Among Us[d] is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. It was released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows in November 2018, featuring cross-platform play between these platforms. The game was also ported for the Nintendo Switch in December 2020, and has planned releases for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in 2021. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror film The Thing, and since the release of its first map, The Skeld, three other maps were added, those being MIRA HQ, Polus and The Airship. The Airship's design is based on Infiltrating the Airship, the fourth entry in the Henry Stickmin series, another video game made by Innersloth.
The game takes place in a space-themed setting, in which players each take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates, and a predetermined number being Impostors.[e] The goal of the Crewmates are to identify the Impostors, eliminate them, and complete tasks around the map; the Impostors' goal is to covertly sabotage and kill the Crewmates before they complete all of their tasks. Players suspected to be Impostors may be eliminated via a plurality vote, which any player may initiate by calling an emergency meeting (except during a crisis) or reporting a dead body. Crewmates win if all Impostors are ejected or all tasks are completed, whereas Impostors win if there is an equal number of Impostors and Crewmates, or if a critical sabotage goes unresolved.
While the game was initially released in 2018 to little mainstream attention, it received a massive influx of popularity in 2020 due to many well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it. The COVID-19 pandemic has also been credited to the growth of the game. The game received positive reviews from critics, being praised for its gameplay and setting, although it was criticized for its technical issues. In response to the game's popularity, Among Us 2 was announced in August 2020. However, the planned sequel was canceled a month later, and the team shifted its focus to improving the original game. Merchandise based on the game, such as toys, shirts, etc., were announced and released. Among Us has also inspired internet memes and achieved a very large following online.
Contents
1 Gameplay
2 Development and release
2.1 Early development
2.2 Popularity
2.2.1 Initial spike in popularity
2.2.2 Continued popularity
2.3 Canceled sequel and ongoing updates
2.4 Console releases
2.5 October 2020 and January 2021 hacks
3 Reception
3.1 Sales
3.2 Awards
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
Gameplay
A white-suited astronaut named "Buddy" (the player) stands in front of an unnamed blue-suited corpse. The room they are in is labeled "Admin". In the hallway, slightly obscured by the sight line mechanic, is a pink-suited astronaut named "Chum". In the upper-left corner of the player's screen, there is a fake list of tasks as well as the player's goal: to kill all Crewmates. The player also has the option to Use, Report, Sabotage, and Kill. As the player has just killed, the button is on cooldown and faded.
An Impostor (white) has killed a Crewmate (blue), with another player (pink) having witnessed their death. Because of the game's vision mechanic, the pink player is partially obscured.
Among Us is a multiplayer game for four to ten players. Up to three players are randomly[9] chosen to be the impostor(s) each round. A round can take place on one of four maps: a spaceship called "The Skeld"; a headquarters building called "MIRA HQ"; a planet base called "Polus";[10] or "The Airship", which is based on InnerSloth's Henry Stickmin series.[11][12]
At the start of the game, Crewmates are assigned "tasks" to complete around the map in the form of minigames, consisting of maintenance work on vital systems such as fixing wires and downloading data.[13] Impostors are given a fake list of tasks to blend in with Crewmates. However, they cannot legitimately perform tasks. Impostors can sabotage vital systems (such as the ship's oxygen supply), covertly travel through vents, and work with other Impostors to kill Crewmates. If a player dies, they become a ghost. Ghosts can pass through walls, spectate other players, and chat with other ghosts.[14] Living players have a limited cone of vision,[15] but ghosts do not have this limitation.[16]
Ghosts help their living teammates by completing their tasks (as a Crewmate) or performing sabotages (as an Impostor).[10] The Impostors win when they kill enough Crewmates to be equal in number, or when the Crewmates fail to resolve a major sabotage.[14] The Crewmates win by completing all tasks, or by identifying and ejecting all Impostors.[10] Games can also end by players quitting the match if doing so fulfills any win condition (if a crewmate quits the game, their tasks are automatically considered completed).[17][18]
To help the Crewmates identify Impostors, there are various surveillance systems on each map, such as security cameras system on The Skeld,[19] a doorlog in MIRA HQ,[20] and a vitals indicator in Polus.[10] Crewmates may also confirm their identity through visual tasks, which cannot be faked by Impostors.[21] Any living player may call a group meeting by reporting a dead body, or by pressing the Emergency Meeting button at any time (except during major sabotages, when Emergency Meetings cannot be called, but dead bodies can still be reported).[14][22][23]
During a meeting, players discuss who they believe is an Impostor based on the available evidence. A plurality vote is held, and the chosen player is ejected from the map and they become a ghost.[13][14] Players can communicate in a text chat,[13] but only during meetings, and only if they are alive (though ghosts can speak with one another at any time).[10][14][15] While the game does not have a built-in voice chat system, it is common for players to use external programs such as Discord.[24][25][26]
In each game's lobby, various options can be adjusted to customize aspects of gameplay, such as player movement speed, the allowed number of emergency meetings, number of tasks, if there will be visual tasks,[27] or whether or not an impostor is revealed after being voted off.[28] There are also many cosmetic options, including spacesuit colors, skins, hats, and pets,[29][30] some of which are paid downloadable content.[f][2][5][15]
Development and release
Early development
Among Us timeline
2018 iOS/Android release
Windows 10 Release
2019 "MIRA HQ" release
"Polus" release
2020 macOS release
Nintendo Switch release
2021 PC Xbox Game Pass release
"The Airship" release
Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 release
Among Us was inspired by the live party game Mafia,[2][32] and science fiction horror film The Thing.[33] The idea for the concept was originally given by Marcus Bromander, co-founder of Innersloth, who had played Mafia since he was a kid. In the original game, function cards were dealt and players wandered around a house, aimlessly, while another person secretly killed the players, drawing a finger around their neck. Most of its mechanics were still present in Among Us, but the team wanted to "alleviate the need to create an interesting home model and have someone wandering around in a boring environment". So, they decided that the game would be space themed and also added tasks, which, according to Forest Willard, programmer at Innersloth, "changed several times during development".[33][34]
Development began in November 2017.[34] The game was initially intended to be a mobile-only local multiplayer game with a single map.[35] Bromander paused development on Innersloth's other game, The Henry Stickmin Collection, in order to build Among Us' first map, The Skeld.[36] When they began developing the first map, they intended that the ship was always in crisis and that the Impostors could do tasks. However, they found this setup "stressful" and decided that it "[wouldn't leave] much time for detective work and informed meeting conversations".[33][34] Willard described playtesting as painful and frustrating, as the game would break down during sessions forcing him to send playtesters new builds off of Google Play. The team tested the game with 8 of their friends and never tested the game with 9 or the maximum of 10 players.[36] The game was developed using the Unity engine.[37]
The game was released in June 2018 to Android and iOS under the AppID of "spacemafia".[2][38] Shortly after release, Among Us had an average player count of 30 to 50 concurrent players.[27] Bromander blamed the game's poor release on Innersloth being "really bad at marketing".[35] The team nearly abandoned the project multiple times, but continued work on it due to a "small but vocal player base",[39] adding in online multiplayer, new tasks, and customization options.[39] The game was released on Steam on November 16, 2018.[35][40] Cross-platform play was supported upon release of the Steam version.[41][42] Originally, the game had no audio to avoid revealing hidden information in a local setting,[g] and Willard mixed sounds from numerous sound packs to compose the SFX during the game's Steam release.[36]
On August 8, 2019, Innersloth released a second map, MIRA HQ,[43][44] a "tightly packed headquarters roughly the size of The Skeld." A third map, Polus, was added on November 12, 2019 and is set in a research station.[43][45] The fourth map, the Airship, was released on March 31, 2021 and is based on a location in the Henry Stickmin universe.[11][12] MIRA HQ and Polus originally cost players US$4 via in-app purchase. Their prices were reduced to US$2 on January 6, 2020, then made free on June 11, 2020.[46] While the map packs are still available for purchase on all platforms, they now only provide the player the skins that were bundled with the maps.[47]
According to programmer Forest Willard, the team "stuck with [the game] a lot longer than we probably should have from a pure business standpoint", putting out regular updates to the game as often as once per week. This led to a steady increase in players, causing the game's player base to snowball. Bromander attributed this to the studio having enough savings to keep working on the game even while it was not selling particularly well.[35]
Popularity
Initial spike in popularity
Sodapoppin in a purple Twitch hoodie
Twitch streamer Sodapoppin, credited with popularizing Among Us on Twitch
While Among Us released in 2018, it was not until mid-2020 that it saw a surge of popularity, initially driven by content creators online in South Korea and Brazil. Bromander stated that the game is more popular in Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea than the United States.[35][2] According to Willard, Twitch streamer Sodapoppin first popularized the game on Twitch in July 2020.[35] Many other Twitch streamers and YouTubers followed suit, including prominent content creators xQc, Pokimane, Shroud, Ninja, and PewDiePie.[48][49][32]
The COVID-19 pandemic was frequently cited as a reason for the popularity of Among Us, as it allowed for socializing despite social distancing.[35][14][50][51][52][53][43] Emma Kent of Eurogamer believed that the release of Innersloth's The Henry Stickmin Collection also contributed to awareness of Among Us,[48] and PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon credited Twitch streamer SR_Kaif for "prim[ing] Among Us for its big moment." Fenlon also praised Among Us for improvements over other popular tabletop games that had been inspired by Mafia, such as Secret Hitler. He said other video game adaptation of Mafia such as Town of Salem and Werewolves Within were "just add[ing] an online interface for the basic Werewolf rules," whereas Among Us is as an entirely new take on the concept.[32] Along with Fall Guys and the Jackbox Party Packs, Among Us provided a narrative-less experience that helped to avoid the "cultural trauma" of the pandemic, according to M.J. Lewis of Wired.[54]
Continued popularity
The game's popularity continued into the following months. YouTube reported that videos about Among Us were viewed 4 billion times in September 2020,[55] and TikTok videos related to Among Us had over 13 billion views in October 2020.[56] YouTuber CG5 wrote a song based on the game in September 2020, titled "Show Yourself", and gained over 60 million views in 4 months.[57] In September 2020, the game exceeded 100 million downloads[32] and its player count rose to 1.5 million concurrent players[1][58] (nearly 400 thousand of which were on Steam),[43] then peaked at 3.8 million in late September.[59] The sudden increase in players overloaded the game's server, which according to Willard was "a totally free Amazon server, and it was terrible." This forced him to work quickly, under crunch time, to resolve these issues.[39]
In August, Innersloth opened an online store for Among Us themed merchandise.[5][27] The game's popularity inspired many original songs, fanarts and internet memes,[19][22][39][60] Willard expressed that fan-created content "really is the best part" of making Among Us, and Bromander called it "my favorite thing to see".[39] The game popularized the slang word "sus" (meaning "suspicious or suspect"),[61][62][63][64] which had been used as a slang term before the game's release.[65]
During its time of widespread popularity, Among Us was controversially played by the U.S. Navy Esports team, in which players on the stream used in-game names referencing the N-word and the bombing of Nagasaki. The stream was deemed "offensive" and "intolerable" by some viewers.[66] In October 2020, U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar streamed the game alongside several other prominent streamers such as Pokimane and Hasan Piker as a way to encourage people to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election, drawing almost 700,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch.[67][68][69][70]
The game also received several mods made by the community, which added new roles, game modes, cosmetics, etc.[71] Among Us was also featured in Twitch Rivals 2020, an online gaming tournament which was held on December 4, 2020.[72] During the event, players were able to receive an exclusive pet called "Glitch Pet", which is the Twitch logo.[73]
Canceled sequel and ongoing updates
