Genesis 29 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Then Jacob lift up his feet, and went toward the east country. ² And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lay thereby — for at that well were the flocks watered — and there lay a great stone at the well mouth. ³ And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone again upon the well's mouth unto his place. ⁴ And Jacob said unto them, "Brethren, whence be ye?" And they said, "Of Haran are we." ⁵ And he said unto them, "Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him." ⁶ And he said unto them, "Is he in good health?" And they said, "He is in good health: and behold, his daughter Rachel cometh with the sheep." ⁷ And he said, "Lo, it is yet a great while to night, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water the sheep and go and feed them." ⁸ And they said, "We may not, until all the flocks be brought together, and the stone be rolled from the well's mouth, and so we water our sheep." ⁹ While he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. ¹⁰ As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, he went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. ¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lift up his voice and wept: ¹² and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebekah's son. Then Rachel ran and told her father. ¹³ When Laban heard tell of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran against him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him into his house. And then Jacob told Laban all the matter. ¹⁴ And then Laban said, "Well, thou art my bone and my flesh. Abide with me the space of a month." ¹⁵ And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?" ¹⁶ And Laban had two daughters, the eldest called Lea and the youngest Rachel. ¹⁷ Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter." ¹⁹ And Laban answered, "It is better that I give her thee, than to another man: bide therefore with me." ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ²¹ And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come." ²² Then Laban bade all the men of that place, and made a feast. ²³ And when even was come, he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her. ²⁴ And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpah his maid, to be her servant. ²⁵ And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?" ²⁶ Laban answered, "It is not the manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest. ²⁷ Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more. ²⁸ And Jacob did even so, and passed out that week, and then he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. ²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her servant. ³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more. ³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren. ³² And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me." ³³ And she conceived again and bare a son, and said, "The LORD hath heard that I am despised, and hath therefore given me this son also." And she called him Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived yet, and bare a son, and said, "Now this once will my husband keep me company, because I have borne him three sons." And therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived yet again, and bare a son, saying, "Now will I praise the LORD!" Therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.

² and in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and rested in the seventh day from all his works which he had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; for in it he rested from all his works which he had created and made.

²³ Then said Adam, "This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was taken of the man."

¹ And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."

¹⁰ And he abode yet seven days more, and sent out the dove again out of the ark; ¹¹ and the dove came to him again about eventide, and behold: there was in her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked, whereby Noah perceived that the waters were abated upon the earth. ¹² And he tarried yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove, which from thenceforth came no more again to him.

³¹ Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

¹¹ And when he was come nigh for to enter into Egypt, he said unto Sarai his wife, "Behold, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.

¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife?

⁸ Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.

¹⁴ When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he harnessed his servants born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and followed till they came at Dan. ¹⁵ And set himself and his servants in array, and fell upon them by night, and smote them, and chased them away unto Hobah, which lieth on the lefthand of Damascus, ¹⁶ and brought again all the goods and also his brother Lot, and his goods; the women also and the people.

¹ Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

¹¹ And the LORD's angel said further unto her, "See, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation.

¹⁸ For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

²⁰ And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his eldest son and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." ²³ And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. ¹¹ And made his camels to lie down without the city by a well's side of water, at even: about the time that women come out to draw water.

¹³ Lo, I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of this city will come out to draw water:

¹⁵ And it came to pass, yer he had left speaking, that Rebekah came out — the daughter of Bethuel, son to Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother — and her pitcher upon her shoulder. ¹⁶ The damsel was very fair to look upon, and yet a maid and unknown of man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up again.

²⁴ And she said unto him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah which she bare unto Nahor,"

²⁸ And the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house these things. ²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother called Laban. And Laban ran out unto the man, to the well:

⁵⁹ Then they brought Rebekah their sister on the way, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and the men that were with him.

⁶⁵ and said unto the servant, "What man is this that cometh against us in the field?" And the servant said, "It is my master." And then she took her mantle, and put it about her.

