30:25It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.30:26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
30:27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."30:28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
30:29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.30:30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
30:31He said, "What shall I give you?"
Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.30:32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.30:33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
30:34Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."
30:35That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.30:36He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.30:38He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.30:39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.30:40Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.30:41It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;30:42but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.30:43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
31:1He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."31:2Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.31:3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
31:4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,31:5and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.31:6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.31:7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.31:8If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.31:9Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.31:10It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.31:11The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'31:12He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.31:13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
31:14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?31:15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.31:16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
31:17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.31:19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole theteraphimthat were her father's.
31:20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.31:21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
31:22Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.31:23He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.31:24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
31:25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.31:26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?31:27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;31:28and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.31:29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'31:30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
31:31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'31:32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
31:33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.31:34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.31:35She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
31:36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?31:37Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.31:38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.31:39That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.31:40This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.31:41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
31:43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?31:44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
31:45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.31:46Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.31:47Laban called itJegar Sahadutha,but Jacob called itGaleed.31:48Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed31:49and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.31:50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."31:51Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.31:52May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.31:54Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.31:55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
32:1Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.32:2When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.32:4He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.32:5I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"32:6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;32:8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."32:9Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.32:12You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
32:13He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,32:15thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.32:16He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."32:17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'32:18Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"32:19He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.32:20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
32:21So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
32:22He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.32:23He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.32:24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.32:25When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.32:26The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."
Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
32:27He said to him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Jacob."32:28He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
32:29Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
32:30Jacob called the name of the placePeniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."32:31The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.32:32Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
33:1Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.33:2He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.33:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.33:5He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?"
He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."33:6Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.33:7Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
33:8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"
Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
33:9Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
33:10Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.33:11Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
33:12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
33:13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.33:14Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
33:15Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me."
He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
33:16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.33:17Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is calledSuccoth.
33:18Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.33:19He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.33:20He erected an altar there, and called itEl Elohe Israel.
34:1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.34:2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.34:4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
34:5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.34:6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.34:7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.34:8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.34:9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.34:10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
34:11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.34:12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
34:13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,34:14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;34:16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.34:17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take oursister,and we will be gone."
34:18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.34:19The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.34:20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,34:21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.34:22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.34:23Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
34:24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.34:25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.34:26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.34:27Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.34:28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,34:29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.34:30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
34:31They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
35:1God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.35:3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
35:4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.35:6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.35:7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.35:8Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
35:9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.35:10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.35:11God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.35:12The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
35:13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.35:14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.35:15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
35:16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.35:17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
35:18It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named himBenoni,but his father named himBenjamin.35:19Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).35:20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.35:21Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.35:22It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.35:23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.35:26The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.35:27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
35:28The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.35:29Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
36:1Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).36:2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;36:3and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.36:4Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.36:5Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.36:6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.36:7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.36:8Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
36:9This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:36:10these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.36:11The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.36:12Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.36:13These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.36:14These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
36:15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,36:16chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.36:17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.36:18These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.36:19These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
36:20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,36:21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.36:22The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.36:23These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.36:24These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.36:25These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.36:26These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.36:27These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.36:28These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.36:29These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,36:30chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.36:32Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.36:33Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.36:34Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.36:35Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.36:36Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.36:37Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.36:38Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place.36:39Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
36:40These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,36:41chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,36:42chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,36:43chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
37:1Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.37:2This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.37:3Now 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 colors.37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
37:5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.37:6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:37:7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
37:8His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.37:9He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."37:10He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"37:11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
37:12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.37:13Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
37:14He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.37:15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
37:16He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
37:17The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'"
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.37:18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.37:19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.37:20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
37:21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."37:22Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.37:23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;37:24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
37:25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.37:26Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?37:27Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.37:28Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
37:29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.37:30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"37:31They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.37:32They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
37:33He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."37:34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.37:35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down toSheolto my son mourning." His father wept for him.37:36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
38:1It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.38:2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.38:3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.38:4She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.38:5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.38:6Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.38:7Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.38:8Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."38:9Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.38:10The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.38:11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
38:12After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.38:13It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."38:14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.38:15When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.38:16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law.
She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
38:17He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock."
She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
38:18He said, "What pledge will I give you?"
She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand."
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.38:19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.38:20Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.38:21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?"
They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
38:22He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"38:23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
38:24It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."
Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."38:25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
38:26Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son."
He knew her again no more.38:27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.38:28When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."38:29It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was calledPerez.38:30Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was calledZerah.
39:1Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.39:2Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.39:3His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.39:4Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.39:5It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.39:6He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome.39:7It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
39:8But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.39:9He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
39:10As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.39:11About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.39:12She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!"
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.39:13When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,39:14she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.39:15It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."39:16She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.39:17She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,39:18and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
39:19It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.39:20Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.39:21But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.39:22The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.39:23The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
40:1It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.40:2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.40:3He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.40:4The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.40:5They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.40:6Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.40:7He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
40:8They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it."
Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
40:9The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,40:10and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.40:11Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
40:12Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.40:13Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.40:14But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.40:15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
40:16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.40:17In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
40:18Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.40:19Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."40:20It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.40:21He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;40:22but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.40:23Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.
41:1It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.41:2Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.41:3Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.41:4The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.41:5He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.41:6Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.41:7The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.41:8It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
41:9Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.41:10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.41:11We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.41:12There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.41:13It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.41:15Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
41:16Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
41:17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:41:18and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,41:19and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.41:20The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,41:21and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.41:22I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:41:23and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.41:24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
41:25Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.41:26The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.41:27The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.41:28That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.41:29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.41:30There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,41:31and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.41:32The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
41:33"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.41:34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.41:35Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.41:36The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."
41:37The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.41:38Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"41:39Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.41:40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."41:41Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."41:42Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,41:43and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.41:44Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."41:45Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
41:46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.41:47In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.41:48He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.41:49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.41:50To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.41:51Joseph called the name of the firstbornManasseh,"For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."41:52The name of the second, he calledEphraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
41:53The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.41:54The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.41:55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."41:56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.41:57All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
42:1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"42:2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."42:3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.42:4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."42:5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.42:6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.42:7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?"
They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
42:8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.42:9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
42:10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.42:11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
42:12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
42:13They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
42:14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'42:15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.42:16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."42:17He put them all together into custody for three days.
42:18Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.42:19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.42:20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die."
They did so.42:21They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."42:22Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."42:23They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.42:24He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.42:25Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
42:26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.42:27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.42:28He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"42:29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,42:30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.42:31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.42:32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'42:33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.42:34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
42:35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.42:36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
42:37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."
42:38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
43:1The famine was severe in the land.43:2It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
43:3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'43:4If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,43:5but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
43:6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
43:7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
43:8Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.43:9I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,43:10for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
43:11Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;43:12and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.43:13Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
43:15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.43:16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
43:17The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.43:18The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."43:19They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,43:20and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.43:21When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.43:22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."