THE BOOK OF JASHER

                         Preface and Chapters 1 - 91 


                             TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

The age in which we live has been, and continues to be, particularly
distinguished by a laudable desire in the minds of men, to inquire into the
various states of knowledge, and of the arts, as they existed in times
anterior to the Christian era; animated with these noble and elevated views, a
considerable number of individuals, greatly distinguished for their genius and
learning, have in succession turned their attention to the East-to those
celebrated countries, in which the arts of civilization and the lights of
science first dawned upon, enlightened, and embellished human society. The
magnificent and unequalled remains of the arts in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria,
Palestine, and Persia, have, from time to time, been visited and explored; and
it has been amidst these fallen monuments of human grandeur, that the
adventurous and enlightened traveler has found himself amply rewarded for his
laborious and hazardous undertakings; for amidst these wrecks of human
greatness, he has succeeded in gathering ample evidence, in confirmation of
many of the most important truths recorded in sacred history.

Profane histories have, indeed, conveyed down to us some account of these
kingdoms, and of the mighty monarchs who, during a long succession of ages,
ruled over them; but the events which they relate are evidently so mixed up
with exaggeration, and so adulterated with fable, that, however celebrated
their authors might have been, and however fascinating may be the style of
their composition, the religious and philosophic student turns from them with
dissatisfaction, to the divinely authenticated annals of the Hebrews; because,
it is from these alone that he can derive true information concerning the
rise, the splendor, the decline, and the real causes of the ruin of those
celebrated empires.

In the sacred history we are presented with the only authentic, and, of
course, the only valuable information Concerning the origin of the
universe,-of men and all other animated creatures-of the gradual increase of
the human race-of the flood in the year A. M. 1656, of which mighty event
there are existing evidences to the present day; evidences, so universal and
so ponderous, that all the ingenuity of the sceptical geologists will never be
able to remove them in order to make room for their plausihle hypotheses.

The ever memorable events and transactions recorded in Scripture are with many
others of the most interesting nature, comprehended in the Book of Jasher; and
they are all arrayed in that style of simple, unadorned majesty and precision,
which so particularly distinguishes the genius of the Hebrew language; and
this, together with other numerous internal evidences, it is presumed will go
far to convince the Hebrew scholar that the book is, with the exception of
some doubtful parts, a venerable monument of antiquity; and that,
notwithstanding some few additions may have been made to it in comparatively
modern times, it still retains sufficient to prove it a copy of the book
referred to in Joshua x., and 2v Samuel, ch.i. There are not more than seven
or eight words in the whole book that by construction can be derived from the
Chaldean language.

The printed Hebrew copy, in the hands of the translator, is without points.
During his first perusal of it, some perplexities and doubts rose up in his
mind respecting its authenticity; but the more closely he studied it, the more
its irresistible evidence satisfied him, that it contained a treasure of
information concerning those early times, upon which the histories of other
nations are either silent, or cast not a single ray of real light; and hewas
more especially delighted to find that the evidence of the whole of its
contents went to illustrate and confirm the great and inestimable truths which
are recorded in divine history, down to a few years later than the death of
Joshua, at which period the book closes.

In this extraordinary book the reader will meet with models of the most
sublime virtue, devotion and magnanimity, that cannot fail to raise his
admiration, and, at the same time, to excite a generous feeling of emulation
to follow the glorious examples set before him.

With these preliminary observations, the translator now respectfully proceeds
to lay before the readers a few remarks upon the contents of the book. The
tittle "--" is literally, "the upright or correct record," but because the
book was not known, it was therefore termed the "Book of Jasher;" this has
caused some persons, who are ignorant of the Hebrew language, to suppose that
Jasher was the name of a prophet, or of one of the Judges of Israel; an
instance of which appears in a publication which came from the press about the
middle of the last century, and which purported to have been a translation
into English of the Hebrew manuscript of Jasher, found at Gazna in Persia;
which translation only was said to have been thence brought by Alcuin. When
the translator wrote to the Editor of the London Courier, in November last, he
was not aware that the copy of Jasher, announced in the Bristol Gazette as an
important discovery, had reference to that fictitious book, which, through the
kindness of a friend, he had previously obtained a sight of, and was soon
convinced that the whole book was the work of some skeptic in England, in
imitation of the language of Scripture, as it was sent forth from the press
without the name of printer, bookseller, editor, or publisher; and it is
evident that those who were concerned in getting it up, in making Jasher the
name of a Judge of Israel were ignorant of the very rudiments of the language
from which they pretended to have translated it, as it is well known, even to
a tyro in the Hebrew language, that the definite article,  is never prefixed
to proper names.

The important transactions which are narrated with so remarkable a brevity in
the Bible, are, in Jasher, more circumstantially detailed as in the instance
of the murder of Abel by his brother Cain, a particular account is given of
the disagreement which preceded it, and of the pretext which Cain sought for
the commission of the crime. It appears, also, that when the divine judgment
condemned him to wander upon the earth, his wife accompanied him, not to the
land of Nod, for no such place is mentioned; but, from this book it appears
that the word Nod, in the Scripture, has been given for the participle of the
verb "--" "to move or wander about." Jasher has it thus: "--"

"And at that time Cain went forth from the presence of the Lord, from the
place where he was; and he went moving and wandering in the land at the east
of Eden, he and all belonging to him."

In the passage respecting the birth of Cain and Abel, three daughters are also
mentioned. According to Jasher, the art of writing appears to have been known
and practised from the earliest periods; it is stated that Cainan was informed
beforehand by God of the intended destruction of mankind by the flood, which
he engraved upon tablets of stone, and preserved amongst his treasures.

This book contains a more detailed account of the awful circumstances
attending the commencement of the flood, and of the conduct of Noah toward the
terrified multitude who had assembled about the ark, when the fatal moment had
arrived, and their doom was irrevocably fixed.

A particular delineation of the life and character of Enoch is given, showing,
that by his wisdom he reigned over the sons of men, continually instructing
them in truth, rightousness, and a knowledge of the Most High.

Jasher informs us, that in the days of Peleg, not only the families of the
human race were separated and spread abroad, but that the earth itself was
divided; and of both these facts, it may be presumed, there are sufficient
existing evidences, even at this day. This book gives, also, a more detailed
account of the genealogies of the descendants of Japheth, Shem, and Ham, and
of the various parts of the earth which were colonized by them.

Connected with this period of the history is given an account of Nimrod; in
which is strikingly depicted the arbitrary and violent character of his
conduct and government. The contested point, as to whether Nimrod was the
founder of the Assyrian Empire, is here decided. The cause of the dispute
amongst commentators proceeded from the word "--" in Gen. chapter x. ver. II,
signifying either the name of a man, or the name of the land of Assyria.
Jasher has it thus: "--" &c. "--"

"And Asher, the son of Shem, went forth, he, and his sons, and the children of
his household, &c., and they there built four cities."

Jasher clearly elucidates a number of genealogical and chronological
difficulties which occur in the Bible; an instance is here adduced of the
genealogy of Seir, the Horite, upon which the Bible is silent.

The learned commentator, Aben Ezra, remarks, "--" "Seir, his genealogy we do
not know;" and the word "--" supposed to come from "--" a noble, but Jasher
gives us the descent of Seir, (which accounts for his being called the
Horite,) in the following words: "--"

"And Seir, the son of Hur, the son of Hivi, the son of Canaan, went," &c;
hence he was called the Horite, from Hur, his father.

The character of Abraham, for piety, true dignity and hospitality, appears to
stand unrivaled, but the most affecting and beautiful account in this book, is
that of Abraham offering up his son Isaac. The mutual affection of the father
and son, and their willing devotion and obedience to the commands of their
maker, are so exquisitely described, that the heart of him who can peruse the
narrative without being deeply affected, must be callous indeed. The conduct
Sarah, as connected with this unexampled and glorious event, was altogether
worthy of the wife of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. At this time Sarah
died at Kireath-arba. Her funeral is described as having been magnificent; and
it is expressly mentioned, that it was attended by Shem, the son of Noah, Eber
his son, king Abimelech, together with Anar, Ashcol and Mamre, and other great
people of the land.

In the Bible Sarah is the only woman whose age is given at her death; but it
may be interesting to the reader to know that Jasher generally states the ages
of the women who are particularly mentioned in the course of the history.

From this book we learn that Noah and Abraham were contemporaries. How
beautiful the contemplation of the meeting of these two Patriarchs, the one
being a monument of God's mercy, the other having the promise of the favor and
grace of God, not only to himself, but to his seed after him. This fact might
be proved from Scripture; but from the 32d verse in the 11th chapter of
Genesis, most of the Christian commentators have erroneously dated the birth
of Abraham 60 years later than it actually took place; as it is generally
stated that he was born A. M. 2008, whereas the regular calculation in the
Bible leads us to 60 years earlier, viz. 1948. The only cause of this error
has been that Abraham's departure from Haran, at the age of 75, is recorded
close to the description of the death Terah, at the age of 205, in Gen. ch.
xi. v. 32. Although this is the frequent manner of Scripture, to record events
out of the regular order of succession (an instance of which we find in Isaac,
whose death is recorded Gen. xxxv. 29, when we know from the calculations
given us in Scripture, at Isaac's death must have taken place when Joseph was
about 29 years old; and the description given in Jasher, of Isaac's coming
from Hebron to comfort Jacob upon the loss of Joseph, is beautiful,) it is of
great importance, in its making a difference of 60 years in the chronology of
the world.

This book gives a particular account of the instruction received by Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, from Shem and Eber, through which they became excellent in
piety and wisdom, their tutors in learning having lived to so great an age;
and Shem particularly, who, being acquainted with all that was known before
the flood, could therefore strengthen his precepts of virtue, the true worship
of God, and the necessary dependence upon Him alone, by recording the awful
events which he had seen.

The history of Joseph has always been considered one of the most admirable and
interesting on record. It is composed in a style of simple and artless
eloquence, which touches every feeling heart. A judicious critic has observed,
that he considers it a perfect composition. This history, in Jasher, enters
more into detail concerning the affairs of Potiphar's wife, Zelicah; Joseph's
magnificent procession through the cities of Egypt, on coming into power; the
pomp with which he was attended by Pharaoh's chariots, officers, and people,
when he went up to meet his father; the affecting scene which then took place,
together with other remarkable incidents. This beautiful narrative might
justly be entitled, the triumph of virtue and piety; and it is presumed that
few can peruse it, unmoved by sentiments of the highest admiration, mixed with
the deepest feelings of sympathy. The history of the Israelites during their
sojourning in Egypt contains an account of many interesting particulars not
noticed in the Bible. Toward the latter end of this period, Balaam, Job,
Jannes, and Jambres, appear to have acted their respective parts in some
memorable transaction.

This book clears up the reference in 2 Samuel, ch. 1., by showing that David,
in the commencement of his beautiful elegy on the death of Saul and Jonathan,
revived an injunction given by Jacob in his dying charge to his son Judah,
contained in Jasher in these words: "--"

"But teach, I pray thee, thy children the use of the bow, and all instruments
of war," &c. This goes far to prove the authenticity of the book, as it
beautifully clears up what was always considered obscure.

If commentators upon the holy Scriptures have sought for illustrations in the
works of Homer, Pliny, Herodotus, and other profane writers; if they have
anxiously caught at glimmerings among the absurdities of Paganism, and the
obscurities of Heathen fables, the translator humbly and respectfully hopes
that they will now grant a favorable reception to evidence of an entirely
opposite character, which is presented in the Book of Jasher.

He does not recommend it to their notice as a work of inspiration, but as a
monument of history, comparatively covered with the ivy of the remotest ages;
as a work possessing, in its language, all the characteristic simplicity of
patriarchal times; and as such, he conceives it peculiarly calculated to
illustrate and confirm the sacred truths handed down to us in the Scriptures.

But in making these observations, he is far from offering it as a perfect
record. Like all other ancient writings, (except the inspired volume,) it has
in some respects suffered from the consuming hand of time; and there is reason
to believe that some additions have been made to it. In fine, it contains a
history of the lives and memorable transactions of all the illustrious
characters recorded in sacred history, from Adam down to the time of the
Elders, who immediately succeeded Joshua.


This is the book of the Generations of Man whom God created upon the Earth on
the day when the Lord God made Heaven and Earth.

Chapter 1. The Creation of Adam and Eve. The Fall. Birth of Cain and Abel.
Abel a Keeper of Sheep. Cain a Tiller of the Soil. The Quarrel Between the
Brothers and the Result. Cain, the First Murderer, Cursed of God.

1v And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God
created man in his own image.

2v And God formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the
breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.

3v And the Lord said, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make unto him
a helpmeet.

4v And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he
took away one of his ribs, and he built flesh upon it, and formed it and
brought it to Adam, and Adam awoke from his sleep, and behold a woman was
standing before him.

5v And he said, This is a bone of my bones and it shall be called woman, for
this has been taken from man; and Adam called her name Eve, for she was the
mother of all living.

6v And God blessed them and called their names Adam and Eve in the day that he
created them, and the Lord God said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the
earth.

7v And the Lord God took Adam and his wife, and he placed them in the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it; and he commanded them and said unto them,
From every tree of the garden you may eat, but from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat thereof you
shall surely die.

8v And when God had blessed and commanded them, he went from them, and Adam
and his wife dwelt in the garden according to the command which the Lord had
commanded them.

9. And the serpent, which God had created with them in the earth, came to them
to incite them to transgress the command of God which he had commanded them.

10v And the serpent enticed and persuaded the woman to eat from the tree of
knowledge, and the woman hearkened to the voice of the serpent, and she
transgressed the word of God, and took from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, and she ate, and she took from it and gave also to her husband and
he ate.

11v And Adam and his wife transgressed the command of God which he commanded
them, and God knew it, and his anger was kindled against them and he cursed
them.

12v And the Lord God drove them that day from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which they were taken, and they went and dwelt at the east of the
garden of Eden; and Adam knew his wife Eve and she bore two sons and three
daughters.

13v And she called the name of the first born Cain, saying, I have obtained a
man from the Lord, and the name of the other she called Abel, for she said, In
vanity we came into the earth, and in vanity we shall be taken from it.

14v And the boys grew up and their father gave them a possession in the land;
and Cain was a tiller of the ground, and Abel a keeper of sheep.

15v And it was at the expiration of a few years, that they brought an
approximating offering to the Lord, and Cain brought from the fruit of the
ground, and Abel brought from the firstlings of his flock from the fat
thereof, and God turned and inclined to Abel and his offering, and a fire came
down from the Lord from heaven and consumed it.

16v And unto Cain and his offering the Lord did not turn, and he did not
incline to it, for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before
the Lord, and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this,
and he sought a pretext to slay him.

17v And in some time after, Cain and Abel his brother, went one day into the
field to do their work; and they were both in the field, Cain tilling and
ploughing his ground, and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that
part which Cain had ploughed in the ground, and it sorely grieved Cain on this
account.

18v And Cain approached his brother Abel in anger, and he said unto him, What
is there between me and thee, that thou comest to dwell and bring thy flock to
feed in my land.

19v And Abel answered his brother Cain and said unto him, What is there
between me and thee, that thou shalt eat the flesh of my flock and clothe
thyself with their wool.

20v And now therefore, put off the wool of my sheep with which thou hast
clothed thyself, and recompense me for their fruit and flesh which thou hast
eaten, and when thou shalt have done this, I will then go from thy land as
thou hast said.

21v And Cain said to his brother Abel, Surely if I slay thee this day, who
will require thy blood from me.

22v And Abel answered Cain, saying, Surely God who has made us in the earth,
he will avenge my cause, and he will require my blood from thee shouldst thou
slay me, for the Lord is the judge and arbiter, and it is he who will require
man according to his evil, and the wicked man according to the wickedness that
he may do upon earth.

23v And now, if thou shouldst slay me here, surely God knoweth thy secret
views, and will judge thee for the evil which thou didst declare to do unto me
this day.

24v And when Cain heard the words which Abel his brother had spoken, behold
the anger of Cain was kindled against his brother Abel for declaring this
thing.

25v And Cain hastened and rose up, and took the iron part of his poughing
instrument, with which he suddenly smote his brother and he slew him, and Cain
spilt the blood of his brother Abel upon the earth, and the blood of Abel
streamed upon the earth before the flock.

26v And after this Cain repented having slain his brother, and he was sadly
grieved, and he wept over him and it vexed him exceedingly.

27v And Cain rose up and dug a hole in the field, wherein he put his brother's
body, and he turned the dust over it.

28v And the Lord knew Cain had done to his brother, and the Lord appeared to
Cain and said unto him, Where is Abel thy brother that was with thee.

29v And Cain dissembled, and said, I do not know, am I my brother's keeper?
And the Lord said unto him, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's
blood crieth unto me from the ground where thou hast slain him.

30v For thou hast slain thy brother and hast dissembled before me, and didst
imagine in thy heart that I saw thee not, nor knew all thy actions.

31v But thou didst this thing and didst slay thy brother for naught and
because he spoke rightly to thee, and now, therefore, cursed be thou from the
ground which opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand,
and wherein thou didst bury him.

32v And it shall be when thou shalt till, it shall no more give thee its
strength as in the beginning, for thorns and thistles shall the ground
produce, and thou shalt be moving and wandering in the earth until the day of
thy death.

33v And at that time Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, from the
place where he was, and he went moving and wandering in the land toward the
east of Eden, he and all belonging to him.

34v And Cain knew his wife in those days, and she conceived and bare a son,
and he called his name Enoch, saying, in that time the Lord began to give him
rest and quiet in the earth.

35v And at that time Cain also began to build a city: and he built the city
and he called the name of the city Enoch, according to the name of his son;
for in those days the Lord had given him rest upon the earth, and he did not
move about and wander as in the beginning.

36v And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begat Mechuayael and Mechuyael begat
Methusael.

Chapter 2. Seth is Born. People begin to Multiply and Become Idolatrous. Third
Part of the Earth Destroyed. Earth cursed and becomes corrupt through the
Wickedness of Men. Cainan, a Wise and Righteous King, Foretells the Flood.
Enoch is Born.

1v And it was in the hundred and thirtieth year of the life of Adam upon the
earth, that he again knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare a son in
his likeness and in his image, and she called his name Seth, saying, Because
God has appointed me another seed in the place of Abel, for Cain has slain
him.

2v And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and he begat a son; and Seth
called the name of his son Enosh, saying, Because in that time the sons of men
began to multiply, and to afflict their souls and hearts by transgressing and
rebelling against God.

3v And it was in the days of Enosh that the sons of men continued to rebel and
transgress against God, to increase the anger of the Lord against the sons of
men.

4v And the sons of men went and they served other gods, and they forgot the
Lord who had created them in the earth: and in those days the sons of men made
images of brass and iron, wood and stone, and they bowed down and served them.

5v And every man made his god and they bowed down to them, and the sons of men
forsook the Lord all the days of Enosh and his children; and the anger of the
Lord was kindled on account of their works and abominations which they did in
the earth.

6v And the Lord caused the waters of the river Gihon to overwhelm them, and he
destroyed the third part of the earth, and notwithstanding this, the sons of
men did not turn from their evil ways, and their hands were yet extended to do
evil in the sight of the Lord.

7v And in those days there was neither sowing nor reaping in the earth; and
there was no food for the sons of men and the famine was very great in those
days.

8v And the seed which they sowed in those days in the ground became thorns,
thistles and briers; for from the days of Adam was this declaration concerning
the earth, of the curse of God, which he cursed the earth, on account of the
sin which Adam sinned before the Lord.

9v And it was when men continued to rebel and transgress against God, and to
corrupt their ways, that the earth also became corrupt.

10v And Enosh lived ninety years and he begat Cainan.

11v And Cainan grew up and he was forty years old, and he became wise and had
knowledge and skill in all wisdom, and he reigned over all the sons of men,
and he led the sons of men to wisdom and knowledge; for Cainan was a very wise
man and had understanding in all wisdom, and with his wisdom he ruled over
spirits and demons.

12v And Cainan knew by his wisdom that God would destroy the sons of men for
having sinned upon earth, and that the Lord would in the latter days bring
upon them the waters of the flood.

13v And in those days Cainan wrote upon tablets of stone, what was to take
place in time to come, and he put them in his treasures.

14v And Cainan reigned over the whole earth, and he turned some of the sons of
men to the service of God.

15v And when Cainan was seventy years old, he begat three sons and two
daughters.

16v And these are the names of the children of Cainan; the name of the first
born Mahlallel, the second Enan, and the third Mered, and their sisters were
Adah and Zillah; the.se are the five children of Cainan that were born to him.

17v And Lamech, the son of Methusael, became related to Cainan by marriage,
and he took his two daughters for his wives, and Adah conceived and bare a son
to Lamech, and she called his name Jabal.

18v And she again conceived and bare a son, and called his name Jubal; and
Zillah, her sister, was barren in those days and had no offspring.

19v For in those days the sons of men began to trespass against God, and to
transgress the commandments which he had commanded to Adam, to be fruitful and
multiply in the earth.

20v And some of the sons of men caused their wives to drink a draught that
would render them barren, in order that they might retain their figures and
whereby their beautiful appearance might not fade.

21v And when the sons of men caused some of their wives to drink, Zillah drank
with them.

22v And the child-bearing women appeared abominable in the sight of their
husbands, as widows, whilst their husbands lived, for to the barren ones only
they were attached.

23v And in the end of days and years, when Zillah became old, the Lord opened
her womb.

24v And she conceived and bare a son and she called his name Tubal Cain,
saying, After I had withered away have I obtained him from the Almighty God.

25v And she conceived again and bare a daughter, and she called her name
Naamah, for she said, After I had withered away have I obtained pleasure and
delight.

26v And Lamech was old and advanced in years, and his eyes were dim that he
could not see, and Tubal Cain, his son, was leading him and it was one day
that Lamech went into the field and Tubal Cain his son was with him, and
whilst they were walking in the field, Cain the son of Adam advanced towards
them; for Lamech was very old and could not see much, and Tubal Cain his son
was very young.

27v And Tubal Cain told his father to draw his bow, and with the arrows he
smote Cain, who was yet far off, and he slew him, for he appeared to them to
be an animal.

28v And the arrows entered Cain's body although he was distant from them, and
he fell to the ground and died.

29v And the Lord requited Cain's evil according to his wickedness, which he
had done to his brother Abel, according to the word of the Lord which he had
spoken.

30v And it came to pass when Cain had died, that Lamech and Tubal went to see
the animal which they had slain, and they saw, and behold Cain their
grandfather was fallen dead upon the earth.

31v And Lamech was very much grieved at having done this, and in clapping his
hands together he struck his son and caused his death.

32v And the wives of Lamech heard what Lamech had done, and they sought to
kill him.

33v And the wives of Lamech hated him from that day, because he slew Cain and
Tubal Cain, and the wives of Lamech separated from him, and would not hearken
to him in those days.

34v And Lamech came to his wives, and he pressed them to listen to him about
this matter.

35v And he said to his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice O wives of Lamech,
attend to my words, for now you have imagined and said that I slew a man with
my wounds, and a child with my stripes for their having done no violence, but
surely know that I am old and greyheaded, and that my eyes are heavy through
age, and I did this thing unknowingly.

36v And the wives of Lamech listened to him in this matter, and they returned
to him with the advice of their father Adam, but they bore no children to him
from that time, knowing that God's anger was increasing in those days against
the sons of men, to destroy them with the waters of the flood for their evil
doings.

37v And Mahlallel the son of Cainan lived sixty-five years and he begat Jared;
and Jared lived sixty-two years and he begat Enoch.

Chapter 3. Enoch Reigns over the Earth. Enoch Establishes Righteousness upon
the Earth, and after Reigning Two Hundred and Forty Years is Translated.

1v And Enoch lived sixty-five years and he begat Methuselah; and Enoch walked
with God after having begot Methuselah, and he served the Lord, and despised
the evil ways of men.

2v And the soul of Enoch was wrapped up in the instruction of the Lord, in
knowledge and in understanding; and he wisely retired from the sons of men,
and secreted himself from them for many days.

3v And it was at the expiration of many years, whilst he was serving the Lord,
and praying before him in his house, that an angel of the Lord called to him
from Heaven, and he said, Here am I.

4v And he said, Rise, go forth from thy house and from the place where thou
dost hide thyself, and appear to the sons of men, in order that thou mayst
teach them the way in which they should go and the work which they must
accomplish to enter in the ways of God.

5v And Enoch rose up according to the word of the Lord, and went forth from
his house, from his place and from the chamber in which he was concealed; and
he went to the sons of men and taught them the ways of the Lord, and at that
time assembled the sons of men and acquainted them with the instruction of the
Lord.

6v And he ordered it to be proclaimed in all places where the sons of men
dwelt, saying, Where is the man who wishes to know the ways of the Lord and
good works? let him come to Enoch.

7v And all the sons of men then assembled to him, for all who desired this
thing went to Enoch, and Enoch reigned over the sons of men according to the
word of the Lord, and they came and bowed to him and they heard his word.

8v And the spirit of God was upon Enoch, and he taught all his men the wisdom
of God and his ways, and the sons of men served the Lord all the days of
Enoch, and they came to hear his wisdom.

9v And all the kings of the sons of men, both first and last, together with
their princes and judges, came to Enoch when they heard of his wisdom, and
they bowed down to him, and they also required of Enoch to reign over them, to
which he consented.

10v And they assembled in all, one hundred and thirty kings and princes, and
they made Enoch king over them and they were all under his power and command.

11v And Enoch taught them wisdom, knowledge, and the ways of the Lord; and he
made peace amongst them, and peace was throughout the earth during the life of
Enoch.

12v And Enoch reigned over the sons of men two hundred and forty-three years,
and he did justice and righteousness with all his people, and he led them in
the ways of the Lord.

13v And these are the generations of Enoch, Methuselah, Elisha, and Elimelech,
three sons; and their sisters were Melca and Nahmah, and Methuselah lived
eighty-seven years and he begat Lamech.

14v And it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Lamech when Adam died;
nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with
Enoch and Methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of
kings, in the cave which God had told him.

15v And in that place all the sons of men made a great mourning and weeping on
account of Adam; it has therefore become a custom among the sons of men to
this day.

16v And Adam died because he ate of the tree of knowledge; he and his children
after him, as the Lord God had spoken.

17v And it was in the year of Adam's death which was the two hundred and
forty-third year of the reign of Enoch, in that time Enoch resolved to
separate himself from the sons of men and to secrete himself as at first in
order to serve the Lord.

18v And Enoch did so, but did not entirely secrete himself from them, but kept
away from the sons of men three days and then went to them for one day.

19v And during the three days that he was in his chamber, he prayed to, and
praised the Lord his God, and the day on which he went and appeared to his
subjects he taught them the ways of the Lord, and all they asked him about the
Lord he told them.

20v And he did in this manner for many years, and he afterward concealed
himself for six days, and appeared to his people one day in seven; and after
that once in a month, and then once in a year, until all the kings, princes
and sons of men sought for him, and desired again to see the face of Enoch,
and to hear his word; but they could not, as all the sons of men were greatly
afraid of Enoch, and they feared to approach him on account of the Godlike awe
that was seated upon his countenance; therefore no man could look at him,
fearing he might be punished and die.

21v And all the kings and princes resolved to assemble the sons of men, and to
come to Enoch, thinking that they might all speak to him at the time when he
should come forth amongst them, and they did so.

22v And the day came when Enoch went forth and they all assembled and came to
him, and Enoch spoke to them the words of the Lord and he taught them wisdom
and knowledge, and they bowed down before him and they said, May the king
live! May the king live.

23v And in some time after, when the kings and princes and the sons of men
were speaking to Enoch, and Enoch was teaching them the ways of God, behold an
angel of the Lord then called unto Enoch from heaven, and wished to bring him
up to heaven to make him reign there over the sons of God, as he had reigned
over the sons of men upon earth.

24v When at that time Enoch heard this he went and assembled all the
inhabitants of the earth, and taught them wisdom and knowledge and gave them
divine instructions, and he said to them, I have been required to ascend into
heaven, I therefore do not know the day of my going.

25v And now therefore I will teach you wisdom and knowledge and will give you
instruction before I leave you, how to act upon earth whereby you may live;
and he did so.

26v And he taught them wisdom and knowledge, and gave them instruction, and he
reproved them, and he placed before them statutes and judgments to do upon
earth, and he made peace amongst them, and he taught them everlasting life,
and dwelt with them some time teaching them all these things.

27v And at that time the sons of men were with Enoch, and Enoch was speaking
to them, and they lifted up their eyes and the likeness of a great horse
descended from heaven, and the horse paced in the air.

28v And they told Enoch what they had seen, and Enoch said to them, On my
account does this horse descend upon earth; the time is come when I must go
from you and I shall no more be seen by you.

29v And the horse descended at that time and stood before Enoch, and all the
sons of men that were with Enoch saw him.

30v And Enoch then again ordered a voice to be proclaimed, saying, Where is
the man who delighteth to know the ways of the Lord his God, let him come this
day to Enoch before he is taken from us.

31v And all the sons of men assembled and came to Enoch that day; and all the
kings of the earth with their princes and counsellors remained with him that
day; and Enoch then taught the sons of men wisdom and knowledge, and gave them
divine instruction; and he bade them serve the Lord and walk in his ways all
the days of their lives, and he continued to make peace amongst them.

32v And it was after this that he rose up and rode upon the horse; and he went
forth and all the sons of men went after him, about eight hundred thousand
men; and they went with him one day's journey.

33v And the second day he said to them, Return home to your tents, why will
you go? perhaps you may die; and some of them went from him, and those that
remained went with him six day's journey; and Enoch said to them every day,
Return to your tents, lest you may die; but they were not willing to return,
and they went with him.

34v And on the sixth day some of the men remained and clung to him, and they
said to him, We will go with thee to the place where thou goest; as the Lord
liveth, death only shall separate us.

35v And they urged so much to go with him, that he ceased speaking to them;
and they went after him and would not return.

36v And when the kings returned they caused a census to be taken,in order to
know the number of remaining men that went with Enoch; and it was upon the
seventh day that Enoch ascended into chariots of fire.

37v And on the eighth day all the kings that had been with Enoch sent to bring
back the number of men that were with Enoch, in that place from which he
ascended into heaven.

38v And all those kings went to the place and they found the earth there
filled with snow, and upon the snow were large stones of snow, and one said to
the other, Come, let us break through the snow and see, perhaps the men that
remained with Enoch are dead, and are now under the stones of snow, and they
searched but could not find him, for he had ascended into heaven.

Chapter 4. The People of the Earth Again Become Corrupt. Noah is Born.

1v And all the days that Enoch lived upon earth, were three hundred and
sixty-five years.

2v And when Enoch had ascended into heaven, all the kings of the earth rose
and took Methuselah his son and anointed him, and they caused him to reign
over them in the place of his father.

3v And Methuselah acted uprightly in the sight of God, as his father Enoch had
taught him, and he likewise during the whole of his life taught the sons of
men wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God, and he did not turn from the good
way either to the right or to the left.

4v But in the latter days of Methuselah, the sons of men turned from the Lord,
they corrupted the earth, they robbed and plundered each other, and they
rebelled against God and they transgressed, and they corrupted their ways, and
would not hearken to the voice of Methuselah, but rebelled against him.

5v And the Lord was exceedingly wroth against them, and the Lord continued to
destroy the seed in those days, so that there was neither sowing nor reaping
in the earth.

6v For when they sowed the ground in order that they might obtain food for
their support, behold, thorns and thistles were produced which they did not
sow.

7v And still the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and their
hands were still extended to do evil in the sight of God, and they provoked
the Lord with their evil ways, and the Lord was very wroth, and repented that
he had made man.

8v And he thought to destroy and annihilate them and he did so.

9v In those days when Lamech the son of Methuselah was one hundred and sixty
years old, Seth the son of Adam died.

10. And all the days that Seth lived, were nine hundred and twelve years, and
he died.

11v And Lamech was one hundred and eighty years old when he took Ashmua, the
daughter of Elishaa the son of Enoch his uncle, and she conceived.

12v And at that time the sons of men sowed the ground, and a little food was
produced, yet the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and they
trespassed and rebelled against God.

13v And the wife of Lamech conceived and bare him a son at that time, at the
revolution of the year.

14v And Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his days at
rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called his name Menachem,
saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and miserable toil in the
earth, which God had cursed.

15v And the child grew up and was weaned, and he went in the ways of his
father Methuselah, perfect and upright with God.

16v And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the Lord in those days
as they multiplied upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and
they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning
against the Lord.

17v And every man made unto himself a god, and they robbed and plundered every
man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the earth, and
the earth was filled with violence.

18v And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their
wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of
men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field
and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species
with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole
earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all
men and all animals.

19v And the Lord said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the
earth, yea from man to the birds of the air, together with cattle and beasts
that are in the field for I repent that I made them.

20v And all men who walked in the ways of the Lord, died in those days, before
the Lord brought the evil upon man which he had declared, for this was from
the Lord, that they should not see the evil which the Lord spoke of concerning
the sons of men.

21v And Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord chose him and
his children to raise up seed from them upon the face of the whole earth.

Chapter 5. Noah and Methuselah Preach Repentance for One Hundred and Twenty
Years. Noah Builds the Ark. Death of Methuselah.

1v And it was in the eighty-fourth year of the life of Noah, that Enoch the
son of Seth died; he was nine hundred and five years old at his death.

2v And in the one hundred and seventy ninth year of the life of Noah, Cainan
the son of Enosh died,and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten
years, and he died.

3v And in the two hundred and thirty fourth year of the life of Noah,
Mahlallel the son of Cainan died, and the days of Mahlallel were eight hundred
and ninety-five years, and he died.

4v And Jared the son of Mahlallel died in those days, in the three hundred and
thirty-sixth year of the life of Noah; and all the days of Jared were nine
hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

5v And all who followed the Lord died in those days, before they saw the evil
which God declared to do upon earth.

6v And after the lapse of many years, in the four hundred and eightieth year
of the life of Noah, when all those men, who followed the Lord had died away
from amongst the sons of men, and only Methuselah was then left, God said unto
Noah and Methuselah, saying.

7v Speak ye, and proclaim to the sons of men, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
return from your evil ways and forsake your works, and the Lord will repent of
the evil that he declared to do to you, so that it shall not come to pass.

8v For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hundred and
twenty years; if you will turn to me and forsake your evil ways, then will I
also turn away from the evil which I told you, and it shall not exist, saith
the Lord.

9v And Noah and Methuselah spoke all the words of the Lord to the sons of men,
day after day, constantly speaking to them.

10v But the sons of men would not hearken to them, nor incline their ears to
their words, and they were stiffnecked.

11v And the Lord granted them a period of one hundred and twenty years,
saying, If they will return, then will God repent of the evil, so as not to
destroy the earth.

12v And Noah the son of Lamech refrained from taking a wife in those days, to
beget children, for he said, Surely now God will destroy the earth, wherefore
then shall I beget children.

13v And Noah was a just man, he was perfect in his generation, and the Lord
chose him to raise up seed from his seed upon the face of the earth.

14v And the Lord said unto Noah, Take unto thee a wife, and beget children,
for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.

15v And thou shalt raise up seed, and thy children with thee, in the midst of
the earth; and Noah went and took a wife, and he chose Naamah the daughter of
Enoch, and she was five hundred and eighty years old.

16v And Noah was four hundred and ninety-eight years old, when he took Naamah
for a wife.

17v And Naamah conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Japheth,
saying, God has enlarged me in the earth; and she conceived again and bare a
son, and he called his name Shem, saying, God has made me a remnant,to raise
up seed in the midst of the earth.

18v And Noah was five hundred and two years old when Naamah bare Shem, and the
boys grew up and went in the ways of the Lord, in all that Methuselah and Noah
their father taught them.

19v And Lamech the father of Noah, died in those days; yet verily he did not
go with all his heart in the ways of his father, and he died in the hundred
and ninety-fifth year of the life of Noah.

20v And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy years, and he
died.

21v And all the sons of men who knew the Lord, died in that year before the
Lord brought evil upon them; for the Lord willed them to die, so as not to
behold the evil that God would bring upon their brothers and relatives, as he
had so declared to do.

22v In that time, the Lord said to Noah and Methuselah, Stand forth and
proclaim to the sons of men all the words that I spoke to you in those days,
peradventure they may turn from their evil ways, and I will then repent of the
evil and will not bring it.

23v And Noah and Methuselah stood forth, and said in the ears of the sons of
men, all that God had spoken concerning them.

24v But the sons of men would not hearken, neither would they incline their
ears to all their declarations.

25v And it was after this that the Lord said to Noah, The end of all flesh is
come before me, on account of their evil deeds, and behold I will destroy the
earth.

26v And do thou take unto thee gopher wood, and go to a certain place and make
a large ark, and place it in that spot.

27v And thus shalt thou make it; three hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits
broad and thirty cubits high.

28v And thou shalt make unto thee a door, open at its side, and to a cubit
thou shalt finish above, and cover it within and without with pitch.

29v And behold I will bring the flood of waters upon the earth, and all flesh
be destroyed, from under the heavens all that is upon earth shall perish.

30v And thou and thy household shall go and gather two couple of all living
things, male and female, and shall bring them to the ark, to raise up seed
from them upon earth.

31v And gather unto thee all food that is eaten by all the animals, that there
may be food for thee and for them.

32v And thou shalt choose for thy sons three maidens, from the daughters of
men, and they shall be wives to thy sons.

33v And Noah rose up, and he made the ark, in the place where God had
commanded him, and Noah did as God had ordered him.

34v In his five hundred and ninety-fifth year Noah commenced to make the ark,
and he made the ark in five years, as the Lord had commanded.

35v Then Noah took the three daughters of Eliakim, son of Methuselah, for
wives for his sons, as the Lord had commanded Noah.

36v And it was at that time Methuselah the son of Enoch died, nine hundred and
sixty years old was he, at his death.

Chapter 6. Animals, Beasts, and Fowls Preserved in the Ark. Noah and his Sons,
and their Wives are Shut in. When the Floods come the People want to get in.
Noah One Year in the Ark.

1v At that time, after the death of Methuselah, the Lord said to Noah, Go thou
with thy household into the ark; behold I will gather to thee all the animals
of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and they shall
all come and surround the ark.

2v And thou shalt go and seat thyself by the doors of the ark, and all the
beasts, the animals, and the fowls, shall assemble and place themselves before
thee, and such of them as shall come and crouch before thee, shalt thou take
and deliver into the hands of thy sons, who shall bring them to the ark, and
all that will stand before thee thou shalt leave.

3v And the Lord brought this about on the next day, and animals, beasts and
fowls came in great multitudes and surrounded the ark.

4v And Noah went and seated himself by the door of the ark, and of all flesh
that crouched before him, he brought into the ark, and all that stood before
him he left upon earth.

5v And a lioness came, with her two whelps, male and female, and the three
crouched before Noah, and the two whelps rose up against the lioness and smote
her, and made her flee from her place, and she went away, and they returned to
their places, and crouched upon the earth before Noah.

6v And the lioness ran away, and stood in the place of the lions.

7v And Noah saw this, and wondered greatly, and he rose and took the two
whelps, and brought them into the ark.

8v And Noah brought into the ark from all living creatures that were upon
earth, so that there was none left but which Noah brought into the ark.

9v Two and two came to Noah into the ark, but from the clean animals, and
clean fowls, he brought seven couples, as God had commanded him.

10v And all the animals, and beasts, and fowls, were still there, and they
surrounded the ark at every place, and the rain had not descended till seven
days after.

11v And on that day, the Lord caused the whole earth to shake, and the sun
darkened, and the foundations of the world raged, and the whole earth was
moved violently, and the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared, and all
the fountains in the earth were broken up, such as was not known to the
inhabitants before; and God did this mighty act, in order to terrify the sons
of men, that there might be no more evil upon earth.

12v And still the sons of men would not return from their evil ways, and they
increased the anger of the Lord at that time, and did not even direct their
hearts to all this.

13v And at the end of seven days, in the six hundredth year of the life of
Noah, the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

14v And all the fountains of the deep were broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.

15v And Noah and his household, and all the living creatures that were with
him, came into the ark on account of the waters of the flood, and the Lord
shut him in.

16v And all the sons of men that were left upon the earth, became exhausted
through evil on account of the rain, for the waters were coming more violently
upon the earth, and the animals and beasts were still surrounding the ark.

17v And the sons of men assembled together, about seven hundred thousand men
and women, and they came unto Noah to the ark.

18v And they called to Noah, saying, Open for us that we may come to thee in
the ark-and wherefore shall we die.

19v And Noah, with a loud voice, answered them from the ark, saying, Have you
not all rebelled against the Lord, and said that he does not exist? and
therefore the Lord brought upon you this evil, to destroy and cut you off from
the face of the earth.

20v Is not this the thing that I spoke to you of one hundred and twenty years
back, and you would not hearken to the Voice of the Lord, and now do you
desire to live upon earth.

21v And they said to Noah, We are ready to return to the Lord; only open for
us that we may live and not die.

22v And Noah answered them, saying, Behold now that you see the trouble of
your souls, you wish to return to the Lord; why did you not return during
these hundred and twenty years, which the Lord granted you as the determined
period.

23v But now you come and tell me this on account of the troubles of your
souls, now also the Lord will not listen to you, neither will he give ear to
you on this day, so that you will not now succeed in your wishes.

24v And the sons of men approached in order to break into the ark, to come in
on account of the rain, for they could not bear the rain upon them.

25v And the Lord sent all the beasts and animals that stood round the ark. And
the beasts overpowered them and drove them from that place, and every man went
his way and they again scattered themselves upon the face of the earth.

26v And the rain was still descending upon the earth, and it descended forty
days and forty nights, and the waters prevailed greatly upon the earth; and
all flesh that was upon the earth or in the waters died, whether men, animals,
beasts, creeping things or birds of the air, and there only remained Noah and
those that were with him in the ark.

27v And the waters prevailed and they greatly increased upon the earth, and
they lifted up the ark and it was raised from the earth.

28v And the ark floated upon the face of the waters, and it was tossed upon
the waters so that all the living creatures within were turned about like
pottage in a cauldron.

29v And great anxiety seized all the living creatures that were in the ark,
and the ark was like to be broken.

30v And all the living creatures that were in the ark were terrified, and the
lions roared, and the oxen lowed, and the wolves howled, and every living
creature in the ark spoke and lamented in its own language, so that their
voices reached to a great distance, and Noah and his sons cried and wept in
their troubles; they were greatly afraid that they had reached the gates of
death.

31v And Noah prayed unto the Lord, and cried unto him on account of this, and
he said, O Lord help us, for we have no strength to bear this evil that has
encompassed us, for the waves of the waters have surrounded us, mischievous
torrents have terrified us, the snares of death have come before us; answer
us, O Lord, answer us, light up thy countenance toward us and be gracious to
us, redeem us and deliver us.

32v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and the Lord remembered him.

33v And a wind passed over the earth, and the waters were still and the ark
rested.

34v And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained.

35v And the waters decreased in those days, and the ark rested upon the
mountains of Ararat.

36v And Noah then opened the windows of the ark, and Noah still called out to
the Lord at that time and he said, O Lord, who didst form the earth and the
heavens and all that are therein, bring forth our souls from this confinement,
and from the prison wherein thou hast placed us, for I am much wearied with
sighing.

37v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and said to him, When thou
shalt have completed a full year thou shalt then go forth.

38v And at the revolution of the year, when a full year was completed to
Noah's dwelling in the ark, the waters were dried from off the earth, and Noah
put off the covering of the ark.

39v At that time, on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was
dry, but Noah and his sons, and those that were with him, did not go out from
the ark until the Lord told them.

40v And the day came that the Lord told them to go out, and they all went out
from the ark.

41v And they went and returned every one to his way and to his place, and Noah
and his sons dwelt in the land that God had told them, and they served the
Lord all their days, and the Lord blessed Noah and his sons on their going out
from the ark.

42v And he said to them, Be fruitful and fill all the earth; become strong and
increase abundantly in the earth and multiply therein.
					  
Chapter 7. The Generations of Noah. The Garments of Skin made for Adam Stolen
by Ham, and they descend to Nimrod the Mighty Hunter, who Becomes the King of
the Whole Earth. The Birth of Abram.

1v And these are the names of the sons of Noah: Japheth, Ham and Shem; and
children were born to them after the flood, for they had taken wives before
the flood.

2v These are the sons of Japheth; Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech,
and Tiras, seven sons.

3v And the sons of Gomer were Askinaz, Rephath and Tegarmah.

4v And the sons of Magog were Elichanaf and Lubal.

5v And the children of Madai were Achon, Zeelo, Chazoni and Lot.

6v And the sons of Javan were Elisha, Tarshish, Chittim and Dudonim.

7v And the sons of Tubal were Ariphi, Kesed and Taari.

8v And the sons of Meshech were Dedon, Zaron and Shebashni.

9v And the sons of Tiras were Benib, Gera, Lupirion and Gilak; these are the
sons of Japheth according to their families, and their numbers in those days
were about four hundred and sixty men.

10v And these are the sons of Ham; Cush, Mitzraim, Phut and Canaan, four sons;
and the sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama and Satecha, and the
sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.

11v And the sons of Mitzraim were Lud, Anom and Pathros, Chasloth and
Chaphtor.

12v And the sons of Phut were Gebul, Hadan, Benah and Adan.

13v And the sons of Canaan were Zidon, Heth, Amori, Gergashi, Hivi, Arkee,
Seni, Arodi, Zimodi and Chamothi.

14v These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, and their numbers
in those days were about seven hundred and thirty men.

15v And these are the sons of Shem; Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram,
five sons; and the sons of Elam were Shushan, Machul and Harmon.

16v And the sons of Ashar were Mirus and Mokil, and the sons of Arpachshad
were Shelach, Anar and Ashcol.

17v And the sons of Lud were Pethor and Bizayon, and the sons of Aram were Uz,
Chul, Gather and Mash.

18v These are the sons of Shem, according to their families; and their numbers
in those days were about three hundred men.

19v These are the generations of Shem; Shem begat Arpachshad and Arpachshad
begat Shelach, and Shelach begat Eber and to Eber were born two children, the
name of one was Peleg, for in his days the sons of men were divided, and in
the latter days, the earth was divided.

20v And the name of the second was Yoktan, meaning that in his day the lives
of the sons of men were diminished and lessened.

21v These are the sons of Yoktan; Almodad, Shelaf, Chazarmoveth, Yerach,
Hadurom, Ozel, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah and Jobab; all
these are the sons of Yoktan.

22v And Peleg his brother begat Yen, and Yen begat Serug, and Serug begat
Nahor and Nahor begat Terah, and Terah was thirty-eight years old, and he
begat Haran and Nahor.

23v And Cush the son of Ham, the son of Noah, took a wife in those days, in
his old age, and she bare a son, and they called his name Nimrod, saying, At
that time the sons of men again began to rebel and transgress against God, and
the child grew up, and his father loved him exceedingly, for he was the son of
his old age.

24v And the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they
went out of the garden, were given to Cush.

25v For after the death of Adam and his wife, the garments were given to
Enoch, the son of Jared, and when Enoch was taken up to God, he gave them to
Methuselah, his son.

26v And at the death of Methuselah, Noah took them and brought them to the
ark, and they were with him until he went out of the ark.

27v And in their going out Ham, stole those garments from Noah his father, and
he took them and hid them from his brothers.

28v And when Ham begat his first born Cush, he gave him the garments in
secret, and they were with Cush many days.

29v And Cush also concealed them from his sons and brothers, and when Cush had
begotten Nimrod, he gave him those garments through his love of him, and
Nimrod grew up, and when he was twenty years old he put on those garments.

30v And Nimrod became strong when he put on the garments, and God gave him
might and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the earth, yea, he was a
mighty hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and
he offered upon them the animals before the Lord.

31v And Nimrod strengthened himself, and he rose up from amongst his brethren,
and he fought the battles of his brethren against all their enemies round
about.

32v And the Lord delivered all the enemies of his brethren in his hands, and
God prospered him from time to time in his battles, and he reigned upon earth.

33v Therefore it became current in those days, when a man ushered forth those
that he had trained up for battle, he would say to them, Like God did to
Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter in the earth, and who succeeded in the battles
that prevailed against his brethren, that he delivered them from the hands of
their enemies, so may God strengthen us and deliver us this day.

34v And when Nimrod was forty years old, at that time there was a war between
his brethren and the children of Japheth, so that they were in the power of
their enemies.

35v And Nimrod went forth at that time, and he assembled all the sons of Cush
and their families, about four hundred and sixty men, and he hired also from
some of his friends and acquaintances about eighty men, and he gave them their
hire, and he went with them to battle, and when he was on the road, Nimrod
strengthened the hearts of the people that went with him.

36v And he said to them, Do not fear, neither be alarmed, for all our enemies
will be delivered into our hands, and you may do with them as you please.

37v And all the men that went were about five hundred, and they fought against
their enemies, and they destroyed them, and subdued them, and Nimrod placed
standing officers over them in their respective places.

38v And he took some of their children as security, and they were all servants
to Nimrod and to his brethren, and Nimrod and all the people that were with
him turned homeward.

39v And when Nimrod had joyfully returned from battle, after having conquered
his enemies, all his brethren, together with those who knew him before,
assembled to make him king over them, and they placed the regal crown upon his
head.

40v And he set over his subjects and people, princes, judges, and rulers, as
is the custom amongst kings.

41v And he placed Terah the son of Nahor the prince of his host, and he
dignified him and elevated him above all his princes.

42v And whilst he was reigning according to his heart's desire, after having
conquered all his enemies around, he advised with his counselors to build a
city for his palace, and they did so.

43v And they found a large valley opposite to the east, and they built him a
large and extensive city, and Nimrod called the name of the city that he built
Shinar, for the Lord had vehemently shaken his enemies and destroyed them.

44v And Nimrod dwelt in Shinar, and he reigned securely, and he fought with
his enemies and he subdued them, and he prospered in all his battles, and his
kingdom became very great.

45v And all nations and tongues heard of his fame, and they gathered
themselves to him, and they bowed down to the earth, and they brought him
offerings, and he became their lord and king, and they all dwelt with him in
the city of Shinar, and Nimrod reigned in the earth over all the sons of Noah,
and they were all under his power and counsel.

46v And all the earth was of one tongue and words of union, but Nimrod did not
go in the ways of the Lord, and he was more wicked than all the men that were
before him, from the days of the flood until those days.

47v And he made gods of wood and stone, and he bowed down to them, and he
rebelled against the Lord, and taught all his subjects and the people of the
earth his wicked ways; and Mardon his son was more wicked than his father.

48v And every one that heard of the acts of Mardon the son of Nimrod would
say, concerning him, From the wicked goeth forth wickedness; therefore it
became a proverb in the whole earth, saying, From the wicked goeth forth
wickedness, and it was current in the words of men from that time to this.

49v And Terah the son of Nahor, prince of Nimrod's host, was in those days
very great in the sight of the king and his subjects, and the king and princes
loved him, and they elevated him very high.

50v And Terah took a wife and her name was Amthelo the daughter of Cornebo;
and the wife of Terah conceived and bare him a son in those days.

51v Terah was seventy years old when he begat him, and Terah called the name
of his son that was born to him Abram, because the king had raised him in
those days, and dignified him above all his princes that were with him.

Chapter 8. The Wise Men of Nimrod, by their Divination, Foretell the Evil that
Abram will do to Nimrod's Kingdom, and they seek to kill the Child. Abram,
with his Mother and Nurse are Hid in a cave for Ten Years.

1v And it was in the night that Abram was born, that all the servants of
Terah, and all the wise men of Nimrod, and his conjurors came and ate and
drank in the house of Terah, and they rejoiced with him on that night.

2v And when all the wise men and conjurors went out from the house of Terah,
they lifted up their eyes toward heaven that night to look at the stars, and
they saw, and behold one very large star came from the east and ran in the
heavens, and he swallowed up the four stars from the four sides of the
heavens.

3v And all the wise men of the king and his conjurors were astonished at the
sight, and the sages understood this matter, and they knew its import.

4v And they said to each other, This only betokens the child that has been
born to Terah this night, who will grow up and be fruitful, and multiply, and
possess all the earth, he and his children for ever, and he and his seed will
slay great kings, and inherit their lands.

5v And the wise men and conjurors went home that night, and in the morning all
these wise men and conjurors rose up early, and assembled in an appointed
house.

6v And they spoke and said to each other, Behold the sight that we saw last
night is hidden from the king, it has not been made known to him.

7v And should this thing get known to the king in the latter days, he will say
to us, Why have you concealed this matter from me, and then we shall all
suffer death; therefore, now let us go and tell the king the sight which we
saw, and the interpretation thereof, and we shall then remain clear.

8v And they did so, and they all went to the king and bowed down to him to the
ground, and they said, May the king live, may the king live.

9v We heard that a son was born to Terah the son of Nahor, the prince of thy
host, and we yesternight came to his house, and we ate and drank and rejoiced
with him that night.

10v And when thy servants went out from the house of Terah, to go to our
respective homes to abide there for the night, we lifted up our eyes to
heaven, and we saw a great star coming from the east, and the same star ran
with great speed, and swallowed up four great stars, from the four sides of
the heavens.

11v And thy servants were astonished at the sight which we saw, and were
greatly terrified, and we made our judgment upon the sight, and knew by our
wisdom the proper interpretation thereof, that this thing applies to the child
that is born to Terah, who will grow up and multiply greatly, and become
powerful, and kill all the kings of the earth, and inherit all their lands, he
and his seed forever.

12v And now our lord and king, behold we have truly acquainted thee with what
we have seen concerning this child.

13v If it seemeth good to the king to give his father value for this child, we
will slay him before he shall grow up and increase in the land, and his evil
increase against us, that we and our children perish through his evil.

14v And the king heard their words and they seemed good in his sight, and he
sent and called for Terah, and Terah came before the king.

15v And the king said to Terah, I have been told that a son was yesternight
born to thee, and after this manner was observed in the heavens at his birth.

16v And now therefore give me the child, that we may slay him before his evil
springs up against us, and I will give thee for his value, thy house full of
silver and gold.

17v And Terah answered the king and said to him: My Lord and king, I have
heard thy words, and thy servant shall do all that his king desireth.

18v But my lord and king, I will tell thee what happened to me yesternight,
that I may see what advice the king will give his servant, and then I will
answer the king upon what he has just spoken; and the king said, Speak.

19v And Terah said to the king, Ayon, son of Mored, came to me yesternight,
saying.

20v Give unto me the great and beautiful horse that the king gave thee, and I
will give thee silver and gold, and straw and provender for its value; and I
said to him, Wait till I see the king concerning thy words, and behold
whatever the king saith, that will I do.

21v And now my lord and king, behold I have made this thing known to thee, and
the advice which my king will give unto his servant, that will I follow.

22v And the king heard the words of Terah, and his anger was kindled and he
considered him in the light of a fool.

23v And the king answered Terah, and he said to him, Art thou so silly,
ignorant, or deficient in understanding, to do this thing, to give thy
beautiful horse for silver and gold or even for straw and provender.

24v Art thou so short of silver and gold, that thou shouldst do this thing,
because thou canst not obtain straw and provender to feed thy horse? and what
is silver and gold to thee, or straw and provender, that thou shouldst give
away that fine horse which I gave thee, like which there is none to be had on
the whole earth.

25v And the king left off speaking, and Terah answered the king, saying, Like
unto this has the king spoken to his servant.

26v I beseech thee, my lord and king, what is this which thou didst say unto
me, saying, Give thy son that we may slay him, and I will give thee silver and
gold for his value; what shall I do with silver and gold after the death of my
son? who shall inherit me? surely then at my death, the silver and gold will
return to my king who gave it.

27v And when the king heard the words of Terah, and the parable which he
brought concerning the king, it grieved him greatly and he was vexed at this
thing, and his anger burned within him.

28v And Terah saw that the anger of the king was kindled against him, and he
answered the king, saying, All that I have is in the king's power; whatever
the king desireth to do to his servant, that let him do, yea, even my son, he
is in the king's power, without value in exchange, he and his two brothers
that are older than he.

29v And the king said to Terah, No, but I will purchase thy younger son for a
price.

30v And Terah answered the king, saying, I beseech thee my lord and king to
let thy servant speak a word before thee, and let the king hear the word of
his servant, and Terah said, Let my king give me three days' time till I
consider this matter within myself, and consult with my family concerning the
words of my king; and he pressed the king greatly to agree to this.

31v And the king hearkened to Terah, and he did so and he gave him three days'
time, and Terah went out from the king's presence, and he came home to his
family and spoke to them all the words of the king; and the people were
greatly afraid.

32v And it was in the third day that the king sent to Terah, saying, Send me
thy son for a price as I spoke to thee; and shouldst thou not do this, I will
send and slay all thou hast in thy house, so that thou shalt not even have a
dog remaining.

33v And Terah hastened, (as the thing was urgent from the king), and he took a
child from one of his servants, which his handmaid had born to him that day,
and Terah brought the child to the king and received value for him.

34v And the Lord was with Terah in this matter, that Nimrod might not cause
Abram's death, and the king took the child from Terah and with all his might
dashed his head to the ground, for he thought it had been Abram; and this was
concealed from him from that day, and it was forgotten by the king, as it was
the will of Providence not to suffer Abram's death.

35v And Terah took Abram his son secretly, together with his mother and nurse,
and he concealed them in a cave, and he brought them their provisions monthly.

36v And the Lord was with Abram in the cave and he grew up, and Abram was in
the cave ten years, and the king and his princes, soothsayers and sages,
thought that the king had killed Abram.

Chapter 9. When Ten Years Old, Abram goes to Noah and Shem, Remains with them
for Thirty-nine Years, and is Taught in all the Ways of the Lord. The
Wickedness of Nimrod and his People. They Propose to Build a Tower to Heaven
and Dethrone God. The confusion of Tongues.

1v And Haran, the son of Terah, Abram's oldest brother, took a wife in those
days.

2v Haran was thirty-nine years old when he took her; and the wife of Haran
conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Lot.

3v And she conceived again and bare a daughter, and she called her name Milca;
and she again conceived and bare a daughter, and she called her name Sarai.

4v Haran was forty-two years old when he begat Sarai, which was in the tenth
year of the life of Abram; and in those days Abram and his mother and nurse
went out from the cave, as the king and his subjects had forgotten the affair
of Abram.

5v And when Abram came out from the cave, he went to Noah and his son Shem,
and he remained with them to learn the instruction of the Lord and his ways,
and no man knew where Abram was, and Abram served Noah and Shem his son for a
long time.

6v And Abram was in Noah's house thirty-nine years, and Abram knew the Lord
from three years old, and he went in the ways of the Lord until the day of his
death, as Noah and his son Shem had taught him; and all the sons of the earth
in those days greatly transgressed against the Lord, and they rebelled against
him and they served other gods, and they forgot the Lord who had created them
in the earth; and the inhabitants of the earth made unto themselves, at that
time, every man his god; gods of wood and stone which could neither speak,
hear, nor deliver, and the sons of men served them and they became their gods.

7v And the king and all his servants, and Terah with all his household were
then the first of those that served gods of wood and stone.

8v And Terah had twelve gods of large size, made of wood and stone, after the
twelve months of the year, and he served each one monthly, and every month
Terah would bring his meat offering and drink offering to his gods; thus did
Terah all the days.

9v And all that generation were wicked in the sight of the Lord, and they thus
made every man his god, but they forsook the Lord who had created them.

10v And there was not a man found in those days in the whole earth, who knew
the Lord (for they served each man his own God) except Noah and his household,
and all those who were under his counsel knew the Lord in those days.

11v And Abram the son of Terah was waxing great in those days in the house of
Noah, and no man knew it, and the Lord was with him.

12v And the Lord gave Abram an understanding heart, and he knew all the works
of that generation were vain, and that all their gods were vain and were of no
avail.

13v And Abram saw the sun shining upon the earth, and Abram said unto himself
Surely now this sun that shines upon the earth is God, and him will I serve.

14v And Abram served the sun in that day and he prayed to him, and when
evening came the sun set as usual, and Abram said within himself, Surely this
cannot be God.

15v And Abram still continued to speak within himself, Who is he who made the
heavens and the earth? who created upon earth? where is he.

16v And night darkened over him, and he lifted up his eyes toward the west,
north, south, and east, and he saw that the sun had vanished from the earth,
and the day became dark.

17v And Abram saw the stars and moon before him, and he said, Surely this is
the God who created the whole earth as well as man, and behold these his
servants are gods around him: and Abram served the moon and prayed to it all
that night.

18v And in the morning when it was light and the sun shone upon the earth as
usual, Abram saw all the things that the Lord God had made upon earth.

19v And Abram said unto himself Surely these are not gods that made the earth
and all mankind, but these are the servants of God; and Abram remained in the
house of Noah and there knew the Lord and his ways, and he served the Lord all
the days of his life, and all that generation forgot the Lord, and served
other gods of wood and stone, and rebelled all their days.

20v And king Nimrod reigned securely, and all the earth was under his control,
and all the earth was of one tongue and words of union.

21v And all the princes of Nimrod and his great men took counsel together;
Phut, Mitzraim, Cush and Canaan with their families, and they said to each
other, Come let us build ourselves a city and in it a strong tower, and its
top reaching heaven, and we will make ourselves famed, so that we may reign
upon the whole world, in order that the evil of our enemies may cease from us,
that we may reign, mightily over them, and that we may not become scattered
over the earth on account of their wars.

22v And they all went before the king, and they told the king these words, and
the king agreed with them in this affair, and he did so.

23v And all the families assembled consisting of about six hundred thousand
men, and they went to seek an extensive piece of ground to build the city and
the tower, and they sought in the whole earth and they found none like one
valley at the east of the land of Shinar, about two days' walk, and they
journeyed there and they dwelt there.

24v And they began to make bricks and burn fires to build the city and the
tower that they had imagined to complete.

25v And the building of the tower was unto them a transgression and a sin, and
they began to build it, and whilst they were building against the Lord God of
heaven, they imagined in their hearts to war against him and to ascend into
heaven.

26v And all these people and all the families divided themselves in three
parts; the first said We will ascend into heaven and fight against him; the
second said, We will ascend to heaven and place our own gods there and serve
them; and the third part said, We will ascend to heaven and smite him with
bows and spears; and God knew all their works and all their evil thoughts, and
he saw the city and the tower which they were building.

27v And when they were building they built themselves a great city and a very
high and strong tower; and on account of its height the mortar and bricks did
not reach the builders in their ascent to it, until those who went up had
completed a full year, and after that, they reached to the builders and gave
them the mortar and the bricks; thus was it done daily.

28v And behold these ascended and others descended the whole day; and if a
brick should fall from their hands and get broken, they would all weep over
it, and if a man fell and died, none of them would look at him.

29v And the Lord knew their thoughts, and it came to pass when they were
building they cast the arrows toward the heavens, and all the arrows fell upon
them filled with blood, and when they saw them they said to each other, Surely
we have slain all those that are in heaven.

30v For this was from the Lord in order to cause them to err, and in order to
destroy them from off the face of the ground.

31v And they built the tower and the city, and they did this thing daily until
many days and years were elapsed.

32v And God said to the seventy angels who stood foremost before him, to those
who were near to him, saying, Come let us descend and confuse their tongues,
that one man shall not understand the language of his neighbor, and they did
so unto them.

33v And from that day following, they forgot each man his neighbor's tongue,
and they could not understand to speak in one tongue, and when the builder
took from the hands of his neighbor lime or stone which he did not order, the
builder would cast it away and throw it upon his neighbor, that he would die.

34v And they did so many days, and they killed many of them in this manner.

35v And the Lord smote the three divisions that were there, and he punished
them according to their works and designs; those who said, We will ascend to
heaven and serve our gods, became like apes and elephants; and those who said,
We will smite the heaven with arrows, the Lord killed them, one man through
the hand of his neighbor; and the third division of those who said, We will
ascend to heaven and fight against him, the Lord scattered them throughout the
earth.

36v And those who were left amongst them, when they knew and understood the
evil which was coming upon them, they forsook the building, and they also
became scattered upon the face of the whole earth.

37v And they ceased building the city and the tower; therefore he called that
place Babel, for there the Lord confounded the language of the whole earth;
behold it was at the east of the land of Shinar.

38v And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its
mouth and swallowed up one third part thereof, and a fire also descended from
heaven and burned another third, and the other third is left to this day, and
it is of that part which was aloft, and its circumference is three days' walk.

39v And many of the sons of men died in that tower, a people without number.

Chapter 10. The Descendants of Noah, Scattered over the whole earth, build
themselves cities.

1v And Peleg the son of Eber died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of
the life of Abram son of Terah, and all the days of Peleg were two hundred and
thirty-nine years.

2v And when the Lord had scattered the sons of men on account of their sin at
the tower, behold they spread forth into many divisions, and all the sons of
men were dispersed into the four corners of the earth.

3v And all the families became each according to its language, its land, or
its city.

4v And the sons of men built many cities according to their families, in all
the places where they went, and throughout the earth where the Lord had
scattered them.

5v And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward
extirpated, and they called these cities after their own names, or the names
of their children, or after their particular occurences.

6v And the sons of Japheth the son of Noah went and built themselves cities in
the places where they were scattered, and they called all their cities after
their names, and the sons of Japheth were divided upon the face of the earth
into many divisions and languages.

7v And these are the sons of Japheth according to their families, Gomer,
Magog, Medai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras; these are the children of
Japheth according to their generations.

8v And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who
dwell in the land of Franza, by the river Franza, by the river Senah.

9v And the children of Rephath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of
Bartonia by the river Ledah, which empties its waters in the great sea Gihon,
that is, oceanus.

10v And the children of Tugarma are ten families, and these are their names:
Buzar, Parzunac, Balgar, Elicanum, Ragbib, Tarki, Bid, Zebuc, Ongal and
Tilmaz; all these spread and rested in the north and built themselves cities.

11v And they called their cities after their own names, those are they who
abide by the rivers Hithlah and Italac unto this day.

12v But the families of Angoli, Balgar and Parzunac, they dwell by the great
river Dubnee; and the names of their cities are also according to their own
names.

13v And the children of Javan are the Javanim who dwell in the land of
Makdonia, and the children of Medai are the Orelum that dwell in the land of
Curson, and the children of Tubal are those that dwell in the land of Tuskanah
by the river Pashiah.

14v And the children of Meshech are the Shibashni and the children of Tiras
are Rushash, Cushni, and Ongolis; all these went and built themselves cities;
those are the cities that are situate by the sea Jabus by the river Cura,
which empties itself in the river Tragan.

15v And the children of Elishah are the Almanim, and they also went and built
themselves cities; those are the cities situate between the mountains of Job
and Shibathmo; and of them were the people of Lumbardi who dwell opposite the
mountains of Job and Shibathmo, and they conquered the land of Italia and
remained there unto thi.

16v And the children of Chittim are the Romim who dwell in the valley of
Canopia by the river Tibreu.

17v And the children of Dudonim are those who dwell in the cities of the sea
Gihon, in the land of Bordna.

18v These are the families of the children of Japheth according to their
cities and languages, when they were scattered after the tower, and they
called their cities after their names and occurrences; and these are the names
of all their cities according to their families, which they built in those
days after the tower.

19v And the children of Ham were Cush, Mitzraim, Phut and Canaan according to
their generation and cities.

20v All these went and built themselves cities as they found fit places for
them, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers Cush,
Mitzraim, Phut and Canaan.

21v And the children of Mitzraim are the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuchim,
Pathrusim, Casluchim and Caphturim, seven families.

22v All these dwell by the river Sihor, that is the brook of Egypt, and they
built themselves cities and called them after their own names.

23v And the children of Pathros and Casloch intermarried together, and from
them went forth the Pelishtim, the Azathim, and the Gerarim, the Githim and
the Ekronim, in all five families; these also built themselves cities, and
they called their cities after the names of their fathers unto this day.

24v And the children of Canaan also built themselves cities, and they called
their cities after their names, eleven cities and others without number.

25v And four men from the family of Ham went to the land of the plain; these
are the names of the four men, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim.

26v And these men built themselves four cities in the land of the plain, and
they called the names of their cities after their own names.

27v And they and their children and all belonging to them dwelt in those
cities, and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly and dwelt peaceably.

28v And Seir the son of Hur, son of Hivi, son of Canaan, went and found a
valley opposite to Mount Paran, and he built a city there, and he and his
seven sons and his household dwelt there, and he called the city which he
built Seir, according to his name; that is the land of Seir unto this day.

29v These are the families of the children of Ham, according to their
languages and cities, when they were scattered to their countries after the
tower.

30v And some of the children of Shem son of Noah, father of all the children
of Eber, also went and built themselves cities in the places wherein they were
scattered, and they called their cities after their names.

31v And the sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram, and they
built themselves cities and called the names of all their cities after their
names.

32v And Ashur son of Shem and his children and household went forth at that
time, a very large body of them, and they went to a distant land that they
found, and they met with a very extensive valley in the land that they went
to, and they built themselves four cities, and they called them after their
own names and occurrences.

33v And these are the names of the cities which the children of Ashur built,
Ninevah, Resen, Calach and Rehobother; and the children of Ashur dwell there
unto this day.

34v And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they
called the name of the city Uz after their eldest brother, and they dwell
therein; that is the land of Uz to this day.

35v And in the second year after the tower a man from the house of Ashur,
whose name was Bela, went from the land of Ninevah to sojourn with his
household wherever he could find a place; and they came until opposite the
cities of the plain against Sodom, and they dwelt there.

36v And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name
Bela, after his name; that is the land of Zoar unto this day.

37v And these are the families of the children of Shem according to their
language and cities, after they were scattered upon the earth after the tower.

38v And every kingdom, city, and family of the families of the children of
Noah built themselves many cities after this.

39v And they established governments in all their cities, in order to be
regulated by their orders; so did all the families of the children of Noah
forever.

Chapter 11. Nimrod's Wicked Reign. The Idolatry of Terah, Abram's Father. When
Fifty Years old, Abram returns to his Father's House and Discovers his Idols.
Makes a pretext to destroy them. After making Savory Meat for the gods, Abram
takes a Hatchet and destroys them, leaving the Hatchet in the hands of the
larger one, where it is discovered by his Father, who is told by Abram that
the Great God had risen up in anger and Destroyed his Fellows. Terah in his
wrath betrays Abram to the King, who brings him up before the Throne for
Judgment. Abram Warns his Father and the King, before all the Princes, of the
Evils of Idolatry.

1v And Nimrod son of Cush was still in the land of Shinar, and he reigned over
it and dwelt there, and he built cities in the land of Shinar.

2v And these are the names of the four cities which he built, and he called
their names after the occurrences that happened to them in the building of the
tower.

3v And he called the first Babel, saying, Because the Lord there confounded
the language of the whole earth; and the name of the second he called Erech,
because from there God dispersed them.

4v And the third he called Eched, saying there was a great battle at that
place; and the fourth he called Calnah, because his princes and mighty men
were consumed there, and they vexed the Lord, they rebelled and transgressed
against him.

5v And when Nimrod had built these cities in the land of Shinar, he placed in
them the remainder of his people, his princes and his mighty men that were
left in his kingdom.

6v And Nimrod dwelt in Babel, and he there renewed his reign over the rest of
his subjects, and he reigned securely, and the subjects and princes of Nimrod
called his name Amraphel, saying that at the tower his princes and men fell
through his means.

7v And notwithstanding this, Nimrod did not return to the Lord, and he
continued in wickedness and teaching wickedness to the sons of men; and
Mardon, his son, was worse than his father, and continued to add to the
abominations of his father.

8v And he caused the sons of men to sin, therefore it is said, From the wicked
goeth forth wickedness.

9v At that time there was war between the families of the children of Ham, as
they were dwelling in the cities which they had built.