⁶⁷ Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian. ²¹ And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

²⁶ And his father Isaac said unto him, "Come near and kiss me my son."

³⁵ And he said, "Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing." ³⁶ Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times — first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."

⁴³ Now therefore my son hear my voice, make thee ready, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran:

⁵ Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ⁶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying 'see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,' ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

¹⁰ Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran,

³ And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone again upon the well's mouth unto his place.

⁶ And he said unto them, "Is he in good health?" And they said, "He is in good health: and behold, his daughter Rachel cometh with the sheep." ⁷ And he said, "Lo, it is yet a great while to night, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water the sheep and go and feed them." ⁸ And they said, "We may not, until all the flocks be brought together, and the stone be rolled from the well's mouth, and so we water our sheep." ⁹ While he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. ¹⁰ As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, he went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. ¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lift up his voice and wept: ¹² and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebekah's son. Then Rachel ran and told her father.

¹² and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebekah's son. Then Rachel ran and told her father. ¹³ When Laban heard tell of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran against him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him into his house. And then Jacob told Laban all the matter.

¹⁵ And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?"

¹⁷ Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

²⁴ And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpah his maid, to be her servant. ²⁵ And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?" ²⁶ Laban answered, "It is not the manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest. ²⁷ Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more. ²⁸ And Jacob did even so, and passed out that week, and then he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. ²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her servant. ³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more.

³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more. ³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren. ³² And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me."

¹ When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead." ² Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?" ³ Then she said, "Here is my maid, Bilhah: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her." ⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her: ⁵ And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son. ⁶ Then said Rachel, "God hath given sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son." Therefore called she him Dan.

⁶ Then said Rachel, "God hath given sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son." Therefore called she him Dan. ⁷ And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again; and bare Jacob another son. ⁸ And Rachel said, "God is turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand." And she called his name Naphtali.

⁸ And Rachel said, "God is turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand." And she called his name Naphtali. ⁹ When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah Lea's maid bare Jacob a son. ¹¹ Then said Lea, "Good luck," and called his name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Lea's maid, bare Jacob another son.

¹⁸ Then said Lea, "God hath given me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband." And she called him Issachar. ¹⁹ And Lea conceived yet again and bare Jacob the sixth son. ²⁰ Then said she, "God hath endued me with a good dowry. Now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." And called his name Zebulon.

²² And God remembered Rachel, heard her, and made her fruitful:

²⁵ As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country; ²⁶ give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."

²⁶ give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."

²⁸ appoint what thy reward shall be, and I will give it thee."

⁴ Then Jacob sent and called Rachel and Lea to the field unto his sheep,

⁷ And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.

¹⁵ he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times. ⁴² And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday."

⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared.

² And he put the maidens and their children foremost, and Lea and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

⁴ Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

¹² Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."

¹⁴ And they said unto them, "We cannot do this thing, that we should give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that were a shame unto us.

²⁵ And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male;

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."

¹⁹ And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem. ²⁰ And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rachel's grave pillar unto this day.

²² And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number. ²³ The sons of Lea: Reuben, Jacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon. ²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵ The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, Lea's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons which were born him in Mesopotamia.

² And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.

¹⁴ And he said unto him, "Go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again." And sent him out of the vale of Hebron, for to go to Shechem.

²¹ When Reuben heard that, he went about to rid him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him." ²² And Reuben said moreover unto them, "Shed not his blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hands upon him." For he would have rid him out of their hands and delivered him to his father again.