In August 2020, the team shifted focus onto a sequel, Among Us 2.[4][5][6][7] During this time, Forest Willard and Amy Liu continued to update Among Us, increasing the maximum player base, adding four servers and three regions,[74] and implementing longer multiplayer codes to support more concurrent games.[75] On September 23, 2020, the team canceled the sequel, instead opting to add all content intended for the sequel to the original Among Us, due to "how many people [were] enjoying [the original game]".[76][48][77] However, Innersloth deemed the game's codebase "outdated and not built to support adding so much new content", so the team made plans to rework the game's core code to enable adding new features.[77]
The team subsequently announced their plans to fix the game's server issues and widespread cheating problem,[78][79][80] as well as add a system for banning disruptive players.[81] In October 2020, colorblind support for the "wires" task was added to the Among Us beta on Steam, as well as some previously unannounced lobby customization options.[82][83] As-of-yet unimplemented features include improving gameplay for ghosts,[84] adding customizable controls,[85] a friends system, and more player colors.[76][48][77][81] They also announced an update to the game's art style, lobby support for 15 players, new six colors, and a new meeting screen.[12][86][87]
In mid-February 2021, the game added a feature called Quickchat, which replaces the standard chat interface with a series of preset phrases that players must pick from. Players under the age of 13 are required to use Quickchat, but those over 13 are also allowed to use Free Chat, which allows them to type original messages.[88][89]
First announced at The Game Awards 2020, the Airship map was released on March 31, 2021.[11][12] The Airship features multiple floors, contraptions, tasks, and "more."[90][91] In addition, Game Awards presenter Geoff Keighley's face was added as a skin. The map itself is based upon the Henry Stickmin's Toppat Clan Airship.[92] Innersloth also stated that the map would be free to all players.[93][12] It also features a skin bundle that includes Henry Stickmin-themed cosmetic that can be bought on Steam.[12]
The accounts system was implemented along with the update, and it allows players to report players that are not following Innersloth' Code of Conduct in order to make the game a welcoming and respectful place. Punishment ranges from temporary to a permanent ban. They also stated that reports would be viewed manually and not by bots, that account creations would be required if players want to use Free Chat or to customize their nicknames, and that people under the age of 13 would need their parents' permission to create an account. A friends system and the ability to link to multiple accounts would be added somewhere in the future.[94][95]
Innersloth later revealed on the game's official Twitter account a new color to the game, rose, which will be included in the game's next update along with more five colors, which will be revealed more during Summer Game Fest on June 10, 2021.[96]
Console releases
Amid its popularity, Innersloth considered releasing the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, but encountered a problem in implementing player communication, since standard text-based or voice-based chat seemed unusable. They considered a system similar to the "quick comms" system from Rocket League, as well as the possibility of developing an entirely new communication system for the game.[24][25] Versions of the game for Xbox consoles were later announced.[97]
Among Us was released for the Nintendo Switch on December 15, 2020, the same day it was announced during Nintendo Direct Indie World showcase. The Switch version supports cross-platform play with the mobile and Windows versions.[98] This port was published by Play EveryWare.[99] Upon release, the Switch version had an exploit to access The Airship prior to its official release in early 2021.[100] The exploit was fixed two days after release in the Switch version's first update.[101][102] Currently, all the game's downloadable content is unavailable on Switch, although the team stated that it will be added in some point.[103]
On the same date as the announcement of The Airship, it was announced that Among Us will be available in Xbox Game Pass for PC at "some point in the not-too-distant future," as quoted from Shacknews.[104] The game is also planned for release on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2021.[105] During the Xbox Indie Showcase, it was announced that it would include the new "Airship" map.[106] Innersloth stated that as the game is coming to other consoles, it is facing several approval processes.[99] Releases of Among Us for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, supporting cross-platform play with existing versions, were announced in April 2021 with an unspecified released date; players on these consoles will get an exclusive Ratchet & Clank cosmetic.[107]
October 2020 and January 2021 hacks
In mid-October 2020, a hacker known as "Eris Loris" began targeting mainly North American servers. Several players on the Among Us subreddit and Twitter reported this player hacking their lobbies and spamming in-game chat with promotions for his YouTube channel, links to his Discord server, and controversial political messages.[108] Eris Loris also threatened to personally hack players that refused to subscribe to his YouTube channel. The Discord server has been found to contain large amounts of offensive content, such as racist language, gore, pornography and images depicting animal abuse.[109]
A Eurogamer report from October 23, 2020, features an interview with a person claiming to be Eris Loris, conducted via the Discord server from one of the links provided in the hacked games. In the interview, Loris claims he created the bot responsible for the hacks "in only six hours", and had enlisted up to 50 volunteers to form a botnet which boosted the strength of their attacks. Loris claimed that the hack impacted 4.9 million players in 1.5 million games. He also added that the hacks were part of a publicity stunt to influence players to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.[109]
Innersloth added an in-game message warning players about the hacks on October 22,[109] and released a statement on Twitter the next day. They said they were "super aware" of the hacking issue, and stated that an "emergency server update" would be pushed out to combat the hacks. They encouraged players to stick to private games and to avoid playing on public ones until the update was released.[110] The team plans to address the hacking vulnerabilities as part of a planned overhaul for the game.[78][79][80]
At the end of January 2021, players reported on Twitter the return of Eris Loris' hack attack, which is now distributing Among Us hacks and cheats.[111]
Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic PC: 85/100[112]
Switch: 79/100[113]
Review scores
Publication Score
4Players 68/100[114]
Game Informer 8/10[115]
IGN 9/10[117]
Jeuxvideo.com 14/20[116]
Nintendo Life 8/10[118]
Among Us was well received by critics. On the aggregator website Metacritic, the PC port received a 85 of 100 score based on 9 critic reviews, while the Nintendo Switch version received a 79 of 100 score based on 8 critic reviews, both them indicating "generally favorable reviews".[112][113] It was also considered as one of the "Best PC Games for 2018", being ranked 17th, and as the "#38 Best Discussed PC Game of 2018".[119][120] Since December 2020, IGN considered it as one of 2020's best reviewed games so far.[121]
Elliott Osange of Bonus Stage considered that the game is "silly fun", but felt that is more fun "to be an Impostor".[122] Craig Pearson of Rock, Paper, Shotgun had the same opinion, found playing as an Impostor "a lot more fun" than playing as a Crewmate, which he called "exhausting".[13] In reference to the game's popularity among streamers, Evelyn Lau of The National said: "Watching the reactions of people trying to guess who the impostor is (and sometimes getting it very wrong) or lying terribly about not being the impostor is all quite entertaining."[14] Alice O'Conner of Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as "Mafia or Werewolf but with minigames".[123] Andrew Penney of TheGamer said the game was "worth it for the price" and that "who you play with dictates how fun the game is."[15] L'avis de Tiraxa of Jeuxvideo.com praised the game's Freeplay mode, which offers newer players "to browse the map alone to accomodatte the places", as they would need to play several games in order to "perfect their strategies".[116]
Leana Hafer from IGN stated in her verdict on the game: "I don't have any sus that this will be the last game of its breed to make a splash, since we’re already seeing its influence on even mega-games like Fortnite". As a negative point, she pointed out some technical problems, such as the difficulty of finding rooms that aren't already full or are a long way from getting there. She also lamented the lack of "mechanic to punish players who rage-quit when they don't get to play as impostor, or are caught dead to rights in the middle of a murder".[117] Tiraxa of Jeuxvideo.com was more critical to the game, which lamented the lack of an incremented voice chat into the game, the server bugs, which "[prevents] some from joining the party, in a totally unexplained way", the public servers with strangers, as she considered it "less entertaining" than private servers with friends, and the large development progress, considering that the game has a "bit of a way to go before it reaches its full potential".[116] The mobile version of the game, although being free-to-play, was criticized. Osange of Bonus Stage called the presence of ads and in-app purchases of cosmetic changes that are mostly available for free on the PC version "nonsense". He also called the PC version "stable" but also stated that the Android version is "a device-by-device situation".[122]
The Nintendo Switch version received some criticism. William Antonieli of Insider said that the Switch controls give "many tasks a satisfying game response". However, he also stated that most of the tasks could be "done quickly with the Switch's touchscreen control", which can only be used when the console is in handheld mode. He noted that many of the game's tasks are difficult to complete using a gamepad, which is required when the console is connected to a larger screen, and considered this version "inferior" to the PC and mobile versions.[124] He also stated that the communication system is "frustrating", as using the joystick to select letters is "slow", and said the fact that the game has support for multiplayer across multiple platforms gives Switch players "immediate disadvantage".[124] PJ O'Reilly of Nintendo Life noted that the Switch lacked much of the additional content available on other platforms, such as skins, which he called a "shame".[118]
Among Us has been frequently compared to Fall Guys, as both became popular as party games during the COVID-19 pandemic;[35][26][85] the developers of both games have positively acknowledged each other on Twitter.[125][126] Comparisons have also been drawn between the two games' avatars, which have been said to look like jelly beans.[127][128] Among Us has also been compared to The Thing,[22][129] Town of Salem,[32][129] Werewolves Within,[32] and Secret Hitler.[32]
Sales
As of September 2020, Steam Spy estimated that the game had more than 10 million owners on Steam.[130] The Associated Press noted the game was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store for both iPhones and iPads in October 2020.[131] According to SuperData Research, the game had roughly 500 million players worldwide as of November 2020, with the free-to-play mobile version accounting for 97% of players and the buy-to-play PC version accounting for 3% of players, though it was the buy-to-play PC version that generated 64% of the game's gross revenue.[132] Among Us became one of the best selling games of 2020 on Steam, being listed on the platinum category on "The Year's Top 100" list.[133][134] The Nintendo Switch version's launch sold 3.2 million digital units in December 2020, making it the highest-earning version of the game for the month and one of the best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch.[135][136]
Among Us was offered as a free game on the Epic Game Store during one week in May 2021. Its average daily player count jumped from around 350,000 players in the weeks before to over 2 million players during the giveaway.[137]
Awards
Award Date of ceremony Category Result Ref.
Golden Joystick 2020 November 24, 2020 Breakthrough Award Won [138]
The Game Awards 2020 December 10, 2020 Best Mobile Game Won [139][140]
Best Multiplayer Game Won
Steam Awards 2020 January 3, 2021 Labor of Love Award Nominated [141][142]
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards March 13, 2021 Favorite Video Game Won [143]
Webby Awards 2021 Breakout of the Year Won [144]
See also
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the video game industry
Notes
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions ported by PlayEveryWare.
Better known as "PuffballsUnited".[1]
Better known as "ForteBass".[2]
Stylized as Among Us! on the iOS App Store.[3] When discussing its planned sequel, the game was given the retronym of Among Us 1 by the game's developers as well as several news outlets.[4][5][6][7]
The game uses the spelling "Impostor" rather than "Imposter" (though both are correct).[8]
Both the free mobile version of Among Us and the paid PC version have paid DLC. For the PC version, however, some of the mobile version's DLC is included in the standalone game.[31][2]
For example, the sound of an Impostor killing a Crewmate could reveal to other Crewmates who the Impostor was.
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Further reading
Lorenz, Taylor (October 14, 2020), "With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us – YouTubers, influencers and streamers popularized the multiplayer game. Then their fans started playing too.", The New York Times, retrieved 2020-10-14, When an indie game company created Among Us in 2018, it was greeted with little fanfare. The multiplayer game remained under the radar as many games do — until the summer of the pandemic. Eager to keep viewers entertained during quarantine, Chance Morris, known online as Sodapoppin, began streaming the game, created by InnerSloth, to his 2.8 million followers on Twitch in July. By mid-September, Among Us caught on like wildfire. Suddenly major YouTube stars, TikTok influencers, and streamers were playing it. PewDiePie, James Charles, and Dr. Lupo have all played the game for millions.
