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Creation in Six Days

Genesis 1:1-31

In the beginning God created the heavens & earth. The earth was without form & void & darkness was on the face of the deep. The Spirit of God was moved over the face of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light, & there was light & God saw that it was good & God divided the light from the darkness & called the light Day & called the darkness Night. So the evening & the morning were the 1st day.

Then God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters & let it divide the waters from the waters & God made the firmament  & divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which are above the firmament & it was so. God called the firmament [He made] Heaven. The evening & the morning were the 2nd day.

Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place & let the dry land appear, & it was so. God called the dry land Earth & He called the gathering together of the waters Seas & saw that it was good. Then God said, Let the earth bring forth grass & herbs yielding seed after [its] kind & the tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself after [its] kind on the earth, & God saw it was good. The evening & the morning were the 3rd day.

Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night & let them be for signs & seasons & for days & years. Let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, & it was so. Then, God made 2 great lights; the greater light to rule the day & the lesser light the night & He also made the stars which God set in the firmament of the heavens to give light on earth, to rule over the day & the night & to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good & the evening & the morning were of the 4th day.

God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life & the  birds that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. God created great whales & every living thing that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind & every winged bird according to their kind & God saw that it was good. God blessed them saying, Be fruitful & multiply & fill the waters in the seas & let the birds multiply on the earth & the evening & the morning were the 5th day.

God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after [its] kind: cattle, creeping things & beasts of the earth, after [its] kind, & it was so. God made the beast of the earth after [its] kind & cattle after their kind & every thing that [creeps] upon the earth after [its] kind & God saw that it was good. God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness & let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle & over all the earth & over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in His own image & in the image of God, He created male & female He created them. God blessed them & said to them, Be fruitful & multiply & replenish the earth & subdue it & have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air & over every living thing that moves on the earth. God said, I have given you every herb that yields seed on the face of all the earth & every tree which has fruit of the tree that yields seed; it shall be for [food] for you. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air & to everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life, I have given every green herb for [food], & it was so. Then, God saw everything that He had made & behold it was very good & the evening & the morning were the 6th day.

More Details of the Creation of Heaven & Earth, Man & Animals

Genesis 2:1-25                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Thus the heavens & the earth & all the host of them, were finished. On the 7th day God ended His work which He had made & He rested on the 7th day from all His work [that] He had made & God blessed the 7th day & sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

These are the generations of the heavens & earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens & the earth. Before any plant of the field was in the earth or any herb had grown for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth & there was no man to till the ground, but a mist went up from the earth & watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground & breathed into his nostrils the breath of life & man became a living soul.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden & put the man He had formed there. Out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight & good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden & the tree of knowledge of good & evil. A river went out of Eden to water the garden & from there it parted & became 4 riverheads: Pison which skirts the land of Havilah where there is gold that is good, as well as bdellium & onyx stone there. The 2nd river is Gihon which goes around the land of Ethiopia & the 3rd river is Hiddekel which goes toward the east of Assyria. The 4th is the Euphrates River.

Then the Lord God took the man & put him into the garden of Eden to tend & keep it. The Lord God commanded man saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good & evil you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. The Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper for him. The Lord God formed out of the ground every beast of the field & every bird of the air & brought them to Adam to see what he would call them & whatever he called each living creature [became] its name. Adam gave names to all the cattle, birds of the air & to every beast of the field, but there wasn’t found a helper for Adam.

The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam & as he slept the [Lord God] took one of his [Adam’s] ribs & closed up the flesh. The Lord God made woman from the rib He had taken from man & He brought her to the man. Adam said, This is now bone of my bones & flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father & mother & be joined to his wife & they shall become one flesh. They were both naked, the man & his wife & were not ashamed.

Man is Tempted & Consequences of Sin

Genesis 3:1-24              The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The serpent [Satan/Devil] was more subtle than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. The [serpent asked] the woman, Has God told you that you can’t eat of every tree of the garden? She replied that they could eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, [except for] the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, or touch it, lest you die.

Then the serpent said to her, You surely wouldn’t die, for God knows that the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened & you will be [like God], knowing good & evil. When the woman saw that the tree was pleasant to the eyes & good for food & [desirable] to make one wise, she took the fruit & did eat & gave it also to her husband & he did eat of it.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened & they knew they were naked & sewed fig leaves together to make themselves aprons. Adam & his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God when they heard Him walking in the garden in the cool of the day among the trees in the garden. The Lord God called to Adam, Where are you? [Adam answered] When I heard Your voice I was afraid & hid myself, because I was naked. [God asked], Who told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? The man said The woman [You] had given to be with me, gave me  [the fruit of] the tree & I did eat [it.] When God asked the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me & I did eat [of it].

The Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle & every beast of the field & you shall go on upon your belly & shall eat dust all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you & the woman & between your seed & *her Seed. He shall bruise your head & you shall bruise His heel. [Foretelling of Jesus’ conquering sin, death & the Devil.]

God said to the woman, I will greatly multiply your sorrow & your conception; in [pain] you shall bring forth children & your desire shall be for your husband & he shall rule over you. The Lord God said to Adam, Because you [listened] to the voice of your wife & have eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from it, cursed is the ground for your sake & in sorrow you shall eat of it all the days of your life. It shall bring forth both thorns & thistles & you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread [until] you return to the ground for out of it you were taken. For dust you are & to dust you shall return.

Because she was the mother of all living, Adam called his wife’s name, Eve. The Lord God made tunics of skin & clothed Adam & his wife. The Lord God said, Behold, man has become like one of Us, to know good & evil. Now, lest he take also [from] the tree of life & eat & live forever: therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. When He drove out man, the Lord God placed [angels] at the east of the garden of Eden & a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

Cain & Abel

Genesis 4:1-26              The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

[After] Adam knew Eve, his wife [intimately] & she conceived & bare Cain & said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Then again she bare his brother, Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

[After some time], Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord & Abel brought the [firstborn] of his flock & of [their] fat. The Lord respected Abel & his offering & not Cain and his offering. Cain was very [angry] & he [was discouraged]. The Lord talked to Cain and said, Why are you [so angry] & why has your countenance fallen? [Won’t you] be accepted if you do well? If you don’t do well, sin lies at the door & you are [its] desire, but you should rule over [it].

Cain talked with his brother Abel & [later] when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother & killed him. The Lord [asked] Cain, Where is Abel your brother? Cain said, I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper? Then the Lord God said, What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Now you are cursed from the ground. Now you are cursed from the earth, which opened her mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. The ground you till shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive & a vagabond on the earth. Cain told the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. He told God, Surely You have driven me out from the face of the earth & I shall be hidden from God’s face. I shall be a fugitive & a vagabond on the earth & [anyone who finds me will kill me]. The Lord said to him, Whoever kills Cain [will have] vengeance on him 7-fold. The Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

Cain went out from the presence of the Lord & dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. Cain’s wife conceived & bore Enoch. He built a city & named it for his son, Enoch. Enoch was [the father of] Irad, who was [the father of] Mehujael, who was [the father of] Methusael, who was [the father] of Lamech. Lamech had 2 wives: Adah who bore Jabal who  was the father of those who dwell in tents & those who have cattle & Jubal who was the father of those who played the harp & organ. Zillah was his other wife & she bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of craftsmen in brass & iron & his sister was Naamah.

Lamech [told his wives that he had killed a man [for wounding me], a young man for [injuring me]. If Cain shall be avenged 7-fold, then Lamech 77-fold.

Adam & his wife bore a son & named him Seth, For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain killed. Seth [later] had a son who was named Enos/a.k.a Enosh. Then men began to call on the Lord [to worship Him].

Genealogy of Adam-Noah

Genesis 5:1-32              The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

This is a book of genealogy of Adam in the day that God created man in His likeness. God created them male and female & blessed them & called their name Adam in the day when they were created. Adam lived 130 years & [fathered] a son in his own likeness, after his image & named him Seth.

After the birth of Seth, Adam lived 800 [more] years & had sons & daughters & died at 930 years old. Seth [fathered] Enos [a.k.a. Enosh] at 105 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 807 years & died at 912. Enos [fathered] Cainan at 90 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 815 years & died at 905.

Cainan [fathered] Mahalaleel at 70 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 840 years & died at 910. Mahalaleel [fathered] Jared at 65 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 830 years & died at 895. Jared [fathered] Enoch 162 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 800 years & died at 962.

Enoch [fathered] Methuselah at 65 years old & walked with God & had sons & daughters over the next 300 years. Enoch lived 365 years and Enoch walked with God & he was not, for God took him. Methuselah [fathered] Lamech at 187 years old & had sons & daughters over the next 782 years & died at 969.

Lamech [fathered] Noah at 182 years old, saying, This one will comfort us concerning our work & the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed. He had sons & daughters over the next 595 years & died at 777. Noah was 500 years old & [fathered] Shem, Ham & Japeth.

God Sees the Wickedness in the Earth

Genesis 6:1-22              The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

It came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth & daughters were born to them, the sons of God [a.k.a. fallen angels/demons: according to TheGospelCoalition.org] saw that the daughters of men were [beautiful] & took for wives of all whom they chose.

The Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive [abide] with man for he is also flesh & he shall live to be 120 years. There were giants on the earth in those days & afterward when the sons of God [a.k.a fallen angels/demons] came in unto the daughters of men [intimately] & they bore children to them [who became] mighty men who were renowned men of old. The Lord God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth & every thought & imagination of his heart was evil continually. The Lord [was sorry] that He had made man on the earth & it grieved in His heart. The Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man & beast, creeping things & birds of the air, for I [am sorry] that I have made them.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations & Noah walked with God. Noah [fathered] 3 sons: Shem, Ham & Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God & the earth was filled with violence. God looked upon the earth & it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth.

God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them & behold I will destroy them with the earth. Make an ark for yourself of gopher wood & make rooms in the ark & cover the inside & outside with pitch [to make it watertight]. This is the  [pattern] in which you shall fashion it: The ark was to be 300 x 50 cubits with a height of 30 cubits [according to Math.Answers.com it was 450 ft. long by 75 ft. wide by 45 high]. You shall make a window in the ark & in a cubit you shall finish it above & the door of the ark you shall set in the side [of it], with the lower, 2nd & 3rd stories, you shall make it.

Behold, I am bringing flood waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, from under heaven, that has the breath of life & every thing that is in the earth shall die.  But with you, I will establish My covenant and you shall come into the ark, you, your wife, your sons & their wives with you.

You shall bring into the ark 2 of every sort of living thing of all flesh to keep them alive with you, [both] male & female. Of the birds after their kind, the cattle after their kind & of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind. Two of every sort  will come to you to keep them alive. Take for yourselves of all the food that is eaten & gather it, for it shall be food for you & for them [the animals]. Noah did according to all that God commanded him.

God Tells Noah How to Build the Ark & What Goes in It & Rains

Genesis 7:1-24              The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord said to Noah Come with all your [family] into the ark, for I [God] have seen you are righteous before Me in this generation. You shall take by sevens every clean beast, male & female and of beasts that aren’t clean, by twos, the male & female. Of the [birds] of the air by sevens, male & female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth 40 days & nights & I will destroy all living things I have made from off the face of the earth. Noah did all according to what the Lord commanded him.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters were upon the earth & Noah & his family went into ark because of the flood waters. All of the clean & unclean beasts, birds & every thing that creeps on the earth, went to Noah into the art two by two, the male & the female, as God had commanded Noah.

After the 7 days, the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the 600th year of Noah’s life, in the 2nd month & the 17th day of the month, Noah entered the ark & [all his family] that day & after their kind every: beast, cattle, creeping thing upon the earth, & bird of their kind & every sort went into Noah in the ark, two by two of all flesh, male & female, wherein is the breath of life, as the God commanded him & the Lord shut him in.

That same day, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up & the windows of heaven were opened. The rain was on the earth 40 days & nights. When the flood was upon the earth for 40 days, the waters increased & [lifted] up the ark above the earth. The waters prevailed & increased greatly upon the earth & the ark went upon the face of the waters. The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth & covered all the high hills under the whole heaven. The mountains were covered when the waters prevailed at 15 cubits upward.

All flesh that moved on the earth died & both birds, cattle, beast, every creeping thing on the earth & every man & all on the land that had nostrils to breathe died & every living substance on the ground was destroyed from the earth. Only Noah & those with him on the ark remained alive. The waters prevailed on the earth for 150 days.

Flood Subsides & Every Living Thing on the Ark Disembarks

Genesis 8:1-22                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

God remembered Noah & every living thing & all cattle [& the animals] that were with him in the ark. God made the wind pass over the earth & the water [subsided]. The fountains of the deep & the windows of heaven were stopped & the rain from heaven was restrained.The waters continually [left] the earth & after the 150 days the waters [decreased].

On the 17th day of the 7th month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to decrease until the 1st day of the 10th month, the tops of the mountains were seen. At the end of 40 days, Noah sent a raven out of a window & it went to & fro until the waters dried up from the earth. Noah also sent out a dove to see if the waters [decreased] from the ground, but it found no resting place & returned to the ark & Noah pulled her into the ark with him. [Noah waited 7 more days] & sent the dove out & it came back in the evening with a plucked olive leaf in her mouth, so Noah knew the waters had [receded] from the earth. So, Noah stayed another 7 days & sent the dove & it didn’t return.

In the 1st day of the month in the 601st year, the waters were dried from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark & saw the [surface] of the ground was dry. On the 27th day of the 2nd month, the earth was dried. God told Noah go forth out of the ark, you & your family & bring every living thing of all flesh that was with him [in the ark]: birds, cattle & things that creep on the earth, so that they may breed & are fruitful & multiply & abundantly on the earth.

After Noah, his family & [all the living creatures] went forth out of the ark, he built an altar to the Lord & took of every clean [animal & bird] for a burnt offering on the altar. After the Lord smelled the sweet [aroma of the offering], He 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 [kill] every living thing, as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime & harvest, cold & heat, summer & winter & day & night shall not cease.

The Rainbow: God's Covenant

Genesis 9:1-29                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

God blessed Noah & his sons & said to them, Be fruitful & multiply & [fill] the earth. Every beast of the earth & every bird of the air & all that move on the earth & all fish of the sea are given into your hand & they will fear you & shall be food for you, even as the green herbs. I have given you all things.

You shall not eat flesh with its blood, that is its life. In the image of God He made man, so whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man. [I will require the life blood of any man or beast that sheds it.]