²⁹ And when Reuben came again unto the pit and found not Joseph there, he rent his clothes,

¹ And it fortuned at that time that Judah went from his brethren and gat him to a man called Hirah of Adullam, ² and there he saw the daughter of a man called Shua, a Canaanite. And he took her and went in unto her. ³ And she conceived and bare a son and called his name Er. ⁴ And she conceived again and bare a son and called him Onan. ⁵ And she conceived the third time and bare a son, whom she called Shelah: and he was at Chezib when she bare him. ⁶ And Judah gave Er, his eldest son, a wife whose name was Tamar. ⁷ But this Er, Judah's eldest son, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; wherefore the LORD slew him. ⁸ Then said Judah unto Onan, go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, and stir up seed unto thy brother. ⁹ And when Onan perceived that the seed should not be his: therefore when he went into his brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, because he would not give seed unto his brother. ¹⁰ And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD, wherefore he slew him also. ¹¹ Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown." For he feared lest he should have died also, as his brethren did. Thus went Tamar and dwelt in her father's house. ¹² And in process of time, the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died. Then Judah, when he had left mourning, went unto his sheep shearers to Timnath with his friend Hirah of Adullam. ¹³ And one told Tamar, saying, "Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep." ¹⁴ And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Timnath, for because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

¹⁴ And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Timnath, for because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought it had been an whore, because she had covered her face.

¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought it had been an whore, because she had covered her face. ¹⁶ And turned to her unto the way and said, "Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee." For he knew not that it was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What wilt thou give me, for to lie with me?"

¹⁶ And turned to her unto the way and said, "Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee." For he knew not that it was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What wilt thou give me, for to lie with me?" ¹⁷ Then said he, "I will send thee a kid from the flock." She answered, "Then give me a pledge till thou send it." ¹⁸ Then said he, "What pledge shall I give thee?" And she said, "Thy signet, thy necklace, and thy staff that is in thy hand." And he gave it her and lay by her, and she was with child by him. ¹⁹ And she gat her up and went and put her mantle from her, and put on her widow's raiment again. ²⁰ And Judah sent the kid by his neighbour of Adullam, for to fetch out his pledge again from the woman. But he found her not. ²¹ Then asked he the men of the same place saying, "Where is the whore that sat at Enaim in the way?" And they said, "There was no whore here." ²² And he came to Judah again, saying, "I cannot find her, and also the men of the place said that there was no whore there." ²³ And Judah said, "Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: for I sent the kid and thou couldest not find her." ²⁴ And it came to pass that after three months, one told Judah, saying, "Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and with playing the whore is become great with child." And Judah said, "Bring her forth and let her be burnt." ²⁵ And when they brought her forth, she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man unto whom these things pertain, am I with child." And said also, "Look whose are this seal, necklace, and staff." ²⁶ And Judah knew them, saying, "She is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Shelah my son." But he lay with her no more. ²⁷ When time was come that she should be delivered, behold there was two twins in her womb. ²⁸ And as she travailed, the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound a red thread about it, saying, "This will come out first." ²⁹ But he plucked his hand back again, and his brother came out. And she said, "Wherefore hast thou rent a rent upon thee?" And called him Perez. ³⁰ And afterward came out his brother that had the red thread about his hand, which was called Zerah.

⁶ And therefore he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and looked upon nothing that was with him, save only on the bread which he ate. And Joseph was a goodly person and a well favored.

²² Reuben answered them, saying, "Said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? But ye would not hear; And now verily see, his blood is required."

²⁴ And he turned from them and wept, and then turned to them again and communed with them, and took out Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes,

²⁷ And as one of them opened his sack, for to give his ass provender in the Inn, he spied his money in his sack's mouth.

⁸ Then said Judah unto Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we, thou and also our children. ⁹ I will be surety for him, and of my hands require him. If I bring him not to thee and set him before thine eyes, then let me bear the blame forever.

²⁷ And he welcomed them courteously saying, "Is your father, that old man which ye told me of, in good health? And is he yet alive?"

³⁰ And Joseph made haste — for his heart did melt upon his brother — and sought for to weep, and entered into his chamber, for to weep there.