10v And Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, went away from the families of the
children of Ham, and he fought with them and he subdued them, and he went to
the five cities of the plain and he fought against them and he subdued them,
and they were under his control.

11v And they served him twelve years, and they gave him a yearly tax.

12v At that time died Nahor, son of Serug, in the forty-ninth year of the life
of Abram son of Terah.

13v And in the fiftieth year of the life of Abram son of Terah, Abram came
forth from the house of Noah, and went to his father's house.

14v And Abram knew the Lord, and he went in his ways and instructions, and the
Lord his God was with him.

15v And Terah his father was in those days, still captain of the host of king
Nimrod, and he still followed strange gods.

16v And Abram came to his father's house and saw twelve gods standing there in
their temples, and the anger of Abram was kindled when he saw these images in
his father's house.

17v And Abram said, As the Lord liveth these images shall not remain in my
father's house; so shall the Lord who created me do unto me if in three days'
time I do not break them all.

18v And Abram went from them, and his anger burned within him. And Abram
hastened and went from the chamber to his father's outer court, and he found
his father sitting in the court, and all his servants with him, and Abram came
and sat before him.

19v And Abram asked his father, saying, Father, tell me where is God who
created heaven and earth, and all the sons of men upon earth, and who created
thee and me. And Terah answered his son Abram and said, Behold those who
created us are all with us in the house.

20v And Abram said to his father, My lord, shew them to me I pray thee; and
Terah brought Abram into the chamber of the inner court, and Abram saw, and
behold the whole room was full of gods of wood and stone, twelve great images
and others less than they without number.

21v And Terah said to his son, Behold these are they which made all thou seest
upon earth, and which created me and thee, and all mankind.

22v And Terah bowed down to his gods, and he then went away from them, and
Abram, his son, went away with him.

23v And when Abram had gone from them he went to his mother and sat before
her, and he said to his mother, Behold, my father has shown me those who made
heaven and earth, and all the sons of men.

24v Now, therefore, hasten and fetch a kid from the flock, and make of it
savory meat, that I may bring it to my father's gods as an offering for them
to eat; perhaps I may thereby become acceptable to them.

25v And his mother did so, and she fetched a kid, and made savory meat
thereof, and brought it to Abram, and Abram took the savory meat from his
mother and brought it before his father's gods, and he drew nigh to them that
they might eat; and Terah his father, did not know of it.

26v And Abram saw on the day when he was sitting amongst them, that they had
no voice, no hearing, no motion, and not one of them could stretch forth his
hand to eat.

27v And Abram mocked them, and said, Surely the savory meat that I prepared
has not pleased them, or perhaps it was too little for them, and for that
reason they would not eat; therefore tomorrow I will prepare fresh savory
meat, better and more plentiful than this, in order that I may see the result.

28v And it was on the next day that Abram directed his mother concerning the
savory meat, and his mother rose and fetched three fine kids from the flock,
and she made of them some excellent savory meat, such as her son was fond of,
and she gave it to her son Abram; and Terah his father did not know of it.

29v And Abram took the savory meat from his mother, and brought it before his
father's gods into the chamber; and he came nigh unto them that they might
eat, and he placed it before them, and Abram sat before them all day, thinking
perhaps they might eat.

30v And Abram viewed them, and behold they had neither voice nor hearing, nor
did one of them stretch forth his hand to the meat to eat.

31v And in the evening of that day in that house Abram was clothed with the
spirit of God.

32v And he called out and said, Wo unto my father and this wicked generation,
whose hearts are all inclined to vanity, who serve these idols of wood and
stone which can neither eat, smell, hear nor speak, who have mouths without
speech, eyes without sight, ears without hearing, hands without feeling, and
legs which cannot move; like them are those that made them and that trust in
them.

33v And when Abram saw all these things his anger was kindled against his
father, and he hastened and took a hatchet in his hand, and came unto the
chamber of the gods, and he broke all his father's gods.

34v And when he had done breaking the images, he placed the hatchet in the
hand of the great god which was there before them, and he went out; and Terah
his father came home, for he had heard at the door the sound of the striking
of the hatchet; so Terah came into the house to know what this was about.

35v And Terah, having heard the noise of the hatchet in the room of images,
ran to the room to the images, and he met Abram going out.

36v And Terah entered the room and found all the idols fallen down and broken,
and the hatchet in the hand of the largest, which was not broken, and the
savory meat which Abram his son had made was still before them.

37v And when Terah saw this his anger was greatly kindled, and he hastened and
went from the room to Abram.

38v And he found Abram his son still sitting in the house; and he said to him,
What is,this work thou hast done to my gods.

39v And Abram answered Terah his father and he said, Not so my lord, for I
brought savory meat before them, and when I came nigh to them with the meat
that they might eat, they all at once stretched forth their hands to eat
before the great one had put forth his hand to eat.

40v And the large one saw their works that they did before him, and his anger
was violently kindled against them, and he went and took the hatchet that was
in the house and came to them and broke them all, and behold the hatchet is
yet in his hand as thou seest.

41v And Terah's anger was kindled against his son Abram, when he spoke this;
and Terah said to Abram his son in his anger, What is this tale that thou hast
told? Thou speakest lies to me.

42v Is there in these gods spirit, soul or power to do all thou hast told me?
Are they not wood and stone, and have I not myself made them, and canst thou
speak such lies, saying that the large god that was with them smote them? It
is thou that didst place the hatchet in his hands, and then sayest he smote
them all.

43v And Abram answered his father and said to him, And how canst thou then
serve these idols in whom there is no power to do any thing? Can those idols
in which thou trustest deliver thee? can they hear thy prayers when thou
callest upon them? can they deliver thee from the hands of thy enemies, or
will they fight thy battles for thee against thy enemies, that thou shouldst
serve wood and stone which can neither speak nor hear.

44v And now surely it is not good for thee nor for the sons of men that are
connected with thee, to do these things; are you so silly, so foolish or so
short of understanding that you will serve wood and stone, and do after this
manner.

45v And forget the Lord God who made heaven and earth, and who created you in
the earth, and thereby bring a great evil upon your souls in this matter by
serving stone and wood.

46v Did not our fathers in days of old sin in this manner, and the Lord God of
the universe brought the waters of the flood upon them and destroyed the whole
earth.

47v And how can you continue to do this and serve gods of wood and stone, who
cannot hear, or speak, or deliver you from oppression, thereby bringing down
the anger of the God of the universe upon you.

48v Now therefore my father refrain from this, and bring not evil upon thy
soul and the souls of thy household.

49v And Abram hastened and sprang from before his father, and took the hatchet
from his father's largest idol, with which Abram broke it and ran away.

50v And Terah, seeing all that Abram had done, hastened to go from his house,
and he went to the king and he came before Nimrod and stood before him, and he
bowed down to the king; and the king said, What dost thou want.

51v And he said, I beseech thee my lord, to hear me-Now fifty years back a
child was born to me, and thus has he done to my gods and thus has he spoken;
and now therefore, my lord and king, send for him that he may come before
thee, and judge him according to the law, that we may be delivered from his
evil.

52v And the king sent three men of his servants, and they went and brought
Abram before the king. And Nimrod and all his princes and servants were that
day sitting before him, and Terah sat also before them.

53v And the king said to Abram, What is this that thou hast done to thy father
and to his gods? And Abram answered the king in the words that he spoke to his
father, and he said, The large god that was with them in the house did to them
what thou hast heard.

54v And the king said to Abram, Had they power to speak and eat and do as thou
hast said? And Abram answered the king, saying, And if there be no power in
them why dost thou serve them and cause the sons of men to err through thy
follies.

55v Dost thou imagine that they can deliver thee or do anything small or
great, that thou shouldst serve them? And why wilt thou not serve the God of
the whole universe, who created thee and in whose power it is to kill and keep
alive.

56v O foolish, simple, and ignorant king, woe unto thee forever.

57v I thought thou wouldst teach thy servants the upright way, but thou hast
not done this, but hast filled the whole earth with thy sins and the sins of
thy people who have followed thy ways.

58v Dost thou not know, or hast thou not heard, that this evil which thou
doest, our ancestors sinned therein in days of old, and the eternal God
brought the waters of the flood upon them and destroyed them all, and also
destroyed the whole earth on their account? And wilt thou and thy people rise
up now and do like unto this work, in order to bring down the anger of the
Lord God of the universe, and to bring evil upon thee and the whole earth.

59v Now therefore put away this evil deed which thou doest, and serve the God
of the universe, as thy soul is in his hands, and then it will be well with
thee.

60v And if thy wicked heart will not hearken to my words to cause thee to
forsake thy evil ways, and to serve the eternal God, then wilt thou die in
shame in the latter days, thou, thy people and all who are connected with
thee, hearing thy words or walking in thy evil ways.

61v And when Abram had ceased speaking before the king and princes, Abram
lifted up his eyes to the heavens, and he said, The Lord seeth all the wicked,
and he will judge them.

Chapter 12. Abram placed in Prison, and is condemned after ten days to be cast
into a Firey Furnace. His Brother Haran being Falsely Accused is condemned to
the same Fate. As Haran's heart was not right before the Lord, he perished,
but Abram is delivered, and is brought forth Alive. Is Presented with Many
Gifts. The King Dreams of Abram, and again Seeks his Life. Abram flees to the
House of Noah.

1v And when the king heard the words of Abram he ordered him to be put into
prison; and Abram was ten days in prison.

2v And at the end of those days the king ordered that all the kings, princes
and governors of different provinces and the sages should come before him, and
they sat before him, and Abram was still in the house of confinement.

3v And the king said to the princes and sages, Have you heard what Abram, the
son of Terah, has done to his father? Thus has he done to him, and I ordered
him to be brought before me, and thus has he spoken; his heart did not misgive
him, neither did he stir in my presence, and behold now he is confined in the
prison.

4v And therefore decide what judgment is due to this man who reviled the king;
who spoke and did all the things that you heard.

5v And they all answered the king saying, The man who revileth the king should
be hanged upon a tree; but having done all the things that he said, and having
despised our gods, he must therefore be burned to death, for this is the law
in this matter.

6v If it pleaseth the king to do this, let him order his servants to kindle a
fire both night and day in thy brick furnace, and then we will cast this man
into it. And the king did so, and he commanded his servants that they should
prepare a fire for three days and three nights in the king's furnace, that is
in Casdim; and the king ordered them to take Abram from prison and bring him
out to be burned.

7v And all the king's servants, princes, lords, governors, and judges, and all
the inhabitants of the land, about nine hundred thousand men, stood opposite
the furnace to see Abram.

8v And all the women and little ones crowded upon the roofs and towers to see
what was doing with Abram, and they all stood together at a distance; and
there was not a man left that did not come on that day to behold the scene.

9v And when Abram was come, the conjurors of the king and the sages saw Abram,
and they cried out to the king, saying, Our sovereign lord, surely this is the
man whom we know to have been the child at whose birth the great star
swallowed the four stars, which we declared to the king now fifty years since.

10v And behold now his father has also transgressed thy commands, and mocked
thee by bringing thee another child, which thou didst kill.

11v And when the king heard their words, he was exceedingly wroth, and he
ordered Terah to be brought before him.

12v And the king said, Hast thou heard what the conjurors have spoken? Now
tell me truly. how didst thou; and if thou shalt speak truth thou shalt be
acquitted.

13v And seeing that the king's anger was so much kindled, Terah said to the
king, My lord and king, thou hast heard the truth, and what the sages have
spoken is right. And the king said, How couldst thou do this thing, to
transgress my orders and to give me a child that thou didst not beget, and to
take value for him.

14v And Terah answered the king, Because my tender feelings were excited for
my son, at that time, and I took a son of my handmaid, and I brought him to
the king.

15v And the king said Who advised thee to this? Tell me, do not hide aught
from me, and then thou shalt not die.

16v And Terah was greatly terrified in the king's presence, and he said to the
king, It was Haran my eldest son who advised me to this; and Haran was in
those days that Abram was born, two and thirty years old.

17v But Haran did not advise his father to anything, for Terah said this to
the king in order to deliver his soul from the king, for he feared greatly;
and the king said to Terah, Haran thy son who advised thee to this shall die
through fire with Abram; for the sentence of death is upon him for having
rebelled against the king's desire in doing this thing.

18v And Haran at that time felt inclined to follow the ways of Abram, but he
kept it within himself.

19v And Haran said in his heart, Behold now the king has seized Abram on
account of these things which Abram did, and it shall come to pass, that if
Abram prevail over the king I will follow him, but if the king prevail I will
go after the king.

20v And when Terah had spoken this to the king concerning Haran his son, the
king ordered Haran to be seized with Abram.

21v And they brought them both, Abram and Haran his brother, to cast them into
the fire; and all the inhabitants of the land and the king's servants and
princes and all the women and little ones were there, standing that day over
them.

22v And the king's servants took Abram and his brother, and they stripped them
of all their clothes excepting their lower garments which were upon them.

23v And they bound their hands and feet with linen cords, and the servants of
the king lifted them up and cast them both into the furnace.

24v And the Lord loved Abram and he had compassion over him, and the Lord came
down and delivered Abram from the fire and he was not burned.

25v But all the cords with which they bound him were burned, while Abram
remained and walked about in the fire.

26v And Haran died when they had cast him into the fire, and he was burned to
ashes, for his heart was not perfect with the Lord; and those men who cast him
into the fire, the flame of the fire spread over them, and they were burned,
and twelve men of them died.

27v And Abram walked in the midst of the fire three days and three nights, and
all the servants of the king saw him walking in the fire, and they came and
told the king, saying, behold we have seen Abram walking about in the midst of
the fire, and even the lower garments which are upon him are not burned, but
the cord with which he was bound is burned.

28v And when the king heard their words his heart fainted and he would not
believe them; so he sent other faithful princes to see this matter, and they
went and saw it and told it to the king; and the king rose to go and see it,
and he saw Abram walking to and fro in the midst of the fire, and he saw
Haran's body burned, and the king wondered greatly.

29v And the king ordered Abram to be taken out from the fire; and his servants
approached to take him out and they could not, for the fire was round about
and the flame ascending toward them from the furnace.

30v And the king's servants fled from it, and the king rebuked them, saying,
Make haste and bring Abram out of the fire that you shall not die.

31v And the servants of the king again approached to bring Abram out, and the
flames came upon them and burned their faces so that eight of them died.

32v And when the king saw that his servants could not approach the fire lest
they should be burned, the king called to Abram, O servant of the God who is
in heaven, go forth from amidst the fire and come hither before me; and Abram
hearkened to the voice of the king, and he went forth from the fire and came
and stood before the king.

33v And when Abram came out the king and all his servants saw Abram coming
before the king, with his lower garments upon him, for they were not burned,
but the cord with which he was bound was burned.

34v And the king said to Abram, How is it that thou wast not burned in the
fire.

35v And Abram said to the king, The God of heaven and earth in whom I trust
and who has all in his power, he delivered me from the fire into which thou
didst cast me.

36v And Haran the brother of Abram was burned to ashes, and they sought for
his body, and they found it consumed.

37v And Haran was eighty-two years old when he died in the fire of Casdim. And
the king, princes, and inhabitants of the land, seeing that Abram was
delivered from the fire, they came and bowed down to Abram.

38v And Abram said to them, Do not bow down to me, but bow down to the God of
the world who made you, and serve him, and go in his ways for it is he who
delivered me from out of this fire, and it is he who created the souls and
spirits of all men, and formed man in his mother's womb, and brought him forth
into the world, and it is he who will deliver those who trust in him from all
pain.

39v And this thing seemed very wonderful in the eyes of the king and princes,
that Abram was saved from the fire and that Haran was burned; and the king
gave Abram many presents and he gave him his two head servants from the king's
house; the name of one was Oni and the name of the other was Eliezer.

40v And all the kings, princes and servants gave Abram many gifts of silver
and gold and pearl,and the king and his princes sent him away, and he went in
peace.

41v And Abram went forth from the king in peace, and many of the king's
servants followed him, and about three hundred men joined him.

42v And Abram returned on that day and went to his father's house, he and the
men that followed him, and Abram served the Lord his God all the days of his
life, and he walked in his ways and followed his law.

43v And from that day forward Abram inclined the hearts of the sons of men to
serve the Lord.

44v And at that time Nahor and Abram took unto themselves wives, the daughters
of their brother Haran; the wife of Nahor was Milca and the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai. And Sarai, wife of Abram, was barren; she had no offspring in
those days.

45v And at the expiration of two years from Abram's going out of the fire,
that is in the fifty-second year of his life, behold king Nimrod sat in Babel
upon the throne, and the king fell asleep and dreamed that he was standing
with his troops and hosts in a valley opposite the king's furnace.

46v And he lifted up his eyes and saw a man in the likeness of Abram coming
forth from the furnace, and that he came and stood before the king with his
drawn sword, and then sprang to the king with his sword, when the king fled
from the man, for he was afraid; and while he was running, the man threw an
egg upon the king's head, and the egg became a great river.

47v And the king dreamed that all his troops sank in that river and died, and
the king took flight with three men who were before him and he escaped.

48v And the king looked at these men and they were clothed in princely dresses
as the garments of kings, and had the appearance and majesty of kings.

49v And while they were running, the river again turned to an egg before the
king, and there came forth from the egg a young bird which came before the
king, and flew at his head and plucked out the king's eye.

50v And the king was grieved at the sight, and he awoke out of his sleep and
his spirit was agitated; and he felt a great terror.

51v I And in the morning the king rose from his couch in fear, and he ordered
all the wise men and magicians to come before him, when the king related his
dream to them.

52v And a wise servant of the king, whose name was Anuki, answered the king,
saying, This is nothing else but`the evil of Abram and his seed which will
spring up against my Lord and king in the latter days.

53v And behold the day will come when Abram and his seed and the children of
his household will war with my king, and they will smite all the king's hosts
and his troops.

54v And as to what thou hast said concerning three men which thou didst see
like unto thyself, and which did escape, this means that only thou wilt escape
with three kings from the kings of the earth who will be with thee in battle.

55v And that which thou sawest of the river which turned to an egg as at
first, and the young bird plucking out thine eye, this means nothing else but
the seed of Abram which will slay the king in latter days.

56v This is my king's dream, and this is its interpretation, and the dream is
true, and the interpretation which thy servant has given thee is right.

57v Now therefore my king, surely thou knowest that it is now fifty-two years
since thy sages saw this at the birth of Abram, and if my king will suffer
Abram to live in the earth it will be to the injury of my lord and king, for
all the days that Abram liveth neither thou nor thy kingdom will be
established, for this was known formerly at his birth; and why will not my
king slay him, that his evil may be kept from thee in latter days.

58v And Nimrod hearkened to the voice of Anuki, and he sent some of his
servants in secret to go and seize Abram, and bring him before the king to
suffer death.

59v And Eliezer, Abram's servant whom the king had given him, was at that time
in the presence of the king, and he heard what Anuki had advised the king, and
what the king had said to cause Abram's death.

60v And Eliezer said to Abram, Hasten, rise up and save thy soul, that thou
mayest not die through the hands of the king, for thus did he see in a dream
concerning thee, and thus did Anuki interpret it, and thus also did Anuki
advise the king concerning thee.

61v And Abram hearkened to the voice of Eliezer, and Abram hastened and ran
for safety to the house of Noah and his son Shem, and he concealed himself
there and found a place of safety; and the king's servants came to Abram's
house to seek him, but they could not find him, and they searched through out
the country and he was not to be found, and they went and searched in every
direction and he was not to be met with.

62v And when the king's servants could not find Abram they returned to the
king, but the king's anger against Abram was stilled, as they did not find
him, and the king drove from his mind this matter concerning Abram.

63v And Abram was concealed in Noah's house for one month, until the king had
forgotten this matter, but Abram was still afraid of the king; and Terah came
to see Abram his son secretly in the house of Noah, and Terah was very great
in the eyes of the king.

64v And Abram said to his father, Dost thou not know that the king thinketh to
slay me, and to annihilate my name from the earth by the advice of his wicked
counsellors.

65v Now whom hast thou here and what hast thou in this land? Arise, let us go
together to the land of Canaan, that we may be delivered from his hand, lest
thou perish also through him in the latter days.

66v Dost thou not know or hast thou not heard, that it is not through love
that Nimrod giveth thee all this honor, but it is only for his benefit that he
bestoweth all this good upon thee.

67v And if he do unto thee greater good than this, surely these are only
vanities of the world, for wealth and riches cannot avail in the day of wrath
and ange.

68v Now therefore hearken to my voice, and let us arise and go to the land of
Canaan, out of the reach of injury from Nimrod; and serve thou the Lord who
created thee in the earth and it will be well with thee; and cast away all the
vain things which thou pursuest.

69v And Abram ceased to speak, when Noah and his son Shem answered Terah,
saying, True is the word which Abram hath said unto thee.

70v And Terah hearkened to the voice of his son Abram, and Terah did all that
Abram said, for this was from the Lord, that the king should not cause Abram's
death.

Chapter 13. On Abram's account Terah and all his House, with Abram, Leave Ur
Casdim to go to the Land of Canaan. They tarry in Haran, where the Lord
Appears to Abram, and upon condition of Faithfulness, Promises many Blessings.
Abram, Commanded of the Lord, takes his Wife and all belonging to him and goes
to the Land of Canaan, where the Lord again appears to him and Promises the
Land of Canaan as an Everlasting Inheritance. After Fifteen Years, Abram
returns to Haran to Visit his Father. Teaches many to Walk in the Ways of the
Lord. Again commanded to go to Canaan, where he Builds an Altar. The Lord
renews his Covenant with him.

1v And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and
Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram, and all the souls of his
household and went with them from Ur Casdim to go to the land of Canaan. And
when they came as far as the land of Haran they remained there, for it was
exceedingly good land for pasture, and of sufficient extent for those who
accompanied them.

2v And the people of the land of Haran saw that Abram was good and upright
with God and men, and that the Lord his God was with him, and some of the
people of the land of Haran came and joined Abram, and he taught them the
instruction of the Lord and his ways; and these men remained with Abram in his
house and they adhered to him.

3v And Abram remained in the land three years, and at the expiration of three
years the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him; I am the Lord who brought
thee forth from Ur Casdim, and delivered thee from the hands of all thine
enemies.

4v And now therefore if thou wilt hearken to my voice and keep my
commandments, my statutes and my laws, then will I cause thy enemies to fall
before thee, and I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven, and I will
send my blessing upon all the works of thy hands, and thou shalt lack nothing.

5v Arise now, take thy wife and all belonging to thee and go to the land of
Canaan and remain there, and I will there be unto thee for a God, and I will
bless thee. And Abram rose and took his wife and all belonging to him, and he
went to the land of Canaan as the Lord had told him; and Abram was fifty years
old when he went from Haran.

6v And Abram came to the land of Canaan and dwelt in the midst of the city,
and he there pitched his tent amongst the children of Canaan, inhabitants of
the land.

7v And the Lord appeared to Abram when he came to the land of Canaan, and said
to him, This is the land which I gave unto thee and to thy seed after thee
forever, and I will make thy seed like the stars of heaven, and I will give
unto thy seed for an inheritance all the lands which thou seest.

8v And Abram built an altar in the place where God had spoken to him, and
Abram there called upon the name of the Lord.

9v At that time, at the end of three years of Abram's dwelling in the land of
Canaan, in that year Noah died, which was the fifty-eighth year of the life of
Abram; and all the days that Noah lived were nine hundred and fifty years and
he died.

10v And Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, he, his wife, and all belonging to
him, and all those that acompanied him, together with those that joined him
from the people of the land; but Nahor, Abram's brother, and Terah his father,
and Lot the son of Haran and all belonging to them dwelt in Haran.

11v In the fifth year of Abram' s dwelling in the land of Canaan the people of
Sodom and Gomorrah and all the cities of the plain revolted from the power of
Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; for all the kings of the cities of the plain had
served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and given him a yearly tax, but in those
days in the thirteenth year, they rebelled against him.

12v And in the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan there was
war between Nimrod king of Shinar and Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Nimrod
came to fight with Chedorlaomer and to subdue him.

13v For Chedorlaomer was at that time one of the princes of the hosts of
Nimrod, and when all the people at the tower were dispersed and those that
remained were also scattered upon the face of the earth, Chedorlaomer went to
the land of Elam and reigned over it and rebelled against his lord.

14v And in those days when Nimrod saw that the cities of the plain had
rebelled, he came with pride and anger to war with Chedorlaomer, and Nimrod
assembled all his princes and subjects, about seven hundred thousand men, and
went against Chedorlaomer, and Chedorlaomer went out to meet him with five
thousand men, and they prepared for battle in the valley of Babel which is
between Elam and Shinar.

15v And all those kings fought there, and Nimrod and his people were smitten
before the people of Chedorlaomer, and there fell from Nimrod's men about six
hundred thousand, and Mardon the king's son fell amongst them.

16v And Nimrod fled and returned in shame and disgrace to his land, and he was
under subjection to Chedorlaomer for a long time, and Chedorlaomer returned to
his land and sent princes of his host to the kings that dwelt around him, to
Arioch king of Elasar, and to Tidal king of Goyim, and made a covenant with
them, and they were all obedient to his commands.

17v And it was in the fifteenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of
Canaan, which is the seventieth year of the life of Abram, and the Lord
appeared to Abram in that year and he said to him, I am the Lord who brought
thee out from Ur Casdim to give thee this land for an inheritance.

18v Now therefore walk before me and be perfect and keep my commands, for to
thee and to thy seed I will give this land for an inheritance, from the river
Mitzraim unto the great river Euphrates.

19v And thou shalt come to thy fathers in peace and in good age, and the
fourth generation shall return here in this land and shall inherit it forever;
and Abram built an altar, and he called upon the name of the Lord who appeared
to him, and he brought up sacrifices upon the altar to the Lord.

20v At that time Abram returned and went to Haran to see his father and
mother, and his father's household, and Abram and his wife and all belonging
to him returned to Haran, and Abram dwelt in Haran five years.

21v And many of the people of Haran, about seventy two men, followed Abram and
Abram taught them the instruction of the Lord and his ways, and he taught them
to know the Lord.

22v In those days the Lord appeared to Abram in Haran, and he said to him,
Behold, I spoke unto thee these twenty years back saying.

23v Go forth from thy land, from thy birth-place and from thy father's house,
to the land which I have shown thee to give it to thee and to thy children,
for there in that land will I bless thee, and make thee a great nation, and
make thy name great, and in thee shall the families of the earth be blessed.

24v Now therefore arise, go forth from this place, thou, thy wife, and all
belonging to thee, also every one born in thy house and all the souls thou
hast made in Haran, and bring them out with thee from here, and rise to return
to the land of Canaan.

25v And Abram arose and took his wife Sarai and all belonging to him, and all
that were born to him in his house and the souls which they had made in Haran,
and they came out to go to the land of Canaan.

26v And Abram went and returned to the land of Canaan, according to the word
of the Lord. And Lot the son of his brother Haran went with him, and Abram was
seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran to return to the land of
Canaan.

27v And he came to the land of Canaan according to the word of the Lord to
Abram, and he pitched his tent and he dwelt in the plain of Mamre, and with
him was Lot his brother's son, and all belonging to him.

28v And the Lord again appeared to Abram and said, To thy seed will I give
this land; and he there built an altar to the Lord who appeared to him, which
is still to this day in the plains of Mamre.

Chapter 14. Rikayon's cunning Device to make money of the Egyptians.

1v In those days there was in the land of Shinar a wise man who had
understanding in all wisdom, and of a beautiful appearance, but he was poor
and indigent; his name was Rikayon and he was hard set to support himself.

2v And he resolved to go to Egypt, to Oswiris the son of Anom king of Egypt,
to show the king his wisdom; for perhaps he might find grace in his sight, to
raise him up and give him maintenance; and Rikayon did so.

3v And when Rikayon came to Egypt he asked the inhabitants of Egypt concerning
the king, and the inhabitants of Egypt told him the custom of the king of
Egypt, for it was then the custom of the king of Egypt that he went from his
royal palace and was seen abroad only one day in the year, and after that the
king would return to his palace to remain there.

4v And on the day when the king went forth he passed judgment in the land, and
every one having a suit came before the king that day to obtain his request.

5v And when Rikayon heard of the custom in Egypt and that he could not come
into the presence of the king, he grieved greatly and was very sorrowful.

6v And in the evening Rikayon went out and found a house in ruins, formerly a
bake house in Egypt, and he abode there all night in bitterness of soul and
pinched with hunger, and sleep was removed from his eyes.

7v And Rikayon considered within himself what he should do in the town until
the king made his appearance, and how he might maintain himself there.

8v And he rose in the morning and walked about, and met in his way those who
sold vegetables and various sorts of seed with which they supplied the
inhabitants.

9v And Rikayon wished to do the same in order to get a maintenance in the
city, but he was unacquainted with the custom of the people, and he was like a
blind man among them.

10v And he went and obtained vegetables to sell them for his support, and the
rabble assembled about him and ridiculed him, and took his vegetables from him
and left him nothing.

11v And he rose up from there in bitterness of soul, and went sighing to the
bake house in which he had remained all the night before, and he slept there
the second night.

12v And on that night again he reasoned within himself how he could save
himself from starvation, and he devised a scheme how to act.

13v And he rose up in the morning and acted ingeniously, and went and hired
thirty strong men of the rabble, carrying their war instruments in their
hands, and he led them to the top of the Egyptian sepulchre, and he placed
them there.

14v And he commanded them, saying, Thus saith the king, Strengthen yourselves
and be valiant men, and let no man be buried here until two hundred pieces of
silver be given, and then he may be buried; and those men did according to the
order of Rikayon to the people of Egypt the whole of that year.

15v And in eight months time Rikayon and his men gathered great riches of
silver and gold, and Rikayon took a great quantity of horses and other
animals, and he hired more men, and he gave them horses and they remained with
him.

16v And when the year came round, at the time the king went forth into the
town, all the inhabitants of Egypt assembled together to speak to him
concerning the work of Rikayon and his men.

17v And the king went forth on the appointed day, and all the Egyptians came
before him and cried unto him, saying.

18v May the king live forever. What is this thing thou doest in the town to
thy servants, not to suffer a dead body to be buried until so much silver and
gold be given? Was there ever the like unto this done in the whole earth, from
the days of former kings yea even from the days of Adam, unto this day, that
the dead should not be buried only for a set price.

19v We know it to be the custom of kings to take a yearly tax from the Living,
but thou dost not only do this, but from the dead also thou exactest a tax day
by day.

20v Now, O king, we can no more bear this, for the whole city is ruined on
this account, and dost thou not know it.

21v And when the king heard all that they had spoken he was very wroth, and
his anger burned within him at this affair, for he had known nothing of it.

22v And the king said, Who and where is he that dares to do this wicked thing
in my land without my command? Surely you will tell me.

23v And they told him all the works of Rikayon and his men, and the king's
anger was aroused, and he ordered Rikayon and his men to be brought before
him.

24v And Rikayon took about a thousand children, sons and daughters, and
clothed them in silk and embroidery, and he set them upon horses and sent them
to the king by means of his men, and he also took a great quantity of silver
and gold and precious stones, and a strong and beautiful horse, as a present
for the king, with which he came before the king and bowed down to the earth
before him; and the king, his servants and all the inhabitants of Egypt
wondered at the work of Rikayon, and they saw his riches and the present that
he had brought to the king.

25v And it greatly pleased the king and he wondered at it; and when Rikayon
sat before him the king asked him concerning all his works, and Rikayon spoke
all his words wisely before the king, his servants and all the inhabitants of
Egypt.

26v And when the king heard the words of Rikayon and his wisdom, Rikayon found
grace in his sight, and he met with grace and kindness from all the servants
of the king and from all the inhabitants of Egypt, on account of his wisdom
and excellent speeches, and from that time they loved him exceedingly.

27v And the king answered and said to Rikayon, Thy name shall no more be
called Rikayon but Pharaoh shall be thy name, since thou didst exact a tax
from the dead; and he called his name Pharaoh.

28v And the king and his subjects loved Rikayon for his wisdom, and they
consulted with all the inhabitants Of Egypt to make him prefect under the
king.

29v And all the inhabitants of Egypt and its wise men did so, and it was made
a law in Egypt.

30v And they made Rikayon Pharaoh prefect under Oswiris king of Egypt, and
Rikayon Pharaoh governed over Egypt, daily administering justice to the whole
city, but Oswiris the king would judge the people of the land one day in the
year, when he went out to make his appearance.

31v And Rikayon Pharaoh cunningly usurped the government of Egypt, and he
exacted a tax from all the inhabitants of Egypt.

32v And all the inhabitants of Egypt greatly loved Rikayon Pharaoh, and they
made a decree to call every king that should reign over them and their seed in
Egypt, Pharaoh.

33v Therefore all the kings that reigned in Egypt from that time forward were
called Pharaoh unto this day.

Chapter 15. On Account of Famine in Canaan, Abram goes to Egypt. Tells the
People that Sarah is his Sister, on account of her Beauty. Pharaoh Desires to
take her, but is Prevented by an Angel of the Lord. The Truth is made known,
and Sarah is Restored to Abram, with many Presents. Abram returns to his Home.
Trouble between Lot and Abram on account of Lot's cattle. Lot Removes to
Sodom.

1v And in that year there was a heavy famine throughout the land of Canaan,
and the inhabitants of the land could not remain on account of the famine for
it was very grievous.

2v And Abram and all belonging to him rose and went down to Egypt on account
of the famine, and when they were at the brook Mitzraim they remained there
some time to rest from the fatigue of the road.

3v And Abram and Sarai were walking at the border of the brook Mitzraim, and
Abram beheld his wife Sarai that she was very beautiful.

4v And Abram said to his wife Sarai, Since God has created thee with such a
beautiful countenance, I am afraid of the Egyptians lest they should slay me
and take thee away, for the fear of God is not in these places.

5v Surely then thou shalt do this, Say thou art my sister to all that may ask
thee, in order that it may be well with me, and that we may live and not be
put to death.

6v And Abram commanded the same to all those that came with him to Egypt on
account of the famine; also his nephew Lot he commanded, saying, If the
Egyptians ask thee concerning Sarai say she is the sister of Abram.

7v And yet with all these orders Abram did not put confidence in them, but he
took Sarai and placed her in a chest and concealed it amongst their vessels,
for Abram was greatly concerned about Sarai on account of the wickedness of
the Egyptians.

8v And Abram and all belonging to him rose up from the brook Mitzraim and came
to Egypt; and they had scarcely entered the gates of the city when the guards
stood up to them saying, Give tithe to the king from what you have, and then
you may come into the town; and Abram and those that were with him did so.

9v And Abram with the people that were with him came to Egypt, and when they
came they brought the chest in which Sarai was concealed and the Egyptians saw
the chest.

10v And the king's servants approached Abram, saying, What hast thou here in
this chest which we have not seen? Now open thou the chest and give tithe to
the king of all that it contains.

11v And Abram said, This chest I will not open, but all you demand upon it I
will give. And Pharaoh's officers answered Abram, saying, It is a chest of
precious stones, give us the tenth thereof.

12v Abram said, All that you desire I will give, but you must not open the
chest.

13v And the king's officers pressed Abram, and they reached the chest and
opened it with force, and they saw, and behold a beautiful woman was in the
chest.

14v And when the officers of the king beheld Sarai they were struck with
admiration at her beauty, and all the princes and servants of Pharaoh
assembled to see Sarai, for she was very beautiful. And the king's officers
ran and told Pharaoh all that they had seen, and they praised Sarai to the
king; and Pharaoh ordered her to be brought, and the woman came before the
king.

15v And Pharaoh beheld Sarai and she pleased him exceedingly, and he was
struck with her beauty, and the king rejoiced greatly on her account, and made
presents to those who brought him the tidings concerning her.

16v And the woman was then brought to Pharaoh' s house, and Abram grieved on
account of his wife, and he prayed to the Lord to deliver her from the hands
of Pharaoh.

17v And Sarai also prayed at that time and said, O Lord God thou didst tell my
Lord Abram to go from his land and from his father's house to the land of
Canaan, and thou didst promise to do well with him if he would perform thy
commands; now behold we have done that which thou didst command us, and we
left our land and our families, and we went to a strange land and to a people
whom we have not known before.

18v And we came to this land to avoid the famine, and this evil accident has
befallen me; now therefore, O Lord God, deliver us and save us from the hand
of this oppressor, and do well with me for the sake of thy mercy.

19v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Sarai, and the Lord sent an angel
to deliver Sarai from the power of Pharaoh.

20v And the king came and sat before Sarai and behold an angel of the Lord was
standing over them, and he appeared to Sarai and said to her, Do not fear, for
the Lord has heard thy prayer.

21v And the king approached Sarai and said to her, What is that man to thee
who brought thee hither? and she said, He is my brother.

22v And the king said, It is incumbent upon us to make him great, to elevate
him and to do unto him all the good which thou shalt command us; and at that
time the king sent to Abram silver and gold and precious stones in abundance,
together with cattle, men servants and maid servants; and the king ordered
Abram to be brought, and he sat in the court of the king's house, and the king
greatly exalted Abram on that night.

23v And the king approached to speak to Sarai, and he reached out his hand to
touch her, when the angel smote him heavily, and he was terrified and he
refrained from reaching to her.

24v And when the king came near to Sarai, the angel smote him to the ground,
and acted thus to him the whole night, and the king was terrified.

25v And the angel on that night smote heavily all the servants of the king,
and his whole household, on account of Sarai, and there was a great
lamentation that night amongst the people of Pharaoh's house.

26v And Pharaoh, seeing the evil that befell him, said, Surely on account of
this woman has this thing happened to me, and he removed himself at some
distance from her and spoke pleasing words to her.

27v And the king said to Sarai, Tell me I pray thee concerning the man with
whom thou camest here; and Sarai said, This man is my husband, and I said to
thee that he was my brother for I was afraid, lest thou shouldst put him to
death through wickedness.

28v And the king kept away from Sarai, and the plagues of the angel of the
Lord ceased from him and his household; and Pharaoh knew that he was smitten
on account of Sarai, and the king was greatly astonished at this.

29v And in the morning the king called for Abram and said to him, What is this
thou hast done to me? Why didst thou say, She is my sister, owing to which I
took her unto me for a wife, and this heavy plague has therefore come upon me
and my household.

30v Now therefore here is thy wife, take her and go from our land lest we all
die on her account. And Pharaoh took more cattle, men servants and maid
servants, and silver and gold, to give to Abram, and he returned unto him
Sarai his wife.

31v And the king took a maiden whom he begat by his concubines, and he gave
her to Sarai for a handmaid.

32v And the king said to his daughter, It is better for thee my daughter to be
a handmaid in this man's house than to be mistress in my house, after we have
beheld the evil that befell us on account of this woman.

33v And Abram arose, and he and all belonging to him went away from Egypt; and
Pharaoh ordered some of his men to accompany him and all that went with him.

34v And Abram returned to the land of Canaan, to the place where he had made
the altar, where he at first had pitched his tent.

35v And Lot the son of Haran, Abram's brother, had a heavy stock of cattle,
flocks and herds and tents, for the Lord was bountiful to them on account of
Abram.

36v And when Abram was dwelling in the land the herdsmen of Lot quarrelled
with the herdsmen of Abram, for their property was too great for them to
remain together in the land, and the land could not bear them on account of
their cattle.

37v And when Abram's herdsmen went to feed their flock they would not go into
the fields of the people of the land, but the cattle of Lot's herdsmen did
otherwise, for they were suffered to feed in the fields of the people of the
land.

38v And the people of the land saw this occurrence daily, and they came to
Abram and quarrelled with him on account of Lot's herdsmen.

39v And Abram said to Lot, What is this thou art doing to me, to make me
despicable to the inhabitants of the land, that thou orderest thy herdsmen to
feed thy cattle in the fields of other people? Dost thou not know that I am a
stranger in this land amongst the children of Canaan, and why wilt thou do
this unto me.

40v And Abram quarrelled daily with Lot on account of this, but Lot would not
listen to Abram, and he continued to do the same and the inhabitants of the
land came and told Abram.

41v And Abram said unto Lot, How long wilt thou be to me for a stumbling block
with the inhabitants of the land? Now I beseech thee let there be no more
quarreling between us, for we are kinsmen.

42v But I pray thee separate from me, go and choose a place where thou mayest
dwell with thy cattle and all belonging to thee, but Keep thyself at a
distance from me, thou and thy household.

43v And be not afraid in going from me, for if any one do an injury to thee,
let me know and I will avenge thy cause from him, only remove from me.

44v And when Abram had spoken all these words to Lot, then Lot arose and
lifted up his eyes toward the plain of Jordan.

45v And he saw that the whole of this place was well watered, and good for man
as well as affording pasture for the cattle.

46v And Lot went from Abram to that place, and he there pitched his tent and
he dwelt in Sodom, and they were separated from each other.

47v And Abram dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and he pitched
his tent there, and Abram remained in that place many years.

Chapter 16. Four Kings with Eight Hundred Thousand Men War against Sodom and
the Cities of the Plain, and destroy and plunder their people. Abram, Hearing
that Lot is taken captive, gathers together about Three Hundred Men and
Pursues the Kings, retakes the captives, and smites the whole Army of the
confederate Kings. On his Return, Abram meets Adonizedek [Melchisedec], King
of Jerusalem, the same was Shem. Abram gives Tithes of all he had taken to
Adonizedek, and is Blessed of Him. Abram Restores to every Man his property
which he had retaken in the war, and returns to Hebron. The Lord again appears
to Abram and promises to bless him with a Numberless Posterity. Sarah being
childless gives Hagar to Abram for a Wife, and becoming jealous of her,
afflicts her. An Angel comforts Hagar. Ishmael is Born.

1v At that time Chedorlaomer king of Elam sent to all the neighboring kings,
to Nimrod, king of Shinar who was then under his power, and to Tidal, king of
Goyim, and to Arioch, king of Elasar, with whom he made a covenant, saying,
Come up to me and assist me, that we may smite all the towns of Sodom and its
inhabitants, for they have rebelled against me these thirteen years.

2v And these four kings went up with all their camps, about eight hundred
thousand men, and they went as they were, and smote every man they found in
their road.

3v And the five kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber
king of Zeboyim, Bera king of Sodom, Bersha king of Gomorrah, and Bela king of
Zoar, went out to meet them, and they all joined together in the valley of
Siddim.

4v And these nine kings made war in the valley of Siddim; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah were smitten before the kings of Elam.

5v And the valley of Siddim was full of lime-pits and the kings of Elam
pursued the kings of Sodom, and the kings of Sodom with their camps fled and
fell into the lime-pits, and all that remained went to the mountain for
safety, and the five kings of Elam came after them and pursued them to the
gates of Sodom, and they took all that there was in Sodom.

6v And they plundered all the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they also took
Lot, Abram's brother's son, and his property, and they seized all the goods of
the cities of Sodom, and they went away; and Unic, Abram's servant, who was in
the battle, saw this, and told Abram all that the kings had done to the cities
of Sodom, and that Lot was taken captive by them.

7v And Abram heard this, and he rose up with about three hundred and eighteen
men that were with him, and he that night pursued these kings and smote them,
and they all fell before Abram and his men, and there was none remaining but
the four kings who fled, and they went each his own road.

8v And Abram recovered all the property of Sodom, and he also recovered Lot
and his property, his wives and little ones and all belonging to him, so that
Lot lacked nothing.

9v And when he returned from smiting these kings, he and his men passed the
valley of Siddim where the kings had made war together.

10v And Bera king of Sodom, and the rest of his men that were with him, went
out from the lime-pits into which they had fallen, to meet Abram and his men.

11v And Adonizedek king of Jerusalem, the same was Shem, went out with his men
to meet Abraham his people, and they remained together in the valley of
Melech.

12v And Adonizedek blessed Abram, and Abram gave him a tenth from all that he
had brought from the spoil of his enemies, for Adonizedek was a priest before
God.

13v And all the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah who were there, with their
servants, approached Abram and begged of him to return them their servants
whom he had made captive, and to take unto himself all the property.

14v And Abram answered the kings of Sodom, saying, As the Lord liveth who
created heaven and earth, and who redeemed my soul from all affliction, and
who delivered me this day from my enemies, and gave them into my hand, I will
not take anything belonging to you, that you may not boast tomorrow, saying,
Abram became rich from our property that he saved.

15v For the Lord my God in whom I trust said unto me, Thou shalt lack nothing,
for I will bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

16v And now therefore behold, here is all belonging to you, take it and go; as
the Lord liveth I will not take from you from a living soul down to a shoe-tie
or thread, excepting the expense of the food of those who went out with me to
battle, as also the portions of the men who went with me, Anar, Ashcol, and
Mamre, they and their men, as well as those also who had remained to watch the
baggage, they shall take their portion of the spoil.

17v And the kings of Sodom gave Abram according to all that he had said, and
they pressed him to take of whatever he chose, but he would not.

18v And he sent away the kings of Sodom and the remainder of their men, and he
gave them orders about Lot, and they went to their respective places.

19v And Lot, his brother's son, he also sent away with his property, and he
went with them, and Lot returned to his home, to Sodom, and Abram and his
people returned to their home to the plains of Mamre, which is in Hebron.

20v At that time the Lord again appeared to Abram in Hebron, and he said to
him, Do not fear, thy reward is very great before me, for I will not leave
thee, until I shall have multiplied thee, and blessed thee and made thy seed
like the stars in heaven, which cannot be measured nor numbered.

21v And I will give unto thy seed all these lands that thou seest with thine
eyes, to them will I give them for an inheritance forever, only be strong and
do not fear, walk before me and be perfect.

22v And in the seventy-eighth year of the life of Abram, in that year died
Reu, the son of Peleg, and all the days of Reu were two hundred and
thirty-nine years, and he died.

23v And Sarai, the daughter of Haran, Abram's wife, was still barren in those
days; she did not bear to Abram either son or daughter.

24v And when she saw that she bare no children she took her handmaid Hagar,
whom Pharaoh had given her, and she gave her to Abram her husband for a wife.

25v For Hagar learned all the ways of Sarai as Sarai taught her, she was not
in any way deficient in following her good ways.

26v And Sarai said to Abram, Behold here is my handmaid Hagar, go to her that
she may bring forth upon my knees, that I may also obtain children through
her.

27v And at the end of ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan,
which is the eighty-fifth year of Abram's life, Sarai gave Hagar unto him.

28v And Abram hearkened to the voice of his wife Sarai, and he took his
handmaid Hagar and Abram came to her and she conceived.

29v And when Hagar saw that she had conceived she rejoiced greatly, and her
mistress was despised in her eyes, and she said within herself, This can only
be that I am better before God than Sarai my mistress, for all the days that
my mistress has been with my lord, she did not conceive, but me the Lord has
caused in so short a time to conceive by him.

30v And when Sarai saw that Hagar had conceived by Abram, Sarai was jealous of
her handmaid, and Sarai said within herself, This is surely nothing else but
that she must be better than I am.

31v And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee, for at the time when
thou didst pray before the Lord for children why didst thou not pray on my
account, that the Lord should give me seed from thee.

32v And when I speak to Hagar in thy presence, she despiseth my words, because
she has conceived, and thou wilt say nothing to her; may the Lord judge
between me and thee for what thou hast done to me.

33v And Abram said to Sarai, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hand, do unto her
as it may seem good in thy eyes, and Sarai afflicted her, and Hagar fled from
her to the wilderness.

34v And an angel of the Lord found her in the place where she had fled, by a
well, and he said to her, Do not fear, for I will multiply thy seed, for thou
shalt bear a son and thou shalt call his name Ishmael; now then return to
Sarai thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

35v And Hagar called the place of that well Beer-lahai-roi, it is between
Kadesh and the wilderness of Bered.

36v And Hagar at that time returned to her master's house, and at the end of
days Hagar bare a son to Abram, and Abram called his name Ishmael; and Abram
was eighty-six years old when he begat him.

Chapter 17. The Lord Appears to Abram and Establishes the Covenant of
Circumcision, and calls his name Abraham, and Sarai, He calls Sarah.

1v And in those days, in the ninety-first year of the life of Abram, the
children of Chittim made war with the children of Tubal, for when the Lord had
scattered the sons of men upon the face of the earth, the children of Chittim
went and embodied themselves in the plain of Canopia, and they built
themselves cities there and dwelt by the river Tibreu.

2v And the children of Tubal dwelt in Tuscanah, and their boundaries reached
the river Tibreu, and the children of Tubal built a city in Tuscanan, and they
called the name Sabinah, after the name of Sabinah son of Tubal their father,
and they dwelt there unto this day.

3v And it was at that time the children of Chittim made war with the children
of Tubal, and the children of Tubal were smitten before the children of
Chittim, and the children of Chittim caused three hundred and seventy men to
fall from the children of Tubal.

4v And at that time the children of Tubal swore to the children of Chittim,
saying, You shall not intermarry amongst us, and no man shall give his
daughter to any of the sons of Chittim.

5v For all the daughters of Tubal were in those days fair, for no women were
then found in the whole earth so fair as the daughters of Tubal.

6v And all who delighted in the beauty of women went to the daughters of Tubal
and took wives from them, and the sons of men, kings and princes, who greatly
delighted in the beauty of women, took wives in those days from the daughters
of Tubal.

7v And at the end of three years after the children of Tubal had sworn to the
children of Chittim not to give them their daughters for wives, about twenty
men of the children of Chittim went to take some of the daughters of Tubal,
but they found none.

8v For the children of Tubal kept their oaths not to intermarry with them, and
they would not break their oaths.

9v And in the days of harvest the children of Tubal went into their fields to
get in their harvest, when the young men of Chittim assembled and went to the
city of Sabinah, and each man took a young woman from the daughters of Tubal,
and they came to their cities.

10v And the children of Tubal heard of it and they went to make war with them,
and they could not prevail over them, for the mountain was exceedingly high
from them, and when they saw they could not prevail over them they returned to
their land.

11v And at the revolution of the year the children of Tubal went and hired
about ten thousand men from those cities that were near them, and they went to
war with the children of Chittim.

12v And the children of Tubal went to war with the children of Chittim, to
destroy their land and to distress them, and in this engagement the children
of Tubal prevailed over the children of Chittim, and the children of Chittim,
seeing that they were greatly distressed, lifted up the children which they
had had by the daughters of Tubal, upon the wall which had been built, to be
before the eyes of the children of Tubal.

13v And the children of Chittim said to them, Have you come to make war with
your own sons and daughters, and have we not been considered your flesh and
bones from that time till now.

14v And when the children of Tubal heard this they ceased to make war with the
children of Chittim, and they went away.

15v And they returned to their cities, and the children of Chittim at that
time assembled and built two cities by the sea, and they called one Purtu and
the other Ariza.

16v And Abram the son of Terah was then ninety-nine years old.

17v At that time the Lord appeared to him and he said to him, I will make my
covenant between me and thee, and I will greatly multiply thy seed, and this
is the covenant which I make between me and thee, that every male child be
circumcised, thou and thy seed after thee.

18v At eight days old shall it be circumcised, and this covenant shall be in
your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

19v And now therefore thy name shall no more be called Abram but Abraham, and
thy wife shall no more be called Sarai but Sarah.

20v For I will bless you both, and I will multiply your seed after you that
you shall become a great nation, and kings shall come forth from you.

Chapter 18. Abraham Entertains Three Angels, who eat with him. Sarah is
promised a Son. The People of Sodom and Gomorrah, and of all the Cities of the
Plain become very wicked.

1v And Abraham rose and did all that God had ordered him, and he took the men
of his household and those bought with his money, and he circumcised them as
the Lord had commanded him.

2v And there was not one left whom he did not circumcise, and Abraham and his
son Ishmael were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin; thirteen years
old was Ishmael when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

3v And in the third day Abraham went out of his tent and sat at the door to
enjoy the heat of the sun, during the pain of his flesh.

4v And the Lord appeared to him in the plain of Mamre, and sent three of his
ministering angels to visit him, and he was sitting at the door of the tent,
and he lifted his eyes and saw, and lo three men were coming from a distance,
and he rose up and ran to meet them, and he bowed down to them and brought
them into his house.

5v And he said to them, If now I have found favor in your sight, turn in and
eat a morsel of bread; and he pressed them, and they turned in and he gave
them water and they washed their feet, and he placed them under a tree at the
door of the tent.

6v And Abraham ran and took a calf, tender and good, and he hastened to kill
it, and gave it to his servant Eliezer to dress.

7v And Abraham came to Sarah into the tent, and he said to her, Make ready
quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes to cover the pot
containing the meat, and she did so.

8v And Abraham hastened and brought before them butter and milk, beef and
mutton, and gave it before them to eat before the flesh of the calf was
sufficiently done, and they did eat.

9v And when they had done eating, one of them said to him, I will return to
thee according to the time of life, and Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

10v And the men afterward departed and went their ways, to the places to which
they were sent.

11v In those days all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and of the whole five
cities, were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord, and they provoked
the Lord with their abominations, and they strengthened in acting abominably
and scornfully before the Lord, and their wickedness and crimes were in those
days great before the Lord.

12v And they had in their land a very extensive valley, about half a day's
walk, and in it there were fountains of water and a great deal of herbage
surrounding the water.

13v And all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah went there four times in the
year, with their wives and children and all belonging to them, and they
rejoiced there with timbrels and dances.

14v And in the time of rejoicing they would all rise and lay hold of their
neighbor's wives, and some, the virgin daughters of their neighbors, and they
enjoyed them, and each man saw his wife and daughter in the hands of his
neighbor and did not say a word.

15v And they did so from morning to night, and they afterward returned home
each man to his house and each woman to her tent; so they always did four
times in the year.

16v Also when a stranger came into their cities and brought goods which he had
purchased with a view to dispose of there, the people of these cities would
assemble, men, women and children, young and old, and go to the man and take
his goods by force, giving a little to each man until there was an end to all
the goods of the owner which he had brought into the land.

17v And if the owner of the goods quarreled with them, saying, What is this
work which you have done to me, then they would approach to him one by one,
and each would show him the little which he took and taunt him, saying, I only
took that little which thou didst give me; and when he heard this from them
all, he would arise and go from them in sorrow and bitterness of soul, when
they would all arise and go after him, and drive him out of the city with
great noise and tumult.

18v And there was a man from the country of Elam who was leisurely going on
the road, seated upon his ass, which carried a fine mantle of divers colors,
and the mantle was bound with a cord upon the ass.

19v And the man was on his journey passing through the street of Sodom when
the sun set in the evening, and he remained there in order to abide during the
night, but no one would let him into his house; and at that time there was in
Sodom a wicked and mischievous man, one skilful to do evil, and his name was
Hedad.

20v And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the street of the city,
and he came to him and said, Whence comest thou and whither dost thou go.

21v And the man said to him, I am traveling from Hebron to Elam where I
belong, and as I passed the sun set and no one would suffer me to enter his
house, though I had bread and water and also straw and provender for my ass,
and am short of nothing.

22v And Hedad answered and said to him, All that thou shalt want shall be
supplied by me, but in the street thou shalt not abide all night.

23v And Hedad brought him to his house, and he took off the mantle from the
ass with the cord, and brought them to his house, and he gave the ass straw
and provender whilst the traveler ate and drank in Hedad's house, and he abode
there that night.

24v And in the morning the traveler rose up early to continue his journey,
when Hedad said to him, Wait, comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread and
then go, and the man did so; and he remained with him, and they both ate and
drank together during the day, when the man rose up to go.

25v And Hedad said to him, Behold now the day is declining, thou hadst better
remain all night that thy heart may be comforted; and he pressed him so that
he tarried there all night, and on the second day he rose up early to go away,
when Hedad pressed him, saying, Comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread and
then go; and he remained and ate with him also the second day, and then the
man rose up to continue his journey.

26v And Hedad said to him, Behold now the day is declining, remain with me to
comfort thy heart and in the morning rise up early and go thy way.

27v And the man would not remain, but rose and saddled his ass, and whilst he
was saddling his ass the wife of Hedad said to her husband, Behold this man
has remained with us for two days eating and drinking and he has given us
nothing, and now shall he go away from us without giving anything? and Hedad
said to her, Be silent.

28v And the man saddled his ass to go, and he asked Hedad to give him the cord
and mantle to tie it upon the ass.

29v And Hedad said to him, What sayest thou? And he said to him, That thou my
lord shalt give me the cord and the mantle made with divers colors which thou
didst conceal with thee in thy house to take care of it.

30v And Hedad answered the man, saying, This is the interpretation of thy
dream, the cord which thou didst see, means that thy life will be lengthened
out like a cord, and having seen the mantle colored with all sorts of colors,
means that thou shalt have a vineyard in which thou wilt plant trees of all
fruits.

31v And the traveler answered, saying, Not so my lord, for I was awake when I
gave thee the cord and also a mantle woven with different colors, which thou
didst take off the ass to put them by for me, and Hedad answered and said,
Surely I have told thee the interpretation of thy dream and it is a good
dream, and this is the interpretation thereof.

32v Now the sons of men give me four pieces of silver, which is my charge for
interpreting dreams, and of thee only I require three pieces of silver.

33v And the man was provoked at the words of Hedad, and he cried bitterly, and
he brought Hedad to Serak judge of Sodom.

34v And the man laid his cause before Serak the judge, when Hedad replied.
saying, It is not so, but thus the matter stands; and the judge said to the
traveler, This man Hedad telleth thee truth, for he is famed in the cities for
the accurate interpretation of dreams.

35v And the man cried at the word of the judge, and he said, Not so my Lord,
for it was in the day that I gave him the cord and mantle which was upon the
ass, in order to put them by in his house; and they both disputed before the
judge, the one saying, Thus the matter was, and the other declaring otherwise.

36v And Hedad said to the man, Give me four pieces of silver that I charge for
my interpretations of dreams; I will not make any allowance; and give me the
expense of the four meals that thou didst eat in my house.

37v And the man said to Hedad, Truly I will pay thee for what I ate in thy
house, only give me the cord and mantle which thou didst conceal in thy house.

38v And Hedad replied before the judge and said to the man, Did I not tell
thee the interpretation of thy dream? the cord means that thy days shall be
prolonged like a cord, and the mantle, that thou wilt have a vineyard in which
thou wilt plant all kinds of fruit trees.

39v This is the proper interpretation of thy dream, now give me the four
pieces of silver that I require as a compensation, for I will make thee no
allowance.

40v And the man cried at the words of Hedad and they both quarreled before the
judge, and the judge gave orders to his servants, who drove them rashly from
the house.

41v And they went away quarreling from the judge, when the people of Sodom
heard them, and they gathered about them and they exclaimed against the
stranger, and they drove him rashly from the city.

42v And the man continued his journey upon his ass with bitterness of soul,
lamenting and weeping.

43v And whilst he was going along he wept at what had happened to him in the
corrupt city of Sodom.

Chapter 19. The Abominations of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Two Angels
sent to Save Lot. The Cities of the Plain and all their Inhabitants Destroyed
by Fire.

1v And the cities of Sodom had four judges to four cities, and these were
their names, Serak in the city of Sodom, Sharkad in Gomorrah, Zabnac in Admah,
and Menon in Zeboyim.

2v And Eliezer Abraham's servant applied to them different names, and he
converted Serak to Shakra, Sharkad to Shakrura, Zebnac to Kezobim, and Menon
to Matzlodin.

3v And by desire of their four judges the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had
beds erected in the streets of the cities, and if a man came to these places
they laid hold of him and brought him to one of their beds, and by force made
him to lie in them.

4v And as he lay down, three men would stand at his head and three at his
feet, and measure him by the length of the bed, and if the man was less than
the bed these six men would stretch him at each end, and when he cried out to
them they would not answer him.

5v And if he was longer than the bed they would draw together the two sides of
the bed at each end, until the man had reached the gates of death.

6v And if he continued to cry out to them, they would answer him, saying, Thus
shall it be done to a man that cometh into our land.

7v And when men heard all these things that the people of the cities of Sodom
did, they refrained from coming there.

8v And when a poor man came to their land they would give him silver and gold,
and cause a proclamation in the whole city not to give him a morsel of bread
to edt, and if the stranger should remain there some days, and die from
hunger, not having been able to obtain a morsel of bread, then at his death
all the people of the city would come and take their silver and gold which
they had given to him.

9v And those that could recognize the silver or gold which they had given him
took it back, and at his death they also stripped him of his garments, and
they would fight about them, and he that prevailed over his neighbor took
them.

10v They would after that carry him and bury him under some of the shrubs in
the deserts; so they did all the days to any one that came to them and died in
their land.

11v And in the course of time Sarah sent Eliezer to Sodom, to see Lot and
inquire after his welfare.

12v And Eliezer went to Sodom, and he met a man of Sodom fighting with a
stranger, and the man of Sodom stripped the poor man of all his clothes and
went away.

13v And this poor man cried to Eliezer and supplicated his favor on account of
what the man of Sodom had done to him.

14v And he said to him, Why dost thou act thus to the poor man who came to thy
land.

15v And the man of Sodom answered Eliezer, saying, Is this man thy brother, or
have the people of Sodom made thee a judge this day, that thou speakest about
this man.

16v And Eliezer strove with the man of Sodom on account of the poor man, and
when Eliezer approached to recover the poor man'S clothes from the man of
Sodom, he hastened and with a stone smote Eliezer in the forehead.

17v And the blood flowed copiously from Eliezer's forehead, and when the man
saw the blood he caught hold of Eliezer, saying, Give me my hire for having
rid thee of this bad blood that was in thy forehead, for such is the custom
and the law in our land.

18v And Eliezer said to him, Thou hast wounded me and requirest me to pay thee
thy hire; and Eliezer would not hearken to the words of the man of Sodom.

19v And the man laid hold of Eliezer and brought him to Shakra the judge of
Sodom for judgment.

20v And the man spoke to the judge, saying, I beseech thee my lord, thus has
this man done, for I smote him with a stone that the blood flowed from his
forehead, and he is unwilling to give me my hire.

21v And the judge said to Eliezer, This man speaketh truth to thee, give him
his hire, for this is the custom in our land; and Eliezer heard the words of
the judge, and he lifted up a stone and smote the judge, and the stone struck
on his forehead, and the blood flowed copiously from the forehead of the
judge, and Eliezer said, If this then is the custom in your land give thou
unto this man what I should have given him, for this has been thy decision,
thou didst decree it.

22v And Eliezer left the man of Sodom with the judge, and he went away.

23v And when the kings of Elam had made war with the kings of Sodom, the kings
of Elam captured all the property of Sodom, and they took Lot captive, with
his property, and when it was told to Abraham he went and made war with the
kings of Elam, and he recovered from their hands all the property of Lot as
well as the property of Sodom.

24v At that time the wife of Lot bare him a daughter, and he called her name
Paltith, saying, Because God had delivered him and his whole household from
the kings of Elam; and Paltith daughter of Lot grew up, and one of the men of
Sodom took her for a wife.

25v And a poor man came into the city to seek a maintenance, and he remained
in the city some days, and all the people of Sodom caused a proclamation of
their custom not to give this man a morsel of bread to eat, until he dropped
dead upon the earth, and they did so.

26v And Paltith the daughter of Lot saw this man lying in the streets starved
with hunger, and no one would give him any thing to keep him alive, and he was
just upon the point of death.

27v And her soul was filled with pity on account of the man, and she fed him
secretly with bread for many days, and the soul of this man was revived.

28v For when she went forth to fetch water she would put the bread in the
water pitcher, and when she came to the place where the poor man was, she took
the bread from the pitcher and gave it him to eat; so she did many days.

29v And all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah wondered how this man could bear
starvation for so many days.

30v And they said to each other, This can only be that he eats and drinks, for
no man can bear starvation for so many days or live as this man has, without
even his countenance changing; and three men concealed themselves in a place
where the poor man was stationed, to know who it was that brought him bread to
eat.

31v And Paltith daughter of Lot went forth that day to fetch water, and she
put bread into her pitcher of water, and she went to draw water by the poor
man's place, and she took out the bread from the pitcher and gave it to the
poor man and he ate it.

32v And ,the three men saw what Paltith did to the poor man, and they said to
her, It is thou then who hast supported him, and therefore has he not starved,
nor changed in appearance nor died like the rest.

33v And the three men went out of the place in which they were concealed, and
they seized Paltith and the bread which was in the poor man's hand.

34v And they took Paltith and brought her before their judges, and they said
to them, Thus did she do, and it is she who supplied the poor man with bread,
therefore did he not die all this time; now therefore declare to us the
punishment due to this woman for having transgressed our law.

35v And the people of Sodom and Gomorrah assembled and kindled a fire in the
street of the city, and they took the woman and cast her into the fire and she
was burned to ashes.

36v And in the city of Admah there was a woman to whom they did the like.

37v For a traveler came into the city of Admah to abide there all night, with
the intention of going home in the morning, and he sat opposite the door of
the house of the young woman's father, to remain there, as the sun had set
when he had reached that place; and the young woman saw him sitting by the
door of the house.

38v And he asked her for a drink of water and she said to him, Who art thou?
and ne said to her, I was this day going on the road, and reached here when
the sun set, so I will abide here all night, and in the morning I will arise
early and continue my journey.

39v And the young woman went into the house and fetched the man bread and
water to eat and drink.

40v And this affair became known to the people of Admah, and they assembled
and brought the young woman before the judges, that they should judge her for
this act.

41v And the judge said, The judgment of death must pass upon this woman
because she transgressed our law, and this therefore is the decision
concerning her.

42v And the people of those cities assembled and brought out the young woman,
and anointed her with honey from head to foot, as the judge had decreed, and
they placed her before a swarm of bees which were then in their hives, and the
bees flew upon her and stung her that her whole body was swelled.

43v And the young woman cried out on account of the bees, but no one took
notice of her or pitied her, and her cries ascended to heaven.

44v And the Lord was provoked at this and at all the works of the cities of
Sodom, for they had abundance of food, and had tranquility amongst them, and
still would not sustain the poor and the needy, and in those days their evil
doings and sins became great before the Lord.

45v And the Lord sent for two of the angels that had come to Abraham's house,
to destroy Sodom and its cities.

46v And the angels rose up from the door of Abraham's tent, after they had
eaten and drunk, and they reached Sodom in the evening, and Lot was then
sitting in the gate of Sodom, and when he saw them he rose to meet them, and
he bowed down to the ground.

47v And he pressed them greatly and brought them into his house, and he gave
them victuals which they ate, and they abode all night in his house.

48v And the angels said to Lot, Arise, go forth from this place, thou and all
belonging to thee, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of this city, for the
Lord will destroy this place.

49v And the angels laid hold upon the hand of Lot and upon the hand of his
wife, and upon the hands of his children, and all belonging to him, and they
brought him forth and set him without the cities.

50v And they said to Lot, Escape for thy life, and he fled and all belonging
to him.

51v Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah and upon all these
cities brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

52v And he overthrew these cities, all the plain and all the inhabitants of
the cities, and that which grew upon the ground; and Ado the wife of Lot
looked back to see the destruction of the cities, for her compassion was moved
on account of her daughters who remained in Sodom, for they did not go with
her.

53v And when she looked back she became a pillar of salt, and it is yet in
that place unto this day.

54v And the oxen which stood in that place daily licked up the salt to the
extremities of their feet, and in the morning it would spring forth afresh,
and they again licked it up unto this day.

55v And Lot and two of his daughters that remained with him fled and escaped
to the cave of Adullam, and they remained there for some time.

56v And Abraham rose up early in the morning to see what had been done to the
cities of Sodom; and he looked and beheld the smoke of the cities going up
like the smoke of a furnace.

57v And Lot and his two daughters remained in the cave, and they made their
father drink wine, and they lay with him, for they said there was no man upon
earth that could raise up seed from them, for they thought that the whole
earth was destroyed.

58v And they both lay with their father, and they conceived and bare sons, and
the first born called the name of her son Moab, saying, From my father did I
conceive him; he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

59v And the younger also called her son Benami; he is the father of the
children of Ammon unto this day.

60v And after this Lot and his two daughters went away from there, and he
dwelt on the other side of the Jordan with his two daughters and their sons,
and the sons of Lot grew up, and they went and took themselves wives from the
land of Canaan, and they begat children and they were fruitful and multiplied.

Chapter 20. Abraham goes to the land of the Philistines, and again tells the
People that Sarah is his sister. Abimelech the King desires her for a Wife. An
Angel warns him, and commands him to return her to her Husband. The whole land
afflicted on account of the matter. Sarah Restored to Abraham, who entreats
the Lord to heal the People of Abimelech.

1v And at that time Abraham journeyed from the plain of Mamre, and he went to
the land of the Philistines, and he dwelt in Gerar; it was in the twenty-fifth
year of Abraham's being in the land of Canaan, and the hundredth year of the
life of Abraham, that he came to Gerar in the land of the Philistines.

2v And when they entered the land he said to Sarah his wife, Say thou art my
sister, to any one that shall ask thee, in order that we may escape the evil
of the inhabitants of the land.

3v And as Abraham was dwelling in the land of the Philistines, the servants of
Abimelech, king of the Philistines, saw that Sarah was exceedingly beautiful,
and they asked Abraham concerning her, and he said, She is my sister.

4v And the servants of Abimelech Went to Abimelech, saying, A man from the
land of Canaan is come to dwell in the land, and he has a sister that is
exceeding fair.

5v And Abimelech heard the words of his servants who praised Sarah to him, and
Abimelech sent his officers, and they brought Sarah to the king.

6v And Sarah came to the house of Abimelech, and the king saw that Sarah was
beautiful, and she pleased him exceedingly.

7v And he approached her and said to her, What is that man to thee with whom
thou didst come to our land? and Sarah answered and said He is my brother, and
we came from the land of Canaan to dwell wherever we could find a place.

8v And Abimelech said to Sarah, Behold my land is before thee, place thy
brother in any part of this land that pleases thee, and it will be our duty to
exalt and elevate him above all the people of the land since he is thy
brother.

9v And Abimelech sent for Abraham, and Abraham came to Abimelech.

10v And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold I have given orders that thou shalt
be honored as thou desirest on account of thy sister Sarah.

11v And Abraham went forth from the king, and the king's present followed him.

12v As at evening time, before men lie down to rest, the king was sitting upon
his throne, and a deep sleep fell upon him, and he lay upon the throne and
slept till morning.

13v And he dreamed that an angel of the Lord came to him with a drawn sword in
his hand, and the angel stood over Abimelech, and wished to slay him with the
sword, and the king was terrified in his dream, and said to the angel, In what
have I sinned against thee that thou comest to slay me with thy sword.

14v And the angel answered and said to Abimelech, Behold thou diest on account
of the woman which thou didst yesternight bring to thy house, for she is a
married woman, the wife of Abraham who came to thy house; now therefore return
that man his wife, for she is his wife; and shouldst thou not return her, know
that thou wilt surely die, thou and all belonging to thee.

15v And on that night there was a great outcry in the land of the Philistines,
and the inhabitants of the land saw the figure of a man standing with a drawn
sword in his hand, and he smote the inhabitants of the land with the sword,
yea he continued to smite them.

16v And the angel of the Lord smote the whole land of the Philistines on that
night, and there was a great confusion on that night and on the following
morning.

17v And every womb was closed, and all their issues, and the hand of the Lord
was upon them on account of Sarah, wife of Abraham, whom Abimelech had taken.

18v And in the morning Abimelech rose with terror and confusion and with a
great dread, and he sent and had his servants called in, and he related his
dream to them, and the people were greatly afraid.

19v And one man standing amongst the servants of the king answered the king,
saying, O sovereign king, restore this woman to her husband, for he is her
husband, for the like happened to the king of Egypt when this man came to
Egypt.

20v And he said concerning his wife, She is my sister, for such is his manner
of doing when he cometh to dwell in the land in which he is a stranger.

21v And Pharaoh sent and took this woman for a wife and the Lord brought upon
him grievous plagues until he returned the woman to her husband.