And you, be fruitful & multiply & bring forth abundantly in the earth. God said to Noah & his sons, Behold, I establish My covenant with you & your [descendants] after you & with every living creature that is with you of birds, cattle & every beast of the earth that goes out from the ark. I will establish my covenant [promise] with you, neither shall all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor a flood to destroy the earth.

God said, this is a covenant which I make between me & you & every living creature with you for perpetual generations: I set my [rainbow] in the cloud & it shall be for a [sign] of the covenant between Me & the earth, that the [rainbow] shall be seen in the cloud & I will remember My everlasting covenant between God & every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

The sons of Noah who went off of the ark were Shem, Ham & Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These 3 sons of Noah [populated] the whole earth. Noah began to be a farmer & planted a vineyard. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father [uncovered] in his tent [after he was drunk from the wine] & told his [brothers:] Shem & Japheth [who discreetly] walked backward with a garment on their shoulders & covered the nakedness of their father [without seeing] his nakedness.

When Noah awoke from his wine, he said, Blessed be the Lord the God of Shem & Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth & he shall dwell in the tents of Shem & Canaan shall be his servant. Noah lived 350 years after the flood & was 950 years old & he died.

Genealogy of Sons of Noah

Genesis 10:1-32                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

This is the [genealogy] of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham & Japheth & the sons born to them after the flood. The sons of Japeth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschech & Tiras. The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath [a.k.a. Diphath] & Togarmah. The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim & Dodanim [a.k.a. Rodanim]. By these the [islands] of the Gentiles divided in their lands, everyone according to his [language], their families & their nations.

The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Phut [a.k.a. Put] & Canaan. The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah & Sabtechah & the sons of Raamah were: Sheba & Dedan. Cush [fathered] Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth & a mighty hunter before the Lord; It is said, Even [like] Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad & Calneh in the land of Shinar. Asshur left that land & went to Assyria & built Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah & Resen between Nineveh, Calah, which is a great city.

Mizraim [fathered] Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the [Philistines]) & Caphtorim.  Canaan [fathered] Sidon, his firstborn & Heth & the Jebusite, the Amorite & Girgasite; the Hivite, the Arkite & Sinite; the Arvadite & the Zemarite & Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon [toward] Gerar, then to Gaza & then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah & Zeboiim, even as far as Lasha. These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, languages, their countries & their nations. Shem was the [older] brother of Japheth & the father of all the children of Eber.

The sons of Shem were: Elem, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud & Aram. The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether & Mash [a.k.a. Meshech]. Arphaxad [fathered] Salah & Salah [fathered] Eber. To Eber were born 2 sons: Peleg & in his [life] the earth was divided & his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan [fathered] Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal [a.k.a. Ebal], Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah & Jobab.

All these were the sons of Joktan. Their dwelling was from Mesha as you go [toward] Sephar, a mountain of the east. These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, their languages, in their lands & their nations. These were the families of the sons of Noah, [according]to their generations, in their nations & by these the nations [were] divided after the flood.

Tower of Babel & Language Confused

Genesis 11:1-32                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The whole earth had one language & one speech. They journeyed from the east & found a plain in the land of Shinar & lived there. They decided [together] to make & bake bricks & use slime for mortar to build themselves a city & tower whose top might reach to the heavens to make a name for themselves, lest  we are scattered over the face of the earth.

The Lord came down to see the city & tower which the children of men built & said, [Since] the people are one & with all one language & if they begin to do this, nothing they imagine will be [impossible] for them. Let Us go down there & confuse their language so that they might not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth & they [stopped] building the city. It is called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of all the earth & from there scattered them over the face of all the earth.

This is the [genealogy] of Shem: Shem was 100 years old & [fathered] Arphaxad 2 years after the flood. Arphaxad lived 32 years & [fathered] Salah  & lived 403 years & fathered sons & daughters. Salah lived 30 years & [fathered] Eber & lived 403 years & fathered sons & daughters. Eber lived 34 years & [fathered] Peleg & lived 430 years & fathered sons & daughters. Peleg lived 30 years & [fathered] Reu & lived 209 years & fathered sons & daughters.

Reu lived 32 years & [fathered] Serug  & lived 207 years & fathered sons & daughters. Serug lived 30 years & [fathered] Nahor & lived 200 years & fathered sons & daughters. Nahor lived 29 years & [fathered] Terah & lived 119 years & fathered sons & daughters. Terah lived 70 years & [fathered] Abram, Nahor, & Haran.

This is the [genealogy] of Terah: Terah [fathered] Abram, Nahor & Haran. Haran [fathered] Lot. Haran died before his father, Terah, in his native land, Ur of the [Chaleans]. Then, Abram & Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai & the name of Nahor’s wife [was] Milcah, the daughter of Haran [who was also] the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren & she had no child.

Terah took his son, Abram & his [grandson], Lot, the son of Haran [who was deceased] & his daughter-in-law, Sarai, [who was] his son Abram’s wife & they went out from Ur of the [Chaldeans] to go to the land of Canaan & they came to Haran [a city] & dwelt there. So Tera lived 205 years & died in Haran.

The Lord Directs Abram to Move & the Lord’s Promise to Abram

Genesis 12:1 -20                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord told Abram to leave his country & father’s house to go to the land that [the Lord God] would show him & *Abram would be blessed in all the families of the earth [foretelling of the birth of Jesus] & [the Lord God] would make Abram’s name great & would make him a great nation. *The Lord told Abram that He would bless those who bless him & curse those who curse him.

Abram was 75 & departed from Haran with Lot & their wives, [people] they had gotten in Haran & their [possessions] as the Lord had told him & departed to go to the land of Canaan & [arrived] there. Abram passed through the plain of Moreh in Shechem & the Canaanites were in the land. *Then the Lord appeared to Abram & said, To your descendants I will give this land & Abram built an altar there to the Lord who appeared to him.

Abram moved to a mountain east of Bethel on the west of Hai & built an altar to the Lord & called on upon the name of the Lord. Abram journeyed south & there was a severe famine in the land & he [planned] to dwell in Egypt, because of the famine. When he was close to Egypt, Abram told Sarai, his wife, that when the Egyptians see how [beautiful] you are, they may kill me & save you alive. I pray you tell them that you are my sister, so I can live because of you.

The princes of Pharaoh saw how [beautiful] Sarai was & commended her to [the] Pharaoh & she was taken to his house & Abram was treated well for her sake. Abram had sheep, oxen, female & male donkeys & female & male servants & camels.

The Lord plagued Pharaoh & his house, because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. The Pharaoh called Abram & asked, What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say she is my sister, because I might have taken her as my wife, so the Pharaoh commanded his men concerning them & sent away Abram, Sari & all he had.

Lot & Abram Have an Abundance of Livestock & Go Separate Ways

Genesis 13:1-18                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Abram left Egypt with his wife [Sarai], Lot & all that he had & was very rich in cattle, silver & gold & went south as far as Bethel to the place he built his first altar to God between Bethel & Hai.

Lot & Abram had too many possessions to dwell together & there was strife between the herdsmen, so Abram told Lot that he didn’t want strife between [either of] them or their herdsmen, because they are [family]. Abram [suggested] that Lot go to the right or the left & he would go the [opposite] way.

They separated themselves from one another & Lot chose to go to the plain of Jordan & journeyed east, because it was well-watered [before the Lord destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, also like the land of Egypt, as you come into Zoar].

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan & Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain & pitched his tent toward Sodom, but the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked before the Lord.

After Lot had separated himself from Abram, the Lord God said to Abram, Lift up your eyes & look in [all directions] *for I [the Lord God] will give you all the land that you see to you & your [descendants] forever. I will make your [descendants] as the dust of the earth in number. God told him to walk the length & width of the land that He was giving to Abram. Abram moved his tent in the plains of Mamre, which is Hebron & built an altar to the Lord there.

Lot Taken Captive & Abram Rescues Him

Genesis 14:1-24                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, the kings: Arioch of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer of Elam, & Tidal king of nations made war with the kings: Bera of Sodom, Birsha of Gomorrah, Shinab of Admah, Shemeber of Zeboiim & the king of Bela, which is Zoar. All these joined together in the valley of Siddim, by the Salt Sea & served Chedorlaomer 12 years, but in the 13th year they rebelled.

In the 14th year, Chedorlaomer & the kings with him came & attacked the following peoples: the Rephaims in Ashtaroth, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, the Horites in Mount Seir to Elparan by the wilderness & returned & came to Kadesh, the Amalekites & the Amorites [who both] dwelt in: Hazezon Tamar.

The kings of: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim & Bela [Zoar] joined together in battle against the kings of: Elam, Tidal king of nations, Shinar, Ellaser-4 kings against 5. The kings of Sodom & Gomorrah fled to the mountains & some fell in the asphalt pits in the Valley of Siddim. Then they took all the goods & [food] of Sodom & Gomorrah & took Lot & his goods & departed.

One who escaped & was an ally of Abram’s, came & told him when he heard his brother, Lot, was taken captive. Abram armed 318 trained servants, born in his house & pursued them to Dan. Abram divided his forces & at night they attacked them & pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus. Abram brought back Lot, his family & all his goods.

One who escaped & was an ally of Abram’s, came & told him when he heard his brother, Lot, was taken captive. Abram armed 318 trained servants, born in his house & pursued them to Dan. Abram divided his forces & at night they attacked them & pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus. Abram brought back Lot, his family & all his goods.

The King of Sodom said for Abram to let him [the king] have all the people & Abram take all the goods, but Abram told the king of Sodom that he has lifted his hand to the Lord, the most high, the Possessor of heaven & earth & he wouldn’t take anything of the king’s, lest he say he had made Abram rich. Abram said except for the food they ate, the King of Sodom should let Aner, Eshcol & Mamre take their portion [of the goods].

The Lord Tells Abram His Descendants Will Be as Numerous as the Stars

Genesis 15:1-21                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord God came to Abram in a vision & told him not to be afraid, because He is Abram’s shield & great reward. Abram asked God what He will give him since he [Abram] has no heir, except one who was born in his house. The Lord said that person wouldn’t be Abram’s heir & but one who comes from his own [body] will be heir & that his [descendants] will be like the stars in heaven, too many to number. Abram believed in the Lord & counted it to Him for righteousness.

The Lord said, I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur, to give you this land to inherit it. Abram asked how he could know that he would inherit this & God asked him to bring a heifer & female goat & ram all 3 years old & a turtledove & young pigeon [to the altar] & divided them & laid the pieces against each other, except for the birds, which he didn’t divide. Abram drove away the birds who came down on the carcases.

As the sun went down a deep sleep fell on Abram while the *Lord God told him that his [descendants] will be strangers in a land that isn't theirs [foretelling of when they are in Egypt] & will serve them & be afflicted by them 400 years, but God will judge the one they serve & they will [leave] with great [possessions]. God told him that he [Abram] will be buried at a good old age & that they would return there [Canaan] in the 4th generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet complete.

When it was dark, a smoking furnace & a burning lamp passed between the pieces [of meat]. The same day, God made a covenant [contract] with Abram that his [descendants] will be given the land from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River, [the land of the:] Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites & Jebusites.

Sarai is Barren & Gives Abram Her Maid to Have Children by Her

Genesis 16:1-16                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Sarai, Abram’s wife, didn’t have any children. After living in Canaan for 10 years, Abram [did what Sarai suggested] about having him [be intimate] with her Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, so that she [Sarai] might receive children [of his] by Hagar, since the Lord hadn’t given Sarai any children.

Sarai [regretted doing this when] Hagar conceived [a child], because she felt Hagar despised her. When Sarai shared this concern with Abram, he told Sarai that Hagar is her maid & to do to her as she pleased.

When Sarai dealt harshly with Hagar, she fled to the wilderness on the way to Shur where the Angel of the Lord found her by a fountain. After Hagar told the angel why she was there, he told her to return & to submit herself under Sarai’s hands. He told Hagar the Lord God will multiply her [descendants] exceedingly, that there will be so many they can’t be counted.

The Angel of the Lord told Hagar that she will name the child she is [carrying] Ishmael, because the Lord has heard her affliction. Her son will be a wild man & his hand will be against every man, as theirs will be against his & he shall dwell in the presence of his brethren.

She called the Lord, Thou God seest me. The well was called Beer Lahai Roi, which is between Kadesh & Bered . After Hagar bore Abram a son when he was 86, they named him Ishamel.

God Renames Abram as Abraham

Genesis 17:1-27                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Abram was 99, the Lord appeared to him & said, I am the Almighty God; walk before Me & be blameless & be perfect. I will make My covenant between Me & you & will multiply you exceedingly. Abram fell on his face & God said, My covenant is with you & no longer shall your name be Abram, but it shall be Abraham, for *I have made you the father of many nations & will make you [very] fruitful & will make nations of you & kings shall come from you [foretelling of the birth of Jesus in his lineage].

*I will give to you & your [descendants] after you, Canaan as an everlasting possession & I will be their God. You & your [descendants] after you shall keep My covenants throughout their generations. This is My covenant which you & your descendants shall keep: Every male child 8 days old, shall be circumcised in the flesh of their foreskins as a sign of the everlasting covenant between [us], whether he is born in your house, or he is bought with money from strangers who aren’t your [descendants]. The uncircumcised male child has broken My covenant & shall be cut off from his people.

God told Abraham, As for Sarai, thy wife, you shall not call her name Sari, but Sarah shall be her name & said, *I will bless her & will give you a son by her also & she will be a mother of nations & kings of peoples shall be from her [foretelling of Jesus’ birth in his lineage].

Abraham fell on his face & laughed & said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man 100 years old? Shall Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear [a child]? Abraham thought God was talking about Ishmael, but God clarified Sarah would bear him a son & Abraham should call his name: Isaac. I will establish My everlasting covenant with him [Isaac] & his [descendants] after him.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you & I have blessed him & will make him fruitful & will multiply him. He will [father] 12 princes & I will make him a great nation, but My covenant will be established with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you this time next year.

God went up from Abraham when He [the Lord God] finished talking with him. So Abraham took Ishmael, his 13 year old son & all who were born in his house & all who were bought with his money & circumcised them the very same day.

Abraham Asks the Lord to Spare Sodom

Genesis 18:1-33                  The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord appeared to Abraham in the plains of Mamre; as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day & looked up & saw 3 men & ran to meet them & bowed toward the ground. Abraham [offered to bring them] some bread to eat & some water to wash their feet & to rest under the tree. Abraham asked Sarah to quickly make kneaded cakes of 3 measures of fine meal. Abraham got a tender calf from the herd & gave it to a young man to prepare it. Abraham took the butter, milk & prepared calf & set it before them & they did eat, as he stood by them under the tree.