³² And they prepared for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians which ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

¹⁸ Then Judah went unto him and said, "O my lord, let thy servant speak a word in my lord's audience, and be not wroth with thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. ¹⁹ My lord asked his servant, saying, 'Have ye a father or a brother?' ²⁰ And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'

²⁰ And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.' ²¹ Then said my lord unto his servants, 'Bring him unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.' ²² And we answered my lord, that the lad could not go from his father, 'For if he should leave his father, he were but a dead man.' ²³ Then saidest thou unto thy servants, 'Except your youngest brother come with you, look that ye see my face no more.' ²⁴ And when we came unto thy servant our father, we showed him what my lord had said. ²⁵ And when our father said unto us, 'Go again and buy us a little food,' ²⁶ we said that we could not go. 'Nevertheless, if our youngest brother go with us then will we go, for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.' ²⁷ Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.

²⁷ Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons. ²⁸ And the one went out from me and it is said of a surety that he is torn in pieces of wild beasts, and I saw him not since. ²⁹ If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.' ³⁰ Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me — seeing that his life hangeth by the lad's life - ³¹ then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come, he will die. So shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow unto the grave. ³² For I thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father and said, 'If I bring him not unto thee again. I will bear the blame all my life long.' ³³ Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren. ³⁴ For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"

² And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.

¹⁴ And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵ Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.

¹⁵ Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.

⁸ These are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, both Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first son. ⁹ The children of Reuben: Hanoch, Phallu, Hezron and Carmi.

¹¹ The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. ¹² The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Sarah — but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children of Perez, Hezron, and Hamul.

¹⁵ These be the children of Lea which she bare unto Jacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All these souls of his sons and daughters make thirty and six.

¹⁸ These are the children of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Lea his daughter. And these she bare unto Jacob in number sixteen souls. ¹⁹ The children of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were borne: Manasseh and Ephraim which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On bare unto him. ²¹ The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard. ²² These are the children of Rachel which were born unto Jacob: fourteen souls altogether.

⁷ And after I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel died upon my hand in the land of Canaan, by the way: when I had but a field's breadth to go unto Ephrata. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrata which is now called Bethlehem."

³ "Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power. ⁴ As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up. ⁵ The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons.

⁵ The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons. ⁶ Into their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed an ox.

⁶ Into their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed an ox. ⁷ Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. ⁸ "Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken. ¹¹ He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in the blood of grapes: ¹² his eyes are roudier than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sara his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Lea:

¹ And there went a man of the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard of it and went about to slay Moses: but he fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well's side. ¹⁶ The priest of Midian had seven daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep. ¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep.

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter which bare a son,

⁷ Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

²⁷ Then said the LORD unto Aaron, "Go meet Moses in the wilderness." And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him.

⁷ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed him, and they saluted each other and came into the tent.

¹⁶ "If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife: ¹⁷ If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

²⁶ he went and stood in the gate of the host and said, "If any man pertain unto the LORD, let him come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together and came unto him. ²⁷ And he said unto them, "Thus sayeth the LORD of Israel, 'Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the host: and slay every man his brother, every man his friend and every man his neighbor." ²⁸ And the children of Levi did as Moses had said. And there were slain of the people the same day, about three thousand men. ²⁹ Then Moses said, "Fill your hands unto the LORD this day, every man upon his son and upon his brother: to bring upon you a blessing this day."

¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth.

² And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father take with thee, and let them be joined unto thee and minister unto thee. And thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. ³ And let them wait upon thee and upon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nigh the holy vessels and the altar, that both they and ye also die not. ⁴ And let them be by thee and wait on the tabernacle of witness, and on all the service of the tabernacle, and let no stranger come nigh unto you.

⁷ And he began his parable, and said, "Balak the king of Moab hath fetched me from Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying, 'Come and curse me Jacob, come and defy me Israel.'

¹⁵ If a man have two wives, one loved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and also the hated;

⁷ And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression.