22v Now therefore, O sovereign king, know what happened yesternight to the
whole land, for there was a very great consternation and great pain and
lamentation, and we know that it was on account of the woman which thou didst
take.

23v Now, therefore, restore this woman to her husband, lest it should befall
us as it did to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his subjects, and that we may not
die; and Abimelech hastened and called and had Sarah called for, and she came
before him, and he had Abraham called for, and he came before him.

24v And Abimelech said to them, What is this work you have been doing in
saying you are brother and sister, and I took this woman for a wife.

25v And Abraham said, Because I thought I should suffer death on account of my
wife; and Abimelech took flocks and herds, and men servants and maid servants,
and a thousand pieces of silver, and he gave them to Abraham, and he returned
Sarah to him.

26v And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold the whole land is before thee, dwell
in it wherever thou shalt choose.

27v And Abraham and Sarah, his wife, went forth from the king's presence with
honor and respect, and they dwelt in the land, even in Gerar.

28v And all the inhabitants of the land of the Philistines and the king's
servants were still in pain, through the plague which the angel had inflicted
upon them the whole night on account of Sarah.

29v And Abimelech sent for Abraham, saying, Pray now for thy servants to the
Lord thy God, that he may put away this mortality from amongst us.

30v And Abraham prayed on account of Abimelech and his subjects, and the Lord
heard the prayer of Abraham, and he healed Abimelech and all his subjects.

Chapter 21. Isaac is Born, causing much Rejoicing among the Friends of
Abraham. Ishmael Attempts to kill Isaac, and on that account is sent away with
his Mother. Ishmael is blessed with Riches and Posterity.

1v And it was at that time at the end of a year and four months of Abraham's
dwelling in the land of the Philistines in Gerar, that God visited Sarah, and
the Lord remembered her, and she conceived and bare a son to Abraham.

2v And Abraham called the name of the son which was born to him, which Sarah
bare to him, Isaac.

3v And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac at eight days old, as God had
commanded Abraham to do unto his seed after him; and Abraham was one hundred,
and Sarah ninety years old, when Isaac was born to them.

4v And the child grew up and he was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast
upon the day that Isaac was weaned.

5v And Shem and Eber and all the great people of the land, and Abimelech king
of the Philistines, and his servants, and Phicol, the captain of his host,
came to eat and drink and rejoice at the feast which Abraham made upon the day
of his son Isaac's being weaned.

6v Also Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor his brother, came from Haran,
they and all belonging to them, for they greatly rejoiced on hearing that a
son had been born to Sarah.

7v And they came to Abraham, and they ate and drank at the feast  Abraham made
upon the day of Isaac's being weaned.

8v And Terah and Nahor rejoiced with Abraham, and they remained with him many
days in the land of the Philistines.

9v At that time Serug the son of Reu died, in the first year of the birth of
Isaac son of Abraham.

10v And all the days of Serug were two hundred and thirty-nine years, and he
died.

11v And Ishmael the son of Abraham was grown up in those days; he was fourteen
years old when Sarah bare Isaac to Abraham.

12v And God was with Ishmael the son of Abraham, and he grew up, and he
learned to use the bow and became an archer.

13v And when Isaac was five years old he was sitting with Ishmael at the door
of the tent.

14v And Ishmael came to Isaac and seated himself opposite to him, and he took
the bow and drew it and put the arrow in it, and intended to slay Isaac.

15v And Sarah saw the act which Ishmael desired to do to her son Isaac, and it
grieved her exceedingly on account of her son, and she sent for Abraham, and
said to him, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for her son shall not be
heir with my son, for thus did he seek to do unto him this day.

16v And Abraham hearkened to the voice of Sarah, and he rose up early in the
morning, and he took twelve loaves and a bottle of water which he gave to
Hagar, and sent her away with her son, and Hagar went with her son to the
wilderness, and they dwelt in the wilderness of Paran with the inhabitants of
the wilderness, and Ishmael was an archer, and he dwelt in the wilderness a
long time.

17v And he and his mother afterward went to the land of Egypt, and they dwelt
there, and Hagar took a wife for her son from Egypt, and her name was Meribah.

18v And the wife of Ishmael conceived and bare four sons and two daughters,
and Ishmael and his mother and his wife and children afterward went and
returned to the wilderness.

19v And they made themselves tents in the wilderness, in which they dwelt, and
they continued to travel and then to rest monthly and yearly.

20v And God gave Ishmael flocks and herds and tents on account of Abraham his
father, and the man increased in cattle.

21v And Ishmael dwelt in deserts and in tents, traveling and resting for a
long time, and he did not see the face of his father.

22v And in some time after, Abraham said to Sarah his wife, I will go and see
my son Ishmael, for I have a desire to see him, for I have not seen him for a
long time.

23v And Abraham rode upon one of his camels to the wilderness to seek his son
Ishmael, for he heard that he was dwelling in a tent in the wilderness with
all belonging to him.

24v And Abraham went to the wilderness, and he reached the tent of Ishmael
about noon, and he asked after Ishmael, and he found the wife of Ishmael
sitting in the tent with her children, and Ishmael her husband and his mother
were not with them.

25v And Abraham asked the wife of Ishmael, saying, Where has Ishmael gone? and
she said, He has gone to the field to hunt, and Abraham was still mounted upon
the camel, for he would not get off to the ground as he had sworn to his wife
Sarah that he would not get off from the camel.

26v And Abraham said to Ishmael's wife, My daughter, give me a little water
that I may drink, for I am fatigued from the journey.

27v And Ishmael's wife answered and said to Abraham, We have neither water nor
bread, and she continued sitting in the tent and did not notice Abraham,
neither did she ask him who he was.

28v But she was beating her children in the tent, and she was cursing them,
and she also cursed her husband Ishmael and reproached him, and Abraham heard
the words of Ishmael's wife to her children, and he was very angry and
displeased.

29v And Abraham called to the woman to come out to him from the tent, and the
woman came and stood opposite to Abraham, for Abraham was still mounted upon
the camel.

30v And Abraham said to Ishmael's wife, When thy husband Ishmael returneth
home say these words to him.

31v A very old man from the land of the Philistines came hither to seek thee,
and thus was his appearance and figure; I did not ask him who he was, and
seeing thou wast not here he spoke unto me and said, When Ishmael thy husband
returneth tell him thus did this man say, When thou comest home put away this
nail of the tent which thou hast placed here, and place another nail in its
stead.

32v And Abraham finished his instructions to the woman, and he turned and went
off on the camel homeward.

33v And after that Ishmael came from the chase he and his mother, and returned
to the tent, and his wife spoke these words to him.

34v A very old man from the land of the Philistines came to seek thee, and
thus was his appearance and figure; I did not ask him who he was, and seeing
thou wast not at home he said to me, When thy husband cometh home tell him,
thus saith the old man, Put away the nail of the tent which thou hast placed
here and place another nail in its stead.

35v And Ishmael heard the words of his wife, and he knew that it was his
father, and that his wife did not honor him.

36v And Ishmael understood his father's words that he had spoken to his wife,
and Ishmael hearkened to the voice of his father, and Ishmael cast off that
woman and she went away.

37v And Ishmael afterward went to the land of Canaan, and he took another wife
and he brought her to his tent to the place where he then dwelt.

38v And at the end of three years Abraham said, I will go again and see
Ishmael my son, for I have not seen him for a long time.

39v And he rode upon his camel and went to the wilderness, and he reached the
tent of Ishmael about noon.

40v And he asked after Ishmael, and his wife came out of the tent and she
said, He is not here my lord, for he has gone to hunt in the fields, and to
feed the camels, and the woman said to Abraham, Turn in my lord into the tent,
and eat a morsel of bread, for thy soul must be wearied on account of the
journey.

41v And Abraham said to her, I will not stop for I am in haste to continue my
journey, but give me a little water to drink, for I have thirst; and the woman
hastened and ran into the tent and she brought out water and bread to Abraham,
which she placed before him and she urged him to eat, and he ate and drank and
his heart was comforted and he blessed his son Ishmael.

42v And he finished his meal he blessed the Lord, and he said to Ishmael' s
wife, When Ishmael cometh home say these words to him.

43v A very old man from the land of the Philistines came hither and asked
after thee, and thou wast not here; and I brought him out bread and water and
he ate and drank and his heart was comforted.

44v And he spoke these words to me: When Ishmael thy husband cometh home, say
unto him, The nail of the tent which thou hast is very good, do not put it
away from the tent.

45v And Abraham finished commanding the woman, and he rode off to his home to
the land of the Philistines; and when Ishmael came to his tent his wife went
forth to meet him with joy and a cheerful heart.

46v And she said to him, An old man came here from the land of the Philistines
and thus was his appearance, and he asked after thee and thou wast not here,
so I brought out bread and water, and he ate and drank and his heart was
comforted.

47v And he spoke these words to me, When Ishmael thy husband cometh home say
to him, The nail of the tent which thou hast is very good, do not put it away
from the tent.

48v And Ishmael knew that it was his father, and that his wife had honored
him, and the Lord blessed Ishmael.

Chapter 22. Ishmael returns to his Father, with his Wives and Children.
Abraham Returns to Canaan and makes his Home in Beersheba, where he Hospitably
Entertains all strangers and teaches them the way of the Lord. Isaac and
Ishmael's conversation. The Offering of Isaac Foretold. Satan's opinion of the
Father of the Faithful.

1v And Ishmael then rose up and took his wife and his children and his cattle
and all belonging to him, and he journeyed from there and he went to his
father in the land of the Philistines.

2v And Abraham related to Ishmael his son the transaction with the first wife
that Ishmael took, according to what she did.

3v And Ishmael and his children dwelt with Abraham many days in that land, and
Abraham dwelt in the land of the Philistines a long time.

4v And the days increased and reached twenty six years, and after that Abraham
with his servants and all belonging to him went from the land of the
Philistines and removed to a great distance, and they came near to Hebron, and
they remained there, and the servants of Abraham dug wells of water, and
Abraham and all belonging to him dwelt by the water, and the servants of
Abimelech king of the Philistines heard the report that Abraham's servants had
dug wells of water in the borders of the land.

5v And they came and quarreled with the servants of Abraham, and they robbed
them of the great well which they had dug.

6v And Abimelech king of the Philistines heard of this affair, and he with
Phicol the captain of his host and twenty of his men came to Abraham, and
Abimelech spoke to Abraham concerning his servants, and Abraham rebuked
Abimelech concerning the well of which his servants had robbed him.

7v And Abimelech said to Abraham, As the Lord liveth who created the whole
earth, I did not hear of the act which my servants did unto thy servants until
this day.

8v And Abraham took seven ewe lambs and gave them to Abimelech, saying, Take
these, I pray thee, from my hands that it may be a testimony for me that I dug
this well.

9v And Abimelech took the seven ewe lambs which Abraham had given to him, for
he had also given him cattle and herds in abundance, and Abimelech swore to
Abraham concerning the well, therefore he called that well Beersheba, for
there they both swore concerning it.

10v And they both made a covenant in Beersheba, and Abimelech rose up with
Phicol the captain of his host and all his men, and they returned to the land
of the Philistines, and Abraham and all belonging to him dwelt in Beersheba
and he was in that land a long time.

11v And Abraham planted a large grove in Beersheba, and he made to it four
gates facing the four sides of the earth, and he planted a vineyard in it, so
that if a traveler came to Abraham he entered any gate which was in his road,
and remained there and ate and drank and satisfied himself and then departed.

12v For the house of Abraham was always open to the sons of men that passed
and repassed, who came daily to eat and drink in the house of Abraham.

13v And any man who had hunger and came to Abraham's house, Abraham would give
him bread that he might eat and drink and be satisfied, and any one that came
naked to his house he would clothe with garments as he might choose, and give
him silver and gold and make known to him the Lord who had created him in the
earth; this did Abraham all his life.

14v And Abraham and his children and all belonging to him dwelt in Beersheba,
and he pitched his tent as far as Hebron.

15v And Abraham's brother Nahor and his father and all belonging to them dwelt
in Haran, for they did not come with Abraham to the land of Canaan.

16v And children were born to Nahor which Milca the daughter of Haran, and
sister to Sarah, Abraham's wife, bare to him.

17v And these are the names of those that were born to him, Uz, Buz, Kemuel,
Kesed, Chazo, Pildash, Tidlaf, and Bethuel, being eight sons, these are the
children of Milca which she bare to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

18v And Nahor had a concubine and her name was Reumah, and she also bare to
Nahor, Zebach, Gachash, Tachash and Maacha, being four sons.

19v And the children that were born to Nahor were twelve sons besides his
daughters, and they also had children born to them in Haran.

20v And the children of Uz the first born of Nahor were Abi, Cheref, Gadin,
Melus, and Deborah their sister.

21v And the sons of Buz were Berachel, Naamath, Sheva, and Madonu.

22v And the sons of Kemuel were Aram and Rechob.

23v And the sons of Kesed were Anamlech, Meshai, Benon and Yifi; and the sons
of Chazo were Pildash, Mechi and Opher.

24v And the sons of Pildash were Arud, Chamum, Mered and Moloch.

25v And the sons of Tidlaf were Mushan, Cushan and Mutzi.

26v And the children of Bethuel were Sechar, Laban and their sister Rebecca.

27v These are the families of the children of Nahor, that were born to them in
Haran; and Aram the son of Kemuel and Rechob his brother went away from Haran,
and they found a valley in the land by the river Euphrates.

28v And they built a city there, and they called the name of the city after
the name of Pethor the son of Aram, that is Aram Naherayim unto this day.

29v And the children of Kesed also went to dwell where they could find a
place, and they went and they found a valley opposite to the land of Shinar,
and they dwelt there.

30v And they there built themselves a city, and they called the name of the
city Kesed after the name of their father, that is the land Kasdim unto this
day, and the Kasdim dwelt in that land and they were fruitful and multiplied
exceedingly.

31v And Terah, father of Nahor and Abraham, went and took another wife in his
old age, and her name was Pelilah, and she conceived and bare him a son and he
called his name Zoba.

32v And Terah lived twenty-five years after he begat Zoba.

33v And Terah died in that year, that is in the thirty-fifth year of the birth
of Isaac son of Abraham.

34v And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and he was buried
in Haran.

35v And Zoba the son of Terah lived thirty years and he begat Aram, Achlis and
Merik.

36v And Aram son of Zoba son of Terah, had three wives and he begat twelve
sons and three daughters; and the Lord gave to Aram the son of Zoba, riches
and possessions, and abundance of cattle, and flocks and herds, and the man
increased greatly.

37v And Aram the son of Zoba and his brother and all his household journeyed
from Haran, and they went to dwell where they should find a place, for their
property was too great to remain in Haran; for they could not stop in Haran
together with their brethren the children of Nahor.

38v And Aram the son of Zoba went with his brethren, and they found a valley
at a distance toward the eastern country and they dwelt there.

39v And they also built a city there, and they called the name thereof Aram,
after the name of their eldest brother; that is Aram Zoba to this day.

40v And Isaac the son of Abraham was growing up in those days, and Abraham his
father taught him the way of the Lord to know the Lord, and the Lord was with
him.

41v And when Isaac was thirty-seven years old, Ishmael his brother was going
about with him in the tent.

42v And Ishmael boasted of himself to Isaac, saying, I was thirteen years old
when the Lord spoke to my father to circumcise us, and I did according to the
word of the Lord which he spoke to my father, and I gave my soul unto the
Lord, and I did not transgress his word which he commanded my father.

43v And Isaac answered Ishmael, saying, Why dost thou boast to me about this,
about a little bit of thy flesh which thou didst take from thy body,
concerning which the Lord commanded thee.

44v As the Lord liveth, the God of my father Abraham, if the Lord should say
unto my father, Take now thy son Isaac and bring him up an offering before me,
I would not refrain but I would joyfully accede to it.

45v And the Lord heard the word that Isaac spoke to Ishmael, and it seemed
good in the sight of the Lord, and he thought to try Abraham in this matter.

46v And the day arrived when the sons of God came and placed themselves before
the Lord, and Satan also came with the sons of God before the Lord.

47v And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? and Satan answered the
Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and
down in it.

48v And the Lord said to Satan, What is thy word to me concerning all the
children of the earth? and Satan answered the Lord and said, I have seen all
the children of the earth who serve thee and remember thee when they require
anything from thee.

49v And when thou givest them the thing which they require from thee, they sit
at their ease, and forsake thee and they remember thee no more.

50v Hast thou seen Abraham the son of Terah, who at first had no children, and
he served thee and erected altars to thee wherever he came, and he brought up
offerings upon them, and he proclaimed thy name continually to all the
children of the earth.

51v And now that his son Isaac is born to him, he has forsaken thee, he has
made a great feast for all the inhabitants of the land, and the Lord he has
forgotten.

52v For amidst all that he has done he brought thee no offering; neither burnt
offering nor peace offering, neither ox, lamb nor goat of all that he killed
on the day that his son was weaned.

53v Even from the time of his son's birth till now, being thirty-seven years,
he built no altar before thee, nor brought any offering to thee, for he saw
that thou didst give what he requested before thee, and he therefore forsook
thee.

54v And the Lord said to Satan, Hast thou thus considered my servant Abraham?
for there is none like him upon earth, a perfect and an upright man before me,
one that feareth God and avoideth evil; as I live, were I to say unto him,
Bring up Isaac thy son before me, he would not withhold him from me, much more
if I told him to bring up a burnt offering before me from his flock or herds.

55v And Satan answered the Lord and said, Speak then now unto Abraham as thou
hast said, and thou wilt see whether he will not this day transgress and cast
aside thy words.

Chapter 23. Abraham commanded to Offer up Isaac, in the Land Moriah. Abraham's
Obedience. Sarah's Affliction. What Happened on the Way. Satan attempts to
hinder them. Isaac an Acceptable Offering. Father and Son alone. The
willingness of Isaac. He Assists his Father in Building the Altar. While they
both weep bitterly, they yet Rejoice to be counted worthy before the Lord.
Isaac bound and placed upon the Altar. The Angels of God intercede for Isaac,
who is released at the command of the Lord, and a Ram is offered in his place.
Satan, by his deception and Evils, causes the Death of Sarah.

1v At that time the word of the Lord came to Abraham, and he said unto him,
Abraham, and he said, Here I am.

2v And he said to him, Take now thy son, thine only son whom thou lovest, even
Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which shall be shown to thee, for there wilt thou
see a cloud and the glory of the Lord.

3v And Abraham said within himself, How shall I separate my son Isaac from
Sarah his mother, in order to bring him up for a burnt offering before the
Lord.

4v And Abraham came into the tent, and he sat before Sarah his wife, and he
spoke these words to her.

5v My son Isaac is grown up and he has not for some time studied the service
of his God, now to-morrow I will go and bring him to Shem, and Eber his son,
and there he will learn the ways of the Lord, for they will teach him to know
the Lord as well as to know that when he prayeth continually before the Lord,
he will answer him, therefore there he will know the way of serving the Lord
his God.

6v And Sarah said, Thou hast spoken well, go my lord and do unto him as thou
hast said, but remove him not at a great distance from me, neither let him
remain there too long, for my soul is bound within his soul.

7v And Abraham said unto Sarah, My daughter, let us pray to the Lord our God
that he may do good with us.

8v And Sarah took her son Isaac and he abode all that night with her, and she
kissed and embraced him, and gave him instructions till morning.

9v And she said to him, O my son, how can my soul separate itself from thee?
And she still kissed him and embraced him, and she gave Abraham instructions
concerning him.

10v And Sarah said to Abraham, O my lord, I pray thee take heed of thy son,
and place thine eyes over him, for I have no other son nor daughter but him.

11v O forsake him not. If he be hungry give him bread, and if he be thirsty
give him water to drink; do not let him go on foot, neither let him sit in the
sun.

12v Neither let him go by himself in the road, neither force him from whatever
he may desire, but do unto him as he may say to thee.

13v And Sarah wept bitterly the whole night on account of Isaac, and she gave
him instructions till morning.

14v And in the morning Sarah selected a very fine and beautiful garment from
those garments which she had in the house, that Abimelech had given to her.

15v And she dressed Isaac her son therewith, and she put a turban upon his
head, and she enclosed a precious stone in the top of the turban, and she gave
them provision for the road, and they went forth, and Isaac went with his
father Abraham, and some of their servants accompanied them to see them off
the road.

16v And Sarah went out with them, and she accompanied them upon the road to
see them off, and they said to her, Return to the tent.

17v And when Sarah heard the words of her son Isaac she wept bitterly, and
Abraham her husband wept with her, and their son wept with them a great
weeping; also those who went with them wept greatly.

18v And Sarah caught hold of her son Isaac, and she held him in her arms, and
she embraced him and continued to weep with him, and Sarah said, Who knoweth
if after this day I shall ever see thee again.

19v And they still wept together, Abraham, Sarah and Isaac, and all those that
accompanied them on the road wept with them, and Sarah afterward turned away
from her son, weeping bitterly, and all her men servants and maid servants
returned with her to the tent.

20v And Abraham went with Isaac his son to bring him up as an offering before
the Lord, as He had commanded him.

21v And Abraham took two of his young men with him, Ishmael the son of Hagar
and Eliezer his servant, and they went together with them, and whilst they
were walking in the road the young men spoke these words to themselves.

22v And Ishmael said to Eliezer, Now my father Abraham is going with Isaac to
bring him up for a burnt offering to the Lord, as He commanded him.

23v Now when he returneth he will give unto me all that he possesses, to
inherit after him, for I am his first born.

24v And Eliezer answered Ishmael and said, Surely Abraham did cast thee away
with thy mother, and swear that thou shouldst not inherit any thing of all he
possesses, and to whom will he give all that he has, with all his treasures,
but unto me his servant, who has been faithful in his house, who has served
him night and day, and has done all that he desired me? to me will he bequeath
at his death all that he possesses.

25v And whilst Abraham was proceeding with his son Isaac along the road, Satan
came and appeared to Abraham in the figure of a very aged man, humble and of
contrite spirit, and he approached Abraham and said to him, Art thou silly or
brutish, that thou goest to do this thing this day to thine only son.

26v For God gave thee a son in thy latter days, in thy old age, and wilt thou
go and slaughter him this day because he committed no violence, and wilt thou
cause the soul of thine only son to perish from the earth.

27v Dost thou not know and understand that this thing cannot be from the Lord?
for the Lord cannot do unto man such evil upon earth to say to him, Go
slaughter thy child.

28v And Abraham heard this and knew that it was the word of Satan who
endeavored to draw him aside from the way of the Lord, but Abraham would not
hearken to the voice of Satan, and Abraham rebuked him so that he went away.

29v And Satan returned and came to Isaac; and he appeared unto Isaac in the
figure of a young man comely and well favored.

30v And he approached Isaac and said unto him, Dost thou not know and
understand that thy old silly father bringeth thee to the slaughter this day
for naught.

31v Now therefore, my son, do not listen nor attend to him, for he is a silly
old man, and let not thy precious soul and beautiful figure be lost from the
earth.

32v And Isaac heard this, and said unto Abraham, Hast thou heard, my father,
that which this man has spoken? even thus has he spoken.

33v And Abraham answered his son Isaac and said to him, Take heed of him and
do not listen to his words, nor attend to him, for he is Satan, endeavoring to
draw us aside this day from the commands of God.

34v And Abraham still rebuked Satan, and Satan went from them, and seeing he
could not prevail over them he hid himself from them, and he went and passed
before them in the road; and he transformed himself to a large brook of water
in the road, and Abraham and Isaac and his two young men reached that place,
and they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters.

35v And they entered the brook and passed through it, and the waters at first
reached their legs.

36v And they went deeper in the brook and the waters reached up to their
necks, and they were all terrified on account of the water; and whilst they
were going over the brook Abraham recognized that place, and he knew that
there was no water there before.

37v And Abraham said to his son Isaac, I know this place in which there was no
brook nor water, now therefore it is this Satan who does all this to us, to
draw us aside this day from the commands of God.

38v And Abraham rebuked him and said unto him, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan,
begone from us for we go by the commands of God.

39v And Satan was terrified at the voice of Abraham, and he went away from
them, and the place again became dry land as it was at first.

40v And Abraham went with Isaac toward the place that God had told him.

41v And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place at a
distance which God had told him of.

42v And a pillar of fire appeared to him that reached from the earth to
heaven, and a cloud of glory upon the mountain, and the glory of the Lord was
seen in the cloud.

43v And Abraham said to Isaac, My son, dost thou see in that mountain, which
we perceive at a distance, that which I see upon it.

44v And Isaac answered and said unto his father, I see and lo a pillar of fire
and a cloud, and the glory of the Lord is seen upon the cloud.

45v And Abraham knew that his son Isaac was accepted before the Lord for a
burnt offering.

46v And Abraham said unto Eliezer and unto Ishmael his son, Do you also see
that which we see upon the mountain which is at a distance.

47v And they answered and said, We see nothing more than like the other
mountains of the earth. And Abraham knew that they were not accepted before
the Lord to go with them, and Abraham said to them, Abide ye here with the ass
whilst I and Isaac my son will go to yonder mount and worship there before the
Lord and then return to you.

48v And Eliezer and Ishmael remained in that place, as Abraham had commanded.

49v And Abraham took wood for a burnt offering and placed it upon his son
Isaac, and he took the fire and the knife, and they both went to that place.

50v And when they were going along Isaac said to his father, Behold, I see
here the fire and wood, and where then is the lamb that is to be the burnt
offering before the Lord.

51v And Abraham answered his son Isaac, saying, The Lord has made choice of
thee my son, to be a perfect burnt offering instead of the lamb.

52v And Isaac said unto his father, I will do all that the Lord spoke to thee
with joy and cheerfulness of heart.

53v And Abraham again said unto Isaac his son, Is there in thy heart any
thought or counsel concerning this, which is not proper? tell me my son, I
pray thee, O my son conceal it not from me.

54v And Isaac answered his father Abraham and said unto him, O my father, as
the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is nothing in my heart to cause
me to deviate either to the right or to the left from the word that he has
spoken to thee.

55v Neither limb nor muscle has moved or stirred at this, nor is there in my
heart any thought or evil counsel concerning this.

56v But I am of joyful and cheerful heart in this matter, and I say, Blessed
is the Lord who has this day chosen me to be a burnt offering before Him.

57v And Abraham greatly rejoiced at the words of Isaac, and they went on and
came together to that place that the Lord had spoken of.

58v And Abraham approached to build the altar in that place, and Abraham was
weeping, and Isaac took stones and mortar until they had finished building the
altar.

59v And Abraham took the wood and placed it in order upon the altar which he
had built.

60v And he took his son Isaac and bound him in order to place him upon the
wood which was upon the altar, to slay him for a burnt offering before the
Lord.

61v And Isaac said to his father Bind me securely and then place me upon the
altar lest I should turn and move, and break loose from the force of the knife
upon my flesh and thereby profane the burnt offering; and Abraham did so.

62v And Isaac still said to his father, O my father, when thou shalt have
slain me and burnt me for an offering, take with thee that which shall remain
of my ashes to bring to Sarah my mother, and say to her, This is the sweet
smelling savor of Isaac; but do not tell her this if she should sit near a
well or upon any high place, lest she should cast her soul after me and die.

63v And Abraham heard the words of Isaac, and he lifted up his voice and wept
when Isaac spake these words; and Abraham's tears gushed down upon Isaac his
son, and Isaac wept bitterly, and he said to his father, Hasten thou, O my
father, and do with me the will of the Lord our God as He has commanded thee.

64v And the hearts of Abraham and Isaac rejoiced at this thing which the Lord
had commanded them; but the eye wept bitterly whilst the heart rejoiced.

65v And Abraham bound his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar upon the
wood, and Isaac stretched forth his neck upon the altar before his father, and
Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son as a burnt
offering before the Lord.

66v At that time the angels of mercy came before the Lord and spake to him
concerning Isaac, saying.

67v O Lord, thou art a merciful and compassionate King over all that thou hast
created in heaven and in earth, and thou supportest them all; give therefore
ransom and redemption instead of thy servant Isaac, and pity and have
compassion upon Abraham and Isaac his son, who are this day performing thy
commands.

68v Hast thou seen, O Lord, how Isaac the son of Abraham thy servant is bound
down to the slaughter like an animal? now therefore let thy pity be roused for
them, O Lord.

69v At that time the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and called to him, from
heaven, and said unto him, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
any thing unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God in performing this
act, and in not withholding thy son, thine only son, from me.

70v And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram was caught in a
thicket by his horns; that was the ram which the Lord God had created in the
earth in the day that he made earth and heaven.

71v For the Lord had prepared this ram from that day, to be a burnt offering
instead of Isaac.

72v And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught hold of him and
entangled his horns in the thicket, that he might not advance to Abraham, in
order that Abraham might slay his son.

73v And Abraham, seeing the ram advancing to him and Satan withholding him,
fetched him and brought him before the altar, and he loosened his son Isaac
from his binding, and he put the ram in his stead, and Abraham killed the ram
upon the altar, and brought it up as an offering in the place of his son
Isaac.

74v And Abraham sprinkled some of the blood of the ram upon the altar, and he
exclaimed and said, This is in the place of my son, and may this be considered
this day as the blood of my son before the Lord.

75v A nd all that Abraham did on this occasion by the altar, he would exclaim
and say, This is in the room of my son, and may it this day be considered
before the Lord in the place of my son; and Abraham finished the whole of the
service by the altar, and the service was accepted before the Lord, and was
accounted as if it had been Isaac; and the Lord blessed Abraham and his seed
on that day.

76v And Satan went to Sarah, and he appeared to her in the figure of an old
man very humble and meek, and Abraham was yet engaged in the burnt offering
before the Lord.

77v And he said unto her, Dost thou not know all the work that Abraham has
made with thine only son this day? for he took Isaac and built an altar, and
killed him, and brought him up as a sacrifice upon the altar, and Isaac cried
and wept before his father, but he looked not at him, neither did he have
compassion over him.

78v And Satan repeated these words, and he went away from her, and Sarah heard
all the words of Satan, and she imagined him to be an old man from amongst the
sons of men who had been with her son, and had come and told her these things.

79v And Sarah lifted up her voice and wept and cried out bitterly on account
of her son; and she threw herself upon the ground and she cast dust upon her
head, and she said, O my son, Isaac my son, O that I had this day died instead
of thee. And she continued to weep and said, It grieves me for thee, O my son,
my son Isaac, O that I had died this day in thy stead.

80v And she still continued to weep, and said, It grieves me for thee after
that I have reared thee and have brought thee up; now my joy is turned into
mourning over thee, I that had a longing for thee, and cried and prayed to God
till I bare thee at ninety years old; and now hast thou served this day for
the knife and the fire, to be made an offering.

81v But I console myself with thee, my son, in its being the word of the Lord,
for thou didst perform the command of thy God; for who can transgress the word
of our God, in whose hands is the soul of every living creature.

82v Thou art just, O Lord our God, for all thy works are good and righteous;
for I also am rejoiced with thy word which thou didst command, and whilst mine
eye weepeth bitterly my heart rejoiceth.

83v And Sarah laid her head upon the bosom of one of her handmaids, and she
became as still as a stone.

84v She afterward rose up and went about making inquiries till she came to
Hebron, and she inquired of all those whom she met walking in the road, and no
one could tell her what had happened to her son.

85v And she came with her maid servants and men servants to Kireath Arba,
which is Hebron, and she asked concerning her son, and she remained there
while she sent some of her servants to seek where Abraham had gone with Isaac;
they went to seek him in the house of Shem and Eber, and they could not find
him, and they sought throughout the land and he was not there.

86v And behold, Satan came to Sarah in the shape of an old man, and he came
and stood before her, and he said unto her, I spoke falsely unto thee, for
Abraham did not kill his son and he is not dead; and when she heard the word
her joy was so exceedingly violent on account of her son, that her soul went
out through joy; she died and was gathered to her people.

87v And when Abraham had finished his service he returned with his son Isaac
to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba, and they
came home.

88v And Abraham sought for Sarah, and could not find her, and he made
inquiries concerning her, and they said unto him, She went as far as Hebron to
seek you both where you had gone, for thus was she informed.

89v And Abraham and Isaac went to her to Hebron, and when they found that she
was dead they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly over her; and Isaac
fell upon his mother's face and wept over her, and he said, O my mother, my
mother, how hast thou left me, and where hast thou gone? O how, how hast thou
left me.

90v And Abraham and Isaac wept greatly and all their servants wept with them
on account of Sarah, and they mourned over her a great and heavy mourning.

Chapter 24. Abraham Purchases a Burial Place. Isaac sent to the House of Shem
and Eber, to Learn the Way of the Lord. Eliezer is sent to get a Wife for
Isaac. Goes to the House of Bethuel and brings Rebecca.

1v And the life of Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years, and Sarah
died; and Abraham rose up from before his dead to seek a burial place to bury
his wife Sarah; and he went and spoke to the children of Heth, the inhabitants
of the land, saying.

2v I am a stranger and a sojourner with you in your land; give me a possession
of a burial place m your land, that I may bury my dead from before me.

3v And the children of Heth said unto Abraham, behold the land is before thee,
in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead, for no man shall withhold thee
from burying thy dead.

4v And Abraham said unto them, If you are agreeable to this go and entreat for
me to Ephron, the son of Zochar, requesting that he may give me the cave of
Machpelah, which is in the end of his field, and I will purchase it of him for
whatever he desire for it.

5v And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth, and they went and called for
him, and he came before Abraham, and Ephron said unto Abraham, Behold all thou
requirest thy servant will do; and Abraham said, No, but I will buy the cave
and the field which thou hast for value, in order that it may be for a
possession of a burial place for ever.

6v And Ephron answered and said Behold the field and the cave are before thee,
give whatever thou desirest; and Abraham said, Only at full value will I buy
it from thy hand, and from the hands of those that go in at the gate of thy
City, and from the hand of thy seed for ever.

7v And Ephron and all his brethren heard this, and Abraham weighed to Ephron
four hundred shekels of silver in the hands of Ephron and in the hands of all
his brethren; and Abraham wrote this transaction, and he wrote it and
testified it with four witnesses.

8v And these are the names of the witnesses, Amigal son of Abishna the
Hittite, Adichorom son of Ashunach the Hivite, Abdon son of Achiram the
Gomerite, Bakdil the son of Abudish the Zidonite.

9v And Abraham took the book of the purchase, and placed it in his treasures,
and these are the words that Abraham wrote in the book, namely:

10v That the cave and the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite, and
from his seed, and from those that go out of his city, and from their seed for
ever, are to be a purchase to Abraham and to his seed and to those that go
forth from his loins, for a possession of a burial place for ever; and he put
a signet to it and testified it with witnesses.

11v And the field and the cave that was in it and all that place were made
sure unto Abraham and unto his seed after him, from the children of Heth;
behold it is before Mamre in Hebron, which is in the land of Canaan.

12v And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah there, and that place and all
its boundary became to Abraham and unto his seed for a possession of a burial
place.

13v And Abraham buried Sarah with pomp as observed at the interment of kings,
and she was buried in very fine and beautiful garments.

14v And at her bier was Shem, his sons Eber and Abimelech, together with Anar,
Ashcol and Mamre, and all the grandees of the land followed her bier.

15v And the days of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years and she
died, and Abraham made a great and heavy mourning, and he performed the rites
of mourning for seven days.

16v And all the inhabitants of the land comforted Abraham and Isaac his son on
account of Sarah.

17v And when the days of their mourning passed by Abraham sent away his son
Isaac, and he went to the house of Shem and Eber, to learn the ways of the
Lord and his instructions, and Abraham remained there three years.

18v At that time Abraham rose up with all his servants, and they went and
returned homeward to Beersheba and Abraham and all his servants remained in
Beersheba.

19v And at the revolution of the year Abimelech king of the Philistines died
in that year; he was one hundred and ninety-three years old at his death; and
Abraham went with his people to the land of the Philistines, and they
comforted the whole household and all his servants, and he then turned and
went home.

20v And it was after the death of Abimelech that the people of Gerar took
Benmalich his son, and he was only twelve years old, and they made him king in
the place of his father.

21v And they called his name Abimelech after the name of his father, for thus
was it their custom to do in Gerar, and Abimelech reigned instead of Abimelech
his father, and he sat upon his throne.

22v And Lot the son of Haran also died in those days, in the thirty-ninth year
of the life of Isaac, and all the days that Lot lived were one hundred and
forty years and he died.

23v And these are the children of Lot, that were born to him by his daughters,
the name of the first born was Moab, and the name of the second was Benami.

24v And the two sons of Lot went and took themselves wives from the land of
Canaan, and they bare children to them, and the children of Moab were Ed,
Mayon, Tarsus, and Kanvil, four sons, these are fathers to the children of
Moab unto this day.

25v And all the families of the children of Lot went to dwell wherever they
should light upon, for they were fruitful and increased abundantly.

26v And they went and built themselves cities in the land where they dwelt,
and they called the names of the cities which they built after their own
names.

27v And Nahor the son of Terah, brother to Abraham, died in those days in the
fortieth year of the life of Isaac, and all the days of Nahor were one hundred
and seventy-two years and he died and was buried in Haran.

28v And when Abraham heard that his brother was dead he grieved sadly, and he
mourned over his brother many days.

29v And Abraham called for Eliezer his head servant, to give him orders
concerning his house, and he came and stood before him.

30v And Abraham said to him, Behold I am old, I do not know the day of my
death; for I am advanced in days; now therefore rise up, go forth and do not
take a wife for my son from this place and from this land, from the daughters
of the Canaanites amongst whom we dwell.

31v But go to my land and to my birthplace, and take from thence a wife for my
son, and the Lord God of Heaven and earth who took me from my father's house
and brought me to this place, and said unto me, To thy seed will I give this
land for an inheritance for ever, he will send his angel before thee and
prosper thy way, that thou mayest obtain a wife for my son from my family and
from my father's house.

32v And the servant answered his master Abraham and said, Behold I go to thy
birthplace and to thy father' s house, and take a wife for thy son from there;
but if the woman be not willing to follow me to this land, shall I take thy
son back to the land of thy birthplace.

33v And Abraham said unto him, Take heed that thou bring not my son hither
again, for the Lord before whom I have walked he will send his angel before
thee and prosper thy way.

34v And Eliezer did as Abraham ordered him, and Eliezer swore unto Abraham his
master upon this matter; and Eliezer rose up and took ten camels of the camels
of his master, and ten men from his master's servants with him, and they rose
up and went to Haran, the city of Abraham and Nahor, in order to fetch a wife
for Isaac the son of Abraham; and whilst they were gone Abraham sent to the
house of Shem and Eber, and they brought from thence his son Isaac.

35v And Isaac came home to his father's house to Beersheba, whilst Eliezer and
his men came to Haran; and they stopped in the city by the watering place, and
he made his camels to kneel down by the water and they remained there.

36v And Eliezer, Abraham's servant, prayed and said, O God of Abraham my
master; send me I pray thee good speed this day and show kindness unto my
master, that thou shalt appoint this day a wife for my master's son from his
family.

37v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Eliezer, for the sake of his
servant Abraham, and he happened to meet with the daughter of Bethuel, the son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, brother to Abraham, and Eliezer came to her
house.

38v And Eliezer related to them all his concerns, and that he was Abraham's
servant, and they greatly rejoiced at him.

39v And they all blessed the Lord who brought this thing about, and they gave
him Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, for a wife for Isaac.

40v And the young woman was of very comely appearance, she was a virgin, and
Rebecca was ten years old in those days.

41v And Bethuel and Laban and his children made a feast on that night, and
Eliezer and his men came and ate and drank and rejoiced there on that night.

42v And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were with him, and
he called to the whole household of Bethuel, saying, Send me away that I may
go to my master; and they rose up and sent away Rebecca and her nurse Deborah,
the daughter of Uz, and they gave her silver and gold, men servants and maid
servants, and they blessed her.

43v And they sent Eliezer away with his men; and the servants took Rebecca,
and he went and returned to his master to the land of Canaan.

44v And Isaac took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he brought her into
the tent.

45v And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca, the daughter of his
uncle Bethuel, for a wife.

Chapter 25. Abraham takes Keturah for a Wife by whom he has Six Sons. The
generations of the Sons of Keturah, and of Ishmael.

1v And it was at that time that Abraham again took a wife in his old age, and
her name was Keturah, from the land of Canaan.

2v And she bare unto him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuach,
being six sons. And the children of Zimran were Abihen, Molich and Narim.

3v And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan, and the sons of Medan were
Amida, Joab, Gochi, Elisha and Nothach; and the sons of Midian were Ephah,
Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.

4v And the sons of Ishbak were Makiro, Beyodua and Tator.

5v And the sons of Shuach were Bildad, Mamdad, Munan and Meban; all these are
the families of the children of Keturah the Canaanitish woman which she bare
unto Abraham the Hebrew.

6v And Abraham sent all these away, and he gave them gifts, and they went away
from his son Isaac to dwell wherever they should find a place.

7v And all these went to the mountain at the east, and they built themselves
six cities in which they dwelt unto this day.

8v But the children of Sheba and Dedan children of Jokshan, with their
children, did not dwell with their brethren in their cities, and they
journeyed and encamped in the countries and wildernesses unto this day.

9v And the children of Midian, son of Abraham, went to the east of the land of
Cush, and they there found a large valley in the eastern country, and they
remained there and built a city, and they dwelt therein, that is the land of
Midian unto this day.

10v And Midian dwelt in the city which he built, he and his five sons and all
belonging to him.

11v And these are the names of the sons of Midian according to their names in
their cities, Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.

12v And the sons of Ephah were Methach, Meshar, Avi and Tzanua, and the sons
of Epher were Ephron, Zur, Alirun and Medin, and the sons of Chanoch were
Reuel, Rekem, Azi, Alyoshub and Alad.

13v And the sons of Abida w ere Chur, Melud, Kerury, Molchi; and the sons of
Eldaah were Miker, and Reba, and Malchiyah and Gabol; these are the names of
the Midianites according to their families; and afterward the families of
Midian spread throughout the land of Midian.

14v And these are the generations of Ishmael the son Abraham, whom Hagar,
Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham.

15v And Ishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt, and her name was Ribah,
the same is Meribah.

16v And Ribah bare unto Ishmael Nebayoth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam and their
sister Bosmath.

17v And Ishmael cast away his wife Ribah, and she went from him and returned
to Egypt to the house of her father, and she dwelt there, for she had been
very bad in the sight of Ishmael, and in the sight of his father Abraham.

18v And Ishmael afterward took a wife from the land of Canaan, and her name
was Malchuth, and she bare unto him Nishma, Dumah, Masa, Chadad, Tema, Yetur,
Naphish and Kedma.

19v These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, being twelve
princes according to their nations; and the families of Ishmael afterward
spread forth, and Ishmael took his children and all the property that he had
gained, together with the souls of his household and all belonging to him, and
they went to dwell where they should find a place.

20v And they went and dwelt near the wilderness of Paran, and their dwelling
was from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt as thou comest toward
Assyria.

21v And Ishmael and his sons dwelt in the land, and they had children born to
them, and they were fruitful and increased abundantly.

22v And these are the names of the sons of Nebayoth the first born of Ishmael;
Mend, Send, Mayon; and the sons of Kedar were Alyon, Kezem, Chamad and Eli.

23v And the sons of Adbeel were Chamad and Jabin; and the sons of Mibsam were
Obadiah, Ebedmelech and Yeush; these are the families of the children of Ribah
the wife of Ishmael.

24v And the sons of Mishma the son of Ishmael were Shamua, Zecaryon and Obed;
and the sons of Dumah were Kezed, Eli, Machmad and Amed.

25v And the sons of Masa were Melon, Mula and Ebidadon; and the sons of Chadad
were Azur, Minzar and Ebedmelech; and the sons of Tema were Seir, Sadon and
Yakol.

26v And the sons of Yetur were Merith, Yaish, Alyo, and Pachoth; and the sons
of Naphish were Ebed-Tamed, Abiyasaph and Mir; and the sons of Kedma were
Calip, Tachti, and Omir; these were the children of Malchuth the wire of
Ishmael according to their families.

27v All these are the families of Ishmael according to their generations, and
they dwelt in those lands wherein they had built themselves cities unto this
day.

28v And Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel, the wife of Abraham's son Isaac, was
barren in those days, she had no offspring; and Isaac dwelt with his father in
the land of Canaan; and the Lord was with Isaac; and Arpachshad the son of
Shem the son of Noah died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life
of Isaac, and all the days that Arpachshad lived were four hundred and
thirty-eight years, and he died.

Chapter 26. Isaac and Rebecca pray for children. Their Prayers answered, and
Esau and Jacob are Born. Abraham, after recounting all the Wonderful Works of
the Lord, enjoins his Son to Walk in His way and keep His Commandments. In the
Fifteenth Year of Jacob and Esau's lives, Abraham Dies and is Buried by all
the Kings of the land. All the People and even the children mourn for Abraham
for a Full Year.

1v And in the fifty-ninth year of the life of Isaac the son of Abraham,
Rebecca his wife was still barren in those days.

2v And Rebecca said unto Isaac, Truly I have heard, my lord, that thy mother
Sarah was barren in her days until my Lord Abraham, thy father, prayed for her
and she conceived by him.

3v Now therefore stand up, pray thou also to God and he will hear thy prayer
and remember us through his mercies.

4v And Isaac answered his wife Rebecca, saying, Abraham has already prayed for
me to God to multiply his seed, now therefore this barrenness must proceed to
us from thee.

5v And Rebecca said unto him, But arise now thou also and pray, that the Lord
may hear thy prayer and grant me children, and Isaac hearkened to the words of
his wife, and Isaac and his wife rose up and went to the land of Moriah to
pray there and to seek the Lord, and when they had reached that place Isaac
stood up and prayed to the Lord on account of his wife because she was barren.

6v And Isaac said, O Lord God of heaven and earth, whose goodness and mercies
fill the earth, thou who didst take my father from his father's house and from
his birthplace, and didst bring him unto this land, and didst say unto him, To
thy seed will I give the land, and thou didst promise him and didst declare
unto him, I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand of
the sea, now may thy words be verified which thou didst speak unto my father.

7v For thou art the Lord our God, our eyes are toward thee to give us seed of
men, as thou didst promise us, for thou art the Lord our God and our eyes are
directed toward thee only.

8v And the Lord heard the prayer of Isaac the son of Abraham, and the Lord was
entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived.

9v And in about seven months after the children struggled together within her,
and it pained her greatly that she was wearied on account of them, and she
said to all the women who were then in the land, Did such a thing happen to
you as it has to me? and they said unto her, No.

10v And she said unto them, Why am I alone in this amongst all the omen that
were upon earth? and she went to the land of Moriah to seek the Lord on
account of this; and she went to Shem and Eber his son to make inquiries of
them in this matter, and that they should seek the Lord in this thing
respecting her.

11v And she also asked Abraham to seek and inquire of the Lord about all that
had befallen her.

12v And they all inquired of the Lord concerning this matter, and they brought
her word from the Lord and told her, Two children are in thy womb, and two
nations shall rise from them; and one nation shall be stronger than the other,
and the greater shall serve the younger.

13v And when her days to be delivered were completed, she knelt down, and
behold there were twins in her womb, as the Lord had spoken to her.

14v And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and all the
people of the land called his name Esau, saying, That this one was made
complete from the womb.

15v And after that came his brother, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel,
therefore they called his name Jacob.

16v And Isaac, the son of Abraham, was sixty years old when he begat them.

17v And the boys grew up to their fifteenth year, and they came amongst the
society of men. Esau was a designing and deceitful man, and an expert hunter
in the field, and Jacob was a man perfect and wise, dwelling in tents, feeding
flocks and learning the instructions of the Lord and the commands of his
father and mother.

18v And Isaac and the children of his household dwelt with his father Abraham
in the land of Canaan, as God had commanded them.

19v And Ishmael the son of Abraham went with his children and all belonging to
them, and they returned there to the land of Havilah, and they dwelt there.

20v And all the children of Abraham's concubines went to dwell in the land of
the east, for Abraham had sent them away from his son, and had given them
presents, and they went away.

21v And Abraham gave all that he had to his son Isaac, and he also gave him
all his treasures.

22v And he commanded him saying, Dost thou not know and understand the Lord is
God in heaven and in earth, and there is no other beside him.

23v And it was he who took me from my father's house, and from my birthplace,
and gave me all the delights upon earth; who delivered me from the counsel of
the wicked, for in him did I trust.

24v And he brought me to this place, and he delivered me from Ur Casdim; and
he said unto me, To thy seed will I give all these lands, and they shall
inherit them when they keep my commandments, my statutes and my judgments that
I have commanded thee, and which I shall command them.

25v Now therefore my son, hearken to my voice, and keep the commandments of
the Lord thy God, which I commanded thee, do not turn from the right way
either to the right or to the left, in order that it may be well with thee and
thy children after thee forever.

26v And remember the wonderful works of the Lord, and his kindness that he has
shown toward us, in having delivered us from the hands of our enemies, and the
Lord our God caused them to fall into our hands; and now therefore keep all
that I have commanded thee, and turn not away from the commandments of thy
God, and serve none beside him,in order that it may be well with thee and thy
seed after thee.

27v And teach thou thy children and thy seed the instructions of the Lord and
his commandments, and teach them the upright way in which they should go, in
order that it may be well with them forever.

28v And Isaac answered his father and said unto him, That which my Lord has
commanded that will I do, and I will not depart from the commands of the Lord
my God, I will keep all that he commanded me; and Abraham blessed his son
Isaac, and also his children; and Abraham taught Jacob the instruction of the
Lord and his ways.

29v And it was at that time that Abraham died, in the fifteenth year of the
life of Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac, and all the days of Abraham were
one hundred and seventy-five years, and he died and was gathered to his people
in good old age, old and satisfied with days, and Isaac and Ishmael his sons
buried him.

30v And when the inhabitants of Canaan heard that Abraham was dead, they all
came with their kings and princes and all their men to bury Abraham.

31v And all the inhabitants of the land of Haran, and all the families of the
house of Abraham, and all the princes and grandees, and the sons of Abraham by
the concubines, all came when they heard of Abraham's death, and they requited
Abraham' s kindness, and comforted Isaac his son, and they buried Abraham in
the cave which he bought from Ephron the Hittite and his children, for the
possession of a burial place.

32v And all the inhabitants of Canaan, and all those who had known Abraham,
wept for Abraham a whole year, and men and women mourned over him.

33v And all the little children, and all the inhabitants of the land wept on
account of Abraham, for Abraham had been good to them all, and because he had
been upright with God and men.

34v And there arose not a man who feared God like unto Abraham, for he had
feared his God from his youth, and had served the Lord, and had gone in all
his ways during his life, from his childhood to the day of his death.

35v And the Lord was with him and delivered him from the counsel of Nimrod and
his people, and when he made war with the four kings of Elam he conquered
them.

36v And he brought all the children of the earth to the service of God, and he
taught them the ways of the Lord, and caused them to know the Lord.

37v And he formed a grove and he planted a vineyard therein, and he had always
prepared in his tent meat and drink to those that passed through the land,
that they might satisfy themselves in his house.

38v And the Lord God delivered the whole earth on account of Abraham.

39v And it was after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac and
his children, and the Lord was with Isaac as he had been with his father
Abraham, for Isaac kept all the commandments of the Lord as Abraham his father
had commanded him; he did not turn to the right or to the left from the right
path which his father had commanded him.

Chapter 27. Esau slays Nimrod and Two of his Mighty Men. Returns Home weary
from the Fight, and sells his Birthright for Value.

1v And Esau at that time, after the death of Abraham, frequently went in the
field to hunt.

2v And Nimrod king of Babel, the same was Amraphel, also frequently went with
his mighty men to hunt in the field, and to walk about with his men in the
cool of the day.

3v And Nimrod was observing Esau all the days, for a jealousy was formed in
the heart of Nimrod against Esau all the days.

4v And on a certain day Esau went in the field to hunt, and he found Nimrod
walking in the wilderness with his two men.

5v And all his mighty men and his people were with him in the wilderness, but
they removed at a distance from him, and they went from him in different
directions to hunt, and Esau concealed himself for Nimrod, and he lurked for
him in the wilderness.

6v And Nimrod and his men that were with him did not know him, and Nimrod and
his men frequently walked about in the field at the cool of the day, and to
know where his men were hunting in the field.

7v And Nimrod and two of his men that were with him came to the place where
they were, when Esau started suddenly from his lurking place, and drew his
sword, and hastened and ran to Nimrod and cut off his head.

8v And Esau fought a desperate fight with the two men that were with Nimrod,
and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and smote them to death
with his sword.

9v And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go to the wilderness,
heard the cry at a distance, and they knew the voices of those two men, and
they ran to know the cause of it, when they found their king and the two men
that were with him lying dead in the wilderness.

10v And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance, he fled,
and thereby escaped; and took the valuable garments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's
father had bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod ran and concealed them
in his house.

11v And Esau took those garments and ran into the city on account of Nimrod's
men, and he came unto his father's house wearied and exhausted from fight, and
he was ready to die through grief when he approached his brother Jacob and sat
before him.

12v And he said unto his brother Jacob, Behold I shall die this day, and
wherefore then do I want the birthright? And Jacob acted wisely with Esau in
this matter, and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, for it was so brought
about by the Lord.

13v And Esau's portion in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
had bought from the children of Heth for the possession of a burial ground,
Esau also sold to Jacob, and Jacob bought all this from his brother Esau for
value given.

14v And Jacob wrote the whole of this in a book, and he testified the same
with witnesses, and he sealed it, and the book remained in the hands of Jacob.

15v And when Nimrod the son of Cush died, his men lifted him up and brought
him in consternation, and buried him in his city. and all the days that Nimrod
lived were two hundred and fifteen years and he died.

16v And the days that Nimrod reigned upon the people of the land were one
hundred and eighty-five years; and Nimrod died by the sword of Esau in shame
and contempt, and the seed of Abraham caused his death as he had seen in his
dream.

17v And at the death of Nimrod his kingdom became divided into many divisions,
and all those parts that Nimrod reigned over were restored to the respective
kings of the land, who recovered them after the death of Nimrod, and all the
people of the house of Nimrod were for a long time enslaved to all the other
kings of the land.

Chapter 28. On account of Famine, Isaac goes to Gerar, the Land of the
Philistines. After the Famine he Returns at the Command of the Lord to Hebron.
Jacob is sent to the House of Shem where he Remains Thirty-two Years to learn
the Way of the Lord, but Esau would not go. Esau marries a Canaanitish Woman.

1v And in those days, after the death of Abraham, in that year the Lord
brought a heavy famine in the land, and whilst the famine was raging in the
land of Canaan, Isaac rose up to go down to Egypt on account of the famine, as
his father Abraham had done.

2v And the Lord appeared that night to Isaac and he said to him, Do not go
down to Egypt but rise and go to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines,
and remain there till the famine shall cease.

3v And Isaac rose up and went to Gerar, as the Lord commanded him, and he
remained there a full year.

4v And when Isaac came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rebecca his
wife was of a beautiful appearance, and the people of Gerar asked Isaac
concerning his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say
she was his wife lest the people of the land should slay him on account of
her.

5v And the princes of Abimelech went and praised the woman to the king, but he
answered them not, neither did he attend to their words.

6v But he heard them say that Isaac declared her to be his sister, so the king
reserved this within himself.

7v And when Isaac had remained three months in the land, Abimelech looked out
at the window, and he saw, and behold Isaac was sporting with Rebecca his
wife, for Isaac dwelt in the outer house belonging to the king, so that the
house of Isaac was opposite the house of the king.

8v And the king said unto Isaac, What is this thou hast done to us in saying
of thy wife, She is my sister? how easily might one of the great men of the
people have lain with her, and thou wouldst then have brought guilt upon us.

9v And Isaac said unto Abimelech, Because I was afraid lest I die on account
of my wife, therefore I said, She is my sister.

10v At that time Abimelech gave orders to all his princes and great men, and
they took Isaac and Rebecca his wife and brought them before the king.

11v And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments,
and make them ride through the streets of the city, and proclaim before them
throughout the land, saying, This is the man and this is his wife; whoever
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely die. And Isaac returned with his
wife to the king's house, and the Lord was with Isaac and he continued to wax
great and lacked nothing.

12v And the Lord caused Isaac to find favor in the sight of Abimelech, and in
the sight of all his subjects, and Abimelech acted well with Isaac, for
Abimelech remembered the oath and the covenant that existed between his father
and Abraham.

13v And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Behold the whole earth is before thee;
dwell wherever it may seem good in thy sight until thou shalt return to thy
land; and Abimelech gave Isaac fields and vineyards and the best part of the
land of Gerar, to sow and reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days
of the famine should have passed by.

14v And Isaac sowed in that land, and received a hundred-fold in the same
year, and the Lord blessed him.

15v And the man waxed great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of
herds and great store of servants.

16v And when the days of the famine had passed away the Lord appeared to Isaac
and said unto him, Rise up, go forth from this place and return to thy land,
to the land of Canaan; and Isaac rose up and returned to Hebron which is in
the land of Canaan, he and all belonging to him as the Lord commanded him.

17v And after this Shelach the son of Arpachshad died in that year, which is
the eighteenth year of the lives of Jacob and Esau; and all the days that
Shelach lived were four hundred and thirty-three years and he died.

18v At that time Isaac sent his younger son Jacob to the house of Shem and
Eber, and he learned the instructions of the Lord, and Jacob remained in the
house of Shem and Eber for thirty-two years, and Esau his brother did not go,
for he was not willing to go, and he remained in his father's house in the
land of Canaan.

19v And Esau was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could
get, so did Esau all the days.

20v And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the
hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esau was a valiant man in the field, and
in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field
of Seir, the same is Edom.

21v And he remained in the land of Seir hunting in the field a year and four
months.

22v And Esau there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man of Canaan,
and her name was Jehudith, the daughter of Beeri, son of Epher, from the
families of Heth the son of Canaan.

23v And Esau took her for a wife, and he came unto her; forty years old was
Esau when he took her, and he brought her to Hebron, the land of his father's
dwelling place, and he dwelt there.

24v And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the
life of Isaac, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Jacob, in that year
died Shem the son of Noah; Shem was six hundred years old at his death.

25v And when Shem died Jacob returned to his father to Hebron which is in the
land of Canaan.

26v And in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Jacob, people came from Haran,
and Rebecca was told concerning her brother Laban the son of Bethuel.

27v For the wife of Laban was barren in those days, and bare no children, and
also all his handmaids bare none to him.

28v And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she
conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his
daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel.

29v And those people came and told these things to Rebecca, and Rebecca
rejoiced greatly that the Lord had visited her brother and that he had got
children.

Chapter 29. Jacob by deceit obtains his Brother's Blessing. Jacob fearing his
Brother's anger, flees to the House of Eber, where he remains for Fourteen
Years. Esau again marries a Woman of the Land. Jacob returns to his Father,
but being still threatened by Esau, is advised by his Mother to go to her
Brother Laban, in Haran. Jacob goes to Haran, being Commanded by his Father
not to Marry any of the Daughters of Canaan. Jacob is Waylaid on the Road, by
the Son of Esau, and is Robbed of all he Possessed.

1v And Isaac the son of Abraham became old and advanced in days, and his eyes
became heavy through age; they were dim and could not see.

2v At that time Isaac called unto Esau his son, saying, Get I pray thee thy
weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, rise up and go forth into the field and get
me some venison, and make me savory meat and bring it to me, that I may eat in
order that I may bless thee before my death, as I have now become old and
grey-headed.

3v And Esau did so; and he took his weapon and went forth into the field to
hunt for venison, as usual, to bring to his father as he had ordered him, so
that he might bless him.

4v And Rebecca heard all the words that Isaac had spoken unto Esau, and she
hastened and called her son Jacob, saying, Thus did thy father speak unto thy
brother Esau, and thus did I hear, now therefore hasten thou and make that
which I shall tell thee.

5v Rise up and go, I pray thee, to the flock and fetch me two fine kids of the
goats, and I will get the savory meat for thy father, and thou shalt bring the
savory meat that he may eat before thy brother shall have come from the chase,
in order that thy father may bless thee.

6v And Jacob hastened and did as his mother had commanded him, and he made the
savory meat and brought it before his father before Esau had come from his
chase.

7v And Isaac said unto Jacob, Who art thou, my son? And he said, I am thy
first born Esau, I have done as thou didst order me, now therefore rise up I
pray thee, and eat of my hunt, in order that thy soul may bless me as thou
didst speak unto me.

8v And Isaac rose up and he ate and he drank, and his heart was comforted, and
he blessed Jacob and Jacob went away from his father; and as soon as Isaac had
blessed Jacob and he had gone away from him, behold Esau came from his hunt
from the field, and he also made savory meat and brought it to his father to
eat thereof and to bless him.

9v And Isaac said unto Esau, And who was he that has taken venison and brought
it me before thou camest and whom I did bless? And Esau knew that his brother
Jacob had done this, and the anger of Esau was kindled against his brother
Jacob that he had acted thus toward him.

10v And Esau said, Is he not rightly called Jacob? for he has supplanted me
twice, he took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing; and
Esau wept greatly; and when Isaac heard the voice of his son Esau weeping!
Isaac said unto Esau, What can I do, my son, thy brother came with subtlety
and took away thy blessing; and Esau hated his brother Jacob on account of the
blessing that his father had given him, and his anger was greatly roused
against him.

11v And Jacob was very much afraid of his brother Esau, and he rose up and
fled to the house of Eber the son of Shem, and he concealed himself there on
account of his brother, and Jacob was sixty-three years old when he went forth
from the land of Canaan from Hebron, and Jacob was concealed in Eber's house
fourteen years on account of his brother Esau, and he there continued to learn
the ways of the Lord and his commandments.

12v And when Esau saw that Jacob had fled and escaped from him, and that Jacob
had cunningly obtained the blessing, then Esau grieved exceedingly, and he was
also vexed at his father and mother; and he also rose up and took his wife and
went away from his father and mother to the land of Seir, and he dwelt there;
and Esau saw there a woman from amongst the daughters of Heth whose name was
Bosmath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and he took her for a wife in
addition to his first wife, and Esau called her name Adah, saying the blessing
had in that time passed from him.

13v And Esau dwelt in the land of Seir six months without seeing his father
and mother, and afterward Esau took his wives and rose up and returned to the
land of Canaan, and Esau placed his two wives in his father's house in Hebron.

14v And the wives of Esau vexed and provoked Isaac and Rebecca with their
works, for they walked not in the ways of the Lord, but served their father's
gods of wood and stone as their father had taught them, and they were more
wicked than their father.

15v And they went according to the evil desires of their hearts, and they
sacrificed and burnt incense to the Baalim, and Isaac and Rebecca became weary
of them.

16v And Rebecca said, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth;
if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the
daughters of the land, what good then is life unto me.

17v And in those days Adah the wife of Esau conceived and bare him a son, and
Esau called the name of the son that was born unto him Eliphaz, and Esau was
sixty-five years old when she bare him.

18v And Ishmael the son of Abraham died in those days, in the sixty-forth year
of the life of Jacob, and all the days that Ishmael lived were one hundred and
thirty-seven years and he died.

19v And when Isaac heard that Ishmael was dead he mourned for him, and Isaac
lamented over him many days.

20v And at the end of fourteen years of Jacob's residing in the house of Eber,
Jacob desired to see his father and mother, and Jacob came to the house of his
father and mother to Hebron, and Esau had in those days forgotten what Jacob
had done to him in having taken the blessing from him in those days.

21v And when Esau saw Jacob coming to his father and mother he remembered what
Jacob had done to him, and he was greatly incensed against him and he sought
to slay him.

22v And Isaac the son of Abraham was old and advanced in days, and Esau said,
Now my father's time is drawing nigh that he must die, and when he shall die I
will slay my brother Jacob.

23v And this was told to Rebecca, and she hastened and sent and called for
Jacob her son, and she said unto him, Arise, go and flee to Haran to my
brother Laban, and remain there for some time, until thy brother's anger be
turned from thee and then shalt thou come back.

24v And Isaac called unto Jacob and said unto him, Take not a wife from the
daughters of Canaan, for thus did our father Abraham command us according to
the word of the Lord which he had commanded him, saying, unto thy seed will I
give this land; if thy children keep my covenant that I have made with thee,
then will I also perform to thy children that which I have spoken unto thee
and I will not forsake them.

25v Now therefore my son hearken to my voice, to all that I shall command
thee, and refrain from taking a wife from amongst the daughters of Canaan;
arise, go to Haran to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take unto
thee a wife from there from the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

26v Therefore take heed lest thou shouldst forget the Lord thy God and all his
ways in the land to which thou goest, and shouldst get connected with the
people of the land and pursue vanity and forsake the Lord thy God.

27v But when thou comest to the land serve there the Lord, do not turn to the
right or to the left from the way which I commanded thee and which thou didst
learn.

28v And may the Almighty God grant thee favor in the sight of the people of
the earth, that thou mayest take there a wife according to thy choice; one who
is good and upright in the ways of the Lord.

29v And may God give unto thee and thy seed the blessing of thy father
Abraham, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and mayest thou become a
multitude of people in the land whither thou goest, and may God cause thee to
return to this land, the land of thy father's dwelling, with children and with
great riches, with joy and with pleasure.

30v And Isaac finished commanding Jacob and blessing him, and he gave him many
gifts, together with silver and gold, and he sent him away; and Jacob
hearkened to his father and mother; he kissed them and arose and went to
Padanaram; and Jacob was seventy-seven years old when he went out from the
land of Canaan from Beersheba.

31v And when Jacob went away to go to Haran Esau called unto his son Eliphaz,
and secretly spoke unto him, saying, Now hasten, take thy sword in thy hand
and pursue Jacob and pass before him in the road, and lurk for him, and slay
him with thy sword in one of the mountains, and take all belonging to him and
come back.

32v And Eliphaz the son of Esau was an active man and expert with the bow as
his father had taught him, and he was a noted hunter in the field and a
valiant man.

33v And Eliphaz did as his father had commanded him, and Eliphaz was at that
time thirteen years old, and Eliphaz rose up and went and took ten of his
mother's brothers with him and pursued Jacob.

34v And he closely followed Jacob, and he lurked for him in the border of the
land of Canaan opposite to the city of Shechem.

35v And Jacob saw Eliphaz and his men pursuing him, and Jacob stood still in
the place in which he was going, in order to know what this was, for he did
not know the thing; and Eliphaz drew his sword and he went on advancing, he
and his men, toward Jacob; and Jacob said unto them, What is to do with you
that you have come hither, and what meaneth it that you pursue with your
swords.

36v And Eliphaz came near to Jacob and he answered and said unto him, Thus did
my father command me, and now therefore I will not deviate from the orders
which my father gave me; and when Jacob saw that Esau had spoken to Eliphaz to
employ force, Jacob then approached and supplicated Eliphaz and his men,
saying to him.

37v Behold all that I have and which my father and mother gave unto me, that
take unto thee and go from me, and do not slay me, and may this thing be
accounted unto thee a righteousness.

38v And the Lord caused Jacob to find favor in the sight of Eliphaz the son of
Esau, and his men, and they hearkened to the voice of Jacob, and they did not
put him to death, and Eliphaz and his men took all belonging to Jacob together
with the silver and gold that he had brought with him from Beersheba; they
left him nothing.

39v And Eliphaz and his men went away from him and they returned to Esau to
Beersheba, and they told him all that had occurred to them with Jacob, and
they gave him all that they had taken from Jacob.

40v And Esau was indignant at Eliphaz his son, and at his men that were with
him, because they had not put Jacob to death.

41v And they answered and said unto Esau, Because Jacob supplicated us in this
matter not to slay him, our pity was excited toward him, and we took all
belonging to him and brought it unto thee; and Esau took all the silver and
gold which Eliphaz had taken from Jacob and he put them by in his house.

42v At that time when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had commanded
him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from amongst the daughters of Canaan,
and that the daughters of Canaan were bad in the sight of Isaac and Rebecca.

43v Then he went to the house of Ishmael his uncle, and in addition to his
other wives he took Machlath the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Nebayoth,
for a wife.

Chapter 30. When he Arrives at Mount Moriah, the Lord appears to Jacob and
establishes His Covenant with him. Arriving at his Uncle's House he Engages to
Serve Seven Years for Rachel.

1v And Jacob went forth continuing his road to Haran, and he came as far as
mount Moriah, and he tarried there all night near the city of Luz; and the
Lord appeared there unto Jacob on that night, and he said unto him, I am the
Lord God of Abraham and the God of Isaac thy father; the land upon which thou
liest I will give unto thee and thy seed.

2v And behold I am with thee and will keep thee wherever thou goest, and I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of Heaven, and I will cause all thine
enemies to fall before thee; and when they shall make war with thee they shall
not prevail over thee, and I will bring thee again unto this land with joy,
with children, and with great riches.

3v And Jacob awoke from his sleep and he rejoiced greatly at the vision which
he had seen; and he called the name of that place Bethel.

4v And Jacob rose up from that place quite rejoiced, and when he walked his
feet felt light to him for joy, and he went from there to the land of the
children of the East, and he returned to Haran and he sat by the shepherd's
well.

5v And he there found some men going from Haran to feed their flocks, and
Jacob made inquiries of them, and they said, We are from Haran.

6v And he said unto them, Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor? and they said,
We know him, and behold his daughter Rachel is coming along to feed her
father's flock.

7v Whilst he was yet speaking with them, Rachel the daughter of Laban came to
feed her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

8v And when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, he
ran and kissed her, and lifted up his voice and wept.

9v And Jacob told Rachel that he was the son of Rebecca, her father's sister,
and Rachel ran and told her father, and Jacob continued to cry because he had
nothing with him to bring to the house of Laban.

10v And when Laban heard that his sister's son Jacob had come, he ran and
kissed him and embraced him, and brought him into the house and gave him
bread, and he ate.

11v And Jacob related to Laban what his brother Esau had done to him, and what
his son Eliphaz had done to him in the road.

12v And Jacob resided in Laban's house for one month, and Jacob ate and drank
in the house of Laban, and afterward Laban said unto Jacob, Tell me what shall
be thy wages, for how canst thou serve me for nought.

13v And Laban had no sons but only daughters, and his other wives and
handmaids were still barren in those days; and these are the names of Laban's
daughters which his wife Adinah had borne unto him: the name of the elder was
Leah and the name of the younger was Rachel; and Leah was tender-eyed, but
Rachel was beautiful and well favored, and Jacob loved her.

14v And Jacob said unto Laban, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy
younger daughter; and Laban consented to this and Jacob served Laban seven
years for his daughter Rachel.

15v And in the second year of Jacob's dwelling in Haran, that is in the
seventy-ninth year of the life of Jacob, in that year died Eber the son of
Shem, he was four hundred and sixty-four years old at his death.

16v And when Jacob heard that Eber was dead he grieved exceedingly, and he
lamented and mourned over him many days.

17v And in the third year of Jacob's dwelling in Haran, Bosmath, the daughter
of Ishmael, the wife of Esau, bare unto him a son, and Esau called his name
Reuel.

18v And in the fourth year of Jacob's residence in the house of Laban, the
Lord visited Laban and remembered him on account of Jacob, and sons were born
unto him, and his first born was Beor, his second was Alib, and the third was
Chorash.

19v And the Lord gave Laban riches and honor, sons and daughters, and the man
increased greatly on account of Jacob.

20v And Jacob in those days served Laban in all manner of work, in the house
and in the field, and the blessing of the Lord was in all that belonged to
Laban in the house and in the field.

21v And in the fifth year died Jehudith, the daughter of Beeri, the wife of
Esau, in the land of Canaan, and she had no sons but daughters only.

22v And these are the names of her daughters which she bare to Esau, the name
of the elder was Marzith, and the name of the younger was Puith.

23v And when Jehudith died, Esau rose up and went to Seir to hunt in the
field, as usual, and Esau dwelt in the land of Seir for a long time.