The Lord asked where Sarah was & Abraham said she was in the tent. The Lord said, Sarah, your wife, shall certainly have a son, [although] they were both old & she was past the age of child bearing.

Sarah heard this & laughed within herself. When asked why she laughed, Sarah said, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old? The Lord replied, Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life & Sarah shall have a son. Sarah denied that she laughed, because she was afraid, but the Lord said, No, but you did laugh.

As the 3 men rose & looked toward Sodom & Abraham went to [take them to the road] & the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I’m going to do, since Abraham will surely become a great & mighty nation & all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? I know he will command his children & household after him, so they all keep the way of the Lord, to do justice & judgment, [so] that the Lord may bring Abraham what [I have] spoken to him.

The Lord said that since the cry [against] Sodom & Gomorrah is great, because their sin is very [serious]. I will go down & see whether they have done according to the [cry] that has come to Me & if not, I will know. Then the men turned away & went toward Sodom.

Abraham stood before the Lord & asked Him if He would also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Abraham asked the Lord if there are 50 righteous within the city, would You also destroy the place & not spare it for the 50 righteous? So the Lord said that if He finds 50 righteous within Sodom, He will spare the city for their sakes. Abraham asks if there were 5 less than the 50 righteous, would You [the Lord God] destroy all the city for lack of 5? The Lord said that if He finds 45 [righteous] He will not destroy it.

Next, Abraham asks the Lord if there were only 40 [righteous] found there? The Lord said that He would not do it if He finds 40 there. Abraham then asks the Lord not to be angry, but suppose if 30 should be found there? The Lord said He wouldn’t do it if He found 30 [righteous] there.

After that, Abraham asks the Lord, suppose 20 should be found there? The Lord said He would not destroy it for the sake of 20. Abraham’s last request was, suppose if 10 should be found there? The Lord said He wouldn’t destroy it for the sake of 10 [righteous]. The Lord went His way after speaking with Abraham & Abraham returned to his place.

2 Angels Visit Sodom & Rescue Lot & the Lord Rains Brimstone & Fire on It

Genesis 19:1-38                  The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom when the 2 angels arrived there in the evening. Lot rose to meet them & bowed toward the ground. Lot invited them to spend the night at his house & to wash their feet [to prepare for an early departure]. They said they would stay in the street all night, but Lot insisted strongly, so they stayed with him. Lot made them a feast & they ate.

Before they lay down, both the young & old men of Sodom [surrounded] the house & asked where the men were who came to him tonight? They told Lot to bring them out, so that they may know them [carnally]. Lot went outside to beg them not to do so wickedly & offered his two [unmarried] daughters [instead] & do nothing to these men who came under the shadow of his roof.

They said, Stand back & that Lot keeps acting like a judge & they will do worse to Lot than them. They pressed [hard] against Lot [to the point they nearly broke down the door]. The men [Angels] reached out their hands & pulled Lot into the house & shut the door & [struck] the men outside with blindness & they grew weary of trying to find the door.

The men [Angels] asked Lot if he had [any other family] there, because they need to take them out of the city, [because] they are going to destroy this place, because the cry against them has [grown] great before the face of the Lord who has sent them to destroy it. Lot’s son-in-laws & married daughters thought Lot was joking when he told them to get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.

Early in the morning, the angels [hurried] Lot to take his  wife & 2 daughters so they aren’t consumed in the iniquity of the city. The men [Angels] took Lot’s hand & his wife's hand & the hands of his 2 daughters, because the Lord was being merciful to them. The [Angels] brought them outside the city & told them to escape for their life & not to look back & not to stay in the plain. They told Lot to escape to the mountains, lest he be [destroyed].

Lot begged the Angels to let him go to a [nearby] city [Zoar] instead of to the mountains, lest some evil overtakes him & he dies.They said that they [accepted Lot’s plan] & wouldn’t overthrow that smaller city & told him to hurry there, because they can’t do anything until he arrives there. The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar & then the Lord rained brimstone & fire on [the cities] of Sodom & Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven.

The Lord overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities & what grew on the ground, but Lot’s wife looked back behind him, [although they had been warned not to look back] & she became a pillar of salt. Early in the morning, Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord God & looked toward Sodom & Gomorrah & [the area around them] & saw the smoke of the land that went up like the smoke of a furnace.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham & sent Lot out of the midst of the cities where Lot lived. Lot went from Zoar for he was fearful to live there & dwelt in the mountains with his 2 daughters & lived in a cave.

Since their father was old & there were no men there, [his 2 daughters devised a plan to preserve their father’s lineage]. When they made Lot drink too much wine on 2 different nights, a different daughter [discreetly lay with her father each of those 2 nights]. Thus both of Lot’s daughters were [pregnant] with a child by their father..

The firstborn [daughter had] a son & named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. The younger daughter also [had] a son & his name was Ben Ammi. He is the father of the people of Ammon to this day

Abraham Asks Sarah to Tell the King He's Her Brother

Genesis 20:1-18                  The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Abraham journeyed toward the south & stopped between Kadesh & Shur & stayed in Gerar. [Again] Abraham said that Sarah was his sister to Abimelech, king of Gerar, who sent for & took Sarah. God came to Abimelech in a dream at night & [warned him] that he is a dead man, because the woman he had taken [Sarah] is a man’s wife.

But Abimelech had not gone near her, he asked the Lord if He would slay a righteous nation also, in that he [Abraham] said she [Sarah] is my sister? She even said that [Abraham] was her brother. In the dream, God told the king that He knew that this had been done in the integrity of his heart & that is why the Lord did not let the king touch her.

The Lord told the king he should restore the man’s wife, because he is a prophet & he will pray for you & let you live, but if you don’t restore her, know you shall surely die & all [your family]. Abimelech rose early & told his servants these things & they became afraid.

Abimelech called Abraham & asked, What have you done to us? How have I offended you, that you have brought this great sin on my kingdom & me? What have you seen to cause you to do this thing? Abraham said, Surely, the fear of God isn’t in this place & I thought I would be killed for my wife’s sake. She truly is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother & she became my wife.

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I asked her to do this kindness for me & say I’m her brother at every place that we come to. Abimelech gave Abraham sheep, oxen & male & female servants & restored Sarah to him & told Abraham to dwell where he wants in his [Abimelech’s] land.

The king told Sarah that he had given her brother 1,000 pieces of silver which [means she is beyond reproach]. Abraham prayed to God & He healed Abimelech, his wife & his maidservants & they bore children, [because] the Lord had closed up the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Abraham is 100 When Sarah Has His Son, Isaac

Genesis 21:1-34                  The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord God visited Sarah as He had said & she conceived & bore a son for Abraham in his old age at the [particular time] which God had spoken to him. Abraham at 100 years old, called the son that Sarah bore to him, Isaac. Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was 8 days old, as God commanded him.

Sarah said, God made me laugh & all who hear will laugh with me. Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would [nurse] children? For I have [given] him a son in his old age. The child grew & was weaned & Abraham made a great feast the same day & Sarah saw Hagar’s son mocking.

Sarah asked Abraham to cast out Hagar & her son, so he is not the heir with Isaac. This thing was [displeasing] to Abraham & God told him [to not be displeased], because of the lad, but to listen to what Sarah has said, for in Isaac your seed shall be called. I [the Lord God] will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.

Abraham rose early & took bread & a bottle of water & put it on Hagar’s shoulder before sending her & the boy away. She wandered into the Wilderness of Beersheba & [when] their water in the bottle was [gone]. Hagar placed [her son] under one of the shrubs & sat opposite him at a bowshot’s distance & said, Let me not see the death of the child, & lifted up her voice & wept.

God heard the voice of the lad & the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven & asked her, What ails you? Fear not for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Lift the lad up & hold him in your hands; for I [the Lord God] will make him a great nation. Then God opened her eyes & she saw a well of water & filled the bottle with water & gave the lad a drink. God was with the lad & he grew & became an archer & dwelt in the wilderness of Paran & his mother [got a] wife for him from the land of Egypt.

At that time, [king] Abimelech & Phichol, the chief captain of his [army], spoke to Abraham saying, God is with you in all you do, so swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, my son, or my [descendants], but you will do to me according to the kindness that I have done to you in the land where you’ve dwelt & Abraham said he would swear & he complained to Abimelech about his servants violently taking away his well of water.

Abimelech said that he didn’t know about this & neither did Abraham tell him about it until today. Abraham gave Abimelech sheep & oxen & they made a covenant [contract] together. Abraham set 7 [female] lambs by themselves to be a witness that he [Abraham] has dug this well & called the place Beersheba, because the 2 of them swore an oath & made a covenant there.

Abimelech & his commander, Phichol, returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a grove [of trees] in Beersheba & there [he] called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Abraham & Isaac Go to Make a Burnt Sacrifice to the Lord

Genesis  22:1-22                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

After these things, God [tested] Abraham by telling him to take his son, Isaac whom he loves, to the land of Moriah to offer him as a burnt offering on the mountain where God tells him. Abraham saddled his donkey early in the morning [along with] 2 young men & Isaac and split some wood for the offering & went to the place God told him [to go].

On the 3rd day, Abraham could see the place afar off & had the young men stay with the donkey & told them that he & the lad would go yonder to worship & will come back to you again. Abraham put the wood for the offering on Isaac [to carry] & he took the fire & a knife & they went together. Isaac said to his father that they had the fire & the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said, My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.

They came to the place that God had told him & Abraham built an altar there & placed the wood in order & bound his son, Isaac & laid him on the altar upon the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand & took the knife to slay his son, but the Angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven & Abraham replied, Here I am.

Abraham was told by God, Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Then Abraham lifted his eyes & saw a ram caught by his horns in a thicket. Abraham took the ram & offered it as the burnt offering instead of his son. Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah Jireh, but it is called [the following] to this day, In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

The Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a 2nd time out of heaven & said, By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing & have not withheld you son, your only son: that in blessing I will bless you & multiplying I will multiply your [descendants] as the stars of the heaven & as the sand which is on the seashore & your [descendants] shall possess the gate of their enemies. *In your seed all the nations of the earth shall you have, because you have obeyed My voice. [Foretelling of Jesus in Abraham’s lineage].

So Abraham returned to his young men & went together to Beersheba. [Later] Abraham was told that Milcah has borne children to Nahor, his brother. Huz was the firstborn. Buz, his brother & Kemuel [who was] the father of Aram, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph & Bethuel. Bethuel [fathered] Rebekah. These 8 Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother, Nahor. Nahor’s concubine, Reumah, bore him Tebah, Gaham, Thahash & Maachah.

Sarah Dies & Abraham Buys a Burial Plot

Genesis  23:1-20                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Sarah lived 127 years & these are the years of her life. She died in Kirjath Arba which is Hebron in the land of Canaan & Abraham came to mourn & weep for Sarah.

Abraham stood & spoke to the sons of Heth asking for property to bury his dead out of his sight, since he is a stranger. They said that he is a mighty prince among them & he may have the choicest of their [burial places].

Abraham asked to be given the cave of Machpelah which is at the end of his field & [he was willing to pay the full price for it], but they declined his offer & wanted to give it to him. Abraham [insisted on paying for it] & Ephron the Hittite said that land is worth 400 shekels of silver, [but] what is that between me and you? Therefore, bury your dead.

Abraham weighed out 400 shekels of silver, current money with the merchant & paid for the cave of Machpelah, before Mamre which is Hebron in Canaan & the field & the caver were deeded to Abrahm by the sons of Heth as a burial place.

Abraham Has His Servant Find a Wife for Isaac

Genesis  24:1-67                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The Lord had blessed Abraham in all things & when he was advanced in age. He had his oldest servant, who ruled over all he had, put his hand under Abraham’s thigh & swear by the Lord God of heaven & earth that he [wouldn’t] take a wife for Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites where he dwells, but that he would go to his wife, Sarah’s, family to [get] a wife for his son, Isaac. The servant [wondered] if he should take Isaac there in case the woman he finds wouldn’t come back with him.

Abraham told him to beware to not take his son back there. Abraham told his servant that the *Lord of heaven, who said He would give Abraham’s [descendants] this land will send His angel before you [the servant] & you shall take a wife for my son from [there]. If she isn’t willing to follow you, then you would be released from this oath, but don’t take my son back there, so the servant swore [agreeing to] this matter.

The servant took 10 camels of his master &  went to Mesopotamia, the city of Nahor. The servant made his camels kneel by a well of water outside the city at the time of evening when the women go out to draw water.

He prayed that when the women came to draw the water in the evening, that the Lord God of Abrahm, would show a kindness to Abraham & have the young woman he asks to let down her pitcher, so that he may drink, will also offer to give water to his camels to drink also & be the one God has appointed for His servant, Isaac. Before he finished speaking, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came with her pitcher on her shoulder.

She was fair to look upon & a virgin & she went down to the well & filled her pitcher. The servant ran to meet her & asked her to let him drink a little water from her pitcher. When he had finished, she offered to draw water for the camels, as well. As she continued to get the water to put into the trough for the camels. The servant stayed silent wondering if the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

After the camels finished drinking, the servant gave Rebekah, who was beautiful, a golden earring & 2 golden bracelets for her hands [made] of 10 shekels weight of gold. He asked whose daughter she is & whether her father’s house had room for him to lodge? She told him that she is the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah’s son, whom she bore to Nahor & that they have enough straw & feed for them to lodge there.

The servant bowed down & worshiped the Lord & said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has not [forsaken] His mercy & truth toward my master & led him to the house of his master’s brethren. When Laban saw the earring & bracelets on his sister’s hands he said, Come in, you blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside?

For I have prepared the house & a place for the camels. Rebekah ran & told her mother’s [household that they were coming]. Rebekah’s brother, Laban, ran out to meet the man by the well. After he unloaded & fed the camels & washed his feet & the feet of the men who were with him, food was set before him to eat.

The servant said he wouldn’t eat until he had told his errand. He explained that he was Abraham’s servant & how the Lord blessed his master greatly & has given him many flocks & herds, silver & gold, & male & female servants, camels & donkeys. He explained that Sarah, Abraham’s wife bore Isaac when she was old & how he is to inherit all Abraham has.

He said that Abraham wanted the servant to find a wife from his father’s family, but not from the daughters of the Canaanites where he dwells. The servant told them how Abraham said the Lord would send His angel with him & prosper his     way & he should take a wife for his son from the family of his father’s house. [Also], if the woman isn’t given to him, he would be released from his oath.

He also explained how he prayed to the Lord God of his master when he was by the well & that Rebekah came & gave him water & got water for the camels, as well. When asked, she explained that she was the daughter of Bethel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him. Then he [the servant] gave her the earring upon her face & bracelets upon her hands. Then he worshiped the Lord God who led him in the way of truth to take the daughter of his master’s brother for his son.

