Beresheet, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Dinah, the daughter of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov, went
out to see the daughters of the land. {34:2} Shekhem the son of Hamor
the Hivvi, 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
Ya`akov, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young
lady. {34:4} Shekhem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this
young lady as a wife."
{34:5} Now Ya`akov heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter;
and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Ya`akov held his
shalom until they came. {34:6} Hamor the father of Shekhem went out to
Ya`akov to talk with him. {34:7} The sons of Ya`akov came in from the
field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very
angry, because he had done folly in Yisra'el in lying with Ya`akov's
daughter; which thing ought not to be done. {34:8} Hamor talked with
them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shekhem, 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} Shekhem 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 Ya`akov answered Shekhem 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
sister, and we will be gone.
{34:18} Their words pleased Hamor, and Shekhem, Hamor's son. {34:19}
The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in
Ya`akov's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his
father. {34:20} Hamor and Shekhem, 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 dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they are circumcised. {34:23} Won't their cattle and
their substance 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 Shekhem 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 Ya`akov's sons, Shim`on 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 Shekhem,
his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shekhem's
house, and went away. {34:27} Ya`akov'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} Ya`akov said to
Shim`on and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the
inhabitants of the land, among the Kana`anim and the Perizzi. 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 Ya`akov, "Arise, go up to Beit-El, and live
there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled
from the face of Esav your brother."
{35:2} Then Ya`akov 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 Beit-El. 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 Ya`akov all the foreign gods which were in their
hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya`akov hid them
under the oak which was by Shekhem. {35:5} They journeyed: and a
terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they
didn't pursue the sons of Ya`akov. {35:6} So Ya`akov came to Luz,
which is in the land of Kana`an (the same is Beit-El), he and all the
people who were with him. {35:7} He built an altar there, and called
the place El-Beit-El; because there God was revealed to him, when he
fled from the face of his brother. {35:8} Devorah, Rivka's nurse,
died, and she was buried below Beit-El under the oak; and the name of
it was called Allon-Bakhut.
{35:9} God appeared to Ya`akov again, when he came from Paddan-Aram,
and blessed him. {35:10} God said to him, "Your name is Ya`akov. Your
name shall not be Ya`akov any more, but your name will be Yisra'el."
He named him Yisra'el. {35:11} God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be
fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from
you, and kings will come out of your loins. {35:12} The land which I
gave to Avraham and Yitzchak, 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} Ya`akov 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} Ya`akov called the name of the place where God
spoke with him "Beit-El."
{35:16} They journeyed from Beit-El. There was still some distance
to come to Efrat, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. {35:17} It
happened that, when she was in hard labor, that 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 Ben-oni, but his father named him Binyamin. {35:19}
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is
Beit-Lechem). {35:20} Ya`akov set up a pillar on her grave. The same
is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. {35:21} Yisra'el
journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of `Eder. {35:22} It
happened, while Yisra'el lived in that land, that Re'uven went and lay
with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Yisra'el heard of it.
Now the sons of Ya`akov were twelve. {35:23} The sons of Le'ah:
Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and
Zevulun. {35:24} The sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin. {35:25} The
sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naftali. {35:26} The sons
of Zilpah (Le'ah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of
Ya`akov, who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. {35:27} Ya`akov came to
Yitzchak his father, to Mamre, to Kiryat-Arba (the same is Hevron),
where Avraham and Yitzchak sojourned.
{35:28} The days of Yitzchak were one hundred eighty years. {35:29}
Yitzchak gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people,
old and full of days. Esav and Ya`akov, his sons, buried him.
{36:1} Now this is the history of the generations of Esav (the same
is Edom). {36:2} Esav took his wives from the daughters of Kana`an:
`Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholivamah the daughter
of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, the Hivvi; {36:3} and Basemat,
Yishma'el's daughter, sister of Nevayot. {36:4} `Adah bore to Esav
Elifaz. Basemat bore Re`u'el. {36:5} Oholivamah bore Ye`ush, Ya`lam,
and Korach. These are the sons of Esav, who were born to him in the
land of Kana`an. {36:6} Esav took his wives, his sons, his daughters,
and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his
animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of
Kana`an, and went into a land away from his brother Ya`akov. {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 cattle.
