Genesis 25 Cross References - ACV

¹ And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. ² And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. ³ And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. ⁴ And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ⁵ And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. ⁶ But to the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country. ⁷ And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred seventy-five years. ⁸ And Abraham 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 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre, ¹⁰ the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife. ¹¹ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi. ¹² Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, 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 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years. And he gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people. ¹⁸ And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur which is before Egypt, as thou go toward Assyria. He abode opposite all his brothers. ¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac. ²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. ²¹ And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²² And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, why do I live? And she went to inquire of LORD. ²³ And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵ And the first came forth red all over like a hairy garment, and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And after that his brother came forth, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel, and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. ²⁷ And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. ²⁸ Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹ And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, First sell me thy birthright. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die, and what profit shall the birthright do to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

¹ And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. ² And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

¹ And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan. ³³ And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

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.

²⁸ And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

³⁶ And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

¹ Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. ² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. ⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

⁴ And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

¹⁷ Vex the Midianites, and smite them, ¹⁸ for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.

² Avenge the sons of Israel of the Midianites. Afterward thou shall be gathered to thy people.

⁸ And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

¹ And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. ² And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. And because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. ³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, they came up against them. ⁴ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. ⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number, and they came into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to LORD. ⁷ And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel cried to LORD because of Midian, ⁸ that LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel. And he said to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage.

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place-Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite-and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

⁹ And he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off,

⁸ Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him.

¹³ therefore thus says the lord LORD: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

⁶ Of the oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars. They have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.

²⁰ Dedan was thy merchant in precious cloths for riding.

⁶ The multitude of camels shall cover thee. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of LORD.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. ¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

³⁶ And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And has he given to him all that he has.

¹⁸ Thou have ascended on high. Thou have led captivity captive. Thou have received gifts among men, yea, among the rebellious also, that LORD God might dwell with them.

²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

¹⁸ And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

² just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.

¹⁷ And if children, also heirs, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer jointly, so that we may also be glorified jointly.

³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah.

²¹ Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, who correspond to Isaac, are children of promise.

¹⁹ Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness to dwell,

² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.

³ And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

¹⁴ And Abraham 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 the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹ And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

²² And 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 Jabbok.

²² And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, they came up against them.

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah. ² And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

⁴ And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him, and he abode with him three days. So they ate and drank, and lodged there.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. ¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

⁴⁵ so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹¹ And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent? ¹² Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

¹⁷ although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.

⁴ So Abram went as LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

¹⁵ But thou will go to thy fathers in peace; thou will be buried in a good old age.

⁷ And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred seventy-five years.

¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years. And he gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁸ And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ And Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

⁸ And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and 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.

²⁹ And he ordered 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 Ephron the Hittite,

³³ And when Jacob 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.

²⁴ Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

¹³ And when thou have seen it, thou also shall be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered,

¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them that did not know LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.

³² And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

²⁶ Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

¹⁷ So Job died, being old and full of days.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

¹¹ Therefore I am full of the wrath of LORD. I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the sons in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

⁵ And Ananias hearing these words, after falling down he expired. And great fear developed in all who heard these things.

¹⁰ And immediately she fell down at his feet and expired. And after coming in the young men found her dead, and having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

²³ And immediately an agent of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

³⁶ For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

⁹ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in the midst of you for a possession of a burying place. ¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, ¹¹ No, my lord, hear me. I give thee the field. And the cave that is in it, I give it to thee. I give it to thee in the presence of the sons of my people. Bury thy dead. ¹² And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. ¹³ And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou will, I pray thee, hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there. ¹⁴ And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, ¹⁵ My lord, hearken to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? Therefore bury thy dead. ¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. ¹⁷ So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it round about, were made sure ¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. ¹⁹ And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the field, and the cave that is in it, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of Heth.

²⁹ And Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

²⁹ And he ordered 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 Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place.

¹³ For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah,

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁹ And God said, No, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

⁶² And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, for he dwelt in the land of the South.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, I die, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁰ And the agent of LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction. ¹² And he will be a wild donkey among men, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers. ¹³ And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her, Thou are a God who sees, for she said, Have I even here looked behind him who sees me? ¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son. And Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed.

⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,

³ and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

²⁹ These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

⁵ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁵ I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail. ¹⁷ And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee. They shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.

¹⁹ And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said to him.

⁷ And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred seventy-five years. ⁸ And Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon. That is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou go to Zoar.