⁷ And he said, "Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah and bring him unto his people: let his hands fight for him: but be thou his help against his enemies." ⁸ And unto Levi he said, "Thy perfectness and thy light be according unto the man of thy mercy, who thou hast tempted at Massah, when ye strove by the waters of strife. ⁹ He that sayeth unto his father and mother, 'I saw him not,' and unto his brethren, 'I knew not,' and to his son, 'I know not': for they have observed thy words and kept thy covenant. ¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy laws. They shall put cense before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar.

⁷ Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

³ For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,

³³ When all the Midianites, the Amalekites and they of the east were gathered together and had gone and pitched in the valley of Jezreel,

¹² And the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all they of the east, lay along in the valley, like unto grasshoppers in multitude, and their camels were without number, even as the sand by the seaside in multitude.

¹⁰ Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their hosts with them, upon a fifteen thousand, which were all that were left of all the hosts of them of the east. And they that were slain were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew swords.

² "Say, I pray you, in the ears of all the inhabiters of Shechem: whether is better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal which are seventy persons reign over you, either that one reign over you. And remember thereto, that I am your bones and your flesh."

² And there was a man in Zorah of the kindred of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was barren and bare not. ³ And the Angel of the LORD appeared unto his wife and said unto her, "Behold, thou art barren and bearest not: But thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

¹⁰ And when his father was come unto the woman, Samson made there a feast, for so used the young men to do.

¹⁰ And when his father was come unto the woman, Samson made there a feast, for so used the young men to do. ¹¹ And when her friends saw him, they brought thirty companions to bear fellowship. ¹² And Samson said unto them, "I will put forth a riddle unto you. And if you can declare it within seven days of the feast and find it out, I will give you thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments:

¹² And Samson said unto them, "I will put forth a riddle unto you. And if you can declare it within seven days of the feast and find it out, I will give you thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments: ¹³ But and if you cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments." And they answered him, "Put forth thy riddle and let us hear it." ¹⁴ And he said unto them, "Out of the eater came meat: and out of the strong came sweetness." And they could not in three days expound the riddle. ¹⁵ And when the seventh day was come, they said unto Samson's wife, "Flatter with thine husband, that he may declare us thy riddle, or else we will burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to make us beggars? Or not?" ¹⁶ Then Samson's wife wept unto him and said, "It cannot be but that thou hatest me and lovest me not: for thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my folk and wilt not tell me what it meaneth." And he said, "Behold, I have not told it my father, nor my mother, and should I tell it thee?" ¹⁷ And she wept unto him seven days, while the feast lasted. And the seventh day he told her, because she lay so sore upon him. And she told it the children of her folk. ¹⁸ And the men of the city said unto him the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a Lion?" Then said he unto them, "If ye had not ploughed with my calf, ye had not found out my riddle."

¹ But it chanced, within a while after, even in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a Kid. And when he supposed to have gone in unto his wife into the chamber, her father would not suffer him to go in,

¹⁰ And moreover, Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, do I take unto me to wife to stir up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that his name be not put out from among his brethren, and from the gate of his city: ye are witnesses this day." ¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said "We are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem,

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said "We are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem, ¹² and that thine house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, even of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman." ¹³ And so Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And he went in unto her, and the LORD gave that she conceived and bare a son.

⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a portion with a heavy cheer, for he loved her; nevertheless the LORD had made her barren.

¹¹ and vowed a vow and said, "LORD of Hosts, if thou wilt look on the wretchedness of thine handmaid and shalt remember me and not forget thine handmaid, and shalt give unto thine handmaid a man child I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life and there shall neither razor or shears come upon his head."

²⁰ And in process of time she conceived and bare a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the LORD.

²⁷ And for this lad I prayed, and the LORD hath given me my desire which I asked of him:

²¹ And the LORD visited Hannah for that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew, dwelling still with the LORD.