Rodriguez, Salvador (October 14, 2020), "How Amazon's Twitch turned an obscure game called Among Us into a pandemic mega-hit", CNBC, retrieved 2020-10-14, Developed by InnerSloth, a small studio in Redmond, Washington, Among Us was download nearly 42 million times on Steam in the first half of September, according to Safebettingsites.com, and it was downloaded nearly 84 million times on iOS and Android that month, according to SensorTower. The game hasn't left the top five on Apple’s U.S. App Store since Sept. 1, and it has seen more than 158 million installs worldwide across the App Store and Google Play to date, SensorTower says.
""Among Us" Surged in September – "Among Us" videos topped 4 billion views in September", YouTube Culture and Trends, October 14, 2020, retrieved 2020-10-14, Among Us is an online multiplayer social deduction game developed by an American indie game studio, Innersloth. Among Us is a space-themed game in which a crew of astronauts must complete tasks while trying to figure out who among them is an imposter, who is sabotaging their work and killing the other players. The game has been available for about two years, but the viewership of videos related to the game soared last month. There were over 4 billion views of videos related to Among Us in September.
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is
even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid,
saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took
us for spies of the country.
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I
know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me,
and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your
brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
¶ And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they
and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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.
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I
bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring
him to thee again.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is
dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the
which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave.
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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.
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.
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee
food:
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.
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man
whether ye had yet a brother?
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?
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.
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:
for except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second
time.
¶ 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:
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.
Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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.
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And the men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt,
and stood before Joseph.
¶ And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for
these men shall dine with me at noon.
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men
into Joseph’s house.
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s
house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in
our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and
our asses.
And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
and said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
and it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our
sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack,
our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our
hand.
And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:
we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of
your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your
money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them
water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for
they heard that they should eat bread there.
¶ And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present
which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to
him to the earth.
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the
old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
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And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is
yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye
spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother:
and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and
wept there.
And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and
said, Set on bread.
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves,
and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves:
because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for
that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled
one at another.
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
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And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s
money in his sack’s mouth.
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest,
and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph
had spoken.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
and their asses.
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph
said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou
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dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded
evil for good?
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he
divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same
words.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words?
God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and
we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
and opened every man his sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest:
and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
returned to the city.
¶ And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet
there: and they fell before him on the ground.
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done?
wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we
speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the
iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we,
and he also with whom the cup is found.
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose
hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get
you up in peace unto your father.
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¶ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy
servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not
thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a
child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he
alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I
may set mine eyes upon him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he
should leave his father, his father would die.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother
come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with
us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except
our youngest brother be with us.
And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare
me two sons:
and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in
pieces; and I saw him not since:
and if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be
not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that
he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy
servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If
I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father
for ever.
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Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest
peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by
him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there
stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto
his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet
live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
¶ And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.
And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom
ye sold into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye
sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there
are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy
son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto
me, tarry not:
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and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near
unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and
thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
and there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine;
lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that
ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and
Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after
that his brethren talked with him.
¶ And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying,
Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye;
lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and
I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat
of the land.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
your father, and come.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is
yours.
¶ And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of
raiment.
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And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread
and meat for his father by the way.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto
them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan
unto Jacob their father,
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.
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.
And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and
see him before I die.
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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
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.
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.
And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 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.
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:
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his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and
Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons
of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
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.
And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri,
and Arodi, and Areli.
And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah,
and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
bare unto him.
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and
Ard.
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the
souls were fourteen.
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
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;
and the sons of Joseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two
souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt,
were threescore and ten.
¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto
Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
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.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy
face, because thou art yet alive.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I
will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and
my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto
me;
and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle;
and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that
they have.
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall
say, What is your occupation?
That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from
our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye
may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
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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.
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And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And
they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are
we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee,
let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
brethren are come unto thee:
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.
¶ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are a 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.
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
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.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
¶ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
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And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
cattle, if money fail.
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of
the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their
cattle for that year.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not
aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants
unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that
the land be not desolate.
¶ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed
over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of
the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a
portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this
day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall
sow the land.
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the
field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for
food for your little ones.
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the
sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
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And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that
Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests
only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
exceedingly.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole
age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years.
¶ 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:
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.
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
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And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim.
And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto
thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give
this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt,
are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and
shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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.
¶ And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these?
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath
given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto
me, and I will bless them.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and
embraced them.
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and,
lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he
bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s
right hand, and brought them near unto him.
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s
head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s
head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
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,
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.
¶ 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.
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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the
firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
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.
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.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with
you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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.
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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken unto Israel your father.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn,
my might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;
because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;
then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united:
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for in their anger they slew a man,
and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;
thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion’s whelp:
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Binding his foal unto the vine,
and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine;
he washed his garments in wine,
and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
his eyes shall be red with wine,
and his teeth white with milk.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea;
and he shall be for a haven of ships;
and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Issachar is a strong ass
couching down between two burdens:
and he saw that rest was good,
and the land that it was pleasant;
and bowed his shoulder to bear,
and became a servant unto tribute.
Dan shall judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
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an adder in the path,
that biteth the horse heels,
so that his rider shall fall backward.
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him:
but he shall overcome at the last.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,
and he shall yield royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose:
he giveth goodly words.
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
the archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him, and hated him:
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;)
even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;
and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
the blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his
brethren.
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf:
in the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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¶ 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.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the
field of Ephron the Hittite,
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.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried
Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from
the children of Heth.
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.
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And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and
kissed him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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.
¶ 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,
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.
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
made thee swear.
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,
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.
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
was a very great company.
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.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abel-mizraim [the mourning of the Egyptians], which is beyond
Jordan.
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
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.
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that
went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
The Death of Joseph
¶ And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they
said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us
all the evil which we did unto him.
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying,
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of
thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now,
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we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they
said, Behold, we be thy servants.
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.
And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph
lived a hundred and ten years.
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon
Joseph’s knees.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit
you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Exodus
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The Affliction of the Israelites in Egypt
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into
Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly,
and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was
filled with them.
¶ Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier than we:
come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it
come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also
unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of
the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom
and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
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and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and
in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service,
wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
¶ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;
and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them,
Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children
alive?
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
made them houses.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born
ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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The Birth of Moses
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
daughter of Levi.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark
of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side: and when
she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of
the Hebrews’ children.
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee
a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child’s mother.
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and
nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took
the child, and nursed it.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter,
and he became her son. And she called his name Moses [drawn
out]: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Moses Flees from Egypt
¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
¶ But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of
Midian: and he sat down by a well.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock.
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye
are come so soon today?
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the
flock.
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye
have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter.
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom [a stranger
there]: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage,
and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the
bondage.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect
unto them.
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The Call of Moses
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and
came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
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And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
he said, Here am I.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for
he was afraid to look upon God.
¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the
Egyptians oppress them.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?
And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token
unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
¶ And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children
of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath
sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what
shall I say unto them?
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And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto
you.
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me
unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The
Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
that which is done to you in Egypt:
and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and
the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto
him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let
us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that
we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by
a mighty hand.
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will
let you go.
And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
but every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe
me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath
not appeared unto thee.
And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
said, A rod.
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,
and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it
by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became
a rod in his hand:
that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared
unto thee.
And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his
hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,
behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice
of the latter sign.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two
signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the
water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water
which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry
land.
¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant;
but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or
who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have
not I the Lord?
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Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
what thou shalt say.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom
thou wilt send.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said,
Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth
thee, he will be glad in his heart.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I
will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you
what ye shall do.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be,
even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
instead of God.
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt
do signs.
Moses Returns to Egypt
¶ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren
which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro
said to Moses, Go in peace.
And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,
and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of
God in his hand.
¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I
have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall
not let the people go.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my
son, even my firstborn:
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and I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if
thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy
firstborn.
¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met
him, and sought to kill him.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art
thou to me.
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because
of the circumcision.
¶ And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed
him.
And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent
him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of
the children of Israel:
and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had
visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold
a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to
let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go,
we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto
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the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and
Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
and ye make them rest from their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore:
let them go and gather straw for themselves.
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall
lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle;
therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor
therein; and let them not regard vain words.
¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not
give you straw.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your
work shall be diminished.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your
daily tasks, as when there was straw.
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both
yesterday and today, as heretofore?
¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto
Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make
brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine
own people.
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do
sacrifice to the Lord.
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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you,
yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in
evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish aught from your
bricks of your daily task.
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
and they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their
hand to slay us.
The Lord’s Charge to Moses and Aaron
¶ And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore
hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent
me?
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil
to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
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Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do
to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a
strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
¶ And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah was I not known
to them.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom
the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant.
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Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a
stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did
swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
you for a heritage: I am the Lord.
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened
not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.
And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of
Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear
me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a
charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
¶ These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben
the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi:
these be th
¶ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham,
saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy
brother Nahor;
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of
Aram,
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother.
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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Abraham Buys a Burial Ground for Sarah
And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
her.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice
of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the children of Heth.
And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me
to Ephron the son of Zohar,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which
is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,
even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is
therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give
I it thee: bury thy dead.
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give
thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels
of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons
of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the
merchant.
¶ And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all
the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round
about, were made sure
unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of
Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the
field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan.
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto
Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
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A Wife Obtained for Isaac
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had
blessed Abraham in all things.
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled
over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and
the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a
wife unto my son Isaac.
And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son
again unto the land from whence thou camest?
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
son thither again.
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house,
and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he
shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my
son from thence.
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither
again.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
¶ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and
departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he
arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of
water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out
to draw water.
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And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master
Abraham.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the
men of the city come out to draw water:
and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let
down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that
thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know
that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
¶ And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,
Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the
wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her
shoulder.
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had
any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her
pitcher, and came up.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee,
drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her
pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw
water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran
again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the
Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
¶ And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there
room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of
Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
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She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to lodge in.
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who
hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being
in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
¶ And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these
things.
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban
ran out unto the man, unto the well.
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring, and bracelets upon
his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his
sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me, that he came unto the
man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for
the camels.
And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and
gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his
feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat,
until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
¶ And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become
great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,
and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was
old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife
to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I
dwell:
but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son.
And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
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And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his
angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for
my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my
kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my
oath.
¶ And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my
master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that
when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give
me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
and she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed
out for my master’s son.
¶ And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I
pray thee.
And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,
and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank,
and she made the camels drink also.
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said,
The daughter of Bethuel, Nahors son, whom Milcah bare unto
him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon
her hands.
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and
blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in
the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me:
and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
¶ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
Behold, Rebekah is before thee; take her, and go, and let her be thy
master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.
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¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their
words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother
and to her mother precious things.
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said,
Send me away unto my master.
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us
a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath
prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this
man? And she said, I will go.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham’s servant, and his men.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister;
be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess
the gate of those which hate them.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and
went his way.
¶ And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt
in the south country.
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he
lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel.
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in
the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master:
therefore she took a veil, and covered herself.
And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
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And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was
comforted after his mother’s death.
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Abraham’s Descendants through Keturah
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
and Ishbak, and Shuah.
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while
he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
The Death and Burial of Abraham
¶ And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he
lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre;
the field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was
Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed
his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
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The Descendants of Ishmael
¶ Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth;
and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their
towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their
nations.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty
and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died, and was
gathered unto his people.
