PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE JACOB GEN 25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. GEN 25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. GEN 25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. GEN 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. GEN 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: GEN 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. GEN 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. GEN 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? GEN 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. GEN 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. GEN 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. GEN 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: GEN 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; GEN 27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. GEN 27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. GEN 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, GEN 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. GEN 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. GEN 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: GEN 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. GEN 27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: GEN 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. GEN 27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. GEN 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. GEN 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: GEN 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: GEN 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. GEN 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? GEN 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. GEN 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me. GEN 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. GEN 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. GEN 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. GEN 27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. GEN 27:25 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 did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank. GEN 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. GEN 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: GEN 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: GEN 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. GEN 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. GEN 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. GEN 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; GEN 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; GEN 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? GEN 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? GEN 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. GEN 28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. GEN 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; GEN 28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. GEN 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. GEN 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. GEN 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. GEN 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. GEN 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; GEN 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. GEN 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. GEN 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. GEN 28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. GEN 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. GEN 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. GEN 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, GEN 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: GEN 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. GEN 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. GEN 29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. GEN 29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. GEN 29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. GEN 29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. GEN 29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. GEN 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. GEN 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. GEN 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them. GEN 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. GEN 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. GEN 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father. GEN 29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. GEN 29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. GEN 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? GEN 29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. GEN 29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. GEN 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. GEN 29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. GEN 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. GEN 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. GEN 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. GEN 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. GEN 29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. GEN 29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? GEN 29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. GEN 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. GEN 29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. GEN 29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. GEN 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. GEN 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. GEN 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. GEN 29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. GEN 29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. GEN 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. GEN 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. GEN 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? GEN 30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. GEN 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. GEN 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. GEN 30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. GEN 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. GEN 30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. GEN 30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. GEN 30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. GEN 30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. GEN 30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. GEN 30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. GEN 30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. GEN 30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. GEN 30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. GEN 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. GEN 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. GEN 30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. GEN 30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. GEN 30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. GEN 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. GEN 30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: GEN 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. GEN 30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. GEN 30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. GEN 30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. GEN 30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. GEN 30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. GEN 30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? GEN 30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock. GEN 30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. GEN 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. GEN 30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. GEN 30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. GEN 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. GEN 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. GEN 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. GEN 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. GEN 30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. GEN 30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. GEN 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. GEN 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. GEN 31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. GEN 31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. GEN 31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, GEN 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. GEN 31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. GEN 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. GEN 31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. GEN 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. GEN 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. GEN 31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. GEN 31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. GEN 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. GEN 31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? GEN 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. GEN 31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. GEN 31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; GEN 31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. GEN 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. GEN 31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. GEN 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. GEN 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. GEN 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. GEN 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. GEN 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. GEN 31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? GEN 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? GEN 31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. GEN 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. GEN 31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? GEN 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. GEN 31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. GEN 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. GEN 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. GEN 31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images. GEN 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? GEN 31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. GEN 31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. GEN 31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. GEN 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. GEN 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. GEN 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. GEN 31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? GEN 31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. GEN 31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. GEN 31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. GEN 31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. GEN 31:48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; GEN 31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. GEN 31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. GEN 31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee: GEN 31:52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. GEN 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac. GEN 31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. GEN 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. GEN 32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. GEN 32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. GEN 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. GEN 32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: GEN 32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. GEN 32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. GEN 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; GEN 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. GEN 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: GEN 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. GEN 32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. GEN 32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. GEN 32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; GEN 32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, GEN 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. GEN 32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. GEN 32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? GEN 32:18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. GEN 32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. GEN 32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. GEN 32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. GEN 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. GEN 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. GEN 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. GEN 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. GEN 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. GEN 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. GEN 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. GEN 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. GEN 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. GEN 32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. GEN 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. GEN 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. GEN 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. GEN 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. GEN 33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money. GEN 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael. GEN 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. GEN 34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. GEN 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. GEN 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. GEN 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. GEN 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. GEN 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done. GEN 34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. GEN 34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: GEN 34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. GEN 34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. GEN 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. GEN 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. GEN 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: GEN 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. GEN 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. GEN 35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. GEN 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. GEN 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. GEN 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. GEN 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. GEN 35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. GEN 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; GEN 35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. GEN 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. GEN 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. GEN 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. GEN 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. GEN 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. GEN 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. GEN 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. GEN 35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. GEN 35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. GEN 35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: GEN 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: GEN 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: GEN 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: GEN 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. GEN 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. GEN 37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. GEN 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. GEN 37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. GEN 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. GEN 37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? GEN 37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. GEN 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. GEN 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. GEN 42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? GEN 42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. GEN 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. GEN 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. GEN 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. GEN 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land. GEN 43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. GEN 43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. GEN 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: GEN 43:5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. GEN 43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? GEN 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? GEN 43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. GEN 43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: GEN 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. GEN 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: GEN 43:12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: GEN 43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: GEN 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. GEN 44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. GEN 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. GEN 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: GEN 45:28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. GEN 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. GEN 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. GEN 46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: GEN 46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. GEN 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. GEN 46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: GEN 46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. GEN 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. GEN 46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. GEN 46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. GEN 46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. GEN 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. GEN 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. GEN 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; GEN 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. GEN 46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. GEN 46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. GEN 46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. GEN 46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; GEN 47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. GEN 47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: GEN 47:6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. GEN 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. GEN 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? GEN 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. GEN 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. GEN 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. GEN 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. GEN 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. GEN 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. GEN 47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: GEN 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. GEN 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. GEN 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. GEN 48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, GEN 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. GEN 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. GEN 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. GEN 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. GEN 48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. GEN 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. GEN 48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. GEN 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. GEN 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) GEN 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. GEN 49:30 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 of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. GEN 49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. GEN 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. GEN 50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. GEN 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. GEN 50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, GEN 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. GEN 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. GEN 50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, GEN 50:8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. GEN 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. GEN 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. GEN 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: GEN 50:13 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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. EXO 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. EXO 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, EXO 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, EXO 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. EXO 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. JOS 24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 1SA 12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. 1CH 1:34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel. 1CH 2:1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 1CH 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 1CH 16:13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 1CH 16:14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 1CH 16:15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations; 1CH 16:16 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; 1CH 16:17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 1CH 16:18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; PSA 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. HOS 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. MAT 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; JOH 4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ACT 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. ACT 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. ACT 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, HEB 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. HEB 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. ============================== THE LECTRONIC IBRARY ECHANGE P.O. 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