1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah,
which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled
her.
3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
damsel to wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his
peace until they were come.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because
he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter:
which thing ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem
longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto
us, and take our daughters unto you.
10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before
you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let
me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I
will give.
12 Ask 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.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give
our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach
unto us:
15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we
be, that every male of you be circumcised;
16 Then 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.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then
will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he
had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable
than all the house of his father.
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell
in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is
large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for
wives, and let us give them our daughters.
22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with
us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised,
as they are circumcised.
23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast
of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they
will dwell with us.
24 And 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.
25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren,
took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and
slew all the males.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of
the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and
that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the
house.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to
make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they
shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and
I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot?
Chapter 35
1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise,
go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto
God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face
of Esau thy brother.
2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean,
and change your garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; 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.
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the
sons of Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that
is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face
of his brother.
8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram,
and blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall
not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name:
and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee,
and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will
give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with
him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard
labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called
him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar
of Rachel's grave unto this day.
21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower
of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher:
these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the
city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto
his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and
Jacob buried him.
Chapter 36
1 Now these are the generations
of Esau, who is Edom.
2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter
of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are
the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters,
and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land
of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother
Jacob.
7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together;
and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them
because of their cattle.
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites
in mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare
to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush,
and Jaalam, and Korah.
15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz
the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho,
duke Kenaz,
16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons
of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath,
duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that
came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
dukes.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the
land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of
the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
sister was Timna.
23 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath,
and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah:
this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as
he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah.
26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban,
and Ithran, and Cheran.
27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan,
duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes
that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of
his city was Dinhabah.
33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned
in his stead.
34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned
in his stead.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian
in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned
in his stead.
38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his stead.
39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in
his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's
name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Mezahab.
40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according
to their families, after their places, by their names; duke
Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according
to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is
Esau the father of the Edomites. |