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as
thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his
brethren.
The Birth of Esau and Jacob
¶ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham
begat Isaac:
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban
the Syrian.
And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren:
and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be
so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord.
And the Lord said unto her,
Two nations are in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;
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and the elder shall serve the younger.
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were
twins in her womb.
And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they
called his name Esau.
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.
Esau Sells His Birthright
¶ And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the
field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
Rebekah loved Jacob.
¶ And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was
faint:
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 [red].
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit
shall this birthright do to me?
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and
he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat
and drink, and rose up, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his
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And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king
of the Philistines unto Gerar.
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And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will
give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed:
because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is
my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men
of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look
upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,
and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy
wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto
him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of
the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
¶ Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a
hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
became very great:
for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled
them with earth.
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And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
mightier than we.
¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped
them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after
the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying,
The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek
[contention]; because they strove with him.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
called the name of it Sitnah [hatred].
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for
that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth [room];
and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
¶ And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am
the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and
will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s
sake.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged
a well.
¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and
we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and
thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
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that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as
we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away
in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace.
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and
told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon
the Hittite:
which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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Jacob Obtains Isaac’s Blessing
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.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
and make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I
may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
¶ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy
father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
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Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and
bless thee before the Lord before my death.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command thee.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the
goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he
loveth:
and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he
may bless thee before his death.
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a
hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
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.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only
obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his
mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
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:
and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and
upon the smooth of his neck:
and she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
¶ And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I; who art thou, my son?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
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.
And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me,
my son.
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:
therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven,
and the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine:
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.
¶ And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing
Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac
his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And he also had made savory meat, and brought it unto his father,
and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I
am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he
that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be
blessed.
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And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great
and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me
also, O my father.
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away
thy blessing.
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted
me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now
he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
reserved a blessing for me?
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and
with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now
unto thee, my son?
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
¶ And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,
and of the dew of heaven from above;
and by thy sword shalt thou live,
and shalt serve thy brother:
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Jacob Flees from Esau
¶ 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.
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.
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran;
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
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?
¶ 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?
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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.
Arise, go to Padan-aram, 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.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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.
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban,
son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and
Esau’s mother.
¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan;
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to
Padan-aram;
and Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his
father;
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then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of
Nebajoth, to be his wife.
God Appears to Jacob at Beth-el
¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is
in this place; and I knew it not.
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.
¶ 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.
And he called the name of that place Beth-el [the house of God]:
but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
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,
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so that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the
Lord be my God:
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.
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Jacob Serves Laban for Rachel and Leah
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
people of the east.
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.
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.
¶ And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we.
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and,
behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
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.
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.
¶ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s
sheep: for she kept them.
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,
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that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth,
and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
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.
¶ 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.
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And
he abode with him the space of a month.
¶ And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall
thy wages be?
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and
the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should
give her to another man: abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
feast.
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.
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for a
handmaid.
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?
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And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the
younger before the firstborn.
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel
his daughter to wife also.
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be
her maid.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
The Children Born to Jacob
¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
womb: but Rachel was barren.
And Leah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name
Reuben [see, a son]: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this
son also: and she called his name Simeon [hearing].
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time
will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him
three sons: therefore was his name called Levi [joined].
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she said, Now will I
praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah [praise]; and
left bearing.
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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.
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?
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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.
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in
unto her.
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
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
[judging].
And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second
son.
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali [my
wrestling].
¶ When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed:
and she called his name Asher [happy].
¶ 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.
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 tonight for thy
son’s mandrakes.
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.
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar [an
hire].
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and
she called his name Zebulun [dwelling].
And afterward she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away
my reproach:
and she called his name Joseph [adding]; and said, The Lord shall
add to me another son.
The Trickery of Laban and Jacob
¶ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
place, and to my country.
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.
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine
eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath
blessed me for thy sake.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
how thy cattle was with me.
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?
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.
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I will pass through all thy flock today, 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.
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.
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ring-streaked 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.
And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob
fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
¶ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
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.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle
ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the ring-streaked, 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.
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.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler
were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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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.
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers,
and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his
flock,
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.
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle
bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy
hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them
to me.
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 ring-streaked, speckled, and
grizzled.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: and
I said, Here am I.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which
leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I
have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
I am the God of Beth-el, 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.
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath
quite devoured also our money.
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.
Jacob Flees from Laban
¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
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.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father’s.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told
him not that he fled.
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.
¶ And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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.
¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead.
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?
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?
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou
hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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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.
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my
gods?
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I
said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from
me.
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.
¶ 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.
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.
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.
¶ 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?
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.
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.
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.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by
night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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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.
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 labor of my hands,
and rebuked thee yesternight.
¶ 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
borne?
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and
let it be for a witness between me and thee.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [the heap of witness]: but
Jacob called it Galeed [the heap of witness].
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this
day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,
and Mizpah [a beacon or watchtower]; for he said, The Lord watch
between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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.
¶ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
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.
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.
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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.
¶ 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.
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Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called
the name of that place Mahanaim [two hosts or camps].
¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto
the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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:
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.
¶ 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.
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;
and said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the
other company which is left shall escape.
¶ 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:
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth,
which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I
passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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.
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.
¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and
twenty rams,
thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls,
twenty she asses and ten foals.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night
in the company.
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Jacob Wrestles at Peniel
¶ 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.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day.
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.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
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.
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.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God]: for
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted
upon his thigh.
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.
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Jacob and Esau Reconciled
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came,
and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto
Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his brother.
¶ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
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.
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
they bowed themselves.
And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves:
and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And
he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
unto thyself.
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 have seen
thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast
pleased with me.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God
hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he
urged him, and he took it.
¶ And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go
before thee.
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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 die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead
on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the
children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
¶ And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that
are with me. And he said
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters.
¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Man in the Garden of Eden
¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens,
and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it
to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the ground.
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
¶ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the
whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx
stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth
toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
¶ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat:
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
¶ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see
what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and
to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help
meet for him.
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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman [heb. Isha], because she was taken
out of Man [heb. Ish].
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
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Man’s Disobedience
Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden:
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
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¶ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten
of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
¶ And the Lord God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
and I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,
and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
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thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field:
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art,and unto dust shalt thou return.
¶ And Adam called his wife’s name Eve [living]; because she was
the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins, and clothed them.
¶ And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
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Cain and Abel
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain
[gotten, or acquired], and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
countenance fallen?
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not
well, sin lieth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and
thou shalt rule over him.
¶ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood
crieth unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth;
and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a
vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that
findeth me shall slay me.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
¶ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch.
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
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And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer
in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
¶ And Lamech said unto his wives,
Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
for I have slain a man to my wounding,
and a young man to my hurt.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
¶ And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
name Seth [appointed, or put]: For God, said she, hath appointed
me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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The Descendants of Adam
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: and he died.
¶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters:
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and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and
he died.
¶ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he
died.
¶ And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he
died.
¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five
years: and he died.
¶ And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch:
and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters:
and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years:
and he died.
¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
¶ And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech:
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty
and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine
years: and he died.
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¶ And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son:
and he called his name Noah [rest or comfort], saying, This same
shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven
years: and he died.
¶ And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
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The Wickedness of Mankind
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them,
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty
years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of
old, men of renown.
¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah Makes the Ark
¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
¶ The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled
with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;
for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and
the height of it thirty cubits.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven;
and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come
into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives
with thee.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male
and female.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall
come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt
gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did
he.
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The Flood
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and
his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his
female.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep
seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made
will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
¶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of
every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood
were upon the earth.
¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains
of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of
his sons with them, into the ark;
they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
were covered.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man:
all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry
land, died.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face
of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and
the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:
and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the
ark.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass
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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after
the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the
tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the
mountains seen.
¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made:
and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the
waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated
from off the face of the ground.
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned
unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole
earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in
unto him into the ark.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the
dove out of the ark.
And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth
was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which
returned not again unto him any more.
¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off
the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, was the earth dried.
And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’
wives with thee.
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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all
flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’
wives with him:
every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the
ark.
¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on
the altar.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither
will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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God’s Covenant with Noah
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are
they delivered.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
green herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat.
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of
every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in
the earth, and multiply therein.
¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you;
and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out
of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be
cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that
the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I
have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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Noah’s Drunkenness
¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and
Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth
overspread.
¶ And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered
within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brethren without.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their
father’s nakedness.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
And he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
God shall enlarge Japheth,
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he
died.
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The Descendants of the Sons of Noah
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham,
and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
¶ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every
one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the
city Rehoboth, and Calah,
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
Caphtorim.
¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest
to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues,
in their countries, and in their nations.
¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother
of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram.
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg
[division]; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s
name was Joktan.
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and
Jerah,
and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of
Joktan.
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a
mount of the east.
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues,
in their lands, after their nations.
¶ These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations,
in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
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The Tower of Babel
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn
them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for mortar.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all
one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another’s speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did
the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
The Descendants of Shem
¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and
begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters.
¶ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
The Descendants of Terah
¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity,
in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife
was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of
Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
¶ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the
land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah
died in Haran.
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God’s Call to Abram
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that
I will show thee:
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
¶ So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all
their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I
give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who
appeared unto him.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the
east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon
the name of the Lord.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Abram in Egypt
¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
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And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,
that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a
fair woman to look upon:
therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee,
that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they
will save thee alive.
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for
thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and
oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels.
¶ And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues,
because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast
done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me
to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent
him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he
had, and Lot with him, into the south.
¶ And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto
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unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first:
and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents.
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell
together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and
the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
dwelt then in the land.
¶ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,
from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or
if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it
was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of
Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east:
and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of
the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord
exceedingly.
¶ And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy
seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man
can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
numbered.
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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth
of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of
Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the
Lord.
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
nations;
that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king
of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the
salt sea.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year
they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and
the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the
wilderness.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and
smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,
and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela, (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the
vale of Siddim;
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;
four kings with five.
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And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom
and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their
victuals, and went their way.
And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom,
and his goods, and departed.
¶ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother
of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with
Abram.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred
and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the
left hand of Damascus.
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Melchizedek Blesses Abram
¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with
him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and
he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed be Abram of the most high God,
possessor of heaven and earth:
and blessed be the most high God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand
unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
earth,
that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I
will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
made Abram rich:
save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of
the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them
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After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo,
one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This
shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine
own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he
said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
¶ And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur
of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit
it?
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And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she
goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove
them away.
¶ And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
¶ And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces.
In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates:
the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
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Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained
me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I
may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of
Sarai.
And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to
her husband Abram to be his wife.
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me
and thee.
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to
her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she
fled from her face.
¶ And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael [God
shall hear]; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and
every man’s hand against him: and he shall dwell in the presence of
all his brethren.
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that
seeth me?
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Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi [the well of him that
liveth and seeth me]: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
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Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a
father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham [father of a great multitude]; for a father of many
nations have I made thee.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of
thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a
God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and
thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or
bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money,
must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh
for an everlasting covenant.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not
circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath
broken my covenant.
¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not
call her name Sarai, but Sarah [princess] shall her name be.
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of
her.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old?
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou
shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him,
and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear
unto thee at this set time in the next year.
¶ And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his
house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among
the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their
foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
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And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by
him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent
door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
and said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not
away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree:
and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after
that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your sevant. And
they said, So do, as thou hast said.
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
upon the hearth.