The servant asked if they would let him [know either way] that he may turn to the right hand or to the left. Laban & Bethuel said [that since] this thing comes from the Lord, they can’t speak either good or bad to him. They said that Rebekah is before you, take her & go let her be your master’s son’s wife as the Lord has spoken. The servant bowed down worshiping the Lord [silently].

The servant brought out [jewelry] of silver & gold & clothing & gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother & her mother. The servant & his men ate & drank & stayed all night & wanted to head back in the morning to his master. Rebekah’s brother & mother wanted her to stay up to 10 more days. The servant asked them to not hinder him, since the Lord has prospered his way. He asked them to please send him on his way to his master.

They called Rebekah & asked if she would go with him & she said she would. So they sent Rebekah, their sister & her nurse along with Abraham’s servant & his men. They blessed Rebekah saying, May she become the mother of 1,000’s of 1,000,000’s & let her [descendants] possess the gates of those who hate them. So Rebekah & her maids rode on camels & followed Abraham’s servant & departed.

Isaac dwelt in the South & came from the way of the well Lahai Roi to meditate in the field in the evening. He lifted his eyes & saw camels coming. Then Rebekah lifted her eyes & when she saw Isaac. She [dismounted] from her camel after finding out from Abraham’s servant who was walking in the field.

When the servant told her it was his master, she covered herself with a veil. The servant told Isaac all the things he had done & Isaac brought her into his mother’s tent & he took Rebekah & she became his wife & he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Abraham Dies & Genealogy of Ishmael & Isaac

Genesis  25:1-34                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Abraham again took a wife named Keturah & she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Median, Ishbak, Shuah. Jokshan begat Sheba & Dedan & the sons of Dedan were Ashurim, Letushim & Leummim. The sons of Median were Ephah, Epher, Hanock, Abidah & Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, so while Abraham was still living he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines he had & sent them eastward away from his son, Isaac.

Abraham & died at a good old age & was 175 years old & was gathered to his people & his sons Isaac & Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah which is before Mamre where he had buried Sarah, his wife. After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son, Isaac, who dwelt in Beer Lahai Roi.

Now this is the [genealogy] of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham. And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadar [a.k.a. Hadad], Tema, Jetur, Naphish, & Kedemah.

These were the sons of Ismael & these were their names, by their towns & their castles, 12 princes according to their nations. Ishmael lived to be 137 years old & breathed his last & died & was gathered to his people. They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, before Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel, the sister of Laban the Syrian, as his wife. When Isaac [pleaded] with the Lord because his wife, Rebekah, was barren & had no children, the Lord granted his plea & she conceived. The Lord said to Rebekah, There are 2 nations in your womb & 2 manner of people shall be separated from your body [who will become 2 different nations].

One people shall be stronger than the other & the older shall serve the younger. When it was time to be delivered, she was 60 when she gave birth to twins. Esau was the 1st one born & was red & came out hairy like a garment. Jacob was born after his brother & his hand took hold of Esau’s heel. As the boys grew Esau was a [skillful] hunter & a man of the field. Isaac loved Esau, because he ate Esau's venison [he cooked], but Rebekah loved Jacob who was a [mild] man, dwelling in tents.

Jacob cooked a [lentil stew] & Esau came in from the field [tired & hungry] & wanted some of Jacob’s red [stew]. Jacob told Esau to sell him Esau’s birthright & Esau figured his birthright was of no good to him if he died [of hunger], so he swore his birthright to Jacob who gave him [stew] & bread. After Esau ate & drank, he went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

God Promised to Multiply Isaac’s Descendants

Genesis  26:1-35                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

There was a famine in the land that was [after] the first famine in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of Philistines, in Gerar. The Lord appeared to him & said, Don’t go down into Egypt, but live in the land that I [the Lord God] tell you.

Dwell in this land & I will be with you & bless you for I will give these countries to your [descendants] & perform the oath I swore to Abraham, your father. *I will make your [descendants] multiply as the stars of heaven. I will give all these lands to your [descendants] & in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed [foretelling of Jesus’ birth in his lineage], because Abraham obeyed My voice & kept My: charge, commandments, statutes & laws. So, Isaac dwelt in Gerar [in Canaan].

The men of the place asked about his wife [Rebekah] & he said, She is my sister, because he was afraid to say that she was his wife & because he thought they might kill him for Rebekah, because she was [beautiful]. After he had been there a long time, Abimeleck saw through the window as Isaac was [being affectionate] to Rebekah, his wife.

Abimelech called Isaac & said Surely, she is your wife. How could you say she is my sister? Isaac said, Lest I die [on account] of her. Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people might have [been intimate] with your wife & you would have brought guilt upon us. Abimelech charged his people to not touch her [Rebekah for fear of death].

The Lord blessed Isaac who sowed in the land & reaped the same year 100 fold. He became very [prosperous] for he had a great number of flocks, herds & servants, so the Philistines envied him. The Philistines had filled up the wells with earth that his father, Abraham had dug & Abimelech told him to go away from them, because he is much mightier than [they are].

Isaac departed from there & pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar & dwelt there. Isaac [re-dug] the well his father, Abraham, had originally dug, but they had been stopped up by the Philistines after Abraham died. Isaac called the wells by the names which his father called them.

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley & found a well of [running] water there. The herdsmen of Gerar [quarreled] with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying the water was theirs & called the well Esek. When they dug another well [the herdsmen of Gerar] quarreled over that one, also & called the well Sitnah. Isaac moved from there & dug another well & called it Rehoboth, because, The Lord has made room for us & we shall be fruitful in the land.

When Isaac went up from there to Beersheba, the Lord appeared to him that same night & said, I am the God of Abraham, your father. Don’t fear for I am with you & *I will bless you & multiply your [descendants] for My servant Abraham’s sake. Isaac built an altar there & called on the name of the Lord. Isaac pitched his tent there & Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Abimelech came to Isaac along with Phichol, the chief captain of his army & Isaac asked them why they had come to him, since they hate him & sent him away from them? They told Isaac that they’ve seen how the Lord is with him & want to make a covenant [contract] & oath with him [Isaac], so that he doesn’t [harm] them, since they haven’t harmed Isaac & have only done good to him & sent him away in peace, because he is the blessed of the Lord God.

Isaac made a feast & they ate & drank. In the morning they made an oath together & Isaac sent them away in peace. The same day, Isaac’s servants told him about a well they had dug & found water. They called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

When Esau was 40 he took as wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite & Bashemath, the daughter of Elon, the Hittite. They both were a grief to Isaac & Rebekah.

Isaac’s Blessings as He Nears Death

Genesis  27:1-41               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Isaac was old, his eyes were so dim he couldn’t see & he called his eldest son, Esau, &  told him that he was old & doesn’t know when his death will be & asked him to take his weapons & quiver to the field & hunt venison & prepare savory meat that he loves for him, so he [Isaac] could eat it & bless him, before he dies.

Rebekah spoke to her son, Jacob, telling him what Isaac, his father, had said to Easau. Then she told Jacob to obey [her] & go get 2 choice kid goats from the flock & bring them to her, so she can make savory food from them like his father loves & then, Jacob can give it to his father before his father’s death.

Jacob was [concerned he would be found out] & get a curse instead of a blessing, because Esau is a hairy man & he isn’t. His mother said to let the curse be on her, but go get the [kid goats] for her. After Jacob [brought] them to his mother, she made the savory food such as his father loved.

Rebekah took the [clothing] of her eldest son, Esau, that were in the house & put them on Jacob, her younger son, along with the skin of the kid goats on Jacob’s hands & the smooth part of his neck. When she gave Jacob the savory meat & bread, Jacob, she had prepared, he went & gave it to his father.

When his father asked who he was, Jacob said that he was Esau, his firstborn & he had done according to what he [Isaac requested]. I pray that you, sit up & eat of my venison so that your soul may bless me. Isaac asked him, How did you find it so quickly?  Jacob said, The Lord God brought it to me.

Isaac said, Come there, so I can feel you to see if you are really my son Esau or not. Jacob went near to his father who felt him & said that the voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s & Isaac didn’t [recognize] him because his hands were hairy like Esaus’, so Isaac blessed him [Jacob]. Isaac then asked him if he was really Esau, his son & Jacob said that he was.

Isaac asked him to bring his savory venison to him to eat, so his soul could bless him. Jacob gave him the food & wine to drink & came near. Isaac asked him to come & kiss him & he kissed his father who could smell [Esau’s scent of the field which the Lord had blessed] on his clothing.

Issac blessed Jacob saying, May God give you of the dew of heaven & the fatness of the earth & plenty of corn & wine. Let peoples & nations serve you & bow down to you. Be [master] over your brethren & let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you & blessed be everyone who blesses you!

As soon as Isaac [finished] blessing Jacob & he was gone from the presence of his father, Esau, his brother, came in from hunting & made savory meat & brought it to his father & said, Let my father arise & eat of his son’s venison, [so] that your soul may bless me.  When his father asked who he was, he replied that he is Esau, his firstborn son.

Isaac was trembling & asked where was the one who had taken venison & brought it to me & I ate it & blessed him before you came? Esau cried bitterly when he heard his father’s words & begged his father to bless him, too. Isaac said that his brother came with subtlety & had taken away his blessing. Esau said that he is rightly named Jacob, because he has taken away both his birthright & [now] his blessing!

Esau asked if his father had reserved a blessing for him? Isaac said that he had [already] made Isaac his master & has given all his brethren to him as servants & [blessed] him with corn & wine & wondered what he should do. Esau asked if Isaac only had one blessing & wept asking his father to bless him.

Isaac’s blessing of Esau was, Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth & dew from the heaven above. He shall live by his sword & he shall serve his brother. It shall come to pass when he [Esau] has dominion, that he will try to break his [Jacob’s] yoke off his neck. Esau hated Jacob for the blessing he got.

[Esau] planned in his heart that he would kill Jacob when the days of mourning for his father, Isaac, were at hand. Rebekah was told these words of [Esau’s plan] & called for Jacob, her younger son & told him that his brother, Esau, is planning to kill him, so he should obey her & flee to her brother, Laban in Haran & stay with him a few days until Esau’s fury turns away & he forgets what you have done to him.

Then she will send for Jacob & said, Why should I be deprived of both of you in one day? Rebekah told Isaac that she is [worried to death], because of the daughters of Heth [Esau married] & if Jacob selects a wife from the daughter of Heth, as well, what good would her life be?

The Lord God Appears to Jacob on a Ladder in a Dream

Genesis  28:1-22               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Isaac called Jacob & told him not to take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, but to go to Padan Aram to Bethuel, his mother’s father, to find a wife from the daughters of Laban, his mother’s brother.

[Isaac blessed Jacob & said], May God Almighty bless you & make you fruitful & multiply you that you may be a multitude of people & give you & your [descendants] after you the blessing of Abraham to inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

Isaac sent Jacob away to Laban’s & when Esau found out that Isaac had blessed Jacob & sent him away to Padan Aram & told Jacob not to take a wife from the daughters of Canaan & obeyed his father & mother.

Then Esau went to Ishmael [Abraham’s son by Hagar] & married his daughter, Mahalath, the sister of Nebajoth, [in addition to the wives he already had, because he knew the daughters of Canaan wouldn’t please his father].

Jacob went out from Beersheba toward Haran & stopped when the sun set, he put a stone under his head to sleep. When he dreamed: a ladder was set up on the earth & its top reached to heaven & the angels of God were ascending & descending on it.

Behold the Lord stood above it & said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father & the God of Isaac. The land where you lie, I will give to you & your [descendents]. *Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth & spread [in all directions] & you & your [descendents] will be blessed [foretelling of Jesus’ lineage].

Behold I am with you & will keep you wherever you go & will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken to you. Jacob awoke from his sleep & said, Surely the Lord is in this place! This is none other than the house of God & the gate of heaven. I didn’t know it. He was afraid & said, How [awe-inspiring] is this place!

Jacob arose early & took the stone that had been under his head & set it up as a pillar & poured oil on top of it. Jacob called the name of the place Bethel, but the name of that city was called Luz, previously.

Jacob made a vow saying, If God will be with me & keep me in this way that I am going & give me bread to eat & clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar, shall be God’s house & all that You give me, I will surely give a 1/10th to You [Lord God].

Jacob Goes to Find a Wife

Genesis  29:1-35               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

So Jacob went on his journey & came to the land of the people in the east. He looked & saw there was a well in a field with a stone on the top that watered 3 flocks of sheep lying by it. [After] they rolled the stone off, the sheep were watered.

Jacob asked the men who were putting the stone back on the well where they were from & they told him, Haran. Jacob asked if they knew Laban, the son of Habor & they did. Jacob asked if he was well & he was & they told Jacob to look, because Laban’s daughter, Rachel, was coming with the sheep.

Jacob said that since it is still high day, the men should go water the sheep & then go feed the cattle, but the men couldn’t do it until the flocks [of sheep] are gathered together & then they roll the stone from the well’s mouth & water the sheep. While Jacob was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep for she kept them.

Jacob went & rolled the stone from the well’s mouth & watered Laban’s [his mother’s brother’s] flock. Then Jacob kissed Rachel & lifted up his voice & wept. He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative & Rebehah’s son. So she ran & told her father.

When he heard the report about his sister's son, Laban ran to meet him & embraced & kissed him & brought him to his house. Laban said, Surely you are my bone & my flesh. Jacob stayed for a month. Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you serve me for nothing?

What would your wages be? Although Laban had 2 daughters, Leah [the eldest who was tender eyed & Rachel the younger who was beautiful & well favored]. Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, I will serve you for 7 years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

Laban [decided] it was better to give her to Jacob than to another man & told Jacob to stay with him. Jacob served [Laban] 7 years for Rachel, which seemed like a few days, because of the love he had for her. Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may [be intimate with her].

Laban gathered all the men of his [area] together & made a feast & it was in the evening & Laban took his [older] daughter Leah to Jacob [instead, unbeknownst to him] & he was [intimate] with her. Laban gave Leah’s maid, Zilpah, to his daughter as a handmaid.

It came to pass in the morning that [Jacob realized he had been with Leah instead of Rachel] & he asked Laban why he had done this to him? He told Laban he had served him for Rachel, so why have you deceived me? Laban said that in their country, they can’t give the younger [daughter] before the firstborn.