² And now when thou art departed from me, thou shalt meet two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the borders of Benjamin, even at Zelzah. And they will say unto thee, "The asses which thou wentest to seek, are found; see, thy father hath left the care of the asses and sorroweth for you, saying, 'What shall I do for my son?'"

²² Then David put the pannier from him, unto the hands of the keeper of the vessels, and ran into the host and came and saluted his brethren.

¹⁷ Then said Saul to David, "Behold, my eldest daughter Merab: her I will give thee to wife; only play the man and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Mine hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines." ¹⁸ And David answered Saul, "What am I? And what is my life or the kindred of my father in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" ¹⁹ Howbeit, when the time was come that Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David she was given unto Adriel, a Meholathite, to wife. ²⁰ Nevertheless, Michal Saul's daughter loved David. And when it was showed Saul, the thing pleased him well. ²¹ And he said, "I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, to bring the hand of the Philistines upon him." And Saul said to David, "Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law again." ²² And Saul commanded his servants to commune with David secretly and say, "Behold, the king hath a favour to thee, and all his servants love thee — be therefore the king's son-in-law." ²³ And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. But David answered, "Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, when I am a poor man and of small reputation?" ²⁴ And Saul's servants told him again, saying, "Of this manner answered David." ²⁵ Then said Saul, "This wise say to David: 'The king careth for no other dowry but for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies." For Saul thought to make David fall into the hands of the Philistines. ²⁶ Then his servants told David these words, and it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. ²⁷ And shortly after that, David arose with his men, and went, and slew of the Philistines, two hundred men; and brought their foreskins, and satisfied the king thereof to be his son-in-law. And so Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

⁵ he sent out ten of his young men, and said unto them, "Get you up to Carmel and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.

¹⁴ And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal which I married with a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

¹ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and said, "See, we are thy bones and thy flesh.

¹² Haply, the LORD will look on my wretchedness, and do me good for his cursing this day."

¹² Ye are my brethren, my bones and my flesh: wherefore then should ye be the last that should come to bring the king home again?' ¹³ And say to Amasa, 'Art thou not my bone and my flesh? And God do so to me and so thereto: except thou be captain of the host to me forever in the room of Joab.'"

³⁹ And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over Jordan, he kissed Barzillai and took his leave of him, and he went back again unto his own place.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, "Are all things in rest and peace my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the chin with the right hand, as though he would have kissed him.

³⁰ so that Solomon's wisdom exceeded the wisdom of all them of the East country and all the wisdom of the Egyptians.

¹ The sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: for he was the eldest. But because he defied his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and so he is not reckoned unto the birthright. ² For unto Judah which was mighty among his brethren, was given the principality before him. But the birthright was given Joseph.

² They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

² He feedeth me in a green pasture, and leadeth me forth beside the waters of comfort.

¹⁸ Look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sin.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint.

³² I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou hast set my heart at liberty.

⁶⁰ I make haste, and prolong not the time, to keep thy commandments.

³ Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD.

³¹ If the righteous be recompensed upon earth, how much more then the ungodly and the sinner?

³⁰ Favour is a deceitful thing, and beauty is vanity; but a woman that feareth God, she shall be praised.

⁷ Go thou thy way then, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness, for thy works please God.

⁶ Marvel not at me that I am so black: For why? The sun hath shined upon me. My mother's children had evil will at me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. ⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest the sheep, where thou maketh the rest at the noon day: for why shall I be like him that goeth wrong about the flocks of thy companions?

⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest the sheep, where thou maketh the rest at the noon day: for why shall I be like him that goeth wrong about the flocks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou know not thyself, O thou fairest among women, then go thy way forth after the footsteps of the sheep, and feed thy goats beside the shepherds' tents.

⁶ O set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm: for love is mighty as the death, and jealousy as the hell. Her coals are of fire, and a very flame of the LORD: ⁷ so that many waters are not able to quench love, neither may the streams drown it. Yea, if a man would give all the good of his house for love, he should count it nothing.

