akov all the foreign elohim which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya’akov hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
⁵ They traveled, and a terror of Elohim was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Ya’akov.
⁶ So Ya’akov came to Luz (that is, Beit-El ), which is in the land of Kanaan, he and all the people who were with him.
⁷ He built an altar there, and called the place El Beit-El; because there Elohim was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
⁸ Dvorah, Rivkah‘s nurse, died, and she was buried below Beit-El under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
⁹ Elohim appeared to Ya’akov again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
¹⁰ Elohim said to him, “Your name is Ya’akov. Your name shall not be Ya’akov any more, but your name will be Yisra’el.” He named him Yisra’el.
¹¹ Elohim said to him, “I am El-Shadai (Elohim Almighty). Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
¹² The land which I gave to Avraham and Yitzchak, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”
¹³ Elohim went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
¹⁴ Ya’akov set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
¹⁵ Ya’akov called the name of the place where Elohim spoke with him “Beit-El .”
¹⁶ They traveled from Beit-El . There was still some distance to come to Efrat, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
¹⁷ When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
¹⁸ It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Binyamin.
¹⁹ Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem ).
²⁰ Ya’akov set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel‘s grave to this day.
²¹ Yisra’el traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
²² It happened, while Yisra’el lived in that land, that Re’uben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Yisra’el heard of it. Now the sons of Ya’akov were twelve.
²³ The sons of Leah: Re’uben (Ya’akov‘s firstborn), Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Yisachar, and Zebulun.
²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin.
²⁵ The sons of Bilhah (Rachel‘s handmaid): Dan and Naftali.
²⁶ The sons of Zilpah (Leah‘s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Ya’akov, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
²⁷ Ya’akov came to Yitzchak his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Avraham and Yitzchak lived as foreigners.
²⁸ The days of Yitzchak were one hundred eighty years.
²⁹ Yitzchak gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Eysav and Ya’akov, his sons, buried him.

¹ Now this is the history of the generations of Eysav (that is, Edom).
² Eysav took his wives from the daughters of Kanaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hitite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
³ and Basemat, Ishmael‘s daughter, sister of Nebaiot.
⁴ Adah bore to Eysav Elifaz. Basemat bore Reuel.
⁵ Oholibamah bore Yeush, Yalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Eysav, who were born to him in the land of Kanaan.
⁶ Eysav took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Kanaan, and went into a land away from his brother Ya’akov.
⁷ For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
⁸ Eysav lived in the hill country of Seir. Eysav is Edom.
⁹ This is the history of the generations of Eysav the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
¹⁰ these are the names of Eysav‘s sons: Elifaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Eysav; and Reuel, the son of Basemat, the wife of Eysav.
¹¹ The sons of Elifaz were Teman, Omar, Zefo, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
¹² Timna was concubine to Elifaz, Eysav‘s son; and she bore to Elifaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Eysav‘s wife.
¹³ These are the sons of Reuel: Nahat, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemat, Eysav‘s wife.
¹⁴ These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Eysav‘s wife: she bore to Eysav Yeush, Yalam, and Korah.
¹⁵ These are the chiefs of the sons of Eysav: the sons of Elifaz the firstborn of Eysav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zefo, chief Kenaz,
¹⁶ chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Elifaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
¹⁷ These are the sons of Reuel, Eysav‘s son: chief Nahat, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemat, Eysav‘s wife.
¹⁸ These are the sons of Oholibamah, Eysav‘s wife: chief Yeush, chief Yalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Eysav‘s wife.
¹⁹ These are the sons of Eysav (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
²⁰ These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
²¹ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
²² The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
²³ These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahat, Ebal, Shefo, and Onam.
²⁴ These are the children of Zibeon: Aiyah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
²⁵ These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
²⁶ These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Itran, and Cheran.
²⁷ These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
²⁸ These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
²⁹ These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
³⁰ chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
³¹ These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Yisra’el.
³² Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
³³ Bela died, and Yobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
³⁴ Yobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
³⁵ Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avit.
³⁶ Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
³⁷ Samlah died, and Sha’ul of Rehobot by the river, reigned in his place.
³⁸ Sha’ul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
³⁹ Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
⁴⁰ These are the names of the chiefs who came from Eysav, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Yetet,
⁴¹ chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
⁴² chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
⁴³ chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Eysav, the father of the Edomites.