Leban told Jacob to fulfill  Leah’s week & he would give [Rachel] also & he [Jacob] would serve Laban another 7 years. Jacob did so & fulfilled her week & Laban gave his daughter, Rachel, as a wife to Jacob & her handmaid, Bilhah, to Rachel as her maid. Jacob was [also intimate] with Rachel & he loved her more than Leah.

Jacob served Laban another 7 years. When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren [childless]. Leah conceived & had a son & named him Reuben & said, Surely the Lord hath looked on my affliction & now my husband will love me.

Leah had a 2nd son & named him Simeon & said, Because the Lord heard I was hated, He hath given me this son, also. She had a 3rd son & named him Levi & thought with having 3 sons, Jacob would become [attached] to her. Leah had a 4th son & named him Judah & [was no longer able to bear children].

The Birth of 11 of Jacob’s Children

Genesis  30:1-43               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Rachel saw that she had given Jacob no children, she envied her sister, Leah. Rachel said to Jacob, Give me children or else I die! Jacob was angry, because he isn’t in the place of God to withhold [her from having a child]. She told Jacob to be [intimate] with her maid, Bihah & she will bear children at my knees [so that] I may have children by her & Jacob did so.

Bilhah conceived & bore Jacob a son. Rachel said, God has judged me & has heard my voice & given me a son. She called his name Dan. Rachel’s maid, Bilhah, conceived and bore Jacob a 2nd son. Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister & I have prevailed. She called his name Naphtali.

When Leah realized she had stopped bearing [children], she gave Zilpah, her maid, to Jacob as a wife & she bore Jacob a son. Leah said, A troop is coming &  called his name Gad. Leah’s maid, Zilpah, had a 2nd son & Leah said, Happy, am I for the daughters will call me blessed & she called his name Asher.

When it was [the time] of the wheat harvest, Reuben found mandrakes in the field & took them to his mother, Leah. Rachel asked for some of Leah’s mandrakes. Leah said, Is it a small matter [to you] that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?

Rachel said, Therefore he [Jacob] will lie with thee tonight for your son’s mandrakes. When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went to meet him & said, You must come & [be intimate] with me, because I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes & he lay with her that night.

God listened to Leah & she bore Jacob a 5th son & she said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband & she called his name was Issachar. Then Leah conceived & bore Jacob a 6th son & she said, God has endowed me with a good dowry.

Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have given him 6 sons & she called  his name Zebulun. Afterward, Leah bore a daughter & her name is Dinah. Then God remembered Rachel & opened her womb & she bore a son & said, God has taken away my reproach. She called him Joseph & said that the Lord will give her another son.

After Rachel had Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, [so] that I may go to my own place & to my country. Give me my wives & my children, for whom I have served you & let me go: for you know my service that I have done for you.

Laban said to him, I pray that if I’ve found favor in your eyes, stay, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake. Laban asked what Jacob wanted for his wages & he would give it [if Jacob stayed]. Jacob said to Laban, You know how I have served you & how your [sheep] were with me.

For you had little before I came & now you have a multitude, because the Lord has blessed you, since my coming. Now, how shall I provide for my own house, also? Laban said, What shall I give you?

Jacob said that if you do this thing for me, you don’t have to give me anything & I will again feed your flock for you. Jacob asked that he could pass through all Laban’s flock today, removing all the speckled & spotted sheep & brown lambs & the speckled & spotted goats & these will be my wages.

[This way] in the future you will know that by my righteousness, if I have stolen any from you, if there is any other color than speckled & spotted sheep & goats & brown lambs that are with me. Laban said, It should be according to your word!

So that day, Laban removed all the speckled & spotted of sheep & goats & the brown lambs & the ringstreaked & spotted male & female goats & gave them into the hand of his sons. There was a 3 day journey between Laban & Jacob & Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Jacob peeled white strips in rods of green poplar, hazel & chestnut trees & set them in the gutters & watering troughs, so the flocks would conceive before the rods & the flocks brought forth speckled & spotted & ringstreaked [offspring] & he kept his flock separate from Laban’s.

Jacob placed the rods in the gutters before the stronger livestock, so when they conceived among the rods, Jacob’s were the stronger ones & Laban’s were the weaker ones. Jacob became exceedingly prosperous & had large flocks, male & female servants & camels & donkeys.

Jacob Takes His Family to Return Home

Genesis  31:1-55               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob heard Laban’s sons saying that Jacob has taken away all that was their fathers & [from that] Jacob has acquired his wealth. Jacob saw that Laban was not [acting toward him] as before. Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers & to your family & I will be with you.

Jacob called both Rachel & Leah to the field [by] his flock & told them that their father is [upset] with me [unlike] how he was before, but the God of my father has been with me. You know that I have served your father with all my [might], yet he deceived me & changed my wages 10 times, but God [didn’t allow him] to hurt me.

If your father said all the speckled shall be your wages, then all the [flocks] bore speckled. If he said all the streaked] shall be your wages, all the [flocks] bore [streaked]. So, God has taken away the [livestock] of your father & given them to me. At the time the [flocks] conceived, I saw in a dream that the rams which leaped upon the [flocks] were [streaked], speckled & [gray-spotted].

Then Angel of God spoke to me in a dream & said, Lift up your eyes & see that all the rams which leap on the flocks are [streaked], speckled & [gray-spotted] for I have seen what Laban is doing to you.

I am the God of Bethel where you anointed the pillar & made a vow to Me. Now arise & get out of this land & return to the land of your family. Rachel & Leah both wanted to know if there was still any portion of an inheritance of theirs in their father’s house?

They asked if they were considered strangers by their father, since he has sold us [for Jacob’s service] & also [completely consumed our money], for all the riches God has taken from their father is really theirs & their children’s. They told Jacob to do whatever God said to him.

Then Jacob rose up & set his family on camels & carried away all his goods he had gotten & all his [livestock] he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his father, Isaac, in the land of Canaan. [While] Laban had gone to shear the sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that Jacob didn’t tell Laban that he intended to flee. Jacob fled with all her had & passed over the river & headed toward the mountains of Gilead. On the 3rd day after Jacob fled, Laban was told [about it].

Laban took his brethren & pursued & [caught up with] Jacob in the mountains of Gilead. God had come to Laban at night in a dream & told him to be careful that he not speak anything good or bad to Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains.

Laban & his brethren pitched [their tents] in the mountains of Gilead. Laban asked Jacob why he stole away with his daughters, like captives are taken with a sword, without letting him know? Laban told Jacob [if he had known he] might have sent them away with timbrel [tambourine] & harp & joy & songs.

He told Jacob that he had done foolishly [in leaving without] allowing him to kiss his sons & daughters [grandchildren]. Laban told Jacob that it is within his power to do him [Jacob] [harm], but the God of Jacob’s father spoke to him in a dream last night & told him to [not] speak to Jacob [either] good or bad.

You have surely gone, because you long after your father, but why did you steal my gods? asked Laban. Jacob answered that he was afraid that Laban might take his daughters from him by force. Jacob tells Laban, With the [person] you find with your gods, shall not live.

Jacob tells him, [go with] our brethren to try to [locate] what is yours.  Jacob said this not knowing that Rachel had stolen them. Laban checked the tents of Jacob, Leah, 2 of the maids & then entered Rachel’s tent. Rachel had [hidden] the images [idols] in the camel’s saddle & sat on it.

She told her father when he was searching for it, that she can’t rise, [due to] the monthly manner of women is with her. [When Laban didn’t find what he was looking for] Jacob was [angry] & [criticized] Laban & asked what his [sin] was that he was pursued so hotly?

[Jacob continued], After all your searching, what part of your household things did you find? Set it here, before your brethren, so they can judge between both of us! For 20 years [while I was] with you, your ewes & female goats haven’t [miscarried] their young & I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

[In fact], I bore the loss of that which was torn by beasts or stolen by day or night & I bore the loss [rather than] bringing it to you [for a loss]. [I was there] in the day the drought consumed me & the frost by night & I couldn’t sleep.

I have been in your house 20 years & served you 14 years for your 2 daughters & 6 years for your [flock] & you have changed my wages 10 times. [If it hadn’t been for the] God of my father, Isaac & the God of Abraham, being with me & rebuking you last night, you would have sent me away empty handed.

Laban answered & said, Let’s make a covenant [promise] between us & let it be witnessed, because what could I do this day to these daughters, children & flocks that are [mine]? Jacob took a stone & set it up for a pillar. Then he had them gather stones & made a heap & ate there on the heap.

Jacob called it Galeed & Mizpah, for the Lord wanted out between me and you, when we are absent from one another. Laban said that the heap is a witness between both of them that day & that if Jacob takes other wives, besides his daughters or afflicts his daughters, when no man is with us, God is a witness between them.

Laban said that the heap & the pillar are a witness that Jacob will not pass beyond [them] to harm him or the God of Abrahm & Nahor & their father [will be] the judge between them. Jacob swore by the Fear of his father, Isaac.

Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain & called his brethren to eat bread. They stayed all night on the mountain & Laban rose early in the morning & kissed & blessed his sons & daughters [grandchildren] & departed to return to his place.

Jacob Divides into Groups to Meet Esau

Genesis  32:1-32               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob went on his way & the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them he called the place Mahanaim,This is God’s camp. Jacob sent messengers [ahead] of them to speak to his brother, Esau, in the land of Seir, in the country of Edom.

He told them to say, Your servant, Jacob, says, I have [dwelt] with Laban & stayed there until now. I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male & female servants & I have sent to tell my lord, [so] that I find favor, in your sight.

The messengers returned & told Jacob that his brother, Esau was coming with 400 men, so they were greatly afraid & distressed. Jacob divided the people, flocks, herds & camels into 2 [companies], so if Esau [attacked] 1 company, the other would be left to escape.

Jacob prayed, O Lord God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me Return to your family & I will deal well with you. I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies & truth You have shown your servant, for with my staff, I have passed over this Jordan [River] & have now become 2 [companies].

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, Esau, for I fear him, lest he come & [kill] me & the mother with the children. You said You would surely do good to me & make my [descendants] as the sand of the sea that can’t be numbered for their multitude.

Jacob camped there that night & delivered 200 female & 20 male goats, 200 ewes & 20 rams, 30 milk camels with their colts & 40 cows & 10 bulls & 20 donkeys & 10 foals to his servants to as they pass over before him, to put a space between the droves.

Jacob told them to take these to Esau & to say when he asks about them, that it is a present & that Jacob is behind them. Jacob commanded the 2nd & 3rd [droves to say the same thing], hoping this present would appease him & Esau would accept him.

Jacob lodged in the camp that night & arose & sent his 2 wives, 2 female servants & 11 sons & crossed over the ford of Jabbok with what he had. Jacob was alone & a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.

When He saw that He did not prevail against him & He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, which was out of joint as He [the Lord God] wrestled with him [Jacob]. He [God] asked him [Jacob] to let Him go, because it is the daybreak. Jacob said he wouldn’t let Him go unless You [God] bless me!

He [God] told Jacob, His name would no longer be Jacob, but [now] is Israel, because he has the power of a prince & has [struggled] with God & with men & has prevailed. Jacob asked His name & He [the Lord] asked Jacob why he asked His name & He blessed Jacob/Israel there.

Jacob called the place Peniel [a.k.a. Penuel]: for I have seen God face-to-face & my life is preserved. When Jacob crossed over Peniel [a.k.a. Penuel], the sun rose & Jacob/Israel [limped] on his thigh, therefore to this day, the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank on the hollow of the thigh: because the Lord God touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the [muscle] that shrank.

Apprehensive Jacob Meets With Esau

Genesis  33:1-20               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Jacob saw Esau coming with the 400 men, he divided the children among Leah & Rachel & the 2 handmaids. He put the handmaids & their children 1st, Leah & her children next & at the end were Rachel & her children & Jacob/Israel, last.

Then Jacob/Israel crossed over before them, bowed to the ground 7 times as he came near his brother. Esau ran to meet Jacob & they hugged, kissed his neck & wept. When Esa saw the women & children he asked who they are & Jacob said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

All the women & children bowed before Esau, when they got near. Esau asked about the large drove [of animals] he met [on the way] & Jacob/Israel told Esau they were to find grace in Esau’s sight. Esau told him to keep them, because he has enough.

Jacob/Israel insisted that Esau take his present if he had found grace in his sight, because seeing Esau pleased him, as though he had seen the face of God. Jacob asked Esau to take the blessing he brought to him [Esau], because God has dealt graciously with him & he has enough.

Jacob urged Esau & he took it. Esau wanted Jacob & [companies to follow him], but Jacob asked that he & the children, flocks & herds with their young could travel at a pace they could endure & meet up with Esau in Seir. Esau offered to leave some of his [people] with him.

Jacob said he didn’t need it & Esau returned to Seir. Jacob journeyed to Succoth & built him a house, [a hut of branches] for his cattle. The name of the place is called Succoth. Then Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, in the land of Canaan & pitched his tent in front of the city.

He bought that parcel where he spread his tent from Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 pieces of money. Jacob erected an altar there & called El Elohe Israel [which meant: God, the God of Israel].

Jacob’s Sons Taking Revenge for Their Sister Being Defiled

Genesis  34:1-31               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Jacob found out, he said to Simeon & Levi, You have troubled me & make me stink among the inhabitants of Canaanites & Perizzites. Since Jacob & his family are few in number, he is worried that they will gather together against him & his household would be destroyed. Jacob’s sons replied, Should he deal with our sister like a harlot?

When Dinah, [the grown] daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land, Shechem, a prince & son of Hamor the Hivite, took her, lay with her & defiled her. His soul [yearned for] Dinah & loved her & spoke kindly to her.

He asked his father to get this [young woman] to become his wife. Jacob/Israel heard that he had defiled Dinah & his sons were with the cattle in the field, so he held his peace until they came. Hamor, Shechem’s father, went to speak with Jacob/Israel.

[Dinah’s brothers heard what happened to her] & were grieved & angry that [Shechem] had done such a [disgraceful thing] in Israel. Hamor told them that his son, Shechem, longs for her & to please let her become his wife. Shechem told Jacob & his sons that he would pay whatever dowry they ask.

Then they can make marriages with their daughters & dwell with them & trade in the land & acquire possessions in it & asked her father & brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes. Because he had defiled their sister, Jacob’s sons spoke deceitfully to them.

[Hamor & Shechem] said that they can’t give their sister to someone who is uncircumcised, which is a reproach to them & would only consider giving Dinah to him if every male is circumcised & if they didn’t do it, they would take her and be gone.

Their words please Hamor & Shechem & because Shechem delighted in Dinah & was more honorable than all the house of his father. They talked with the men of their city, saying, These men are peaceful with us; therefore let them dwell in the land & trade in it, for it is large enough for them.