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and
they did eat.
¶ And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold, in the tent.
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And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time
of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it
in the tent door, which was behind him.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed
old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will
return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have
a son.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And
he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
¶ And the men rose up from thence, and
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The game takes place in a space-themed setting, in which players each take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates, and a predetermined number being Impostors.[e] The goal of the Crewmates are to identify the Impostors, eliminate them, and complete tasks around the map; the Impostors' goal is to covertly sabotage and kill the Crewmates before they complete all of their tasks. Players suspected to be Impostors may be eliminated via a plurality vote, which any player may initiate by calling an emergency meeting (except during a crisis) or reporting a dead body. Crewmates win if all Impostors are ejected or all tasks are completed, whereas Impostors win if there is an equal number of Impostors and Crewmates, or if a critical sabotage goes unresolved.
While the game was initially released in 2018 to little mainstream attention, it received a massive influx of popularity in 2020 due to many well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it. The COVID-19 pandemic has also been credited to the growth of the game. The game received positive reviews from critics, being praised for its gameplay and setting, although it was criticized for its technical issues. In response to the game's popularity, Among Us 2 was announced in August 2020. However, the planned sequel was canceled a month later, and the team shifted its focus to improving the original game. Merchandise based on the game, such as toys, shirts, etc., were announced and released. Among Us has also inspired internet memes and achieved a very large following online.
Contents
1 Gameplay
2 Development and release
2.1 Early development
2.2 Popularity
2.2.1 Initial spike in popularity
2.2.2 Continued popularity
2.3 Canceled sequel and ongoing updates
2.4 Console releases
2.5 October 2020 and January 2021 hacks
3 Reception
3.1 Sales
3.2 Awards
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
Gameplay
A white-suited astronaut named "Buddy" (the player) stands in front of an unnamed blue-suited corpse. The room they are in is labeled "Admin". In the hallway, slightly obscured by the sight line mechanic, is a pink-suited astronaut named "Chum". In the upper-left corner of the player's screen, there is a fake list of tasks as well as the player's goal: to kill all Crewmates. The player also has the option to Use, Report, Sabotage, and Kill. As the player has just killed, the button is on cooldown and faded.
An Impostor (white) has killed a Crewmate (blue), with another player (pink) having witnessed their death. Because of the game's vision mechanic, the pink player is partially obscured.
Among Us is a multiplayer game for four to ten players. Up to three players are randomly[9] chosen to be the impostor(s) each round. A round can take place on one of four maps: a spaceship called "The Skeld"; a headquarters building called "MIRA HQ"; a planet base called "Polus";[10] or "The Airship", which is based on InnerSloth's Henry Stickmin series.[11][12]
At the start of the game, Crewmates are assigned "tasks" to complete around the map in the form of minigames, consisting of maintenance work on vital systems such as fixing wires and downloading data.[13] Impostors are given a fake list of tasks to blend in with Crewmates. However, they cannot legitimately perform tasks. Impostors can sabotage vital systems (such as the ship's oxygen supply), covertly travel through vents, and work with other Impostors to kill Crewmates. If a player dies, they become a ghost. Ghosts can pass through walls, spectate other players, and chat with other ghosts.[14] Living players have a limited cone of vision,[15] but ghosts do not have this limitation.[16]
Ghosts help their living teammates by completing their tasks (as a Crewmate) or performing sabotages (as an Impostor).[10] The Impostors win when they kill enough Crewmates to be equal in number, or when the Crewmates fail to resolve a major sabotage.[14] The Crewmates win by completing all tasks, or by identifying and ejecting all Impostors.[10] Games can also end by players quitting the match if doing so fulfills any win condition (if a crewmate quits the game, their tasks are automatically considered completed).[17][18]
To help the Crewmates identify Impostors, there are various surveillance systems on each map, such as security cameras system on The Skeld,[19] a doorlog in MIRA HQ,[20] and a vitals indicator in Polus.[10] Crewmates may also confirm their identity through visual tasks, which cannot be faked by Impostors.[21] Any living player may call a group meeting by reporting a dead body, or by pressing the Emergency Meeting button at any time (except during major sabotages, when Emergency Meetings cannot be called, but dead bodies can still be reported).[14][22][23]
During a meeting, players discuss who they believe is an Impostor based on the available evidence. A plurality vote is held, and the chosen player is ejected from the map and they become a ghost.[13][14] Players can communicate in a text chat,[13] but only during meetings, and only if they are alive (though ghosts can speak with one another at any time).[10][14][15] While the game does not have a built-in voice chat system, it is common for players to use external programs such as Discord.[24][25][26]
In each game's lobby, various options can be adjusted to customize aspects of gameplay, such as player movement speed, the allowed number of emergency meetings, number of tasks, if there will be visual tasks,[27] or whether or not an impostor is revealed after being voted off.[28] There are also many cosmetic options, including spacesuit colors, skins, hats, and pets,[29][30] some of which are paid downloadable content.[f][2][5][15]
Development and release
Early development
Among Us timeline
2018 iOS/Android release
Windows 10 Release
2019 "MIRA HQ" release
"Polus" release
2020 macOS release
Nintendo Switch release
2021 PC Xbox Game Pass release
"The Airship" release
Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 release
Among Us was inspired by the live party game Mafia,[2][32] and science fiction horror film The Thing.[33] The idea for the concept was originally given by Marcus Bromander, co-founder of Innersloth, who had played Mafia since he was a kid. In the original game, function cards were dealt and players wandered around a house, aimlessly, while another person secretly killed the players, drawing a finger around their neck. Most of its mechanics were still present in Among Us, but the team wanted to "alleviate the need to create an interesting home model and have someone wandering around in a boring environment". So, they decided that the game would be space themed and also added tasks, which, according to Forest Willard, programmer at Innersloth, "changed several times during development".[33][34]
Development began in November 2017.[34] The game was initially intended to be a mobile-only local multiplayer game with a single map.[35] Bromander paused development on Innersloth's other game, The Henry Stickmin Collection, in order to build Among Us' first map, The Skeld.[36] When they began developing the first map, they intended that the ship was always in crisis and that the Impostors could do tasks. However, they found this setup "stressful" and decided that it "[wouldn't leave] much time for detective work and informed meeting conversations".[33][34] Willard described playtesting as painful and frustrating, as the game would break down during sessions forcing him to send playtesters new builds off of Google Play. The team tested the game with 8 of their friends and never tested the game with 9 or the maximum of 10 players.[36] The game was developed using the Unity engine.[37]
The game was released in June 2018 to Android and iOS under the AppID of "spacemafia".[2][38] Shortly after release, Among Us had an average player count of 30 to 50 concurrent players.[27] Bromander blamed the game's poor release on Innersloth being "really bad at marketing".[35] The team nearly abandoned the project multiple times, but continued work on it due to a "small but vocal player base",[39] adding in online multiplayer, new tasks, and customization options.[39] The game was released on Steam on November 16, 2018.[35][40] Cross-platform play was supported upon release of the Steam version.[41][42] Originally, the game had no audio to avoid revealing hidden information in a local setting,[g] and Willard mixed sounds from numerous sound packs to compose the SFX during the game's Steam release.[36]
On August 8, 2019, Innersloth released a second map, MIRA HQ,[43][44] a "tightly packed headquarters roughly the size of The Skeld." A third map, Polus, was added on November 12, 2019 and is set in a research station.[43][45] The fourth map, the Airship, was released on March 31, 2021 and is based on a location in the Henry Stickmin universe.[11][12] MIRA HQ and Polus originally cost players US$4 via in-app purchase. Their prices were reduced to US$2 on January 6, 2020, then made free on June 11, 2020.[46] While the map packs are still available for purchase on all platforms, they now only provide the player the skins that were bundled with the maps.[47]
According to programmer Forest Willard, the team "stuck with [the game] a lot longer than we probably should have from a pure business standpoint", putting out regular updates to the game as often as once per week. This led to a steady increase in players, causing the game's player base to snowball. Bromander attributed this to the studio having enough savings to keep working on the game even while it was not selling particularly well.[35]
Popularity
Initial spike in popularity
Sodapoppin in a purple Twitch hoodie
Twitch streamer Sodapoppin, credited with popularizing Among Us on Twitch
While Among Us released in 2018, it was not until mid-2020 that it saw a surge of popularity, initially driven by content creators online in South Korea and Brazil. Bromander stated that the game is more popular in Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea than the United States.[35][2] According to Willard, Twitch streamer Sodapoppin first popularized the game on Twitch in July 2020.[35] Many other Twitch streamers and YouTubers followed suit, including prominent content creators xQc, Pokimane, Shroud, Ninja, and PewDiePie.[48][49][32]
The COVID-19 pandemic was frequently cited as a reason for the popularity of Among Us, as it allowed for socializing despite social distancing.[35][14][50][51][52][53][43] Emma Kent of Eurogamer believed that the release of Innersloth's The Henry Stickmin Collection also contributed to awareness of Among Us,[48] and PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon credited Twitch streamer SR_Kaif for "prim[ing] Among Us for its big moment." Fenlon also praised Among Us for improvements over other popular tabletop games that had been inspired by Mafia, such as Secret Hitler. He said other video game adaptation of Mafia such as Town of Salem and Werewolves Within were "just add[ing] an online interface for the basic Werewolf rules," whereas Among Us is as an entirely new take on the concept.[32] Along with Fall Guys and the Jackbox Party Packs, Among Us provided a narrative-less experience that helped to avoid the "cultural trauma" of the pandemic, according to M.J. Lewis of Wired.[54]
Continued popularity
The game's popularity continued into the following months. YouTube reported that videos about Among Us were viewed 4 billion times in September 2020,[55] and TikTok videos related to Among Us had over 13 billion views in October 2020.[56] YouTuber CG5 wrote a song based on the game in September 2020, titled "Show Yourself", and gained over 60 million views in 4 months.[57] In September 2020, the game exceeded 100 million downloads[32] and its player count rose to 1.5 million concurrent players[1][58] (nearly 400 thousand of which were on Steam),[43] then peaked at 3.8 million in late September.[59] The sudden increase in players overloaded the game's server, which according to Willard was "a totally free Amazon server, and it was terrible." This forced him to work quickly, under crunch time, to resolve these issues.[39]
In August, Innersloth opened an online store for Among Us themed merchandise.[5][27] The game's popularity inspired many original songs, fanarts and internet memes,[19][22][39][60] Willard expressed that fan-created content "really is the best part" of making Among Us, and Bromander called it "my favorite thing to see".[39] The game popularized the slang word "sus" (meaning "suspicious or suspect"),[61][62][63][64] which had been used as a slang term before the game's release.[65]
During its time of widespread popularity, Among Us was controversially played by the U.S. Navy Esports team, in which players on the stream used in-game names referencing the N-word and the bombing of Nagasaki. The stream was deemed "offensive" and "intolerable" by some viewers.[66] In October 2020, U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar streamed the game alongside several other prominent streamers such as Pokimane and Hasan Piker as a way to encourage people to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election, drawing almost 700,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch.[67][68][69][70]
The game also received several mods made by the community, which added new roles, game modes, cosmetics, etc.[71] Among Us was also featured in Twitch Rivals 2020, an online gaming tournament which was held on December 4, 2020.[72] During the event, players were able to receive an exclusive pet called "Glitch Pet", which is the Twitch logo.[73]
Canceled sequel and ongoing updates