¹⁰ Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there. And those who remained fled to the mountain.

¹² And he will be a wild donkey among men, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers.

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

⁷ And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

²⁹ In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, and king Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh-necoh killed him at Megiddo when he had seen him.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

²³ In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria. And the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

² Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,

³⁴ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. And Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

²³ And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

⁵ And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take for him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him an order, saying, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

¹⁸ 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 to the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

⁵ And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

²⁷ And many lepers were in Israel near Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.

³⁰ And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

² And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? ³ And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

¹⁶ And I will bless her. And moreover I will give thee a son by her. Yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be by her. ¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee! ¹⁹ And God said, No, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

² And he had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but will give to thy handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

²⁷ I prayed for this child, and LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.

²⁰ And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated by them because they put their trust in him.

¹³ And he prayed to him. And he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that LORD he was God.

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was entreated by us.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

² O thou who hear prayer, to thee all flesh shall come.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

³ Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, and the fruit of the womb is a reward.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry and will save them.

²⁴ The fear of a wicked man shall come upon him. And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

¹¹ Thus says LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his maker: Ask me of the things that are to come concerning my sons. And command ye me concerning the work of my hands.

⁹ Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly,

²⁴ And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

⁷ And there was no child to them because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in their days.

¹³ But the agent said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy plea was heard, and thy wife Elizabeth will bear a son for thee. And thou shall call his name John.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac ¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger.

⁹ (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer, for he who is now called a Prophet was formerly called a Seer.)

²² Therefore they asked of LORD further, Is there yet a man to come here? And LORD answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.

¹⁵ Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me. Let not the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father, for thy servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.

⁶ And when Saul inquired of LORD, LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

⁸ And David inquired of LORD, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all.

³¹ And when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the lord LORD, I will not be inquired of by you.

³⁷ Thus says the lord LORD: For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.

⁴ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

¹⁶ And I will bless her. And moreover I will give thee a son by her. Yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be by her.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.

²⁷ And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

²⁹ Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brothers, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be he who curses thee, and blessed be he who blesses thee.

⁴⁰ And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

³ And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

³¹ And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says thy brother Israel, Thou know all the travail that has befallen us,

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in Edom. He put garrisons throughout all Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

⁴⁷ And there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

¹³ And he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

¹¹ And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote ten thousand of the sons of Seir. ¹² And the sons of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

⁸ Moab is my wash pot. Upon Edom I will cast my shoe. Philistia, shout thou because of me. ⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against thee: ⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes, ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre, ⁸ Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon, ¹⁰ who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their ranking men like Oreb and Zeeb, yea, all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God. ¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind, ¹⁴ as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire. ¹⁵ So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.

¹ Come near, ye nations, to hear. And hearken, ye peoples. Let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof, the world, and all things that come forth from it. ² For LORD has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them. He has delivered them to the slaughter. ³ Their slain also shall be cast out. And the stench of their dead bodies shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. ⁴ And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host shall fade away as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig tree. ⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. ⁶ The sword of LORD is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. ⁸ For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. ⁹ And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It shall not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste. None shall pass through it forever and ever. ¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. ¹² They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there. And all its rulers shall be nothing. ¹³ And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves. And the wild goat shall cry to his fellow. Yea, the screech owl shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the dart-snake shall make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade. Yea, there the vultures shall be gathered, each one with her mate. ¹⁶ Seek ye out of the book of LORD, and read. No one of these shall be missing. None shall want her mate. For my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them. ¹⁷ And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they shall dwell therein.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. ² Why are thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him who treads in the wine vat? ³ I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yea, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath, and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. ⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me. ⁶ And I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

⁷ Of Edom. Thus says LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? ⁸ Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him. ⁹ If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough? ¹⁰ But I have made Esau bare. I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is not. ¹¹ Leave thy fatherless sons; I will preserve them alive. And let thy widows trust in me. ¹² For thus says LORD: Behold, those to whom it did not pertain to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink. And are thou he who shall go altogether unpunished? Thou shall not go unpunished, but thou shall surely drink. ¹³ For I have sworn by myself, says LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. ¹⁴ I have heard news from LORD. And an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. ¹⁵ For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men. ¹⁶ As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD. ¹⁷ And Edom shall become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says LORD, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man sojourn in it. ¹⁹ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it. And he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who will appoint a time for me, and who is the shepherd who will stand before me? ²⁰ Therefore hear ye the counsel of LORD that he has taken against Edom, and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. ²¹ The earth trembles at the noise of their fall. There is a cry; the noise of it is heard in the Red Sea. ²² Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

¹² Thus says the lord LORD: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them, ¹³ therefore thus says the lord LORD: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they shall know my vengeance, says the lord LORD.