They said, Let us take their daughters for wives & we will give them our daughters, but the men will only consent to dwell with us as one people, if every male is circumcised, as they are. Let’s consent to them & they will dwell with us and all their cattle & every beast of theirs shall be ours.

Every male who went out of the gate of the city got circumcised. On the 3rd day after their circumcision when those men were in pain, Simeon & Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords & came boldly upon the city killing all the males including Hamor & Shechem & took Dinah out of Shechem’s house & left.

Jacob’s sons [plundered] the city; because their sister had been defiled & took their sheep, oxen, donkeys & what was in the city & the fields & all their wealth & took captive the women & children.

When Jacob found out, he said to Simeon & Levi, You have troubled me & make me stink among the inhabitants of Canaanites & Perizzites. Since Jacob & his family are few in number, he is worried that they will gather together against him & his household would be destroyed. Jacob’s sons replied, Should he deal with our sister like a harlot?

Rachel Dies in Childbirth

Genesis  35:1-29               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

God told Jacob, Arise & go up to Bethel & dwell there & make an altar there to God who had appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau, your brother. Jacob told all his household to put away all the foreign gods among them [from their plundering the city] & be clean & change their garments.

He said, Let’s arise & go up to Bethel & I will make an altar there to God who answered me in the day of my distress & has been with me [ever since]. They gave Jacob all the [foreign] gods & their earrings & Jacob hid them under the oak tree by Shechem, [the city].

As they journeyed, the terror of God was on the cities all around them & they did not  pursue Jacob/Israel. Jacob & all the people with him came to Luz, that is Bethel, in the land of Canaan & built an altar there. Rebekah’s nurse, Deborah, died there.

She was buried under an oak tree & called the place Allon Bachuth. God appeared to Jacob again & when he came out of Padan Aram & blessed Jacob who is to be called Israel.

God said, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful & multiply; a nation & a company of nations shall proceed from you & *kings shall come from your [body] [foretelling of Jesus’ birth of his lineage]. The land which I gave Abraham & Isaac, I give to you & your [descendants] after you,will  I give this land.

God went up from where He had talked to him. Jacob/Israel set up a pillar of stone where Gold talked to him, Bethel. They journeyed from Bethel & weren’t far from Ephrath, [but] Rachel [was about to deliver] & was in hard labor. The midwife told Rachel, Do not fear, you will have this son also.

Before Rachel died in childbirth, she called her son’s name Benoni, but Jacob called him Benjamin. Rachel died & was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. Jacob/Israel set up a pillar upon her grave, that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

He  journeyed & pitched his tent beyond the tower of Edar. Jacob found out that his son, Reuben, had lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. These are the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel: By Leah were: Reuben (1st born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar & Zebulun.

Rachel’s sons were: Joseph & Benjamin. By Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid were: Dan & Naphtali. By Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid were: Gad & Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan Aram.

Jacob came to his father, Isaac, at Mamre, in the city of [Kirjath Arba], which is Hebron, where Abraham & Isaac had dwelt. Isaac lived 180 years & died & Esau & Jacob buried him.

The Genealogy of Esau’s Sons

Genesis  36:1-43               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Now this is the [genealogy] of Esau, who is Edom. Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, [who was] the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite & Bashemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

Now Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau & Basemath bore Reuel. And Aholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

[Then] Esau took his wives, his sons & daughters, all the persons of his house, his [livestock] & all his [goods] which he had got in the land of Canaan & went into the country away from the [presence] of his brother, Jacob, because [both] of their [possessions] were too great to dwell together.

The land where they were strangers couldn’t support them because of their [livestock]. So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom & this is the [genealogy] of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

These were the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau.  Reuel, the son of Bashemath, the wife of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz [whose mother was Adah, Esua’s wife:] Teman, Omar, Zepho [a.k.a. Zephi], Gatam & Kenaz.

Eliphaz had a concubine named Timna & she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. These were the sons of Reul [whose mother was Bashemath, Esau's wife:] Nahath, Zerah, Shammah & Mizzah. These were the sons of Bashemath, Esau’s wife.

These are the sons of Aholibamah, Esau’s wife that she bore him: Jeush, Jaalam & Korah. These were the sons of Esau, in Edom. These were the dukes of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau whose mother was Adah, Esau’s wife: Teman, Omar, Zepho & Kenaz, Korah, Gatam, Amalek.

These are dukes of Reuel, whose mother was Bashemah, Esau’s wife: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These are the dukes of Aholibamah, the daughter of Ana, Esau’s wife: Jeush, Jaalam & Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom & these are their dukes.

These were the sons of Seir, the Horite who inhabited the land [they & their children mentioned were also dukes of the Horites in the land of Edom]: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer & Dishan. These are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

The sons of Lotan were: Hori & Hemam [a.k.a. Homam] & Lotan’s sister was Timna. These were the children of Shobal: Alvan [a.k.a. Allan], Manahath, Ebal, Shepho [a.k.a. Shephi] & Onam. These were the children of Zibeon: both Ajah & Anah.

This was the Anah who found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the [donkeys] of his father, Zibeon. These were the children of Anah: Dishon & Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah. These were the sons of Dishon: Hemdan [a.k.a. Hamram], Eshban, Ithran & Cheran.

These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan & Akan [a.ka. Jaakan]. Now the children of Dishan were: Uz & Aran. These are the dukes that came from the Horites: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, Dishan. These are the dukes that came from Hori among the dukes in the land of Seir.

Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom & the name of his city was Dinhabah. When Bela died, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temani reigned in his place. When Husam died, Hadad son of Bedad, who [attacked] the Midian in the field of Moab & reigned in his place & the name of his city was Avith.

When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. When Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place. When Saul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

When Baal-Hanan died, Hadar [a.k.a. Hadad] reigned in his place & the name of his city was Pau [a.k.a. Pai]. His wife’s name was Mehetabel [a.k.a Mehetable], the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

And these were the name of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families & after their places, by their names: Timnah, Alvah, Jetheth, Aholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel & Iram.

These were the dukes of Edom, according to their [dwelling places] in the land of their possession, Esau was the father of the Edomites.

Joseph’s Brothers Envy Him & Sell Him into Slavery

Genesis  37:1-36               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob dwelt in the land of Canaan, where his father was a stranger. This is the [genealogy] of Jacob/Israel. [His son] Joseph was 17 years old & was feeding the flock with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah & Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought a [bad] report about them back to their father.

Jacob/Israel loved Joseph more than all of his children, because he was the son of his old age & he made Joseph a tunic of many colors. When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more, they hated him & could not speak peaceably with him.

Joseph [had a] dream where he & his brothers were binding sheaves in the field & his sheaf arose & stood upright & his brother’s sheaves [bowed down] to his sheaf. Joseph’s brothers hated him even more when they heard the dream & said, Shall you indeed reign over us or have dominion over us?

Joseph had another dream & told it to his [brothers] & said, The sun, the moon & the 11 stars [bowed down] to me. When they heard it, his father & his brothers rebuked him. His father said, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother & I & your brothers indeed bow down to the earth to you?

His father [kept this matter in mind], but his brothers envied him. Joseph’s brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. Jacob/Israel said to Joseph, [Aren’t your brothers] feeding the flock in Shechem.

I will send you to them to see if all is well with them & their flocks & bring me back word to again. Joseph said he would & he left the [valley] in Hebron & came to Shechem. When Joseph was wandering in a field on the way, a man found him & asked what he was [looking] for?

[Joseph] told him he was looking for his [brothers] & asked if he knew where they were feeding their flocks. The man said, They are departed & he had heard them say they were going to Dothan & Joseph found them [there].

When they saw Joseph [at a distance], they conspired against him to kill him & said, Look, the dreamer is coming! They plotted to kill Joseph & cast him into a pit & say a wild beast has devoured him & said, We shall see what will become of his dreams!

Reuben heard it & [tried to] deliver Joseph out of their hands & said, Let’s not kill him or shed [any] blood & [put] him into this pit in the wilderness & lay no hand on him, [so] that he might [rescue] Joseph from their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

[Reuben went out to feed the flock.] When Joseph [had] come to his [brothers], they stipt Joseph out of his coat of many colors that was on him & took him & cast him into an empty pit, with no water in it.

While the brothers [were eating], they [saw] a company of Ishmaelites [coming] from Gilead with their camels bearing spices, balm & myrrh, going on their way down to Egypt. Judah said, What profit is it if we slay our brother &  conceal his blood?

Come, let’s sell him to the Ismaelites, so our hand isn’t upon him [Joseph], since he’s our brother & our flesh. The brothers were content [to do so.] When the Midianites merchants passed by; Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the pit & sold him to the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver.

They brought Joseph into Egypt. When Reuben returned to the pit [from feeding the flocks] & saw Joseph wasn’t in the pit & [tore] his clothes & went to his brothers & said, The child is not [there] & [where] shall I go?

The brothers killed a kid goat & dipped Joseph’s tunic in the blood & took the tunic of many colors to their father, Jacob/Israel, & said, We found this, do [you] if it is Joseph’s coat or [not]? [Jacob] said, It is my son’s coat.

An evil beast has devoured him & Joseph is without [a] doubt torn in pieces. Jacob/Israel [tore] his clothes & put sackcloth on his [waist] & mourned for Joseph, his son [for] many days.

[Although] Jacob/Israel’s sons & daughters came to comfort him, he refused to be comforted & said, I will go down to my grave mourning for my son, Joseph & his father wept for him. The Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh & captain of the guard.

Tamar Has a Child

Genesis  38:1-30               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

It came to pass [Jacob’s son], Judah went down from his [family] & went in to [visit] with a certain Adullamite named Hirah. [While there], Judah saw a daughter of Shuah, a Canaanite, & he was [intimate] with her [the daughter] & she conceived & bore a son named Er.

She conceived again & bore a son named Onan. She conceived yet again & bore a son named Shelah & was at Chezib when she bore him. Judah took Tamar to be a wife for his firstborn son, Er. Er, was wicked in the sight of the Lord & the Lord slew him.

Judah said to Onan, Go into your brother’s wife & marry her & raise up [a child to honor] your brother.  Onan knew the [child] wouldn’t be his & when he [was intimate] with his brother’s wife, he spilled [his emission] on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

The thing displeased the Lord & He slew him [Onan] also. Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at your father’s house, until Shelah, my son is grown, lest he die also, as his [brothers] did. Tamar went & dwelt in her father’s house.

In time, Judah’s wife,the daughter of Shuah,  died & Judah was comforted & he & his friend, Hirah, the Adullamite, went to his sheep shearers in Timnath to shear his sheep. [Tamar took] her widow’s garments off of her & covered & wrapped herself with a veil.

She sat in an open place by the [road] to Timnath, [since] she saw that Shelah, [Judah’s youngest son] was grown & she wasn’t given to him [to be his]  wife. When Judah saw her, he thought [she was a] harlot, because she covered her face.

He turned in to her by the [road] & said, I pray that you let me [be intimate with] you; (because he didn’t know it was his daughter-in-law.) [She asked,] What will you give me, [so] that I know that you may come in to me? He [Judah] said, I will send you a kid [goat] from the flock.

She said, [What] will you give me as a pledge [as collateral, until] you send it? He [Judah] said, What pledge shall I give you? She said, Thy signet [ring], your bracelets, & your staff that is in your hand & he gave it [to] her & [was intimate with] her & she [Tamar] conceived by him [Judah].

Judah sent the kid [goat] by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive his pledge [back] from the woman’s hand, but he [couldn’t find] her. Then he [the Adullamite] asked the men of that place, Where is the harlot that was openly by the [road] side?

They said, There was no harlot in this place. He returned to Judah & said, I can’t find her & the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place. It came to pass [in] about 3 months [later] & Judah was told, Tamar, your daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot & she is with child by whoredom.

Judah said, Bring her forth & let her be burnt. When she was brought forth, she sent [for] her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man [who] these [things belong to]. Discern, I pray you, whose these are: the signet, bracelet & staff.

Judah acknowledged them & said, She has been more righteous than [me], because I [didn’t give] her to Shelah, my son. He [Judah didn’t] know her again [intimately]. [At the time she was in hard labor], behold, twins were in her womb.

[During the hard labor], one [baby] put out his hand: & the midwife took & [put] a scarlet thread upon his hand, saying, This [baby] came out first. It came to pass, as he [the baby] drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out.

She said, How have you [come out first]?  This breach is upon you: therefore his name was called Pharez. Afterward, his brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand & his name was called Zarah.

Joseph Was Wrongly Accused & Put into Prison

Genesis  39:1-23               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph was brought down to Egypt & sold to Potiphar, an Egyptian, who bought him from the Ishmaelites who brought him there. He was an officer of Pharaoh & captain of the guard. The Lord was with Joseph & he was a prosperous man & was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

[Potiphar], his master, saw that the Lord was with Joseph & made all that he did prosper in his hand. Joseph found grace in his sight & served him & he made [Joseph] overseer his house & all that he had put into his [Joseph’s] hand.

It came to pass that from the time that he [Potiphar] made [Joseph] overseer of his house & all that he had & the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake & the blessing of the Lord was on all he had in the house & in the field.

[Potiphar] left all that he had in Joseph’s hand, except for the bread that he ate. Joseph was [handsome] & well favored. It came to pass, that [Potiphar’s] wife cast [longing] eyes on Joseph.

She said, Lie with me, but he refused. Joseph said to his master’s wife, My master has put all that he has in my hand, but [he doesn’t know you are] with me in the house. There is none greater in this house than I [am], neither has he kept back anything from me, [except for] you, because you are his wife.

How then, could I do this great wickedness & sin against God? She continued to speak to Joseph, day by day, but he [didn’t pay attention to her requests] to lie with her or to be with her. Joseph went into the house to do his [work], but none of the men [who work in] the house were inside.

She grabbed his garment & asked Joseph to, Lie with me, but he fled outside, but left his garment in her hand. When she saw he had fled & left his garment in her hand, she called out to the men of her house & said, See he brought in a Hebrew [Joseph] to us to mock us & he came in to lie with me.

She said, But I cried out with a loud voice & he fled & left his garment with me. [She said the same thing when her husband, Potiphar, came home.] When he heard the words of his wife & [what she said], his anger [grew].

Joseph’s master took him & put him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were bound & he was there in the prison. The Lord was with Joseph & shewed him mercy & gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

He commited into Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prisons & whatever they did there & he was [in charge of what they did]. The keeper of the prison [didn’t need to check on anything that Joseph was in charge of], because the Lord was with him & all that he did & the Lord made it to prosper.