¹ Ya’akov lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Kanaan.
² This is the history of the generations of Ya’akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.
³ Now Yisra’el loved Yosef more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
⁴ His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
⁵ Yosef dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
⁶ He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
⁷ for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
⁸ His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
⁹ He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
¹⁰ He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
¹¹ His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
¹² His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
¹³ Yisra’el said to Yosef, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
¹⁴ He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
¹⁵ A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
¹⁶ He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
¹⁷ The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dotan.’” Yosef went after his brothers, and found them in Dotan.
¹⁸ They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
¹⁹ They said one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
²⁰ Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
²¹ Re’uben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
²² Re’uben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
²³ It happened, when Yosef came to his brothers, that they stripped Yosef of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
²⁴ and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
²⁵ They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
²⁶ Yehudah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
²⁷ Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
²⁸ Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Yosef into Egypt.
²⁹ Re’uben returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
³⁰ He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
³¹ They took Yosef‘s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
³² They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”
³³ He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Yosef is without doubt torn in pieces.”
³⁴ Ya’akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
³⁵ All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.
³⁶ The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh‘s, the captain of the guard.

¹ It happened at that time, that Yehudah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
² Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain Kanaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
³ She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
⁴ She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
⁵ She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
⁶ Yehudah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
⁷ Er, Yehudah‘s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahuwah. Yahuwah killed him.
⁸ Yehudah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”
⁹ Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
¹⁰ The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, and he killed him also.
¹¹ Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
¹² After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Yehudah, died. Yehudah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
¹³ It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
¹⁴ She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
¹⁵ When Yehudah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
¹⁶ He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
¹⁷ He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
¹⁸ He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
¹⁹ She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
²⁰ Yehudah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
²¹ Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
²² He returned to Yehudah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
²³ Yehudah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
²⁴ It happened about three months later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Yehudah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”
²⁵ When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
²⁶ Yehudah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
²⁷ It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
²⁸ When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
²⁹ It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
³⁰ Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

¹ Yosef was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh‘s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
² Yahuwah was with Yosef, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
³ His master saw that Yahuwah was with him, and that Yahuwah made all that he did prosper in his hand.
⁴ Yosef found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
⁵ It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahuwah blessed the Egyptian’s house for Yosef‘s sake; and the blessing of Yahuwah was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
⁶ He left all that he had in Yosef‘s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Yosef was well-built and handsome.
⁷ It happened after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes on Yosef; and she said, “Lie with me.”
⁸ But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
⁹ He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against Elohim?”
¹⁰ As she spoke to Yosef day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
¹¹ About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
¹² She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
¹³ When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
¹⁴ she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
¹⁵ It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
¹⁶ She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
¹⁷ She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
¹⁸ and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
¹⁹ It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” that his wrath was kindled.
²⁰ Yosef‘s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
²¹ But Yahuwah was with Yosef, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
²² The keeper of the prison committed to Yosef‘s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
²³ The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahuwah was with him; and that which he did, Yahuwah made it prosper.

¹ It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
² Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
³ He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yosef was bound.
⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Yosef, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
⁵ They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
⁶ Yosef came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
⁷ He asked Pharaoh‘s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
⁸ They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Yosef said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to Elohim? Please tell it to me.”
⁹ The chief cupbearer told his dream to Yosef, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
¹⁰ and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
¹¹ Pharaoh‘s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh‘s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh‘s hand.”
¹² Yosef said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
¹³ Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh‘s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
¹⁴ But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
¹⁵ For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
¹⁶ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Yosef, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
¹⁷ In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
¹⁸ Yosef answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
¹⁹ Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
²⁰ It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh‘s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
²¹ He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh‘s hand;
²² but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosef had interpreted to them.
²³ Yet the chief cupbearer didn’t remember Yosef, but forgot him.