24v And in the sixth year Esau took for a wife, in addition to his other
wives, Ahlibamah, the daughter of Zebeon the Hivite, and Esau brought her to
the land of Canaan.

25v And Ahlibamah conceived and bare unto Esau three sons, Yeush, Yaalan, and
Korah.

26v And in those days, in the land of canaan, there was a quarrel between the
herdsmen of Esau and the herdsmen of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan,
for Esau's cattle and goods were too abundant for him to remain in the land of
Canaan, in his father's house, and the land of Canaan could not bear him on
account of his cattle.

27v And when Esau saw that his quarreling increased with the inhabitants of
the land of Canaan, he rose up and took his wives and his sons and his
daughters, and all belonging to him, and the cattle which he possessed, and
all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he went away
from the inhabitants of the land to the land of Seir, and Esau and all
belonging to him dwelt in the land of Seir.

28v But from time to time Esau would go and see his father and mother in the
land of Canaan, and Esau intermarried with the Horites, and he gave his
daughters to the sons of Seir, the Horite.

29v And he gave his elder daughter Marzith to Anah, the son of Zebeon, his
wife's brother, and Puith he gave to Azar, the son of Bilhan the Horite; and
Esau dwelt in the mountain, he and his children, and they were fruitful and
multiplied.

Chapter 31. Jacob is Deceived and is given Leah in Place of Rachel, but is
given Rachel for Seven Years' more Service. Jacob serves Laban six years
longer for Wages and becomes very Rich, when the Lord Appears to him and
commands him to Return tothe Land of Canaan. Jacob Obeys and goes from Laban.
Rachel Steals her Father's gods, that he may not know where Jacob has fled.
Laban Pursues him, but establishes a covenant of peace. Laban breaks his
Covenant by sending his Son secretly to Esau that Jacob may Fall in his Hands.
Esau, with Four Hundred Men, seek to Destroy Jacob.

1v And in the seventh year, Jacob's service which he served Laban was
completed, and Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for the days of my
service are fulfilled; and Laban did so, and Laban and Jacob assembled all the
people of that place and they made a feast.

2v And in the evening Laban came to the house, and afterward Jacob came there
with the people of the feast, and Laban extinguished all the lights, that were
there in the house.

3v And Jacob said unto Laban, Wherefore dost thou do this thing unto us? and
Laban answered, Such is our custom to act in this land.

4v And afterward Laban took his daughter Leah, and he brought her to Jacob,
and he came to her and Jacob did not know that she was Leah.

5v And Laban gave his daughter Leah his maid Zilpah for a handmaid.

6v And all the people at the feast knew what Laban had done to Jacob, but they
did not tell the thing to Jacob.

7v And all the neighbors came that night to Jacob's house, and they ate and
drank and rejoiced, and played before Leah upon timbrels, and with dances, and
they responded before Jacob, Heleah, Heleah.

8v And Jacob heard their words but did not understand their meaning, but he
thought such might be their custom in this land.

9v And the neighbors spoke these words before Jacob during the night, and all
the lights that were in the house Laban had that night extinguished.

10v And in the morning, when daylight appeared, Jacob turned to his wife and
he saw, and behold it was Leah that had been lying in his bosom, and Jacob
said, Behold now I know what the neighbors said last night, Heleah, they said,
and I knew it not.

11v And Jacob called unto Laban, and said unto him, What is this that thou
didst unto me? Surely I served thee for Rachel, and why didst thou deceive me
and didst give me Leah.

12v And Laban answered Jacob, saying, Not so is it done in our place to give
the younger before the elder; now therefore if thou desirest to take her
sister likewise, take her unto thee for the service which thou wilt serve me
for another seven years.

13v And Jacob did so, and he also took Rachel for a wife, and he served Laban
seven years more, and Jacob also came to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than
Leah, and Laban gave her his maid Bilhah for a handmaid.

14v And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, the Lord opened her womb, and
she conceived and bare Jacob four sons in those days.

15v And these are their names, Reuben Simeon, Levi, and Judah, and she
afterward left bearing.

16v And at that time Rachel was barren, and she had no offspring, and Rachel
envied her sister Leah, and when Rachel saw that she bare no children to
Jacob, she took her handmaid Bilhah, and she bare Jacob two sons, Dan and
Naphtali.

17v And when Leah saw that she had left bearing, she also took her handmaid
Zilpah, and she gave her to Jacob for a wife, and Jacob also came to Zilpah,
and she also bare Jacob two sons, Gad and Asher.

18v And Leah again conceived and bare Jacob in those days two sons and one
daughter, and these are their names, Issachar, Zebulon, and their sister
Dinah.

19v And Rachel was still barren in those days, and Rachel prayed unto the Lord
at that time, and she said, O Lord God remember me and visit me, I beseech
thee, for now my husband will cast me off, for I have borne him no children.

20v Now O Lord God, hear my supplication before thee, and see my affliction,
and give me children like one of the handmaids, that I may no more bear my
reproach.

21v And God heard her and opened her womb, and Rachel conceived and bare a
son, and she said, The Lord has taken away my reproach, and she called his
name Joseph, saying, May the Lord add to me another son; and Jacob was
ninety-one years old when she bare him.

22v At that time Jacob's mother, Rebecca, sent her nurse Deborah the daughter
of Uz, and two of Isaac's servants unto Jacob.

23v And they came to Jacob to Haran and they said unto him, Rebecca has sent
us to thee that thou shalt return to thy father's house to the land of Canaan;
and Jacob hearkened unto them in this which his mother had spoken.

24v At that time, the other seven years which Jacob served Laban for Rachel
were completed, and it was at the end of fourteen years that he had dwelt in
Haran that Jacob said unto Laban, give me my wives and send me away, that I
may go to my land, for behold my mother did send unto me from the land of
Canaan that I should return to my father's house.

25v And Laban said unto him, Not so I pray thee; if I have found favor in thy
sight do not leave me; appoint me thy wages and I will give them, and remain
with me.

26v And Jacob said unto him, This is what thou shalt give me for wages, that I
shall this day pass through all thy flock and take away from them every lamb
that is speckled and spotted and such as are brown amongst the sheep, and
amongst the goats, and if thou wilt do this thing for me I will return and
feed thy flock and keep them as at first.

27v And Laban did so, and Laban removed from his flock all that Jacob had said
and gave them to him.

28v And Jacob placed all that he had removed from Laban's flock in the hands
of his sons, and Jacob was feeding the remainder of Laban's flock.

29v And when the servants of Isaac which he had sent unto Jacob saw that Jacob
would not then return with them to the land of Canaan to his father, they then
went away from him, and they returned home to the land of Canaan.

30v And Deborah remained with Jacob in Haran, and she did not return with the
servants of Isaac to the land of Canaan, and Deborah resided with Jacob's
wives and children in Haran.

31v And Jacob served Laban six years longer, and when the sheep brought forth,
Jacob removed from them such as were speckled and spotted, as he had
determined with Laban, and Jacob did so at Laban's for six years, and the man
increased abundantly and he had cattle and maid servants and men servants,
camels, and asses.

32v And Jacob had two hundred drove of cattle, and his cattle were of large
size and of beautiful appearance and were very productive, and all the
families of the sons of men desired to get some of the cattle of Jacob, for
they were exceedingly prosperous.

33v And many of the sons of men came to procure some of Jacob's flock, and
Jacob gave them a sheep for a man servant or a maid servant or for an ass or a
camel, or whatever Jacob desired from them they gave him.

34v And Jacob obtained riches and honor and possessions by means of these
transactions with the sons of men, and the children of Laban envied him of
this honor.

35v And in the course of time he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying,
Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and of that which was our
father's has he acquired all this glory.

36v And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban and of his children, and behold
it was not toward him in those days as it had been before.

37v And the Lord appeared to Jacob at the expiration of the six years, and
said unto him, Arise, go forth out of this land, and return to the land of thy
birthplace and I will be with thee.

38v And Jacob rose up at that time and he mounted his children and wives and
all belonging to him upon camels, and he went forth to go to the land of
Canaan to his father Isaac.

39v And Laban did not know that Jacob had gone from him, for Laban had been
that day sheep-shearing.

40v And Rachel stole her father's images, and she took them and she concealed
them upon the camel upon which she sat, and she went on.

41v And this is the manner of the images; in taking a man who is the first
born and slaying him and taking the hair off his head, and taking salt and
salting the head and anointing it in oil, then taking a small tablet of copper
or a tablet of gold and writing the name upon it, and placing the tablet under
his tongue, and taking the head with the tablet under the tongue and putting
it in the house, and lighting up lights before it and bowing down to it.

42v And at the time when they bow down to it, it speaketh to them in all
matters that they ask of it, through the power of the name which is written in
it.

43v And some make them in the figures of men, of gold and silver, and go to
them in times known to them, and the figures receive the influence of the
stars, and tell them future things, and in this manner were the images which
Rachel stole from her father.

44v And Rachel stole these images which were her father's, in order that Laban
might not know through them where Jacob had gone.

45v And Laban came home and he asked concerning Jacob and his household, and
he was not to be found, and Laban sought his images to know where Jacob had
gone, and could not find them, and he went to some other images, and he
inquired of them and they told him that Jacob had fled from him to his
father's, to the land of Canaan.

46v And Laban then rose up and he took his brothers and all his servants, and
he went forth and pursued Jacob, and he overtook him in mount Gilead.

47v And Laban said unto Jacob, What is this thou hast done to me to flee and
deceive me, and lead my daughters and their children as captives taken by the
sword.

48v And thou didst not suffer me to kiss them and send them away with joy, and
thou didst steal my gods and didst go away.

49v And Jacob answered Laban, saying, Because I was afraid lest thou wouldst
take thy daughters by force from me; and now with whomsoever thou findest thy
gods he shall die.

50v And Laban searched for the images and he examined in all Jacob's tents and
furniture, but could not find them.

51v And Laban said unto Jacob, We will make a covenant together and it shall
be a testimony between me and thee; if thou shalt afflict my daughters, or
shalt take other wives besides my daughters, even God shall be a witness
between me and thee in this matter.

52v And they took stones and made a heap, and Laban said, This heap is a
witness between me and thee, therefore he called the name thereof Gilead.

53v And Jacob and Laban offered sacrifice upon the mount, and they ate there
by the heap, and they tarried in the mount all night, and Laban rose up early
in the morning, and he wept with his daughters and he kissed them, and he
returned unto his place.

54v And he hastened and sent off his son Beor, who was seventeen years old,
with Abichor of the son of Uz, the son of Nahor, and with them were ten men.

55v And they hastened and went and passed on the road before Jacob, and they
came by another road to the land of Sei.

56v And they came unto Esau and said unto him, Thus saith thy brother and
relative, thy mother's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel, saying.

57v Hast thou heard what Jacob thy brother has done unto me, who first came to
me naked and bare, and I went to meet him, and brought him to my house with
honor, and I made him great, and I gave him my two daughters for wives and
also two of my maids.

58v And God blessed him on my account, and he increased abundantly, and had
sons, daughters and maid servants.

59v He has also an immense stock of flocks and herds, camels and asses, also
silver and gold in abundance; and when he saw that his wealth increased, he
left me whilst I went to shear my sheep, and he rose up and fled in secrecy.

60v And he lifted his wives and children upon camels, and he led away all his
cattle and property which he acquired in my land. and he lifted up his
countenance to go to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.

61v And he did not suffer me to kiss my daughters and their children, and he
led my daughters as captives taken by the sword, and he also stole my gods and
he fled.

62v And now I have left him in the mountain of the brook of Jabuk, him and all
belonging to him; he lacketh nothing.

63v If it be thy wish to go to him, go then and there wilt thou find him, and
thou canst do unto him as thy soul desireth; and Laban's messengers came and
told Esau all these things.

64v And Esau heard all the words of Laban's messengers, and his anger was
greatly kindled against Jacob, and he remembered his hatred, and his anger
burned within him.

65v And Esau hastened and took his children and servants and the souls of his
household, being sixty men, and he went and assembled all the children of Seir
the Horite and their people, being three hundred and forty men, and took all
this number of four hundred men with drawn swords, and he went unto Jacob to
smite him.

66v And Esau divided this number into several parts, and he took the sixty men
of his children and servants and the souls of his household as one head, and
gave them in care of Eliphaz his eldest son.

67v And the remaining heads he gave to the care of the six sons of Seir the
Horite, and he placed every man over his generations and children.

68v And the whole of this camp went as it was, and Esau went amongst them
toward Jacob, and he conducted them with speed.

69v And Laban's messengers departed from Esau and went to the land of Canaan,
and they came to the house of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

70v And they told her saying, Behold thy son Esau has gone against his brother
Jacob with four hundred men, for he heard that he was coming, and he is gone
to make war with him, and to smite him and to take all that he has.

71v And Rebecca hastened and sent seventy two men from the servants of Isaac
to meet Jacob on the road; for she said, Peradventure, Esau may make war in
the road when he meets him.

72v And these messengers went on the road to meet Jacob, and they met him in
the road of the brook on the opposite side of the brook Jabuk, and Jacob said
when he saw them, This camp is destined to me from God, and Jacob called the
name of that place Machnayim.

73v And Jacob knew all his father's people, and he kissed them and embraced
them and came with them, and Jacob asked them concerning his father and
mother, and they said, They were well.

74v And these messengers said unto Jacob, Rebecca thy mother has sent us to
thee, saying, I have heard, my son, that thy brother Esau has gone forth
against thee on the road with men from the children of Seir the Horite.

75v And therefore, my son, hearken to my voice and see with thy counsel what
thou wilt do, and when he cometh up to thee, supplicate him, and do not speak
rashly to him, and give him a present from what thou possessest, and from what
God has favored thee with.

76v And when he asketh thee concerning thy affairs, conceal nothing from him,
perhaps he may turn from his anger against thee and thou wilt thereby save thy
soul, thou and all belonging to thee, for it is thy duty to honor him, for he
is thy elder brother.

77v And when Jacob heard the words of his mother which the messengers had
spoken to him, Jacob lifted up his voice and wept bitterly, and did as his
mother then commanded him.

Chapter 32. Jacob sends a Message of Peace to his Brother, who rejects it with
contempt, and Advances to Destroy him. Hosts of Angels cause the Fear of Jacob
to come upon Esau, and he goes to meet him in peace, in answer to Jacob's
Prayer. Jacob Wrestles with an Angel of the Lord.

1v And at that time Jacob sent messengers to his brother Esau toward the land
of Seir, and he spoke to him words of supplication.

2v And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord, to Esau, Thus
saith thy servant Jacob, Let not my lord imagine that my father's blessing
with which he did bless me has proved beneficial to me.

3v For I have been these twenty years with Laban, and he deceived me and
changed my wages ten times, as it has all been already told unto my lord.

4v And I served him in his house very laboriously, and God afterward saw my
affliction, my labor and the work of my hands, and he caused me to find grace
and favor in his sight.

5v And I afterward through God's great mercy and kindness acquired oxen and
asses and cattle, and men servants and maid servants.

6v And now I am coming to my land and my home to my father and mother, who are
in the land of Canaan; and I have sent to let my lord know all this in order
to find favor in the sight of my lord, so that he may not imagine that I have
of myself obtained wealth, or that the blessing with which my father blessed
me has benefitted me.

7v And those messengers went to Esau, and found him on the borders of the land
of Edom going toward Jacob, and four hundred men of the children of Seir the
Horite were standing with drawn swords.

8v And the messengers of Jacob told Esau all the words that Jacob had spoken
to them concerning Esau.

9v And Esau answered them with pride and contempt, and said unto them, Surely
I have heard and truly it has been told unto me what Jacob has done to Laban,
who exalted him in his house and gave him his daughters for wives, and he
begat sons and daughters, and abundantly increased in wealth and riches in
Laban's house through his means.

10v And when he saw that his wealth was abundant and his riches great he fled
with all belonging to him, from Laban's house, and he led Laban's daughters
away from the face of their father, as captives taken by the sword without
telling him of it.

11v And not only to Laban has Jacob done thus but also unto me has he done so,
and has twice supplanted me, and shall I be silent.

12v Now therefore I have this day come with my camps to meet him, and I will
do unto him according to the desire of my heart.

13v And the messengers returned and came to Jacob and said unto him We came to
thy brother, to Esau and we told him all thy words, and thus has he answered
us, and behold he cometh to meet thee with four hundred men.

14v Now then know and see what thou shalt do, and pray before God to deliver
thee from him.

15v And when he heard the words of his brother which he had spoken to the
messengers of Jacob, Jacob was greatly afraid and he was distressed.

16v And Jacob prayed to the Lord his God, and he said, O Lord God of my
fathers, Abraham and Isaac, thou didst say unto me when I went away from my
father's house, saying.

17v I am the Lord God of thy father Abraham and the God of Isaac, unto thee do
I give this land and thy seed after thee, and I will make thy seed as the
stars of heaven, and thou shalt spread forth to the four sides of heaven, and
in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

18v And thou didst establish thy words, and didst give unto me riches and
children and cattle, as the utmost wishes of my heart didst thou give unto thy
servant; thou didst give unto me all that I asked from thee, so that I lacked
nothing.

19v And thou didst afterward say unto me, Return to thy parents and to thy
birth place and I will still do well with thee.

20v And now that I have come, and thou didst deliver me from Laban, I shall
fall in the hands of Esau who will slay me, yea, together with the mothers of
my children.

21v Now therefore, O Lord God, deliver me, I pray thee, also from the hands of
my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him.

22v And if there is no righteousness in me, do it for the sake of Abraham and
my father Isaac.

23v For I know that through kindness and mercy have I acquired this wealth;
now therefore I beseech thee to deliver me this day with thy kindness and to
answer me.

24v And Jacob ceased praying to the Lord, and he divided the people that were
with him with the flocks and cattle into two camps, and he gave the half to
the care of Damesek, the son of Eliezer, Abraham's servant, for a camp, with
his children, and the other half he gave to the care of his brother Elianus
the son of Eliezer, to be for a camp with his children.

25v And he commanded them, saying, Keep yourselves at a distance with your
camps, and do not come too near each other, and if Esau come to one camp and
slay it, the other camp at a distance from it will escape him.

26v And Jacob tarried there that night, and during the whole night he gave his
servants instructions concerning the forces and his children.

27v And the Lord heard the prayer of Jacob on that day, and the Lord then
delivered Jacob from the hands of his brother Esau.

28v And the Lord sent three angels of the angels of heaven, and they went
before Esau and came to him.

29v And these angels appeared unto Esau and his people as two thousand men,
riding upon horses furnished with all sorts of war instruments, and they
appeared in the sight of Esau and all his men to be divided into four camps,
with four chiefs to them.

30v And one camp went on and they found Esau coming with four hundred men
toward his brother Jacob, and this camp ran toward Esau and his people and
terrified them, and Esau fell off the horse in alarm, and all his men
separated from him in that place, for they were greatly afraid.

31v And the whole of the camp shouted after them when they fled from Esau, and
all the warlike men answered, saying.

32v Surely we are the servants of Jacob, who is the servant of God, and who
then can stand against us? And Esau said unto them, O then, my lord and
brother Jacob is your lord, whom I have not seen for these twenty years, and
now that I have this day come to see him, do you treat me in this manner.

33v And the angels answered him, saying, As the Lord liveth, were not Jacob of
whom thou speaketh thy brother, we had not left one remaining from thee and
thy people, but only on account of Jacob we will do nothing to them.

34v And this camp passed from Esau and his men and it went away, and Esau and
his men had gone from them about a league when the second camp came toward him
with all sorts of weapons, and they also did unto Esau and his men as the
first camp had done to them.

35v And when they had left it to go on, behold the third camp came toward him
and they were all terrified, and Esau fell off the horse, and the whole camp
cried out, and said, Surely we are the servants of Jacob, who is the servant
of God, and who can stand against us.

36v And Esau again answered them, saying, O then, Jacob my lord and your lord
is my brother, and for twenty years I have not seen his countenance, and
hearing this day that he was coming, I went this day to meet him, and do you
treat me in this manner.

37v And they answered him, and said unto him, As the Lord liveth, were not
Jacob thy brother as thou didst say, we had not left a remnant from thee and
thy men, but on account of Jacob of whom thou speakest being thy brother, we
will not meddle with thee or thy men.

38v And the third camp also passed from them, and he still continued his road
with his men toward Jacob, when the fourth camp came toward him, and they also
did unto him and his men as the others had done.

39v And when Esau beheld the evil which the four angels had done to him and to
his men, he became greatly afraid of his brother Jacob, and he went to meet
him in peace.

40v And Esau concealed his hatred against Jacob, because he was afraid of his
life on account of his brother Jacob, and because he imagined that the four
camps that he had lighted upon were Jacob's servants.

41v And Jacob tarried that night with his servants in their camps, and he
resolved with his servants to give unto Esau a present from all that he had
with him, and from all his property; and Jacob rose up in the morning, he and
his men, and they chose from amongst the cattle a present for Esau.

42v And this is the amount of the present which Jacob chose from his flock to
give unto his brother Esau: and he selected two hundred and forty head from
the flocks, and he selected from the camels and asses thirty each, and of the
herds he chose fifty kine.

43v And he put them all in ten droves, and he placed each sort by itself, and
he delivered them into the hands of ten of his servants, each drove by itself.

44v And he commanded them, and said unto them, Keep yourselves at a distance
from each other, and put a space between the droves, and when Esau and those
who are with him shall meet you and ask you, saying, Whose are you, and
whither do you go, and to whom belongeth all this before you, you shall say
unto them, We are the servants of Jacob, and we come to meet Esau in peace,
and behold Jacob cometh behind us.

45v And that which is before us is a present sent from Jacob to his brother
Esau.

46v And if they shall say unto you, Why doth he delay behind you, from coming
to meet his brother and to see his face, then you shall say unto them, Surely
he cometh joyfully behind us to meet his brother, for he said, I will appease
him with the present that goeth to him, and after this I will see his face,
peradventure he will accept of me.

47v So the whole present passed on in the hands of his servants, and went
before him on that day, and he lodged that night with his camps by the border
of the brook of Jabuk, and he rose up in the midst of the night, and he took
his wives and his maid servants, and all belonging to him, and he that night
passed them over the ford Jabuk.

48v And when he passed all belonging to him over the brook, Jacob was left by
himself, and a man met him, and he wrestled with him that night until the
breaking of the day, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint through
wrestling with him.

49v And at the break of day the man left Jacob there, and he blessed him and
went away, and Jacob passed the brook at the break of day, and he halted upon
his thigh.

50v And the sun rose upon him when he had passed the brook, and he came up to
the place of his cattle and children.

51v And they went on till midday, and whilst they were going the present was
passing on before them.

52v And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold Esau was at a
distance, coming along with many men, about four hundred, and Jacob was
greatly afraid of his brother.

53v And Jacob hastened and divided his children unto his wives and his
handmaids, and his daughter Dinah he put in a chest, and delivered her into
the hands of his servants.

54v And he passed before his children and wives to meet his brother, and he
bowed down to the ground, yea he bowed down seven times until he approached
his brother, and God caused Jacob to find grace and favor in the sight of Esau
and his men, for God had heard the prayer of Jacob.

55v And the fear of Jacob and his terror fell upon his brother Esau, for Esau
was greatly afraid of Jacob for what the angels of God had done to Esau, and
Esau's anger against Jacob was turned into kindness.

56v And when Esau saw Jacob running toward him, he also ran toward him and he
embraced him, and he fell upon his neck, and they kissed and they wept.

57v And God put fear and kindness toward Jacob in the hearts of the men that
came with Esau, and they also kissed Jacob and embraced him.

58v And also Eliphaz, the son of Esau, with his four brothers, sons of Esau,
wept with Jacob, and they kissed him and embraced him, for the fear of Jacob
had fallen upon them all.

59v And Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women with their offspring, the
children of Jacob, walking behind Jacob and bowing along the road to Esau.

60v And Esau said unto Jacob, Who are these with thee, my brother? are they
thy children or thy servants? and Jacob answered Esau and said, They are my
children which God hath graciously given to thy servant.

61v And whilst Jacob was speaking to Esau and his men, Esau beheld the whole
Camp, and he said unto Jacob, Whence didst thou get the whole of the camp that
I met yesternight? and Jacob said, To find favor in the sight of my lord, it
is that which God graciously gave to thy servant.

62v And the present came before Esau, and Jacob pressed Esau, saying, Take I
pray thee the present that I have brought to my lord, and Esau said, Wherefore
is this my purpose? keep that which thou hast unto thyself.

63v And Jacob said, It is incumbent upon me to give all this, since I have
seen thy face, that thou still livest in peace.

64v And Esau refused to take the present, and Jacob said unto him, I beseech
thee my lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present
at my hand, for I have therefore seen thy face, as though I had seen a
god-like face, because thou wast pleased with me.

65v And Esau took the present, and Jacob also gave unto Esau silver and gold
and bdellium, for he pressed him so much that he took them.

66v And Esau divided the cattle that were in the camp, and he gave the half to
the men who had come with him, for they had come on hire, and the other half
he delivered unto the hands of his children.

67v And the silver and gold and bdellium he gave in the hands of Eliphaz his
eldest son, and Esau said unto Jacob, Let us remain with thee, and we will go
slowly along with thee until thou comest to my place with me, that we may
dwell there together.

68v And Jacob answered his brother and said, I would do as my lord speaketh
unto me, but my lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and
herds with their young who are with me, go but slowly, for if they went
swiftly they would all die, for thou knowest their burdens and their fatigue.

69v Therefore let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will go on slowly
for the sake of the children and the flock, until I come to my lord's place to
Seir.

70v And Esau said unto Jacob, I will place with thee some of the people that
are with me to take care of thee in the road, and to bear thy fatigue and
burden, and he said, What needeth it my lord, if I may find grace in thy
sight.

71v Behold I will come unto thee to Seir to dwell there together as thou hast
spoken, go thou then with thy people for I will follow thee.

72v And Jacob said this to Esau in order to remove Esau and his men from him,
so that Jacob might afterward go to his father's house to the land of Canaan.

73v And Esau hearkened to the voice of Jacob, and Esau returned with the four
hundred men that were with him on their road to Seir, and Jacob and all
belonging to him went that day as far as the extremity of the land of Canaan
in its borders, and he remained there some time.

Chapter 33. Jacob goes to Shechem. Prince Shechem defiles Dinah the Daughter
of Jacob. Shechem desires her for a Wife.

1v And in some time after Jacob went away from the borders of the land, and he
came to the land of Shalem, that is the city of Shechem, which is in the land
of Canaan, and he rested in front of the city.

2v And he bought a parcel of the field which was there, from the children of
Hamor the people of the land, for five shekels.

3v And Jacob there built himself a house, and he pitched his tent there, and
he made booths for his cattle, therefore he called the name of that place
Succoth.

4v And Jacob remained in Succoth a year and six months.

5v At that time some of the women of the inhabitants of the land went to the
city of Shechem to dance and rejoice with the daughters of the people of the
city, and when they went forth then Rachel and Leah the wives of Jacob with
their families also went to behold the rejoicing of the daughters of the city.

6v And Dinah the daughter of Jacob also went along with them and saw the
daughters of the city, and they remained there before these daughters whilst
all the people of the city were standing by them to behold their rejoicings,
and all the great people of the city were there.

7v And Shechem the son of Hamor, the prince of the land was also standing
there to see them.

8v And Shechem beheld Dinah the daughter of Jacob sitting with her mother
before the daughters of the city, and the damsel pleased him greatly, and he
there asked his friends and his people, saying, Whose daughter is that sitting
amongst the women, whom I do not know in this city.

9v And they said unto him, Surely this is the daughter of Jacob the son of
Isaac the Hebrew, who has dwelt in this city for some time, and when it was
reported that the daughters of the land were going forth to rejoice she went
with her mother and maid servants to sit amongst them as thou seest.

10v And Shechem beheld Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and when he looked at her
his soul became fixed upon Dinah.

11v And he sent and had her taken by force, and Dinah came to the house of
Shechem and he seized her forcibly and lay with her and humbled her, and he
loved her exceedingly and placed her in his house.

12v And they came and told the thing unto Jacob, and when Jacob heard that
Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, Jacob sent twelve of his servants to
fetch Dinah from the house of Shechem, and they went and came to the house of
Shechem to take away Dinah from there.

13v And when they came Shechem went out to them with his men and drove them
from his house, and he would not suffer them to come before Dinah, but Shechem
was sitting with Dinah kissing and embracing her before their eyes.

14v And the servants of Jacob came back and told him, saying, When we came, he
and his men drove us away, and thus did Shechem do unto Dinah before our eyes.

15v And Jacob knew moreover that Shechem had defiled his daughter, but he said
nothing, and his sons were feeding his cattle in the field, and Jacob remained
silent till their return.

16v And before his sons came home Jacob sent two maidens from his servants'
daughters to take care of Dinah in the house of Shechem, and to remain with
her, and Shechem sent three of his friends to his father Hamor the son of
Chiddekem, the son of Pered, saying, Get me this damsel for a wife.

17v And Hamor the son of Chiddekem the Hivite came to the house of Shechem his
son, and he sat before him, and Hamor said unto his son, Shechem, Is there
then no woman amongst the daughters of thy people that thou wilt take an
Hebrew woman who is not of thy people.

18v And Shechem said to him, Her only must thou get for me, for she is
delightful in my sight; and Hamor did according to the word of his son, for he
was greatly beloved by him.

19v And Hamor went forth to Jacob to commune with him concerning this matter,
and when he had gone from the house of his son Shechem, before he came to
Jacob to speak unto him, behold the sons of Jacob had come from the field, as
soon as they heard the thing that Shechem the son of Hamor had done.

20v And the men were very much grieved concerning their sister, and they all
came home fired with anger, before the time of gathering in their cattle.

21v And they came and sat before their father and they spoke unto him kindled
with wrath, saying, Surely death is due to this man and to his household,
because the Lord God of the whole earth commanded Noah and his children that
man shall never rob, nor commit adultery; now behold Shechem has both ravaged
and committed fornication with our sister, and not one of all the people of
the city spoke a word to him.

22v Surely thou knowest and understandest that the judgment of death is due to
Shechem, and to his father, and to the whole city on account of the thing
which he has done.

23v And whilst they were speaking before their father in this matter, behold
Hamor the father of Shechem came to speak to Jacob the words of his son
concerning Dinah, and he sat before Jacob and before his sons.

24v And Hamor spoke unto them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for
your daughter; I pray you give her unto him for a wife and intermarry with us;
give us your daughters and we will give you our daughters, and you shall dwell
with us in our land and we will be as one people in the land.

25v For our land is very extensive, so dwell ye and trade therein and get
possessions in it, and do therein as you desire, and no one shall prevent you
by saying a word to you.

26v And Hamor ceased speaking unto Jacob and his sons, and behold Shechem his
son had come after him, and he sat before them.

27v And Shechem spoke before Jacob and his sons, saying, May I find favor in
your sight that you will give me your daughter, and whatever you say unto me
that will I do for her.

28v Ask me for abundance of dowry and gift, and I will give it, and whatever
you shall say unto me that will I do, and whoever he be that will rebel
against your orders, he shall die; only give me the damsel for a wife.

29v And Simeon and Levi answered Hamor and Shechem his son deceitfully,
saying, All you have spoken unto us we will do for you.

30v And behold our sister is in your house, but keep away from her until we
send to our father Isaac concerning this matter, for we can do nothing without
his consent.

31v For he knoweth the ways of our father Abraham, and whatever he sayeth unto
us we will tell you, we will conceal nothing from you.

32v And Simeon and Levi spoke this unto Shechem and his father in order to
find a pretext, and to seek counsel what was to be done to Shechem and to his
city in this matter.

33v And when Shechem and his father heard the words of Simeon and Levi, it
seemed good in their sight, and Shechem and his father came forth to go home.

34v And when they had gone, the sons of Jacob said unto their father, saying,
Behold, we know that death is due to these wicked ones and to their city,
because they transgressed that which God had commanded unto Noah and his
children and his seed after them.

35v And also because Shechem did this thing to our sister Dinah in defiling
her, for such vileness shall never be done amongst us.

36v Now therefore know and see what you will do, and seek counsel and pretext
what is to be done to them, in order to kill all the inhabitants of this city.

37v And Simeon said to them, Here is a proper advice for you: tell them to
circumcise every male amongst them as we are circumcised, and if they do not
wish to do this, we shall take our daughter from them and go away.

38v And if they consent to do this and will do it, then when they are sunk
down with pain, we will attack them with our swords, as upon one who is quiet
and peaceable, and we will slay every male person amongst them.

39v And Simeon's advice pleased them, and Simeon and Levi resolved to do unto
them as it was proposed.

40v And on the next morning Shechem and Hamor his father came again unto Jacob
and his sons, to speak concerning Dinah, and to hear what answer the sons of
Jacob would give to their words.

41v And the sons of Jacob spoke deceitfully to them, saying, We told our
father Isaac all your words, and your words pleased him.

42v But he spoke unto us, saying, Thus did Abraham his father command him from
God the Lord of the whole earth, that any man who is not of his descendants
that should wish to take one of his daughters, shall cause every male
belonging to him to be circumcised, as we are circumcised, and then we may
give him our daughter for a wife.

43v Now we have made known to you all our ways that our father spoke unto us,
for we cannot do this of which you spoke unto us, to give our daughter to an
uncircumcised man, for it is a disgrace to us.

44v But herein will we consent to you, to give you our daughter, and we will
also take unto ourselves your daughters, and will dwell amongst you and be one
people as you have spoken, if you will hearken to us, and consent to be like
us, to circumcise every male belonging to you, as we are circumcised.

45v And if you will not hearken unto us, to have every male circumcised as we
are circumcised, as we have commanded, then we will come to you, and take our
daughter from you and go away.

46v And Shechem and his father Hamor heard the words of the sons of Jacob, and
the thing pleased them exceedingly, and Shechem and his father Hamor hastened
to do the wishes of the sons of Jacob, for Shechem was very fond of Dinah, and
his soul was riveted to her.

47v And Shechem and his father Hamor hastened to the gate of the city, and
they assembled all the men of their city and spoke unto them the words of the
sons of Jacob, saying.

48v We came to these men, the sons of Jacob, and we spoke unto them concerning
their daughter, and these men will consent to do according to our wishes, and
behold our land is of great extent for them, and they will dwell in it, and
trade in it, and we shall be one people; we will take their daughters, and our
daughters we will give unto them for wives.

49v But only on this condition will these men consent to do this thing, that
every male amongst us be circumcised as they are circumcised, as their God
commanded them, and when we shall have done according to their instructions to
be circumcised, then will they dwell amongst us, together with their cattle
and possessions, and we shall be as one people with them.

50v And when all the men of the city heard the words of Shechem and his father
Hamor, then all the men of their city were agreeable to this proposal, and
they obeyed to be circumcised, for Shechem and his father Hamor were greatly
esteemed by them, being the princes of the land.

51v And on the next day, Shechem and Hamor his father rose up early in the
morning, and they assembled all the men of their city into the middle of the
city, and they called for the sons of Jacob, who circumcised every male
belonging to them on that day and the next.

52v And they circumcised Shechem and Hamor his father, and the five brothers
of Shechem, and then every one rose up and went home, for this thing was from
the Lord against the city of Shechem, and from the Lord was Simeon's counsel
in this matter, in order that the Lord might deliver the city of Shechem into
the hands of Jacob's two sons.

Chapter 34. The Perfidy of Shechem. Simeon and Levi, Sons of Jacob, avenge the
Honor of their Sister Dinah, Destroy all the Men of the City, and Spoil it.
The People of Canaan conspire to avenge the cause of Shechem. Isaac and Jacob
Pray for Succor.

1v And the number of all the males that were circumcised, were six hundred and
forty-five men, and two hundred and forty-six children.

2v But Chiddekem, son of Pered, the father of Hamor, and his six brothers,
would not listen unto Shechem and his father Hamor, and they would not be
circumcised, for the proposal of the sons of Jacob was loathsome in their
sight, and their anger was greatly roused at this, that the people of the city
had not hearkened to them.

3v And in the evening of the second day, they found eight small children who
had not been circumcised, for their mothers had concealed them from Shechem
and his father Hamor, and from the men of the city.

4v And Shechem and his father Hamor sent to have them brought before them to
be circumcised, when Chiddekem and his six brothers sprang at them with their
swords, and sought to slay them.

5v And they sought to slay also Shechem and his father Hamor, and they sought
to slay Dinah with them, on account of this matter.

6v And they said unto them, What is this thing that you have done? are there
no women amongst the daughters of your brethren the Canaanites, that you wish
to take unto yourselves daughters of the Hebrews, whom ye knew not before, and
will do this act which your fathers never commanded you.

7v Do you imagine that you will succeed through this act which you have done?
and what will you answer in this affair to your brethren the Canaanites, who
will come tomorrow and ask you concerning this thing.

8v And if your act shall not appear just and good in their sight, what will
you do for your lives, and we for our lives, in your not having hearkened to
our voices.

9v And if the inhabitants of the land and all your brethren the children of
Ham, shall hear of your act, saying.

10v On account of a Hebrew woman did Shechem and Hamor his father, and all the
inhabitants of their city, do that with which they had been unacquainted and
which their ancestors never commanded them, where then will you fly or where
conceal your shame, all your days before your brethren, the inhabitants of the
land of Canaan.

11v Now therefore we cannot bear up against this thing which you have done,
neither can we be burthened with this yoke upon us, which our ancestors did
not command us.

12v Behold to-morrow we will go and assemble all our brethren, the Canaanitish
brethren who dwell in the land, and we will all come and smite you and all
those who trust in you, that there shall not be a remnant left from you or
them.

13v And when Hamor and his son Shechem and all the people of the city heard
the words of Chiddekem and his brothers, they were terribly afraid of their
lives at their words, and they repented of what they had done.

14v And Shechem and his father Hamor answered their father Chiddekem and his
brethren, and they said unto them, All the words which you spoke unto us are
true.

15v Now do not say, nor imagine in your hearts that on account of the love of
the Hebrews we did this thing that our ancestors did not command us.

16v But because we saw that it was not their intention and desire to accede to
our wishes concerning their daughter as to our taking her, except on this
condition, so we hearkened to their voices and did this act which you saw, in
order to obtain our desire from them.

17v And when we shall have obtained our request from them, we will then return
to them and do unto them that which you say unto us.

18v We beseech you then to wait and tarry until our flesh shall be healed and
we again become strong, and we will then go together against them, and do unto
them that which is in your hearts and in ours.

19v And Dinah the daughter of Jacob heard all these words which Chiddekem and
his brothers had spoken, and what Hamor and his son Shechem and the people of
their city had answered them.

20v And she hastened and sent one of her maidens, that her father had sent to
take care of her in the house of Shechem, to Jacob her father and to her
brethren, saying:

21v Thus did Chiddekem and his brothers advise concerning you, and thus did
Hamor and Shechem and the people of the city answer them.

22v And when Jacob heard these words he was filled with wrath, and he was
indignant at them, and his anger was kindled against them.

23v And Simeon and Levi swore and said, As the Lord liveth, the God of the
whole earth, by this time tomorrow, there shall not be a remnant left in the
whole city.

24v And twenty young men had concealed themselves who were not circumcised,
and these young men fought against Simeon and Levi, and Simeon and Levi killed
eighteen of them, and two fled from them and escaped to some lime pits that
were in the city, and Simeon and Levi sought for them, but could not find
them.

25v And Simeon and Levi continued to go about in the city, and they killed all
the people of the city at the edge of the sword, and they left none remaining.

26v And there was a great consternation in the midst of the city, and the cry
of the people of the city ascended to heaven, and all the women and children
cried aloud.

27v And Simeon and Levi slew all the city; they left not a male remaining in
the whole city.

28v And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son at the edge of the sword, and they
brought away Dinah from the house of Shechem and they went from there.

29v And the sons of Jacob went and returned, and came upon the slain, and
spoiled all their properly which was in the city and the field.

30v And whilst they were taking the spoil, three hundred men stood up and
threw dust at them and struck them with stones, when Simeon turned to them and
he slew them all with the edge of the sword, and Simeon turned before Levi,
and came into the city.

31v And they took away their sheep and their oxen and their cattle, and also
the remainder of the women and little ones, and they led all these away, and
they opened a gate and went out and came unto their father Jacob with vigor.

32v And when Jacob saw all that they had done to the city, and saw the spoil
that they took from them, Jacob was very angry at them, and Jacob said unto
them, What is this that you have done to me? behold I obtained rest amongst
the Canaanitish inhabitants of the land, and none of them meddled with me.

33v And now you have done to make me obnoxious to the inhabitants of the land,
amongst the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and I am but of a small number, and
they will all assemble against me and slay me when they hear of your work with
their brethren, and I and my household will be destroyed.

34v And Simeon and Levi and all their brothers with them answered their father
Jacob and said unto him, Behold we live in the land, and shall Shechem do this
to our sister? why art thou silent at all that Shechem has done? and shall he
deal with our sister as with a harlot in the streets.

35v And the number of women whom Simeon and Levi took captives from the city
of Shechem, whom they did not slay, was eighty-five who had not known man.

36v And amongst them was a young damsel of beautiful appearance and well
favored, whose name was Bunah, and Simeon took her for a wife, and the number
of the males which they took captives and did not slay, was forty-seven men,
and the rest they slew.

37v And all the young men and women that Simeon and Levi had taken captives
from the city of Shechem, were servants to the sons of Jacob and to their
children after them, until the day of the sons of Jacob going forth from the
land of Egypt.

38v And when Simeon and Levi had gone forth from the city, the two young men
that were left, who had concealed themselves in the city, and did not die
amongst the people of the city, rose up, and these young men went into the
city and walked about in it, and found the city desolate without man, and only
women weeping, and these young men cried out and said, Behold, this is the
evil which the sons of Jacob the Hebrew did to this city in their having this
day destroyed one of the Canaanitish cities, and were not afraid of their
lives of all the land of Canaan.

39v And these men left the city and went to the city of Tapnach, and they came
there and told the inhabitants of Tapnach all that had befallen them, and all
that the sons of Jacob had done to the city of Shechem.

40v And the information reached Jashub king of Tapnach, and he sent men to the
city of Shechem to see those young men, for the king did not believe them in
this account, saying, How could two men lay waste such a large town as
Shechem.

41v And the messengers of Jashub came back and told him, saying, We came unto
the city, and it is destroyed, there is not a man there; only weeping women;
neither is any flock or cattle there, for all that was in the city the sons of
Jacob took away.

42v And Jashub wondered at this, saying, How could two men do this thing, to
destroy so large a city, and not one man able to stand against them.

43v For the like has not been from the days of Nimrod, and not even from the
remotest time, has the like taken place; and Jashub, king of Tapnach, said to
his people, Be courageous and we will go and fight against these Hebrews, and
do unto them as they did unto the city, and we will avenge the cause of the
people of the city.

44v And Jashub, king of Tapnach, consulted with his counsellors about this
matter, and his advisers said unto him, Alone thou wilt not prevail over the
Hebrews, for they must be powerful to do this work to the whole city.

45v If two of them laid waste the whole city, and no one stood against them,
surely if thou wilt go against them, they will all rise against us and destroy
us likewise.

46v But if thou wilt send to all the kings that surround us, and let them come
together, then we will go with them and fight against the sons of Jacob; then
wilt thou prevail against them.

47v And Jashub heard the words of his counsellors, and their words pleased him
and his people, and he did so; and Jashub king of Tapnach sent to all the
kings of the Amorites that surrounded Shechem and Tapnach, saying.

48v Go up with me and assist me, and we will smite Jacob the Hebrew and all
his sons, and destroy them from the earth, for thus did he do to the city of
Shechem, and do you not know of it.

49v And all the kings of the Amorites heard the evil that the sons of Jacob
had done to the city of Shechem, and they were greatly astonished at them.

50v And the seven kings of the Amorites assembled with all their armies, about
ten thousand men with drawn swords, and they came to fight against the sons of
Jacob; and Jacob heard that the kings of the Amorites had assembled to fight
against his sons, and Jacob was greatly afraid, and it distressed him.

51v And Jacob exclaimed against Simeon and Levi, saying, What is this act that
you did? why have you injured me, to bring against me all the children of
Canaan to destroy me and my household? for I was at rest, even I and my
household, and you have done this thing to me, and provoked the inhabitants of
the land against me by your proceedings.

52v And Judah answered his father, saying, Was it for naught my brothers
Simeon and Levi killed all the inhabitants of Shechem? Surely it was because
Shechem had humbled our sister, and transgressed the command of our God to
Noah and his children, for Shechem took our sister away by force, and
committed adultery with her.

53v And Shechem did all this evil and not one of the inhabitants of his city
interfered with him, to say, Why wilt thou do this? surely for this my
brothers went and smote the city, and the Lord delivered it into their hands,
because its inhabitants had transgressed the commands of our God. Is it then
for naught that they have done all this.

54v And now why art thou afraid or distressed, and why art thou displeased at
my brothers, and why is thine anger kindled against them.

55v Surely our God who delivered into their hand the city of Shechem and its
people, he will also deliver into our hands all the Canaanitish kings who are
coming against us, and we will do unto them as my brothers did unto Shechem.

56v Now be tranquil about them and cast away thy fears, but trust in the Lord
our God, and pray unto him to assist us and deliver us, and deliver our
enemies into our hands.

57v And Judah called to one of his father's servants, Go now and see where
those kings, who are coming against us, are situated with their armies.

58v And the servant went and looked far off, and went up opposite Mount Sihon,
and saw all the camps of the kings standing in the fields, and he returned to
Judah and said, Behold the kings are situated in the field with all their
camps, a people exceedingly numerous, like unto the sand upon the sea shore.

59v And Judah said unto Simeon and Levi, and unto all his brothers, Strengthen
yourselves and be sons of valor, for the Lord our God is with us, do not fear
them.

60v Stand forth each man, girt with his weapons of war, his bow and his sword,
and we will go and fight against these uncircumcised men; the Lord is our God,
He will save us.

61v And they rose up, and each girt on his weapons of war, great and small,
eleven sons of Jacob, and all the servants of Jacob with them.

62v And all the servants of Isaac who were with Isaac in Hebron, all came to
them equipped in all sorts of war instruments, and the sons of Jacob and their
servants, being one hundred and twelve men, went towards these kings, and
Jacob also went with them.

63v And the sons of Jacob sent unto their father Isaac the son of Abraham to
Hebron, the same is Kireath-arba, saying.

64v Pray we beseech thee for us unto the Lord our God, to protect us from the
hands of the Canaanites who are coming against us, and to deliver them into
our hands.

65v And Isaac the son of Abraham prayed unto the Lord for his sons, and he
said, O Lord God, thou didst promise my father, saying, I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of heaven, and thou didst also promise me, and establish
thou thy word, now that the kings of Canaan are coming together, to make war
with my children because they committed no violence.

66v Now therefore, O Lord God, God of the whole earth, pervert, I pray thee,
the counsel of these kings that they may not fight against my sons.

67v And impress the hearts of these kings and their people with the terror of
my sons, and bring down their pride, and that they may turn away from my sons.

68v And with thy strong hand and outstretched arm deliver my sons and their
servants from them, for power and might are in thy hands to do all this.

69v And the sons of Jacob and their servants went toward these kings, and they
trusted in the Lord their God, and whilst they were going, Jacob their lather
also prayed unto the Lord and said, O Lord God, powerful and exalted God, who
has reigned from days of old, from thence till now and forever.

70v Thou art He who stirreth up wars and causeth them to cease, in thy hand
are power and might to exalt and to bring down; O may my prayer be acceptable
before thee that thou mayest turn to me with thy mercies, to impress the
hearts of these kings and their people with the terror of my sons, and terrify
them and their camps, and with thy great kindness deliver all those that trust
in thee, for it is thou who canst bring people under us and reduce nations
under our power.

Chapter 35. The Fear of God come upon the Canaanites, and they do not Fight
with Jacob.

1v And all the kings of the Amorites came and took their stand in the field to
consult with their counsellors what was to be done with the sons of Jacob, for
they were still afraid of them, saying, Behold, two of them slew the whole of
the city of Shechem.

2v And the Lord heard the prayers of Isaac and Jacob, and he filled the hearts
of all these kings' advisers with great fear and terror that they unanimously
exclaimed.

3v Are you silly this day, or is there no understanding in you, that you will
fight with the Hebrews, and why will you take a delight in your own
destruction this day.

4v Behold two of them came to the city of Shechem without fear or terror, and
they killed all the inhabitants of the city, that no man stood up against
them, and how will you be able to fight with them all.

5v Surely you know that their God is exceedingly fond of them, and has done
mighty things for them, such as have not been done from days of old, and
amongst all the gods of nations, there is none can do like unto his mighty
deeds.

6v Surely he delivered their father Abraham, the Hebrew, from the hand of
Nimrod, and from the hand of all his people who had many times sought to slay
him.

7v He delivered him also from the fire in which king Nimrod had cast him, and
his God delivered him from it.

8v And who else can do the like? surely it was Abraham who slew the five kings
of Elam, when they had touched his brother's son who in those days dwelt in
Sodom.

9v And took his servant that was faithful in his house and a few of his men,
and they pursued the kings of Elam in one night and killed them, and restored
to his brother's son all his property which they had taken from him.

10v And surely you know the God of these Hebrews is much delighted with them,
and they are also delighted with him, for they know that he delivered them
from all their enemies.

11v And behold through his love toward his God, Abraham took his only and
precious son and intended to bring him up as a burnt offering to his God, and
had it not been for God who prevented him from doing this, he would then have
done it through his love to his God.

12v And God saw all his works, and swore unto him, and promised him that he
would deliver his sons and all his seed from every trouble that would befall
them, because he had done this thing, and through his love to his God stifled
his compassion for his child.

13v And have you not heard what their God did to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to
Abimelech king of Gerar, through taking Abraham's wife who said of her, She is
my sister, lest they might slay him on account of her and think of taking her
for a wife? and God did unto them and their people all that you heard of.

14v And behold, we ourselves saw with our eyes that Esau, the brother of
Jacob, came to him with four hundred men, with the intention of slaying him,
for he called to mind that he had taken away from him his father's blessing.

15v And he went to meet him when he came from Syria, to smite the mother with
the children, and who delivered him from his hands but his God in whom he
trusted? he delivered him from the hand of his brother and also from the hands
of his enemies, and surely he again will protect them.

16v Who does not know that it was their God who inspired them with strength to
do to the town of Shechem the evil which you heard of.

17v Could it then be with their own strength that two men could destroy such a
large city as Shechem had if not been for their God in whom they trusted? he
said and did unto them all this to slay the inhabitants of the city in their
city.

18v And can you then prevail over them who have come forth together from your
city to fight with the whole of them, even if a thousand times as many more
should come to your assistance.

19v Surely you know and understand that you do not come to fight with them,
but you come to war with their God who made choice of them, and you have
therefore all come this day to be destroyed.

20v Now therefore refrain from this evil which you are endeavoring to bring
upon yourselves, and it will be better for you not to go to battle with them,
although they are but few in numbers, because their God is with them.

21v And when the kings of the Amorites heard all the words of their advisers,
their hearts were filled with terror and they were afraid of the sons of Jacob
and would not fight against them.

22v And they inclined their ears to the words of their advisers, and they
listened to all their words, and the words of the counsellors greatly pleased
the kings, and they did so.

23v And the kings turned and refrained from the sons of Jacob, for they durst
not approach them to make war with them, for they were greatly afraid of them,
and their hearts melted within them from their fear of them.

24v For this proceeded from the Lord to them, for he heard the prayers of his
servants Isaac and Jacob, for they trusted in him; and all these kings
returned with their camps on that day, each to his own city, and they did not
at that time fight with the sons of Jacob.

25v And the sons of Jacob kept their station that day till evening opposite
mount Sihon, and seeing that these kings did not come to fight against them,
the sons of Jacob returned home.

Chapter 36. Jacob and his House goes to Bethel, where the Lord appears to him,
calls his name Israel, and Blesses him. The Generations of Jacob and Esau.

1v At that time the Lord appeared unto Jacob saying, Arise, go to Bethel and
remain there, and make there an altar to the Lord who appeareth unto thee, who
delivered thee and all thy sons from affliction.

2v And Jacob rose up with his sons and all belonging to him, and they went and
came to Bethel according to the word of the Lord.

3v And Jacob was ninety-nine years old when he went up to Bethel, and Jacob
and his sons and all the people that were with him, remained in Bethel in Luz,
and he there built an altar to the Lord who appeared unto him, and Jacob and
his sons remained in Bethel six months.

4v At that time died Deborah the daughter of Uz, the nurse of Rebecca, who had
been with Jacob; and Jacob buried her beneath Bethel under an oak that was
there.

5v And Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel, the mother of Jacob, also died at that
time in Hebron, the same is Kireath-arba, and she was buried in the cave of
Machpelah which Abraham had bought from the children of Heth.

6v And the life of Rebecca was one hundred and thirty-three years, and she
died and when Jacob heard that his mother Rebecca was dead he wept bitterly
for his mother, and made a great mourning for her, and for Deborah her nurse
beneath the oak, and he called the name of that place Allonbachuth.

7v And Laban the Syrian died in those days, for God smote him because he
transgressed the covenant that existed between him and Jacob.

8v And Jacob was a hundred years old when the Lord appeared unto him, old
blessed him and called his name Israel, and Rachel the wife of Jacob conceived
in those days.

9v And at that time Jacob and all belonging to him journeyed from Bethel to go
to his father's house, to Hebron.

10v And whilst they were going on the road, and there was yet but a little way
to come to Ephrath, Rachel bare a son and she had hard labor and she died.

11v And Jacob buried her in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem, and he set
a pillar upon her grave, which is there unto this day; and the days of Rachel
were forty-five years and she died.

12v And Jacob called the name of his son that was born to him, which Rachel
bare unto him, Benjamin, for he was born to him in the land on the right hand.

13v And it was after the death of Rachel, that Jacob pitched his tent in the
tent of her handmaid Bilhah.

14v And Reuben was jealous for his mother Leah on account of this, and he was
filled with anger, and he rose up in his anger and went and entered the tent
of Bilhah and he thence removed his father's bed.

15v At that time the portion of birthright, together with the kingly and
priestly offices, was removed from the sons of Reuben, for he had profaned his
father's bed, and the birthright was given unto Joseph, the kingly office to
Judah, and the priesthood unto Levi, because Reuben had defiled his father's
bed.

16v And these are the generations of Jacob who were born to him in Padanaram,
and the sons of Jacob were twelve.

17v The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and their sister Dinah; and the sons of Rachel were Joseph
and Benjamin.

18v The sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, were Gad and Asher, and the sons of
Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, were Dan and Naphtali; these are the sons of Jacob
which were born to him in Padan-aram.

19v And Jacob and his sons and all belonging to him journeyed and came to
Mamre, which is Kireath-arha, that is in Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned, and Jacob with his sons and all belonging to him, dwelt with his
father in Hebron.

20v And his brother Esau and his sons, and all belonging to him went to the
land of Seir and dwelt there, and had possessions in the land of Seir, and the
children of Esau were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly in the land of Seir.

21v And these are the generations of Esau that were born to him in the land of
Canaan, and the sons of Esau were five.

22v And Adah bare to Esau his first born Eliphaz, and she also bare to him
Reuel, and Ahlibamah bare to him Jeush, Yaalam and Korah.

23v These are the children of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan;
and the sons of Eliphaz the son of Esau were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz
and Amalex, and the sons of Reuel were Nachath, Zerach, Shamah and Mizzah.

24v And the sons of Jeush were Timnah, Alvah, Jetheth; and the sons of Yaalam
were Alah, Phinor and Kenaz.

25v And the sons of Korah were Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel and Eram; these are the
families of the sons of Esau according to their dukedoms in the land of Seir.

26v And these are the names of the sons of Seir the Horite, inhabitants of the
land of Seir, Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishan, Ezer and Dishon, being
seven sons.

27v And the children of Lotan were Hori, Heman and their sister Timna, that is
Timna who came to Jacob and his sons, and they would not give ear to her, and
she went and became a concubine to Eliphaz the son of Esau, and she bare to
him Amalek.

28v And the sons of Shobal were Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam, and
the sons of Zibeon were Ajah, and Anah, this was that Anah who found the Yemim
in the wilderness when he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

29v And whilst he was feeding his father's asses he led them to the wilderness
at different times to feed them.

30v And there was a day that he brought them to one of the deserts on the sea
shore, opposite the wilderness of the people, and whilst he was feeding them,
behold a very heavy storm came from the other side of the sea and rested upon
the asses that were feeding there, and they all stood still.

31v And afterward about one hundred and twenty great and terrible animals came
out from the wilderness at the other side of the sea, and they all came to the
place where the asses were, and they placed themselves there.

32v And those animals, from their middle downward, were in the shape of the
children of men, and from their middle upward, some had the likeness of bears,
and some the likeness of the keephas, with tails behind them from between
their shoulders reaching down to the earth, like the tails of the ducheephath,
and these animals came and mounted and rode upon these asses, and led them
away, and they went away unto this day.

33v And one of these animals approached Anah and smote him with his tail, and
then fled from that place.

34v And when he saw this work he was exceedingly afraid of his life, and he
fled and escaped to the city.

35v And he related to his sons and brothers all that had happened to him, and
many men went to seek the asses but could not find them, and Anah and his
brothers went no more to that place from that day following, for they were
greatly afraid of their lives.

36v And the children of Anah the son of Seir, were Dishon and his sister
Ahlibamah, and the children of Dishon were Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Cheran,
and the children of Ezer were Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan, and the children of
Dishon were Uz and Aran.

37v These are the families of the children of Seir the Horite, according to
their dukedoms in the land of Seir.

38v And Esau and his children dwelt in the land of Seir the Horite, the
inhabitant of the land, and they had possessions in it and were fruitful and
multiplied exceedingly, and Jacob and his children and all belonging to them,
dwelt with their father Isaac in the land of Canaan, as the Lord had commanded
Abraham their father.

Chapter 37. Jacob Returns to Shechem. The Kings of Canaan again assemble
against Jacob. Jacob's Ten Sons with One Hundred and Two of their servants
Fight against the Canaanites and Amorites, and are successful.

1v And in the one hundred and fifth year of the life of Jacob, that is the
ninth year of Jacob's dwelling with his children in the land of Canaan, he
came from Padan-aram.

2v And in those days Jacob journeyed with his children from Hebron, and they
went and returned to the city of Shechem, they and all belonging to them, and
they dwelt there, for the children of Jacob obtained good and fat pasture land
for their cattle in the city of Shechem, the city of Shechem having then been
rebuilt, and there were in it about three hundred men and women.

3v And Jacob and his children and all belonging to him dwelt in the part of
the field which Jacob had bought from Hamor the father of Shechem, when he
came from Padan-aram before Simeon and Levi had smitten the city.

4v And all those kings of the Canaanites and Amorites that surrounded the city
of Shechem, heard that the sons of Jacob had again come to Shechem and dwelt
there.

5v And they said, Shall the sons of Jacob the Hebrew again come to the city
and dwell therein, after that they have smitten its inhabitants and driven
them out? shall they now return and also drive out those who are dwelling in
the city or slay them.

6v And all the kings of Canaan again assembled, and they came together to make
war with Jacob and his sons.

7v And Jashub king of Tapnach sent also to all his neighboring kings, to Elan
king of Gaash, and to Ihuri king of Shiloh, and to Parathon king of Chazar,
and to Susi king of Sarton, and to Laban king of Beth-horan, and to Shabir
king of Othnaymah, saying.

8v Come up to me and assist me, and let us smite Jacob the Hebrew and his
sons, and all belonging to him, for they are again come to Shechem to possess
it and to slay its inhabitants as before.

9v And all these kings assembled together and came with all their camps, a
people exceedingly plentiful like the sand upon the sea shore, and they were
all opposite to Tapnach.

10v And Jashub king of Tapnach went forth to them with all his army, and he
encamped with them opposite to Tapnach without the city, and all these kings
they divided into seven divisions, being seven camps against the sons of
Jacob.

11v And they sent a declaration to Jacob and his son, saying, Come you all
forth to us that we may have an interview together in the plain, and revenge
the cause of the men of Shechem whom you slew in their city, and you will now
again return to the city of Shechem and dwell therein, and slay its
inhabitants as before.

12v And the sons of Jacob heard this and their anger was kindled exceedingly
at the words of the kings of Canaan, and ten of the sons of Jacob hastened and
rose up, and each of them girt on his weapons of war; and there were one
hundred and two of their servants with them equipped in battle array.

13v And all these men, the sons of Jacob with their servants, went toward
these kings, and Jacob their father was with them, and they all stood upon the
heap of Shechem.

14v And Jacob prayed to the Lord for his sons, and he spread forth his hands
to the Lord, and he said, O God, thou art an Almighty God, thou art our
father, thou didst form us and we are the works of thine hands; I pray thee
deliver my sons through thy mercy from the hand of their enemies, who are this
day coming to fight with them, and save them from their hand, for in thy hand
is power and might, to save the few from the many.

15v And give unto my sons, thy servants, strength of heart and might to fight
with their enemies, to subdue them, and make their enemies fall before them,
and let not my sons and their servants die through the hands of the children
of Canaan.

16v But if it seemeth good in thine eyes to take away the lives of my sons and
their servants, take them in thy great mercy through the hands of thy
ministers, that they may not perish this day by the hands of the kings of the
Amorites.

17v And when Jacob ceased praying to the Lord the earth shook from its place,
and the sun darkened, and all these kings were terrified and a great
consternation seized them.

18v And the Lord hearkened to the prayer of Jacob, and the Lord impressed the
hearts of all the kings and their hosts with the terror and awe of the sons of
Jacob.

19v For the Lord caused them to hear the voice of chariots, and the voice of
mighty horses from the sons of Jacob, and the voice of a great army
accompanying them.

20v And these kings were seized with great terror at the sons of Jacob, and
whilst they were standing in their quarters, behold the sons of Jacob advanced
upon them, with one hundred and twelve men, with a great and tremendous
shouting.

21v And when the kings saw the sons of Jacob advancing toward them, they were
still more panic struck, and they were inclined to retreat from before the
sons of Jacob as at first, and not to fight with them.

22v But they did not retreat, saying, It would be a disgrace to us thus twice
to retreat from before the Hebrews.

23v And the sons of Jacob came near and advanced against all these kings and
their armies, and they saw, and behold it was a very mighty people, numerous
as the sand of the sea.

24v And the sons of Jacob called unto the Lord and said, Help us O Lord, help
us and answer us, for we trust in thee, and let us not die by the hands of
these uncircumcised men, who this day have come against us.

25v And the sons of Jacob girt on their weapons of war, and they took in their
hands each man his shield and his javelin, and they approached to battle.

26v And Judah, the son of Jacob, ran first before his brethren, and ten of his
servants with him, and he went toward these kings.

27v And Jashub, king of Tapnach, also came forth first with his army before
Judah, and Judah saw Jashub and his army coming toward him, and Judah's wrath
was kindled, and his anger burned within him, and he approached to battle in
which Judah ventured his life.

28v And Jashub and all his army were advancing toward Judah, and he was riding
upon a very strong and powerful horse, and Jashub was a very valiant man, and
covered with iron and brass from head to foot.

29v And whilst he was upon the horse, he shot arrows with both hands from
before and behind, as was his manner in all his battles, and he never missed
the place to which he aimed his arrows.

30v And when Jashub came to fight with Judah, and was darting many arrows
against Judah, the Lord bound the hand of Jashub, and all the arrows that he
shot rebounded upon his own men.

31v And notwithstanding this, Jashub kept advancing toward Judah, to challenge
him with the arrows, but the distance between them was about thirty cubits,
and when Judah saw Jashub darting forth his arrows against him, he ran to him
with his wrath-excited might.

32v And Judah took up a large stone from the ground, and its weight was sixty
shekels, and Judah ran toward Jashub, and with the stone struck him on his
shield, that Jashub was stunned with the blow, and fell off from his horse to
the ground.

33v And the shield burst asunder out of the hand of Jashub, and through the
force of the blow sprang to the distance of about fifteen cubits, and the
shield fell before the second camp.

34v And the kings that came with Jashub saw at a distance the strength of
Judah, the son of Jacob, and what he had done to Jashub, and they were
terribly afraid of Judah.

35v And they assembled near Jashub's camp, seeing his confusion, and Judah
drew his sword and smote forty-two men of the camp of Jashub, and the whole of
Jashub's camp fled before Judah, and no man stood against him, and they left
Jashub and fled from him, and Jashub was still prostrate upon the ground.

36v And Jashub seeing that all the men of his camp had fled from him, hastened
and rose up with terror against Judah, and stood upon his legs opposite Judah.

37v And Jashub had a single combat with Judah, placing shield toward shield,
and Jashub's men all fled, for they were greatly afraid of Judah.

38v And Jashub took his spear in his hand to strike Judah upon his head, but
Judah had quickly placed his shield to his head against Jashub's spear, so
that the shield of Judah received the blow from Jashub's spear, and the shield
was split in two.

39v And when Judah saw that his shield was split, he hastily drew his sword
and smote Jashub at his ankles, and cut off his feet that Jashub fell upon the
ground, and the spear fell from his hand.

40v And Judah hastily picked up Jashub's spear, with which he severed his head
and cast it next to his feet.

41v And when the sons of Jacob saw what Judah had done to Jashub, they all ran
into the ranks of the other kings, and the sons of Jacob fought with the army
of Jashub, and the armies of all the kings that were there.

42v And the sons of Jacob caused fifteen thousand of their men to fall, and
they smote them as if smiting at gourds, and the rest fled for their lives.

43v And Judah was still standing by the body of Jashub, and stripped Jashub of
his coat of mail.

44v And Judah also took off the iron and brass that was about Jashub, and
behold nine men of the captains of Jashub came along to fight against Judah.

45v And Judah hastened and took up a stone from the ground, and with it smote
one of them upon the head, and his skull was fractured, and the body also fell
from the horse to the ground.

46v And the eight captains that remained, seeing the strength of Judah, were
greatly afraid and they fled, and Judah with his ten men pursued them, and
they overtook them and slew them.

47v And the sons of Jacob were still smiting the armies of the kings, and they
slew many of them, but those kings daringly kept their stand with their
captains, and did not retreat from their places, and they exclaimed against
those of their armies that fled from before the sons of Jacob, but none would
listen to them, for they were afraid of their lives lest they should die.

48v And all the sons of Jacob, after having smitten the armies of the kings,
returned and came before Judah, and Judah was still slaying the eight captains
of Jashub, and stripping off their garments.

49v And Levi saw Elon, king of Gaash, advancing toward him, with his fourteen
captains to smite him, but Levi did not know it for certain.

50v And Elon with his captains approached nearer, and Levi looked back and saw
that battle was given him in the rear, and Levi ran with twelve of his
servants, and they went and slew Elon and his captains with the edge of the
sword.

Chapter 38. The Sons of Jacob Destroy many Cities of Canaan and all their
People.

1v And Ihuri king of Shiloh came up to assist Elon, and he approached Jacob,
when Jacob drew his bow that was in his hand and with an arrow struck Ihuri
which caused his death.

2v And when Ihuri king of Shiloh was dead, the four remaining kings fled from
their station with the rest of the captains, and they endeavored to retreat,
saying, We have no more strength with the Hebrews after their having killed
the three kings and their captains who were more powerful than we are.

3v And when the sons of Jacob saw that the remaining kings had removed from
their station, they pursued them, and Jacob also came from the heap of Shechem
from the place where he was standing, and they went after the kings and they
approached them with their servants.

4v And the kings and the captains with the rest of their armies, seeing that
the sons of Jacob approached them, were afraid of their lives and fled till
they reached the city of Chazar.

5v And the sons of Jacob pursued them to the gate of the city of Chazar, and
they smote a great smiting amongst the kings and their armies, about four
thousand men, and whilst they were smiting the army of the kings, Jacob was
occupied with his bow confining himself to smiting the kings, and he slew them
all.

6v And he slew Parathon king of Chazar at the gate of the city of Chazar, and
he afterward smote Susi king of Sarton, and Laban king of Bethchorin, and
Shabir king of Machnaymah, and he slew them all with arrows, an arrow to each
of them, and they died.

7v And the sons of Jacob seeing that all the kings were dead and that they
were broken up and retreating, continued to carry on the battle with the
armies of the kings opposite the gate of Chazar, and they still smote about
four hundred of their men.

8v And three men of the servants of Jacob fell in that battle, and when Judah
saw that three of his servants had died, it grieved him greatly, and his anger
burned within him against the Amorites.

9v And all the men that remained of the armies of the kings were greatly
afraid of their lives, and they ran and broke the gate of the walls of the
city of Chazar, and they all entered the city for safety.

10v And they concealed themselves in the midst of the city of Chazar, for the
city of Chazar was very large and extensive, and when all these armies had
entered the city, the sons of Jacob ran after them to the city.

11v And four mighty men, experienced in battle, went forth from the city and
stood against the entrance of the city, with drawn swords and spears in their
hands, and they placed themselves opposite the sons of Jacob, and would not
suffer them to enter the city.

12v And Naphtali ran and came between them and with his sword smote two of
them, and cut oft their heads at one stroke.

13v And he turned to the other two, and behold they had fled, and he pursued
them, overtook them, smote them and slew them.

14v And the sons of Jacob came to the city and saw, and behold there was
another wall to the city, and they sought for the gate of the wall and could
not find it, and Judah sprang upon the top of the wall, and Simeon and Levi
followed him, and they all three descended from the wall into the city.

15v And Simeon and Levi slew all the men who ran for safety into the city, and
also the inhabitants of the city with their wives and little ones, they slew
with the edge of the sword, and the cries of the city ascended up to heaven.

16v And Dan and Naphtali sprang upon the wall to see what caused the noise of
lamentation, for the sons of Jacob felt anxious about their brothers, and they
heard the inhabitants of the city speaking with weeping and supplications,
saying, Take all that we possess in the city and go away, only do not put us
to death.

17v And when Judah, Simeon, and Levi had ceased smiting the inhabitants of the
city, they ascended the wall and called to Dan and Naphtali, who were upon the
wall, and to the rest of their brothers, and Simeon and Levi informed them of
the entrance into the city, and all the sons of Jacob came to fetch the spoil.

18v And the sons of Jacob took the spoil of the city of Chazar, the flocks and
herds, and the property, and they took all that could be captured, and went
away that day from the city.

19v And on the next day the sons of Jacob went to Sarton, for they heard that
the men of Sarton who had remained in the city were assembling to fight with
them for having slain their king, and Sarton was a very high and fortified
city, and it had a deep rampart surrounding the city.

20v And the pillar of the rampart was about fifty cubits and its breadth forty
cubits, and there was no place for a man to enter the city on account of the
rampart, and the sons of Jacob saw the rampart of the city, and they sought an
entrance in it but could not find it.

21v For the entrance to the city was at the rear, and every man that wished to
come into the city came by that road and went around the whole city, and he
afterwards entered the city.

22v And the sons of Jacob seeing they could not find the way into the city,
their anger was kindled greatly, and the inhabitants of the city seeing that
the sons of Jacob were coming to them were greatly afraid of them, for they
had heard of their strength and what they had done to Chazar.

23v And the inhabitants of the city of Sarton could not go out toward the sons
of Jacob after having assembled in the city to fight against them, lest they
might thereby get into the city, but when they saw that they were coming
toward them, they were greatly afraid of them, for they had heard of their
strength and what they had done to Chazar.

24v So the inhabitants of Sarton speedily took away the bridge of the road of
the city, from its place, before the sons of Jacob came, and they brought it
into the city.

25v And the sons of Jacob came and sought the way into the city, and could not
find it, and the inhabitants of the city went up to the top of the wall, and
saw, and behold the sons of Jacob were seeking an entrance into the city.

