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Genesis, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out
to see the daughters of the land. {34:2} Shechem the son of Hamor the
Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her,
and humbled her. {34:3} His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of
Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young
lady. {34:4} Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this
young lady as a wife."
{34:5} Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and
his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace
until they came. {34:6} Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob
to talk with him. {34:7} The sons of Jacob came in from the field when
they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because
he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which
thing ought not to be done. {34:8} Hamor talked with them, saying,
"The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her
to him as a wife. {34:9} Make marriages with us. Give your daughters
to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. {34:10} You shall dwell
with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and
get possessions in it."
{34:11} Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find
favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. {34:12}
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of
me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
{34:13} The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with
deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, {34:14}
and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one
who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. {34:15} Only on
this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that
every male of you be circumcised; {34:16} then will we give our
daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will
dwell with you, and we will become one people. {34:17} But if you will
not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our
[1>]sister,[<1] and we will be gone."
{34:18} Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. {34:19}
The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in
Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his
father. {34:20} Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their
city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, {34:21} "These
men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and
trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us
take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our
daughters. {34:22} Only on this condition will the men consent to us
to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is
circumcised, as they are circumcised. {34:23} Won't their livestock
and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give
our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
{34:24} All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor,
and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went
out of the gate of his city. {34:25} It happened on the third day,
when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting
city, and killed all the males. {34:26} They killed Hamor and Shechem,
his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's
house, and went away. {34:27} Jacob's sons came on the dead, and
plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. {34:28}
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in
the city, that which was in the field, {34:29} and all their wealth.
They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as
plunder everything that was in the house. {34:30} Jacob said to Simeon
and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants
of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in
number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me,
and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
{34:31} They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a
prostitute?"
{35:1} God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there.
Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the
face of Esau your brother."
{35:2} Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with
him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves,
change your garments. {35:3} Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will
make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the way which I went."
{35:4} They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their
hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem. {35:5} They traveled, and a terror
of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue
the sons of Jacob. {35:6} So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel),
which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with
him. {35:7} He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El;
because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of
his brother. {35:8} Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried
below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
{35:9} God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram,
and blessed him. {35:10} God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your
name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He
named him Israel. {35:11} God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be
fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from
you, and kings will come out of your body. {35:12} The land which I
gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed
after you will I give the land."
{35:13} God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
{35:14} Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a
pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil
on it. {35:15} Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with
him "Bethel."
{35:16} They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to
come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. {35:17}
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid,
for now you will have another son."
{35:18} It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that
she named him [2>]Benoni,[<2] but his father named him
[3>]Benjamin.[<3] {35:19} Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem). {35:20} Jacob set up a pillar on her
grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. {35:21}
Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. {35:22}
It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay
with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. {35:23} The sons of Leah: Reuben
(Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
{35:24} The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. {35:25} The sons of
Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. {35:26} The sons of
Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob,
who were born to him in Paddan Aram. {35:27} Jacob came to Isaac his
father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and
Isaac lived as foreigners.
{35:28} The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. {35:29}
Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people,
old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
{36:1} Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is,
Edom). {36:2} Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah
the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of
Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite; {36:3} and Basemath,
Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. {36:4} Adah bore to Esau
Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. {36:5} Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and
Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of
Canaan. {36:6} Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all
the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and
all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and
went into a land away from his brother Jacob. {36:7} For their
substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of
their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock. {36:8}
Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
{36:9} This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of
the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: {36:10} these are the names
of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel,
the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. {36:11} The sons of Eliphaz
were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. {36:12} Timna was
concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek.
These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. {36:13} These are the sons of
Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of
Basemath, Esau's wife. {36:14} These were the sons of Oholibamah, the
daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to
Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
{36:15} These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho,
chief Kenaz, {36:16} chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are
the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons
of Adah. {36:17} These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief
Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs
who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath,
Esau's wife. {36:18} These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife:
chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came
of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. {36:19} These are the
sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
{36:20} These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of
the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, {36:21} Dishon, Ezer, and
Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of
Seir in the land of Edom. {36:22} The children of Lotan were Hori and
Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna. {36:23} These are the children of
Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. {36:24} These are the
children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot
springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
{36:25} These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the
daughter of Anah. {36:26} These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan,
Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. {36:27} These are the children of Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. {36:28} These are the children of Dishan: Uz
and Aran. {36:29} These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief
Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, {36:30} chief Dishon,
chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the
Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
{36:31} These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before
any king reigned over the children of Israel. {36:32} Bela, the son of
Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah. {36:33} Bela
died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
{36:34} Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in
his place. {36:35} Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who
struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of
his city was Avith. {36:36} Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned
in his place. {36:37} Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river,
reigned in his place. {36:38} Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of
Achbor reigned in his place. {36:39} Baal Hanan the son of Achbor
died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau.
His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Mezahab.
{36:40} These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau,
according to their families, after their places, and by their names:
chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, {36:41} chief Oholibamah,
chief Elah, chief Pinon, {36:42} chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mibzar, {36:43} chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of
Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession.
This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:17} Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"
[2] {35:18} "Benoni" means "son of my trouble."
[3] {35:18} "Benjamin" means "son of my right hand."
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