¹ It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.
² Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
³ Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
⁴ The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
⁵ He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
⁶ Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
⁸ It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt‘s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
¹¹ We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
¹² There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
¹³ It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
¹⁵ Pharaoh said to Yosef, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
¹⁶ Yosef answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. Elohim will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
¹⁷ Pharaoh spoke to Yosef, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
¹⁸ and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
¹⁹ and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
²⁰ The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
²² I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
²³ and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
²⁴ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
²⁵ Yosef said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What Elohim is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
²⁶ The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
²⁷ The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What Elohim is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
³⁰ There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
³¹ and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
³² The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by Elohim, and Elohim will shortly bring it to pass.
³³ “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt‘s produce in the seven plenteous years.
³⁵ Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
³⁶ The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”
³⁷ The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
³⁸ Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?”
³⁹ Pharaoh said to Yosef, “Because Elohim has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
⁴¹ Pharaoh said to Yosef, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
⁴² Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Yosef‘s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
⁴³ and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁴ Pharaoh said to Yosef, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
⁴⁵ Pharaoh called Yosef‘s name Tzafnat–Paneach; and he gave him Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Yosef went out over the land of Egypt.
⁴⁶ Yosef was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Yosef went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁷ In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
⁴⁸ He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
⁴⁹ Yosef laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
⁵⁰ To Yosef were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
⁵¹ Yosef called the name of the firstborn Menasheh, “For,” he said, “Elohim has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
⁵² The name of the second, he called Efrayim: “For Elohim has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
⁵³ The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
⁵⁴ The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Yosef. What he says to you, do.”
⁵⁶ The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
⁵⁷ All countries came into Egypt, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

¹ Now Ya’akov saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Ya’akov said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
² He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
³ Yosef‘s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
⁴ But Ya’akov didn’t send Binyamin, Yosef‘s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
⁵ The sons of Yisra’el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Kanaan.
⁶ Yosef was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Yosef‘s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
⁷ Yosef saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Kanaan to buy food.”
⁸ Yosef recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
⁹ Yosef remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
¹⁰ They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
¹¹ We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
¹² He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
¹³ They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kanaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”
¹⁴ Yosef said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
¹⁵ By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
¹⁷ He put them all together into custody for three days.
¹⁸ Yosef said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear Elohim.
¹⁹ If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
²⁰ Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
²¹ They said one to another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
²² Re’uben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
²³ They didn’t know that Yosef understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
²⁴ He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Shimon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
²⁵ Then Yosef gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
²⁶ They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
²⁷ As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
²⁸ He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?”
²⁹ They came to Ya’akov their father, to the land of Kanaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
³⁰ “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
³¹ We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
³² We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Kanaan.’
³³ The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
³⁴ Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
³⁵ It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
³⁶ Ya’akov, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shimon is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me.”
³⁷ Re’uben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
³⁸ He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

¹ The famine was severe in the land.
² It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
³ Yehudah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
⁴ If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food,
⁵ but if you’ll not send him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
⁶ Yisra’el said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
⁷ They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”
⁸ Yehudah said to Yisra’el, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
⁹ I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,
¹⁰ for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”
¹¹ Their father, Yisra’el, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
¹² and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
¹³ Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
¹⁴ May El-Shadai (Elohim Almighty) give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
¹⁵ The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Binyamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Yosef.
¹⁶ When Yosef saw Binyamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”
¹⁷ The man did as Yosef commanded, and the man brought the men to Yosef‘s house.
¹⁸ The men were afraid, because they were brought to Yosef‘s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
¹⁹ They came near to the steward of Yosef‘s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
²⁰ and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
²¹ When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
²² We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”
²³ He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your Elohim, and the Elohim of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Shimon out to them.
²⁴ The man brought the men into Yosef‘s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
²⁵ They prepared the present for Yosef‘s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
²⁶ When Yosef came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth.
²⁷ He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
²⁸ They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.
²⁹ He lifted up his eyes, and saw Binyamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “Elohim be gracious to you, my son.”
³⁰ Yosef hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
³¹ He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”
³² They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
³³ They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
³⁴ He sent portions to them from before him, but Binyamin‘s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