⁵ Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

¹⁰ There shall neither hunger nor thirst, heat nor Sun hurt them. For he that favoureth them shall lead them, and give them drink of the spring wells.

¹⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD, "The voice of heaviness, weeping and lamentation was heard on the hills; even of Rachel mourning for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not."

² So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half of barley,

¹² Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

⁵ Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom:

³ and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."

¹⁵ So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

² Abraham begat Isaac; Isaac begat Jacob; Jacob begat Judah and his brethren;

¹⁸ The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came to dwell together, she was found with child by the holy ghost.

¹⁸ "On the hills was a voice heard, mourning, weeping and great lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not."

²⁴ No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

² For as ye judge, so shall ye be judged: and with what measure ye mete, with the same shall it be measured to you again.

¹² "Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, even so do ye to them: this is the law and the prophets.

³⁷ He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

² "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain King, which married his son, ³ and sent forth his servants, to call them that were bid to the wedding: and they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent forth other servants, saying, 'Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, mine oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready; come unto the marriage.' ⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways: one to his firm place, another about his merchandise: ⁶ the remnant took his servants, and intreated them ungoodly, and slew them. ⁷ When the King heard that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warriors and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city. ⁸ Then said he to his servants, 'The wedding was prepared: but they which were bidden thereto, were not worthy. ⁹ Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.' ¹⁰ The servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding was furnished with guests.

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went to meet the bridegroom: ² five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³ The foolish took their lamps, but took none oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took oil with them in their vessels with their lamps also. ⁵ While the bridegroom tarried, all slumbered and slept. ⁶ And even at midnight, there was a cry made, 'Behold, the bridegroom cometh, go out against him.' ⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and prepared their lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, for our lamps go out.' ⁹ But the wise answered, saying, 'Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.' ¹⁰ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut up.

³ And they said one to another, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?"

⁷ And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.

²⁵ "This wise hath God dealt with me, in the days when he looked on me, to take from me the rebuke that I suffered among men."

⁴⁵ Thou gavest me no kiss: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

²⁶ "If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

² And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre,

¹ And the third day, was there a marriage in Cana, a city of Galilee. And Jesus' mother was there. ² And Jesus was called also, and his disciples, unto the marriage. ³ And when the wine failed, Jesus' mother said unto him, "They have no wine." ⁴ Jesus said unto her, "Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come." ⁵ His mother said unto the ministers, "Whatsoever he sayeth unto you, do it." ⁶ And there were standing there, six waterpots of stone after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. ⁷ And Jesus said unto them, "Fill the water pots with water." And they filled them up to the hard brim. ⁸ And he said unto them, "Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast." And they bare it. ⁹ When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was turned unto wine, and knew not whence it was — But the ministers which drew the water knew — He called the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and said unto him, "All men at the beginning set forth good wine; And when men be drunk, then that which is worse: But thou hast kept back the good wine until now."

⁶ and there was Jacob's well. Jesus, then wearied in his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour:

¹⁴ But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst: But the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

²⁵ He that loveth his life shall destroy it: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal.

¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, "Lovest thou me," and said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus said unto him, "Feed my sheep.

² And he said, "Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken to. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham while he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

⁴ Then came he out of the land of Chaldea and dwelt in Haran. And after that, as soon as his father was dead, he brought him into this land, in which ye now dwell,

³⁷ And they wept all abundantly, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him:

¹⁶ Salute one another among yourselves with a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you.

¹³ every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is.

⁷ suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead:

⁹ Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness. ¹⁰ While we have, therefore, time; let us do good unto all men, and specially, unto them which are of the household of faith.

² and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

¹⁶ redeeming the time: for the days are evil.

³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

⁵ Walk wisely to them that are without, and redeem the time.

¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

¹⁷ For the lamb which is in the midst of the seat, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

⁹ And he said unto me, "Blessed are they which are called unto the Lamb's supper." And he said unto me, "These are the true sayings of God."