In August 2020, the team shifted focus onto a sequel, Among Us 2.[4][5][6][7] During this time, Forest Willard and Amy Liu continued to update Among Us, increasing the maximum player base, adding four servers and three regions,[74] and implementing longer multiplayer codes to support more concurrent games.[75] On September 23, 2020, the team canceled the sequel, instead opting to add all content intended for the sequel to the original Among Us, due to "how many people [were] enjoying [the original game]".[76][48][77] However, Innersloth deemed the game's codebase "outdated and not built to support adding so much new content", so the team made plans to rework the game's core code to enable adding new features.[77]
The team subsequently announced their plans to fix the game's server issues and widespread cheating problem,[78][79][80] as well as add a system for banning disruptive players.[81] In October 2020, colorblind support for the "wires" task was added to the Among Us beta on Steam, as well as some previously unannounced lobby customization options.[82][83] As-of-yet unimplemented features include improving gameplay for ghosts,[84] adding customizable controls,[85] a friends system, and more player colors.[76][48][77][81] They also announced an update to the game's art style, lobby support for 15 players, new six colors, and a new meeting screen.[12][86][87]
In mid-February 2021, the game added a feature called Quickchat, which replaces the standard chat interface with a series of preset phrases that players must pick from. Players under the age of 13 are required to use Quickchat, but those over 13 are also allowed to use Free Chat, which allows them to type original messages.[88][89]
First announced at The Game Awards 2020, the Airship map was released on March 31, 2021.[11][12] The Airship features multiple floors, contraptions, tasks, and "more."[90][91] In addition, Game Awards presenter Geoff Keighley's face was added as a skin. The map itself is based upon the Henry Stickmin's Toppat Clan Airship.[92] Innersloth also stated that the map would be free to all players.[93][12] It also features a skin bundle that includes Henry Stickmin-themed cosmetic that can be bought on Steam.[12]
The accounts system was implemented along with the update, and it allows players to report players that are not following Innersloth' Code of Conduct in order to make the game a welcoming and respectful place. Punishment ranges from temporary to a permanent ban. They also stated that reports would be viewed manually and not by bots, that account creations would be required if players want to use Free Chat or to customize their nicknames, and that people under the age of 13 would need their parents' permission to create an account. A friends system and the ability to link to multiple accounts would be added somewhere in the future.[94][95]
Innersloth later revealed on the game's official Twitter account a new color to the game, rose, which will be included in the game's next update along with more five colors, which will be revealed more during Summer Game Fest on June 10, 2021.[96]
Console releases
Amid its popularity, Innersloth considered releasing the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, but encountered a problem in implementing player communication, since standard text-based or voice-based chat seemed unusable. They considered a system similar to the "quick comms" system from Rocket League, as well as the possibility of developing an entirely new communication system for the game.[24][25] Versions of the game for Xbox consoles were later announced.[97]
Among Us was released for the Nintendo Switch on December 15, 2020, the same day it was announced during Nintendo Direct Indie World showcase. The Switch version supports cross-platform play with the mobile and Windows versions.[98] This port was published by Play EveryWare.[99] Upon release, the Switch version had an exploit to access The Airship prior to its official release in early 2021.[100] The exploit was fixed two days after release in the Switch version's first update.[101][102] Currently, all the game's downloadable content is unavailable on Switch, although the team stated that it will be added in some point.[103]
On the same date as the announcement of The Airship, it was announced that Among Us will be available in Xbox Game Pass for PC at "some point in the not-too-distant future," as quoted from Shacknews.[104] The game is also planned for release on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2021.[105] During the Xbox Indie Showcase, it was announced that it would include the new "Airship" map.[106] Innersloth stated that as the game is coming to other consoles, it is facing several approval processes.[99] Releases of Among Us for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, supporting cross-platform play with existing versions, were announced in April 2021 with an unspecified released date; players on these consoles will get an exclusive Ratchet & Clank cosmetic.[107]
October 2020 and January 2021 hacks
In mid-October 2020, a hacker known as "Eris Loris" began targeting mainly North American servers. Several players on the Among Us subreddit and Twitter reported this player hacking their lobbies and spamming in-game chat with promotions for his YouTube channel, links to his Discord server, and controversial political messages.[108] Eris Loris also threatened to personally hack players that refused to subscribe to his YouTube channel. The Discord server has been found to contain large amounts of offensive content, such as racist language, gore, pornography and images depicting animal abuse.[109]
A Eurogamer report from October 23, 2020, features an interview with a person claiming to be Eris Loris, conducted via the Discord server from one of the links provided in the hacked games. In the interview, Loris claims he created the bot responsible for the hacks "in only six hours", and had enlisted up to 50 volunteers to form a botnet which boosted the strength of their attacks. Loris claimed that the hack impacted 4.9 million players in 1.5 million games. He also added that the hacks were part of a publicity stunt to influence players to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.[109]
Innersloth added an in-game message warning players about the hacks on October 22,[109] and released a statement on Twitter the next day. They said they were "super aware" of the hacking issue, and stated that an "emergency server update" would be pushed out to combat the hacks. They encouraged players to stick to private games and to avoid playing on public ones until the update was released.[110] The team plans to address the hacking vulnerabilities as part of a planned overhaul for the game.[78][79][80]
At the end of January 2021, players reported on Twitter the return of Eris Loris' hack attack, which is now distributing Among Us hacks and cheats.[111]
Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic PC: 85/100[112]
Switch: 79/100[113]
Review scores
Publication Score
4Players 68/100[114]
Game Informer 8/10[115]
IGN 9/10[117]
Jeuxvideo.com 14/20[116]
Nintendo Life 8/10[118]
Among Us was well received by critics. On the aggregator website Metacritic, the PC port received a 85 of 100 score based on 9 critic reviews, while the Nintendo Switch version received a 79 of 100 score based on 8 critic reviews, both them indicating "generally favorable reviews".[112][113] It was also considered as one of the "Best PC Games for 2018", being ranked 17th, and as the "#38 Best Discussed PC Game of 2018".[119][120] Since December 2020, IGN considered it as one of 2020's best reviewed games so far.[121]
Elliott Osange of Bonus Stage considered that the game is "silly fun", but felt that is more fun "to be an Impostor".[122] Craig Pearson of Rock, Paper, Shotgun had the same opinion, found playing as an Impostor "a lot more fun" than playing as a Crewmate, which he called "exhausting".[13] In reference to the game's popularity among streamers, Evelyn Lau of The National said: "Watching the reactions of people trying to guess who the impostor is (and sometimes getting it very wrong) or lying terribly about not being the impostor is all quite entertaining."[14] Alice O'Conner of Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as "Mafia or Werewolf but with minigames".[123] Andrew Penney of TheGamer said the game was "worth it for the price" and that "who you play with dictates how fun the game is."[15] L'avis de Tiraxa of Jeuxvideo.com praised the game's Freeplay mode, which offers newer players "to browse the map alone to accomodatte the places", as they would need to play several games in order to "perfect their strategies".[116]
Leana Hafer from IGN stated in her verdict on the game: "I don't have any sus that this will be the last game of its breed to make a splash, since we’re already seeing its influence on even mega-games like Fortnite". As a negative point, she pointed out some technical problems, such as the difficulty of finding rooms that aren't already full or are a long way from getting there. She also lamented the lack of "mechanic to punish players who rage-quit when they don't get to play as impostor, or are caught dead to rights in the middle of a murder".[117] Tiraxa of Jeuxvideo.com was more critical to the game, which lamented the lack of an incremented voice chat into the game, the server bugs, which "[prevents] some from joining the party, in a totally unexplained way", the public servers with strangers, as she considered it "less entertaining" than private servers with friends, and the large development progress, considering that the game has a "bit of a way to go before it reaches its full potential".[116] The mobile version of the game, although being free-to-play, was criticized. Osange of Bonus Stage called the presence of ads and in-app purchases of cosmetic changes that are mostly available for free on the PC version "nonsense". He also called the PC version "stable" but also stated that the Android version is "a device-by-device situation".[122]
The Nintendo Switch version received some criticism. William Antonieli of Insider said that the Switch controls give "many tasks a satisfying game response". However, he also stated that most of the tasks could be "done quickly with the Switch's touchscreen control", which can only be used when the console is in handheld mode. He noted that many of the game's tasks are difficult to complete using a gamepad, which is required when the console is connected to a larger screen, and considered this version "inferior" to the PC and mobile versions.[124] He also stated that the communication system is "frustrating", as using the joystick to select letters is "slow", and said the fact that the game has support for multiplayer across multiple platforms gives Switch players "immediate disadvantage".[124] PJ O'Reilly of Nintendo Life noted that the Switch lacked much of the additional content available on other platforms, such as skins, which he called a "shame".[118]
Among Us has been frequently compared to Fall Guys, as both became popular as party games during the COVID-19 pandemic;[35][26][85] the developers of both games have positively acknowledged each other on Twitter.[125][126] Comparisons have also been drawn between the two games' avatars, which have been said to look like jelly beans.[127][128] Among Us has also been compared to The Thing,[22][129] Town of Salem,[32][129] Werewolves Within,[32] and Secret Hitler.[32]
Sales
As of September 2020, Steam Spy estimated that the game had more than 10 million owners on Steam.[130] The Associated Press noted the game was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store for both iPhones and iPads in October 2020.[131] According to SuperData Research, the game had roughly 500 million players worldwide as of November 2020, with the free-to-play mobile version accounting for 97% of players and the buy-to-play PC version accounting for 3% of players, though it was the buy-to-play PC version that generated 64% of the game's gross revenue.[132] Among Us became one of the best selling games of 2020 on Steam, being listed on the platinum category on "The Year's Top 100" list.[133][134] The Nintendo Switch version's launch sold 3.2 million digital units in December 2020, making it the highest-earning version of the game for the month and one of the best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch.[135][136]
Among Us was offered as a free game on the Epic Game Store during one week in May 2021. Its average daily player count jumped from around 350,000 players in the weeks before to over 2 million players during the giveaway.[137]
Awards
Award Date of ceremony Category Result Ref.
Golden Joystick 2020 November 24, 2020 Breakthrough Award Won [138]
The Game Awards 2020 December 10, 2020 Best Mobile Game Won [139][140]
Best Multiplayer Game Won
Steam Awards 2020 January 3, 2021 Labor of Love Award Nominated [141][142]
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards March 13, 2021 Favorite Video Game Won [143]
Webby Awards 2021 Breakout of the Year Won [144]
See also
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the video game industry
Notes
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions ported by PlayEveryWare.
Better known as "PuffballsUnited".[1]
Better known as "ForteBass".[2]
Stylized as Among Us! on the iOS App Store.[3] When discussing its planned sequel, the game was given the retronym of Among Us 1 by the game's developers as well as several news outlets.[4][5][6][7]
The game uses the spelling "Impostor" rather than "Imposter" (though both are correct).[8]
Both the free mobile version of Among Us and the paid PC version have paid DLC. For the PC version, however, some of the mobile version's DLC is included in the standalone game.[31][2]
For example, the sound of an Impostor killing a Crewmate could reveal to other Crewmates who the Impostor was.
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Lorenz, Taylor (October 14, 2020), "With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us – YouTubers, influencers and streamers popularized the multiplayer game. Then their fans started playing too.", The New York Times, retrieved 2020-10-14, When an indie game company created Among Us in 2018, it was greeted with little fanfare. The multiplayer game remained under the radar as many games do — until the summer of the pandemic. Eager to keep viewers entertained during quarantine, Chance Morris, known online as Sodapoppin, began streaming the game, created by InnerSloth, to his 2.8 million followers on Twitch in July. By mid-September, Among Us caught on like wildfire. Suddenly major YouTube stars, TikTok influencers, and streamers were playing it. PewDiePie, James Charles, and Dr. Lupo have all played the game for millions.