¹ He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
² Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Yosef had spoken.
³ As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
⁴ When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
⁵ Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
⁶ He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
⁷ They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
⁸ Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Kanaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
⁹ With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondservants.”
¹⁰ He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless.”
¹¹ Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
¹² He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Binyamin‘s sack.
¹³ Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
¹⁴ Yehudah and his brothers came to Yosef‘s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
¹⁵ Yosef said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”
¹⁶ Yehudah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? Elohim has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
¹⁷ He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
¹⁸ Then Yehudah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
²⁰ We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
²¹ You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
²² We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
²³ You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
²⁴ It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
²⁵ Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’
²⁶ We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
²⁷ Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:
²⁸ and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
³⁰ Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
³¹ it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
³² For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
³³ Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
³⁴ For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

¹ Then Yosef couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Yosef made himself known to his brothers.
² He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
³ Yosef said to his brothers, “I am Yosef! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
⁴ Yosef said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. “He said, I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
⁵ Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you to preserve life.
⁶ For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
⁷ Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
⁸ So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but Elohim, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
⁹ Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Yosef says, “Elohim has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
¹⁰ You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
¹¹ There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’
¹² Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Binyamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
¹³ You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”
¹⁴ He fell on his brother Binyamin‘s neck, and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck.
¹⁵ He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
¹⁶ The report of it was heard in Pharaoh‘s house, saying, “Yosef‘s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
¹⁷ Pharaoh said to Yosef, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Kanaan.
¹⁸ Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
¹⁹ Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
²⁰ Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours.”
²¹ The sons of Yisra’el did so. Yosef gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
²² He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
²³ He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
²⁵ They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Kanaan, to Ya’akov their father.
²⁶ They told him, saying, “Yosef is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.
²⁷ They told him all the words of Yosef, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Yosef had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya’akov, their father, revived.
²⁸ Yisra’el said, “It is enough. Yosef my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

¹ Yisra’el traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father, Yitzchak.
² Elohim spoke to Yisra’el in the visions of the night, and said, “Ya’akov, Ya’akov!” He said, “Here I am.”
³ He said, “I am Elohim, the Elohim of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
⁴ I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Yosef will close your eyes.”
⁵ Ya’akov rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Yisra’el carried Ya’akov, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
⁶ They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kanaan, and came into Egypt—Ya’akov, and all his seed with him,
⁷ his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
⁸ These are the names of the children of Yisra’el, who came into Egypt, Ya’akov and his sons: Re’uben, Ya’akov‘s firstborn.
⁹ The sons of Re’uben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
¹⁰ The sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, Zohar, and Sha’ul the son of a Kanaanite woman.
¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
¹² The sons of Yehudah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Kanaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
¹³ The sons of Yisachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Yahleel.
¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Ya’akov in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
¹⁷ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriyah. and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriyah: Heber and Malchiel.
¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya’akov, even sixteen souls.
¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Ya’akov‘s wife: Yosef and Binyamin.
²⁰ To Yosef in the land of Egypt were born Menasheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
²¹ The sons of Binyamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Mupim, Hupim, and Ard.
²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Ya’akov: all the souls were fourteen.
²³ The son of Dan: Hushim.
²⁴ The sons of Naftali: Yahzeel, Guni, Yezer, and Shillem.
²⁵ These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya’akov: all the souls were seven.
²⁶ All the souls who came with Ya’akov into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya’akov‘s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
²⁷ The sons of Yosef, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya’akov, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
²⁸ He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
²⁹ Yosef prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra’el, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
³⁰ Yisra’el said to Yosef, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
³¹ Yosef said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Kanaan, have come to me.
³² These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
³³ It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
³⁴ that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

¹ Then Yosef went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Kanaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
² From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
³ Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
⁴ They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Kanaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
⁵ Pharaoh spoke to Yosef, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
⁶ The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
⁷ Yosef brought in Ya’akov, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Ya’akov blessed Pharaoh.
⁸ Pharaoh said to Ya’akov, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
⁹ Ya’akov said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
¹⁰ Ya’akov blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
¹¹ Yosef placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
¹² Yosef nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
¹³ There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Kanaan fainted by reason of the famine.
¹⁴ Yosef gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Kanaan, for the grain which they bought: and Yosef brought the money into Pharaoh‘s house.
¹⁵ When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Kanaan, all the Egyptians came to Yosef, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”
¹⁶ Yosef said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
¹⁷ They brought their livestock to Yosef, and Yosef gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
¹⁸ When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
²⁰ So Yosef bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh‘s.
²¹ As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
²² Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.
²³ Then Yosef said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
²⁴ It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
²⁵ They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh‘s servants.”
²⁶ Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh‘s.
²⁷ Yisra’el lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
²⁸ Ya’akov lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Ya’akov, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
²⁹ The time drew near that Yisra’el must die, and he called his son Yosef, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
³⁰ but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”
³¹ He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Yisra’el bowed himself on the bed’s head.