Joseph Correctly Interprets 2 Dreams of Fellow Prisoners

Genesis  40:1-23               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

It came to pass, the king’s chief butler & chief baker offended the king of Egypt who was angry with them & put them in [custody] in a ward in the house of the captain of the guard where Joseph was bound. The captain of the guard put them in Joseph’s charge in the ward for a season.

Both the butler & the baker had a dream on the same night. Joseph saw they were sad & he asked them about why they looked so sad & they told him they each had a dream, but there was no one to interpret the dreams.

Joseph told them that interpretations belong to the Lord God & they should tell him their dreams. The chief butler’s dream was about a vine before him with 3 branches that budded, blossomed & brought forth clusters of ripe grapes that he pressed into the Pharaoh’s cup & he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

Joseph told him the interpretation of it is: the 3 branches are 3 days & the Pharaoh will in 3 days lift up your head & will restore him to his [former position]. He will put the Pharaoh’s cup into his hand in the same manner as when he was his butler.

Joseph asked the butler to think of him when things were going well for him & mention him to the Pharaoh & bring him out of this [prison] house, because he was stolen from the land of the Hebrews & he did nothing wrong to be put into the dungeon.

Since the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he told Joseph his dream about 3 white baskets on his head & the [top] basket was full of [baked goods] for the Pharaoh & the birds ate them out of the basket on his head.

Joseph answered [the baker] & said, This is the interpretation: The 3 baskets are 3 days & within 3 days the Pharaoh will lift up his head off [of him] & hang him on a tree & the birds would eat his flesh.

On the 3rd day was Pharaoh’s birthday & he made a feast for all his servants & he lifted up the head of the chief butler & the chief baker among his servants. He restored the chief butler to his position again & he [put] the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

He hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. Yet the chief butler didn’t remember [to mention Joseph to the Pharaoh], but forgot [about] him.

God Allowed Joseph to Interpret the Pharaoh’s 2 Dreams

Genesis  41:1-57               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

After 2 years, the Pharaoh had a dream & he was standing by the river. Behold,  7 [healthy, fat cows] came out of the river & fed in the meadow. [Then], behold 7 [thin, scrawny cows] came out of the river & stood by the other [cows] at the [edge] of the river.

The [thin, scrawny cows] ate up the 7 [fat cows] & the Pharaoh woke up. Then, Pharaoh went back to sleep & had a 2nd dream. Behold, 7 ears of [plump, good] corn came up on 1 stalk & then 7 thin ears [withered] by the east wind sprang up after them & devoured the 7 [plump, good] ears [of corn].

In the morning the Pharaoh’s spirit was troubled & he called for all his magicians & wise men in Egypt & told them his dream[s], but [no one] could interpret them. Then the chief butler spoke to the Pharaoh & said he remembered Joseph.

He told the Pharaoh how he & the chief baker were put in the ward when the Pharaoh was angry with them. He  told the Pharaoh how they both had a dream in one night & how [Joseph] interpreted their dreams. And it came to pass, that [Pharaoh] restored me to my [position] & hanged [the chief baker, as Joseph accurately interpreted].

The Pharaoh sent for Joseph & they brought him quickly out of the dungeon & shaved him & changed his [clothing] before taking him to the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh told Joseph that he [Pharaoh] had heard that he [Joseph] could interpret dreams & Joseph said that it’s not him, but God will give him an answer of peace.

Pharaoh told Joseph both dreams, about how he stood on the bank of the river & 7 [healthy, fat cows] came out of the river & fed in the meadow & 7 [thin, scrawny cows] [worse than he had] ever seen in the land of Egypt & they ate up the 1st 7 [healthy, fat cows] & he woke [up].

[Pharaoh told Joseph] of the [other dream where] 7 ears of [plump, good] corn came up on 1 stalk & then 7 thin ears [withered] by the east wind sprang up after them & devoured the 7 [plump, good] ears [of corn], but [no one, including his magicians, could explain the dreams to him].

Joseph told the Pharaoh that the dreams are one. God has shown the Pharaoh what He [God] is about to do. The 7 good healthy cows & the 7 good ears [of corn] are 7 years of plenty. The 7 thin, scrawny cows & the 7 empty, withered ears [of corn] blighted by the east wind are 7 years of [severe] famine.

Joseph said that God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. Indeed 7 years of plenty will come throughout Egypt, but after them 7 years of famine that will arise & all the plenty [will be forgotten] in Egypt & the [severe] famine [will cause grief and sorrow].

Joseph told Pharaoh the dream was repeated twice, so he knew it was established by God who will bring it to pass shortly. Let Pharaoh [select a discerning] & wise man to set over the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh should let this man appoint officers over the land to collect 1/5 of the [produce] of the land of Egypt in the 7 [plentiful] years & gather all the food of the good years & [store up the corn under the authority] of Pharaoh in the cities [as a reserve] for the 7 years of [severe] famine that shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.

This [advice] was good in the eyes of Pharaoh & all his servants & then they [wondered where] they would find a man like this who has the Spirit of God? Then Pharaoh decided  that since God has shown [Joseph] all of this, there is no one as [discerning] & wise as Joseph.

Pharaoh appointed Joseph over his house & all his people should be ruled according to [Joseph’s word] & the Pharaoh will only be greater in the land of Egypt in regard to the throne & he put his [signet] ring on Joseph’s hand & [clothed him in fine garments] of fine linen & put a chain of gold around his neck.

[Pharaoh had Joseph] ride in the 2nd chariot [behind the Pharaoh] & they had people bow before him. Pharaoh set Joseph [who was 30 years old] over all the land of Egypt & said no one can lift their hand or foot [to do anything] without Joseph’s consent.

Pharaoh called Joseph Zaphnath-Paaneah & gave Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On, to Joseph as a wife. Joseph went [throughout] the land of Egypt during the 7 [plentiful] years of [abundance] where the earth brought forth by handfuls.

And [Joseph] gathered up the food & the food from the land that surrounded them & laid up the food in every city. Joseph gathered up so much corn, it was as the sand of the sea until he [stopped counting it, because it was immeasurable].

Joseph’s wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore him 2 sons before the years of famine came. The firstborn [was named] Manasseh & the name of the 2nd was called Ephraim. Then the 7 years of plenty in the land of Egypt ended.

The 7 years of [famine] were in all the land as Joseph had said, but in all the land of Egypt had bread. When the land of Egypt was [hungry], the people cried to Pharaoh, but he told all the Egyptians to go to Joseph & do whatever he tells you to do.

The famine was over the fall of all the earth & Joseph opened all the storehouses & sold to the Egyptians, because the famine had [become severe] in the land of Egypt & so all the countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy corn, because the famine was so [severe] in all lands.

Jacob Sent His 10 Sons to Egypt to Buy Food Because of the Famine

Genesis  42:1-38               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Jacob/[a.k.a. Israel] saw there was [grain] in Egypt, he sent his 10 sons to Egypt to buy some [grain] for them to live, and not die. He didn’t send his youngest son, Benjamin with his [brothers in case] some calamity [would happen to him].

When Joseph's brothers came to buy grain, [because of] the famine in the land of Canaan, they bowed before Joseph who was the governor over the land & was [in charge of] selling the grain [but they didn’t realize it was their brother, Joseph, that they had sold to the Ishmaelites years earlier].

Joseph recognized his brothers, but [acted like] a stranger & spoke roughly to them & he asked them where they came from & they told him from the land of Canaan to buy food. Joseph remembered the dreams he had about them [bowing down to him] years ago.

Joseph accused them of being spies that have come to see the [vulnerabilities] of the land! They told Joseph they weren’t spies & were the sons of 1 man & are [honest] men & aren’t spies & have come to buy food. Joseph said again that they are spies.

They said that they are of 12 brothers, the sons of 1 man in the land of Canaan & the youngest is with their father & one is no more [speaking of Joseph, although they don’t know they are actually talking to him]. Joseph said that to [prove they aren’t spies] they need to send one of them to [get] their brother & the rest shall stay in prison, or else by the life of Pharaoh, [they will be considered] spies.

Joseph said that he [still thought they were] spies [although he really knew they weren’t & he put them together in prison for 3 days, because they wouldn’t agree to bring their youngest brother there].

After 3 days, Joseph went to them & said he feared the [Lord] God & would give them a chance to prove they are [honest] men by leaving 1 of them confined to the prison house & the rest taking their [grain] to their house & bringing their brother to him, so their words would be verified & they wouldn’t die & they agreed.

Then the 10 brothers talked [among themselves saying that all of this happened, since] they are guilty, because of what they did to their brother [Joseph] years ago when he pleaded with them & they wouldn’t listen. Reuben answered them, [Didn’t I tell you not] to sin against the child & you wouldn’t [listen to me].

Therefore, blood is required [for what we did.] They didn’t know that Joseph could understand them, because he had been talking to them [through] an interpreter. When he [Joseph] heard what they said about [regretting] what they did, Joseph turned away & wept.

When Joseph returned, he talked with them & took & bound Simeon before them. Joseph [secretly] commanded that when their sacks were filled with [grain], their money was to be put inside the sacks [unbeknownst to them] & they should be given provisions for [the journey home].

When this was done, the 9 brothers [loaded] their [donkeys] with [grain] & departed. [When stopped on the way home], one of them opened his sack to get [feed] for his [donkey] & found his money inside the mouth of his sack & told his brothers & they were afraid & said, What is this that God has done to us?

When they got to the land of Canaan, they told their father, Jacob/Israel all [that had happened, including] that the man [Joseph] spoke roughly to them & said they were spies of the country. We said to him, We are [honest] men & aren’t spies.

We [are] 12 sons of our father & 1 is [no longer] & the youngest is with our father in the land of Canaan. The lord of the country [Joseph], said to us, I shall know you are [honest] men if you leave 1 of your [brothers] here with me & take food for the famine [for] your households & be gone.

Bring back your youngest brother to me & I will know you aren’t spies & are honest men & I will return your [brother from prison]. [Then, they explained about finding] their money in their sacks & when their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

Jacob/Israel said to them, You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is not & Simeon is not & you [want] to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me. Reuben spoke to his father saying, If I don’t return him [Benjamin] to you, slay my 2 sons.

Deliver him into my hand & I will bring him [back] to you again. [Jacob/Israel] said, My son shall not go down with you. His brother is dead & if he is left alone & [something bad happens to] him on the way, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Jacob Sends His 11 Sons Back to Egypt to Buy More Food

Genesis  43:1-34               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The famine was [severe] in the land & when all their [grain] they brought from Egypt had been eaten up, their father told them they’d have to return to buy [more] food.

Judah [reminded] him that they were told they couldn't see the man’s face again unless they brought their brother [although they still don’t know the man is Joseph]. If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food, but if you [don’t] send him, we won’t go.

Jacob/a.k.a. Israel wanted to know [why they told him about their youngest brother] & they said that they [had no way of knowing he was going to say to return with their brother]. Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the lad with me, so we may go, [so] that we & our little ones don’t die [of hunger].

I [will be responsible] for him.  If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can let me bear the blame forever. Jacob/Israel told them if it must be [that they go] take the man a present of some of the best fruits of the land & balm, honey, spices, myrrh, nuts & almonds & double the amount of money found in their sacks in case it was an oversight.

Jacob said, May the God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother & Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. They took the present & double the money & Benjamin & went down to Egypt.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he told the steward to take them to his house & have [an animal slaughtered & prepared] for them to dine with him at noon.

After being taken to Joseph’s house [although they still don’t know it’s Joseph, their brother] they were worried if [they were there to be seized as slaves or their donkeys], because of the money they found in their sacks. They [talked] with Joseph’s steward [before they entered the] house & told him about finding the money in their sacks & cannot tell who put the money in our sacks.

The steward said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God has given you a treasure, because I had their money. The steward brought Simeon out to them & once inside Joseph’s house they were given water to wash their feet & their [donkeys were fed].

They [prepared] their present for the man [Joseph], because they had heard they were to eat there. They bowed down to Joseph when he came [just like Joseph's dream in his younger years] & gave him their present.

The man [Joseph] asked about their father’s well-being & they told him their father is in good health & is yet alive. When he saw his mother’s youngest son, Benjamin, he asked about him & said, God be gracious to you, my son. Then, Joseph went [quickly] into his chamber to weep privately & washed his face afterward.

He had them serve the bread to his brothers, but they put Joseph in a separate place, because Egyptians couldn’t eat with Hebrews, for it was an abomination to the Egyptians. They were sitting before him in the order of their birthright which [perplexed] them & he took [serving]s to them, but gave Benjamin 5 times as much as they had, so they drank & were merry with him.

Jacob’s Sons Accused of Stealing Joseph’s Silver Cup

Genesis  44:1-34               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

[Joseph] commanded the steward of his house to fill their [his brother’s] sacks with food & to [secretly] put their money in the mouths of their sacks & to also put his silver cup with the money in the sack of the youngest & he did [so]. When morning [dawned], [they] were sent away with their donkeys & grain.

When they weren’t far [from] the city, Joseph had his steward [catch up with] them & ask’ Why have you [paid] evil for good? Why would you take my lord’s drinking [cup]? They explained how they brought back the [other] money they found in their sacks [before], so why would they steal silver or gold from his lord’s house?

How would they steal either silver or gold? They told the steward that if he finds the silver cup in one of their bags, that person should die & they would be his [slaves], [but they said this, because they didn’t know the money & the cup had been secretly planted in the sack of the youngest brother].

The steward [agreed] & searched the sacks from the oldest & the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack, the youngest & they [tore] their clothes & [loaded up] their [donkeys] to return to the city. When they came to Joseph’s house, they fell before him & Joseph asked, What deed is this you’ve done?

Didn’t you know that someone [of my importance] could use divination [to know]? Judah said that they would be his [slaves], but Joseph told them that only the person who had the cup will be his servant & the rest could go home to their father in peace.

Judah came near to Joseph & told him that [when they explained to their father about the need to return with Benjamin] & he [Jacob/Israel] said, His wife [Rachel] bore him 2 sons & one went out from me & is surely torn in pieces & I have not seen him since.

If you take this [lad] from me & mischief befalls him, then you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. I became [responsible] for the lad & said to my father, If I [don’t] bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.

I pray thee, let [me stay here as a slave] instead of the lad & let the lad go up with his [brothers]. For how shall I go up to my father & the lad isn’t with me? Lest I see [what] evil shall come of my father.

Joseph Tells His Brothers Who He Is

Genesis  45:1-28                The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph couldn’t [restrain] himself & [had all the others leave the room] except the 11 brothers. There were no [other] men with him, while Joseph [let his brothers know who he was] & he wept [so loud] that the Egyptians & the house of the Pharaoh heard [it]. His brothers were troubled at his presence.