26v And the inhabitants of the city reproached the sons of Jacob from the top
of the wall, and they cursed them, and the sons of Jacob heard the reproaches,
and they were greatly incensed, and their anger burned within them.

27v And the sons of Jacob were provoked at them, and they all rose and sprang
over the rampart with the force of their strength, and through their might
passed the forty cubits' breadth of the rampart.

28v And when they had passed the rampart they stood under the wall of the
city, and they found all the gates of the city enclosed with iron doors.

29v And the sons of Jacob came near to break open the doors of the gates of
the city, and the inhabitants did not let them, for from the top of the wall
they were casting stones and arrows upon them.

30v And the number of the people that were upon the wall was about four
hundred men, and when the sons of Jacob saw that the men of the city would not
let them open the gates of the city, they sprang and ascended the top of the
wall, and Judah went first to the east part of the city.

31v And Gad and Asher went up after him to the west corner of the city, and
Simeon and Levi to the north, and Dan and Reuben to the south.

32v And the men who were on the top of the wall, the inhabitants of the city,
seeing that the sons of Jacob were coming up to them, they all fled from the
wall, descended into the city, and concealed themselves in the midst of the
city.

33v And Issachar and Naphtali that remained under the wall approached and
broke the gates of the city, and kindled a fire at the gates of the city, that
the iron melted, and all the sons of Jacob came into the city, they and all
their men, and they fought with the inhabitants of the city of Sarton, and
smote them with the edge of the sword, and no man stood up before them.

34v And about two hundred men fled from the city, and they all went and hid
themselves in a certain tower in the city, and Judah pursued them to the tower
and he broke down the tower, which fell upon the men, and they all died.

35v And the sons of Jacob went up the road of the roof of that tower, and they
saw, and behold there was another strong and high tower at a distance in the
city, and the top of it reached to heaven, and the sons of Jacob hastened and
descended, and went with all their men to that tower, and found it filled with
about three hundred men, women and little ones.

36v And the sons of Jacob smote a great smiting amongst those men in the tower
and they ran away and fled from them.

37v And Simeon and Levi pursued them, when twelve mighty and valiant men came
out to them from the place where they had concealed themselves.

38v And those twelve men maintained a strong battle against Simeon and Levi,
and Simeon and Levi could not prevail over them, and those valiant men broke
the shields of Simeon and Levi, and one of them struck at Levi's head with his
sword, when Levi hastily placed his hand to his head, for he was afraid of the
sword, and the sword struck Levi's hand, and it wanted but little to the hand
of Levi being cut off.

39v And Levi seized the sword of the valiant man in his hand, and took it
forcibly from the man, and with it he struck at the head of the powerful mall,
and he severed his head.

40v And eleven men approached to fight with Levi, for they saw that one of
them was killed, and the sons of Jacob fought, but the sons of Jacob could not
prevail over them, for those men were very powerful.

41v And the sons of Jacob seeing that they could not prevail over them, Simeon
gave a loud and tremendous shriek, and the eleven powerful men were stunned at
the voice of Simeon's shrieking.

42v And Judah at a distance knew the voice of Simeon's shouting, and Naphtali
and Judah ran with their shields to Simeon and Levi, and found them fighting
with those powerful men, unable to prevail over them as their shields were
broken.

43v And Naphtali saw that the shields of Simeon and Levi were broken, and he
took two shields from his servants and brought them to Simeon and Levi.

44v And Simeon, Levi and Judah on that day fought all three against the eleven
mighty men until the time of sunset, but they could not prevail over them.

45v And this was told unto Jacob, and he was sorely grieved, and he prayed
unto the Lord, and he and Naphtali his son went against these mighty men.

46v And Jacob approached and drew his bow, and came nigh unto the mighty men,
and slew three of their men with the bow, and the remaining eight turned back,
and behold, the war waged against them in the front and rear, and they were
greatly afraid of their lives, and could not stand before the sons of Jacob,
and they fled from before the.

47v And in their flight they met Dan and Asher coming toward them, and they
suddenly fell upon them, and fought with them, and slew two of them, and Judah
and his brothers pursued them, and smote the remainder of them, and slew them.

48v And all the sons of Jacob returned and walked about the city, searching if
they could find any men, and they found about twenty young men in a cave in
the city, and Gad and Asher smote them all, and Dan and Naphtali lighted upon
the rest of the men who had fled and escaped from the second tower, and they
smote them all.

49v And the sons of Jacob smote all the inhabitants of the city of Sarton, but
the women and little ones they left in the city and did not slay them.

50v And all the inhabitants of the city of Sarton were powerful men, one of
them would pursue a thousand, and two of them would not flee from ten thousand
of the rest of men.

51v And the sons of Jacob slew all the inhabitants of the city of Sarton with
the edge of the sword, that no man stood up against them, and they left the
women in the city.

52v And the sons of Jacob took all the spoil of the city, and captured what
they desired, and they took flocks and herds and, property from the city, and
the sons of Jacob did unto Sarton and its inhabitants as they had done to
Chazar and its inhabitants, and they turned and went away.

Chapter 39. The Sons of Jacob Destroy many Cities of Canaan and all their
People.

1v And when the sons of Jacob went from the city of Sarton, they had gone
about two hundred cubits when they met the inhabitants of Tapnach coming
toward them, for they went out to fight with them, because they had smitten
the king of Tapnach and all his men.

2v So all that remained in the city of Tapnach came out to fight with the sons
of Jacob, and they thought to retake from them the booty and the spoil which
they had captured from Chazar and Sarton.

3v And the rest of the men of Tapnach fought with the sons of Jacob in that
place, and the sons of Jacob smote them, and they fled before them, and they
pursued them to the city of Arbelan, and they all fell before the sons of
Jacob.

4v And the sons of Jacob returned and came to Tapnach, to take away the spoil
of Tapnach, and when they came to Tapnach they heard that the people of
Arbelan had gone out to meet them to save the spoil of their brethren, and the
sons of Jacob left ten of their men in Tapnach to plunder the city, and they
went out toward the people of Arbelan.

5v And the men of Arbelan went out with their wives to fight with the sons of
Jacob, for their wives were experienced in battle, and they went out, about
four hundred men and women.

6v And all the sons of Jacob shouted with a loud voice, and they all ran
toward the inhabitants of Arbelan, and with a great and tremendous voice.

7v And the inhabitants of Arbelan heard the noise of the shouting of the sons
of Jacob, and their roaring like the noise of lions and like the roaring of
the sea and its waves.

8v And fear and terror possessed their hearts on account of the sons of Jacob,
and they were terribly afraid of them, and they retreated and fled before them
into the city, and the sons of Jacob pursued them to the gate of the city, and
they came upon them in the city.

9v And the sons of Jacob fought with them in the city, and all their women
were engaged in slinging against the sons of Jacob, and the combat was very
severe amongst them the whole of that day till evening.

10v And the sons of Jacob could not prevail over them, and the sons of Jacob
had almost perished in that battle, and the sons of Jacob cried unto the Lord
and greatly gained strength toward evening, and the sons of Jacob smote all
the inhabitants of Arbelan by the edge of the sword, men, women and little
ones.

11v And also the remainder of the people who had fled from Sarton, the sons of
Jacob smote them in Arbelan, and the sons of Jacob did unto Arbelan and
Tapnach as they had done to Chazar and Sarton, and when the women saw that all
the men were dead, they went upon the roofs of the city and smote the sons of
Jacob by showering down stones like rain.

12v And the sons of Jacob hastened and came into the city and seized all the
women and smote them with the edge of the sword, and the sons of Jacob
captured all the spoil and booty, flocks and herds and cattle.

13v And the sons of Jacob did unto Machnaymah as they had done to Tapnach, to
Chazar and to Shiloh, and they turned from there and went away.

14v And on the fifth day the sons of Jacob heard that the people of Gaash had
gathered against them to battle, because they had slain their king and their
captains, for there had been fourteen captains in the city of Gaash, and the
sons of Jacob had slain them all in the first battle.

15v And the sons of Jacob that day girt on their weapons of war, and they
marched to battle against the inhabitants of Gaash, and in Gaash there was a
strong and mighty people of the people of the Amorites, and Gaash was the
strongest and best fortified city of all the cities of the Amorites, and it
had three walls.

16v And the sons of Jacob came to Gaash and they found the gates of the city
locked, and about five hundred men standing at the top of the outermost wall,
and a people numerous as the sand upon the sea shore were in ambush for the
sons of Jacob from without the city at the rear thereof.

17v And the sons of Jacob approached to open the gates of the city, and whilst
they were drawing nigh, behold those who were in ambush at the rear of the
city came forth from their places and surrounded the sons of Jacob.

18v And the sons of Jacob were enclosed between the people of Gaash, and the
battle was both to their front and rear, and all the men that were upon the
wall, were casting from the wall upon them, arrows and stones.

19v And Judah, seeing that the men of Gaash were getting too heavy for them,
gave a most piercing and tremendous shriek and all the men of Gaash were
terrified at the voice of Judah's cry, and men fell from the wall at his
powerful shriek, and all those that were from without and within the city were
greatly afraid of their lives.

20v And the sons of Jacob still came nigh to break the doors of the city, when
the men of Gaash threw stones and arrows upon them from the top of the wall,
and made them flee from the gate.

21v And the sons of Jacob returned against the men of Gaash who were with them
from without the city, and they smote them terribly, as striking against
gourds, and they could not stand against the sons of Jacob, for fright and
terror had seized them at the shriek of Judah.

22v And the sons of Jacob slew all those men who were from without the city,
and the sons of Jacob still drew nigh to effect an entrance into the city, and
to fight under the city walls, but they could not for all the inhabitants of
Gaash who remained in the city had surrounded the walls of Gaash in every
direction, so that the sons of Jacob were unable to approach the city to fight
with them.

23v And the sons of Jacob came nigh to one corner to fight under the wall, the
inhabitants of Gaash threw arrows and stones upon them like showers of rain,
and they fled from under the wall.

24v And the people of Gaash who were upon the wall, seeing that the sons of
Jacob could not prevail over them from under the wall, reproached the sons of
Jacob in these words, saying.

25v What is the matter with you in the battle that you cannot prevail? can you
then do unto the mighty city of Gaash and its inhabitants as you did to the
cities of the Amorites that were not so powerful? Surely to those weak ones
amongst us you did those things, and slew them in the entrance of the city,
for they had no strength when they were terrified at the sound of your
shouting.

26v And will you now then able to fight in this place? Surely here you will
all die, and we will avenge the cause of those cities that you have laid
waste.

27v And the inhabitants of Gaash greatly reproached the sons of Jacob and
reviled them with their gods, and continued to cast arrows and stones upon
them from the wall.

28v And Judah and his brothers heard the words of the inhabitants of Gaash and
their anger was greatly roused, and Judah was jealous of his God in this
matter, and he called out and said, O Lord, help, send help to us and our
brothers.

29v And he ran at a distance with all his might, with his drawn sword in his
hand, and he sprang from the earth and by dint of his strength, mounted the
wall, and his sword fell from his hand.

30v And Judah shouted upon the wall, and all the men that were upon the wall
were terrified, and some of them fell from the wall into the city and died,
and those who were yet upon the wall, when they saw Judah's strength, they
were greatly afraid and fled for their lives into the city for safety.

31v And some were emboldened to fight with Judah upon the wall, and they came
nigh to slay him when they saw there was no sword in Judah's hand, and they
thought of casting him from the wall to his brothers, and twenty men of the
city came up to assist them, and they surrounded Judah and they all shouted
over him, and approached him with drawn swords, and they terrified Judah, and
Judah cried out to his brothers from the wall.

32v And Jacob and his sons drew the bow from under the wall, and smote three
of the men that were upon the top of the wall, and Judah continued to cry and
he exclaimed, O Lord help us, O Lord deliver us, and he cried out with a loud
voice upon the wall, and the cry was heard at a great distance.

33v And after this cry he again repeated to shout, and all the men who
surrounded Judah on the top of the wall were terrified, and they each threw
his sword from his hand at the sound of Judah's shouting and his tremor, and
fled.

34v And Judah took the swords which had fallen from their hands, and Judah
fought with them and slew twenty of their men upon the wall.

35v And about eighty men and women still ascended the wall from the city and
they all surrounded Judah, and the Lord impressed the fear of Judah in their
hearts, that they were unable to approach him.

36v And Jacob and all who were with him drew the bow from under the wall, and
they slew ten men upon the wall, and they fell below the wall, before Jacob
and his sons.

37v And the people upon the wall seeing that twenty of their men had fallen,
they still ran toward Judah with drawn swords, but they could not approach him
for they were greatly terrified at Judah's strength.

38v And one of their mighty men whose name was Arud approached to strike Judah
upon the head with his sword, when Judah hastily put his shield to his head,
and the sword hit the shield, and it was split in two.

39v And this mighty man after he had struck Judah ran for his life, at the
fear of Judah, and his feet slipped upon the wall and he fell amongst the sons
of Jacob who were below the wall, and the sons of Jacob smote him and slew
him.

40v And Judah's head pained him from the blow of the powerful man, and Judah
had nearly died from it.

41v And Judah cried out upon the wall owing to the pain produced by the blow,
when Dan heard him, and his anger burned within him, and he also rose up and
went at a distance and ran and sprang from the earth and mounted the wall with
his wrath-excited strength.

42v And when Dan came upon the wall near unto Judah all the men upon the wall
fled, who had stood against Judah, and they went up to the second wall, and
they threw arrows and stones upon Dan and Judah from the second wall, and
endeavored to drive them from the wall.

43v And the arrows and stones struck Dan and Judah, and they had nearly been
killed upon the wall, and wherever Dan and Judah fled from the wall, they were
attacked with arrows and stones from the second wall.

44v And Jacob and his sons were still at the entrance of the city below the
first wall, and they were not able to draw their bow against the inhabitants
of the city, as they could not be seen by them, being upon the second wall.

45v And Dan and Judah when they could no longer bear the stones and arrows
that fell upon them from the second wall, they both sprang upon the second
wall near the people of the city, and when the people of the city who were
upon the second wall saw that Dan and Judah had come to them upon the second
wall, they all cried out and descended below between the walls.

46v And Jacob and his sons heard the noise of the shouting from the people of
the city, and they were still at the entrance of the city, and they were
anxious about Dan and Judah who were not seen by them, they being upon the
second wall.

47v And Naphtali went up with his wrath-excited might and sprang upon the
first wall to see what caused the noise of shouting which they had heard in
the city, and Issachar and Zebulun drew nigh to break the doors of the city,
and they opened the gates of the city and came into the city.

48v And Naphtali leaped from the first wall to the second, and came to assist
his brothers, and the inhabitants of Gaash who were upon the wall, seeing that
Naphtali was the third who had come up to assist his brothers, they all fled
and descended into the city, and Jacob and all his sons and all their young
men came into the city to them.

49v And Judah and Dan and Naphtali descended from the wall into the city and
pursued the inhabitants of the city, and Simeon and Levi were from without the
city and knew not that the gate was opened, and they went up from there to the
wall and came down to their brothers into the city.

50v And the inhabitants of the city had all descended into the city, and the
sons of Jacob came to them in different directions, and the battle waged
against them from the front and the rear, and the sons of Jacob smote them
terribly, and slew about twenty thousand of them men and women, not one of
them could stand up against the sons of Jacob.

51v And the blood flowed plentifully in the city, and it was like a brook of
water, and the blood flowed like a brook to the outer part of the city, and
reached the desert of Bethchorin.

52v And the people of Bethchorin saw at a distance the blood flowing from the
city of Gaash, and about seventy men from amongst them ran to see the blood,
and they came to the place where the blood was.

53v And they followed the track of the blood and came to the wall of the city
of Gaash, and they saw the blood issue from the city, and they heard the voice
of crying from the inhabitants of Gaash, for it ascended unto heaven, and the
blood was continuing to flow abundantly like a brook of water.

54v And all the sons of Jacob were still smiting the inhabitants of Gaash, and
were engaged in slaying them till evening, about twenty thousand men and
women, and the people of Chorin said, Surely this is the work of the Hebrews,
for they are still carrying on war in all the cities of the Amorites.

55v And those people hastened and ran to Bethchorin, and each took his weapons
of war, and they cried out to all the inhabitants of Bethchorin, who also girt
on their weapons of war to go and fight with the sons of Jacob.

56v And when the sons of Jacob had done smiting the inhabitants of Gaash, they
walked about the city to strip all the slain, and coming in the innermost part
of the city and farther on they met three very powerful men, and there was no
sword in their hand.

57v And the sons of Jacob came up to the place where they were, and the
powerful men ran away, and one of them had taken Zebulun, who he saw was a
young lad and of short stature, and with his might dashed him to the ground.

58v And Jacob ran to him with his sword and Jacob smote him below his loins
with the sword, and cut him in two, and the body fell upon Zebulun.

59v And the second one approached and seized Jacob to fell him to the ground,
and Jacob turned to him and shouted to him, whilst Simeon and Levi ran and
smote him on the hips with the sword and felled him to the ground.

60v And the powerful man rose up from the ground with wrath-excited might, and
Judah came to him before he had gained his footing, and struck him upon the
head with the sword, and his head was split and he died.

61v And the third powerful man, seeing that his companions were killed, ran
from before the sons of Jacob, and the sons of Jacob pursued him in the city;
and whilst the powerful man was fleeing he found one of the swords of the
inhabitants of the city, and he picked it up and turned to the sons of Jacob
and fought them with that sword.

62v And the powerful man ran to Judah to strike him upon the head with the
sword, and there was no shield in the hand of Judah; and whilst he was aiming
to strike him, Naphtali hastily took his shield and put it to Judah's head,
and the sword of the powerful man hit the shield of Naphtali and Judah escaped
the sword.

63v And Simeon and Levi ran upon the powerful man with their swords and struck
at him forcibly with their swords, and the two swords entered the body of the
powerful man and divided it in two, length-wise.

64v And the sons of Jacob smote the three mighty men at that time, together
with all the inhabitants of Gaash, and the day was about to decline.

65v And the sons of Jacob walked about Gaash and took all the spoil of the
city, even the little ones and women they did not suffer to live, and the sons
of Jacob did unto Gaash as they had done to Sarton and Shiloh.

Chapter 40. The Remaining Twenty-one Kings of Canaan, fearing the Sons of
Jacob, make a permanent Peace with them.

1v And the sons of Jacob led away all the spoil of Gaash, and went out of the
city by night.

2v They were going out marching toward the castle of Bethchorin, and the
inhabitants of Bethchorin were going to the castle to meet them, and on that
night the sons of Jacob fought with the inhabitants of Bethchorin, in the
castle of Bethchorin.

3v And all the inhabitants of Bethchorin were mighty men, one of them would
not flee from before a thousand men, and they fought on that night upon the
castle, and their shouts were heard on that night from afar, and the earth
quaked at their shouting.

4v And all the sons of Jacob were afraid of those men, as they were not
accustomed to fight in the dark, and they were greatly confounded, and the
sons of Jacob cried unto the Lord, saying, Give help to us O Lord, deliver us
that we may not die by the hands of these uncircumcised men.

5v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of the sons of Jacob, and the Lord
caused great terror and confusion to seize the people of Bethchorin, and they
fought amongst themselves the one with the other in the darkness of night, and
smote each other in great numbers.

6v And the sons of Jacob, knowing that the Lord had brought a spirit of
perverseness amongst those men, and that they fought each man with his
neighbor, went forth from among the bands of the people of Bethchorin and went
as far as the descent of the castle of Bethchorin, and farther, and they
tarried there securely with their young men on that night.

7v And the people of Bethchorin fought the whole night, one man with his
brother, and the other with his neighbor, and they cried out in every
direction upon the castle, and their cry was heard at a distance, and the
whole earth shook at their voice, for they were powerful above all the people
of the earth.

8v And all the inhabitants of the cities of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Amorites, the Hivites and all the kings of Canaan, and also those who were on
the other side of the Jordan, heard the noise of the shouting on that night.

9v And they said, Surely these are the battles of the Hebrews who are fighting
against the seven cities, who came nigh unto them; and who can stand against
those Hebrews.

10v And all the inhabitants of the cities of the Canaanites, and all those who
were on the other side of the Jordan, were greatly afraid of the sons of
Jacob, for they said, Behold the same will be done to us as was done to those
cities, for who can stand against their mighty strength.

11v And the cries of the Chorinites were very great on that night, and
continued to increase; and they smote each other till morning, and numbers of
them were killed.

12v And the morning appeared, and all the sons of Jacob rose up at daybreak
and went up to the castle, and they smote those who remained of the Chorinites
in a terrible manner, and they were all killed in the castle.

13v And the sixth day appeared, and all the inhabitants of Canaan saw at a
distance all the people of Bethchorin lying dead in the castle of Bethchorin,
and strewed about as the carcasses of lambs and goats.

14v And the sons of Jacob led all the spoil which they had captured from Gaash
and went to Bethchorin, and they found the city full of people like the sand
of the sea, and they fought with them, and the sons of Jacob smote them there
till evening time.

15v And the sons of Jacob did unto Bethchorin as they had done to Gaash and
Tapnach, and as they had done to Chazar, to Sarton and to Shiloh.

16v And the sons of Jacob took with them the spoil of Bethchorin and all the
spoil of the cities, and on that day they went home to Shechem.

17v And the sons of Jacob came home to the, city of Shechem, and they remained
without the city, and they then rested there from the war, and tarried there
all night.

18v And all their servants together with all the spoil that they had taken
from the cities, they left without the city, and they did not enter the city,
for they said, Peradventure there may be yet more fighting against us, and
they may come to besiege us in Shechem.

19v And Jacob and his sons and their servants remained on that night and the
next day in the portion of the field which Jacob had purchased from Hamor for
five shekels, and all that they had captured was with them.

20v And all the booty which the sons of Jacob had captured, was in the portion
of the field, immense as the sand upon the sea shore.

21v And the inhabitants of the land observed them from afar, and all the
inhabitants of the land were afraid of the sons of Jacob who had done this
thing, for no king from the days of old had ever done the like.

22v And the seven kings of the Canaanites resolved to make peace with the sons
of Jacob, for they were greatly afraid of their lives, on account of the sons
of Jacob.

23v And on that day, being the seventh day, Japhia king of Hebron sent
secretly to the king of Ai, and to the king of Gibeon, and to the king of
Shalem, and to the king of Adulam, and to the king of Lachish, and to the king
of Chazar, and to all the Canaanitish kings who were under their subjection,
saying.

24v Go up with me, and come to me that we may go to the sons of Jacob, and I
will make peace with them, and form a treaty with them, lest all your lands be
destroyed by the swords of the sons of Jacob, as they did to Shechem and the
cities around it, as you have heard and seen.

25v And when you come to me, do not come with many men, but let every king
bring his three head captains, and every captain bring three of his officers.

26v And come all of you to Hebron, and we will go together to the sons of
Jacob, and supplicate them that they shall form a treaty of peace with us.

27v And all those kings did as the king of Hebron had sent to them, for they
were all under his counsel and command, and all the kings of Canaan assembled
to go to the sons of Jacob, to make peace with them; and the sons of Jacob
returned and went to the portion of the field that was in Shechem, for they
did not put confidence in the kings of the land.

28v And the sons of Jacob returned and remained in the portion of the field
ten days, and no one came to make war with them.

29v And when the sons of Jacob saw that there was no appearance of war, they
all assembled and went to the city of Shechem, and the sons of Jacob remained
in Shechem.

30v And at the expiration of forty days, all the kings of the Amorites
assembled from all their places and came to Hebron, to Japhia, king of Hebron.

31v And the number of kings that came to Hebron, to make peace with the sons
of Jacob, was twenty-one kings, and the number of captains that came with them
was sixty-nine, and their men were one hundred and eighty-nine, and all these
kings and their men rested by Mount Hebron.

32v And the king of Hebron went out with his three captains and nine men, and
these kings resolved to go to the sons of Jacob to make peace.

33v And they said unto the king of Hebron, Go thou before us with thy men, and
speak for us unto the sons of Jacob, and we will come after thee and confirm
thy words, and the king of Hebron did so.

34v And the sons of Jacob heard that all the kings of Canaan had gathered
together and rested in Hebron, and the sons of Jacob sent four of their
servants as spies, saying, Go and spy these kings, and search and examine
their men whether they are few or many, and if they are but few in number,
number them all and come back.

35v And the servants of Jacob went secretly to these kings, and did as the
sons of Jacob had commanded them, and on that day they came back to the sons
of Jacob, and said unto them, We came unto those kings, and they are but few
in number, and we numbered them all, and behold, they were two hundred and
eighty-eight, kings and men.

36v And the sons of Jacob said, They are but few in number, therefore we will
not all go out to them; and in the morning the sons of Jacob rose up and chose
sixty-two of their men, and ten of the sons of Jacob went with them; and they
girt on their weapons of war, for they said, They are coming to make war with
us, for they knew not that they were coming to make peace with them.

37v And the sons of Jacob went with their servants to the gate of Shechem,
toward those kings, and their father Jacob was with them.

38v And when they had come forth, behold, the king of Hebron and his three
captains and nine men with him were coming along the road against the sons of
Jacob, and the sons of Jacob lifted up their eyes, and saw at a distance
Japhia, king of Hebron, with his captains, coming toward them, and the sons of
Jacob took their stand at the place of the gate of Shechem, and did not
proceed.

39v And the king of Hebron continued to advance, he and his captains, until he
came nigh to the sons of Jacob, and he and his captains bowed down to them to
the ground, and the king of Hebron sat with his captains before Jacob and his
sons.

40v And the sons of Jacob said unto him, What has befallen thee, O king of
Hebron? why hast thou come to us this day? what dost thou require from us? and
the king of Hebron said unto Jacob, I beseech thee my lord, all the kings of
the Canaanites have this day come to make peace with you.

41v And the sons of Jacob heard the words of the king of Hebron, and they
would not consent to his proposals, for the sons of Jacob had no faith in him,
for they imagined that the king of Hebron had spoken deceitfully to them.

42v And the king of Hebron knew from the words of the sons of Jacob, that they
did not believe his words, and the king of Hebron approached nearer to Jacob,
and said unto him, I beseech thee, my lord, to be assured that all these kings
have come to you on peaceable terms, for they have not come with all their
men, neither did they bring their weapons of war with them, for they have come
to seek peace from my lord and his sons.

43v And the sons of Jacob answered the king of Hebron, saying, Send thou to
all these kings, and if thou speakest truth unto us, let them each come singly
before us, and if they come unto us unarmed, we shall then know that they seek
peace from us.

44v And Japhia, king of Hebron, sent one of his men to the kings, and they all
came before the sons of Jacob, and bowed down to them to the ground, and these
kings sat before Jacob and his sons, and they spoke unto them, saying.

45v We have heard all that you did unto the kings of the Amorites with your
sword and exceedingly mighty arm, so that no man could stand up before you,
and we were afraid of you for the sake of our lives, lest it should befall us
as it did to them.

46v So we have come unto you to form a treaty of peace between us, and now
therefore contract with us a covenant of peace and truth, that you will not
meddle with us, inasmuch as we have not meddled with you.

47v And the sons of Jacob knew that they had really come to seek peace from
them, and the sons of Jacob listened to them, and formed a covenant with them.

48v And the sons of Jacob swore unto them that they would not meddle with
them, and all the kings of the Canaanites swore also to them, and the sons of
Jacob made them tributary from that day forward.

49v And after this all the captains of these kings came with their men before
Jacob, with presents in their hands for Jacob and his sons, and they bowed
down to him to the ground.

50v And these kings then urged the sons of Jacob and begged of them to return
all the spoil they had captured from the seven cities of the Amorites, and the
sons of Jacob did so, and they returned all that they had captured, the women,
the little ones, the cattle and all the spoil which they had taken, and they
sent them off, and they went away each to his city.

51v And all these kings again bowed down to the sons of Jacob, and they sent
or brought them many gifts in those days, and the sons of Jacob sent off these
kings and their men, and they went peaceably away from them to their cities,
and the sons of Jacob also returned to their home, to Shechem.

52v And there was peace from that day forward between the sons of Jacob and
the kings of the Canaanites, until the children of Israel came to inherit the
land of Canaan.

Chapter 41. Joseph, the Son of Jacob, Dreams of his Future Exaltation over his
Brethren. Being his Father's Favorite, his Brethren become Jealous. Joseph is
sent to Visit his Brethren. They conspire against him, and at the Suggestion
of Reuben Place him in a Pit.

1v And at the revolution of the year the sons of Jacob journeyed from Shechem,
and they came to Hebron, to their father Isaac, and they dwelt there, but
their flocks and herds they fed daily in Shechem, for there was there in those
days good and fat pasture, and Jacob and his sons and all their household
dwelt in the valley of Hebron.

2v And it was in those days, in that year, being the hundred and sixth year of
the life of Jacob, in the tenth year of Jacob's coming from Padan-aram, that
Leah the wife of Jacob died; she was fifty-one years old when she died in
Hebron.

3v And Jacob and his sons buried her in the cave of the field of Machpelah,
which is in Hebron, which Abraham had bought from the children of Heth, for
the possession of a burial place.

4v And the sons of Jacob dwelt with their father in the valley of Hebron, and
all the inhabitants of the land knew their strength, and their fame went
throughout the land.

5v And Joseph the son of Jacob, and his brother Benjamin, the sons of Rachel,
the wife of Jacob, were yet young in those days, and did not go out with their
brethren during their battles in all the cities of the Amorites.

6v And when Joseph saw the strength of his brethren, and their greatness, he
praised them and extolled them, but he ranked himself greater than them, and
extolled himself above them; and Jacob, his father, also loved him more than
any of his sons, for he was a son of his old age, and through his love toward
him, he made him a coat of many colors.

7v And when Joseph saw that his father loved him more than his brethren, he
continued to exalt himself above his brethren, and he brought unto his father
evil reports concerning them.

8v And the sons of Jacob seeing the whole of Joseph's conduct toward them, and
that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could
not speak peaceably to him all the days.

9v And Joseph was seventeen years old, and he was still magnifying himself
above his brethren, and thought of raising himself above them.

10v At that time he dreamed a dream, and he came unto his brothers and told
them his dream, and he said unto them, I dreamed a dream, and behold we were
all binding sheaves in the field, and my sheaf rose and placed itself upon the
ground and your sheaves surrounded it and bowed down to it.

11v And his brethren answered him and said unto him, What means this dream
that thou didst dream? dost thou imagine in thy heart to reign or rule over
us.

12v And he still came, and told the thing to his father Jacob, and Jacob
kissed Joseph when he heard these words from his mouth, and Jacob blessed
Joseph.

13v And when the sons of Jacob saw that their father had blessed Joseph and
had kissed him, and that he loved him exceedingly, they became jealous of him
and hated him the more.

14v And after this Joseph dreamed another dream and related the dream to his
father in the presence of his brethren, and Joseph said unto his father and
brethren, Behold I have again dreamed a dream, and behold the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars bowed down to me.

15v And his father heard the words of Joseph and his dream, and seeing that
his brethren hated Joseph on account of this matter, Jacob therefore rebuked
Joseph before his brethren on account of this thing, saying, What meaneth this
dream which thou hast dreamed, and this magnifying thyself before thy brethren
who are older than thou art.

16v Dost thou imagine in thy heart that I and thy mother and thy eleven
brethren will come and bow down to thee, that thou speakest these things.

17v And his brethren were jealous of him on account of his words and dreams,
and they continued to hate him, and Jacob reserved the dreams in his heart.

18v And the sons of Jacob went one day to feed their father's flock in
Shechem, for they were still herdsmen in those days; and whilst the sons of
Jacob were that day feeding in Shechem they delayed, and the time of gathering
in the cattle was passed, and they had not arrived.

19v And Jacob saw that his sons were delayed in Shechem, and Jacob said within
himself, peradventure the people of Shechem have risen up to fight against
them, therefore they have delayed coming this day.

20v And Jacob called Joseph his son and commanded him, saying, Behold thy
brethren are feeding in Shechem this day, and behold they have not yet come
back; go now therefore and see where they are, and bring me word back
concerning the welfare of thy brethren and the welfare of the flock.

21v And Jacob sent his son Joseph to the valley of Hebron, and Joseph came for
his brothers to Shechem, and could not find them, and Joseph went about the
field which was near Shechem, to see where his brothers had turned, and he
missed his road in the wilderness, and knew not which way he should go.

22v And an angel of the Lord found him wandering in the road toward the field,
and Joseph said unto the angel of the Lord, I seek my brethren; hast thou not
heard where they are feeding? and the angel of the Lord said unto Joseph, I
saw thy brethren feeding here, and I heard them say they would go to feed in
Dothan.

23v And Joseph hearkened to the voice of the angel of the Lord, and he went to
his brethren in Dothan and he found them in Dothan feeding the flock.

24v And Joseph advanced to his brethren, and before he had come nigh unto
them, they had resolved to slay him.

25v And Simeon said to his brethren, Behold the man of dreams is coming unto
us this day and now therefore come and let us kill him and cast him in one of
the pits that are in the wilderness, and when his father shall seek him from
us, we will say an evil beast has devoured him.

26v And Reuben head the words of his brethren concerning Joseph, and he said
unto them, You should not do this thing, for how can we look up to our father
Jacob? Cast him into this pit to die there, but stretch not forth a hand upon
him to spill his blood; and Reuben said this in order to deliver him from
their hand, to bring him back to his father.

27v And when Joseph came to his brethren he sat before them, and they rose
upon him and seized him and smote him to the earth, and stripped the coat of
many colors which he had on.

28v And they took him and cast him into a pit, and in the pit there was no
water, but serpents and scorpions. And Joseph was afraid of the serpents and
scorpions that were in the pit. And Joseph cried out with a loud voice, and
the Lord hid the serpents and scorpions in the sides of the pit, and they did
no harm unto Joseph.

29v And Joseph called out from the pit to his brethren, and said unto them,
What have I done unto you, and in what have I sinned? why do you not fear the
Lord concerning me? am I not of your bones and flesh, and is not Jacob your
father, my father? why do you do this thing unto me this day, and how will you
be able to look up to our father Jacob.

30v And he continued to cry out and call unto his brethren from the pit, and
he said, O Judah, Simeon, and Levi, my brethren, lift me up from the place of
darkness in which you have placed me, and come this day to have compassion on
me, ye children of the Lord, and sons of Jacob my father. And if I have sinned
unto you, are you not the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? if they saw an
orphan they had compassion over him, or one that was hungry, they gave him
bread to eat, or one that was thirsty, they gave him water to drink, or one
that was naked, they covered him with garments.

31v And how then will you withhold your pity from your brother, for I am of
your flesh and bones, and if I have sinned unto you, surely you will do this
on account of my father.

32v And Joseph spoke these words from the pit, and his brethren would not
listen to him, nor incline their ears to the words of Joseph, and Joseph was
crying and weeping in the pit.

33v And Joseph said, O that my father knew, this day, the act which my
brothers have done unto me, and the words which they have this day spoken unto
me.

34v And all his brethren heard his cries and weeping in the pit, and his
brethren went and removed themselves from the pit, so that they might not hear
the cries of Joseph and his weeping in the pit.

Chapter 42. Joseph is sold to a company of Midianites, who in Turn sell him to
the Ishmaelites, who take him down to Egypt. An account of his Journey
thither, and of his Affliction on the Road.

1v And they went and sat on the opposite side, about the distance of a
bow-shot, and they sat there to eat bread, and whilst they w ere eating, they
held counsel together what was to be done with him, whether to slay him or to
bring him back to his father.

2v They were holding the counsel, when they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and
behold there was a company of Ishmaelites coming at a distance by the road of
Gilead, going down to Egypt.

3v And Judah said unto them, What gain will it be to us if we slay our
brother? peradventure God will require him from us; this then is the counsel
proposed concerning him, which you shall do unto him: Behold this company of
Ishmaelites going down to Egypt.

4v Now therefore, come let us dispose of him to them, and let not our hand be
upon him, and they will lead him along with them, and he will be lost amongst
the people of the land, and we will not put him to death with our own hands.
And the proposal pleased his brethren and they did according to the word of
Judah.

5v And whilst they were discoursing about this matter, and before the company
of Ishmaelites had come up to them, seven trading men of Midian passed by
them, and as they passed they were thirsty, and they lifted up their eyes and
saw the pit in which Joseph was immured, and they looked, and behold every
species of bird was upon him.

6v And these Midianites ran to the pit to drink water, for they thought that
it contained water, and on coming before the pit they heard the voice of
Joseph crying and weeping in the pit, and they looked down into the pit, and
they saw and behold there was a youth of comely appearance and well favored.

7v And they called unto him and said, Who art thou and who brought thee
hither, and who placed thee in this pit, in the wilderness? and they all
assisted to raise up Joseph and they drew him out, and brought him up from the
pit, and took him and went away on their journey and passed by his brethren.

8v And these said unto them, Why do you do this, to take our servant from us
and to go away? surely we placed this youth in the pit because he rebelled
against us, and you come and bring him up and lead him away; now then give us
back our servant.

9v And the Midianites answered and said unto the sons of Jacob, Is this your
servant, or does this man attend you? peradventure you are all his servants,
for he is more comely and well favored than any of you, and why do you all
speak falsely unto us.

10v Now therefore we will not listen to your words, nor attend to you, for we
found the youth in the pit in the wilderness, and we took him; we will
therefore go on.

11v And all the sons of Jacob approached them and rose up to them and said
unto them, Give us back our servant, and why will you all die by the edge of
the sword? And the Midianites cried out against them, and they drew their
swords, and approached to fight with the sons of Jacob.

12v And behold Simeon rose up from his seat against them, and sprang upon the
ground and drew his sword and approached the Midianites and he gave a terrible
shout before them, so that his shouting was heard at a distance, and the earth
shook at Simeon's shouting.

13v And the Midianites were terrified on account of Simeon and the noise of
his shouting, and they fell upon their faces, and were excessively alarmed.

14v And Simeon said unto them, Verily I am Simeon, the son of Jacob the
Hebrew, who have, only with my brother, destroyed the city of Shechem and the
cities of the Amorites; so shall God moreover do unto me, that if all your
brethren the people of Midian, and also the kings of Canaan, were to come with
you, they could not fight against me.

15v Now therefore give us back the youth whom you have taken, lest I give your
flesh to the birds of the skies and the beasts of the earth.

16v And the Midianites were more afraid of Simeon, and they approached the
sons of Jacob with terror and fright, and with pathetic words, saying.

17v Surely you have said that the young man is your servant, and that he
rebelled against you, and therefore you placed him in the pit; what then will
you do with a servant who rebels against his master? Now therefore sell him
unto us, and we will give you all that you require for him; and the Lord was
pleased to do this in order that the sons of Jacob should not slay their
brother.

18v And the Midianites saw that Joseph was of a comely appearance and
well-favored; they desired him in their hearts and were urgent to purchase him
from his brethren.

19v And the sons of Jacob hearkened to the Midianites and they sold their
brother Joseph to them for twenty pieces of silver, and Reuben their brother
was not with them, and the Midianites took Joseph and continued their journey
to Gilead.

20v They were going along the road, and the Midianites repented of what they
had done, in having purchased the young man, and one said to the other, What
is this thing that we have done, in taking this youth from the Hebrews, who is
of comely appearance and well favored.

21v Perhaps this youth is stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and why then
have we done this thing? and if he should be sought for and found in our hands
we shall die through him.

22v Now surely hardy and powerful men have sold him to us, the strength of one
of whom you saw this day; perhaps they stole him from his land with their
might and with their powerful arm, and have therefore sold him to us for the
small value which we gave unto them.

23v And whilst they were thus discoursing together, they looked, and behold
the company of Ishmaelites which was coming at first, and which the Sons of
Jacob saw, was advancing toward the Midianites, and the Midianites said to
each other, Come let us sell this youth to the company of Ishmaelites who are
coming toward us, and we will take for him the little that we gave for him,
and we will be delivered from his evil.

24v And they did so, and they reached the Ishmaelites, and the Midianites sold
Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver which they had given for
him to his brethren.

25v And the Midianites went on their road to Gilead, and the Ishmaelites took
Joseph and they let him ride upon one of the camels, and they were leading him
to Egypt.

26v And Joseph heard that the Ishmaelites were proceeding to Egypt, and Joseph
lamented and wept at this thing that he was to be so far removed from the land
of Canaan, from his father, and he wept bitterly whilst he was riding upon the
camel, and one of their men observed him, and made him go down from the camel
and walk on foot, and notwithstanding this Joseph continued to cry and weep,
and he said, O my father, my father.

27v And one of the Ishmaelites rose up and smote Joseph upon the cheek, and
still he continued to weep; and Joseph was fatigued in the road, and was
unable to proceed on account of the bitterness of his soul, and they all smote
him and afflicted him in the road, and they terrified him in order that he
might cease from weepin.

28v And the Lord saw the affliction of Joseph and his trouble, and the Lord
brought down upon those men darkness and confusion, and the hand of every one
that smote him became withered.

29v And they said to each other, What is this thing that God has done to us in
the road? and they knew not that this befell them on account of Joseph. And
the men proceeded on the road, and they passed along the road of Ephrath where
Rachel was buried.

30v And Joseph reached his mother's grave, and Joseph hastened and ran to his
mother's grave, and fell upon the grave and wept.

31v And Joseph cried aloud upon his mother's grave, and he said, O my mother,
my mother, O thou who didst give me birth, awake now, and rise and see thy
son, how he has been sold for a slave, and no one to pity him.

32v 0v rise and see thy son, weep with me on account of my troubles, and see
the heart of my brethren.

33v Arouse my mother, arouse, awake from thy sleep for me, and direct thy
battles against my brethren. O how have they stripped me of my coat, and sold
me already twice for a slave, and separated me from my father, and there is no
one to pity me.

34v Arouse and lay thy cause against them before God, and see whom God will
justify in the judgment, and who he will condemn.

35v Rise, O my mother, rise, awake from thy sleep and see my father how his
soul is with me this day, and comfort him and ease his heart.

36v And Joseph continued to speak these words, and Joseph cried aloud and wept
bitterly upon his mother's grave; and he ceased speaking, and from bitterness
of heart he became still as a stone upon the grave.

37v And Joseph heard a voice speaking to him from beneath the ground, which
answered him with bitterness of heart, and with a voice of weeping and praying
in these words:

38v My son, my son Joseph, I have heard the voice of thy weeping and the voice
of thy lamentation; I have seen thy tears; I know thy troubles, my son, and it
grieves me for thy sake, and abundant grief is added to my grief.

39v Now therefore my son, Joseph my son, hope to the Lord, and wait for him
and do not fear, for the Lord is with thee, he will deliver thee from all
trouble.

40v Rise my son, go down unto Egypt with thy masters, and do not fear, for the
Lord is with thee, my son. And she continued to speak like unto these words
unto Joseph, and she was still.

41v And Joseph heard this, and he wondered greatly at this, and he continued
to weep; and after this one of the Ishmaelites observed him crying and weeping
upon the grave, and his anger was kindled against him, and he drove him from
there, and he smote him and cursed him.

42v And Joseph said unto the men, May I find grace in your sight to take me
back to my father's house, and he will give you abundance of riches.

43v And they answered him, saying, Art thou not a slave, and where is thy
father? and if thou hadst a father thou wouldst not already twice have been
sold for a slave for so little value; and their anger was still roused against
him, and they continued to smite him and to chastise him, and Joseph wept
bitterly.

44v And the Lord saw Joseph's affliction, and the Lord again smote these men,
and chastised them, and the Lord caused darkness to envelope them upon the
earth, and the lightning flashed and the thunder roared, and the earth shook
at the voice of the thunder and of the mighty wind, and the men were terrified
and knew not where they should go.

45v And the beasts and camels stood still, and they led them, but they would
not go, they smote them, and they crouched upon the ground; and the men said
to each other, What is this that God has done to us? what are our
transgressions, and what are our sins that this thing has thus befallen us.

46v And one of them answered and said unto them, Perhaps on account of the sin
of afflicting this slave has this thing happened this day to us; now therefore
implore him strongly to forgive us, and then we shall know on whose account
this evil befalleth us, and if God shall have compassion over us, then we
shall know that all this cometh to us on account of the sin of afflicting this
slave.

47v And the men did so, and they supplicated Joseph and pressed him to forgive
them; and they said, We have sinned to the Lord and to thee, now therefore
vouchsafe to request of thy God that he shall put away this death from amongst
us, for we have sinned to him.

48v And Joseph did according to their words, and the Lord hearkened to Joseph,
and the Lord put away the plague which he had inflicted upon those men on
account of Joseph, and the beasts rose up from the ground and they conducted
them, and they went on, and the raging storm abated and the earth became
tranquilized, and the men proceeded on their journey to go down to Egypt, and
the men knew that this evil had befallen them on account of Joseph.

49v And they said to each other, Behold we know that it was on account of his
affliction that this evil befell us; now therefore why shall we bring this
death upon our souls? Let us hold counsel what to do to this slave.

50v And one answered and said, Surely he told us to bring him back to his
father; now therefore come, let us take him back and we will go to the place
that he will tell us, and take from his family the price that we gave for him
and we will then go away.

51v And one answered again and said, Behold this counsel is very good, but we
cannot do so for the way is very far from us, and we cannot go out of our
road.

52v And one more answered and said unto them, This is the counsel to be
adopted, we will not swerve from it; behold we are this day going to Egypt,
and when we shall have come to Egypt, we will sell him there at a high price,
and we will be delivered from his evil.

53v And this thing pleased the men and they did so, and they continued their
journey to Egypt with Joseph.

Chapter 43. Reuben's Anguish at not Finding Joseph in the Pit. The Brothers
contrive to Deceive their Father by Dipping his coat in Blood. Jacob's Anguish
at the loss of his Son.

1v And when the sons of Jacob had sold their brother Joseph to the Midianites,
their hearts were smitten on account of him, and they repented of their acts,
and they sought for him to bring him back, but could not find him.

2v And Reuben returned to the pit in which Joseph had been put, in order to
lift him out, and restore him to his father, and Reuben stood by the pit, and
he heard not a word, and he called out Joseph! Joseph! and no one answered or
uttered a word.

3v And Reuben said, Joseph has died through fright, or some serpent has caused
his death; and Reuben descended into the pit, and he searched for Joseph and
could not find him in the pit, and he came out again.

4v And Reuben tore his garments and he said, The child is not there, and how
shall I reconcile my father about him if he be dead? and he went to his
brethren and found them grieving on account of Joseph, and counseling together
how to reconcile their father about him, and Reuben said unto his brethren, I
came to the pit and behold Joseph was not there, what then shall we say unto
our father, for my father will only seek the lad from me.

5v And his brethren answered him saying, Thus and thus we did, and our hearts
afterward smote us on account of this act, and we now sit to seek a pretext
how we shall reconcile our father to it.

6v And Reuben said unto them, What is this you have done to bring down the
grey hairs of our father in sorrow to the grave? the thing is not good, that
you have done.

7v And Reuben sat with them, and they all rose up and swore to each other not
to tell this thing unto Jacob, and they all said, The man who will tell this
to our father or his household, or who will report this to any of the children
of the land, we will all rise up against him and slay him with the sword.

8v And the sons of Jacob feared each other in this matter, from the youngest
to the oldest, and no one spoke a word, and they concealed the thing in their
hearts.

9v And they afterward sat down to determine and invent something to say unto
their father Jacob concerning all these things.

10v And Issachar said unto them, Here is an advice for you if it seem good in
your eyes to do this thing, take the coat which belongeth to Joseph and tear
it, and kill a kid of the goats and dip it in its blood.

11v And send it to our father and when he seeth it he will say an evil beast
has devoured him, therefore tear ye his coat and behold his blood will he upon
his coat, and by your doing this we shall be free of our father's murmurings.

12v And Issachar's advice pleased them, and they hearkened unto him and they
did according to the word of Issachar which he had counselled them.

13v And they hastened and took Joseph's coat and tore it, and they killed a
kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood of the kid, and then
trampled it in the dust, and they sent the coat to their father Jacob by the
hand of Naphtali, and they commanded him to say these words:

14v We had gathered in the cattle and had come as far as the road to Shechem
and farther, when we found this coat upon the road in the wilderness dipped in
blood and in dust; now therefore know whether it be thy son's coat or not.

15v And Naphtali went and he came unto his father and he gave him the coat,
and he spoke unto him all the words which his brethren had commanded him.

16v And Jacob saw Joseph's coat and he knew it and he fell upon his face to
the ground, and became as still as a stone, and he afterward rose up and cried
out with a loud and weeping voice and he said, It is the coat of my son
Joseph.

17v And Jacob hastened and sent one of his servants to his sons, who went to
them and found them coming along the road with the flock.

18v And the sons of Jacob came to their father about evening, and behold their
garments were torn and dust was upon their heads, and they found their father
crying out and weeping with a loud voice.

19v And Jacob said unto his sons, Tell me truly what evil have you this day
suddenly brought upon me? and they answered their father Jacob, saying, We
were coming along this day after the flock had been gathered in, and we came
as far as the city of Shechem by the road in the wilderness, and we found this
coat filled with blood upon the ground, and we knew it and we sent unto thee
if thou couldst know it.

20v And Jacob heard the words of his sons and he cried out with a loud voice,
and he said, It is the coat of my son, an evil beast has devoured him; Joseph
is rent in pieces, for I sent him this day to see whether it was well with you
and well with the flocks and to bring me word again from you, and he went as I
commanded him, and this has happened to him this day whilst I thought my son
was with you.

21v And the sons of Jacob answered and said, He did not come to us, neither
have we seen him from the time of our going out from thee until now.

22v And when Jacob heard their words he again cried out aloud, and he rose up
and tore his garments, and he put sackcloth upon his loins, and he wept
bitterly and he mourned and lifted up his voice in weeping and exclaimed and
said these words.

23v Joseph my son, O my son Joseph, I sent thee this day after the welfare of
thy brethren, and behold thou hast been torn in pieces; through my hand has
this happened to my son.

24v It grieves me for thee Joseph my son, it grieves me for thee; how sweet
wast thou to me during life, and now how exceedingly bitter is thy death to
me.

25v 0v that I had died in thy stead Joseph my son, for it grieves me sadly for
thee my son, O my son, my son, Joseph my son, where art thou, and where hast
thou been drawn? arouse, arouse from thy place, and come and see my grief for
thee, O my son Joseph.

26v Come now and number the tears gushing from my eyes down my cheeks and
bring them up before the Lord, that his anger may turn from me.

27v 0v Joseph my son, how didst thou fall, by the hand of one by whom no one
had fallen from the beginning of the world unto this day; for thou hast been
put to death by the smiting of an enemy, inflicted with cruelty, but surely I
know that this has happened to thee, on account of the multitude of my sins.

28v Arouse now and see how bitter is my trouble for thee my son, although I
did not rear thee, nor fashion thee, nor give thee breath and soul, but it was
God who formed thee and built thy bones and covered them with flesh, and
breathed in thy nostrils the breath of fire, and then he gave thee unto me.

29v Now truly God who gave thee unto me, he has taken thee from me, and such
then has befallen thee this day, and all the works of God are good.

30v And Jacob continued to speak like unto these words concerning Joseph, and
he wept bitterly; he fell to the ground and became still.

31v And all the sons of Jacob seeing their father's trouble, they repented of
what they had done, and they also wept bitterly.

32v Judah rose up and lifted his father's head from the ground, and placed it
upon his lap, and he wiped his father's tears from his cheeks, and Judah wept
an exceeding great weeping, whilst his father s head was reclining upon his
lap, still as a stone.

33v And the sons of Jacob saw their father's trouble, and they lifted up their
voices and continued to weep, and Jacob was yet lying upon the ground still as
a stone.

34v And all his sons and his servants and his servant's children rose up and
stood round him to comfort him, and he refused to be comforted.

35v And the whole household of Jacob rose up and mourned a great mourning on
account of Joseph and their father's trouble, and the intelligence reached
Isaac, the son of Abraham, the father of Jacob, and he wept bitterly on
account of Joseph, he and all his household, and he went from the place where
he dwelt in Hebron, and his men with him, and he comforted Jacob his son, and
he refused to be comforted.

36v And after this, Jacob rose up from the ground, and his tears were running
down his cheeks, and he said unto his sons, Rise up and take your swords and
your bows, and go forth into the field, and seek whether you can find my son's
body and bring it unto me that I may bury it.

37v Seek also, I pray you, among the beasts and hunt them, and that which
shall come the first before you seize and bring it unto me, perhaps the Lord
will this day pity my affliction, and prepare before you that which did tear
my son in pieces, and bring it unto me, and I will avenge the cause of my Son.

38v And his sons did as their father had commanded them, and they rose up
early in the morning, and each took his sword and his bow in his hand, and
they went forth into the field to hunt the beasts.

39v And Jacob was still crying aloud and weeping and walking to and fro in the
house, and smiting his hands together, saying Joseph my son, Joseph my son.

40v And the sons of Jacob went into the wilderness to seize the beasts, and
behold a wolf came toward them, and they seized him, and brought him unto
their father, and they said unto him, This is the first we have found, and we
have brought him unto thee as thou didst command us, and thy son's body we
could not find.

41v And Jacob took the beast from the hands of his sons, and he cried out with
a loud and weeping voice, holding the beast in his hand, and he spoke with a
bitter heart unto the beast, Why didst thou devour my son Joseph, and how
didst thou have no fear of the God of the earth, or of my trouble for my son
Joseph.

42v And thou didst devour my son for naught, because he committed no violence,
and didst thereby render me culpable on his account, therefore God will
require him that is persecuted.

43v And the Lord opened the mouth of the beast in order to comfort Jacob with
its words and it answered Jacob and spoke these words unto him.

44v As God liveth who created us in the earth, and as thy soul liveth, my
lord, I did not see thy son, neither did I tear him to pieces, but from a
distant land I also came to seek my son who went from me this day, and I know
not whether he be living or dead.

45v And I came this day into the field to seek my son, and your sons found me,
and seized me and increased my grief, and have this day brought me before
thee, and I have now spoken all my words to thee.

46v And now therefore, O son of man, I am in thy hands, and do unto me this
day as it may seem good in thy sight, but by the life of God who created me, I
did not see thy son, nor did I tear him to pieces, neither has the flesh of
man entered my mouth all the days of my life.

47v And when Jacob heard the words of the beast he was greatly astonished, and
sent forth the beast from his hand, and she went her way.

48v And Jacob was still crying aloud and weeping for Joseph day after day, and
he mourned for his son many days.

Chapter 44. Joseph is sold to Potiphar, an Officer of Pharaoh. Zelicah, thc
Wife of Potiphar, seeks to entice Joseph to do Evil, but all her advances are
Rejected. Is Falsely Accused by her and is brought to Judgment. Is Acquitted
by his Judges, but for the Sake of the Report against Potiphar's Wife, he is
cast into Prison.

1v And the sons of Ishmael who had bought Joseph from the Midianites, who had
bought him from his brethren, went to Egypt with Joseph, and they came upon
the borders of Egypt, and when they came near unto Egypt, they met four men of
the sons of Medan the son of Abraham, who had gone forth from the land of
Egypt on their journey.

2v And the Ishmaelites said unto them, Do you desire to purchase this slave
from us? and they said, Deliver him over to us, and they delivered Joseph over
to them, and they beheld him, that he was a very comely youth and they
purchased him for twenty shekels.

3v And the Ishmaelites continued their journey to Egypt. and the Medanim also
returned that day to Egypt, and the Medanim said to each other, Behold we have
heard that Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, seeketh a
good servant who shall stand before him to attend him, and to make him
overseer over his house and all belonging to him.

4v Now therefore come let us sell him to him for what we may desire, if he be
able to give unto us that which we shall require for him.

5v And these Medanim went and came to the house of Potiphar, and said unto
him, We have heard that thou seekest a good servant to attend thee, behold we
have a servant that will please thee, if thou canst give unto us that which we
may desire, and we will sell him unto thee.

6v And Potiphar said, Bring him before me, and I will see him, and if he
please me I will give unto you that which you may require for him.

7v And the Medanim went and brought Joseph and placed him before Potiphar, and
he saw him, and he pleased him exceedingly, and Potiphar said unto them, Tell
me what you require for this youth.

8v And they said, Four hundred pieces of silver we desire for him, and
Potiphar said, I will give it you if you bring me the record of his sale to
you, and will tell me his history, for perhaps he may be stolen, for this
youth is neither a slave, nor the son of a slave, but I observe in him the
appearance of a goodly and handsome person.

9v And the Medanim went and brought unto him the Ishmaelites who had sold him
to them, and they told him, saying, He is a slave and we sold him to them.

10v And Potiphar heard the words of the Ishmaelites in his giving the silver
unto the Medanim, and the Medanim took the silver and went on their journey,
and the Ishmaelites also returned home.

11v And Potiphar took Joseph and brought him to his house that he might serve
him, and Joseph found favor in the sight of Potiphar, and he placed confidence
in him, and made him overseer over his house, and all that belonged to him he
delivered over into his hand.

12v And the Lord was with Joseph and he became a prosperous man, and the Lord
blessed the house of Potiphar for the sake of Joseph.

13v And Potiphar left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and Joseph was
one that caused things to come in and go out, and everything was regulated by
his wish in the house of Potiphar.

14v And Joseph was eighteen years old, a youth with beautiful eyes and of
comely appearance, and like unto him was not in the whole land of Egypt.

15v At that time whilst he was in his master's house, going in and out of the
house and attending his master, Zelicah, his master's wife, lifted up her eyes
toward Joseph and she looked at him, and behold he was a youth comely and well
favored.

16v And she coveted his beauty in her heart, and her soul was fixed upon
Joseph, and she enticed him day after day, and Zelicah persuaded Joseph daily,
but Joseph did not lift up his eyes to behold his master's wife.

17v And Zelicah said unto him, How goodly are thy appearance and form, truly I
have looked at all the slaves, and have not seen so beautiful a slave as thou
art; and Joseph said unto her, Surely he who created me in my mother's womb
created all mankind.

18v And she said unto him, How beautiful are thine eyes, with which thou hast
dazzled all the inhabitants of Egypt, men and women; and he said unto her, How
beautiful they are whilst we are alive, but shouldst thou behold them in the
grave, surely thou wouldst move away from them.

19v And she said unto him, How beautiful and pleasing are thy all words; take
now, I pray thee, the harp which is in the house, and play with thy hands and
let us hear thy words.

20v And he said unto her, How beautiful and pleasing are my words when I speak
the praise of my God and his glory; and she said unto him, How very beautiful
is the hair of thy head, behold the golden comb which is in the house, take it
I pray thee and curl the hair of thy head.

21v And he said unto her, How long wilt thou speak these words? cease to utter
these words to me, and rise and attend to thy domestic affairs.

22v And she said unto him, There is no one in my house, and there is nothing
to attend to but to thy words and to thy wish; yet notwithstanding all this,
she could not bring Joseph unto her, neither did he place his eye upon her,
but directed his eyes below to the ground.

23v And Zelicah desired Joseph in her heart, that he should lie with her, and
at the time that Joseph was sitting in the house doing his work, Zelicah came
and sat before him, and she enticed him daily with her discourse to lie with
her, or even to look at her, but Joseph would not hearken to her.

24v And she said unto him, If thou wilt not do according to my words, I will
chastise thee with the punishment of death, and put an iron yoke upon thee.

25v And Joseph said unto her, Surely God who created man looseth the fetters
of prisoners, and it is he who will deliver me from thy prison and from thy
judgment.

26v And when she could not prevail over him, to persuade him, and her soul
being still fixed upon him, her desire threw her into a grievous sickness.

27v And all the women of Egypt came to visit her, and they said unto her, Why
art thou in this declining state? thou that lackest nothing; surely thy
husband is a great and esteemed prince in the sight of the king, shouldst thou
lack anything of what thy heart desireth.

28v And Zelicah answered them, saying, This day it shall be made known to you,
whence this disorder springs in which you see me, and she commanded her maid
servants to prepare food for all the women, and she made a banquet for them,
and all the women ate in the house of Zelicah.

29v And she gave them knives to peel the citrons to eat them, and she
commanded that they should dress Joseph in costly garments, and that he should
appear before them, and Joseph came before their eyes and all the women looked
on Joseph, and could not take their eyes from off him, and they all cut their
hands with the knives that they had in their hands, and all the citrons that
were in their hands were filled with blood.

30v And they knew not what they had done but they continued to look at the
beauty of Joseph, and did not turn their eyelids from him.

31v And Zelicah saw what they had done, and she said unto them, What is this
work that you have done? behold I gave you citrons to eat and you have all cut
your hands.

32v And all the women saw their hands, and behold they were full of blood, and
their blood flowed down upon their garments, and they said unto her, this
slave in your house has overcome us, and we could not turn our eyelids from
him on account of his beauty.

33v And she said unto them, Surely this happened to you in the moment that you
looked at him, and you could not contain yourselves from him; how then can I
refrain when he is constantly in my house, and I see him day after day going
in and out of my house? how then can I keep from declining or even from
perishing on account of this.

34v And they said unto her, the words are true, for who can see this beautiful
form in the house and refrain from him, and is he not thy slave and attendant
in thy house, and why dost thou not tell him that which is in thy heart, and
sufferest thy soul to perish through this matter.

35v And she said unto them, I am daily endeavoring to persuade him, and he
will not consent to my wishes, and I promised him everything that is good, and
yet I could meet with no return from him; I am therefore in a declining state
as you see.

36v And Zelicah became very ill on account of her desire toward Joseph, and
she was desperately lovesick on account of him, and all the people of the
house of Zelicah and her husband knew nothing of this matter, that Zelicah was
ill on account of her love to Joseph.

37v And all the people of her house asked her, saying, Why art thou ill and
declining, and lackest nothing? and she said unto them, I know not this thing
which is daily increasing upon me.

38v And all the women and her friends came daily to see her, and they spoke
with her, and she said unto them, This can only be through the love of Joseph;
and they said unto her, Entice him and seize him secretly, perhaps he may
hearken to thee, and put off this death from thee.

39v And Zelicah became worse from her love to Joseph, and she continued to
decline, till she had scarce strength to stand.

40v And on a certain day Joseph was doing his master's work in the house, and
Zelicah came secretly and fell suddenly upon him, and Joseph rose up against
her, and he was more powerful than she, and he brought her down to the ground.

41v And Zelicah wept on account of the desire of her heart toward him, and she
supplicated him with weeping, and her tears flowed down her cheeks, and she
spoke unto him in a voice of supplication and in bitterness of soul, saying.

42v Hast thou ever heard, seen or known of so beautiful a woman as I am, or
better than myself, who speak daily unto thee, fall into a decline through
love for thee, confer all this honor upon thee, and still thou wilt not
hearken to my voice.

43v And if it be through fear of thy master lest he punish thee, as the king
liveth no harm shall come to thee from thy master through this thing; now,
therefore pray listen to me, and consent for the sake of the honor which I
have conferred upon thee, and put off this death from me, and why should I die
for thy sake? and she ceased to speak.

44v And Joseph answered her, saying, Refrain from me, and leave this matter to
my master; behold my master knoweth not what there is with me in the house,
for all that belongeth to him he has delivered into my hand, and how shall I
do these things in my master's house.

45v For he hath also greatly honored me in his house, and he hath also made me
overseer over his house, and he hath exalted me, and there is no one greater
in this house than I am, and my master hath refrained nothing from me,
excepting thee who art his wife, how then canst thou speak these words unto
me, and how can I do this great evil and sin to God and to thy husband.

46v Now therefore refrain from me, and speak no more such words as these, for
I will not hearken to thy words. But Zelicah would not hearken to Joseph when
he spoke these words unto her, but she daily enticed him to listen to her.

47v And it was after this that the brook of Egypt was filled above all its
sides, and all the inhabitants of Egypt went forth, and also the king and
princes went forth with timbrels and dances, for it was a great rejoicing in
Egypt, and a holiday at the time of the inundation of the sea Sihor, and they
went there to rejoice all the day.

48v And when the Egyptians went out to the river to rejoice, as was their
custom, all the people of the house of Potiphar went with them, but Zelicah
would not go with them, for she said, I am indisposed, and she remained alone
in the house, and no other person was with her in the house.

49v And she rose up and ascended to her temple in the house, and dressed
herself in princely garments, and she placed upon her head precious stones of
onyx stones, inlaid with silver and gold, and she beautified her face and skin
with all sorts of women's purifying liquids, and she perfumed the temple and
the house with cassia and frankincense, and she spread myrrh and aloes, and
she afterward sat in the entrance of the temple, in the passage of the house,
through which Joseph passed to do his work, and behold Joseph came from the
field, and entered the house to do his master's work.

50v And he came to the place through which he had to pass, and he saw all the
work of Zelicah, and he turned back.

51v And Zelicah saw Joseph turning back from her, and she called out to him,
saying What aileth thee Joseph? come to thy work, and behold I will make room
for thee until thou shalt have passed to thy seat.

52v And Joseph returned and came to the house, and passed from thence to the
place of his seat, and he sat down to do his master's work as usual and behold
Zelicah came to him and stood before him in princely garments, and the scent
from her clothes was spread to a distance.

53v And she hastened and caught hold of Joseph and his garments, and she said
unto him, As the king liveth if thou wilt not perform my request thou shalt
die this day, and she hastened and stretched forth her other hand and drew a
sword from beneath her garments, and she placed it upon Joseph's neck, and she
said, Rise and perform my request, and if not thou diest this day.

54v And Joseph was afraid of her at her doing this thing, and he rose up to
flee from her, and she seized the front of his garments, and in the terror of
his flight the garment which Zelicah seized was torn, and Joseph left the
garment in the hand of Zelicah, and he fled and got out, for he was in fear.

55v And when Zelicah saw that Joseph's garment was torn, and that he had left
it in her hand, and had fled, she was afraid of her life, lest the report
should spread concerning her, and she rose up and acted with cunning, and put
off the garments in which she was dressed, and she put on her other garments.

56v And she took Joseph's garment, and she laid it beside her, and she went
and seated herself in the place where she had sat in her illness, before the
people of her house had gone out to the river, and she called a young lad who
was then in the house, and she ordered him to call the people of the house to
her.

57v And when she saw them she said unto them with a loud voice and
lamentation, See what a Hebrew your master has brought to me in the house, for
he came this day to lie with me.

58v For when you had gone out he came to the house, and seeing that there was
no person in the house, he came unto me, and caught hold of me, with intent to
lie with me.

59v And I seized his garments and tore them and called out against him with a
loud voice, and when I had lifted up my voice he was afraid of his life and
left his garment before me, and fled.

60v And the people of her house spoke nothing, but their wrath was very much
kindled against Joseph, and they went to his master and told him the words of
his wife.

61v And Potiphar came home enraged, and his wife cried out to him, saying,
What is this thing that thou hast done unto me in bringing a Hebrew servant
into my house, for he came unto me this day to sport with me; thus did he do
unto me this day.

62v And Potiphar heard the words of his wife, and he ordered Joseph to be
punished with severe stripes, and they did so to him.

63v And whilst they were smiting him, Joseph called out with a loud voice, and
he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and he said, O Lord God, thou knowest that I
am innocent of all these things, and why shall I die this day through
falsehood, by the hand of these uncircumcised wicked men, whom thou knowest.

64v And whilst Potiphar's men were beating Joseph, he continued to cry out and
weep, and there was a child there eleven months old, and the Lord opened the
mouth of the child, and he spake these words before Potiphar's men, who were
smiting Joseph, saying.

65v What do you want of this man, and why do you do this evil unto him? my
mother speaketh falsely and uttereth lies; thus was the transaction.

66v And the child told them accurately all that happened, and all the words of
Zelicah to Joseph day after day did he declare unto them.

67v And all the men heard the words of the child and they wondered greatly at
the child's words, and the child ceased to speak and became still.

68v And Potiphar was very much ashamed at the words of his son, and he
commanded his men not to beat Joseph any more, and the men ceased beating
Joseph.

69v And Potiphar took Joseph and ordered him to be brought to justice before
the priests, who were judges belonging to the king, in order to judge him
concerning this affair.

70v And Potiphar and Joseph came before the priests who were the king s
judges, and he said unto them, Decide I pray you, what judgment is due to a
servant, for thus has he done.

71v And the priests said unto Joseph, Why didst thou do this thing to thy
master? and Joseph answered them, saying, Not so my lords, thus was the
matter; and Potiphar said unto Joseph, Surely I entrusted in thy hands all
that belonged to me, and I withheld nothing from thee but my wife, and how
couldst thou do this evil.

72v And Joseph answered saying, Not so my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy
soul liveth, my lord, the word which thou didst hear from thy wife is untrue,
for thus was the affair this day.

73v A year has elapsed to me since I have been in thy house: hast thou seen
any iniquity in me, or any thing which might cause thee to demand my life.

74v And the priests said unto Potiphar, Send, we pray thee, and let them bring
before us Joseph's torn garment, and let us see the tear in it, and if it
shall be that the tear is in front of the garment, then his face must have
been opposite to her and she must have caught hold of him, to come to her, and
with deceit did thy wife do all that she has spoken.

75v And they brought Joseph's garment before the priests who were judges, and
they saw and behold the tear was in front of Joseph, and all the judging
priests knew that she had pressed him, and they said, The judgment of death is
not due to this slave for he has done nothing, but his judgment is, that he be
placed in the prison house on account of the report, which through him has
gone forth against thy wife.

76v And Potiphar heard their words, and he placed him in the prison house, the
place where the king's prisoners are confined, and Joseph was in the house of
confinement twelve years.

77v And notwithstanding this, his master's wife did not turn from him, and she
did not cease from speaking to him day after day to hearken to her, and at the
end of three months Zelicah continued going to Joseph to the house of
confinement day by day, and she enticed him to hearken to her, and Zelicah
said unto Joseph, How long wilt thou remain in this house? but hearken now to
my voice, and I will bring thee out of this house.

78v And Joseph answered her, saying, It is better for me to remain in this
house than to hearken to thy words, to sin against God; and she said unto him,
If thou wilt not perform my wish, I will pluck out thine eyes, add fetters to
thy feet, and will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou didst not
know before.

79v And Joseph answered her and said, Behold the God of the whole earth is
able to deliver me from all that thou canst do unto me, for he openeth the
eyes of the blind, and looseth those that are bound, and preserveth all
strangers who are unacquainted with the land.

80v And when Zelicah was unable to persuade Joseph to hearken to her, she left
off going to entice him; and Joseph was still confined in the house of
confinement. And Jacob the father of Joseph, and all his brethren who were in
the land of Canaan still mourned and wept in those days on account of Joseph,
for Jacob refused to be comforted for his son Joseph, and Jacob cried aloud,
and wept and mourned all those days.

Chapter 45. An Account of the Families of Jacob's Sons.

1v And it was at that time in that year, which is the year of Joseph's going
down to Egypt after his brothers had sold him, that Reuben the son of Jacob
went to Timnah and took unto him for a wife Eliuram, the daughter of Avi the
Canaanite, and he came to her.

2v And Eliuram the wife of Reuben conceived and bare him Hanoch, Palu,
Chetzron and Carmi, four sons; and Simeon his brother took his sister Dinah
for a wife, and she bare unto him Memuel, Yamin, Ohad, Jachin and Zochar, five
sons.

3v And he afterward came to Bunah the Canaanitish woman, the same is Bunah
whom Simeon took captive from the city of Shechem, and Bunah was before Dinah
and attended upon her, and Simeon came to her, and she bare unto him Saul.

4v And Judah went at that time to Adulam, and he came to a man of Adulam, and
his name was Hirah, and Judah saw there the daughter of a man from Canaan, and
her name was Aliyath, the daughter of Shua, and he took her, and came to her,
and Aliyath bare unto Judah, Er, Onan and Shiloh; three sons.

5v And Levi and Issachar went to the land of the east, and they took unto
themselves for wives the daughters of Jobab the son of Yoktan, the son of
Eber; and Jobab the son of Yoktan had two daughters; the name of the elder was
Adinah, and the name of the younger was Aridah.