¹ Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it. ³ And say to it, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment. ⁴ I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD. ⁵ Because thou have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end, ⁶ therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee. Since thou have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ Thus I will make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses they shall fall who are slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁰ Because thou have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas LORD was there, ¹¹ therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou have shown out of thy hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I shall judge thee. ¹² And thou shall know that I, LORD, have heard all thy revilings which thou have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour. ¹³ And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it. ¹⁴ Thus says the lord LORD: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make thee desolate. ¹⁵ As thou rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to thee. Thou shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it, and they shall know that I am LORD.

¹¹ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever. ¹² But I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the lord LORD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. ² Behold, I have made thee small among the nations. Thou are greatly despised. ³ The pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD. ⁵ If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how thou are cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? ⁶ How are the things of Esau searched! How are his hidden treasures sought out! ⁷ All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee. Those who eat thy bread lay a snare under thee. There is no understanding in him. ⁸ Shall I not in that day, says LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? ⁹ And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter. ¹⁰ Shame shall cover thee for the violence done to thy brother Jacob, and thou shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ In the day that thou stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou were as one of them. ¹² But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. ¹⁴ And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape, and deliver not up those of his who remain in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head. ¹⁶ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

² I have loved you, says LORD. Yet ye say, How have thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says LORD. Yet I loved Jacob, ³ but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness. ⁴ Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, thus says LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom LORD has indignation forever. ⁵ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac ¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior.

¹¹ And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

¹⁶ And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.

²³ And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

³⁶ And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?

²⁸ And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand. And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. ²⁹ And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out. And she said, Why have thou made a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called Perez. ³⁰ And afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand. And his name was called Zerah.

³ In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.

²⁰ And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

³ Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take venison for me. ⁴ And make savory food for me, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die. ⁵ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

¹⁰ And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. ¹¹ And he touched upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

³⁹ I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, of my hand thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ Thus I was; 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 thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.

³⁴ that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

⁸ And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.

³ And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a happy end to the man of peace.

⁹ By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

⁴ And make savory food for me, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die.

⁶ And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying, ⁷ Bring venison for me, and make savory food for me, that I may eat, and bless thee before LORD before my death.

⁹ Go now to the flock, and fetch me two good kids of the goats from there. And I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loves.

¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau thy firstborn. I have done according as thou bade me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

²⁵ And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.

³¹ And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

⁴ And Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. ⁵ And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

²⁸ Then one of the people answered, and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day, and the people were faint.

³¹ And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint,

²⁵ A righteous man eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want.

³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. ³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

¹ Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).

⁹ And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

⁴³ chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed, the mighty men of Moab. Trembling takes hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says thy brother Israel, Thou know all the travail that has befallen us, ¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt ill with us and our fathers. ¹⁶ And when we cried to LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an agent, and brought us forth out of Egypt. And, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the outermost of thy border. ¹⁷ Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border. ¹⁸ And Edom said to him, Thou shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee. ¹⁹ And the sons of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway. And if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price of it. Only let me, without doing anything, pass through on my feet. ²⁰ And he said, Thou shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. ²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.

⁷ Thou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian, because thou were a sojourner in his land.

²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

⁹ For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, of which a man says, This is it, the case of both parties shall come before God. He whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?

⁹ For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, whereas visitation is to him from the Lord.

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

³ And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojourning could not bear them because of their cattle.

²³ And he swore to her, Whatever thou may ask of me, I will give to thee, as much as half of my kingdom.

¹⁶ For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

¹⁶ lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

¹⁵ Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

¹³ And, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

¹³ And LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter, the good price that I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of LORD.

⁵ But having disregarded, they departed, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

¹⁵ he said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed out to him thirty silver pieces.

¹⁸ And they all from one began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it. I ask thee have me excused. ¹⁹ And another said, I bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to test them. I ask thee have me excused. ²⁰ And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

⁴¹ Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.

³² If in respect to men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me if the dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

¹⁶ lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.