{36:8} Esav lived in the hill country of Se`ir. Esav is Edom.
{36:9} This is the history of the generations of Esav the father of
the Edom in the hill country of Se`ir: {36:10} these are the names of
Esav's sons: Elifaz, the son of `Adah, the wife of Esav; and Re`u'el,
the son of Basemat, the wife of Esav. {36:11} The sons of Elifaz were
Teman, Omar, Tzefo, and Ga`tam, and Kenaz. {36:12} Timna was concubine
to Elifaz, Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz `Amalek. These are the
sons of `Adah, Esav's wife. {36:13} These are the sons of Re`u'el:
Nachat, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemat,
Esav's wife. {36:14} These were the sons of Oholivamah, the daughter
of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, Esav's wife: she bore to Esav
Ye`ush, Ya`lam, and Korach.
{36:15} These are the chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of Elifaz
the firstborn of Esav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Tzefo, chief
Kenaz, {36:16} chief Korach, chief Ga`tam, chief `Amalek: these are
the chiefs who came of Elifaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons
of `Adah. {36:17} These are the sons of Re`u'el, Esav's son: chief
Nachat, chief Zerach, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the
chiefs who came of Re`u'el in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Basemat, Esav's wife. {36:18} These are the sons of Oholivamah, Esav's
wife: chief Ye`ush, chief Ya`lam, chief Korach: these are the chiefs
who came of Oholivamah the daughter of `Anah, Esav's wife. {36:19}
These are the sons of Esav, and these are their chiefs. The same is
Edom.
{36:20} These are the sons of Se`ir the Horite, the inhabitants of
the land: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv`on, `Anah, {36:21} Dishon, Etzer, and
Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Hori, the children of
Se`ir 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
Shoval: Alvan, Manachat, `Eval, Shefo, and Onam. {36:24} These are the
children of Tziv`on: Ayah and `Anah. This is `Anah who found the hot
springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Tziv`on his
father. {36:25} These are the children of `Anah: Dishon and
Oholivamah, the daughter of `Anah. {36:26} These are the children of
Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Yitran, and Keran. {36:27} These are the
children of Etzer: Bilhan, Za`avan, and `Akan. {36:28} These are the
children of Dishan: `Utz and Aran. {36:29} These are the chiefs who
came of the Hori: chief Lotan, chief Shoval, chief Tziv`on, chief
`Anah, {36:30} chief Dishon, chief Etzer, and chief Dishan: these are
the chiefs who came of the Hori, according to their chiefs in the land
of Se`ir.
{36:31} These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before
any king reigned over the children of Yisra'el. {36:32} Bela, the son
of Be'or, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhava. {36:33}
Bela died, and Yovav, the son of Zerach of Botzrah, reigned in his
place. {36:34} Yovav died, and Husham of the land of the Temani
reigned in his place. {36:35} Husham died, and Hadad, the son of
Bedad, who struck Midyan in the field of Mo'av, reigned in his place.
The name of his city was `Avit. {36:36} Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his place. {36:37} Samlah died, and Sha'ul of
Rechovot by the river, reigned in his place. {36:38} Sha'ul died, and
Ba`al-Hanan, the son of `Akhbor reigned in his place. {36:39}
Ba`al-Hanan the son of `Akhbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place.
The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetav'el, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahav.
{36:40} These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esav,
according to their families, after their places, and by their names:
chief Timna, chief `Alvah, chief Yetet, {36:41} chief Oholivamah,
chief Elah, chief Pinon, {36:42} chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mivtzar, {36:43} chief Magdi'el, and chief `Iram. These are the chiefs
of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their
possession. This is Esav, the father of the Edom.
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