hired thee with my son's mandrakes.' And he lay with her that night. 17And shalt not give me aught j if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed God hearkened unto Leah, and she thy flock and keep it. 32I will pass conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
through all thy flock to-day, removing a Heb dan, be judged. b Heb. mphtal, he wrestled. ° That is, Fortune. * That is, Sappy * Heb. sarhar. * Heb, zabal, he dwelt. « Heb. asaph. * Heb. Joseph.
36 GENESIS from thence every speckled and spot- ted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire. ^So shall my righteous- ness witness against me hereafter, when thou shalt come to look over my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, that if found with me shall be counted stolen/ wAnd Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.' ^And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. ^And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. ^And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane- tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods. 28And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering- troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 39And the flocks con- ceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob separated the lambs — he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of La- ban — and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock. 4lAnd it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; when the flock were feeble, he put them, not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. ^And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid- servants and men-servants, and camels Q ~| And he heard the words of La- ^ •*• ban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this wealth/ 2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. 3And the LORD said unto Jacob: * Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.' 4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and "Leah to the field unto his flock, "and said unto them: 'I see your father's counte- nance, that it is not toward me as be- foretime; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. nAnd the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I. ^And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
GENESIS "I am the God of ^ Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity/ 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 15Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. 16For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' 17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; ^and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan- aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. I9Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. 20And Jacob outwitted La- ban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. aSo he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over athe River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
^And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. ^And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. ^And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him.: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.' ^And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. ^And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast bhou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? 27Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; 28and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. 29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yester- night, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?' 31And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daugh- ters from me by force. 32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' — For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. — ^And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. ^Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
35And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I eannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.7 And he searched, but found not the teraphim. 36And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? 37Whereas thou a That is, the Euphrates.
GENESIS hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou lound of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us twot. 38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten. 39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. 41These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daugh- ters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten tunes. ^Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judg- ment yesternight.' ^And Laban an- swered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these* my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne? **And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.' 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap. And • they did eat there by the heap. 47And Laban called it aJegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it bGaleed. 48And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49and °Mizpah, for he said: 'The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. ^If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee/ 51And Laban said to Jacob: * Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee. ^This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. ^The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge be- twixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. MAnd Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain, O O And early in the morning Laban ^^ rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place. 2And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 3And Jacob said when he saw them: 'This is God's camp.' And he called the name of that place dMahanaim.
4And Jacob sent messengers before to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 5And he commanded them, saying: 'Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now. 6And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight/ 7And the messengers * That is, The heap of witness, in. Aramaic b That is, The heap of witness, in Hebrew. « That is, The watch-post. * That is, Tito camps.
39 GENESIS 39 GENESIS returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him/ 8Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps. 9And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.' "And Jacob said: {0 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good; UI am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shown unto Thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two camps. ^Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me. the mother with the children. ^And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' 14And he lodged there that night; and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 15two hundred she-goats and twenty he- goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 16thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals, livered them into the 17And he de- hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.' 18And he com- manded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 19then thou shalt say: They are thy serv- ant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto Esau; and, be- hold, he also is behind us.' 20And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; aand ye shall say: Moreover, be- hold. thy servant Jacob is behind us/ For he said: ' I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; perad- venture he will accept me/ ^So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
a That is, He who striveth utih God 40 he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two hand- maids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok, ^And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. ^And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. ^And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. 27And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh/ And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me/ 28And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And he said: 'Jacob/ 29And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but alsrael; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed/ 30And Jacob asked him, and said: ' Tell me, I pray thee, thy name/ And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou' dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there. 31And Jacob called the name of the place bPeniel: 'for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved/ 32And the b That is, The face of God.
GENESIS sun rose upon him as he passed over aPeniel, and he limped upon his thigh. ^Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein. OO And Jacob lifted up his eyes, ^^ and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2And he put the hand- maids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. 5And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said: 'Who are these with thee?' And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.' 6Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down. 7And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed down. 8And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met? ' And he said: ' To find favour in the sight of my lord.' 9And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.' 10And Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favour in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. "Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath » Heb. PenueL b That is, Booths.
dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he urged him, and he took it. BAnd he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.' 13And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they over- drive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will journey on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.' 15And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.' 16So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seu:. 17And Jacob journeyed to Suc- coth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called bSuccoth. 18And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan- aram; and encamped before the city. 19And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, She- chem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.,20And he erected there an altar, and called it °El-elohe-Israel. O A And Dinah the daughter of Leah, u •* whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and.lay with her, and humbled her. 3And his soul did cleave unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel. 4And Shechem spoke unto his father « That is, God, the God of Israel 41 GENESIS Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife/ 6Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to speak with him. 7And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done 8And Hamor spoke with them, saying: 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter. I pray you give her unto him to wife. 9And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.' uAnd She- chem said unto her father and unto her brethren: ' Let me find favour in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give.me the damsel to wife.' 13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14,and said unto them: ' We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is un- circumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. ^Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 16then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone/ 18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honoured above all the house of his father. 20And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying: a' These men are peace- able with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; 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. ^Oniy on this con- dition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circum- cised, as they are circumcised. ^Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.7 MAnd unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. ^And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
28And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth. 27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; 29and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive 42 GENESIS and spoiled, even all that was In the house. s°And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.' 31And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'
And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother/ 2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; 3and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.: 4And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. BAnd they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan — the same is Beth-el — he and all the people that were with him. 7And he built there an altar, and called the place *El-beth-el, be- cause there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called MJlon-bacuth.