¹ It happened after these things, that someone said to Yosef, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Menasheh and Efrayim.
² Someone told Ya’akov, and said, “Behold, your son Yosef comes to you,” and Yisra’el strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
³ Ya’akov said to Yosef, “El-Shadai (Elohim Almighty) appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kanaan, and blessed me,
⁴ and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.’
⁵ Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Efrayim and Menasheh, even as Re’uben and Shimon, will be mine.
⁶ Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
⁷ As for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Kanaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Efrat, and I buried her there in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem ).”
⁸ Yisra’el saw Yosef‘s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
⁹ Yosef said to his father, “They are my sons, whom Elohim has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
¹⁰ Now the eyes of Yisra’el were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
¹¹ Yisra’el said to Yosef, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, Elohim has let me see your seed also.”
¹² Yosef brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
¹³ Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right hand toward Yisra’el‘s left hand, and Menasheh in his left hand toward Yisra’el‘s right hand, and brought them near to him.
¹⁴ Yisra’el stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Efrayim‘s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menasheh‘s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Menasheh was the firstborn.
¹⁵ He blessed Yosef, and said, “The Elohim before whom my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day,
¹⁶ the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
¹⁷ When Yosef saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Efrayim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Efrayim‘s head to Menasheh‘s head.
¹⁸ Yosef said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
¹⁹ His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.”
²⁰ He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Yisra’el bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Efrayim and as Menasheh‘” He set Efrayim before Menasheh.
²¹ Yisra’el said to Yosef, “Behold, I am dying, but Elohim will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
²² Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

¹ Ya’akov called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
² Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Ya’akov. Listen to Yisra’el, your father.
³ “Re’uben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
⁴ Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
⁵ “Shimon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
⁶ My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Ya’akov, and scatter them in Yisra’el.
⁸ “Yehudah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
⁹ Yehudah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Yehudah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
¹² His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
¹³ “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
¹⁴ “Yisachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
¹⁵ He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
¹⁶ “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Yisra’el.
¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, Yahuwah.
¹⁹ “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
²⁰ “Asher‘s food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.
²¹ “Naftali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
²² “Yosef is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
²³ The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:
²⁴ But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya’akov, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Yisra’el),
²⁵ even by the Elohim of your father, who will help you; by Shadai (the Almighty), who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
²⁶ The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Yosef, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
²⁷ “Binyamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil.”
²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra’el, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
²⁹ He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Efron the Hitite,
³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Kanaan, which Avraham bought with the field from Efron the Hitite as a burial place.
³¹ There they buried Avraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Yitzchak and Rivkah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
³² the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Chet.”
³³ When Ya’akov made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

¹ Yosef fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
² Yosef commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisra’el.
³ Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
⁴ When the days of weeping for him were past, Yosef spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
⁵ ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Kanaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
⁷ Yosef went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
⁸ all the house of Yosef, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
⁹ There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
¹⁰ They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
¹¹ When the inhabitants of the land, the Kanaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Yarden.
¹² His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
¹³ for his sons carried him into the land of Kanaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Efron the Hitite, before Mamre.
¹⁴ Yosef returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
¹⁵ When Yosef‘s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Yosef will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.”
¹⁶ They sent a message to Yosef, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
¹⁷ ‘You shall tell Yosef, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the Elohim of your father.” Yosef wept when they spoke to him.
¹⁸ His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
¹⁹ Yosef said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of Elohim?
²⁰ As for you, you meant evil against me, but Elohim meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
²¹ Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
²² Yosef lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Yosef lived one hundred ten years.
²³ Yosef saw Efrayim‘s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Menasheh, were born on Yosef‘s knees.
²⁴ Yosef said to his brothers, “I am dying, but Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya’akov.”
²⁵ Yosef took an oath of the children of Yisra’el, saying, “Elohim will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
²⁶ So Yosef died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.