Jacob's complaint of Laban. GENESIS. The covenant between them. fver. 19. 30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou fstolen my Judg. 18. 21. gods? 1739. and what can I do this day unto CHRIST these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 31 And Jacob answered and said me. 32 With whomsoever thou findest Beech. 41.9. 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. +Heb. felt. Lov. 19. 32, + Heb. felt. 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. 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. 35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot h Ex. 20. 12.b rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. 36 T 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? 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. 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. 39 i That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of k my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. ¡ Ex. 22. 10, &c. k Ex. 22. 12. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years 1ch, 29.27, 28. in thy house: Ilserved thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast 313 ver. 7. In Ps. 124. 1,2. o ver, 53. Js. 8. 13. peh. 29. 32. Ex. 3. 7. q1 Chr. 12.17. Jude 9. changed my wages ten times. 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. P God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 43 T And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my rch. 26. 28. Josh. 24. 27. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set tch. 28. 18. up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. 47 And Laban called it ||Jegar-saha-That is, The dutha: but Jacob called it | Galeed. 48 And Laban said, "This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it cafled Galeed, heap of uitness. Chald. That is, The heap of witRea. Heb. u Josh. 24. 27. 49 And | Mizpah; for he said, The Judg. 11. 29, LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; sec, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar te 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. 1 Sam. 7. 5. " That is, A beacon, от, watchtower. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their futher, judge betwixt us. And Jay ch. 16. 5. cob sware by the fear of his father zch. 21. 23. Isaac. 54 Then Jacob || offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to cat bread: and they did cat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 55 And carly in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and b blessed them; and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. CHAPTER XXXII. 1 Jacob's vision at Mahanaim. 3 Пis message to Esau. 6 He is afraid of Esau's coming. He prayeth for deliverance. 13 He sendeth a present to Esau. 24 He wrestleth with an angel at Peniel, where he is called Israel. 31 He halteth. AND Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 1 h ch. 33. 1. i cha, 35. 3, k P. 50. 15. 1 ch. 28, 13, m ch. 31. 3, 13. + Heb. I am 6 T And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also bhe cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 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; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. 9Tk And Jacob said, 10 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD in which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of lens than all, all the "mercies, and of all the truth, tc. which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with "my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. n ch. 21. 27. Job 8. 7. PP. 59. 1, 2. g Hos. 10. 18. +Heb. upon. rch. 28. 13, 14, 15, sch. 43. 11. Prov. 18. 18. 11 PDeliver 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. 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. 13 T And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which eame to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she asses and ten foals. Jacob's name is changed. Before 1739. thy servant Jacob is behind us. For t Prov. 21, 14. + Heb. my Job 42, 8, 9. face, 22 And he rose up that night, and 23 And he took them, and tsent 24 T And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the + breaking of the day. 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. I Hos. 12. 3,4. + Heb.ascend- 2 Cor. 12. 7. See Luke 24. 28. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the 27 And he said unto him, What is 28 And he said, b Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but | Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and d with men, and hast prevailed. 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. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 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. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his serv-1 ants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the fore- er meeteth thee, and asketh thee, 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy 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. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, CHAPTER XXXIII. AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and 2 And he put the handmaids and 3 And he passed over before them, 42.6.& 43, 26. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and ech. 32. 28. dch, 45, 14, 15. + Heb. to thee? ech. 49. 9. Ps. 127. 3. Is. 8. 13. + Heb. What is all this band to thee? f ch. 32. 16. g ch. 32. 5. + Heb. be that to thee that is thin. h ch. 43. 3. 2 Sam. 3. 13. & 14. 24, 25, 32. Matt. 18. 10. i Judg. 1. 15. 1 Sam. 25.27. & 30. 26. 2 Kinga 5.15. + Heb. all things, Phil. 4. 18. k 2 Kings 5. 23. + Heb. according to the foot of the work, fo. and according to the foot of the children. 1 ch. 32. 3. + Heb. set, or, place, † Heb. Wherefore is this? In ch. 34. 11. & 47. 25. Ruth 2. 13. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those † with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, 1 Dinah ravished by Shechem. CHAPTER XXXIV. Dinah is ravished by Shechem. 4 He sueth to marry her. 13 The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it. 25 The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, 27 and spoil their city. 30 Jacob reproveth Simeon and Leri. ND a Dinah the daughter of they and their children, and they ALeah, which she bare unto Ja bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Kachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, t What meanest thou by fall this drove which I met? And he said, These are 5 to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand for therefore I hhave seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, imy blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have tenough. And he urged him, and he took it. 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me; and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will dic. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead on softly, t according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. cob, bwent out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he d took her, and lay with her, and f defiled her. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake † kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Iamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. Before CHRIST about 1732. a ch. 30. 21. Tit. 2. 5. ech. 6. 2. Judg. 14. 1. ch. 20. 2. + Heb. kum bled her. Deat. 22. 29. + Heb. to the heart of the damsel: See is. 40. 2. Hos. 2. 14. • Judg. 14. 2. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob fheld his peace until they f1 Sam. 10.27. were come. 6 T And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he h had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's j daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. 