6v And Levi took Adinah, and Issachar took Aridah, and they came to the land
of Canaan, to their father's house, and Adinah bare unto Levi, Gershon, Kehath
and Merari; three sons.

7v And Aridah bare unto Issachar Tola, Puvah, Job and Shomron, four sons; and
Dan went to the land of Moab and took for a wife Aphlaleth, the daughter of
Chamudan the Moabite, and he brought her to the land of Canaan.

8v And Aphlaleth was barren, she had no offspring, and God afterward
remembered Aphlaleth the wife of Dan, and she conceived and bare a son, and
she called his name Chushim.

9v And Gad and Naphtali went to Haran and took from thence the daughters of
Amuram the son of Uz, the son of Nahor, for wives.

10v And these are the names of the daughters of Amuram; the name of the elder
was Merimah, and the name of the younger Uzith; and Naphtali took Merimah, and
Gad took Uzith; and brought them to the land of Canaan, to their father's
house.

11v And Merimah bare unto Naphtali Yachzeel, Guni, Jazer and Shalem, tour
sons; and Uzith bare unto Gad Zephion, Chagi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and
Arali, seven sons.

12v And Asher went forth and took Adon the daughter of Aphlal, the son of
Hadad, the son of Ishmael, for a wife, and he brought her to the land of
Canaan.

13v And Adon the wife of Asher died in those days: she had no offspring; and
it was after the death of Adon that Asher went to the other side of the river
and took for a wife Hadurah the daughter of Abimael, the son of Eber, the son
of Shem.

14v And the young woman was of a comely appearance, and a woman of sense, and
she had been the wife of Malkiel the son of Elam, the son of Shem.

15v And Hadurah bare a daughter unto Malkiel, and he called her name Serach,
and Malkiel died after this, and Hadurah went and remained in her father's
house.

16v And after the death of the wife of Asher he went and took Hadurah for a
wife, and brought her to the land of Canaan, and Serach her daughter he also
brought with them, and she was three years old, and the damsel was brought up
in Jacob's house.

17v And the damsel was of a comely appearance, and she went in the sanctified
ways of the children of Jacob; she lacked nothing, and the Lord gave her
wisdom and understanding.

18v And Hadurah the wife of Asher conceived and bare unto him Yimnah, Yishvah,
Yishvi and Beriah; four sons.

19v And Zebulun went to Midian, and took for a wife Merishah the daughter of
Molad, the son of Abida, the son of Midian, and brought her to the land of
Canaan.

20v And Merushah bare unto Zebulun Sered, Elon and Yachleel; three sons.

21v And Jacob sent to Aram, the son of Zoba, the son of Terah, and he took for
his son Benjamin Mechalia the daughter of Aram, and she came to the land of
Canaan to the house of Jacob; and Benjamin was ten years old when he took
Mechalia the daughter of Aram for a wife.

22v And Mechalia conceived and bare unto Benjamin Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera
and Naaman, five sons; and Benjamin went afterward and took for a wife
Aribath, the daughter of Shomron, the son of Abraham, in addition to his first
wife, and he was eighteen years old; and Aribath bare unto Benjamin Achi,
Vosh, Mupim, Chupim, and Ord; five sons.

23v And in those days Judah went to the house of Shem and took Tamar the
daughter of Elam, the son of Shem, for a wife for his first born Er.

24v And Er came to his wife Tamar, and she became his wife, and when he came
to her he outwardly destroyed his seed, and his work was evil in the sight of
the Lord, and the Lord slew him.

25v And it was after the death of Er, Judah's first born, that Judah said unto
Onan, go to thy brother's wife and marry her as the next of kin, and raise up
seed to thy brother.

26v And Onan took Tamar for a wife and he came to her, and Onan also did like
unto the work of his brother, and his work was evil in the sight of the Lord,
and he slew him also.

27v And when Onan died, Judah said unto Tamar, Remain in thy father's house
until my son Shiloh shall have grown up, and Judah did no more delight in
Tamar, to give her unto Shiloh, for he said, Peradventure he will also die
like his brothers.

28v And Tamar rose up and went and remained in her father's house, and Tamar
was in her father's house for some time.

29v And at the revolution of the year, Aliyath the wife of Judah died; and
Judah was comforted for his wife, and after the death of Aliyath, Judah went
up with his friend Hirah to Timnah to shear their sheep.

30v And Tamar heard that Judah had gone up to Timnah to shear the sheep, and
that Shiloh was grown up, and Judah did not delight in her.

31v And Tamar rose up and put off the garments of her widowhood, and she put a
vail upon her, and she entirely covered herself, and she went and sat in the
public thoroughfare, which is upon the road to Timnah.

32v And Judah passed and saw her and took her and he came to her, and she
conceived by him, and at the time of being delivered, behold, there were twins
in her womb, and he called the name of the first Perez, and the name of the
second Zarah.

Chapter 46. Joseph Interprets the Dreams of his Fellow-Prisoners.

1v In those days Joseph was still confined in the prison house in the land of
Egypt.

2v At that time the attendants of Pharaoh were standing before him, the chief
of the butlers and the chief of the bakers which belonged to the king of
Egypt.

3v And the butler took wine and placed it before the king to drink, and the
baker placed bread before the king to eat, and the king drank of the wine and
ate of the bread, he and his servants and ministers that ate at the king's
table.

4v And whilst they were eating and drinking, the butler and the baker remained
there, and Pharaoh's ministers found many flies in the wine, which the butler
had brought, and stones of nitre were found in the baker's bread.

5v And the Captain of the guard placed Joseph as an attendant on Pharaoh's
officers, and Pharaoh's officers were in confinement one year.

6v And at the end of the year, they both dreamed dreams in one night, in the
place of confinement where they were, and in the morning Joseph came to them
to attend upon them as usual, and he saw them, and behold their countenances
were dejected and sad.

7v And Joseph asked them, Why are your countenances sad and dejected this day?
and they said unto him, we dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret
it; and Joseph said unto them, Relate, I pray you, your dream unto me, and God
shall give you an answer of peace as you desire.

8v And the butler related his dream unto Joseph, and he said, I saw in my
dream, and behold a large vine was before me, and upon that vine I saw three
branches, and the vine speedily blossomed and reached a great height, and its
clusters were ripened and became grapes.

9v And I took the grapes and pressed them in a cup, and placed it in Pharaoh's
hand and he drank; and Joseph said unto him, The three branches that were upon
the vine are three days.

10v Yet within three days, the king will order thee to be brought out and he
will restore thee to thy office, and thou shalt give the king his wine to
drink as at first when thou wast his butler; but let me find favor in thy
sight, that thou shalt remember me to Pharaoh when it will be well with thee,
and do kindness unto me, and get me brought forth from this prison, for I was
stolen away from the land of Canaan and was sold for a slave in this place.

11v And also that which was told thee concerning my master's wife is false,
for they placed me in this dungeon for naught; and the butler answered Joseph,
saying, If the king deal well with me as at first, as thou hast interpreted to
me, I will do all that thou desirest, and get thee brought out of this
dungeon.

12v And the baker, seeing that Joseph had accurately interpreted the butler's
dream, also approached, and related the whole of his dream to Joseph.

13v And he said unto him, In my dream I saw and behold three white baskets
upon my head, and I looked, and behold there were in the uppermost basket all
manner of baked meats for Pharaoh, and behold the birds were eating them from
off my head.

14v And Joseph said unto him, the three baskets which thou didst see are three
days, yet within three days Pharaoh will take off thy head, and hang thee upon
a tree, and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee, as thou sawest in thy
dream.

15v In those days the queen was about to be delivered, and upon that day she
bare a son unto the king of Egypt, and they proclaimed that the king had
gotten his first born son and all the people of Egypt together with the
officers and servants of Pharaoh rejoiced greatly.

16v And upon the third day of his birth Pharaoh made a feast for his officers
and servants, for the hosts of the land of Zoar and of the land of Egypt.

17v And all the people of Egypt and the servants of Pharaoh came to eat and
drink with the king at the feast of his son, and to rejoice at the king's
rejoicing.

18v And all the officers of the king and his servants were rejoicing at that
time for eight days at the feast, and they made merry with all sorts of
musical instruments, with timbrels and with dances in the king's house for
eight days.

19v And the butler, to whom Joseph had interpreted his dream, forgot Joseph,
and he did not mention him to the king as he had promised, for this thing was
from the Lord in order to punish Joseph because he had trusted in man.

20v And Joseph remained after this in the prison house two years, until he had
completed twelve years.

Chapter 47. Isaac Blesses his two Sons and Dies. His Property is Divided. Esau
takes all the personal Property and Jacob chooses the Inheritance of the Land
of Canaan, with the Cave of Machpelah for a Burying Place.

1v And Isaac the son of Abraham was still living in those days in the land of
Canaan; he was very aged, one hundred and eighty years old, and Esau his son,
the brother of Jacob, was in the land of Edom, and he and his sons had
possessions in it amongst the children of Seir.

2v And Esau heard that his father's time was drawing nigh to die, and he and
his sons and household came unto the land of Canaan, unto his father's house,
and Jacob and his sons went forth from the place where they dwelt in Hebron,
and they all came to their father Isaac, and they found Esau and his son in
the tent.

3v And Jacob and his sons sat before his father Isaac, and Jacob was still
mourning for his son Joseph.

4v And Isaac said unto Jacob, Bring me hither thy sons and I will bless them;
and Jacob brought his eleven children before his father Isaac.

5v And Isaac placed his hands upon all the sons of Jacob, and he took hold of
them and embraced them, and kissed them one by one, and Isaac blessed them on
that day, and he said unto them, May the God of your fathers bless you and
increase your seed like the stars of heaven for number.

6v And Isaac also blessed the sons of Esau, saying, May God cause you to be a
dread and a terror to all that will behold you, and to all your enemies.

7v And Isaac called Jacob and his sons, and they all came and sat before
Isaac, and Isaac said unto Jacob, The Lord God of the whole earth said unto
me, Unto thy seed will I give this land for an inheritance if thy children
keep my statutes and my ways, and I will perform unto them the oath which I
swore unto thy father Abraham.

8v Now therefore my son, teach thy children and thy children's children to
fear the Lord, and to go in the good way which will please the Lord thy God,
for if you keep the ways of the Lord and his statutes the Lord will also keep
unto you his covenant with Abraham, and will do well with you and your seed
all the days.

9v And when Isaac had finished commanding Jacob and his children, he gave up
the ghost and died, and was gathered unto his people.

10v And Jacob and Esau fell upon the face of their father Isaac, and they
wept, and Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old when he died in the land
of Canaan, in Hebron, and his sons carried him to the cave of Machpelah, which
Abraham had bought from the children of Heth for a possession of a burial
place.

11v And all the kings of the land of Canaan went with Jacob and Esau to bury
Isaac, and all the kings of Canaan showed Isaac great honor at his death.

12v And the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau went barefooted round about,
walking and lamenting until they reached Kireath-arba.

13v And Jacob and Esau buried their father Isaac in the cave of Machpelah,
which is in Kireath-arba in Hebron, and they buried him with very great honor,
as at the funeral of kings.

14v And Jacob and his sons, and Esau and his sons, and all the kings of Canaan
made a great and heavy mourning, and they buried him and mourned for him many
days.

15v And at the death of Isaac, he left his cattle and his possessions and all
belonging to him to his sons; and Esau said unto Jacob, Behold I pray thee,
all that our father has left we will divide it in two parts, and I will have
the choice, and Jacob said, We will do so.

16v And Jacob took all that Isaac had left in the land of Canaan, the cattle
and the property, and he placed them in two parts before Esau and his sons,
and he said unto Esau, Behold all this is before thee, choose thou unto
thyself the half which thou wilt take.

17v And Jacob said unto Esau, Hear thou I pray thee what I will speak unto
thee, saying, The Lord God of heaven and earth spoke unto our fathers Abraham
and Isaac, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land for an inheritance
forever.

18v Now therefore all that our father has left is before thee, and behold all
the land is before thee; choose thou from them what thou desirest.

19v If thou desirest the whole land take it for thee and thy children forever,
and I will take this riches, and if thou desirest the riches take it unto
thee, and I will take this land for me and for my children to inherit it
forever.

20v And Nebayoth, the son of Ishmael, was then in the land with his children,
and Esau went on that day and consulted with him, saying.

21v Thus has Jacob spoken unto me, and thus has he answered me, now give thy
advice and we will hear.

22v And Nebayoth said, What is this that Jacob hath spoken unto thee? behold
all the children of Canaan are dwelling securely in their land, and Jacob
sayeth he will inherit it with his seed all the days.

23v Go now therefore and take all thy father's riches and leave Jacob thy
brother in the land, as he has spoken.

24v And Esau rose up and returned to Jacob, and did all that Nebayoth the son
of Ishmael had advised; and Esau took all the riches that Isaac had left, the
souls, the beasts, the cattle and the property, and all the riches; he gave
nothing to his brother Jacob; and Jacob took all the land of Canaan, from the
brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, and he took it for an everlasting
possession, and for his children and for his seed after him forever.

25v Jacob also took from his brother Esau the cave of Machpelah, which is in
Hebron, which Abraham had bought from Ephron for a possession of a burial
place for him and his seed for ever.

26v And Jacob wrote all these things in the book of purchase, and he signed
it, and he testified all this with four faithful witnesses.

27v And these are the words which Jacob wrote in the book, saying: The land of
Canaan and all the cities of the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, the
Amorites, the Perizzites, and the Gergashites, all the seven nations from the
river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates.

28v And the city of Hebron Kireath-arba, and the cave which is in it, the
whole did Jacob buy from his brother Esau for value, for a possession and for
an inheritance for his seed after him forever.

29v And Jacob took the book of purchase and the signature, the command and the
statutes and the revealed book, and he placed them in an earthen vessel in
order that they should remain for a long time, and he delivered them into the
hands of his children.

30v Esau took all that his father had left him after his death from his
brother Jacob, and he took all the property, from man and beast, camel and
ass, ox and lamb, silver and gold, stones and bdellium, and all the riches
which had belonged to Isaac the son of Abraham; there was nothing left which
Esau did not take unto himself, from all that Isaac had left after his death.

31v And Esau took all this, and he and his children went home to the land of
Seir the Horite, away from his brother Jacob and his children.

32v And Esau had possessions amongst the children of Seir, and Esau returned
not to the land of Canaan from that day forward.

33v And the whole land of Canaan became an inheritance to the children of
Israel for an everlasting inheritance, and Esau with all his children
inherited the mountain of Seir.

Chapter 48. Pharaoh's Dreams. Not Receiving a Satisfactory Interpretation from
the Magicians, he orders the Wise Men to be Slain. The King's Butler makes
Joseph's Gifts known to Pharaoh. Joseph is Brought before the King, who
Relates his Dreams to him. Joseph, by the Gift of God, Interprets them. A
great Famine Predicted.

1v In those days, after the death of Isaac, the Lord commanded and caused a
famine upon the whole earth.

2v At that time Pharaoh king of Egypt was sitting upon his throne in the land
of Egypt, and lay in his bed and dreamed dreams, and Pharaoh saw in his dream
that he was standing by the side of the river of Egypt.

3v And whilst he was standing he saw and behold seven fat fleshed and well
favored kine came up out of the river.

4v And seven other kine, lean fleshed and ill favored, came up after them, and
the seven ill favored ones swallowed up the well favored ones, and still their
appearance was ill as at first.

5v And he awoke, and he slept again and he dreamed a second time, and he saw
and behold seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good, and seven
thin ears blasted with the east wind sprang up after them, and the thin ears
swallowed up the full ones, and Pharaoh awoke out of his dream.

6v And in the morning the king remembered his dreams, and his spirit was sadly
troubled on account of his dreams, and the king hastened and sent and called
for all the magicians of Egypt, and the wise men, and they came and stood
before Pharaoh.

7v And the king said unto them, I have dreamed dreams, and there is none to
interpret them; and they said unto the king, relate thy dreams to thy servants
and let us hear them.

8v And the king related his dreams to them, and they all answered and said
with one voice to the king, may the king live for ever; and this is the
interpretation of thy dreams.

9v The seven good kine which thou didst see denote seven daughters that will
be born unto thee in the latter days, and the seven kine which thou sawest
come Up after them, and swallowed them up, are for a sign that the daughters
which will be born unto thee will all die in the life-time of the king.

10v And that which thou didst see in the second dream of seven full good ears
of corn coming up upon one stalk, this is their interpretation, that thou wilt
build unto thyself in the latter days seven cities throughout the land of
Egypt; and that which thou sawest of the seven blasted ears of corn springing
up after them and swallowing them up whilst thou didst behold them with thine
eyes, is for a sign that the cities which thou wilt build will all be
destroyed in the latter days, in the life-time of the king.

11v And when they spoke these words the king did not incline his ear to their
words, neither did he fix his heart upon them, for the king knew in his wisdom
that they did not give a proper interpretation of the dreams; and when they
had finished speaking before the king, the king answered them, saying, What is
this thing that you have spoken unto me? surely you have uttered falsehood and
spoken lies; therefore now give the proper interpretation of my dreams, that
you may not die.

12v And the king commanded after this, and he sent and called again for other
wise men, and they came and stood before the king, and the king related his
dreams to them, and they all answered him according to the first
interpretation, and the king's anger was kindled and he was very wroth, and
the king said unto them, Surely you speak lies and utter falsehood in what you
have said.

13v And the king commanded that a proclamation should be issued through out
the land of Egypt, saying it is resolved by the king and his great men, that
any wise man who knoweth and understandeth the interpretation of dreams, and
will not come this day before the king, he shall die.

14v And the man that will declare unto the king the proper interpretation of
his dreams, there shall be given unto him all that he will require from the
king. And all the wise men of the land of Egypt came before the king, together
with all the magicians and sorcerers that were in Egypt and in Goshen, in
Raamses, in Tachpanches, in Zoar, and in all the places on the borders of
Egypt, and they all stood before the king.

15v And all the nobles and the princes, and the attendants belonging to the
king, came together from all the cities of Egypt, and they all sat before the
king, and the king related his dreams before the wise men, and the princes,
and all that sat before the king were astonished at the vision.

16v And all the wise men who were before the king were greatly divided in
their interpretation of his dreams: some of them interpreted them to the king,
saying, The seven good kine are seven kings, who from the king's issue will be
raised over Egypt.

17v And the seven bad kine are seven princes, who will stand up against them
in the latter days and destroy them; and the seven ears of corn are the seven
great princes belonging to Egypt, who will fall in the hands of the seven less
powerful princes of their enemies, in the wars of our lord the king.

18v And some of them interpreted to the king in this manner, saying, The seven
good kine are the strong cities of Egypt, and the seven bad kine are the seven
nations of the land of Canaan, who will come against the seven cities of Egypt
in the latter days and destroy them.

19v And that which thou sawest in the second dream, of seven good and bad ears
of corn, is a sign that the government of Egypt will again return to thy seed
as at first.

20v And in his reign the people of the cities of Egypt will turn against the
seven cities of Canaan who are stronger than they are, and will destroy them,
and the government of Egypt will return to thy seed.

21v And some of them said unto the king, This is the interpretation of thy
dreams; the seven good kine are seven queens, whom thou wilt take for wives in
the latter days, and the seven bad kine denote that those women will all die
in the lifetime of the king.

22v And the seven good and bad ears of corn which thou didst see in the second
dream are fourteen children, and it will be in the latter day, that they will
stand up and fight amongst themselves, and seven of them will smite the seven
that are more powerful.

23v And some of them said these words unto the king, saying, the seven good
kine denote that seven children will be born to thee, and they will slay seven
of thy children's children in the latter days; and the seven good ears of corn
which thou didst see in the second dream, are those princes against whom seven
other less powerful princes will fight and destroy them in the latter days,
and avenge thy children's cause, and the government will again return to thy
seed.

24v And the king heard all the words of the wise men of Egypt and their
interpretation of his dreams, and none of them pleased the king.

25v And the king knew in his wisdom that they did not altogether speak
correctly in all these words, for this was from the Lord to frustrate the
words of the wise men of Egypt, in order that Joseph might go forth from the
house of confinement, and in order that he should become great in Egypt.

26v And the king saw that none amongst all the wise men and magicians of Egypt
spoke correctly to him, and the king's wrath was kindled, and his anger burned
within him.

27v And the king commanded that all the wise men and magicians should go out
from before him, and they all went out from before the king with shame and
disgrace.

28v And the king commanded that a proclamation be sent throughout Egypt to
slay all the magicians that were in Egypt, and not one of them should be
suffered to live.

29v And the captains of the guards belonging to the king rose up, and each man
drew his sword, and they began to smite the magicians of Egypt, and the wise
men.

30v And after this Merod, chief butler to the king, came and bowed down before
the king and sat before him.

31v And the butler said unto the king, May the king live forever, and his
government be exalted in the land.

32v Thou wast angry with thy servant in those days, now two years past, and
didst place me in the ward, and I was for some time in the ward, I and the
chief of the bakers.

33v And there was with us a Hebrew servant belonging to the captain of the
guard, his name was Joseph, for his master had been angry with him and placed
him in the house of confinement, and he attended us there.

34v And in some time after when we were in the ward, we dreamed dreams in one
night, I and the chief of the bakers; we dreamed, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream.

35v And we came in the morning and told them to that servant, and he
interpreted to us our dreams, to each man according to his dream, did he
correctly interpret.

36v And it came to pass as he interpreted to us, so was the event; there fell
not to the ground any of his words.

37v And now therefore my lord and king do not slay the people of Egypt for
naught; behold that slave is still confined in the house by the captain of the
guard his master, in the house of confinement.

38v If it pleaseth the king let him send for him that he may come before thee
and he wilt make known to thee, the correct interpretation of the dream which
thou didst dream.

39v And the king heard the words of the chief butler, and the king ordered
that the wise men of Egypt should not be slain.

40v And the king ordered his servants to bring Joseph before him, and the king
said unto them, Go to him and do not terrify him lest he be confused and will
not know to speak properly.

41v And the servants of the king went to Joseph, and they brought him hastily
out of the dungeon, and the king's servants shaved him, and he changed his
prison garment and he came before the king.

42v And the king was sitting upon his royal throne in a princely dress girt
around with a golden ephod, and the fine gold which was upon it sparkled, and
the carbuncle and the ruby and the emerald, together with all the precious
stones that were upon the king's head, dazzled the eye, and Joseph wondered
greatly at the king.

43v And the throne upon which the king sat was covered with gold and silver,
and with onyx stones, and it had seventy steps.

44v And it was their custom throughout the land of Egypt, that every man who
came to speak to the king, if he was a prince or one that was estimable in the
sight of the king, he ascended to the king's throne as far as the thirty-first
step, and the king would descend to the thirty-sixth step, and speak with him.

45v If he was one of the common people, he ascended to the third step, and the
king would descend to the fourth and speak to him, and their custom was,
moreover, that any man who understood to speak in all the seventy languages,
he ascended the seventy steps, and went up and spoke till he reached the king.

46v And any man who could not complete the seventy, he ascended as many steps
as the languages which he knew to speak in.

47v And it was customary in those days in Egypt that no one should reign over
them, but who understood to speak in the seventy languages.

48v And when Joseph came before the king he bowed down to the ground before
the king, and he ascended to the third step, and the king sat upon the fourth
step and spoke with Joseph.

49v And the king said unto Joseph, I dreamed a dream, and there is no
interpreter to interpret it properly, and I commanded this day that all the
magicians of Egypt and the wise men thereof, should come before me, and I
related my dreams to them, and no one has properly interpreted them to me.

50v And after this I this day heard concerning thee, that thou art a wise man,
and canst correctly interpret every dream that thou hearest.

51v And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, Let Pharaoh relate his dreams that he
dreamed; surely the interpretations belong to God; and Pharaoh related his
dreams to Joseph, the dream of the kine, and the dream of the ears of corn,
and the king left off speaking.

52v And Joseph was then clothed with the spirit of God before the king, and he
knew all the things that would befall the king from that day forward, and he
knew the proper interpretation of the king's dream, and he spoke before the
king.

53v And Joseph found favor in the sight of the king, and the king inclined his
ears and his heart, and he heard all the words of Joseph. And Joseph said unto
the king, Do not imagine that they are two dreams, for it is only one dream,
for that which God has chosen to do throughout the land he has shown to the
king in his dream, and this is the proper interpretation of thy dream:

54v The seven good kine and ears of corn are seven years, and the seven bad
kine and ears of corn are also seven years; it is one dream.

55v Behold the seven years that are coming there will be a great plenty
throughout the land, and after that the seven years of famine will follow
them, a very grievous famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten from the
land, and the famine will consume all the inhabitants of the land.

56v The king dreamed one dream, and the dream was therefore repeated unto
Pharaoh because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly will
shortly bring it to pass.

57v Now therefore I will give thee counsel and deliver thy soul and the souls
of the inhabitants of the land from the evil of the famine, that thou seek
throughout thy kingdom for a man very discreet and wise, who knoweth all the
affairs of government, and appoint him to superintend over the land of Egypt.

58v And let the man whom thou placest over Egypt appoint officers under him,
that they gather in all the food of the good years that are coming and let
them lay up corn and deposit it in thy appointed stores.

59v And let them keep that food for the seven years of famine, that it may be
found for thee and thy people and thy whole land, and that thou and thy land
be not cut off by the famine.

60v Let all the inhabitants of the land be also ordered that they gather in,
every man the produce of his field, of all sorts of food, during the seven
good years, and that they place it in their stores, that it may be found for
them in the days of the famine and that they may live upon it.

61v This is the proper interpretation of thy dream, and this is the counsel
given to save thy soul and the souls of all thy subjects.

62v And the king answered and said unto Joseph, Who sayeth and who knoweth
that thy words are correct? And he said unto the king, This shall he a sign
for thee respecting all my words, that they are true and that my advice is
good for thee.

63v Behold thy wife sitteth this day upon the stool of delivery, and she will
bear thee a son and thou wilt rejoice with him; when thy child shall have gone
forth from his mother womb, thy first born son that has been born these two
years back shall die and thou wilt be comforted in the child that will be born
unto thee this day.

64v And Joseph finished speaking these words to the king, and he bowed down to
the king and he went out, and when Joseph had gone out from the king's
presence, those signs which Joseph had spoken unto the king came to pass on
that day.

65v And the queen bare a son on that day and the king heard the glad tidings
about his son, and he rejoiced and when the reporter had gone forth from the
king's presence, the king's servants found the first born son of the king
fallen dead upon the ground.

66v And there was great lamentation and noise in the king's house, and the
king heard it, and he said, what is the noise and lamentation that I have
heard in the house? and they told the king that his first born son had died;
then the king knew that all Joseph's words that he had spoke were correct, and
the king was consoled for his son by the child that was born to him on that
day as Joseph had spoken.

Chapter 49. Pharaoh Assembles all the Great Men of the Kingdom, and desires to
appoint Joseph to Govern Egypt. They Object because he cannot speak all the
Seventy Languages of the Earth. An Angel visits Joseph and teaches him all the
Languages of the Earth. When brought before the King, Joseph's Wisdom and
Knowledge please Pharaoh and all the Princes of Egypt, and he is appointed the
Second to the King, and all authority is given him. Joseph is made Wealthy and
clothed in Princely apparel and proclaimed Governor of Egypt. Is given the
Daughter of Potiphar for a Wife.

1v After these things the king sent and assembled all his officers and
servants, and all the princes and nobles belonging to the king, and they all
came before the king.

2v And the king said unto them, behold you have seen and heard all the words
of this Hebrew man, and all the signs which he declared would come to pass,
and not any of his words have fallen to the ground.

3v You know that he has given a proper interpretation of the dream, and it
will surely come to pass, now therefore take counsel, and know what you will
do and how the land will be delivered from the famin.

4v Seek now and see whether the like can be found, in whose heart there is
wisdom and knowledge, and I will appoint him over the land.

5v For you have heard what the Hebrew man has advised concerning this to save
the land therewith from the famine, and I know that the land will not be
delivered from the famine but with the advice of the Hebrew man, him that
advised me.

6v And they all answered the king and said, The counsel which the Hebrew has
given concerning this is good; now therefore, our lord and king, behold the
whole land is in thy hand, do that which seemeth good in thy sight.

7v Him whom thou choosest, and whom thou in thy wisdom knowest to be wise and
capable of delivering the land with his wisdom, him shall the king appoint to
be under him over the land.

8v And the king said to all the officers: I have thought that since God has
made known to the Hebrew man all that he has spoken, there is none so discreet
and wise in the whole land as he is; if it seem good in your sight I will
place him over the land, for he will save the land with his wisdom.

9v And all the officers answered the king and said, But surely it is written
in the laws of Egypt, and it should not be violated, that no man shall reign
over Egypt, nor be the second to the king, but one who has knowledge in all
the languages of the sons of men.

10v Now therefore our lord and king; behold this Hebrew man can only speak the
Hebrew language, and how then can he be over us the second under government, a
man who not even knoweth our language.

11v Now we pray thee send for him, and let him come before thee, and prove him
in all things, and do as thou seest fit.

12v And the king said, It shall be done tomorrow, and the thing that you have
spoken is good; and all the officers came on that day before the king.

13v And on that night the Lord sent one of his ministering angels, and he came
into the land of Egypt unto Joseph, and the angel of the Lord stood over
Joseph, and behold Joseph was lying in the bed at night in his master's house
in the dungeon, for his master had put him back into the dungeon on account of
his wife.

14v And the angel roused him from his sleep, and Joseph rose up and stood upon
his legs, and behold the angel of the Lord was standing opposite to him; and
the angel of the Lord spoke with Joseph, and he taught him all the languages
of man in that night, and he called his name Jehoseph.

15v And the angel of the Lord went from him, and Joseph returned and lay upon
his bed, and Joseph was astonished at the vision which he saw.

16v And it came to pass in the morning that the king sent for all his officers
and servants, and they all came and sat before the king, and the king ordered
Joseph to be brought, and the king's servants went and brought Joseph before
Pharaoh.

17v And the king came forth and ascended the steps of the throne, and Joseph
spoke unto the king in all languages, and Joseph went up to him and spoke unto
the king until he arrived before the king in the seventieth step, and he sat
before the king.

18v And the king greatly rejoiced on account of Joseph, and all the king's
officers rejoiced greatly with the king when they heard all the words of
Joseph.

19v And the thing seemed good in the sight of the king and the officers, to
appoint Joseph to be second to the king over the whole land of Egypt, and the
king spoke to Joseph, saying.

20v Now thou didst give me counsel to appoint a wise man over the land of
Egypt, in order with his wisdom to save the land from the famine; now
therefore, since God has made all this known to thee, and all the words which
thou hast spoken, there is not throughout the land a discreet and wise man
like unto thee.

21v And thy name no more shall be called Joseph, but Zaphnath Paaneah shall be
thy name; thou shalt be second to me, and according to thy word shall be all
the affairs of my government, and at thy word shall my people go out and come
in.

22v Also from under thy hand shall my servants and officers receive their
salary which is given to them monthly, and to thee shall all the people of the
land bow down; only in my throne will I be greater than thou.

23v And the king took off his ring from his hand and put it upon the hand of
Joseph, and the king dressed Joseph in a princely garment, and he put a golden
crown upon his head, and he put a golden chain upon his neck.

24v And the king commanded his servants, and they made him ride in the second
chariot belonging to the king, that went opposite to the king's chariot, and
he caused him to ride upon a great and strong horse from the king's horses,
and to be conducted through the streets of the land of Egypt.

25v And the king commanded that all those that played upon timbrels, harps and
other musical instruments should go forth with Joseph; one thousand timbrels,
one thousand mecholoth, and one thousand nebalim went after him.

26v And five thousand men, with drawn swords glittering in their hands, and
they went marching and playing before Joseph, and twenty thousand of the great
men of the king girt with girdles of skin covered with gold, marched at the
right hand of Joseph, and twenty thousand at his left, and all the women and
damsels went upon the roofs or stood in the streets playing and rejoicing at
Joseph, and gazed at the appearance of Joseph and at his beauty.

27v And the king's people went before him and behind him, perfuming the road
with frankincense and with cassia, and with all sorts of fine perfume, and
scattered myrrh and aloes along the road, and twenty men proclaimed these
words before him throughout the land in a loud voice:

28v Do you see this man whom the king has chosen to be his second? all the
affairs of government shall be regulated by him, and he that transgresses his
orders, or that does not bow down before him to the ground, shall die, for he
rebels against the king and his second.

29v And when the heralds had ceased proclaiming, all the people of Egypt bowed
down to the ground before Joseph and said, May the king live, also may his
second live; and all the inhabitants of Egypt bowed down along the road, and
when the heralds approached them, they bowed down, and they rejoiced with all
sorts of timbrels, mechol and nebal before Joseph.

30v And Joseph upon his horse lifted up his eyes to heaven, and called out and
said, He raiseth the poor man from the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the
dunghill, O Lord of Hosts, happy is the man who trusteth in thee.

31v And Joseph passed throughout the land of Egypt with Pharaoh's servants and
officers, and they showed him the whole land of Egypt and all the king's
treasures.

32v And Joseph returned and came on that day before Pharaoh, and the king gave
unto Joseph a possession in the land of Egypt, a possession of fields and
vineyards, and the king gave unto Joseph three thousand talents of silver and
one thousand talents of gold, and onyx stones and bdellium and many gifts.

33v And on the next day the king commanded all the people of Egypt to bring
unto Joseph offerings and gifts, and that he that violated the command of the
king should die; and they made a high place in the street of the City, and
they spread out garments there, and whoever brought anything to Joseph put it
into the high place.

34v And all the people of Egypt cast something into the high place, one man a
golden earring, and the other rings and earrings, and different vessels of
gold and silver work, and onyx stones and bdellium did he cast upon the high
place; every one gave something of what he possessed.

35v And Joseph took all these and placed them in his treasuries, and all the
officers and nobles belonging to the king exalted Joseph, and they gave him
many gifts, seeing that the king had chosen him to be his second.

36v And the king sent to Potiphera, the son of Ahiram priest of On, and he
took his young daughter Osnath and gave her unto Joseph for a wife.

37v And the damsel was very comely, a virgin, one whom man had not known, and
Joseph took her for a wife; and the king said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and
beside thee none shall dare to lift up his hand or his foot to regulate my
people throughout the land of Egypt.

38v And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, and Joseph
went out from before the king, and he became the king's second in Egypt.

39v And the king gave Joseph a hundred servants to attend him in his house,
and Joseph also sent and purchased many servants and they remained in the
house of Joseph.

40v Joseph then built for himself a very magnificent house like unto the
houses of kings, before the court of the king's palace, and he made in the
house a large temple, very elegant in appearance and convenient for his
residence: three years was Joseph in erecting his house.

41v And Joseph made unto himself a very elegant throne of abundance of gold
and silver, and he covered it with onyx stones and bdellium, and he made upon
it the likeness of the whole land of Egypt, and the likeness of the river of
Egypt that watereth the whole land of Egypt; and Joseph sat securely upon his
throne in his house and the Lord increased Joseph's wisdom.

42v And all the inhabitants of Egypt and Pharaoh's servants and his princes
loved Joseph exceedingly, for this thing was from the Lord to Joseph.

43v And Joseph had an army that made war, going out in hosts and troops to the
number of forty thousand six hundred men, capable of bearing arms to assist
the king and Joseph against the enemy, besides the king's officers and his
servants and inhabitants of Egypt without number.

44v And Joseph gave unto his mighty men, and to all his host, shields and
javelins, and caps and coats of mail and stones for slinging.

Chapter 50. Joseph goes to help the Ishmaelites against their Enemies. Great
Plenty prevails in Egypt as Joseph predicted. Joseph's Two Sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim. Joseph stores up Food throughout Egpyt. That stored by the Egyptians
is spoiled. The Famine prevails over all the Land and Joseph sells corn to all
the Egyptians and the surrounding Nations. Knowing that his Brethren will have
to come to Egypt for Corn, he arranges to meet them when they come.

1v At that time the children of Tarshish came against the sons of Ishmael, and
made war with them, and the children of Tarshish spoiled the Ishmaelites for a
long time.

2v And the children of Ishmael were small in number in those days, and they
could not prevail over the children of Tarshish, and they were sorely
oppressed.

3v And the old men of the Ishmaelites sent a record to the king of Egypt,
saying, Send I pray thee unto thy servants officers and hosts to help us to
fight against the children of Tarshish, for we have been consuming away for a
long time.

4v And Pharaoh sent Joseph with the mighty men and host which were with him,
and also his mighty men from the king's house.

5v And they went to the land of Havilah to the children of Ishmael, to assist
them against the children of Tarshish, and the children of Ishmael fought with
the children of Tarshish, and Joseph smote the Tarshishites and he subdued all
their land, and the children of Ishmael dwell therein unto this day.

6v And when the land of Tarshish was subdued, all the Tarshishites ran away,
and came on the border of their brethren the children of Javan, and Joseph
with all his mighty men and host returned to Egypt, not one man of them
missing.

7v And at the revolution of the year, in the second year of Joseph's reigning
over Egypt, the Lord gave great plenty throughout the land for seven years as
Joseph had spoken, for the Lord blessed all the produce of the earth in those
days for seven years, and they ate and were greatly satisfied.

8v And Joseph at that time had officers under him, and they collected all the
food of the good years, and heaped corn year by year, and they placed it in
the treasuries of Joseph.

9v And at any time when they gathered the food Joseph commanded that they
should bring the corn in the ears, and also bring with it some of the soil of
the field, that it should not spoil.

10v And Joseph did according to this year by year, and he heaped up corn like
the sand of the sea for abundance, for his stores were immense and could not
be numbered for abundance.

11v And also all the inhabitants of Egypt gathered all sorts of food in their
stores in great abundance during the seven good years, but they did not do
unto it as Joseph did.

12v And all the food which Joseph and the Egyptians had gathered during the
seven years of plenty, was secured for the land in stores for the seven years
of famine, for the support of the whole land.

13v And the inhabitants of Egypt filled each man his store and his concealed
place with corn, to be for support during the famine.

14v And Joseph placed all the food that he had gathered in all the cities of
Egypt, and he closed all the stores and placed sentinels over them.

15v And Joseph's wife Osnath the daughter of Potiphera bare him two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim, and Joseph was thirty-four years old when he begat them.

16v And the lads grew up and they went in his ways and in his instructions,
they did not deviate from the way which their father taught them, either to
the right or left.

17v And the Lord was with the lads, and they grew up and had understanding and
skill in all wisdom and in all the affairs of government, and all the king's
officers and his great men of the inhabitants of Egypt exalted the lads, and
they were brought up amongst the king's children.

18v And the seven years of plenty that were throughout the land were at an
end, and the seven years of famine came after them as Joseph had spoken, and
the famine was throughout the land.

19v And all the people of Egypt saw that the famine had commenced in the land
of Egypt, and all the people of Egypt opened their stores of corn for the
famine prevailed over them.

20v And they found all the food that was in their stores, full of vermin and
not fit to eat, and the famine prevailed throughout the land, and all the
inhabitants of Egypt came and cried before Pharaoh, for the famine was heavy
upon them.

21v And they said unto Pharaoh, Give food unto thy servants, and wherefore
shall we die through hunger before thy eyes, even we and our little ones.

22v And Pharaoh answered them, saying, And wherefore do you cry unto me? did
not Joseph command that the corn should be laid up during the seven years of
plenty for the years of famine? and wherefore did you not hearken to his
voice.

23v And the people of Egypt answered the king, saying, As thy soul liveth, our
lord, thy servants have done all that Joseph ordered, for thy servants also
gathered in all the produce of their fields during the seven years of plenty
and laid it in the stores unto this day.

24v And when the famine prevailed over thy servants we opened our stores, and
behold all our produce was filled with vermin and was not fit for food.

25v And when the king heard all that had befallen the inhabitants of Egypt,
the king was greatly afraid on account of the famine, and he was much
terrified; and the king answered the people of Egypt, saying, Since all this
has happened unto you, go unto Joseph, do whatever he shall say unto you,
transgress not his commands.

26v And all the people of Egypt went forth and came unto Joseph, and said unto
him, Give unto us food, and wherefore shall we die before thee through hunger?
for we gathered in our produce during the seven years as thou didst command,
and we put it in store, and thus has it befallen us.

27v And when Joseph heard all the words of the people of Egypt and what had
befallen them, Joseph opened all his stores of the produce and he sold it unto
the people of Egypt.

28v And the famine prevailed throughout the land, and the famine was in all
countries, but in the land of Egypt there was produce for sale.

29v And all the inhabitants of Egypt came unto Joseph to buy corn, for the
famine prevailed over them, and all their corn was spoiled, and Joseph daily
sold it to all the people of Egypt.

30v And all the inhabitants of the land of Canaan and the Philistines, and
those beyond the Jordan, and the children of the east and all the cities of
the lands far and nigh heard that there was corn in Egypt, and they all came
to Egypt to buy corn, for the famine prevailed over them.

31v And Joseph opened the stores of corn and placed officers over them, and
they daily stood and sold to all that came.

32v And Joseph knew that his brethren also would come to Egypt to buy corn,
for the famine prevailed throughout the earth. And Joseph commanded all his
people that they should cause it to be proclaimed throughout the land of
Egypt, saying.

33v It is the pleasure of the king, of his second and of their great men, that
any person who wishes to buy corn in Egypt shall not send his servants to
Egypt to purchase, but his sons, and also any Egyptian or Canaanite, who shall
come from any of the stores from buying corn in Egypt, and shall go and sell
it throughout the land, he shall die, for no one shall buy but for the support
of his household.

34v And any man leading two or three beasts shall die, for a man shall only
lead his own beast.

35v And Joseph placed sentinels at the gates of Egypt, and commanded them,
saying, Any person who may come to buy corn, suffer him not to enter until his
name, and the name of his father, and the name of his father's father be
written down, and whatever is written by day, send their names unto me in the
evening that I may know their names.

36v And Joseph placed officers throughout the land of Egypt, and he commanded
them to do all these things.

37v And Joseph did all these things, and made these statutes, in order that he
might know when his brethren should come to Egypt to buy corn; and Joseph's
people caused it daily to be proclaimed in Egypt according to these words and
statutes which Joseph had commanded.

38v And all the inhabitants of the east and west country, and of all the
earth, heard of the statutes and regulations which Joseph had enacted in
Egypt, and the inhabitants of the extreme parts of the earth came and they
bought corn in Egypt day after day, and then went away.

39v And all the officers of Egypt did as Joseph had commanded, and all that
came to Egypt to buy corn, the gate keepers would write their names, and their
fathers' names, and daily bring them in the evening before Joseph.

Chapter 51. Jacob sends his Ten Oldest Sons to Egypt for Food. Tells them not
to enter in at one gate but to go in Separately. On the way they Covenant
together to seek for Joseph, and if they cannot ransom him they resolve to
take him by force. They enter in at ten gates, and spread themselves to seek
for Joseph three days. Joseph, in the meantime, has his men seeking them. When
found they are brought before Joseph who accuses them of being Spies. Joseph
sends his Brethren home with corn, while Simeon is kept as a hostage till they
shall again come to Egypt with their Younger Brother. They are astonished to
find their Money in their sacks of corn.

1v And Jacob afterward heard that there was corn in Egypt, and he called unto
his sons to go to Egypt to buy corn, for upon them also did the famine
prevail, and he called unto his sons, saying.

2v Behold I hear that there is corn in Egypt, and all the people of the earth
go there to purchase, now therefore why will you show yourselves satisfied
before the whole earth? go you also down to Egypt and buy us a little corn
amongst those that come there, that we may not die.

3v And the sons of Jacob hearkened to the voice of their father, and they rose
up to go down to Egypt in order to buy corn amongst the rest that came there.

4v And Jacob their father commanded them, saying, When you come into the city
do not enter together in one gate, on account of the inhabitants of the land.

5v And the sons of Jacob went forth and they went to Egypt, and the sons of
Jacob did all as their father had commanded them, and Jacob did not send
Benjamin, for he said, Lest an accident might befall him on the road like his
brother; and ten of Jacob's sons went forth.

6v And whilst the sons of Jacob were going on the road, they repented of what
they had done to Joseph, and they spoke to each other, saying, We know that
our brother Joseph went down to Egypt, and now we will seek him where we go,
and if we find him we will take him from his master for a ransom, and if not,
by force, and we will die for him.

7v And the sons of Jacob agreed to this thing and strengthened themselves on
account of Joseph, to deliver him from the hand of his master, and the sons of
Jacob went to Egypt; and when they came near to Egypt they separated from each
other, and they came through ten gates of Egypt, and the gate keepers wrote
their names on that day, and brought them to Joseph in the evening.

8v And Joseph read the names from the hand of the gate-keepers of the city,
and he found that his brethren had entered at the ten gates of the city, and
Joseph at that time commanded that it should be proclaimed throughout the land
of Egypt, saying.

9v Go forth all ye store guards, close all the corn stores and let only one
remain open, that those who come may purchase from it.

10v And all the officers of Joseph did so at that time, and they closed all
the stores and left only one open.

11v And Joseph gave the written names of his brethren to him that was set over
the open store, and he said unto him, Whosoever shall come to thee to buy
corn, ask his name, and when men of these names shall come before thee, seize
them and send them, and they did so.

12v And when the sons of Jacob came into the city, they joined together in the
city to seek Joseph before they bought themselves corn.

13v And they went to the walls of the harlots, and they sought Joseph in the
walls of the harlots for three days, for they thought that Joseph would come
in the walls of the harlots, for Joseph was very comely and well favored, and
the sons of Jacob sought Joseph for three days, and they could not find him.

14v And the man who was set over the open store sought for those names which
Joseph had given him, and he did not find them.

15v And he sent to Joseph, saying, These three days have passed, and those men
whose names thou didst give unto me have not come; and Joseph sent servants to
seek the men in all Egypt, and to bring them before Joseph.

16v And Joseph's servants went and came into Egypt and could not find them,
and went to Goshen and they were not there, and then went to the city of
Raamses and could not find them.

17v And Joseph continued to send sixteen servants to seek his brothers, and
they went and spread themselves in the four corners of the city, and four of
the servants went into the house of the harlots, and they found the ten men
there seeking their brother.

18v And those four men took them and brought them before him, and they bowed
down to him to the ground, and Joseph was sitting upon his throne in his
temple, clothed with princely garments, and upon his head was a large crown of
gold, and all the mighty men were sitting around him.

19v And the sons of Jacob saw Joseph, and his figure and comeliness and
dignity of countenance seemed wonderful in their eyes, and they again bowed
down to him to the ground.

20v And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but they knew him not, for
Joseph was very great in their eyes, therefore they knew him not.

21v And Joseph spoke to them, saying, from whence come ye? and they all
answered and said, Thy servants have come from the land of Canaan to buy corn,
for the famine prevails throughout the earth, and thy servants heard that
there was corn in Egypt, so they have come amongst the other comers to buy
corn for their support.

22v And Joseph answered them, saying, If you have come to purchase as you say,
why do you come through ten gates of the city? it can only be that you have
come to spy through the land.

23v And they all together answered Joseph, and said, Not so my lord, we are
right, thy servants are not spies, but we have come to buy corn, for thy
servants are all brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and our
father commanded us, saying, When you come to the city do not enter together
at one gate on account of the inhabitants of the land.

24v And Joseph again answered them and said, That is the thing which I spoke
unto you, you have come to spy through the land, therefore you all came
through ten gates of the city; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.

25v Surely every one that cometh to buy corn goeth his way, and you are
already three days in the land, and what do you do in the walls of harlots in
which you have been for these three days? surely spies do like unto these
things.

26v And they said unto Joseph, Far be it from our lord to speak thus, for we
are twelve brothers, the sons of our father Jacob, in the land of Canaan, the
son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the Hebrew, and behold the youngest is with
our father this day in the land of Canaan, and one is not, for he was lost
from us, and we thought perhaps he might be in this land, so we are seeking
him throughout the land, and have come even to the houses of harlots to seek
him there.

27v And Joseph said unto them, And have you then sought him throughout the
earth, that there only remained Egypt for you to seek him in? And what also
should your brother do in the houses of harlots, although he were in Egypt?
have you not said, That you are from the sons of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
and what shall the sons of Jacob do then in the houses of harlots.

28v And they said unto him, Because we heard that Ishmaelites stole him from
us, and it was told unto us that they sold him in Egypt, and thy servant, our
brother, is very comely and well favored, so we thought he would surely be in
the houses of harlots, therefore thy servants went there to seek him and give
ransom for him.

29v And Joseph still answered them, saying, Surely you speak falsely and utter
lies, to say of yourselves that you are the sons of Abraham; as Pharaoh liveth
you are spies, therefore have you come to the houses of harlots that you
should not be known.

30v And Joseph said unto them, And now if you find him, and his master
requireth of you a great price, will you give it for him? and they said, It
shall be given.

31v And he said unto them, And if his master will not consent to part with him
for a great price, what will you do unto him on his account? and they answered
him, saying, If he will not give him unto us we will slay him, and take our
brother and go away.

32v And Joseph said unto them, That is the thing which I have spoken to you;
you are spies, for you are come to slay the inhabitants of the land, for we
heard that two of your brethren smote all the inhabitants of Shechem, in the
land of Canaan, on account of your sister, and you now come to do the like in
Egypt on account of your brother.

33v Only hereby shall I know that you are true men; if you will send home one
from amongst you to fetch your youngest brother from your father, and to bring
him here unto me, and by doing this thing I will know that you are right.

34v And Joseph called to seventy of his mighty men, and he said unto them,
Take these men and bring them into the ward.

35v And the mighty men took the ten men, they laid hold of them and put them
into the ward, and they were in the ward three days.

36v And on the third day Joseph had them brought out of the ward, and he said
unto them, Do this for yourselves if you be true men, so that you may live,
one of your brethren shall be confined in the ward whilst you go and take home
the corn for your household to the land of Canaan, and fetch your youngest
brother, and bring him here unto me, that I may know that you are true men
when you do this thing.

37v And Joseph went out from them and came into the chamber, and wept a great
weeping, for his pity was excited for them, and he washed his face, and
returned to them again, and he took Simeon from them and ordered him to be
bound, but Simeon was not willing to be done so, for he was a very powerful
man and they could not bind him.

38v And Joseph called unto his mighty men and seventy valiant men came before
him with drawn swords in their hands, and the sons of Jacob were terrified at
them.

39v And Joseph said Unto them, Seize this man and confine him in prison until
his brethren come to him, and Joseph's valiant men hastened and they all laid
hold of Simeon to bind him, and Simeon gave a loud and terrible shriek and the
cry was heard at a distance.

40v And all the valiant men of Joseph were terrified at the sound of the
shriek, that they fell upon their faces, and they were greatly afraid and
fled.

41v And all the men that were with Joseph fled, for they were greatly afraid
of their lives, and only Joseph and Manasseh his son remained there, and
Manassah the son of Joseph saw the strength of Simeon, and he was exceedingly
wroth.

42v And Manassah the son of Joseph rose up to Simeon, and Manassah smote
Simeon a heavy blow with his fist against the back of his neck, and Simeon was
stilled of his rage.

43v And Manassah laid hold of Simeon and he seized him violently and he bound
him and brought him into the house of confinement, and all the sons of Jacob
were astonished at the act of the youth.

44v And Simeon said unto his brethren, None of you must say that this is the
smiting of an Egyptian, but it is the smiting of the house of my father.

45v And after this Joseph ordered him to be called who was set over the
storehouse, to fill their sacks with corn as much as they could carry, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the
road, and thus did he unto them.

46v And Joseph commanded them, saying, Take heed lest you transgress my orders
to bring your brother as I have told you, and it shall be when you bring your
brother hither unto me, then will I know that you are true men, and you shall
traffic in the land, and I will restore unto you your brother, and you shall
return in peace to your father.

47v And they all answered and said, According as our lord speaketh so will we
do, and they bowed down to him to the ground.

48v And every man lifted his corn upon his ass, and they went out to go to the
land of Canaan to their father; and they came to the inn and Levi spread his
sack to give provender to his ass, when he saw and behold his money in full
weight was still in his sack.

49v And the man was greatly afraid, and he said unto his brethren, My money is
restored, and lo, it is even in my sack, and the men were greatly afraid, and
they said, What is this that God hath done unto us.

50v And they all said, And where is the Lord's kindness with our fathers, with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that the Lord has this day delivered us into the
hands of the king of Egypt to contrive against us.

51v And Judah said unto them, Surely we are guilty sinners before the Lord our
God in having sold our brother, our own flesh, and wherefore do you say, Where
is the Lord's kindness with our fathers.

52v And Reuben said unto them, Said I not unto you, do not sin against the
lad, and you would not listen to me? now God requireth him from us, and how
dare you say, Where is the Lord's kindness with our fathers, whilst you have
sinned unto the Lord.

53v And they tarried over night in that place, and they rose up early in the
morning and laded their asses with their corn, and they led them and went on
and came to their father's house in the land of Canaan.

54v And Jacob and his household went out to meet his sons, and Jacob saw and
behold their brother Simeon was not with them, and Jacob said unto his sons,
Where is your brother Simeon, whom I do not see? and his sons told him all
that had befallen them in Egypt.

Chapter 52. Jacob's sorrow at the absence of Simeon. Refuses to let Benjamin
go. But when he and his Household become pinched with hunger, Judah pleads for
Benjamin. Tells his Father of the great glory and Authority of the Governor of
Egypt and offers himself as Security for his Younger Brother. Jacob consents
and sends his Sons again to Egypt with a conciliatory Letter and Presents to
the Governor.

1v And they entered their house, and every man opened his sack and they saw
and behold every man's bundle of money was there, at which they and their
father were greatly terrified.

2v And Jacob said unto them, What is this that you have done to me? I sent
your brother Joseph to inquire after your welfare and you said unto me A wild
beast did devour him.

3v And Simeon went with you to buy food and you say the king of Egypt hath
confined him in prison, and you wish to take Benjamin to cause his death also,
and bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave on account of Benjamin
and his brother Joseph.

4v Now therefore my son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead
and he is left alone, and mischief may befall him by the way in which you go,
as it befell his brother.

5v And Reuben said unto his father, Thou shalt slay my two sons if I do not
bring thy son and place him before thee; and Jacob said unto his sons, Abide
ye here and do not go down to Egypt, for my son shall not go down with you to
Egypt, nor die like his brother.

6v And Judah said unto them, refrain ye from him until the corn is finished,
and he will then say, Take down your brother, when he will find his own life
and the life of his household in danger from the famine.

7v And in those days the famine was sore throughout the land, and all the
people of the earth went and came to Egypt to buy food, for the famine
prevailed greatly amongst them, and the sons of Jacob remained in Canaan a
year and two months until their corn was finished.

8v And it came to pass after their corn was finished, the whole household of
Jacob was pinched with hunger, and all the infants of the sons of Jacob came
together and they approached Jacob, and they all surrounded him, and they said
unto him, Give unto us bread, and wherefore shall we all perish through hunger
in thy presence.

9v Jacob heard the words of his son's children, and he wept a great weeping,
and his pity was roused for them, and Jacob called unto his sons and they all
came and sat before him.

10v And Jacob said unto them, And have you not seen how your children have
been weeping over me this day, saying, Give unto us bread, and there is none?
now therefore return and buy for us a little food.

11v And Judah answered and said unto his father, If thou wilt send our brother
with us we will go down and buy corn for thee, and if thou wilt not send him
then we will not go down, for surely the king of Egypt particularly enjoined
us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother be with you, for the
king of Egypt is a strong and mighty king, and behold if we shall go to him
without our brother we shall all be put to death.

12v Dost thou not know and hast thou not heard that this king is very powerful
and wise, and there is not like unto him in all the earth? behold we have seen
all the kings of the earth and we have not seen one like that king, the king
of Egypt; surely amongst all the kings of the earth there is none greater than
Abimelech king of the Philistines, yet the king of Egypt is greater and
mightier than he, and Abimelech can only be compared to one of his officers.

13v Father, thou hast not seen his palace and his throne and all his servants
standing before him; thou hast not seen that king upon his throne in his pomp
and royal appearance, dressed in his kingly robes with a large golden crown
upon his head; thou hast not seen the honor and glory which God has given unto
him, for there is not like unto him in all the earth.

14v Father, thou hast not seen the wisdom, the understanding and the knowledge
which God has given in his heart, nor heard his sweet voice when he spake unto
us.

15v We know not, father, who made him acquainted with our names and all that
befell us, yet he asked also after thee, saying, Is your father still living,
and is it well with him.

16v Thou hast not seen the affairs of the government of Egypt regulated by
him, without inquiring of Pharaoh his lord; thou hast not seen the awe and
fear which he impressed upon all the Egyptians.

17v And also when we went from him, we threatened to do unto Egypt like unto
the rest of the cities of the Amorites, and we were exceedingly wroth against
all his words which he spoke concerning us as spies, and now when we shall
again come before him his terror will fall upon us all, and not one of us will
be able to speak to him either a little or a great thing.

18v Now therefore father, send we pray thee the lad with us, and we will go
down and buy thee food for our support, and not die through hunger. And Jacob
said, Why have you dealt so ill with me to tell the king you had a brother?
what is this thing that you have done unto me.

19v And Judah said unto Jacob his father, Give the lad into my care and we
will rise up and go down to Egypt and buy corn, and then return, and it shall
be when we return if the lad be not with us, then let me bear thy blame
forever.

20v Hast thou seen all our infants weeping over thee through hunger and there
is no power in thy hand to satisfy them? now let thy pity be roused for them
and send our brother with us and we will go.

21v For how will the Lord's kindness to our ancestors be manifested to thee
when thou sayest that the king of Egypt will take away thy son? as the Lord
liveth I will not leave him until I bring him and place him before thee; but
pray for us unto the Lord, that he may deal kindly with us, to cause us to be
received favorably and kindly before the king of Egypt and his men, for had we
not delayed surely now we had returned a second time with thy son.

22v And Jacob said unto his sons, I trust in the Lord God that he may deliver
you and give you favor in the sight of the king of Egypt, and in the sight of
all his men.

23v Now therefore rise up and go to the man, and take for him in your hands a
present from what can be obtained in the land and bring it before him, and may
the Almighty God give you mercy before him that he may send Benjamin and
Simeon your brethren with you.

24v And all the men rose up, and they took their brother Benjamin, and they
took in their hands a large present of the best of the land, and they also
took a double portion of silver.

25v And Jacob strictly commanded his sons concerning Benjamin, saying, Take
heed of him in the way in which you are going, and do not separate yourselves
from him in the road, neither in Egypt.

26v And Jacob rose up from his sons and spread forth his hands and he prayed
unto the Lord on account of his sons, saying, O Lord God of heaven and earth,
remember thy covenant with our father Abraham, remember it with my father
Isaac and deal kindly with my sons and deliver them not into the hands of the
king of Egypt; do it I pray thee O God for the sake of thy mercies and redeem
all my children and rescue them from Egyptian power, and send them their two
brothers.

27v And all the wives of the sons of Jacob and their children lifted up their
eyes to heaven and they all wept before the Lord, and cried unto him to
deliver their fathers from the hand of the king of Egypt.

28v And Jacob wrote a record to the king of Egypt and gave it into the hand of
Judah and into the hands of his sons for the king of Egypt, saying.

29v From thy servant Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham the Hebrew, the
prince of God, to the powerful and wise king, the revealer of secrets, king of
Egypt, greeting.

30v Be it known to my lord the king of Egypt, the famine was sore upon us in
the land of Canaan, and I sent my sons to thee to buy us a little food from
thee for our support.

31v For my sons surrounded me and I being very old cannot see with my eyes,
for my eyes have become very heavy through age, as well as with daily weeping
for my son, for Joseph who was lost from before me, and I commanded my sons
that they should not enter the gates of the city when they came to Egypt, on
account of the inhabitants of the land.

32v And I also commanded them to go about Egypt to seek for my son Joseph,
perhaps they might find him there, and they did so, and thou didst consider
them as spies of the land.

33v Have we not heard concerning thee that thou didst interpret Pharaoh' s
dream and didst speak truly unto him? how then dost thou not know in thy
wisdom whether my sons are spies or not.

34v Now therefore, my lord and king, behold I have sent my son before thee, as
thou didst speak unto my sons; I beseech thee to put thy eyes upon him until
he is returned to me in peace with his brethren.

35v For dost thou not know, or hast thou not heard that which our God did unto
Pharaoh when he took my mother Sarah, and what he did unto Abimelech king of
the Philistines on account of her, and also what our father Abraham did unto
the nine kings of Elam, how he smote them all with a few men that were with
him.

36v And also what my two sons Simeon and Levi did unto the eight cities of the
Amorites, how they destroyed them on account of their sister Dinah.

37v And also on account of their brother Benjamin they consoled themselves for
the loss of his brother Joseph; what will they then do for him when they see
the hand of any people prevailing over them, for his sake.

38v Dost thou not know, O king of Egypt, that the power of God is with us, and
that also God ever heareth our prayers and forsaketh us not all the days.

39v And when my sons told me of thy dealings with them, I called not unto the
Lord on account of thee, for then thou wouldst have perished with thy men
before my son Benjamin came before thee, but I thought that as Simeon my son
was in thy house, perhaps thou mightest deal kindly with him, therefore I did
not this thing unto thee.

40v Now therefore behold Benjamin my son cometh unto thee with my sons, take
heed of him and put thy eyes upon him, and then will God place his eyes over
thee and throughout thy kingdom.

41v Now I have told thee all that is in my heart, and behold my sons are
coming to thee with their brother, examine the face of the whole earth for
their sake and send them back in peace with their brethren.

42v And Jacob gave the record to his sons into the care of Judah to give it
unto the king of Egypt.

Chapter 53. Jacob's Sons again go to Egypt for Bread. Benjamin is presented
before Joseph. Joseph's Cup. Joseph's conduct towards Benjamin by which he
makes himself known to him. Resolves to prove his Brethren by taking away
Benjamin from them, and puts his Cup in Benjamin's sack of corn and sends them
Home to their Father. An Officer is sent after them who accuses them of
purloining his Master's Cup. Brings them back to Joseph. Benjamin is taken
from them by force, and they are told to go on their way.

1v And the sons of Jacob rose up and took Benjamin and the whole of the
presents, and they went and came to Egypt and they stood before Joseph.

2v And Joseph beheld his brother Benjamin with them and he saluted them, and
these men came to Joseph's house.

3v And Joseph commanded the superintendent of his house to give to his
brethren to eat, and he did so unto them .

4v And at noon time Joseph sent for the men to come before him with Benjamin,
and the men told the superintendent of Joseph's house concerning the silver
that was returned in their sacks, and he said unto them, It will be well with
you, fear not, and he brought their brother Simeon unto them.

5v And Simeon said unto his brethren, The lord of the Egyptians has acted very
kindly unto me, he did not keep me bound, as you saw with your eyes, for when
you went out from the city he let me free and dealt kindly with me in his
house.

6v And Judah took Benjamin by the hand, and they came before Joseph, and they
bowed down to him to the ground.

7v And the men gave the present unto Joseph and they all sat before him, and
Joseph said unto them, Is it well with you, is it well with your children, is
it well with your aged father? and they said, It is well, and Judah took the
record which Jacob had sent and gave it into the hand of Joseph.

8v And Joseph read the letter and knew his father's writing, and he wished to
weep and he went into an inner room and he wept a great weeping; and he went
out.

9v And he lifted up his eyes and beheld his brother Benjamin, and he said, Is
this your brother of whom you spoke unto me? And Benjamin approached Joseph,
and Joseph placed his hand upon his head and he said unto him, May God be
gracious unto thee my son.

10v And when Joseph saw his brother, the son of his mother, he again wished to
weep, and he entered the chamber, and he wept there, and he washed his face,
and went out and refrained from weeping, and he said, Prepare food.

11v And Joseph had a cup from which he drank, and it was of silver beautifully
inlaid with onyx stones and bdellium, and Joseph struck the cup in the sight
of his brethren whilst they were sitting to eat with him.

12v And Joseph said unto the men, I know by this cup that Reuben the first
born, Simeon and Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun are children from one
mother, seat yourselves to eat according to your births.

13v And he also placed the others according to their births, and he said, I
know that this your youngest brother has no brother, and I, like him, have no
brother, he shall therefore sit down to eat with me.

14v And Benjamin went up before Joseph and sat upon the throne, and the men
beheld the acts of Joseph, and they were astonished at them; and the men ate
and drank at that time with Joseph, and he then gave presents unto them, and
Joseph gave one gift unto Benjamin, and Manasseh and Ephraim saw the acts of
their father, and they also gave presents unto him, and Osnath gave him one
present, and they were five presents in the hand of Benjamin.

15v And Joseph brought them out wine to drink, and they would not drink, and
they said, From the day on which Joseph was lost we have not drunk wine, nor
eaten any delicacies.

16v And Joseph swore unto them, and he pressed them hard, and they drank
plentifully with him on that day, and Joseph afterward turned to his brother
Benjamin to speak with him, and Benjamin was still sitting upon the throne
before Joseph.

17v And Joseph said unto him, Hast thou begotten any children? and he said,
Thy servant has ten sons, and these are their names, Bela, Becher, Ashbal,
Gera, Naaman, Achi, Rosh, Mupim, Chupim, and Ord, and I called their names
after my brother whom I have not seen.

18v And he ordered them to bring before him his map of the stars, whereby
Joseph knew all the times, and Joseph said unto Benjamin, I have heard that
the Hebrews are acquainted with all wisdom, dost thou know anything of this.

19v And Benjamin said, Thy servant is knowing also in all the wisdom which my
father taught me, and Joseph said unto Benjamin, Look now at this instrument
and understand where thy brother Joseph is in Egypt, who you said went down to
Egypt.

20v And Benjamin beheld that instrument with the map of the stars of heaven,
and he was wise and looked therein to know where his brother was, and Benjamin
divided the whole land of Egypt into four divisions, and he found that he who
was sitting upon the throne before him was his brother Joseph, and Benjamin
wondered greatly, and when Joseph saw that his brother Benjamin was so much
astonished, he said unto Benjamin, What hast thou seen, and why art thou
astonished.

21v And Benjamin said unto Joseph, I can see by this that Joseph my brother
sitteth here with me upon the throne, and Joseph said unto him, I am Joseph
thy brother, reveal not this thing unto thy brethren; behold I will send thee
with them when they go away, and I will command them to be brought back again
into the city, and I will take thee away from them.

22v And if they dare their lives and fight for thee, then shall I know that
they have repented of what they did unto me, and I will make myself known to
them, and it they forsake thee when I take thee, then shalt thou remain with
me, and I will wrangle with them, and they shall go away, and I will not
become known to them.

23v At that time Joseph commanded his officer to fill their sacks with food,
and to put each man's money into his sack, and to put the cup in the sack of
Benjamin, and to give them provision for the road, and they did so unto them.

24v And on the next day the men rose up early in the morning, and they loaded
their asses with their corn, and they went forth with Benjamin, and they went
to the land of Canaan with their brother Benjamin.

25v They had not gone far from Egypt when Joseph commanded him that was set
over his house, saying, Rise, pursue these men before they get too far from
Egypt, and say unto them, Why have you stolen my master's cup.

26v And Joseph's officer rose up and he reached them, and he spoke unto them
all the words of Joseph; and when they heard this thing they became
exceedingly wroth, and they said, He with whom thy master's cup shall be found
shall die, and we will also become slaves.

27v And they hastened and each man brought down his sack from his ass, and
they looked in their bags and the cup was found in Benjamin's bag, and they
all tore their garments and they returned to the city, and they smote Benjamin
in the road, continually smiting him until he came into the city, and they
stood before Joseph.

28v And Judah's anger was kindled, and he said, This man has only brought me
back to destroy Egypt this day.

29v And the men came to Joseph's house, and they found Joseph sitting upon his
throne, and all the mighty men standing at his right and left.

30v And Joseph said unto them, What is this act that you have done, that you
took away my silver cup and went away? but I know that you took my cup in
order to know thereby in what part of the land your brother was.

31v And Judah said, What shall we say to our lord, what shall we speak and how
shall we justify ourselves? God has this day found the iniquity of all thy
servants, therefore has he done this thing to us this day.

32v And Joseph rose up and caught hold of Benjamin and took him from his
brethren with violence, and he came to the house and locked the door at them,
and Joseph commanded him that was set over his house that he should say unto
them, Thus saith the king, Go in peace to your father, behold I have taken the
man in whose hand my cup was found.

Chapter 54. Judah breaks through the Door to get to Joseph and Benjamin. He
recounts the many Mighty Deeds of his Brethren and threatens to destroy all
Egypt if Benjamin be not released. Joseph wrangles with his Brethren and
accuses them of Selling their Brother. They commence to war upon the
Egyptians, and frighten the whole Land. After satisfying himself of their
repentance for selling their Brother, Joseph makes himself known to them, and
bestows presents upon them. They are presented before Pharaoh, who commands
Joseph to bring all his Father's Household Down to Egypt. He sends Chariots
for this Purpose, laden with Presents, Luxuries and Clothing. Jacob's joy on
Learning that Joseph is still Alive.

1v And when Judah saw the dealings of Joseph with them, Judah approached him
and broke open the door, and came with his brethren before Joseph.

2v And Judah said unto Joseph, Let it not seem grievous in the sight of my
lord, may thy servant I pray thee speak a word before thee? and Joseph said
unto him, Speak.

3v And Judah spoke before Joseph, and his brethren were there standing before
them; and Judah said unto Joseph, Surely when we first came to our lord to buy
food, thou didst consider us as spies of the land, and we brought Benjamin
before thee, and thou still makest sport of us this day.

4v Now therefore let the king hear my words, and send I pray thee our brother
that he may go along with us to our father, lest thy soul perish this day with
all the souls of the inhabitants of Egypt.

5v Dost thou not know what two of my brethren, Simeon and Levi, did unto the
city of Shechem, and unto seven cities of the Amorites, on account of our
sister Dinah, and also what they would do for the sake of their brother
Benjamin.

6v And I with my strength, who am greater and mightier than both of them, come
this day upon thee and thy land if thou art unwilling to send our brother.

7v Hast thou not heard what our God who made choice of us did unto Pharaoh on
account of Sarah our mother, whom he took away from our father, that he smote
him and his household with heavy plagues, that even unto, this day the
Egyptians relate this wonder to each other? so will our God do unto thee on
account of Benjamin whom thou hast this day taken from his father, and on
account of the evils which thou this day heapest over us in thy land; for our
God will remember his covenant with our father Abraham and bring evil upon
thee, because thou hast grieved the soul of our father this day.

8v Now therefore hear my words that I have this day spoken unto thee, and send
our brother that he may go away lest thou and the people of thy land die by
the sword, for you cannot all prevail over me.

9v And, Joseph answered Judah, saying, Why hast thou opened wide thy mouth and
why dost thou boast over us, saying, Strength is with thee? as Pharaoh liveth,
if I command all my valiant men to fight with you, surely thou and these thy
brethren would sink in the mire.

10v And Judah said unto Joseph, Surely it becometh thee and thy people to fear
me; as the Lord liveth if I once draw my sword I shall not sheathe it again
until I shall this day have slain all Egypt, and I will commence with thee and
finish with Pharaoh thy master.

11v And Joseph answered and said unto him, Surely strength belongeth not alone
to thee; I am stronger and mightier than thou, surely if thou drawest thy
sword I will put it to thy neck and the necks of all thy brethren.

12v And Judah said unto him, Surely if I this day open my mouth against thee I
would swallow thee up that thou be destroyed from off the earth and perish
this day from thy kingdom. And Joseph said, Surely if thou openest thy mouth I
have power and might to close thy mouth with a stone until thou shalt not be
able to utter a word; see how many stones are before us, truly I can take a
stone, and force it into thy mouth and break thy jaws.

