Bible (King James): Book 1 Genesis Part 7 from administrator's blog

01:030:001 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel

           envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or

           else I die.

01:030:002 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am

           I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the

           womb?

01:030:003 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she

           shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by

           her.

01:030:004 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went

           in unto her.

01:030:005 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

01:030:006 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my

           voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name

           Dan.

01:030:007 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a

           second son.

01:030:008 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my

           sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name

           Naphtali.

01:030:009 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her

           maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

01:030:010 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

01:030:011 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

01:030:012 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

01:030:013 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me

           blessed: and she called his name Asher.

01:030:014 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found

           mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.

           Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's

           mandrakes.

01:030:015 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast

           taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's

           mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with

           thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

01:030:016 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went

           out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for

           surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay

           with her that night.

01:030:017 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob

           the fifth son.

01:030:018 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given

           my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

01:030:019 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

01:030:020 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will

           my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons:

           and she called his name Zebulun.

01:030:021 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

01:030:022 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and

           opened her womb.

01:030:023 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken

           away my reproach:

01:030:024 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add

           to me another son.

01:030:025 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob

           said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own

           place, and to my country.

01:030:026 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,

           and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done

           thee.

01:030:027 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour

           in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that

           the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

01:030:028 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

01:030:029 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and

           how thy cattle was with me.

01:030:030 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is

           now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee

           since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own

           house also?

01:030:031 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou

           shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for

           me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

01:030:032 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence

           all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle

           among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats:

           and of such shall be my hire.

01:030:033 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when

           it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is

           not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the

           sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

01:030:034 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy

           word.

01:030:035 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and

           spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,

           and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown

           among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

01:030:036 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and

           Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

01:030:037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and

           chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the

           white appear which was in the rods.

01:030:038 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in

           the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to

           drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

01:030:039 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth

           cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

01:030:040 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the

           flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock

           of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put

           them not unto Laban's cattle.

01:030:041 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did

           conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the

           cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the

           rods.

01:030:042 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the

           feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

01:030:043 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and

           maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

01:031:001 And he heard the words of Laban'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 glory.

01:031:002 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was

           not toward him as before.

01:031:003 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy

           fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

01:031:004 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto

           his flock,

01:031:005 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it

           is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been

           with me.

01:031:006 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

01:031:007 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten

           times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

01:031:008 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the

           cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked

           shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

01:031:009 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given

           them to me.

01:031:010 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,

           that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,

           the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,

           speckled, and grisled.

01:031:011 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:

           And I said, Here am I.

01:031:012 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams

           which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and

           grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

01:031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and

           where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from

           this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

01:031:014 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet

           any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

01:031:015 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and

           hath quite devoured also our money.

01:031:016 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that

           is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath

           said unto thee, do.

01:031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon

           camels;

01:031:018 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he

           had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in

           Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of

           Canaan.

01:031:019 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the

           images that were her father's.

01:031:020 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he

           told him not that he fled.

01:031:021 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed

           over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

01:031:022 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

01:031:023 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven

           days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

01:031:024 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said

           unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good

           or bad.

01:031:025 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in

           the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of

           Gilead.

01:031:026 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast

           stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as

           captives taken with the sword?

01:031:027 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from

           me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away

           with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

01:031:028 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?

           thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

01:031:029 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of

           your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed

           that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

01:031:030 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore

           longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou

           stolen my gods?

01:031:031 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:

           for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy

           daughters from me.

01:031:032 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:

           before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and

           take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen

           them.

01:031:033 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and

           into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then

           went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

01:031:034 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's

           furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent,

           but found them not.

01:031:035 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that

           I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon

           me. And he searched but found not the images.

01:031:036 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered

           and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that

           thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

01:031:037 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found

           of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and

           thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

01:031:038 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she

           goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock

           have I not eaten.

01:031:039 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare

           the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether

           stolen by day, or stolen by night.

01:031:040 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost

           by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

01:031:041 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee

           fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy

           cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

01:031:042 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear

           of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now

           empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my

           hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

01:031:043 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my

           daughters, and these children are my children, and these

           cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and

           what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their

           children which they have born?

01:031:044 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;

           and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

01:031:045 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

01:031:046 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took

           stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the

           heap.

01:031:047 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it

           Galeed.

01:031:048 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee

           this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

01:031:049 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee,

           when we are absent one from another.

01:031:050 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take

           other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God

           is witness betwixt me and thee.

01:031:051 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this

           pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:

01:031:052 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will

           not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass

           over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

01:031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their

           father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his

           father Isaac.

01:031:054 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his

           brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all

           night in the mount.

01:031:055 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.

01:032:001 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

01:032:002 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he

           called the name of that place Mahanaim.

01:032:003 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto

           the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

01:032:004 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my

           lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with

           Laban, and stayed there until now:

01:032:005 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and

           womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may

           find grace in thy sight.

01:032:006 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy

           brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four

           hundred men with him.

01:032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided

           the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and

           the camels, into two bands;

01:032:008 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then

           the other company which is left shall escape.

01:032:009 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my

           father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy

           country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

01:032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all

           the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with

           my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two

           bands.

01:032:011 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the

           hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,

           and the mother with the children.

01:032:012 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.

01:032:013 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which

           came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

01:032:014 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,

           and twenty rams,

01:032:015 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten

           bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

01:032:016 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every

           drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over

           before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

01:032:017 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother

           meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and

           whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

01:032:018 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a

           present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind

           us.

01:032:019 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that

           followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak

           unto Esau, when ye find him.

01:032:020 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.

           For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth

           before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he

           will accept of me.

01:032:021 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that

           night in the company.

01:032:022 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two

           womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford

           Jabbok.

01:032:023 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over

           that he had.

01:032:024 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him

           until the breaking of the day.

01:032:025 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

           out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

01:032:026 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I

           will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

01:032:027 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

01:032:028 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but

           Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

           and hast prevailed.

01:032:029 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.

           And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?

           And he blessed him there.

01:032:030 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen

           God face to face, and my life is preserved.

01:032:031 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he

           halted upon his thigh.

01:032:032 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which

           shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:

           because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew

           that shrank.

01:033:001 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.

01:033:002 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah

           and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

01:033:003 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the

           ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

01:033:004 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his

           neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

01:033:005 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;

           and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children

           which God hath graciously given thy servant.

01:033:006 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and

           they bowed themselves.

01:033:007 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed

           themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they

           bowed themselves.

01:033:008 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?

           And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

01:033:009 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast

           unto thyself.

01:033:010 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in

           thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I

           have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and

           thou wast pleased with me.

01:033:011 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;

           because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have

           enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

01:033:012 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I

           will go before thee.

01:033:013 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are

           tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and

           if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

01:033:014 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I

           will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before

           me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my

           lord unto Seir.

01:033:015 And 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

           grace in the sight of my lord.

01:033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

01:033:017 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and

           made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is

           called Succoth.

01:033:018 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the

           land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his

           tent before the city.

01:033:019 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his

           tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,

           for an hundred pieces of money.

01:033:020 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.