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Jacob’s Fear of Esau 1 Then as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him [to reassure and protect him]. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim (double camps). 3 Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in […]

Jacob Meets Esau 1 Then Jacob looked up, and saw Esau coming with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. 2 He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. 3 Then Jacob […]

The Treachery of Jacob’s Sons 1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out [unescorted] to visit the girls of the land. 2 When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince (sheik) of the land, saw her, he kidnapped her and lay [intimately] with her by force [humbling […]

Jacob Moves to Bethel 1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you [in a distinct manifestation] when you fled [years ago] from Esau your brother.” 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, […]

Esau Moves 1 Now these arethe records ofthe descendants of Esau, (that is, Edom). 2 Esau took his [three] wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 4 Adah bore […]

Joseph’s Dream 1 So Jacob (Israel) lived in the landwhere his father [Isaac] had been a stranger (sojourner, resident alien), in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with […]

Judah and Tamar 1 Now at that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to [stay with] a certain Adullamite named Hirah. 2 There Judah saw a daughter of Shua, a Canaanite, and he took her [as his wife] and lived with her. 3 So she conceived and gave birth to a son and […]

Joseph’s Success in Egypt 1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. 2 The Lordwas with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successfulandprosperous man; and he was […]

Joseph Interprets a Dream 1 Now some time later, the cupbearer (butler) and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, Egypt’s king. 2 Pharaoh (Sesostris II) was extremely angry with his two officials, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers. 3 He put them in confinement in the […]

Pharaoh’s Dream 1 Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by theNile. 2 And lo, there came up out of the Nile seven [healthy] cows, sleekandhandsome and fat; and they grazed in the reed grass [in a marshy pasture]. 3 Then behold, seven other cows […]