13v And Judah said, God is witness between us, that we have not hitherto
desired to battle with thee, only give us our brother and we will go from
thee; and Joseph answered and said, As Pharaoh liveth, if all the kings of
Canaan came together with you, you should not take him from my hand.

14v Now therefore go your way to your father, and your brother shall be unto
me for a slave, for he has robbed the king's house. And Judah said, What is it
to thee or to the character of the king, surely the king sendeth forth from
his house, throughout the land, silver and gold either in gifts or expenses,
and thou still talkest about thy cup which thou didst place in our brother's
bag and sayest that he has stolen it from thee.

15v God forbid that our brother Benjamin or any of the seed of Abraham should
do this thing to steal from thee, or from any one else, whether king, prince,
or any man.

16v Now therefore cease this accusation lest the whole earth hear thy words,
saying, For a little silver the king of Egypt wrangled with the men, and he
accused them and took their brother for a slave.

17v And Joseph answered and said, Take unto you this cup and go from me and
leave your brother for a slave, for it is the judgment of a thief to be a
slave.

18v And Judah said, Why art thou not ashamed of thy words, to leave our
brother and to take thy cup? Surely if thou givest us thy cup, or a thousand
times as much, we will not leave our brother for the silver which is found in
the hand of any man, that we will not die over him.

19v And Joseph answered, And why did you forsake your brother and sell him for
twenty pieces of silver unto this day, and why then will you not do the same
to this your brother.

20v And Judah said, the Lord is witness between me and thee that we desire not
thy battles; now therefore give us our brother and we will go from thee
without quarreling.

21v And Joseph answered and said, If all the kings of the land should assemble
they will not be able to take your brother from my hand; and Judah said, What
shall we say unto our father, when he seeth that our brother cometh not with
us, and will grieve over him.

22v And Joseph answered and said, This is the thing which you shall tell unto
your father, saying, The rope has gone after the bucket.

23v And Judah said, Surely thou art a king, and why speakest thou these
things, giving a false judgment? woe unto the king who is like unto thee.

24v And Joseph answered and said, There is no false judgment in the word that
I spoke on account of your brother Joseph, for all of you sold him to the
Midianites for twenty pieces of silver, and you all denied it to your father
and said unto him, An evil beast has devoured him, Joseph has been torn to
pieces.

25v And Judah said, Behold the fire of Shem burneth in my heart, now I will
burn all your land with fire; and Joseph answered and said, Surely thy
sister-in-law Tamar, who killed your sons, extinguished the fire of Shechem.

26v And Judah said, If I pluck out a single hair from my flesh, I will fill
all Egypt with its blood.

27v And Joseph answered and said, Such is your custom to do as you did to your
brother whom you sold, and you dipped his coat in blood and brought it to your
father in order that he might say an evil beast devoured him and here is his
blood.

28v And when Judah heard this thing he was exceedingly wroth and his anger
burned within him, and there was before him in that place a stone, the weight
of which was about four hundred shekels, and Judah's anger was kindled and he
took the stone in one hand and cast it to the heavens and caught it with his
left hand.

29v And he placed it afterward under his legs, and he sat upon it with all his
strength and the stone was turned into dust from the force of Judah.

30v And Joseph saw the act of Judah and he was very much afraid, but he
commanded Manassah his son and he also did with another stone like unto the
act of Judah, and Judah said unto his brethren, Let not any of you say, this
man is an Egyptian, but by his doing this thing he is of our father's family.

31v And Joseph said, Not to you only is strength given, for we are also
powerful men, and why will you boast over us all? and Judah said unto Joseph,
Send I pray thee our brother and ruin not thy country this day.

32v And Joseph answered and said unto them, Go and tell your father, an evil
beast hath devoured him as you said concerning your brother Joseph.

33v And Judah spoke to his brother Naphtali, and he said unto him, Make haste,
go now and number all the streets of Egypt and come and tell me; and Simeon
said unto him, Let not this thing be a trouble to thee; now I will go to the
mount and take up one large stone from the mount and level it at every one in
Egypt, and kill all that are in it.

34v And Joseph heard all these words that his brethren spoke before him, and
they did not know that Joseph understood them, for they imagined that he knew
not to speak Hebrew.

35v And Joseph was greatly afraid at the words of his brethren lest they
should destroy Egypt, and he commanded his son Manasseh, saying, Go now make
haste and gather unto me all the inhabitants of Egypt, and all the valiant men
together, and let them come to me now upon horseback and on foot and with all
sorts of musical instruments, and Manasseh went and did so.

36v And Naphtali went as Judah had commanded him, for Naphtali was lightfooted
as one of the swift stags, and he would go upon the ears of corn and they
would not break under him.

37v And he went and numbered all the streets of Egypt, and found them to be
twelve, and he came hastily and told Judah, and Judah said unto his brethren,
Hasten you and put on every man his sword upon his loins and we will come over
Egypt, and smite them all, and let not a remnant remain.

38v And Judah said, Behold, I will destroy three of the streets with my
strength, and you shall each destroy one street; and when Judah was speaking
this thing, behold the inhabitants of Egypt and all the mighty men came toward
them with all sorts of musical instruments and with loud shouting.

39v And their number was five hundred cavalry and ten thousand infantry, and
four hundred men who could fight without sword or spear, only with their hands
and strength.

40v And all the mighty men came with great storming and shouting, and they all
surrounded the sons of Jacob and terrified them, and the ground quaked at the
sound of their shouting.

41v And when the sons of Jacob saw these troops they were greatly afraid of
their lives, and Joseph did so in order to terrify the sons of Jacob to become
tranquilized.

42v And Judah, seeing some of his brethren terrified, said unto them, Why are
you afraid whilst the grace of God is with us? and when Judah saw all the
people of Egypt surrounding them at the command of Joseph to terrify them,
only Joseph commanded them, saying, Do not touch any of them.

43v Then Judah hastened and drew his sword, and uttered a loud and bitter
scream, and he smote with his sword, and he sprang upon the ground and he
still continued to shout against all the people.

44v And when he did this thing the Lord caused the terror of Judah and his
brethren to fall upon the valiant men and all the people that surrounded them.

45v And they all fled at the sound of the shouting, and they were terrified
and fell one upon the other, and many of them died as they fell, and they all
fled from before Judah and his brethren and from before Joseph.

46v And whilst they were fleeing, Judah and his brethren pursued them unto the
house of Pharaoh, and they all escaped, and Judah again sat before Joseph and
roared at him like a lion, and gave a great and tremendous shriek at him.

47v And the shriek was heard at a distance, and all the inhabitants of Succoth
heard it, and all Egypt quaked at the sound of the shriek, and also the walls
of Egypt and of the land of Goshen fell in from the shaking of the earth, and
Pharaoh also fell from his throne upon the ground, and also all the pregnant
women of Egypt and Goshen miscarried when they heard the noise of the shaking,
for they were terribly afraid.

48v And Pharaoh sent word, saying, What is this thing, that has this day
happened in the land of Egypt? and they came and told him all the things from
beginning to end, and Pharaoh was alarmed and he wondered and was greatly
afraid.

49v And his fright increased when he heard all these things, and he sent unto
Joseph, saying, Thou hast brought unto me the Hebrews to destroy all Egypt;
what wilt thou do with that thievish slave? send him away and let him go with
his brethren, and let us not perish through their evil, even we, you and all
Egypt.

50v And if thou desirest not to do this thing, cast off from thee all my
valuable things, and go with them to their land, if thou delightest in it, for
they will this day destroy my whole country and slay all my people; even all
the women of Egypt have miscarried through their screams; see what they have
done merely by their shouting and speaking, moreover if they fight with the
sword, they will destroy the land; now therefore choose that which thou
desirest, whether me or the Hebrews, whether Egypt or the land of the Hebrews.

51v And they came and told Joseph all the words of Pharaoh that he had said
concerning him, and Joseph was greatly afraid at the words of Pharaoh and
Judah and his brethren were still standing before Joseph indignant and
enraged, and all the sons of Jacob roared at Joseph, like the roaring of the
sea and its waves.

52v And Joseph was greatly afraid of his brethren and on account of Pharaoh,
and Joseph sought a pretext to make himself known unto his brethren, lest they
should destroy all Egypt.

53v And Joseph commanded his son Manasseh, and Manasseh went and approached
Judah, and placed his hand upon his shoulder, and the anger of Judah was
stilled.

54v And Judah said unto his brethren, Let no one of you say that this is the
act of an Egyptian youth for this is the work of my father's house.

55v And Joseph seeing and knowing that Judah's anger was stilled, he
approached to speak unto Judah in the language of mildness.

56v And Joseph said unto Judah, Surely you speak truth and have this day
verified your assertions concerning your strength, and may your God who
delighteth in you, increase your welfare; but tell me truly why from amongst
all thy brethren dost thou wrangle with me on account of the lad, as none of
them have spoken one word to me concerning him.

57v And Judah answered Joseph, saying, Surely thou must know that I was
security for the lad to his father, saying, If I brought him not unto him I
should bear his blame forever.

58v Therefore have I approached thee from amongst all my brethren, for I saw
that thou wast unwilling to suffer him to go from thee; now therefore may I
find grace in thy sight that thou shalt send him to go with us, and behold I
will remain as a substitute for him, to serve thee in whatever thou desirest,
for wheresoever thou shalt send me I will go to serve thee with great energy.

59v Send me now to a mighty king who has rebelled against thee, and thou shalt
know what I will do unto him and unto his land; although he may have cavalry
and infantry or an exceeding mighty people, I will slay them all and bring the
king's head before thee.

60v Dost thou not know or hast thou not heard that our father Abraham with his
servant Eliezer smote all the kings of Elam with their hosts in one night,
they left not one remaining? and ever since that day our father's strength was
given unto us for an inheritance, for us and our seed forever.

61v And Joseph answered and said, You speak truth, and falsehood is not in
your mouth, for it was also told unto us that the Hebrews have power and that
the Lord their God delighteth much in them, and who then can stand before
them.

62v However, on this condition will I send your brother, if you will bring
before me his brother the son of his mother, of whom you said that he had gone
from you down to Egypt; and it shall come to pass when you bring unto me his
brother I will take him in his stead, because not one of you was security for
him to your father, and when he shall come unto me, I will then send with you
his brother for whom you have been security.

63v And Judah's anger was kindled against Joseph when he spoke this thing, and
his eyes dropped blood with anger, and he said unto his brethren, How doth
this man this day seek his own destruction and that of all Egypt.

64v And Simeon answered Joseph, saying, Did we not tell thee at first that we
knew not the particular spot to which he went, and whether he be dead or
alive, and wherefore speaketh my lord like unto these things.

65v And Joseph observing the countenance of Judah discerned that his anger
began to kindle when he spoke unto him, saying, Bring unto me your other
brother instead of this brother.

66v And Joseph said unto his brethren, Surely you said that your brother was
either dead or lost, now if I should call him this day and he should come
before you, would you give him unto me instead of his brother.

67v And Joseph began to speak and call out, Joseph, Joseph, come this day
before me, and appear to thy brethren and sit before them.

68v And when Joseph spoke this thing before them, they looked each a different
way to see from whence Joseph would come before them.

69v And Joseph observed all their acts, and said unto them, Why do you look
here and there? I am Joseph whom you sold to Egypt, now therefore let it not
grieve you that you sold me, for as a support during the famine did God send
me before you.

70v And his brethren were terrified at him when they heard the words of
Joseph, and Judah was exceedingly terrified at him.

71v And when Benjamin heard the words of Joseph he was before them in the
inner part of the house, and Benjamin ran unto Joseph his brother, and
embraced him and fell upon his neck, and they wept.

72v And when Joseph's brethren saw that Benjamin had fallen upon his brother's
neck and wept with him, they also fell upon Joseph and embraced him, and they
wept a great weeping with Joseph.

73v And the voice was heard in the house of Joseph that they were Joseph's
brethren, and it pleased Pharaoh exceedingly, for he was afraid of them lest
they should destroy Egypt.

74v And Pharaoh sent his servants unto Joseph to congratulate him concerning
his brethren who had come to him, and all the captains of the armies and
troops that were in Egypt came to rejoice with Joseph, and all Egypt rejoiced
greatly about Joseph's brethren.

75v And Pharaoh sent his servants to Joseph, saying, Tell thy brethren to
fetch all belonging to them and let them come unto me, and I will place them
in the best part of the land of Egypt, and they did so.

76v And Joseph commanded him that was set over his house to bring out to his
brethren gifts and garments, and he brought out to them many garments being
robes of royalty and many gifts, and Joseph divided them amongst his brethren.

77v And he gave unto each of his brethren a change of garments of gold and
silver, and three hundred pieces of silver, and Joseph commanded them all to
be dressed in these garments, and to be brought before Pharaoh.

78v And Pharaoh seeing that all Joseph's brethren were valiant men, and of
beautiful appearance, he greatly rejoiced.

79v And they afterward went out from the presence of Pharaoh to go to the land
of Canaan, to their father, and their brother Benjamin was with them.

80v And Joseph rose up and gave unto them eleven chariots from Pharaoh, and
Joseph gave unto them his chariot, upon which he rode on the day of his being
crowned in Egypt, to fetch his father to Egypt; and Joseph sent to all his
brothers' children, garments according to their numbers, and a hundred pieces
of silver to each of them, and he also sent garments to the wives of his
brethren from the garments of the king's wives, and he sent them.

81v And he gave unto each of his brethren ten men to go with them to the land
of Canaan to serve them, to serve their children and all belonging to them in
coming to Egypt.

82v And Joseph sent by the hand of his brother Benjamin ten suits of garments
for his ten sons, a portion above the rest of the children of the sons of
Jacob.

83v And he sent to each fifty pieces of silver, and ten chariots on the
account of Pharaoh, and he sent to his father ten asses laden with all the
luxuries of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and nourishment
for his father, and to all that were with him as provisions for the road.

84v And he sent to his sister Dinah garments of silver and gold, and
frankincense and myrrh, and aloes and women's ornaments in great plenty, and
he sent the same from the wives of Pharaoh to the wives of Benjamin.

85v And he gave unto all his brethren, also to their wives, all sorts of onyx
stones and bdellium, and from all the valuable things amongst the great people
of Egypt, nothing of all the costly things was left but what Joseph sent of to
his father's household.

86v And he sent his brethren away, and they went, and he sent his brother
Benjamin with them.

87v And Joseph went out with them to accompany them on the road unto the
borders of Egypt, and he commanded them concerning his father and his
household, to come to Egypt.

88v And he said unto them, Do not quarrel on the road, for this thing was from
the Lord to keep a great people from starvation, for there will be yet five
years of famine in the land.

89v And he commanded them, saying, When you come unto the land of Canaan, do
not come suddenly before my father in this affair, but act in your wisdom.

90v And Joseph ceased to command them, and he turned and went back to Egypt,
and the sons of Jacob went to the land of Canaan with joy and cheerfulness to
their father Jacob.

91v And they came unto the borders of the land, and they said to each other,
What shall we do in this matter before our father, for if we come suddenly to
him and tell him the matter, he will be greatly alarmed at our words and will
not believe us.

92v And they went along until they came nigh unto their houses, and they found
Serach, the daughter of Asher, going forth to meet them, and the damsel was
very good and subtle, and knew how to play upon the harp.

93v And they called unto her and she came before them, and she kissed them,
and they took her and gave unto her a harp, saying, Go now before our father,
and sit before him, and strike upon the harp, and speak these words.

94v And they commanded her to go to their house, and she took the harp and
hastened before them, and she came and sat near Jacob.

95v And she played well and sang, and uttered in the sweetness of her words,
Joseph my uncle is living, and he ruleth throughout the land of Egypt, and is
not dead.

96v And she continued to repeat and utter these words, and Jacob heard her
words and they were agreeable to him.

97v He listened whilst she repeated them twice and thrice, and joy entered the
heart of Jacob at the sweetness of her words, and the spirit of God was upon
him, and he knew all her words to be true.

98v And Jacob blessed Serach when she spoke these words before him, and he
said unto her, My daughter, may death never prevail over thee, for thou hast
revived my spirit; only speak yet before me as thou hast spoken, for thou hast
gladdened me with all thy words.

99v And she continued to sing these words, and Jacob listened and it pleased
him, and he rejoiced, and the spirit of God was upon him.

100v Whilst he was yet speaking with her, behold his son came to him with
horses and chariots and royal garments and servants running before them.

101v And Jacob rose up to meet them, and saw his sons dressed in royal
garments and he saw all the treasures that Joseph had sent to them.

102v And they said unto him, Be informed that our brother Joseph is living,
and it is he who ruleth throughout the land of Egypt, and it is he who spoke
unto us as we told thee.

103v And Jacob heard all the words of his sons, and his heart palpitated at
their words, for he could not believe them until he saw all that Joseph had
given them and what he had sent him, and all the signs which Joseph had spoken
unto them.

104v And they opened out before him, and showed him all that Joseph had sent,
they gave unto each what Joseph had sent him, and he knew that they had spoken
the truth, and he rejoiced exceedingly an account of his son.

105v And Jacob said, It is enough for me that my son Joseph is still living, I
will go and see him before I die.

106v And his sons told him all that had befallen them, and Jacob said, I will
go down to Egypt to see my son and his offspring.

107v And Jacob rose up and put on the garments which Joseph had sent him, and
after he had washed, and shaved his hair, he put upon his head the turban
which Joseph had sent him.

108v And all the people of Jacob's house and their wives put on the garments
which Joseph had sent to them, and they greatly rejoiced at Joseph that he was
still living and that he was ruling in Egypt.

109v And all the inhabitants of Canaan heard of this thing, and they came and
rejoiced much with Jacob that he was still living.

110v And Jacob made a feast for them for three days, and all the kings of
Canaan and nobles of the land ate and drank and rejoiced in the house of
Jacob.
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Chapter 55. The Lord commands Jacob to go down to Egypt, where He will make
him a Great Nation. Joseph and all Egypt go to meet Jacob to do him Honor when
he arrives. The Land of Goshen is given to him and his Children.

1v And it came to pass after this that Jacob said, I will go and see my son in
Egypt and will then come back to the land of Canaan of which God had spoken
unto Abraham, for I cannot leave the land of my birth-place.

2v Behold the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Go down to Egypt with
all thy household and remain there, fear not to go down to Egypt for I will
there make thee a great nation.

3v And Jacob said within himself, I will go and see my son whether the fear of
his God is yet in his heart amidst all the inhabitants of Egypt.

4v And the Lord said unto Jacob, Fear not about Joseph, for he still retaineth
his integrity to serve me, as will seem good in thy sight, and Jacob rejoiced
exceedingly concerning his son.

5v At that time Jacob commanded his sons and household to go to Egypt
according to the word of the Lord unto him, and Jacob rose up with his sons
and all his household, and he went out from the land of Canaan from
Beer-sheba, with joy and gladness of heart, and they went to the land of
Egypt.

6v And it came to pass when they came near Egypt, Jacob sent Judah before him
to Joseph that he might show him a situation in Egypt, and Judah did according
to the word of his father, and he hastened and ran and came to Joseph, and
they assigned for them a place in the land of Goshen for all his household,
and Judah returned and came along the road to his father.

7v And Joseph harnessed the chariot, and he assembled all his mighty men and
his servants and all the officers of Egypt in order to go and meet his father
Jacob, and Joseph's mandate was proclaimed in Egypt, saying, All that do not
go to meet Jacob shall die.

8v And on the next day Joseph went forth with all Egypt a great and mighty
host, all dressed in garments of fine linen and purple and with instruments of
silver and gold and with their instruments of war with them.

9v And they all went to meet Jacob with an sorts of musical instruments, with
drums and timbrels, strewing myrrh and aloes all along the road, and they all
went after this fashion, and the earth shook at their shouting.

10v And all the women of Egypt went upon the roofs of Egypt and upon the walls
to meet Jacob, and upon the head of Joseph was Pharaoh's regal crown, for
Pharaoh had sent it unto him to put on at the time of his going to meet his
father.

11v And when Joseph came within fifty cubits of his father, he alighted from
the chariot and he walked toward his father, and when all the officers of
Egypt and her nobles saw that Joseph had gone on foot toward his father, they
also alighted and walked on foot toward Jacob.

12v And when Jacob approached the camp of Joseph, Jacob observed the camp that
was coming toward him with Joseph, and it gratified him and Jacob was
astonished at it.

13v And Jacob said unto Judah, Who is that man whom I see in the camp of Egypt
dressed in kingly robes with a very red garment upon him and a royal crown
upon his head, who has alighted from his chariot and is coming toward us? and
Judah answered his father, saying, He is thy son Joseph the king; and Jacob
rejoiced in seeing the glory of his son.

14v And Joseph came nigh unto his father and he bowed to his father, and all
the men of the camp bowed to the ground with him before Jacob.

15v And behold Jacob ran and hastened to his son Joseph and fell upon his neck
and kissed him, and they wept, and Joseph also embraced his father and kissed
him, and they wept and all the people of Egypt wept with them.

16v And Jacob said unto Joseph, Now I will die cheerfully after I have seen
thy face, that thou art still living and with glory.

17v And the sons of Jacob and their wives and their children and their
servants, and all the household of Jacob wept exceedingly with Joseph, and
they kissed him and wept greatly with him.

18v And Joseph and all his people returned afterward home to Egypt, and Jacob
and his sons and all the children of his household came with Joseph to Egypt,
and Joseph placed them in the best part of Egypt, in the land of Goshen.

19v And Joseph said unto his father and unto his brethren, I will go up and
tell Pharaoh, saying, My brethren and my father's household and all belonging
to them have come unto me, and behold they are in the land Goshen.

20v And Joseph did so and took from his brethren Reuben, Issachar Zebulun and
his brother Benjamin, and he placed them before Pharaoh.

21v And Joseph spoke unto Pharaoh, saying, My brethren and my father's
household and all belonging to them, together with their flocks and cattle
have come unto me from the land of Canaan, to sojourn in Egypt; for the famine
was sore upon them.

22v And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Place thy father and brethren in the best
part of the land, withhold not from them all that is good, and cause them to
eat of the fat of the land.

23v And Joseph answered, saying, Behold I have stationed them in the land of
Goshen, for they are shepherds, therefore let them remain in Goshen to feed
their flocks apart from the Egyptians.

24v And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Do with thy brethren all that they shall say
unto thee; and the sons of Jacob bowed down to Pharaoh, and they went forth
from him in peace, and Joseph afterward brought his father before Pharaoh.

25v And Jacob came and bowed down to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and
he then went out; and Jacob and all his sons, and all his household dwelt in
the land of Goshen.

26v In the second year, that is in the hundred and thirtieth year of the life
of Jacob, Joseph maintained his father and his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread according to their little ones, all the days of the
famine; they lacked nothing.

27v And Joseph gave unto them the best part of the whole land; the best of
Egypt had they all the days of Joseph; and Joseph also gave unto them and unto
the whole of his father's household, clothes and garments year by year; and
the sons of Jacob remained securely in Egypt all the days of their brother.

28v And Jacob always ate at Joseph's table, Jacob and his sons did not leave
Joseph's table day or night, besides what Jacob's children consumed in their
houses.

29v And all Egypt ate bread during the days of the famine from the house of
Joseph, for all the Egyptians sold all belonging to them on account of the
famine.

30v And Joseph purchased all the lands and fields of Egypt for bread on the
account of Pharaoh, and Joseph supplied all Egypt with bread all the days of
the famine, and Joseph collected all the silver and gold that came unto him
for the corn which they bought throughout the land, and he accumulated much
gold and silver, besides an immense quantity of onyx stones, bdellium and
valuable garments which they brought unto Joseph from every part of the land
when their money was spent.

31v And Joseph took all the silver and gold that came into his hand, about
seventy two talents of gold and silver, and also onyx stones and bdellium in
great abundance, and Joseph went and concealed them in four parts, and he
concealed one part in the wilderness near the Red sea, and one part by the
river Perath, and the third and fourth part he concealed in the desert
opposite to the wilderness of Persia and Media.

32v And he took part of the gold and silver that was left, and gave it unto
all his brothers and unto all his father's household, and unto all the women
of his father's household, and the rest he brought to the house of Pharaoh,
about twenty talents of gold and silver.

33v And Joseph gave all the gold and silver that was left unto Pharaoh, and
Pharaoh placed it in the treasury, and the days of the famine ceased after
that in the land, and they sowed and reaped in the whole land, and they
obtained their usual quantity year by year; they lacked nothing.

34v And Joseph dwelt securely in Egypt, and the whole land was under his
advice, and his father and all his brethren dwelt in the land of Goshen and
took possession of it.

35v And Joseph was very aged, advanced in days, and his two sons Ephraim and
Manasseh, remained constantly in the house of Jacob, together with the
children of the sons of Jacob their brethren, to learn the ways of the Lord
and his law.

36v And Jacob and his sons dwelt in the land of Egypt in the land of Goshen,
and they took possession in it, and they were fruitful and multiplied in it.

Chapter 56. After Seventeen Years' Dwelling in Egypt, Jacob dies, after
Blessing his Children and commanding them to go in the Way of the Lord. Joseph
and his Brethren and all the Mighty Men of Egypt go up to Canaan to Bury
Jacob. Esau, claiming the Land of Canaan as his, will not Allow Joseph to Bury
his Father. After Esau and many of his People are slain, Jacob is Buried by
Force. All the Kings of Canaan come up to do him Honor.

1v And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of
Jacob, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty seven years.

2v At that time Jacob was attacked with that illness of which he died and he
sent and called for his son Joseph from Egypt, and Joseph his son came from
Egypt and Joseph came unto his father.

3v And Jacob said unto Joseph and unto his sons, Behold I die, and the God of
your ancestors will visit you, and bring yon back to the land, which the Lord
sware to give unto you and unto your children after you, now therefore when I
am dead, bury me in the cave which is in Machpelah in Hebron in the land of
Canaan, near my ancestors.

4v And Jacob made his sons swear to bury him in Machpelah, in Hebron, and his
sons swore unto him concerning this thing.

5v And he commanded them, saying, Serve the Lord your God, for he who
delivered your fathers will also deliver you from all trouble.

6v And Jacob said, Call all your children unto me, and all the children of
Jacob's sons came and sat before him, and Jacob blessed them, and he said unto
them, The Lord God of your fathers shall grant you a thousand times as much
and bless you, and may he give you the blessing of your father Abraham; and
all the children of Jacob's sons went forth on that day after he had blessed
them.

7v And on the next day Jacob again called for his sons, and they all assembled
and came to him and sat before him, and Jacob on that day blessed his sons
before his death, each man did he bless according to his blessing; behold it
is written in the book of the law of the Lord appertaining to Israel.

8v And Jacob said unto Judah, I know my son that thou art a mighty man for thy
brethren; reign over them, and thy sons shall reign over their sons forever.

9v Only teach thy sons the bow and all the weapons of war, in order that they
may fight the battles of their brother who will rule over his enemies.

10v And Jacob again commanded his sons on that day, saying, Behold I shall be
this day gathered unto my people; carry me up from Egypt, and bury me in the
cave of Machpelah as I have commanded you.

11v Howbeit take heed I pray you that none of your sons carry me, only
yourselves, and this is the manner you shall do unto me, when you carry my
body to go with it to the land of Canaan to bury me.

12v Judah, Issachar and Zebulun shall carry my bier at the eastern side;
Reuben, Simeon and Gad at the south, Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin at the
west, Dan, Asher and Naphtali at the north.

13v Let not Levi carry with you, for he and his sons will carry the ark of the
covenant of the Lord with the Israelites in the camp, neither let Joseph my
son carry, for as a king so let his glory be; howbeit, Ephraim and Manasseh
shall be in their stead.

14v Thus shall you do unto me when you carry me away; do not neglect any thing
of all that I command you; and it shall come to pass when you do this unto me,
that the Lord will remember you favorably and your children after you forever.

15v And you my sons, honor each his brother and his relative, and command your
children and your children's children after you to serve the Lord God of your
ancestors all the days.

16v In order that you may prolong your days in the land, you and your children
and your children's children for ever, when you do what is good and upright in
the sight of the Lord your God, to go in all his ways.

17v And thou, Joseph my son, forgive I pray thee the wrongs of thy brethren
and all their misdeeds in the injury that they heaped upon thee, for God
intended it for thine and thy children's benefit.

18v And O my son leave not thy brethren to the inhabitants of Egypt, neither
hurt their feelings, for behold I consign them to the hand of God and in thy
hand to guard them from the Egyptians; and the sons of Jacob answered their
father saying, O, our father, all that thou hast commanded us, so will we do;
may God only be with us.

19v And Jacob said unto his sons, So may God be with you when you keep all his
ways; turn not from his ways either to the right or the left in performing
what is good and upright in his sight.

20v For I know that many and grievous troubles will befall you in the latter
days in the land, yea your children and children's children, only serve the
Lord and he will save you from all trouble.

21v And it shall come to pass when you shall go after God to serve him and
will teach your children after you, and your children's children, to know the
Lord, then will the Lord raise up unto you and your children a servant from
amongst your children, and the Lord will deliver you through his hand from all
affliction, and bring you out of Egypt and bring you back to the land of your
fathers to inherit it securely.

22v And Jacob ceased commanding his sons, and he drew his feet into the bed,
he died and was gathered to his people.

23v And Joseph fell upon his father and he cried out and wept over him and he
kissed him, and he called out in a bitter voice, and he said, O my father, my
father.

24v And his son's wives and all his household came and fell upon Jacob, and
they wept over him, and cried in a very loud voice concerning Jacob.

25v And all the sons of Jacob rose up together, and they tore their garments,
and they all put sackcloth upon their loins, and they fell upon their faces,
and they cast dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

26v And the thing was told unto Osnath Joseph's wife, and she rose up and put
on a sack and she with all the Egyptian women with her came and mourned and
wept for Jacob.

27v And also all the people of Egypt who knew Jacob came all on that day when
they heard this thing, and all Egypt wept for many days.

28v And also from the land of Canaan did the women come unto Egypt when they
heard that Jacob was dead, and they wept for him in Egypt for seventy days.

29v And it came to pass after this that Joseph commanded his servants the
doctors to embalm his father with myrrh and frankincense and all manner of
incense and perfume, and the doctors embalmed Jacob as Joseph had commanded
them.

30v And all the people of Egypt and the elders and all the inhabitants of the
land of Goshen wept and mourned over Jacob, and all his sons and the children
of his household lamented and mourned over their father Jacob many days.

31v And after the days of his weeping had passed away, at the end of seventy
days, Joseph said unto Pharaoh, I will go up and bury my father in the land of
Canaan as he made me swear, and then I will return.

32v And Pharaoh sent Joseph, saying, Go up and bury thy father as he said, and
as he made thee swear; and Joseph rose up with all his brethren to go to the
land of Canaan to bury their father Jacob as he had commanded them.

33v And Pharaoh commanded that it should be proclaimed throughout Egypt,
saying, Whoever goeth not up with Joseph and his brethren to the land of
Canaan to bury Jacob, shall die.

34v And all Egypt heard of Pharaoh's proclamation, and they all rose up
together, and all the servants of Pharaoh, and the elders of his house, and
all the elders of the land of Egypt went up with Joseph, and all the officers
and nobles of Pharaoh went up as the servants of Joseph, and they went to bury
Jacob in the land of Canaan.

35v And the sons of Jacob carried the bier upon which he lay; according to all
that their father commanded them, so did his sons unto him.

36v And the bier was of pure gold, and it was inlaid round about with onyx
stones and bdellium; and the covering of the bier was gold woven work, joined
with threads, and over them were hooks of onyx stones and bdellium.

37v And Joseph placed upon the head of his father Jacob a large golden crown,
and he put a golden sceptre in his hand, and they surrounded the bier as was
the custom of kings during their lives.

38v And all the troops of Egypt went before him in this array, at first all
the mighty men of Pharaoh, and the mighty men of Joseph, and after them the
rest of the inhabitants of Egypt, and they were all girded with swords and
equipped with coats of mail, and the trappings of war were upon them.

39v And all the weepers and mourners went at a distance opposite to the bier,
going and weeping and lamenting, and the rest of the people went after the
bier.

40v And Joseph and his household went together near the bier barefooted and
weeping, and the rest of Joseph's servants went around him; each man had his
ornaments upon him, and they were all armed with their weapons of war.

41v And fifty of Jacob's servants went in front of the bier, and they strewed
along the road myrrh and aloes, and all manner of perfume, and all the sons of
Jacob that carried the bier walked upon the perfumery, and the servants of
Jacob went before them strewing the perfume along the road.

42v And Joseph went up with a heavy camp, and they did after this manner every
day until they reached the land of Canaan, and they came to the threshing
floor of Atad, which was on the other side of Jordan, and they mourned an
exceeding great and heavy mourning in that place.

43v And all the kings of Canaan heard of this thing and they all went forth,
each man from his house, thirty-one kings of Canaan, and they all came with
their men to mourn and weep over Jacob.

44v And all these kings beheld Jacob's bier, and behold Joseph's crown was
upon it, and they also put their crowns upon the bier, and encircled it with
crowns.

45v And all these kings made in that place a great and heavy mourning with the
sons of Jacob and Egypt over Jacob, for all the kings of Canaan knew the valor
of Jacob and his sons.

46v And the report reached Esau, saying, Jacob died in Egypt, and his sons and
all Egypt are conveying him to the land of Canaan to bury him.

47v And Esau heard this thing, and he was dwelling in mount Seir, and he rose
up with his sons and all his people and all his household, a people
exceedingly great, and they came to mourn and weep over Jacob.

48v And it came to pass, when Esau came he mourned for his brother Jacob, and
all Egypt and all Canaan again rose up and mourned a great mourning with Esau
over Jacob in that place.

49v And Joseph and his brethren brought their father Jacob from that place,
and they went to Hebron to bury Jacob in the cave by his fathers.

50v And they came unto Kireath-arba, to the cave, and as they came Esau stood
with his sons against Joseph and his brethren as a hindrance in the cave,
saying, Jacob shall not be buried therein, for it belongeth to us and to our
father.

51v And Joseph and his brethren heard the words of Esau's sons, and they were
exceedingly wroth, and Joseph approached unto Esau, saying, What is this thing
which they have spoken? surely my father Jacob bought it from thee for great
riches after the death of Isaac, now five and twenty years ago, and also all
the land of Canaan he bought from thee and from thy sons, and thy seed after
thee.

52v And Jacob bought it for his sons and his seed after him for an inheritance
for ever, and why speakest thou these things this day.

53v And Esau answered, saying Thou speakest falsely and utterest lies for I
sold not anything belonging to me in all this land, as thou sayest, neither
did my brother Jacob buy aught belonging to me in this land.

54v And Esau spoke these things in order to deceive Joseph with his words for
Esau knew that Joseph was not present in those days when Esau sold all
belonging to him in the land of Canaan to Jacob.

55v And Joseph said unto Esau, Surely my father inserted these things with
thee in the record of purchase and testified the record with witnesses, and
behold it is with us in Egypt.

56v And Esau answered, saying unto him, Bring the record, all that thou wilt
find in the record, so will we do.

57v And Joseph called unto Naphtali his brother, and he said, Hasten quickly,
stay not, and run I pray thee to Egypt and bring all the records; the record
of the purchase, the sealed record and the open record, and also all the first
records in which all the transactions of the birth-right are written, fetch
thou.

58v And thou shalt bring them unto us hither, that we may know from them all
the words of Esau and his sons which they spoke this day.

59v And Naphtali hearkened to the voice of Joseph and he hastened and ran to
go down to Egypt, and Naphtali was lighter on foot than any of the stags that
were upon the wilderness, for he would go upon ears of corn without crushing
them.

60v And when Esau saw that Naphtali had gone to fetch the records, he and his
sons increased their resistance against the cave, and Esau and all his people
rose up against Joseph and his brethren to battle.

61v And all the sons of Jacob and the people of Egypt fought with Esau and his
men, and the sons of Esau and his people were smitten before the sons of
Jacob, and the sons of Jacob slew of Esau's people forty men.

62v And Chushim the son of Dan, the son of Jacob, was at that time with
Jacob's sons, but he was about a hundred cubits distant from the place of
battle, for he remained with the children of Jacob's sons by Jacob's bier to
guard it.

63v And Chushim was dumb and deaf, still he understood the voice of
consternation amongst men.

64v And he asked, saying, Why do you not bury the dead, and what is this great
consternation? and they answered him the words of Esau and his sons; and he
ran to Esau in the midst of the battle and he slew Esau with a sword, and he
cut off his head, and it sprang to a distance, and Esau fell amongst the
people of the battle.

65v And when Chushim did this thing the sons of Jacob prevailed over the sons
of Esau, and the sons of Jacob buried their father Jacob by force in the cave,
and the sons of Esau beheld it.

66v And Jacob was buried in Hebron, in the cave of Machpelah which Abraham had
bought from the sons of Heth for the possession of a burial place, and he was
buried in very costly garments.

67v And no king had such honor paid him as Joseph paid unto his father at his
death, for he buried him with great honor like unto the burial of kings.

68v And Joseph and his brethren made a mourning of seven days for their
father.

Chapter 57. The Sons of Esau make war with the Sons of Jacob and are smitten.
Some are taken captive to Egypt. The Children of Esau enlist the People of
Seir to Accompany them to Egypt to Deliver their Brethren. Joseph and his
Brethren and the Egyptains slay Six Hundred Thousand. Nearly all the Mighty
Men of Seir being Slain, they make war with the Children of Esau to Drive them
from their Land. Esau prevails and utterly annihilates the Children of Seir.

1v And it was after this that the sons of Esau waged war with the sons of
Jacob, and the sons of Esau fought with the sons of Jacob in Hebron, and Esau
was still lying dead, and not buried.

2v And the battle was heavy between them, and the sons of Esau were smitten
before the sons of Jacob, and the sons of Jacob slew of the sons of Esau
eighty men, and not one died of the people of the sons of Jacob; and the hand
of Joseph prevailed over all the people of the sons of Esau, and he took
Zepho, the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, and fifty of his men captive, and
he bound them with chains of iron, and gave them into the hand of his servants
to bring them to Egypt.

3v And it came to pass when the sons of Jacob had taken Zepho and his people
captive, all those that remained were greatly afraid of their lives from the
house of Esau, lest they should also be taken captive, and they all fled with
Eliphaz the son of Esau and his people, with Esau's body, and they went on
their road to Mount Seir.

4v And they came unto Mount Seir and they buried Esau in Seir, but they had
not brought his head with them to Seir, for it was buried in that place where
the battle had been in Hebron.

5v And it came to pass when the sons of Esau had fled from before the sons of
Jacob, the sons of Jacob pursued them unto the borders of Seir, but they did
not slay a single man from amongst them when they pursued them, for Esau's
body which they carried with them excited their confusion, so they fled and
the sons of Jacob turned back from them and came up to the place where their
brethren were in Hebron, and they remained there on that day, and on the next
day until they rested from the battle.

6v And it came to pass on the third day they assembled all the sons of Seir
the Horite and they assembled all the children of the east, a multitude of
people like the sand of the sea, and they went and came down to Egypt to fight
with Joseph and his brethren, in order to deliver their brethren.

7v And Joseph and all the sons of Jacob heard that the sons of Esau and the
children of the east had come upon them to battle in order to deliver their
brethren.

8v And Joseph and his brethren and the strong men of Egypt went forth and
fought in the city of Raamses, and Joseph and his brethren dealt out a
tremendous blow amongst the sons of Esau and the children of the east.

9v And they slew of them six hundred thousand men, and they slew amongst them
all the mighty men of the children of Seir the Horite; there were only a few
of them left, and they slew also a great many of the children of the east, and
of the children of Esau; and Eliphaz the son of Esau, and the children of the
east all fled before Joseph and his brethren.

10v And Joseph and his brethren pursued them until they came unto Succoth, and
they yet slew of them in Succoth thirty men, and the rest escaped and they
fled each to his city.

11v And Joseph and his brethren and the mighty men of Egypt turned back from
them with joy and cheerfulness of heart, for they had smitten all their
enemies.

12v And Zepho the son of Eliphaz and his men were still slaves in Egypt to the
sons of Jacob, and their pains increased.

13v And when the sons of Esau and the sons of Seir returned to their land, the
sons of Seir saw that they had all fallen into the hands of the sons of Jacob,
and the people of Egypt, on account of the battle of the sons of Esau.

14v And the sons of Seir said unto the sons of Esau, You have seen and
therefore you know that this camp was on your account, and not one mighty man
or an adept in war remaineth.

15v Now therefore go forth from our land, go from us to the land of Canaan to
the land of the dwelling of your fathers; wherefore shall your children
inherit the effects of our children in latter days.

16v And the children of Esau would not listen to the children of Seir, and the
children of Seir considered to make war with them.

17v And the children of Esau sent secretly to Angeas king of Africa, the same
is Dinhabah, saying.

18v Send unto us some of thy men and let them come unto us, and we will fight
together with the children of Seir the Horite, for they have resolved to fight
with us to drive us away from the land.

19v And Angeas king of Dinhabah did so, for he was in those days friendly to
the children of Esau, and Angeas sent five hundred valiant infantry to the
children of Esau, and eight hundred cavalry.

20v And the children of Seir sent unto the children of the east and unto the
children of Midian, saying, You have seen what the children of Esau have done
unto us, upon whose account we are almost all destroyed, in their battle with
the sons of Jacob.

21v Now therefore come unto us and assist us, and we will fight them together,
and we will drive them from the land and be avenged of the cause of our
brethren who died for their sakes in their battle with their brethren the sons
of Jacob.

22v And all the children of the east listened to the children of Seir, and
they came unto them about eight hundred men with drawn swords, and the
children of Esau fought with the children of Seir at that time in the
wilderness of Paran.

23v And the children of Seir prevailed then over the sons of Esau, and the
children of Seir slew on that day of the children of Esau in that battle about
two hundred men of the people of Angeas king of Dinhabah.

24v And on the second day the children of Esau came again to fight a second
time with the children of Seir, and the battle was sore upon the children of
Esau this second time, and it troubled them greatly on account of the children
of Seir.

25v And when the children of Esau saw that the children of Seir were more
powerful than they were, some men of the children of Esau turned and assisted
the children of Seir their enemies.

26v And there fell yet of the people of the children of Esau in the second
battle fifty-eight men of the people of Angeas king of Dinhabah.

27v And on the third day the children of Esau heard that some of their
brethren had turned from them to fight against them in the second battle; and
the children of Esau mourned when they heard this thing.

28v And they said, What shall we do unto our brethren who turned from us to
assist the children of Seir our enemies? and the children of Esau again sent
to Angeas king of Dinhabah, saying.

29v Send unto us again other men that with them we may fight with the children
of Seir, for they have already twice been heavier than we were.

30v And Angeas again sent to the children of Esau about six hundred valiant
men, and they came to assist the children of Esau.

31v And in ten days' time the children of Esau again waged war with the
children of Seir in the wilderness of Paran, and the battle was very severe
upon the children of Seir, and the children of Esau prevailed at this time
over the children of Seir, and the children of Seir were smitten before the
children of Esau, and the children of Esau slew from them about two thousand
men.

32v And all the mighty men of the children of Seir died in this battle, and
there only remained their young children that were left in their cities.

33v And all Midian and the children of the east betook themselves to flight
from the battle, and they left the children of Seir and fled when they saw
that the battle was severe upon them, and the children of Esau pursued all the
children of the east until they reached their land.

34v And the children of Esau slew yet of them about two hundred and fifty men
and from the people of the children of Esau there fell in that battle about
thirty men, but this evil came upon them through their brethren turning from
them to assist the children of Seir the Horite, and the children of Esau again
heard of the evil doings of their brethren, and they again mourned on account
of this thing.

35v And it came to pass after the battle, the children of Esau turned back and
came home unto Seir, and the children of Esau slew those who had remained in
the land of the children of Seir; they slew also their wives and little ones,
they left not a soul alive except fifty young lads and damsels whom they
suffered to live, and the children of Esau did not put them to death, and the
lads became their slaves, and the damsels they took for wives.

36v And the children of Esau dwelt in Seir in the place of the children of
Seir, and they inherited their land and took possession of it.

37v And the children of Esau took all belonging in the land to the children of
Seir, also their flocks, their bullocks and their goods, and all belonging to
the children of Seir, did the children of Esau take, and the children of Esau
dwelt in Seir in the place of the children of Seir unto this day, and the
children of Esau divided the land into divisions to the five sons of Esau,
according to their families.

38v And it came to pass in those days, that the children of Esau resolved to
crown a king over them in the land of which they became possessed. And they
said to each other, Not so, for he shall reign over us in our land, and we
shall be under his counsel and he shall fight our battles, against our
enemies, and they did so.

39v And all the children of Esau swore, saying, That none of their brethren
should ever reign over them, but a strange man who is not of their brethren,
for the souls of all the children of Esau were embittered every man against
his son, brother and friend, on account of the evil they sustained from their
brethren when they fought with the children of Seir.

40v Therefore the sons of Esau swore, saying, From that day forward they would
not choose a king from their brethren, but one from a strange land unto this
day.

41v And there was a man there from the people of Angeas king of Dinhabah; his
name was Bela the son of Beor, who was a very valiant man, beautiful and
comely and wise in all wisdom, and a man of sense and counsel; and there was
none of the people of Angeas like unto him.

42v And all the children of Esau took him and anointed him and they crowned
him for a king, and they bowed down to him, and they said unto him, May the
king live, may the king live.

43v And they spread out the sheet, and they brought him each man earrings of
gold and silver or rings or bracelets, and they made him very rich in silver
and in gold, in onyx stones and bdellium, and they made him a royal throne,
and they placed a regal crown upon his head, and they built a palace for him
and he dwelt therein, and he became king over all the children of Esau.

44v And the people of Angeas took their hire for their battle from the
children of Esau, and they went and returned at that time to their master in
Dinhabah.

45v And Bela reigned over the children of Esau thirty years, and the children
of Esau dwelt in the land instead of the children of Seir, and they dwelt
securely in their stead unto this day.

Chapter 58. Pharaoh dies and the whole Government of Egypt devolves upon
Joseph, Pharaoh the Younger being but a nominal Ruler. The Children of Esau
again come Against the Israelites, and are again smitten.

1v And it came to pass in the thirty-second year of the Israelites going down
to Egypt, that is in the seventy-first year of the life of Joseph, in that
year died Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Magron his son reigned in his stead.

2v And Pharaoh commanded Joseph before his death to be a father to his son,
Magron, and that Magron should be under the care of Joseph and under his
counsel.

3v And all Egypt consented to this thing that Joseph should be king over them,
for all the Egyptians loved Joseph as of heretofore, only Magron the son of
Pharaoh sat upon his father's throne, and he became king in those days in his
father's stead.

4v Magron was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and forty years he
reigned in Egypt, and all Egypt called his name Pharaoh after the name of his
father, as it was their custom to do in Egypt to every King that reigned over
them.

5v And it came to pass when Pharaoh reigned in his father's stead, he placed
the laws of Egypt and all the affairs of government in the hand of Joseph, as
his father had commanded him.

6v And Joseph became king over Egypt, for he superintended over all Egypt, and
all Egypt was under his care and under his counsel, for all Egypt inclined to
Joseph after the death of Pharaoh, and they loved him exceedingly to reign
over them.

7v But there were some people amongst them, who did not like him, saying, No
stranger shall reign over us; still the whole government of Egypt devolved in
those days upon Joseph, after the death of Pharaoh, he being the regulator,
doing as he liked throughout the land without any one interfering.

8v And all Egypt was under the care of Joseph, and Joseph made war with all
his surrounding enemies, and he subdued them; also all the land and all the
Philistines, unto the borders of Canaan, did Joseph subdue, and they were all
under his power and they gave a yearly tax unto Joseph.

9v And Pharaoh king of Egypt sat upon his throne in his father's stead, but he
was under the control and counsel of Joseph, as he was at first under the
control of his father.

10v Neither did he reign but in the land of Egypt only, under the counsel Of
Joseph, but Joseph reigned over the whole country at that time, from Egypt
unto the great river Perath.

11v And Joseph was successful in all his ways, and the Lord was with him, and
the Lord gave Joseph additional wisdom, and honor, and glory, and love toward
him in the hearts of the Egyptians and throughout the land, and Joseph reigned
over the whole country forty years.

12v And all the countries of the Philistines and Canaan and Zidon, and on the
other side of Jordan, brought presents unto Joseph all his days, and the whole
country was in the hand of Joseph, and they brought unto him a yearly tribute
as it was regulated, for Joseph had fought against all his surrounding enemies
and subdued them, and the whole country was in the hand of Joseph, and Joseph
sat securely upon his throne in Egypt.

13v And also all his brethren the sons of Jacob dwelt securely in the land,
all the days of Joseph, and they were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly in
the land, and they served the Lord all their days, as their father Jacob had
commanded them.

14v And it came to pass at the end of many days and years, when the children
of Esau were dwelling quietly in their land with Bela their king, that the
children of Esau were fruitful and multiplied in the land, and they resolved
to go and fight with the sons of Jacob and all Egypt, and to deliver their
brother Zepho, the son of Eliphaz, and his men, for they were yet in those
days slaves to Joseph.

15v And the children of Esau sent unto all the children of the east, and they
made peace with them, and all the children of the east came unto them to go
with the children of Esau to Egypt to battle.

16v And there came also unto them of the people of Angeas, king of Dinhabah,
and they also sent unto the children of Ishmael and they also came unto them.

17v And all this people assembled and came unto Seir to assist the children of
Esau in their battle, and this camp was very large and heavy with people,
numerous as the sand of the sea, about eight hundred thousand men, infantry
and cavalry, and all these troops went down to Egypt to fight with the sons of
Jacob, and they encamped by Raamses.

18v And Joseph went forth with his brethren with the mighty men of Egypt,
about six hundred men, and they fought with them in the land of Raamses; and
the sons of Jacob at that time again fought with the children of Esau, in the
fiftieth year of the sons of Jacob going down to Egypt, that is the thirtieth
year of the reign of Bela over the children of Esau in Seir.

19v And the Lord gave all the mighty men of Esau and the children of the east
into the hand of Joseph and his brethren, and the people of the children of
Esau and the children of the east were smitten before Joseph.

20v And of the people, of Esau and the children of the east that were slain,
there fell before the sons of Jacob about two hundred thousand men, and their
king Bela the son of Beor fell with them in the battle, and when the children
of Esau saw that their king had fallen in battle and was dead, their hands
became weak in the combat.

21v And Joseph and his brethren and all Egypt were still smiting the people of
the house of Esau, and all Esau's people were afraid of the sons of Jacob and
fled from before them.

22v And Joseph and his brethren and all Egypt pursued them a day's journey,
and they slew yet from them about three hundred men, continuing to smite them
in the road; and they afterward turned back from them.

23v And Joseph and all his brethren returned to Egypt, not one man was missing
from them, but of the Egyptians there fell twelve men.

24v And when Joseph returned to Egypt he ordered Zepho and his men to be
additionally bound, and they bound them in irons and they increased their
grief.

25v And all the people of the children of Esau, and the children of the east,
returned in shame each unto his city, for all the mighty men that were with
them had fallen in battle.

26v And when the children of Esau saw that their king had died in battle they
hastened and took a man from the people of the children of the east; his name
was Jobab the son of Zarach, from the land of Botzrah, and they caused him to
reign over them instead of Bela their king.

27v And Jobab sat upon the throne of Bela as king in his stead, and Jobab
reigned in Edom over all the children of Esau ten years. and the children of
Esau went no more to fight with the sons of Jacob from that day forward, for
the sons of Esau knew the valor of the sons of Jacob, and they were greatly
afraid of them.

28v But from that day forward the children of Esau hated the sons of Jacob,
and the hatred and enmity were very strong between them all the days, unto
this day.

29v And it came to pass after this, at the end of ten years, Jobab, the son of
Zarach, from Botzrah, died, and the children of Esau took a man whose name was
Chusham, from the land of Teman, and they made him king over them instead of
Jobab, and Chusham reigned in Edom over all the children of Esau for twenty
years.

30v And Joseph, king of Egypt, and his brethren, and all the children of
Israel dwelt securely in Egypt in those days, together with all the children
of Joseph and his brethren, having no hindrance or evil accident; and the land
of Egypt was at that time at rest from war in the days of Joseph and his
brethren.

Chapter 59. Jacob's Posterrty in Egypt. After Prophesying that the Lord would
Deliver his Brethren from Egypt, Joseph dies and is buried, and the Israelites
are ruled over by the Egyptians.

1v And these are the names of the sons of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, who had
come with Jacob, all the sons of Jacob came unto Egypt, every man with his
household.

2v The children of Leah were Reuben, Simeon, Levi Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
and their sister Dinah.

3v And the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

4v And the sons of Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah, were Gad and Asher.

5v And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, were Dan and Naphtali.

6v And these were their offspring that were born unto them in the land of
Canaan, before they came unto Egypt with their father Jacob.

7v The sons of Reuben were Chanoch, Pallu, Chetzron and Carmi.

8v And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zochar and Saul,
the son of the Canaanitish woman.

9v And the children of Levi were Gershon, Kehath and Merari, and their sister
Jochebed, who was born unto them in their going down to Egypt.

10v And the sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zarach.

11v And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were
Chezron and Chamul.

12v And the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job and Shomron.

13v And the sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon and Jachleel, and the son of Dan
was Chushim.

14v And the sons of Naphtali were Jachzeel, Guni, Jetzer and Shilam.

15v And the sons of Gad were Ziphion, Chaggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and
Areli.

16v And the children of Asher were Jimnah, Jishvah, Jishvi, Beriah and their
sister Serach; and the sons of Beriah were Cheber and Malchiel.

17v And the sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Achi,
Rosh, Mupim, Chupim and Ord.

18v And the sons of Joseph, that were born unto him in Egypt, were Manasseh
and Ephraim.

19v And all the souls that went forth from the loins of Jacob, were seventy
souls; these are they who came with Jacob their father unto Egypt to dwell
there: and Joseph and all his brethren dwelt securely in Egypt, and they ate
of the best of Egypt all the days of the life of Joseph.

20v And Joseph lived in the land of Egypt ninety-three years, and Joseph
reigned over all Egypt eighty years.

21v And when the days of Joseph drew nigh that he should die, he sent and
called for his brethren and all his father's household, and they all came
together and sat before him.

22v And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto the whole of his father's
household, Behold I die, and God will surely visit you and bring you up from
this land to the land which he swore to your fathers to give unto them.

23v And it shall he when God shall visit you to bring you up from here to the
land of your fathers, then bring up my bones with you from here.

24v And Joseph made the sons of Israel to swear for their seed after them,
saying, God will surely visit you and you shall bring up my bones with you
from here.

25v And it came to pass after this that Joseph died in that year, the
seventy-first year of the Israelites going down to Egypt.

26v And Joseph was one hundred and ten years old when he died in the land of
Egypt, and all his brethren and all his servants rose up and they embalmed
Joseph, as was their custom, and his brethren and all Egypt mourned over him
for seventy days.

27v And they put Joseph in a coffin filled with spices and all sorts of
perfume, and they buried him by the side of the river, that is Sihor, and his
sons and all his brethren, and the whole of his father's household made a
seven day's mourning for him.

28v And it came to pass after the death of Joseph, all the Egyptians began in
those days to rule over the children of Israel, and Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
who reigned in his father's stead, took all the laws of Egypt and conducted
the whole government of Egypt under his counsel, and he reigned securely over
his people.

Chapter 60. Zepho, the Son of Eliphaz, the Son of Esau, who was taken Captive
by Joseph where he Buried his Father, Escapes from Egypt with all his Men.

1v And when the year came round, being the seventy-second year from the
Israelites going down to Egypt, after the death of Joseph, Zepho, the son of
Eliphaz, the son of Esau, fled from Egypt, he and his men, and they went away.

2v And he came to Africa, which is Dinhabah, to Angeas king of Africa, and
Angeas received them with great honor, and he made Zepho the captain of his
host.

3v And Zepho found favor in the sight of Angeas and in the sight of his
people, and Zepho was captain of the host to Angeas king of Africa for many
days.

4v And Zepho enticed Angeas king of Africa to collect all his army to go and
fight with the Egyptians, and with the sons of Jacob, and to avenge of them
the cause of his brethren.

5v But Angeas would not listen to Zepho to do this thing, for Angeas knew the
strength of the sons of Jacob, and what they had done to his army in their
warfare with the children of Esau.

6v And Zepho was in those days very great in the sight of Angeas and in the
sight of all his people, and he continually enticed them to make war against
Egypt, but they would not.

7v And it came to pass in those days there was in the land of Chittim a man in
the city of Puzimna, whose name was Uzu, and he became degenerately deified by
the children of Chittim, and the man died and had no son, only one daughter
whose name was Jania.

8v And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, comely and intelligent, there was
none seen like unto her for beauty and wisdom throughout the land.

9v And the people of Angeas king of Africa saw her and they came and praised
her unto him, and Angeas sent to the children of Chittim, and he requested to
take her unto himself for a wife, and the people of Chittim consented to give
her unto him for a wife.

10v And when the messengers of Angeas were going forth from the land of
Chittim to take their journey, behold the messengers of Turnus king of Bibentu
came unto Chittim, for Turnus king of Bibentu also sent his messengers to
request Jania for him, to take unto himself for a wife, for all his men had
also praised her to him, therefore he sent all his servants unto her.

11v And the servants of Turnus came to Chittim, and they asked for Jania, to
be taken unto Turnus their king for a wife.

12v And the people of Chittim said unto them, We cannot give her, because
Angeas king of Africa desired her to take her unto him for a wife before you
came, and that we should give her unto him, and now therefore we cannot do
this thing to deprive Angeas of the damsel in order to give her unto Turnus.

13v For we are greatly afraid of Angeas lest he come in battle against us and
destroy us, and Turnus your master will not be able to deliver us from his
hand.

14v And when the messengers of Turnus heard all the words of the children of
Chittim, they turned back to their master and told him all the words of the
children of Chittim.

15v And the children of Chittim sent a memorial to Angeas, saying, Behold
Turnus has sent for Jania to take her unto him for a wife, and thus have we
answered him; and we heard that he has collected his whole army to go to war
against thee, and he intends to pass by the road of Sardunia to fight against
thy brother Lucus, and after that he will come to fight against thee.

16v And Angeas heard the words of the children of Chittim which they sent to
him in the record, and his anger was kindled and he rose up and assembled his
whole army and came through the islands of the sea, the road to Sardunia, unto
his brother Lucus king of Sardunia.

17v And Niblos, the son of Lucus, heard that his uncle Angeas was coming, and
he went out to meet him with a heavy army, and he kissed him and embraced him,
and Niblos said unto Angeas, When thou askest my father after his welfare,
when I shall go with thee to fight with Turnus, ask of him to make me captain
of his host, and Angeas did so, and he came unto his brother and his brother
came to meet him, and he asked him after his welfare.

18v And Angeas asked his brother Lucus after his welfare, and to make his son
Niblos captain of his host, and Lucus did so, and Angeas and his brother Lucus
rose up and they went toward Turnus to battle, and there was with them a great
army and a heavy people.

19v And he came in ships, and they came into the province of Ashtorash, and
behold Turnus came toward them, for he went forth to Sardunia, and intended to
destroy it and afterward to pass on from there to Angeas to fight with him.

20v And Angeas and Lucus his brother met Turnus in the valley of Canopia, and
the battle was strong and mighty between them in that place.

21v And the battle was severe upon Lucus king of Sardunia, and all his army
fell, and Niblos his son fell also in that battle.

22v And his uncle Angeas commanded his servants and they made a golden coffin
for Niblos and they put him into it, and Angeas again waged battle toward
Turnus, and Angeas was stronger than he, and he slew him, and he smote all his
people with the edge of the sword, and Angeas avenged the cause of Niblos his
brother's son and the cause of the army of his brother Lucus.

23v And when Turnus died, the hands of those that survived the battle became
weak, and they fled from before Angeas and Lucus his brother.

24v And Angeas and his brother Lucus pursued them unto the highroad, which is
between Alphanu and Romah, and they slew the whole army of Turnus with the
edge of the sword.

25v And Lucus king of Sardunia commanded his servants that they should make a
coffin of brass, and that they should place therein the body of his son
Niblos, and they buried him in that place.

26v And they built upon it a high tower there upon the highroad, and they
called its name after the name of Niblos unto this day, and they also buried
Turnus king of Bibentu there in that place with Niblos.

27v And behold upon the highroad between Alphanu and Romah the grave of Niblos
is on one side and the grave of Turnus on the other, and a pavement between
them unto this day.

28v And when Niblos was buried Lucus his father returned with his army to his
land Sardunia, and Angeas his brother king of Africa went with his people unto
the city of Bibentu, that is the city of Turnus.

29v And the inhabitants of Bibentu heard of his fame and they were greatly
afraid of him, and they went forth to meet him with weeping and supplication,
and the inhabitants of Bibentu entreated of Angeas not to slay them nor
destroy their city; and he did so, for Bibentu was in those days reckoned as
one of the cities of the children of Chittim; therefore he did not destroy the
city.

30v But from that day forward the troops of the king of Africa would go to
Chittim to spoil and plunder it, and whenever they went Zepho the captain of
the host of Angeas would go with them.

31v And it was after this that Angeas turned with his army and they came to
the city of Puzimna, and Angeas took thence Jania the daughter of Uzu for a
wife and brought her unto his city unto Africa.

Chapter 61. Petty Wars and contentions of the Nations of Africa with Zepho.

1v And it came to pass at that time Pharaoh king of Egypt commanded all his
people to make for him a strong palace in Egypt.

2v And he also commanded the sons of Jacob to assist the Egyptians in the
building, and the Egyptians made a beautiful and elegant palace for a royal
habitation, and he dwelt therein and he renewed his government and he reigned
securely.

3v And Zebulun the son of Jacob died in that year, that is the seventy-second
year of the going down of the Israelites to Egypt, and Zebulun died a hundred
and fourteen years old, and was put into a coffin and given into the hands of
his children.

4v And in the seventy-fifth year died his brother Simeon, he was a hundred and
twenty years old at his death, and he was also put into a coffin and given
into the hands of his children.

5v And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau, captain of the host to Angeas
king of Dinhabah, was still daily enticing Angeas to prepare for battle to
fight with the sons of Jacob in Egypt, and Angeas was unwilling to do this
thing, for his servants had related to him all the might of the sons of Jacob,
what they had done unto them in their battle with the children of Esau.

6v And Zepho was in those days daily enticing Angeas to fight with the sons of
Jacob in those days.

7v And after some time Angeas hearkened to the words of Zepho and consented to
him to fight with the sons of Jacob in Egypt, and Angeas got all his people in
order, a people numerous as the sand which is upon the sea shore, and he
formed his resolution to go to Egypt to battle.

8v And amongst the servants of Angeas was a youth fifteen years old, Balaam
the son of Beor was his name and the youth was very wise and understood the
art of witchcraft.

9v And Angeas said unto Balaam, Conjure for us, I pray thee, with the
witchcraft, that we may know who will prevail in this battle to which we are
now proceeding.

10v And Balaam ordered that they should bring him wax, and he made thereof the
likeness of chariots and horsemen representing the army of Angeas and the army
of Egypt, and he put them in the cunningly prepared waters that he had for
that purpose, and he took in his hand the boughs of myrtle trees, and he
exercised his cunning, and he joined them over the water, and there appeared
unto him in the water the resembling images of the hosts of Angeas falling
before the resembling images of the Egyptians and the sons of Jacob.

11v And Balaam told this thing to Angeas, and Angeas despaired and did not arm
himself to go down to Egypt to battle, and he remained in his city.

12v And when Zepho the son of Eliphaz saw that Angeas despaired of going forth
to battle with the Egyptians, Zepho fled from Angeas from Africa, and he went
and came unto Chittim.

13v And all the people of Chittim received him with great honor, and they
hired him to fight their battles all the days, and Zepho became exceedingly
rich in those days, and the troops of the king of Africa still spread
themselves in those days, and the children of Chittim assembled and went to
Mount Cuptizia on account of the troops of Angeas king of Africa, who were
advancing upon them.

14v And it was one day that Zepho lost a young heifer, and he went to seek it,
and he heard it lowing round about the mountain.

15v And Zepho went and he saw and behold there was a large cave at the bottom
of the mountain, and there was a great stone there at the entrance of the
cave, and Zepho split the stone and he came into the cave and he looked and
behold, a large animal was devouring the ox; from the middle upward it
resembled a man, and from the middle downward it resembled an animal, and
Zepho rose up against the animal and slew it with his sword.

16v And the inhabitants of Chittim heard of this thing, and they rejoiced
exceedingly, and they said, What shall we do unto this man who has slain this
animal that devoured our cattle.

17v And they all assembled to consecrate one day in the year to him, and they
called the name thereof Zepho after his name, and they brought unto him drink
offerings year after year on that day, and they brought unto him gifts.

18v At that time Jania the daughter of Uzu wife of king Angeas became ill, and
her illness was heavily felt by Angeas and his officers. and Angeas said unto
his wise men, What shall I do to Jania and how shall I heal her from her
illness? and his wise men said unto him, Because the air of our country is not
like the air of the land of Chittim, and our water is not like their water,
therefore from this has the queen become ill.

19v For through the change of air and water she became ill, and also because
in her country she drank only the water which came from Purmah, which her
ancestors had brought up with bridges.

20v And Angeas commanded his servants, and they brought unto him in vessels of
the waters of Purmah belonging to Chittim, and they weighed those waters with
all the waters of the land of Africa, and they found those waters lighter than
the waters of Africa.

21v And Angeas saw this thing, and he commanded all his officers to assemble
the hewers of stone in thousands and tens of thousands, and they hewed stone
without number, and the builders came and they built an exceedingly strong
bridge, and they conveyed the spring of water from the land of Chittim unto
Africa, and those waters were for Jania the queen and for all her concerns, to
drink from and to bake, wash and bathe therewith, and also to water therewith
all seed from which food can be obtained, and all fruit of the ground.

22v And the king commanded that they should bring of the soil of Chittim in
large ships, and they also brought stones to build therewith, and the builders
built palaces for Jania the queen, and the queen became healed of her illness.

23v And at the revolution of the year the troops of Africa continued coming to
the land of Chittim to plunder as usual, and Zepho son of Eliphaz heard their
report, and he gave orders concerning them and he fought with them, and they
fled before him, and he delivered the land of Chittim from them.

24v And the children of Chittim saw the valor of Zepho, and the children of
Chittim resolved and they made Zepho king over them, and he became king over
them, and whilst he reigned they went to subdue the children of Tubal, and all
the surrounding islands.

25v And their king Zepho went at their head and they made war with Tubal and
the islands, and they subdued them, and when they returned from the battle
they renewed his government for him, and they built for him a very large
palace for his royal habitation and seat, and they made a large throne for
him, and Zepho reigned over the whole land of Chittim and over the land of
Italia fifty years.

Chapter 62. Petty Wars and contentions of the Nations of Africa with Zepho.

1v In that year, being the seventy-ninth year of the Israelites going down to
Egypt, died Reuben the son of Jacob, in the land of Egypt; Reuben was a
hundred and twenty-five years old when he died, and they put him into a
coffin, and he was given into the hands of his children.

2v And in the eightieth year died his brother Dan; he was a hundred and twenty
years at his death, and he was also put into a coffin and given into the hands
of his children.

3v And in that year died Chusham king of Edom, and after him reigned Hadad the
son of Bedad, for thirty-five years; and in the eighty-first year died
Issachar the son of Jacob, in Egypt, and Issachar was a hundred and twenty-two
years old at his death, and he was put into a coffin in Egypt, and given into
the hands of his children.

4v And in the eighty-second year died Asher his brother, he was a hundred and
twenty-three years old at his death, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt,
and given into the hands of his children.

5v And in the eighty-third year died Gad, he was a hundred and twenty-five
years old at his death, and he was put into a coffin in Egypt, and given into
the hands of his children.

6v And it came to pass in the eighty-fourth year, that is the fiftieth year of
the reign of Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, that Hadad assembled all the
children of Esau, and he got his whole army in readiness, about four hundred
thousand men, and he directed his way to the land of Moab, and he went to
fight with Moab and to make them tributary to him.

7v And the children of Moab heard this thing, and they were very much afraid,
and they sent to the children of Midian to assist them in fighting with Hadad,
son of Bedad, king of Edom.

8v And Hadad came unto the land of Moab, and Moab and the children of Midian
went out to meet him, and they placed themselves in battle array against him
in the field of Moab.

9v And Hadad fought with Moab, and there fell of the children of Moab and the
children of Midian many slain ones, about two hundred thousand men.

10v And the battle was very severe upon Moab, and when the children of Moab
saw that the battle was sore upon them, they weakened their hands and turned
their backs, and left the children of Midian to carry on the battle.

11v And the children of Midian knew not the intentions of Moab, but they
strengthened themselves in battle and fought with Hadad and all his host, and
all Midian fell before him.

12v And Hadad smote all Midian with a heavy smiting, and he slew them with the
edge of the sword, he left none remaining of those who came to assist Moab.

13v And when all the children of Midian had perished in battle, and the
children of Moab had escaped, Hadad made all Moab at that time tributary to
him, and they became under his hand, and they gave a yearly tax as it was
ordered, and Hadad turned and went back to his Land.

14v And at the revolution of the year, when the rest of the people of Midian
that were in the land heard that all their brethren had fallen in battle with
Hadad for the sake of Moab, because the children of Moab had turned their
backs in battle and left Midian to fight, then five of the princes of Midian
resolved with the rest of their brethren who remained in their land, to fight
with Moab to avenge the cause of their brethren.

15v And the children of Midian sent to all their brethren the children of the
east, and all their brethren, all the children of Keturah came to assist
Midian to fight with Moab.

16v And the children of Moab heard this thing, and they were greatly afraid
that all the children of the east had assembled together against them for
battle, and they the children of Moab sent a memorial to the land of Edom to
Hadad the son of Bedad, saying.

17v Come now unto us and assist us and we will smite Midian, for they all
assembled together and have come against us with all their brethren the
children of the east to battle, to avenge the cause of Midian that fell in
battle.

18v And Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, went forth with his whole army and
went to the land of Moab to fight with Midian, and Midian and the children of
the east fought with Moab in the field of Moab, and the battle was very fierce
between them.

19v And Hadad smote all the children of Midian and the children of the east
with the edge of the sword, and Hadad at that time delivered Moab from the
hand of Midian, and those that remained of Midian and of the children of the
east fled before Hadad and his army, and Hadad pursued them to their land, and
smote them with a very heavy slaughter, and the slain fell in the road.

20v And Hadad delivered Moab from the hand of Midian, for all the children of
Midian had fallen by the edge of the sword, and Hadad turned and went back to
his land.

21v And from that day forth, the children of Midian hated the children of
Moab, because they had fallen in battle for their sake, and there was a great
and mighty enmity between them all the days.

22v And all that were found of Midian in the road of the land of Moab perished
by the sword of Moab, and all that were found of Moab in the road of the land
of Midian, perished by the sword of Midian; thus did Midian unto Moab and Moab
unto Midian for many days.

23v And it came to pass at that time that Judah the son of Jacob died in
Egypt, in the eighty-sixth year of Jacob's going down to Egypt, and Judah was
a hundred and twenty-nine years old at his death, and they embalmed him and
put him into a coffin, and he was given into the hands of his children.

24v And in the eighty-ninth year died Naphtali, he was a hundred and
thirty-two years old, and he was put into a coffin and given into the hands of
his children.

25v And it came to pass in the ninety-first year of the Israelites going down
to Egypt, that is in the thirtieth year of the reign of Zepho the son of
Eliphaz, the son of Esau, over the children of Chittim, the children of Africa
came upon the children of Chittim to plunder them as usual, but they had not
come upon them for these thirteen years.