Rodriguez, Salvador (October 14, 2020), "How Amazon's Twitch turned an obscure game called Among Us into a pandemic mega-hit", CNBC, retrieved 2020-10-14, Developed by InnerSloth, a small studio in Redmond, Washington, Among Us was download nearly 42 million times on Steam in the first half of September, according to Safebettingsites.com, and it was downloaded nearly 84 million times on iOS and Android that month, according to SensorTower. The game hasn't left the top five on Apple’s U.S. App Store since Sept. 1, and it has seen more than 158 million installs worldwide across the App Store and Google Play to date, SensorTower says.
""Among Us" Surged in September – "Among Us" videos topped 4 billion views in September", YouTube Culture and Trends, October 14, 2020, retrieved 2020-10-14, Among Us is an online multiplayer social deduction game developed by an American indie game studio, Innersloth. Among Us is a space-themed game in which a crew of astronauts must complete tasks while trying to figure out who among them is an imposter, who is sabotaging their work and killing the other players. The game has been available for about two years, but the viewership of videos related to the game soared last month. There were over 4 billion views of videos related to Among Us in September.
even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid,
saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took
us for spies of the country.
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I
know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me,
and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your
brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
¶ And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they
and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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.
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I
bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring
him to thee again.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is
dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the
which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave.
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And the famine was sore in the land.
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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.
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.
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee
food:
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.
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man
whether ye had yet a brother?
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?
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.
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:
for except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second
time.
¶ 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:
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.
Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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.
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And the men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt,
and stood before Joseph.
¶ And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for
these men shall dine with me at noon.
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men
into Joseph’s house.
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s
house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in
our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and
our asses.
And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
and said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
and it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our
sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack,
our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our
hand.
And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:
we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of
your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your
money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them
water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for
they heard that they should eat bread there.
¶ And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present
which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to
him to the earth.
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the
old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
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And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is
yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye
spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother:
and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and
wept there.
And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and
said, Set on bread.
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves,
and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves:
because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for
that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled
one at another.
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
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And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s
money in his sack’s mouth.
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest,
and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph
had spoken.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
and their asses.
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph
said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou
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dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded
evil for good?
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he
divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same
words.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words?
God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and
we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
and opened every man his sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest:
and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
returned to the city.
¶ And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet
there: and they fell before him on the ground.
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done?
wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we
speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the
iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we,
and he also with whom the cup is found.
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose
hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get
you up in peace unto your father.
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¶ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy
servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not
thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a
child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he
alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I
may set mine eyes upon him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he
should leave his father, his father would die.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother
come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with
us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except
our youngest brother be with us.
And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare
me two sons:
and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in
pieces; and I saw him not since:
and if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be
not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that
he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy
servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If
I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father
for ever.
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Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest
peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by
him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there
stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto
his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet
live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
¶ And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.
And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom
ye sold into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye
sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there
are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy
son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto
me, tarry not:
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and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near
unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and
thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
and there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine;
lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that
ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and
Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after
that his brethren talked with him.
¶ And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying,
Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye;
lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and
I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat
of the land.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
your father, and come.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is
yours.
¶ And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of
raiment.
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And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread
and meat for his father by the way.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto
them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan
unto Jacob their father,
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.
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.
And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and
see him before I die.
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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
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.
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.
And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 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.
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:
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his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and
Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons
of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
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.
And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri,
and Arodi, and Areli.
And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah,
and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
bare unto him.
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and
Ard.
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the
souls were fourteen.
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
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;
and the sons of Joseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two
souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt,
were threescore and ten.
¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto
Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
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.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy
face, because thou art yet alive.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I
will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and
my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto
me;
and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle;
and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that
they have.
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall
say, What is your occupation?
That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from
our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye
may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
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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.
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And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And
they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are
we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee,
let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
brethren are come unto thee:
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.
¶ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are a 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.
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
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.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
¶ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
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And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
cattle, if money fail.
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of
the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their
cattle for that year.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not
aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants
unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that
the land be not desolate.
¶ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed
over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of
the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a
portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this
day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall
sow the land.
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the
field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for
food for your little ones.
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the
sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
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And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that
Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests
only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
exceedingly.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole
age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years.
¶ 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:
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.
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
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And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim.
And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto
thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give
this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt,
are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and
shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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.
¶ And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these?
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath
given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto
me, and I will bless them.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and
embraced them.
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and,
lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he
bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s
right hand, and brought them near unto him.
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s
head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s
head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
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,
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.
¶ 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.
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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the
firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
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.
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.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with
you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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.
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Jacob’s Prophecy concerning His Sons
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken unto Israel your father.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn,
my might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;
because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;
then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united:
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for in their anger they slew a man,
and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;
thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion’s whelp:
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Binding his foal unto the vine,
and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine;
he washed his garments in wine,
and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
his eyes shall be red with wine,
and his teeth white with milk.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea;
and he shall be for a haven of ships;
and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Issachar is a strong ass
couching down between two burdens:
and he saw that rest was good,
and the land that it was pleasant;
and bowed his shoulder to bear,
and became a servant unto tribute.
Dan shall judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
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an adder in the path,
that biteth the horse heels,
so that his rider shall fall backward.
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him:
but he shall overcome at the last.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,
and he shall yield royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose:
he giveth goodly words.
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
the archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him, and hated him:
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;)
even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;
and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
the blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his
brethren.
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf:
in the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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The Death and Burial of Jacob
¶ 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.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the
field of Ephron the Hittite,
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.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried
Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from
the children of Heth.
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.
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And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and
kissed him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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.
¶ 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,
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.
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
made thee swear.
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,
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.
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
was a very great company.
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.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abel-mizraim [the mourning of the Egyptians], which is beyond
Jordan.
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
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.
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that
went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
The Death of Joseph
¶ And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they
said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us
all the evil which we did unto him.
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying,
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of
thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now,
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we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they
said, Behold, we be thy servants.
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.
And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph
lived a hundred and ten years.
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon
Joseph’s knees.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit
you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Exodus
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The Affliction of the Israelites in Egypt
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into
Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly,
and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was
filled with them.
¶ Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier than we:
come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it
come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also
unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of
the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom
and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
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and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and
in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service,
wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
¶ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;
and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them,
Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children
alive?
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
made them houses.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born
ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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The Birth of Moses
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
daughter of Levi.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark
of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side: and when
she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of
the Hebrews’ children.
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee
a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child’s mother.
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and
nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took
the child, and nursed it.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter,
and he became her son. And she called his name Moses [drawn
out]: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Moses Flees from Egypt
¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
¶ But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of
Midian: and he sat down by a well.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock.
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye
are come so soon today?
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the
flock.
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye
have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter.
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom [a stranger
there]: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage,
and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the
bondage.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect
unto them.
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The Call of Moses
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and
came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
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And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
he said, Here am I.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for
he was afraid to look upon God.
¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the
Egyptians oppress them.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?
And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token
unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
¶ And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children
of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath
sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what
shall I say unto them?
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And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto
you.
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me
unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The
Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
that which is done to you in Egypt:
and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and
the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto
him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let
us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that
we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by
a mighty hand.
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will
let you go.
And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
but every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe
me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath
not appeared unto thee.
And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
said, A rod.
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,
and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it
by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became
a rod in his hand:
that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared
unto thee.
And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his
hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,
behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice
of the latter sign.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two
signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the
water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water
which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry
land.
¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant;
but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or
who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have
not I the Lord?
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Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
what thou shalt say.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom
thou wilt send.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said,
Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth
thee, he will be glad in his heart.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I
will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you
what ye shall do.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be,
even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
instead of God.
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt
do signs.
Moses Returns to Egypt
¶ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren
which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro
said to Moses, Go in peace.
And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,
and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of
God in his hand.
¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I
have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall
not let the people go.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my
son, even my firstborn:
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and I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if
thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy
firstborn.
¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met
him, and sought to kill him.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art
thou to me.
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because
of the circumcision.
¶ And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed
him.
And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent
him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of
the children of Israel:
and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had
visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold
a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to
let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go,
we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto
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the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and
Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
and ye make them rest from their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore:
let them go and gather straw for themselves.
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall
lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle;
therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor
therein; and let them not regard vain words.
¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not
give you straw.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your
work shall be diminished.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your
daily tasks, as when there was straw.
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both
yesterday and today, as heretofore?
¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto
Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make
brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine
own people.
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do
sacrifice to the Lord.
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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you,
yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in
evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish aught from your
bricks of your daily task.
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
and they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their
hand to slay us.
The Lord’s Charge to Moses and Aaron
¶ And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore
hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent
me?
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil
to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
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Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do
to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a
strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
¶ And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah was I not known
to them.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom
the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant.
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Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a
stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did
swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
you for a heritage: I am the Lord.
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened
not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.
And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of
Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear
me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a
charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
¶ These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben
the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi:
these be th
saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy
brother Nahor;
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of
Aram,
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother.
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
her.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice
of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the children of Heth.
And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me
to Ephron the son of Zohar,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which
is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,
even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is
therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give
I it thee: bury thy dead.
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give
thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels
of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons
of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the
merchant.
¶ And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all
the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round
about, were made sure
unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of
Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the
field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan.
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto
Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
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A Wife Obtained for Isaac
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had
blessed Abraham in all things.
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled
over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and
the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a
wife unto my son Isaac.
And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son
again unto the land from whence thou camest?
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
son thither again.
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house,
and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he
shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my
son from thence.
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither
again.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
¶ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and
departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he
arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of
water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out
to draw water.
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And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master
Abraham.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the
men of the city come out to draw water:
and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let
down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that
thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know
that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
¶ And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,
Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the
wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her
shoulder.
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had
any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her
pitcher, and came up.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee,
drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her
pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw
water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran
again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the
Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
¶ And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there
room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of
Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
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She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to lodge in.
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who
hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being
in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
¶ And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these
things.
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban
ran out unto the man, unto the well.
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring, and bracelets upon
his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his
sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me, that he came unto the
man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for
the camels.
And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and
gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his
feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat,
until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
¶ And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become
great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,
and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was
old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife
to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I
dwell:
but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son.
And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
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And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his
angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for
my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my
kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my
oath.
¶ And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my
master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that
when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give
me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
and she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed
out for my master’s son.
¶ And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I
pray thee.
And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,
and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank,
and she made the camels drink also.
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said,
The daughter of Bethuel, Nahors son, whom Milcah bare unto
him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon
her hands.
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and
blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in
the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me:
and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
¶ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
Behold, Rebekah is before thee; take her, and go, and let her be thy
master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.
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¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their
words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother
and to her mother precious things.
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said,
Send me away unto my master.
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us
a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath
prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this
man? And she said, I will go.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham’s servant, and his men.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister;
be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess
the gate of those which hate them.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and
went his way.
¶ And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt
in the south country.
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he
lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel.
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in
the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master:
therefore she took a veil, and covered herself.
And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
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And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was
comforted after his mother’s death.
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Abraham’s Descendants through Keturah
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
and Ishbak, and Shuah.
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while
he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
The Death and Burial of Abraham
¶ And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he
lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre;
the field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was
Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed
his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
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The Descendants of Ishmael
¶ Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth;
and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their
towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their
nations.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty
and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died, and was
gathered unto his people.
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as
thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his
brethren.
The Birth of Esau and Jacob
¶ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham
begat Isaac:
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban
the Syrian.