28am. 13.22. gch. 49. 7. 2 Sam. 13.21. hJosh. 7. 15. Judg. 20. 6. Dent. 22, 17. 25ain. 13.12, 20, 15. I ch. 42. 34. 15 And Esau said, Let me nowk the land shall be before you; dwell k ch. 13. 9. & 16 1 So Esau returned that day on n Jesh. 13.27. his way unto Seir. Judg. 8. 5. That is, o John 3. 23. [Called. Acts 7. 16. Sychem. p Josh. 24. 1. q Josh. 24. 32. That is, God the God of Israel. 17 And Jacob journeyed to "Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called || Succoth. 18 T And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of P Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 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 a hundred pieces of money. 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it || El-Elohe-Israel. 11 And Shechem said unto her m ch. 47. 27. father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 17. 12 Ask me never so much " dowry Ex. 22. 16, and gift, and I will give according as Dent, 22, 29. ye shall say unto me: but give me 1 Sam. 18.25. the damsel to wife. 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Ilamor his father "de- See 2 Sam. ceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: 14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for P that were a reproach unto us: 15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 16 Then will we give our daughters 13, 24, &c. p Josh. 5. 9. 11 Chr. 4. 9. r ch. 23. 10. ach, 49, 5, 6, 7. 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18 And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem Hamor's son. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. 20 T And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be círcumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 25 T And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, "Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took cach man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and SheHeb. mouth. chem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. t ch. 49. 6. u Josh. 7. 25. x Ex. 5. 21. 1 Sam. 13. 4. y Deut. 4. 27. Ps. 105. 12. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. 1 God blesseth Jacob. CHAPTER XXXV. God sendeth Jacob to Beth-el. 2 He purg eth his house of idols. 6 Ho buildeth an altar at Beth-el. 8 Deborah dieth at Allon-bachuth. 9 God blesseth Jacob at Beth-cl. 16 Rachel travaileth of Benjamin, and dieth in the way to Edar. 22 Reuben lieth with Bilhah. 23 The sons of Jacob. 27 Jacob cometh to Isaac at Hebron. 23 The age, death, and burial of Isaac. Before CHRIST about 1732. AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to "Beth-el, and dwell ach. 23. 19. there: and make there an altar unto God, bthat appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. b ch. 28. 13. c ch. 27. 43. Josh. 21. 15. el. 31. 19,34 2 Then Jacob said unto his d house-ch. 18. 19. hold, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and fbe clean, and change your garments: Josh. 24 2, 1 Sara. 7. 3. fEx. 19. 10. P. 107, 6. 1 ch. 28, 20, & 31. 3. 42. 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-cl; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me 5 ch. 32, 7, 21.. in the day of my distress, hand was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their i earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under k the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6 T So Jacob came to " Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place | El-beth-cl; because "there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. i Hos. 2. 13. k Josh. 24. 26. Judg. 9. 6. Ex. 15. 16. & 23. 27. & 31. 21. Deut. 11. 25. Joshi. 2. 9. & 5. 1. 1 Sam. 14. 15. 2 Chr. 11. 14, m ch. 28. 19, 22. a Ece, 5. 4. o th. 28. 13 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath peh. 24. 59. Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called | Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel. That is, The oak of weeping. q Hos. 12. 4. reh. 17. 5. ch. 32 28. 48, 3, 4. Ex. 6. 3. u ch. 17.5, 6, 16. & 28. 3. & 48. 4. 11 And God said unto him, I am tch. 17. 1. & God Almighty: be fruitful and mul tiply; "a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave ch. 12. 7. & Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have "troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabit-I give the land. ants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of the 13. 15. & 28. 3,4. & 28. 13. x ch. 17. 23. ch. 28. 18. Rachel dieth in travail. Before CHRIST about 1732. seh. 28. 19. ↑ Heh, a little piece of ground, 2 Kings 5. 19. a ch. 30, 21. 1 Sam. 4. 20. about 1729. 1That is. The son of ! That is, The son of the right hand. beh. 48. 7. e Ruth 1. 2. & 4. 11. Mic. 5. 2. Matt. 2. 6. 1 Sam. 10. 2. GENESIS. place where God spake with him, *Beth-el. 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. The generations of Esau. sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. Before CHRIST about 1700. about 1740. 16 And they journeyed from Beth- 6 And Esau took his wives, and his el; and there was but a little way to sons, and his daughters, and all the come to Ephrath: and Rachel trav-persons of his house, and his cattle, ailed, and she had hard labour. and all his beasts, and all his sub-t Heb, souls. stance, which he had got in the land. of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. 18 And it came to pass, as her 7 f For their riches were more than soul was in departing, (for she died,) that they might dwell together; and that she called his name || Ben-oni: 5 the land wherein they were stranbut his father called him | Benja-gers could not bear them because of min. their cattle. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. 20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and 2 Sana. 18. 18. spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. e Mic. 4. 8. fch. 49. 4. 1 Chr. 5. 1. See 2 Sam. 16. 22. & 20, 3. 1 Cor. 5, 1. gch, 46, 8. Ex. L. 2. hel. 13. 18.& 23, 2, 19. i Josh. 14. 15. & 15. 13. 1710. 22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and flay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. 27 T And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the icity of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, kch. 15. 15. & and died, and kwas gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 25.8. 1 So ch. 25. 9. & 49. 31. about 1796. ach, 25, 30. bel, 26. 34, o ver. 25. about 1700. deli, 28. 9. el Chr. 1. 35. CHAPTER XXXVI. 1 Esau's three wives. His removing to mount Scir. 9 His sons. 15 The dukes which descended of his sons. 20 The sons and dukes of Seir. 24 Anah findeth mules. 31 The kings of Edom. 40 The dukes that descended of Esau. OW these are the generations of NEsau, who is Edom. 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, || Zepho, and Gatam, or, Zephi, and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife. 13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 14 T And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. 15 T These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, 16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom: these were the sons of Adah. 17 T And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Naliath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom: these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 18 T And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Analı, Esau's wife. 2 b Esau took his wives of the 19 These are the sons of Esau, who 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the 21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the IIorites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 22 And the children of Lotan were |