He told them, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. [Don’t] be grieved or be angry with yourselves, that you sold me [here], because God sent me before you to preserve life [because of the severe famine].

God sent me to preserve a posterity for you in the [world] & to save their lives by a great deliverance. So it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God & He made me a [ruler] throughout the land of Egypt, next to the Pharaoh.

[Joseph] told them to get their father, their families, flocks & herds & all they had & to come back to Goshen, in Egypt, to live, lest they & their household come to poverty for there are 5 more years of severe famine left. He told them to tell his father [all] they have seen & heard & return with their father [soon].

Then Joseph hugged Benjamin's neck & they both wept. Then he [Joseph] kissed all his brothers & they talked. It pleased Pharaoh & his servants well when they heard that Joseph’s brethren were there.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, [Load up] the wagons & animals to take your father & [family] to come to me & I will give you the good of the land of Egypt & shall eat the fat of the land. The children of [Jacob/a.k.a.] Israel did so [along] with 10 donkeys & carts filled with provisions for the trip there & back.

Joseph gave his brothers changes of [clothing] & to Benjamin 300 pieces of silver & 5 changes of [clothing]. When they first told [Jacob/Israel] about Joseph being alive & us governor over all the land of Egypt, he didn’t believe them.

After they explained what Joseph had said [about God sending Joseph there to keep their posterity alive] & Jacob/Israel saw the loaded carts, he agreed to go to see Joseph before he died.

Jacob/a.k.a. Israel Moves With His Family to Egypt

Genesis 46:1-34               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob/a.k.a Israel took all he had on his journey to Egypt & came to Beersheba & he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. God spoke to Israel in a night vision & when God called Jacob/Israel to him, he said, Here I am.

[The Lord God] said, I am God, the God of your father & [you shouldn’t be afraid] to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation & I will go with you into Egypt & will surely bring you [back] up again & Joseph will put his hand on your eyes [at your death].

In the wagons which Pharaoh had sent, Jacob/Israel left Beersheba with, and 11 of his 12 sons & families & his descendants,  [livestock] & [belongings] went to Egypt with them. Now these were the names of the children of Jacob/Israel, [who] came to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn.

The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Phallu [a.k.a. Pallu], Hezron & Carmi. The sons of Simeon were: Jemuel [a.k.a. Nemuel], Jamin, Ohad, Jachin [a.k.a. Jarib], Zohar [a.k.a. Zerah] & Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. The sons of Levi were: Gershon, Kohath & Merari.

The sons of Judah were: Er, Onan, Shelah, Pharez [a.k.a. Perez] & Zarah [a.k.a. Zerah], but Er & Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Pharez were: Hezron & Hamul. The sons of Issachar were: Tola, Phuvah [a.k.a. Puvah or Puah], Job [a.k.a. Jashub] & Shimron.

The sons of Zebulun were: Sered, Elon & Jahleel. These were the sons of Leah, [whom] she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram [along] with his daughter, Dinah. All the persons, his sons & daughters were 33. The sons of Gad were: Ziphion [a.k.a. Zephon], Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon [a.k.a. Ozni], Eri, Arodi [a.k.a. Arod] & Areli.

The sons of Asher were: Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah & Serah,  their sister. The sons of Beriah were: Heber & Malchiel.  These were the sons of Zilpah [the handmaid] whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter & these she bore to Jacob: 16 [people. The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife were: Joseph & Benjamin.

Joseph’s wife, Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, bore to him [Joseph] Manasseh & Ephraim in the land of Egypt. The sons of Benjamin were: Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim [a.k.a. Hupham] & Ard.

These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: 14 [people] in all. The son of Dan was: Hushim [a.k.a. Shuham]. The sons of Naphtali were: Jahzeel [a.k.a. Jahziel], Guni, Jezer & Shillem [a.k.a. Shallum].

These were the sons of Bilhah [the handmaid], whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter & she bore these to Jacob: 7 [people] in all. All the [people] who went with Jacob/Israel to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s son’s wives, were 66 persons in all .

And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were 2 [people]. All the [people] of the house of Jacob/Israel who went to Egypt were 70. Then he [Jacob/Israel] sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen & they came to the land of Goshen.

Joseph got his chariot ready to go to Goshen & met his father & presented himself to his father & he fell & wept on his [father’s] neck a good while. Jacob/Israel, said, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.

Joseph went to tell the Pharaoh that his father & brothers & their families have come to him & told his family to say their occupation has been with [livestock] from their youth, until now, so they could live in the land of Goshen, since the Egyptians [think] shepherds are an abomination.

Joseph Bought Their Lands When Their Money Ran Out

Genesis  47:1-31               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph came to Pharaoh & said, I brought my father, [brothers] & their families & [livestock] & all they have out of Canaan & they are in the land of Goshen. He took 5 of his [brothers] to present to Pharaoh.

When he asked their occupation, they said that they & their fathers are shepherds & would like to stay in the land of Goshen, since they don’t have [any] pasture for their flocks in Canaan, because of the [severe] famine.

Pharaoh told Joseph to let his family dwell in Goshen, the best of the land & to make any [competent] men of his family [in charge] over Pharaoh’s [livestock]. Joseph brought Jacob/a.k.a. Israel before Pharaoh & Jacob/Israel blessed Pharaoh. When asked his age, Jacob/Israel told Pharaoh he is 130 years old & few & evil have been the days of his life.

[But have been nothing like the days in the] life of my fathers in the days in their pilgrimage [in the wilderness]. Joseph placed his father & [family] and gave them a possession in the land of Rameses in Egypt, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Joseph [provided all this family] with bread according to the number in their families. There was no bread in all the land, because of the [severe] famine, so the lands of: Egypt & Canaan [became weak because of it].

Joseph gathered up all the money found in the lands of: Egypt & Canaan for the [grain] they bought & brought the money to Pharaoh’s house. When the money failed in the lands of: Egypt & Canaan, the Egyptians came to Joseph & said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence?

For the money has [failed]. Joseph said, If the money [fails] give your [livestock] & I will give you [grain]. They brought their [livestock in exchange] for bread that year. When that year ended the [people] came to Joseph the 2nd year & said, We [won’t] hide from you that our money is spent & [he already has] their livestock.

There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies & our land. [Why should] we die before [your] eyes, both [us] & our land? Buy us & our land for bread & we & our land will be servants of Pharaoh & give us seed, [so] that we may live & not die & that the land may not be desolate.

Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was [severe]. The land became Pharaoh’s. [Joseph moved] them into cities from one end of the border to the other end of Egypt.

He did not buy the land of the priests & they ate their rations which the Pharaoh gave to them, so they [did not sell] their lands. Joseph told the people, Behold, I bought you & their land for Pharaoh, this day & he gave them seed to sow the land.

[Joseph told them] [At harvest time] they shall give 1/5 to Pharaoh & 4/5 shall be their own, for seed for the field & for your food, your households & your little ones. They said, You have saved our lives, let us find grace in the sight of my lord & we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

Joseph made it a law over all of Egypt to this day, that Pharah should have 1/5 part, except for the priests [who] did not become Pharaoh’s. Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen & they grew & multiplied exceedingly. Jacob/Israel lived in Egypt for 17 years & lived to be 147 years old.

[Before he died], Jacob/Israel called Joseph to him & said, If I have found grace in your sight, I pray, put your hand under my thigh & [don’t] bury me in Egypt, but I want [you] to carry me out of Egypt & bury me in the burying place, so I lie with my fathers. Swear to me & [Joseph did] & Jacob/Israel bowed himself upon the [head of the bed].

Jacob Blessed Joseph’s 2 Sons

Genesis  48:1-22                 The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

When Joseph was told his father was sick & he took his 2 sons, Manasseh & Ephraim to see him. Jacob/a.k.a. strengthened himself & sat upon the bed. Jacob/Israel told Joseph about how God Almighty appeared to him in Luz in the land of Canaan.

The Lord God blessed him & said, I will make [you] fruitful & multiply [you] & will make of [you] [Jacob/Israel] a multitude of people & give this land to [your descendants] as an everlasting possession.

Now [your] 2 his sons, Ephraim & Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt, are mine, [just] as Reuben & Simeon shall be mine. [Jacob/Israel said,] [Any offspring you] [Joseph] beget after them shall be [yours] & shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

When I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me [Jacob/Israel] in the land of Canaan when they [weren’t far from] Ephrath & I buried her there on the way to Ephrath [which] is Bethlehem. Jacob/Israel asked whose sons the boys were & Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place.

Jacob/Israel wanted them brought over, so he could bless them. Joseph brought them close, since Jacob/Israel’s eyes were dim & he kissed & embraced them & said, I had not thought to see [your] face [because he thought Joseph was eaten by a wild animal], but [in fact], God has also shown me [your] [Joseph’s] offspring.

Joseph bowed his face to the earth & [guided them] so his right hand would be on the head of Manasseh, the eldest, but Jacob/Israel put his right hand on Ephraim’s, the younger son’s head, which displeased Joseph.

He blessed Joseph & asked the [Lord] God of his fathers & the God who has fed him all his life to this day, to bless the lads & to let his name to be upon them & the name of Abraham & Isaac & let them grow to be a multitude in the midst of the earth.

[Even though Jacob/Israel wouldn’t switch his hands on the boy’s heads], Jacob/Israel said that they both shall become a great people & but the younger brother will become greater than [the older] & his [descendants] will become a multitude of nations.

He said, In you Israel shall bless, saying, God make [you] as Ephraim & Manasseh! Jacob/Israel said to Joseph that he is dying, but God will be with you & will bring you back to the land of your fathers & that he [Jacob/Israel] had given Joseph one portion above his brothers that he took from an Amorite with his bow & sword.

Jacob Tells His 12 Sons What Will Happen to Them in Their Last Days

Genesis  49:1-33               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

There they buried Abraham & Sarah, his wife, and Isaac & Rebekah, his wife & I buried Leah [my wife]. When Jacob/Israel finished commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, [died] & was gathered to his people.

Jacob/a.k.a. Israel gathered his sons together to tell them what shall [happen to] them in the last days: Reuben, my firstborn, the beginning of his strength, the excellency of dignity & power, but unstable as water & shall not excel, because he went up to his father’s [bed] & defiled it.

Simeon & Levi are [both] instruments of cruelty in their habitations & slew a man in anger & cursed be their anger. They will be divided in Jacob & [scattered] in Israel.

Judah is the one whom his brother will praise & his hand will be on the neck of his enemies & is a lion’s whelp & couched down as an old lion & who shall [wake] him up?

His father’s children shall bow down to him *and the scepter shall not depart from Judah [foretelling of Jesus], nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh [comes] & to him shall be the gathering of the people.

Shiloh [tied] his donkey to a choice vine & washed his garments in wine, the blood of grapes. His eyes are red with wine & his teeth white with milk. Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea. He shall [become] a haven for ships & his border shall be to Zidon [a.k.a.Sidon].

Issachar is a strong [donkey] lying down between 2 burdens. He saw that rest was good & the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to bear [a burden] & [would do the work of a servant for money]. Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

He shall be a serpent & a [viper] that bites the horse's heels, so that the rider falls backward. Gad, a troop shall overcome him, but he shall [triumph] at last. Bread from Asher shall be [rich] & he shall yield to royal dainties. Naphtali is a hind [of a gazelle, swift when] let loose. He uses [agreeable] words.

Joseph is a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall & the archers grieved him, shot him & hated him, but his bow [remained] in strength & his hands were made strong by the hands of he Mighty God of Jacob (From [there] is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).

Even by the God of your father who will help you & by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings: of heaven above & of the deep that lies beneath & blessings of the breasts & the womb [they would have lots of children & the mothers would have plenty of milk].

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my [ancestors], [which] shall be the crown upon the head of [Joseph] who was separate from his [brothers].  Benjamin is a [ravenous] wolf & he shall devour the prey in the morning & divide the spoil at night.

Jacob/Israel blessed [his sons] the 12 tribes of Israel & charged them with burying him with his father in the cave from the children of Heth in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.

There they buried Abraham & Sarah, his wife, and Isaac & Rebekah, his wife & I buried Leah [my wife]. When Jacob/Israel finished commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, [died] & was gathered to his people.

They Take Jacob/a.k.a. Israel to be Buried in Canaan

Genesis  50:1-26               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph fell on his father’s [Jacob/a.k.a. Israel's] face & wept over him & kissed him & commanded the physicians to embalm his father, Jacob/Israel & [they did so] which took 40 days & they mourned him for 70 days.

When the days of mourning were past, Joseph [asked] the house of Pharaoh, If I have found grace in your eyes, ask in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear to bury him in [his] grave in the land of Canaan. Now, let me go up, I pray you & bury my father & I will come [back] again.

Pharaoh said, Go up & bury your father, as he made you swear. They left the little ones & their flocks & herds in the land of Goshen & Pharaoh’s servants & elders in the land, and went with all his father’s house.

They went with Joseph & his brothers with chariots & horsemen & it was a great company to bury Jacob/Israel beyond the Jordan [River] & mourned to the threshing floor of Atad & had a very [solemn] lamentation [grieving] for his father for 7 days.

When inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor at Atad, they said, This is the grievous mourning of the Egyptians, & called the place Abel Mirzraim [Mourning of Egypt], which is beyond Jordan.

[Jacob/Israel’s] sons did as their father commanded them & buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place [from] Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. [After their father was buried], Joseph & his brothers & all who went with him returned to Egypt.

Joseph’s [brothers] were [concerned] that Joseph might hate them and [repay] them for all the evil that they had done to him, now that their father was dead.

They sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Before their father died, he commanded that they say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your [brothers] & their sin for they did evil to you. Now we pray you, please forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.

Joseph wept when they [spoke] to him & his brothers fell down before him & said, Behold, we [will] be your servants. Joseph said to them, [Don’t be afraid], for am I in the place of God? You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it to pass, as it is this day, to save the [lives] of [many] people [from the severe famine].

Now, [don’t be afraid], I will [provide food] for you & your little ones. Joseph comforted them & [spoke] kindly to them. Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he & his father’s house & he lived [to be] 110 years old & saw Ephraim’s children to the 3rd generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

Joseph said to his brethren, I [am going to] die & God will surely visit you & bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, Isaac & to Jacob.

Then Joseph took an oath [from] the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you & you shall carry up my bones from [here], [so that he could be buried in Canaan with his father]. Joseph died, being 110 years old & they embalmed [Joseph’s body] & he was put in a coffin in Egypt.