And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren:
and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be
so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord.
And the Lord said unto her,
Two nations are in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;
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and the elder shall serve the younger.
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were
twins in her womb.
And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they
called his name Esau.
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.
Esau Sells His Birthright
¶ And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the
field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
Rebekah loved Jacob.
¶ And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was
faint:
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 [red].
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit
shall this birthright do to me?
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and
he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat
and drink, and rose up, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his
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And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king
of the Philistines unto Gerar.
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And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will
give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed:
because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is
my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men
of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look
upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,
and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy
wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto
him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of
the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
¶ Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a
hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
became very great:
for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled
them with earth.
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And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
mightier than we.
¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped
them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after
the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying,
The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek
[contention]; because they strove with him.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
called the name of it Sitnah [hatred].
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for
that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth [room];
and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
¶ And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am
the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and
will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s
sake.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged
a well.
¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and
we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and
thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
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that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as
we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away
in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace.
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and
told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon
the Hittite:
which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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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.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
and make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I
may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
¶ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy
father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
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Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and
bless thee before the Lord before my death.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command thee.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the
goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he
loveth:
and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he
may bless thee before his death.
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a
hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
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.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only
obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his
mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
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:
and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and
upon the smooth of his neck:
and she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
¶ And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I; who art thou, my son?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
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.
And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me,
my son.
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:
therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven,
and the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine:
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.
¶ And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing
Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac
his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And he also had made savory meat, and brought it unto his father,
and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I
am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he
that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be
blessed.
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And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great
and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me
also, O my father.
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away
thy blessing.
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted
me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now
he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
reserved a blessing for me?
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and
with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now
unto thee, my son?
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
¶ And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,
and of the dew of heaven from above;
and by thy sword shalt thou live,
and shalt serve thy brother:
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Jacob Flees from Esau
¶ 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.
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.
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran;
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
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?
¶ 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?
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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.
Arise, go to Padan-aram, 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.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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.
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban,
son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and
Esau’s mother.
¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan;
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to
Padan-aram;
and Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his
father;
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then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of
Nebajoth, to be his wife.
God Appears to Jacob at Beth-el
¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is
in this place; and I knew it not.
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.
¶ 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.
And he called the name of that place Beth-el [the house of God]:
but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
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,
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so that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the
Lord be my God:
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.
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Jacob Serves Laban for Rachel and Leah
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
people of the east.
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.
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.
¶ And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we.
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and,
behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
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.
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.
¶ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s
sheep: for she kept them.
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,
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that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth,
and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
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.
¶ 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.
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And
he abode with him the space of a month.
¶ And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall
thy wages be?
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and
the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should
give her to another man: abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
feast.
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.
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for a
handmaid.
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?
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And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the
younger before the firstborn.
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel
his daughter to wife also.
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be
her maid.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
The Children Born to Jacob
¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
womb: but Rachel was barren.
And Leah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name
Reuben [see, a son]: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this
son also: and she called his name Simeon [hearing].
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time
will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him
three sons: therefore was his name called Levi [joined].
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she said, Now will I
praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah [praise]; and
left bearing.
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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.
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?
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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.
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in
unto her.
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
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
[judging].
And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second
son.
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali [my
wrestling].
¶ When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed:
and she called his name Asher [happy].
¶ 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.
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 tonight for thy
son’s mandrakes.
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.
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar [an
hire].
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and
she called his name Zebulun [dwelling].
And afterward she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away
my reproach:
and she called his name Joseph [adding]; and said, The Lord shall
add to me another son.
The Trickery of Laban and Jacob
¶ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
place, and to my country.
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.
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine
eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath
blessed me for thy sake.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
how thy cattle was with me.
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?
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.
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I will pass through all thy flock today, 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.
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.
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ring-streaked 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.
And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob
fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
¶ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
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.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle
ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the ring-streaked, 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.
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.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler
were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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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.
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers,
and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his
flock,
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.
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle
bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy
hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them
to me.
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 ring-streaked, speckled, and
grizzled.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: and
I said, Here am I.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which
leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I
have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
I am the God of Beth-el, 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.
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath
quite devoured also our money.
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.
Jacob Flees from Laban
¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
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.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father’s.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told
him not that he fled.
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.
¶ And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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.
¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead.
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?
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?
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou
hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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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.
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my
gods?
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I
said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from
me.
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.
¶ 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.
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.
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.
¶ 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?
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.
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.
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.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by
night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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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.
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 labor of my hands,
and rebuked thee yesternight.
¶ 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
borne?
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and
let it be for a witness between me and thee.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [the heap of witness]: but
Jacob called it Galeed [the heap of witness].
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this
day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,
and Mizpah [a beacon or watchtower]; for he said, The Lord watch
between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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.
¶ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
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.
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.
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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.
¶ 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.
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Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called
the name of that place Mahanaim [two hosts or camps].
¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto
the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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:
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.
¶ 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.
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;
and said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the
other company which is left shall escape.
¶ 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:
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth,
which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I
passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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.
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.
¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and
twenty rams,
thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls,
twenty she asses and ten foals.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night
in the company.
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Jacob Wrestles at Peniel
¶ 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.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day.
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.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
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.
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.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God]: for
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted
upon his thigh.
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.
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Jacob and Esau Reconciled
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came,
and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto
Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his brother.
¶ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
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.
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
they bowed themselves.
And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves:
and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And
he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
unto thyself.
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 have seen
thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast
pleased with me.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God
hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he
urged him, and he took it.
¶ And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go
before thee.
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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 die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead
on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the
children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
¶ And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that
are with me. And he said
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters.
¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Man in the Garden of Eden
¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens,
and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it
to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the ground.
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
¶ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the
whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx
stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth
toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
¶ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat:
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
¶ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see
what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and
to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help
meet for him.
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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman [heb. Isha], because she was taken
out of Man [heb. Ish].
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
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Man’s Disobedience
Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden:
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
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¶ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten
of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
¶ And the Lord God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
and I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,
and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
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thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field:
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art,and unto dust shalt thou return.
¶ And Adam called his wife’s name Eve [living]; because she was
the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins, and clothed them.
¶ And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
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Cain and Abel
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain
[gotten, or acquired], and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
countenance fallen?
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not
well, sin lieth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and
thou shalt rule over him.
¶ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood
crieth unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth;
and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a
vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that
findeth me shall slay me.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
¶ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch.
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
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And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer
in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
¶ And Lamech said unto his wives,
Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
for I have slain a man to my wounding,
and a young man to my hurt.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
¶ And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
name Seth [appointed, or put]: For God, said she, hath appointed
me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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The Descendants of Adam
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: and he died.
¶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters:
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and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and
he died.
¶ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he
died.
¶ And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he
died.
¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five
years: and he died.
¶ And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch:
and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters:
and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years:
and he died.
¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
¶ And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech:
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty
and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine
years: and he died.
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¶ And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son:
and he called his name Noah [rest or comfort], saying, This same
shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five
years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven
years: and he died.
¶ And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
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The Wickedness of Mankind
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them,
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty
years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of
old, men of renown.
¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah Makes the Ark
¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
¶ The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled
with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;
for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and
the height of it thirty cubits.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven;
and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come
into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives
with thee.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male
and female.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall
come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt
gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did
he.
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The Flood
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and
his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his
female.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep
seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made
will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
¶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of
every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood
were upon the earth.
¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains
of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of
his sons with them, into the ark;
they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
were covered.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man:
all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry
land, died.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face
of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and
the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:
and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the
ark.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters assuaged.
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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after
the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the
tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the
mountains seen.
¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made:
and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the
waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated
from off the face of the ground.
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned
unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole
earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in
unto him into the ark.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the
dove out of the ark.
And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth
was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which
returned not again unto him any more.
¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off
the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, was the earth dried.
And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’
wives with thee.
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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all
flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’
wives with him:
every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the
ark.
¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on
the altar.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither
will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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God’s Covenant with Noah
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are
they delivered.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
green herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat.
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of
every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in
the earth, and multiply therein.
¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you;
and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out
of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be
cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that
the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I
have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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Noah’s Drunkenness
¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and
Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth
overspread.
¶ And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered
within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brethren without.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their
father’s nakedness.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
And he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
God shall enlarge Japheth,
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he
died.
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The Descendants of the Sons of Noah
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham,
and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
¶ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every
one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the
city Rehoboth, and Calah,
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
Caphtorim.
¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest
to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues,
in their countries, and in their nations.
¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother
of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram.
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg
[division]; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s
name was Joktan.
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and
Jerah,
and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of
Joktan.
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a
mount of the east.
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues,
in their lands, after their nations.
¶ These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations,
in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
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The Tower of Babel
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn
them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for mortar.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all
one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another’s speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did
the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
The Descendants of Shem
¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and
begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters.
¶ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years,
and begat sons and daughters.
¶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
The Descendants of Terah
¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity,
in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife
was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of
Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
¶ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the
land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah
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God’s Call to Abram
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that
I will show thee:
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
¶ So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all
their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I
give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who
appeared unto him.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the
east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon
the name of the Lord.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Abram in Egypt
¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
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And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,
that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a
fair woman to look upon:
therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee,
that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they
will save thee alive.
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for
thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and
oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels.
¶ And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues,
because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast
done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me
to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent
him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he
had, and Lot with him, into the south.
¶ And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto
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unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first:
and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents.
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell
together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and
the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
dwelt then in the land.
¶ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,
from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or
if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it
was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of
Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east:
and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of
the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord
exceedingly.
¶ And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy
seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man
can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
numbered.
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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth
of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of
Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the
Lord.
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
nations;
that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king
of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the
salt sea.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year
they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and
the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the
wilderness.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and
smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,
and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela, (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the
vale of Siddim;
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;
four kings with five.
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And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom
and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their
victuals, and went their way.
And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom,
and his goods, and departed.
¶ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother
of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with
Abram.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred
and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the
left hand of Damascus.
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Melchizedek Blesses Abram
¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with
him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and
he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed be Abram of the most high God,
possessor of heaven and earth:
and blessed be the most high God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand
unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
earth,
that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I
will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
made Abram rich:
save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of
the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them
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After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo,
one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This
shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine
own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he
said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
¶ And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur
of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit
it?
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And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she
goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove
them away.
¶ And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
¶ And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces.
In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates:
the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites.
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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained
me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I
may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of
Sarai.
And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to
her husband Abram to be his wife.
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me
and thee.
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to
her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she
fled from her face.
¶ And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael [God
shall hear]; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and
every man’s hand against him: and he shall dwell in the presence of
all his brethren.
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that
seeth me?
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Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi [the well of him that
liveth and seeth me]: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
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Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a
father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham [father of a great multitude]; for a father of many
nations have I made thee.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of
thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a
God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and
thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or
bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money,
must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh
for an everlasting covenant.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not
circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath
broken my covenant.
¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not
call her name Sarai, but Sarah [princess] shall her name be.
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of
her.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old?
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou
shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him,
and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear
unto thee at this set time in the next year.
¶ And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his
house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among
the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their
foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
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The Birth of Isaac Promised
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by
him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent
door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
and said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not
away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree:
and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after
that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your sevant. And
they said, So do, as thou hast said.
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
upon the hearth.
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and
they did eat.
¶ And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold, in the tent.
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And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time
of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it
in the tent door, which was behind him.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed
old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will
return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have
a son.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And
he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
¶ And the men rose up from thence, and