26v And they came to them in that year, and Zepho the son of Eliphaz went out
to them with some of his men and smote them desperately, and the troops of
Africa fled from before Zepho and the slain fell before him, and Zepho and his
men pursued them, going on and smiting them until they were near unto Africa.

27v And Angeas king of Africa heard the thing which Zepho had done, and it
vexed him exceedingly, and Angeas was afraid of Zepho all the days.

Chapter 63. Petty Wars and contentions of the Nations of Africa with Zepho.

1v And in the ninety-third year died Levi, the son of Jacob, in Egypt, and
Levi was a hundred and thirty-seven years old when he died, and they put him
into a coffin and he was given into the hands of his children.

2v And it came to pass after the death of Levi, when all Egypt saw that the
sons of Jacob the brethren of Joseph were dead, all the Egyptians began to
afflict the children of Jacob, and to embitter their lives from that day unto
the day of their going forth from Egypt, and they took from their hands all
the vineyards and fields which Joseph had given unto them, and all the elegant
houses in which the people of Israel lived, and all the fat of Egypt, the
Egyptians took all from the sons of Jacob in those days.

3v And the hand of all Egypt became more grievous in those days against the
children of Israel, and the Egyptians injured the Israelites until the
children of Israel were wearied of their lives on account of the Egyptians.

4v And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and second year of
Israel's going down to Egypt, that Pharaoh king of Egypt died, and Melol his
son reigned in his stead, and all the mighty men of Egypt and all that
generation which knew Joseph and his brethren died in those days.

5v And another generation rose up in their stead, which had not known the sons
of Jacob and all the good which they had done to them, and all their might in
Egypt.

6v Therefore all Egypt began from that day forth to embitter the lives of the
sons of Jacob, and to afflict them with all manner of hard labor, because they
had not known their ancestors who had delivered them in the days of the
famine.

7v And this was also from the Lord, for the children of Israel, to benefit
them in their latter days, in order that all the children of Israel might know
the Lord their God.

8v And in order to know the signs and mighty wonders which the Lord would do
in Egypt on account of his people Israel, in order that the children of Israel
might fear the Lord God of their ancestors, and walk in all his ways, they and
their seed after them all the days.

9v Melol was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
ninety-four years, and all Egypt called his name Pharaoh after the name of his
father, as it was their custom to do to every king who reigned over them in
Egypt.

10v At that time all the troops of Angeas king of Africa went forth to spread
along the land of Chittim as usual for plunder.

11v And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau heard their report, and he
went forth to meet them with his army, and he fought them there in the road.

12v And Zepho smote the troops of the king of Africa with the edge of the
sword, and left none remaining of them, and not even one returned to his
master in Africa.

13v And Angeas heard of this which Zepho the son of Eliphaz had done to all
his troops, that he had destroyed them, and Angeas assembled all his troops,
all the men of the land of Africa, a people numerous like the sand by the sea
shore.

14v And Angeas sent to Lucus his brother, saying, Come to me with all thy men
and help me to smite Zepho and all the children of Chittim who have destroyed
my men, and Lucus came with his whole army, a very great force, to assist
Angeas his brother to fight with Zepho and the children of Chittim.

15v And Zepho and the children of Chittim heard this thing, and they were
greatly afraid and a great terror fell upon their heart.

16v And Zepho also sent a letter to the land of Edom to Hadad the son of Bedad
king of Edom and to all the children of Esau, saying.

17v I have heard that Angeas king of Africa is coming to us with his brother
for battle against us, and we are greatly afraid of him, for his army is very
great, particularly as he comes against us with his brother and his army
likewise.

18v Now therefore come you also up with me and help me, and we will fight
together against Angeas and his brother Lucus, and you will save us out of
their hands, but if not, know ye that we shall all die.

19v And the children of Esau sent a letter to the children of Chittim and to
Zepho their king, saying, We cannot fight against Angeas and his people for a
covenant of peace has been between us these many years, from the days of Bela
the first king, and from the days of Joseph the son of Jacob king of Egypt,
with whom we fought on the other side of Jordan when he buried his father.

20v And when Zepho heard the words of his brethren the children of Esau he
refrained from them, and Zepho was greatly afraid of Angeas.

21v And Angeas and Lucus his brother arrayed all their forces, about eight
hundred thousand men, against the children of Chittim.

22v And all the children of Chittim said unto Zepho, Pray for us to the God of
thy ancestors, peradventure he may deliver us from the hand of Angeas and his
army, for we have heard that he is a great God and that he delivers all who
trust in him.

23v And Zepho heard their words and Zepho sought the Lord and he said.

24v O Lord God of Abraham and Isaac my ancestors, this day I know that thou
art a true God, and all the gods of the nations are vain and useless.

25v Remember now this day unto me thy covenant with Abraham our father, which
our ancestors related unto us, and do graciously with me this day for the sake
of Abraham and Isaac our fathers, and save me and the children of Chittim from
the hand of the king of Africa who comes against us for battle.

26v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Zepho, and he had regard for him on
account of Abraham and Isaac, and the Lord delivered Zepho and the children of
Chittim from the hand of Angeas and his people.

27v And Zepho fought Angeas king of Africa and all his people on that day, and
the Lord gave all the people of Angeas into the hands of the children of
Chittim.

28v And the battle was severe upon Angeas, and Zepho smote all the men of
Angeas and Lucus his brother, with the edge of the sword, and there fell from
them unto the evening of that day about four hundred thousand men.

29v And when Angeas saw that all his men perished, he sent a letter to all the
inhabitants of Africa to come to him, to assist him in the battle, and he
wrote in the letter, saying, All who are found in Africa let them come unto me
from ten years old and upward let them all come unto me, and behold if he
comes not he shall die, and all that he has, with his whole household, the
king will take.

30v And all the rest of the inhabitants of Africa were terrified at the words
of Angeas, and there went out of the city about three hundred thousand men and
boys, from ten years upward, and they came to Angeas.

31v And at the end of ten days Angeas renewed the battle against Zepho and the
children of Chittim, and the battle was very great and strong between them.

32v And from the army of Angeas and Lucus Zepho sent many of the wounded unto
his land, about two thousand men, and Sosiphtar the captain of the host of
Angeas fell in that battle.

33v And when Sosiphtar had fallen the African troops turned their backs to
flee, and they fled, and Angeas and Lucus his brother were with them.

34v And Zepho and the children of Chittim pursued them, and they smote them
still heavily on the road, about two hundred men, and they pursued Azdrubal
the son of Angeas who had fled with his father, and they smote twenty of his
men in the road, and Azdrubal escaped from the children of Chittim, and they
did not slay him.

35v And Angeas and Lucus his brother fled with the rest of their men, and they
escaped and came into Africa with terror and consternation, and Angeas feared
all the days lest Zepho the son of Eliphaz should go to war with him.

Chapter 64. Zepho Leads a Great Army of Chittimites, Edomites, and Ishmaelites
against Egypt. Three Hundred Thousand Egyptians put to flight, but One Hundred
and Fifty Men of Israel prevail against Zepho.

1v And Balaam the son of Beor was at that time with Angeas in the battle, and
when he saw that Zepho prevailed over Angeas, he fled from there and came to
Chittim.

2v And Zepho and the children of Chittim received him with great honor, for
Zepho knew Balaam's wisdom, and Zepho gave unto Balaam many gifts and he
remained with him.

3v And when Zepho had returned from the war, he commanded all the children of
Chittim to be numbered who had gone into battle with him, and behold not one
was missed.

4v And Zepho rejoiced at this thing, and he renewed his kingdom, and he made a
feast to all his subjects.

5v But Zepho remembered not the Lord and considered not that the Lord had
helped him in battle, and that he had delivered him and his people from the
hand of the king of Africa, but still walked in the ways of the children of
Chittim and the wicked children of Esau, to serve other gods which his
brethren the children of Esau had taught him; it is therefore said, From the
wicked goes forth wickedness.

6v And Zepho reigned over all the children of Chittim securely, but knew not
the Lord who had delivered him and all his people from the hand of the king of
Africa; and the troops of Africa came no more to Chittim to plunder as usual,
for they knew of the power of Zepho who had smitten them all at the edge of
the sword, so Angeas was afraid of Zepho the son of Eliphaz, and of the
children of Chittim all the days.

7v At that time when Zepho had returned from the war, and when Zepho had seen
how he prevailed over all the people of Africa and had smitten them in battle
at the edge of the sword, then Zepho advised with the children of Chittim, to
go to Egypt to fight with the sons of Jacob and with Pharaoh king of Egypt.

8v For Zepho heard that the mighty men of Egypt were dead and that Joseph and
his brethren the sons of Jacob were dead, and that all their children the
children of Israel remained in Egypt.

9v And Zepho considered to go to fight against them and all Egypt, to avenge
the cause of his brethren the children of Esau, whom Joseph with his brethren
and all Egypt had smitten in the land of Canaan, when they went up to bury
Jacob in Hebron.

10v And Zepho sent messengers to Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, and to all
his brethren the children of Esau, saying.

11v Did you not say that you would not fight against the king of Africa for he
is a member of your covenant? behold I fought with him and smote him and all
his people.

12v Now therefore I have resolved to fight against Egypt and the children of
Jacob who are there, and I will be revenged of them for what Joseph, his
brethren and ancestors did to us in the land of Canaan when they went up to
bury their father in Hebron.

13v Now then if you are willing to come to me to assist me in fighting against
them and Egypt, then shall we avenge the cause of our brethren.

14v And the children of Esau hearkened to the words of Zepho, and the children
of Esau gathered themselves together, a very great people, and they went to
assist Zepho and the children of Chittim in battle.

15v And Zepho sent to all the children of the east and to all the children of
Ishmael with words like unto these, and they gathered themselves and came to
the assistance of Zepho and the children of Chittim in the war upon Egypt.

16v And all these kings, the king of Edom and the children of the east, and
all the children of Ishmael, and Zepho the king of Chittim went forth and
arrayed all their hosts in Hebron.

17v And the camp was very heavy, extending in length a distance of three days'
journey, a people numerous as the sand upon the sea shore which can not be
counted.

18v And all these kings and their hosts went down and came against all Egypt
in battle, and encamped together in the valley of Pathros.

19v And all Egypt heard their report, and they also gathered themselves
together, all the people of the land of Egypt, and of all the cities belonging
to Egypt, about three hundred thousand men.

20v And the men of Egypt sent also to the children of Israel who were in those
days in the land of Goshen, to come to them in order to go and fight with
these kings.

21v And the men of Israel assembled and were about one hundred and fifty men,
and they went into battle to assist the Egyptians.

22v And the men of Israel and of Egypt went forth, about three hundred
thousand men and one hundred and fifty men, and they went toward these kings
to battle, and they placed themselves from without the land of Goshen opposite
Pathros.

23v And the Egyptians believed not in Israel to go with them in their camps
together for battle, for all the Egyptians said, Perhaps the children of
Israel will deliver us into the hand of the children of Esau and Ishmael, for
they are their brethren.

24v And all the Egyptians said unto the children of Israel, Remain you here
together in your stand and we will go and fight against the children of Esau
and Ishmael, and it these kings should prevail over us, then come you
altogether upon them and assist us, and the children of Israel did so.

25v And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau king of Chittim, and Hadad
the son of Bedad king of Edom, and all their camps, and all the children of
the east, and children of Ishmael, a people numerous as sand, encamped
together in the valley of Pathros opposite Tachpanches.

26v And Balaam the son of Beor the Syrian was there in the camp of Zepho, for
he came with the children of Chittim to the battle, and Balaam was a man
highly honored in the eyes of Zepho and his men.

27v And Zepho said unto Balaam, Try by divination for us that we may know who
will prevail in the battle, we or the Egyptians.

28v And Balaam rose up and tried the art of divination, and he was skillful in
the knowledge of it, but he was confused and the work was destroyed in his
hand.

29v And he tried it again but it did not succeed, and Balaam despaired of it
and left it and did not complete it, for this was from the Lord, in order to
cause Zepho and his people to fall into the hand of the children of Israel,
who had trusted in the Lord, the God of their ancestors, in their war.

30v And Zepho and Hadad put their forces in battle array, and all the
Egyptians went alone against them, about three hundred thousand men, and not
one man of Israel was with them.

31v And all the Egyptians fought with these kings opposite Pathros and
Tachpanches, and the battle was severe against the Egyptians.

32v And the kings were stronger than the Egyptians in that battle, and about
one hundred and eighty men of Egypt fell on that day, and about thirty men of
the forces of the kings, and all the men of Egypt fled from before the kings,
so the children of Esau and Ishmael pursued the Egyptians, continuing to smite
them unto the place where was the camp of the children of Israel.

33v And all the Egyptians cried unto the children of Israel, saying, Hasten to
us and assist us and save us from the hand of Esau, Ishmael and the children
of Chittim.

34v And the hundred and fifty men of the children of Israel ran from their
station to the camps of these kings, and the children of Israel cried unto the
Lord their God to deliver them.

35v And the Lord hearkened to Israel, and the Lord gave all the men of the
kings into their hand, and the children of Israel fought against these kings,
and the children of Israel smote about four thousand of the kings' men.

36v And the Lord threw a great consternation in the camp of the kings, so that
the fear of the children of Israel fell upon them.

37v And all the hosts of the kings fled from before the children of Israel and
the children of Israel pursued them continuing to smite them unto the borders
of the land of Cush.

38v And the children of Israel slew of them in the road yet two thousand men,
and of the children of Israel not one fell.

39v And when the Egyptians saw that the children of Israel had fought with
such few men with the kings, and that the battle was so very severe against
them.

40v All the Egyptians were greatly afraid of their lives on account of the
strong battle, and all Egypt fled, every man hiding himself from the arrayed
forces, and they hid themselves in the road, and they left the Israelites to
fight.

41v And the children of Israel inflicted a terrible blow upon the kings' men,
and they returned from them after they had driven them to the border of the
land of Cush.

42v And all Israel knew the thing which the men of Egypt had done to them,
that they had fled from them in battle, and had left them to fight alone.

43v So the children o Israel also acted with cunning, and as the children of
Israel returned from battle, they found some of the Egyptians in the road and
smote them there.

44v And whilst they slew them, they said unto them these words:

45v Wherefore did you go from us and leave us, being a few people, to fight
against these kings who had a great people to smite us, that you might thereby
deliver your own souls.

46v And of some which the Israelites met on the road, they the children of
Israel spoke to each other, saying, Smite, smite, for he is an Ishmaelite, or
an Edomite, or from the children of Chittim, and they stood over him and slew
him, and they knew that he was an Egyptian.

47v And the children of Israel did these things cunningly against the
Egyptians, because they had deserted them in battle and had fled from them.

48v And the children of Israel slew of the men of Egypt in the road in this
manner, about two hundred men.

49v And all the men of Egypt saw the evil which the children of Israel had
done to them, so all Egypt feared greatly the children of Israel, for they had
seen their great power, and that not one man of them had fallen.

50v So all the children of Israel returned with joy on their road to Goshen,
and the rest of Egypt returned each man to his place.

Chapter 65. The Elders of Egypt conspire with Pharaoh and cunningly bring
Israel into Bondage to them. Being afraid of their power, they afflict them in
order to lessen the Number of the Children of Israel.

1v And it came to pass after these things, that all the counsellors of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all the elders of Egypt assembled and came before
the king and bowed down to the ground, and they sat before him.

2v And the counsellors and elders of Egypt spoke unto the king, saying.

3v Behold the people of the children of Israel is greater and mightier than we
are, and thou knowest all the evil which they did to us in the road when we
returned from battle.

4v And thou hast also seen their strong power, for this power is unto them
from their fathers, for but a few men stood up against a people numerous as
the sand, and smote them at the edge of the sword, and of themselves not one
has fallen, so that if they had been numerous they would then have utterly
destroyed them.

5v Now therefore give us counsel what to do with them, until we gradually
destroy them from amongst us, lest they become too numerous for us in the
land.

6v For if the children of Israel should increase in the land, they will become
an obstacle to us, and if any war should happen to take place, they with their
great strength will join our enemy against us, and fight against us, destroy
us from the land and go away from it.

7v So the king answered the elders of Egypt and said unto them, This is the
plan advised against Israel, from which we will not depart.

8v Behold in the land are Pithom and Rameses, cities unfortified against
battle, it behoves you and us to build them, and to fortify them.

9v Now therefore go you also and act cunningly toward them, and proclaim a
voice in Egypt and in Goshen at the command of the king, saying.

10v All ye men of Egypt, Goshen, Pathros and all their inhabitants! the king
has commanded us to build Pithom and Rameses, and to fortify them for battle;
who amongst you of all Egypt, of the children of Israel and of all the
inhabitants of the cities, are willing to build with us, shall each have his
wages given to him daily at the king's order; so go you first and do
cunningly, and gather yourselves and come to Pithom and Rameses to build.

11v And whilst you are building, cause a proclamation of this kind to be made
throughout Egypt every day at the command of the king.

12v And when some of the children of Israel shall come to build with you, you
shall give them their wages daily for a few days.

13v And after they shall have built with you for their daily hire, draw
yourselves away from them daily one by one in secret, and then you shall rise
up and become their task-masters and officers, and you shall leave them
afterward to build without wages, and should they refuse, then force them with
all your might to build.

14v And if you do this it will be well with us to strengthen our land against
the children of Israel, for on account of the fatigue of the building and the
work, the children of Israel will decrease, because you will deprive them from
their wives day by day.

15v And all the elders of Egypt heard the counsel of the king, and the counsel
seemed good in their eyes and in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in
the eyes of all Egypt, and they did according to the word of the king.

16v And all the servants went away from the king, and they caused a
proclamation to be made in all Egypt, in Tachpanches and in Goshen, and in all
the cities which surrounded Egypt, saying.

17v You have seen what the children of Esau and Ishmael did to us, who came to
war against us and wished to destroy us.

18v Now therefore the king commanded us to fortify the land, to build the
cities Pithom and Rameses, and to fortify them for battle, if they should
again come against us.

19v Whosoever of you from all Egypt and from the children of Israel will come
to build with us, he shall have his daily wages given by the king, as his
command is unto us.

20v And when Egypt and all the children of Israel heard all that the servants
of Pharaoh had spoken, there came from the Egyptians, and the children of
Israel to build with the servants of Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses, but none of
the children of Levi came with their brethren to build.

21v And all the servants of Pharaoh and his princes came at first with deceit
to build with all Israel as daily hired laborers, and they gave to Israel
their daily hire at the beginning.

22v And the servants of Pharaoh built with all Israel, and were employed in
that work with Israel for a month.

23v And at the end of the month, all the servants of Pharaoh began to withdraw
secretly from the people of Israel daily.

24v And Israel went on with the work at that time, but they then received
their daily hire, because some of the men of Egypt were yet carrying on the
work with Israel at that time; therefore the Egyptians gave Israel their hire
in those days, in order that they, the Egyptians their fellow workmen, might
also take the pay for their labor.

25v And at the end of a year and four months all the Egyptians had withdrawn
from the children of Israel, so that the children of Israel were left alone
engaged in the work.

26v And after all the Egyptians had withdrawn from the children of Israel they
returned and became oppressors and officers over them, and some of them stood
over the children of Israel as task masters, to receive from them all that
they gave them for the pay of their labor.

27v And the Egyptians did in this manner to the children of Israel day by day,
in order to afflict the Israelites in their work.

28v And all the children of Israel were alone engaged in the labor, and the
Egyptians refrained from giving any pay to the children of Israel from that
time forward.

29v And when some of the men of Israel refused to work on account of the wages
not being given to them, then the exactors and the servants of Pharaoh
oppressed them and smote them with heavy blows, and made them return by force,
to labor with their brethren; thus did all the Egyptians unto the children of
Israel all the days.

30v And all the children of Israel were greatly afraid of the Egyptians in
this matter, and all the children of Israel returned and worked alone without
pay.

31v And the children of Israel built Pithom and Rameses, and all the children
of Israel did the work, some making bricks, and some building, and the
children of Israel built and fortified all the land of Egypt and its walls,
and the children of Israel were engaged in work for many years, until the time
came when the Lord remembered them and brought them out of Egypt.

32v But the children of Levi were not employed in the work with their brethren
of Israel, from the beginning unto the day of their going forth from Egypt.

33v For all the children of Levi knew that the Egyptians had spoken all these
words with deceit to the Israelites, therefore the children of Levi refrained
from approaching to the work with their brethren.

34v And the Egyptians did not direct their attention to make the children of
Levi work afterward, since they had not been with their brethren at the
beginning, therefore the Egyptians left them alone.

35v And the hands of the men of Egypt were directed with continued severity
against the children of Israel in that work, and the Egyptians made the
children of Israel work with rigor.

36v And the Egyptians embittered the lives of the children of Israel with hard
work, in mortar and bricks, and also in all manner of work in the field.

37v And the children of Israel called Melol the king of Egypt "Meror, king of
Egypt," because in his days the Egyptians had embittered their lives with all
manner of work.

38v And all the work wherein the Egyptians made the children of Israel labor,
they exacted with rigor, in order to afflict the children of Israel, but the
more they afflicted them, the more they increased and grew, and the Egyptians
were grieved because of the children of Israel.

Chapter 66. Pharaoh Decrees that every Male Child born in Israel shall be
Killed, and still they increase.

1v At that time died Hadad the son of Bedad king of Edom, and Samlah from
Mesrekah, from the country of the children of the east, reigned in his place.

2v In the thirteenth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, which was the
hundred and twenty-fifth year of the Israelites going down into Egypt, Samlah
had reigned over Edom eighteen years.

3v And when he reigned, he drew forth his hosts to go and fight against Zepho
the son of Eliphaz and the children of Chittim, because they had made war
against Angeas king of Africa, and they destroyed his whole army.

4v But he did not engage with him, for the children of Esau prevented him,
saying, He was their brother, so Samlah listened to the voice of the children
of Esau, and turned back with all his forces to the land of Edom, and did not
proceed to fight against Zepho the son of Eliphaz.

5v And Pharaoh king of Egypt heard this thing, saying, Samlah king of Edom has
resolved to fight the children of Chittim, and afterward he will come to fight
against Egypt.

6v And when the Egyptians heard this matter, they increased the labor upon the
children of Israel, lest the Israelites should do unto them as they did unto
them in their war with the children of Esau in the days of Hadad.

7v So the Egyptians said unto the children of Israel, Hasten and do your work,
and finish your task, and strengthen the land, lest the children of Esau your
brethren should come to fight against us, for on your account will they come
against us.

8v And the children of Israel did the work of the men of Egypt day by day, and
the Egyptians afflicted the children of Israel in order to lessen them in the
land.

9v But as the Egyptians increased the labor upon the children of Israel, so
did the children of Israel increase and multiply, and all Egypt was filled
with the children of Israel.

10v And in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of Israel's going down into
Egypt, all the Egyptians saw that their counsel did not succeed against
Israel, but that they increased and grew, and the land of Egypt and the land
of Goshen were filled with the children of Israel.

11v So all the elders of Egypt and its wise men came before the king and bowed
down to him and sat before him.

12v And all the elders of Egypt and the wise men thereof said unto the king,
May the king live forever; thou didst counsel us the counsel against the
children of Israel, and we did unto them according to the word of the king.

13v But in proportion to the increase of the labor so do they increase and
grow in the land, and behold the whole country is filled with them.

14v Now therefore our lord and king, the eyes of all Egypt are upon thee to
give them advice with thy wisdom, by which they may prevail over Israel to
destroy them, or to diminish them from the land; and the king answered them
saying, Give you counsel in this matter that we may know what to do unto them.

15v And an officer, one of the king's counsellors, whose name was Job, from
Mesopotamia, in the land of Uz, answered the king, saying.

16v If it please the king, let him hear the counsel of his servant; and the
king said unto him, Speak.

17v And Job spoke before the king, the princes, and before all the elders of
Egypt, saying.

18v Behold the counsel of the king which he advised formerly respecting the
labor of the children of Israel is very good, and you must not remove from
them that labor forever.

19v But this is the advice counselled by which you may lessen them, if it
seems good to the king to afflict them.

20v Behold we have feared war for a long time, and we said, When Israel
becomes fruitful in the land, they will drive us from the land if a war should
take place.

21v If it please the king, let a royal decree go forth, and let it be written
in the laws of Egypt which shall not be revoked, that every male child born to
the Israelites, his blood shall be spilled upon the ground.

22v And by your doing this, when all the male children of Israel shall have
died, the evil of their wars will cease; let the king do so and send for all
the Hebrew midwives and order them in this matter to execute it; so the thing
pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of
Job.

23v And the king sent for the Hebrew midwives to be called, of which the name
of one was Shephrah, and the name of the other Puah.

24v And the midwives came before the king, and stood in his presence.

25v And the king said unto them, When you do the office of a midwife to the
Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then you shall
kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

26v But if you will not do this thing, then will I burn you up and all your
houses with fire.

27v But the midwives feared God and did not hearken to the king of Egypt nor
to his words, and when the Hebrew women brought forth to the midwife son or
daughter, then did the midwife do all that was necessary to the child and let
it live; thus did the midwives all the days.

28v And this thing was told to the king, and he sent and called for the
midwives and he said to them, Why have you done this thing and have saved the
children alive.

29v And the midwives answered and spoke together before the king, saying.

30v Let not the king think that the Hebrew women are as the Egyptian women,
for all the children of Israel are hale, and before the midwife comes to them
they are delivered, and as for us thy handmaids, for many days no Hebrew woman
has brought forth upon us, for all the Hebrew women are their own midwives,
because they are hale.

31v And Pharaoh heard their words and believed them in this matter, and the
midwives went away from the king, and God dealt well with them, and the people
multiplied and waxed exceedingly.

Chapter 67. Aaron is Born. On Account of Pharaoh's decree, many of the Sons of
Israel live apart from their Wives. The King's counsellors devise another plan
to lessen the number of Israel by drowning them. The Lord finds a means of
preserving the Male Children.

1v There was a man in the land of Egypt of the seed of Levi, whose name was
Amram, the son of Kehath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

2v And this man went and took a wife, namely Jochebed the daughter of Levi his
father's sister, and she was one hundred and twenty-six years old, and he came
unto her.

3v And the woman conceived and bare a daughter, and she called her name
Miriam, because in those days the Egyptians had embittered the lives of the
children of Israel.

4v And she conceived again and bare a son and she called his name Aaron, for
in the days of her conception, Pharaoh began to spill the blood of the male
children of Israel.

5v In those days died Zepho the son of Eliphaz, son of Esau, king of Chittim,
and Janeas reigned in his stead.

6v And the time that Zepho reigned over the children of Chittim was fifty
years, and he died and was buried in the city of Nabna in the land of Chittim.

7v And Janeas, one of the mighty men of the children of Chittim, reigned after
him and he reigned fifty years.

8v And it was after the death of the king of Chittim that Balaam the son of
Beor fled from the land of Chittim, and he went and came to Egypt to Pharaoh
king of Egypt.

9v And Pharaoh received him with great honor, for he had heard of his wisdom,
and he gave him presents and made him for a counsellor, and aggrandized him.

10v And Balaam dwelt in Egypt, in honor with all the nobles of the king, and
the nobles exalted him, because they all coveted to learn his wisdom.

11v And in the hundred and thirtieth year of Israel's going down to Egypt,
Pharaoh dreamed that he was sitting upon his kingly throne, and lifted up his
eyes and saw an old man standing before him, and there were scales in the
hands of the old man, such scales as are used by merchants.

12v And the old man took the scales and hung them before Pharaoh.

13v And the old man took all the elders of Egypt and all its nobles and great
men, and he tied them together and put them in one scale.

14v And he took a milk kid and put it into the other scale, and the kid
preponderated over all.

15v And Pharaoh was astonished at this dreadful vision, why the kid should
preponderate over all, and Pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream.

16v And Pharaoh rose up early in the morning and called all his servants and
related to them the dream, and the men were greatly afraid.

17v And the king said to all his wise men, Interpret I pray you the dream
which I dreamed, that I may know it.

18v And Balaam the son of Beor answered the king and said unto him, This means
nothing else but a great evil that will spring up against Egypt in the latter
days.

19v For a son will be born to Israel who will destroy all Egypt and its
inhabitants, and bring forth the Israelites from Egypt with a mighty hand.

20v Now therefore, O king, take counsel upon this matter, that you may destroy
the hope of the children of Israel and their expectation, before this evil
arise against Egypt.

21v And the king said unto Balaam, And what shall we do unto Israel? surely
after a certain manner did we at first counsel against them and could not
prevail over them.

22v Now therefore give you also advice against them by which we may prevail
over them.

23v And Balaam answered the king, saying, Send now and call thy two
counsellors, and we will see what their advice is upon this matter and
afterward thy servant will speak.

24v And the king sent and called his two counsellors Reuel the Midianite and
Job the Uzite, and they came and sat before the king.

25v And the king said to them, Behold you have both heard the dream which I
have dreamed, and the interpretation thereof; now therefore give counsel and
know and see what is to be done to the children of Israel, whereby we may
prevail over them, before their evil shall spring up against us.

26v And Reuel the Midianite answered the king and said, May the king live, may
the king live forever.

27v If it seem good to the king, let him desist from the Hebrews and leave
them, and let him not stretch forth his hand against them.

28v For these are they whom the Lord chose in days of old, and took as the lot
of his inheritance from amongst all the nations of the earth and the kings of
the earth; and who is there that stretched his hand against them with
impunity, of whom their God was not avenged.

29v Surely thou knowest that when Abraham went down to Egypt, Pharaoh, the
former king of Egypt, saw Sarah his wire, and took her for a wife, because
Abraham said, She is my sister, for he was afraid, lest the men of Egypt
should slay him on account of his wife.

30v And when the king of Egypt had taken Sarah then God smote him and his
household with heavy plagues, until he restored unto Abraham his wife Sarah,
then was he healed.

31v And Abimelech the Gerarite, king of the Philistines, God punished on
account of Sarah wife of Abraham, in stopping up every womb from man to beast.

32v When their God came to Abimelech in the dream of night and terrified him
in order that he might restore to Abraham Sarah whom he had taken, and
afterward all the people of Gerar were punished on account of Sarah, and
Abraham prayed to his God for them, and he was intreated of him, and he healed
them.

33v And Abimelech feared all this evil that came upon him and his people, and
he returned to Abraham his wife Sarah, and gave him with her many gifts.

34v He did so also to Isaac when he had driven him from Gerar, and God had
done wonderful things to him, that all the water courses of Gerar were dried
up, and their productive trees did not bring forth.

35v Until Abimelech of Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Pichol the
captain of his host, went to him and they bent and bowed down before him to
the ground.

36v And they requested of him to supplicate for them, and he prayed to the
Lord for them, and the Lord was intreated of him and he healed them.

37v Jacob also, the plain man, was delivered through his integrity from the
hand of his brother Esau, and the hand of Laban the Syrian his mother's
brother, who had sought his life; likewise from the hand of all the kings of
Canaan who had come together against him and his children to destroy them, and
the Lord delivered them out of their hands, that they turned upon them and
smote them, for who had ever stretched forth his hand against them with
impunity.

38v Surely Pharaoh the former, thy father's father, raised Joseph the son of
Jacob above all the princes of the land of Egypt, when he saw his wisdom, for
through his wisdom he rescued all the inhabitants of the land from the famine.

39v After which he ordered Jacob and his children to come down to Egypt, in
order that through their virtue, the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen
might be delivered from the famine.

40v Now therefore if it seem good in thine eyes, cease from destroying the
children of Israel, but if it be not thy will that they shall dwell in Egypt,
send them forth from here, that they may go to the land of Canaan, the land
where their ancestors sojourned.

41v And when Pharaoh heard the words of Jethro he was very angry with him, so
that he rose with shame from the king's presence, and went to Midian, his
land, and took Joseph's stick with him.

42v And the king said to Job the Uzite, What sayest thou Job, and what is thy
advice respecting the Hebrews.

43v So Job said to the king, Behold all the inhabitants of the land are in thy
power, let the king do as it seems good in his eyes.

44v And the king said unto Balaam, What dost thou say, Balaam, speak thy word
that we may hear it.

45v And Balaam said to the king, Of all that the king has counselled against
the Hebrews will they be delivered. and the king will not be able to prevail
over them with any counsel.

46v For if thou thinkest to lessen them by the flaming fire, thou canst not
prevail over them, for surely their God delivered Abraham their father from Ur
of the Chaldeans; and if thou thinkest to destroy them with a sword, surely
Isaac their father was delivered from it, and a ram was placed in his stead.

47v And if with hard and rigorous labor thou thinkest to lessen them, thou
wilt not prevail even in this, for their father Jacob served Laban in all
manner of hard work, and prospered.

48v Now therefore, O King, hear my words, for this is the counsel which is
counselled against them, by which thou wilt prevail over them, and from which
thou shouldst not depart.

49v If it please the king let him order all their children which shall be born
from this day forward, to be thrown into the water, for by this canst thou
wipe away their name, for none of them, nor of their fathers, were tried in
this manner.

50v And the king heard the words of Balaam, and the thing pleased the king and
the princes, and the king did according to the word of Balaam.

51v And the king ordered a proclamation to be issued and a law to be made
throughout the land of Egypt, saying, Every male child born to the Hebrews
from this day forward shall be thrown into the water.

52v And Pharaoh called unto all his servants, saying, Go now and seek
throughout the land of Goshen where the children of Israel are, and see that
every son born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the river, but every daughter
you shall let live.

53v And when the children of Israel heard this thing which Pharaoh had
commanded, to cast their male children into the river, some of the people
separated from their wives and others adhered to them.

54v And from that day forward, when the time of delivery arrived to those
women of Israel who had remained with their husbands, they went to the field
to bring forth there, and they brought forth in the field, and left their
children upon the field and returned home.

55v And the Lord who had sworn to their ancestors to multiply them, sent one
of his ministering angels which are in heaven to wash each child in water, to
anoint and swathe it and to put into its hands two smooth stones from one of
which it sucked milk and from the other honey, and he caused its hair to grow
to its knees, by which it might cover itself; to comfort it and to cleave to
it, through his compassion for it.

56v And when God had compassion over them and had desired to multiply them
upon the face of the land, he ordered his earth to receive them to be
preserved therein till the time of their growing up, after which the earth
opened its mouth and vomited them forth and they sprouted forth from the city
like the herb of the earth, and the grass of the forest, and they returned
each to his family and to his father's house, and they remained with them.

57v And the babes of the children of Israel were upon the earth like the herb
of the field, through God's grace to them.

58v And when all the Egyptians saw this thing, they went forth, each to his
field with his yoke of oxen and his ploughshare, and they ploughed it up as
one ploughs the earth at seed time.

59v And when they ploughed they were unable to hurt the infants of the
children of Israel, so the people increased and waxed exceedingly.

60v And Pharaoh ordered his officers daily to go to Goshen to seek for the
babes of the children of Israel.

61v And when they had sought and found one, they took it from its mother's
bosom by force, and threw it into the river, but the female child they left
with its mother; thus did the Egyptians do to the Israelites all the days.

Chapter 68. Moses, a Child of Promise, is born. The Egyptian Women acting as
Spies. Moses is discovered, and placed by his Mother in an Ark of Bulrushes.
Is Found and Adopted by the Daughter of Pharaoh, and grows up among the King's
Children.

1v And it was at that time the spirit of God was upon Miriam the daughter of
Amram the sister of Aaron, and she went forth and prophesied about the house,
saying, Behold a son will be born unto us from my father and mother this time,
and he will save Israel from the hands of Egypt.

2v And when Amram heard the words of his daughter, he went and took his wife
back to the house, after he had driven her away at the time when Pharaoh
ordered every male child of the house of Jacob to be thrown into the water.

3v So Amram took Jochebed his wife, three years after he had driven her away,
and he came to her and she conceived.

4v And at the end of seven months from her conception she brought forth a son,
and the whole house was filled with great light as of the light of the sun and
moon at the time of their shining.

5v And when the woman saw the child that it was good and pleasing to the
sight, she hid it for three months in an inner room.

6v In those days the Egyptians conspired to destroy all the Hebrews there.

7v And the Egyptian women went to Goshen where the children of Israel were,
and they carried their young ones upon their shoulders, their babes who could
not yet speak.

8v And in those days, when the women of the children of Israel brought forth,
each woman had hidden her son from before the Egyptians, that the Egyptians
might not know of their bringing forth, and might not destroy them from the
land.

9v And the Egyptian women came to Goshen and their children who could not
speak were upon their shoulders, and when an Egyptian woman came into the
house of a Hebrew woman her babe began to cry.

10v And when it cried the child that was in the inner room answered it, so the
Egyptian women went and told it at the house of Pharaoh.

11v And Pharaoh sent his officers to take the children and slay them; thus did
the Egyptians to the Hebrew women all the days.

12v And it was at that time, about three months from Jochebed's concealment of
her son, that the thing was known in Pharaoh's house.

13v And the woman hastened to take away her son before the officers came. and
she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,
and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

14v And his sister Miriam stood afar off to know what would be done to him,
and what would become of her words.

15v And God sent forth at that time a terrible heat in the land of Egypt,
which burned up the flesh of man like the sun in his circuit, and it greatly
oppressed the Egyptians.

16v And all the Egyptians went down to bathe in the river, on account of the
consuming heat which burned up their flesh.

17v And Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, went also to bathe in the river,
owing to the consuming heat, and her maidens walked at the river side, and all
the women of Egypt as well.

18v And Bathia lifted up her eyes to the river, and she saw the ark upon the
water, and sent her maid to fetch it.

19v And she opened it and saw the child, and behold the babe wept, and she had
compassion on him, and she said, This is one of the Hebrew children.

20v And all the women of Egypt walking on the river side desired to give him
suck, but he would not suck, for this thing was from the Lord, in order to
restore him to his mother's breast.

21v And Miriam his sister was at that time amongst the Egyptian women at the
river side, and she saw this thing and she said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I
go and fetch a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee.

22v And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go, and the young woman went and
called the child's mother.

23v And Pharaoh's daughter said to Jochebed, Take this child away and suckle
it for me, and I will pay thee thy wages, two bits of silver daily; and the
woman took the child and nursed it.

24v And at the end of two years, when the child grew up, she brought him to
the daughter of Pharaoh, and he was unto her as a son, and she called his name
Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

25v And Amram his father called his name Chabar, for he said, It was for him
that he associated with his wife whom he had turned away.

26v And Jochebed his mother called his name Jekuthiel, Because, she said, I
have hoped for him to the Almighty, and God restored him unto me.

27v And Miriam his sister called him Jered, for she descended after him to the
river to know what his end would be.

28v And Aaron his brother called his name Abi Zanuch, saying, My father left
my mother and returned to her on his account.

29v And Kehath the father of Amram called his name Abigdor, because on his
account did God repair the breach of the house of Jacob, that they could no
longer throw their male children into the water.

30v And their nurse called him Abi Socho, saying, In his tabernacle was he
hidden for three months, on account of the children of Ham.

31v And all Israel called his name Shemaiah, son of Nethanel, for they said,
In his days has God heard their cries and rescued them from their oppressors.

32v And Moses was in Pharaoh's house, and was unto Bathia, Pharaoh's daughter,
as a son, and Moses grew up amongst the king's children.

Chapter 69. Pharaoh Proclaims that if any of the Israelites are short in their
Labor, either in Bricks or Mortar, his Youngest Son shall be put in their
Place.

1v And the king of Edom died in those days, in the eighteenth year of his
reign, and was buried in his temple which he had built for himself as his
royal residence in the land of Edom.

2v And the children of Esau sent to Pethor, which is upon the river, and they
fetched from there a young man of beautiful eyes and comely aspect, whose name
was Saul, and they made him king over them in the place of Samlah.

3v And Saul reigned over all the children of Esau in the land of Edom for
forty years.

4v And when Pharaoh king of Egypt saw that the counsel which Balaam had
advised respecting the children of Israel did not succeed, but that still they
were fruitful, multiplied and increased throughout the land of Egypt.

5v Then Pharaoh commanded in those days that a proclamation should be issued
throughout Egypt to the children of Israel, saying, No man shall diminish any
thing of his daily labor.

6v And the man who shall be found deficient in his labor which he performs
daily, whether in mortar or in bricks, then his youngest son shall be put in
their place.

7v And the labor of Egypt strengthened upon the children of Israel in those
days, and behold if one brick was deficient in any man's daily labor, the
Egyptians took his youngest boy by force from his mother, and put him into the
building in the place of the brick which his father had left wanting.

8v And the men of Egypt did so to all the children of Israel day by day, all
the days for a long period.

9v But the tribe of Levi did not at that time work with the Israelites their
brethren, from the beginning, for the children of Levi knew the cunning of the
Egyptians which they exercised at first toward the Israelites.

Chapter 70. Moses puts the King's crown upon his own head. Baalam and the Wise
Men make this a Pretext against him. When grown up, Moses visits his Brethren,
and learns of their Grievances. Moses obtains a day's rest on the Sabbath for
all Israel.

1v And in the third year from the birth of Moses, Pharaoh was sitting at a
banquet, when Alparanith the queen was sitting at his right and Bathia at his
left, and the lad Moses was lying upon her bosom, and Balaam the son of Beor
with his two sons, and all the princes of the kingdom were sitting at table in
the king's presence.

2v And the lad stretched forth his hand upon the king's head, and took the
crown from the king's head and placed it on his own head.

3v And when the king and princes saw the work which the boy had done, the king
and princes were terrified, and one man to his neighbor expressed
astonishment.

4v And the king said unto the princes who were before him at table What speak
you and what say you, O ye princes, in this matter, and what is to be judgment
against the boy on account of this act.

5v And Balaam the son of Beor the magician answered before the king and
princes, and he said, Remember now, O my lord and king, the dream which thou
didst dream many days since, and that which thy servant interpreted unto thee.

6v Now therefore this is a child from the Hebrew children, in whom is the
spirit of God, and let not my lord the king imagine that this youngster did
this thing without knowledge.

7v For he is a Hebrew boy, and wisdom and understanding are with him, although
he is yet a child, and with wisdom has he done this and chosen unto himself
the kingdom of Egypt.

8v For this is the manner of all the Hebrews to deceive kings and their
nobles, to do all these things cunningly, in order to make the kings of the
earth and their men tremble.

9v Surely thou knowest that Abraham their father acted thus, who deceived the
army of Nimrod king of Babel, and Abimelech king of Gerar, and that he
possessed himself of the land of the children of Heth and all the kingdoms of
Canaan.

10v And that he descended into Egypt and said of Sarah his wife, she is my
sister. in order to mislead Egypt and her kin.

11v His son Isaac also did so when he went to Gerar and dwelt there, and his
strength prevailed over the army of Abimelech king of the Philistines.

12v He also thought of making the kingdom of the Philistines stumble, in
saying that Rebecca his wife was his sister.

13v Jacob also dealt treacherously with his brother, and took from his hand
his birthright and his blessing.

14v He went then to Padan-aram to the house of Laban his mother's brother, and
cunningly obtained from him his daughter, his cattle, and all belonging to
him, and fled away and returned to the land of Canaan to his father.

15v His sons sold their brother Joseph, who went down into Egypt and became a
slave, and was placed in the prison house for twelve years.

16v Until the former Pharaoh dreamed dreams, and withdrew him from the prison
house, and magnified him above all the princes in Egypt on account of his
interpreting his dreams to him.

17v And when God caused a famine throughout the land he sent for and brought
his father and all his brothers, and the whole of his father's household, and
supported them without price or reward, and bought the Egyptians for slaves.

18v Now therefore my lord king behold this child has risen up in their stead
in Egypt, to do according to their deeds and to trifle with every king, prince
and judge.

19v If it please the king, let us now spill his blood upon the ground, lest he
grow up and take away the government from thy hand, and the hope of Egypt
perish after he shall have reigned.

20v And Balaam said to the king, Let us moreover call for all the judges of
Egypt and the wise men thereof, and let us know if the judgment of death is
due to this boy as thou didst say, and then we will slay him.

21v And Pharaoh sent and called for all the wise men of Egypt and they came
before the king, and an angel of the Lord came amongst them, and he was like
one of the wise men of Egypt.

22v And the king said to the wise men, Surely you have heard what this Hebrew
boy who is in the house has done, and thus has Balaam judged in the matter.

23v Now judge you also and see what is due to the boy for the act which he has
committed.

24v And the angel, who seemed like one of the wise men of Pharaoh, answered
and said as follows, before all the wise men of Egypt and before the king and
the princes:

25v If it please the king let the king send for men who shall bring before him
an onyx stone and a coal of fire, and place them before the child, and if the
child shall stretch forth his hand and take the onyx stone, then shall we know
that with wisdom has the youth done all that he has done, and we must slay
him.

26v But if he stretch forth his hand upon the coal, then shall we know that it
was not with knowledge that he did this thing, and he shall live.

27v And the thing seemed good in the eyes of the king and the princes, so the
king did according to the word of the angel of the Lord.

28v And the king ordered the onyx stone and coal to be brought and placed
before Moses.

29v And they placed the boy before them, and the lad endeavored to stretch
forth his hand to the onyx stone, but the angel of the Lord took his hand and
placed it upon the coal, and the coal became extinguished in his hand, and he
lifted it up and put it into his mouth, and burned part of his lips and part
of his tongue, and he became heavy in mouth and tongue.

30v And when the king and princes saw this, they knew that Moses had not acted
with wisdom in taking off the crown from the king's head.

31v So the king and princes refrained from slaying the child, so Moses
remained in Pharaoh's house, growing up, and the Lord was with him.

32v And whilst the boy was in the king's house, he was robed in purple and he
grew amongst the children of the king.

33v And when Moses grew up in the king's house, Bathia the daughter of Pharaoh
considered him as a son, and all the household of Pharaoh honored him, and all
the men of Egypt were afraid of him.

34v And he daily went forth and came into the land of Goshen, where his
brethren the children of Israel were, and Moses saw them daily in shortness of
breath and hard labor.

35v And Moses asked them, saying, Wherefore is this labor meted out unto you
day by day.

36v And they told him all that had befallen them, and all the injunctions
which Pharaoh had put upon them before his birth.

37v And they told him all the counsels which Balaam the son of Beor had
counselled against them, and what he had also counselled against him in order
to slay him when he had taken the king's crown from off his head.

38v And when Moses heard these things his anger was kindled against Balaam,
and he sought to kill him, and he was in ambush for him day by day.

39v And Balaam was afraid of Moses, and he and his two sons rose up and went
forth from Egypt, and they fled and delivered their souls and betook
themselves to the land of Cush to Kikianus, king of Cush.

40v And Moses was in the king's house going out and coming in, the Lord gave
him favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants, and in
the eyes of all the people of Egypt, and they loved Moses exceedingly.

41v And the day arrived when Moses went to Goshen to see his brethren, that he
saw the children of Israel in their burdens and hard labor, and Moses was
grieved on their account.

42v And Moses returned to Egypt and came to the house of Pharaoh, and came
before the king, and Moses bowed down before the king.

43v And Moses said unto Pharaoh, I pray thee my lord, I have come to seek a
small request from thee, turn not away my face empty; and Pharaoh said unto
him, Speak.

44v And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Let there be given unto thy servants the
children of Israel who are in Goshen, one day to rest therein from their
labor.

45v And the king answered Moses and said, Behold I have lifted up thy face in
this thing to grant thy request.

46v And Pharaoh ordered a proclamation to be issued throughout Egypt and
Goshen, saying.

47v To you, all the children of Israel, thus says the king, for six days you
shall do your work and labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest, and shall
not preform any work, thus shall you do all the days, as the king and Moses
the son of Bathia have commanded.

48v And Moses rejoiced at this thing which the king had granted to him, and
all the children of Israel did as Moses ordered them.

49v For this thing was from the Lord to the children of Israel, for the Lord
had begun to remember the children of Israel to save them for the sake of
their fathers.

50v And the Lord was with Moses and his fame went throughout Egypt.

51v And Moses became great in the eyes of all the Egyptians, and in the eyes
of all the children of Israel, seeking good for his people Israel and speaking
words of peace regarding them to the king.

Chapter 71. Moses slays an Egyptian and being Discovered flees from Egypt.
Aaron Prophecies.

1v And when Moses was eighteen years old, he desired to see his father and
mother and he went to them to Goshen, and when Moses had come near Goshen, he
came to the place where the children of Israel were engaged in work, and he
observed their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian smiting one of his Hebrew
brethren.

2v And when the man who was beaten saw Moses he ran to him for help, for the
man Moses was greatly respected in the house of Pharaoh, and he said to him,
My lord attend to me, this Egyptian came to my house in the night, bound me,
and came to my wife in my presence, and now he seeks to take my life away.

3v And when Moses heard this wicked thing, his anger was kindled against the
Egyptian, and he turned this way and the other, and when he saw there was no
man there he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand, and delivered the
Hebrew from the hand of him that smote him.

4v And the Hebrew went to his house, and Moses returned to his home, and went
forth and came back to the king's house.

5v And when the man had returned home, he thought of repudiating his wife, for
it was not right in the house of Jacob, for any man to come to his wife after
she had been defiled.

6v And the woman went and told her brothers, and the woman's brothers sought
to slay him, and he fled to his house and escaped.

7v And on the second day Moses went forth to his brethren, and saw, and behold
two men were quarreling, and he said to the wicked one, Why dost thou smite
thy neighbor.

8v And he answered him and said to him, Who has set thee for a prince and
judge over us? dost thou think to slay me as thou didst slay the Egyptian? and
Moses was afraid and he said, Surely the thing is known.

9v And Pharaoh heard of this affair, and he ordered Moses to be slain, so God
sent his angel, and he appeared unto Pharaoh in the likeness of a captain of
the guard.

10v And the angel of the Lord took the sword from the hand of the captain of
the guard, and took his head off with it, for the likeness of the captain of
the guard was turned into the likeness of Moses.

11v And the angel of the Lord took hold of the right hand of Moses, and
brought him forth from Egypt, and placed him from without the borders of
Egypt, a distance of forty days' journey.

12v And Aaron his brother alone remained in the land of Egypt, and he
prophesied to the children of Israel, saying.

13v Thus says the Lord God of your ancestors, Throw away, each man, the
abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of
Egypt.

14v And the children of Israel rebelled and would not hearken to Aaron at that
time.

15v And the Lord thought to destroy them, were it not that the Lord remembered
the covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

16v In those days the hand of Pharaoh continued to be severe against the
children of Israel, and he crushed and oppressed them until the time when God
sent forth his word and took notice of them.

Chapter 72. Moses flees to Cush. At the Death of the king, he is chosen in his
Stead. He Reigns Forty Years in Cush.

1v And it was in those days that there was a great war between the children of
Cush and the children of the east and Aram, and they rebelled against the king
of Cush in whose hands they were.

2v So Kikianus king of Cush went forth with all the children of Cush, a people
numerous as the sand, and he went to fight against Aram and the children of
the east, to bring them under subjection.

3v And when Kikianus went out, he left Balaam the magician, with his two sons,
to guard the city, and the lowest sort of the people of the land.

4v So Kikianus went forth to Aram and the children of the east, and he fought
against them and smote them, and they all fell down wounded before Kikianus
and his people.

5v And he took many of them captives and he brought them under subjection as
at first, and he encamped upon their land to take tribute from them as usual.

6v And Balaam the son of Beor, when the king of Cush had left him to guard the
city and the poor of the city, he rose up and advised with the people of the
land to rebel against king Kikianus, not to let him enter the city when he
should come home.

7v And the people of the land hearkened to him, and they swore to him and made
him king over them, and his two sons for captains of the army.

8v So they rose up and raised the walls of the city at the two corners, and
they built an exceeding strong building.

9v And at the third corner they dug ditches without number, between the city
and the river which surrounded the whole land of Cush, and they made the
waters of the river burst forth there.

10v At the fourth corner they collected numerous serpents by their
incantations and enchantments, and they fortified the city and dwelt therein,
and no one went out or in before them.

11v And Kikianus fought against Aram and the children of the east and he
subdued them as before, and they gave him their usual tribute, and he went and
returned to his land.

12v And when Kikianus the king of Cush approached his city and all the
captains of the forces with him, they lifted up their eyes and saw that the
walls of the city were built up and greatly elevated, so the men were
astonished at this.

13v And they said one to the other, It is because they saw that we were
delayed, in battle, and were greatly afraid of us, therefore have they done
this thing and raised the city walls and fortified them so that the kings of
Canaan might not come in battle against them.

14v So the king and the troops approached the city door and they looked up and
behold, all the gates of the city were closed, and they called out to the
sentinels, saying, Open unto us, that we may enter the city.

15v But the sentinels refused to open to them by the order of Balaam the
magician,their king, they suffered them not to enter their city.

16v So they raised a battle with them opposite the city gate, and one hundred
and thirty men of the army of Kikianus fell on that day.

17v And on the next day they continued to fight and they fought at the side of
the river; they endeavored to pass but were not able, so some of them sank in
the pits and died.

18v So the king ordered them to cut down trees to make rafts, upon which they
might pass to them, and they did so.

19v And when they came to the place of the ditches, the waters revolved by
mills, and two hundred men upon ten rafts were drowned.

20v And on the third day they came to fight at the side where the serpents
were, but they could not approach there, for the serpents slew of them one
hundred and seventy men, and they ceased fighting against Cush, and they
besieged Cush for nine years, no person came out or in.

21v At that time that the war and the siege were against Cush, Moses fled from
Egypt from Pharaoh who sought to kill him for having slain the Egyptian.

22v And Moses was eighteen years old when he fled from Egypt from the presence
of Pharaoh, and he fled and escaped to the camp of Kikianus, which at that
time was besieging Cush.

23v And Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all the
time that they were besieging Cush, and Moses went out and came in with them.

24v And the king and princes and all the fighting men loved Moses, for he was
great and worthy, his stature was like a noble lion, his face was like the
sun, and his strength was like that of a lion, and he was counsellor to the
king.

25v And at the end of nine years, Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease,
and his illness prevailed over him, and he died on the seventh da.

26v So his servants embalmed him and carried him and buried him opposite the
city gate to the north of the land of Egypt.

27v And they built over him an elegant strong and high building, and they
placed great stones below.

28v And the king's scribes engraved upon those stones all the might of their
king Kikianus, and all his battles which he had fought, behold they are
written there at this day.

29v Now after the death of Kikianus king of Cush it grieved his men and troops
greatly on account of the war.

30v So they said one to the other, Give us counsel what we are to do at this
time, as we have resided in the wilderness nine years away from our homes.

31v If we say we will fight against the city many of us will fall wounded or
killed, and if we remain here in the siege we shall also die.

32v For now all the kings of Aram and of the children of the east will hear
that our king is dead, and they will attack us suddenly in a hostile manner,
and they will fight against us and leave no remnant of us.

33v Now therefore let us go and make a king over us, and let us remain in the
siege until the city is delivered up to us.

34v And they wished to choose on that day a man for king from the army of
Kikianus, and they found no object of their choice like Moses to reign over
them.

35v And they hastened and stripped off each man his garments and cast them
upon the ground, and they made a great heap and placed Moses thereon.

36v And they rose up and blew with trumpets and called out before him, and
said, May the king live, may the king live.

37v And all the people and nobles swore unto him to give him for a wife
Adoniah the queen, the Cushite, wife of Kikianus, and they made Moses king
over them on that day.

38v And all the people of Cush issued a proclamation on that day, saying,
Every man must give something to Moses of what is in his possession.

39v And they spread out a sheet upon the heap, and every man cast into it
something of what he had, one a gold ear-ring and the other a coin.

40v Also of onyx stones, bdellium, pearls and marble did the children of Cush
cast unto Moses upon the heap, also silver and gold in great abundance.

41v And Moses took all the silver and gold, all the vessels, and the bdellium
and onyx stones, which all the children of Cush had given to him, and he
placed them amongst his treasures.

42v And Moses reigned over the children of Cush on that day, in the place of
Kikianus king of Cush.

Chapter 73. The Reign of Moses, and his Strategic Warfare.

1v In the fifty-fifth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, that is in
the hundred and fifty-seventh year of the Israelites going down into Egypt,
reigned Moses in Cush.

2v Moses was twenty-seven years old when he began to reign over Cush, and
forty years did he reign.

3v And the Lord granted Moses favor and grace in the eyes of all the children
of Cush, and the children of Cush loved him exceedingly, so Moses was favored
by the Lord and by men.

4v And in the seventh day of his reign, all the children of Cush assembled and
came before Moses and bowed down to him to the ground.

5v And all the children spoke together in the presence of the king, saying,
Give us counsel that we may see what is to be done to this city.

6v For it is now nine years that we have been besieging round about the city,
and have not seen our children and our wives.

7v So the king answered them, saying, If you will hearken to my voice in all
that I shall command you, then will the Lord give the city into our hands and
we shall subdue it.

8v For if we fight with them as in the former battle which we had with them
before the death of Kikianus, many of us will fall down wounded as before.

9v Now therefore behold here is counsel for you in this matter; if you will
hearken to my voice, then will the city be delivered into our hands.

10v So all the forces answered the king, saying, All that our lord shall
command that will we do.

11v And Moses said unto them, Pass through and proclaim a voice in the whole
camp unto all the people, saying.

12v Thus says the king, Go into the forest and bring with you of the young
ones of the stork, each man a young one in his hand.

13v And any person transgressing the word of the king, who shall not bring his
young one, he shall die, and the king will take all belonging to him.

14v And when you shall bring them they shall be in your keeping, you shall
rear them until they grow up, and you shall teach them to dart upon, as is the
way of the young ones of the hawk.

15v So all the children of Cush heard the words of Moses, and they rose up and
caused a proclamation to be issued throughout the camp, saying.

16v Unto you, all the children of Cush, the king's order is, that you go all
together to the forest, and catch there the young storks each man his young
one in his hand, and you shall bring them home.

17v And any person violating the order of the king shall die, and the king
will take all that belongs to him.

18v And all the people did so, and they went out to the wood and they climbed
the fir trees and caught, each man a young one in his hand, all the young of
the storks, and they brought them into the desert and reared them by order of
the king, and they taught them to dart upon, similar to the young hawks.

19v And after the young storks were reared, the king ordered them to be
hungered for three days, and all the people did so.

20v And on the third day, the king said unto them, strengthen yourselves and
become valiant men, and put on each man his armor and gird on his sword upon
him, and ride each man his horse and take each his young stork in his hand.

21v And we will rise up and fight against the city at the place where the
serpents are; and all the people did as the king had ordered.

22v And they took each man his young one in his hand, and they went away, and
when they came to the place of the serpents the king said to them, Send forth
each man his young stork upon the serpents.

23v And they sent forth each man his young stork at the king's order, and the
young storks ran upon the serpents and they devoured them all and destroyed
them out of that place.

24v And when the king and people had seen that all the serpents were destroyed
in that place, all the people set up a great shout.

25v An d they approached and fought against the city and took it and subdued
it, and they entered the city.

26v And there died on that day one thousand and one hundred men of the people
of the city, all that inhabited the city, but of the people besieging not one
died.

27v So all the children of Cush went each to his home, to his wife and
children and to all belonging to him.

28v And Balaam the magician, when he saw that the city was taken, he opened
the gate and he and his two sons and eight brothers fled and returned to Egypt
to Pharaoh king of Egypt.

29v They are the sorcerers and magicians who are mentioned in the book of the
law, standing against Moses when the Lord brought the plagues upon Egypt.

30v So Moses took the city by his wisdom, and the children of Cush placed him
on the throne instead of Kikianus king of Cush.

31v And they placed the royal crown upon his head, and they gave him for a
wife Adoniah the Cushite queen, wife of Kikianus.

32v And Moses feared the Lord God of his fathers, so that he came not to her,
nor did he turn his eyes to her.

33v For Moses remembered how Abraham had made his servant Eliezer swear,
saying unto him, Thou shalt not take a woman from the daughters of Canaan for
my son Isaac.

34v Also what Isaac did when Jacob had fled from his brother, when he
commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of
Canaan, nor make alliance with any of the children of Ham.

35v For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and all
his seed, as slaves to the children of Shem and to the children of Japheth,
and unto their seed after them for slaves, forever.

36v Therefore Moses turned not his heart nor his eyes to the wife of Kikianus
all the days that he reigned over Cush.

37v And Moses feared the Lord his God all his life, and Moses walked before
the Lord in truth, with all his heart and soul, he turned not from the right
way all the days of his life; he declined not from the way either to the right
or to the left, in which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had walked.

38v And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of Cush, and
he guided the children of Cush with his usual wisdom, and Moses prospered in
his kingdom.

39v And at that time Aram and the children of the east heard that Kikianus
king of Cush had died, so Aram and the children of the east rebelled against
Cush in those days.

40v And Moses gathered all the children of Cush, a people very mighty, about
thirty thousand men, and he went forth to fight with Aram and the children of
the east.

41v And they went at first to the children of the east, and when the children
of the east heard their report, they went to meet them, and engaged in battle
with them.

42v And the war was severe against the children of the east, so the Lord gave
all the children of the east into the hand of Moses, and about three hundred
men fell down slain.

43v And all the children of the east turned back and retreated, so Moses and
the children of Cush followed them and subdued them, and put a tax upon them,
as was their custom.

44v So Moses and all the people with him passed from there to the land of Aram
for battle.

45v And the people of Aram also went to meet them, and they fought against
them, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Moses, and many of the men
of Aram fell down wounded.

46v And Aram also were subdued by Moses and the people of Cush, and also gave
their usual tax.

47v And Moses brought Aram and the children of the east under subjection to
the children of Cush, and Moses and all the people who were with him, turned
to the land of Cush.

48v And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of Cush, and
the Lord was with him, and all the children of Cush were afraid of him.

Chapter 74. War in Africa.

1v In the end of years died Saul king of Edom, and Baal Chanan the son of
Achbor reigned in his place.

2v In the sixteenth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Baal Chanan the son
of Achbor reigned in the land of Edom over all the children of Edom for
thirty-eight years.

3v In his days Moab rebelled against the power of Edom, having been under Edom
since the days of Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote them and Midian, and
brought Moab under subjection to Edom.

4v And when Baal Chanan the son of Achbor reigned over Edom, all the children
of Moab withdrew their allegiance from Edom.

5v And Angeas king of Africa died in those days, and Azdrubal his son reigned
in his stead.

6v And in those days died Janeas king of the children of Chittim, and they
buried him in his temple which he had built for himself in the plain of
Canopia for a residence, and Latinus reigned in his stead.

7v In the twenty-second year of the reign of Moses over the children of Cush,
Latinus reigned over the children of Chittim forty-five years.

8v And he also built for himself a great and mighty tower, and he built
therein an elegant temple for his residence, to conduct his government, as was
the custom.

9v In the third year of his reign he caused a proclamation to be made to all
his skilful men, who made many ships for him.

10v And Latinus assembled all his forces, and they came in ships, and went
therein to fight with Azdrubal son of Angeas king of Africa, and they came to
Africa and engaged in battle with Azdrubal and his army.

11v And Latinus prevailed over Azdrubal, and Latinus took from Azdrubal the
aqueduct which his father had brought from the children of Chittim, when he
took Janiah the daughter of Uzi for a wife, so Latinus overthrew the bridge of
the aqueduct, and smote the whole army of Azdrubal a severe blow.

12v And the remaining strong men of Azdrubal strengthened themselves, and
their hearts were filled with envy, and they courted death, and again engaged
in battle with Latinus king of Chittim.

13v And the battle was severe upon all the men of Africa, and they all fell
wounded before Latinus and his people, and Azdrubal the king also fell in that
battle.

14v And the king Azdrubal had a very beautiful daughter, whose name was
Ushpezena, and all the men of Africa embroidered her likeness on their
garments, on account of her great beauty and comely appearance.

15v And the men of Latinus saw Ushpezena, the daughter of Azdrubal, and
praised her unto Latinus their king.

16v And Latinus ordered her to be brought to him, and Latinus took Ushpezena
for a wife, and he turned back on his way to Chittim.

17v And it was after the death of Azdrubal son of Angeas, when Latinus had
turned back to his land from the battle, that all the inhabitants of Africa
rose up and took Anibal the son of Angeas, the younger brother of Azdrubal,
and made him king instead of his brother over the whole land of Africa.

18v And when he reigned, he resolved to go to Chittim to fight with the
children of Chittim, to avenge the cause of Azdrubal his brother, and the
cause of the inhabitants of Africa, and he did so.

19v And he made many ships, and he came therein with his whole army, and he
went to Chittim.

20v So Anibal fought with the children of Chittim, and the children of Chittim
fell wounded before Anibal and his army, and Anibal avenged his brother's
cause.

21v And Anibal continued the war for eighteen years with the children of
Chittim, and Anibal dwelt in the land of Chittim and encamped there for a long
time.

22v And Anibal smote the children of Chittim very severely, and he slew their
great men and princes, and of the rest of the people he smote about eighty
thousand men.

23v And at the end of days and years, Anibal returned to his land of Africa,
and he reigned securely in the place of Azdrubal his brother.

Chapter 75. Thirty Thousand Ephraimites think it Time to get out of Egypt,
Rise up to go to Canaan, but are Slain by the Philistines.

1v At that time, in the hundred and eightieth year of the Israelites going
down into Egypt, there went forth from Egypt valiant men, thirty thousand on
foot, from the children of Israel, who were all of the tribe of Joseph, of the
children of Ephraim the son of Joseph.

2v For they said the period was completed which the Lord had appointed to the
children of Israel in the times of old, which he had spoken to Abraham.

3v And these men girded themselves, and they put each man his sword at his
side, and every man his armor upon him, and they trusted to their strength,
and they went out together from Egypt with a mighty hand.

4v But they brought no provision for the road, only silver and gold, not even
bread for that day did they bring in their hands, for they thought of getting
their provision for pay from the Philistines, and if not they would take it by
force.

5v And these men were very mighty and valiant men, one man could pursue a
thousand and two could rout ten thousand, so they trusted to their strength
and went together as they were.

6v And they directed their course toward the land of Gath, and they went down
and found the shepherds of Gath feeding the cattle of the children of Gath.

7v And they said to the shepherds, Give us some of the sheep for pay, that we
may eat, for we are hungry, for we have eaten no bread this day.

8v And the shepherds said, Are they our sheep or cattle that we should give
them to you even for pay? so the children of Ephraim approached to take them
by force.

9v And the shepherds of Gath shouted over them that their cry was heard at a
distance, so all the children of Gath went out to them.

10v And when the children of Gath saw the evil doings of the children of
Ephraim, they returned and assembled the men of Gath, and they put on each man
his armor, and came forth to the children of Ephraim for battle.

11v And they engaged with them in the valley of Gath, and the battle was
severe, and they smote from each other a great many on that day.

12v And on the second day the children of Gath sent to all the cities of the
Philistines that they should come to their help, saying.

13v Come up unto us and help us, that we may smite the children of Ephraim who
have come forth from Egypt to take our cattle, and to fight against us without
cause.

14v Now the souls of the children of Ephraim were exhausted with hunger and
thirst, for they had eaten no bread for three days. And forty thousand men
went forth from the cities of the Philistines to the assistance of the men of
Gath.

15v And these men were engaged in battle with the children of Ephraim, and the
Lord delivered the children of Ephraim into the hands of the Philistines.

16v And they smote all the children of Ephraim, all who had gone forth from
Egypt, none were remaining but ten men who had run away from the engagement.

17v For this evil was from the Lord against the children of Ephraim, for they
transgressed the word of the Lord in going forth from Egypt, before the period
had arrived which the Lord in the days of old had appointed to Israel.

18v And of the Philistines also thero fell a great many, about twenty thousand
men, and their brethren carried them and buried them in their cities.

19v And the slain of the children of Ephraim remained forsaken in the valley
of Gath for many days and years, and were not brought to burial, and the
valley was filled with men's bones.

20v And the men who had escaped from the battle came to Egypt, and told all
the children of Israel all that had befallen them.

21v And their father Ephraim mourned over them for many days, and his brethren
came to console him.

22v And he came unto his wife and she bare a son, and he called his name
Beriah, for she was unfortunate in his house.

Chapter 76. Moses leaves Cush and goes to the Land of Midian. Reuel, taking
him for a Refugee, keeps him in prison for Ten Years. Is fed by Zipporah, the
Daughter of Reuel. Pharaoh smitten of the Plague. Slays a child of the
Israelites every day. He dies of the Rot, and his Son, Adikam, Reigns in his
Stead.

1v And Moses the son of Amram was still king in the land of Cush in those
days, and he prospered in his kingdom, and he conducted the government of the
children of Cush in justice, in righteousness, and integrity.

2v And all the children of Cush loved Moses all the days that he reigned over
them, and all the inhabitants of the land of Cush were greatly afraid of him.

3v And in the fortieth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was sitting
on the royal throne whilst Adoniah the queen was before him, and all the
nobles were sitting around him.

4v And Adoniah the queen said before the king and the princes, What is this
thing which you, the children of Cush, have done for this long time.

5v Surely you know that for forty years that this man has reigned over Cush he
has not approached me, nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush.

6v Now therefore hear, O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more reign
over you as he is not of our flesh.

7v Behold Menacrus my son is grown up, let him reign over you, for it is
better for you to serve the son of your lord, than to serve a stranger, a
slave of the king of Egypt.

8v And all the people and nobles of the children of Cush heard the words which
Adoniah the queen had spoken in their ears.

9v And all the people were preparing until the evening, and in the morning
they rose up early and made Menacrus, son of Kikianus, king over them.

10v And all the children of Cush were afraid to stretch forth their hand
against Moses, for the Lord was with Moses, and the children of Cush
remembered the oath which they swore unto Moses, therefore they did no harm to
him.

11v But the children of Cush gave many presents to Moses, and sent him from
them with great honor.

12v So Moses went forth from the land of Cush, and went home and ceased to
reign over Cush, and Moses was sixty-six years old when he went out of the
land of Cush, for the thing was from the Lord, for the period had arrived
which he had appointed in the days of old, to bring forth Israel from the
affliction of the children of Ham.

13v So Moses went to Midian, for he was afraid to return to Egypt on account
of Pharaoh, and he went and sat at a well of water in Midian.

14v And the seven daughters of Reuel the Midianite went out to feed their
father's flock.

15v And they came to the well and drew water to water their father's flock.

16v So the shepherds of Midian came and drove them away, and Moses rose up and
helped them and watered the flock.

17v And they came home to their father Reuel, and told him what Moses did for
them.

18v And they said, An Egyptian man has delivered us from the hands of the
shepherds, he drew up water for us and watered the flock.

19v And Reuel said to his daughters, And where is he? wherefore have you left
the man.

20v And Reuel sent for him and fetched him and brought him home, and he ate
bread with him.

21v And Moses related to Reuel that he had fled from Egypt and that he reigned
forty years over Cush, and that they afterward had taken the government from
him, and had sent him away in peace with honor and with presents.

22v And when Reuel had heard the words of Moses, Reuel said within himself, I
will put this man into the prison house, whereby I shall conciliate the
children of Cush, for he has fled from them.

23v And they took and put him into the prison house, and Moses was in prison
ten years, and whilst Moses was in the prison house, Zipporah the daughter of
Reuel took pity over him. and supported him with bread and water all the time.

24v And all the children of Israel were yet in the land of Egypt serving the
Egyptians in all manner of hard work, and the hand of Egypt continued in
severity over the children of Israel in those days.

25v At that time the Lord smote Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he afflicted him
with the plague of leprosy from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head;
owing to the cruel treatment of the children of Israel was this plague at that
time from the Lord upon Pharaoh king of Egypt.

26v For the Lord had hearkened to the prayer of his people the children of
Israel, and their cry reached him on account of their hard work.

27v Still his anger did not turn from them, and the hand of Pharaoh was still
stretched out against the children of Israel, and Pharaoh hardened his neck
before the Lord, and he increased his yoke over the children of Israel, and
embittered their lives with all manner of hard work.

28v And when the Lord had inflicted the plague upon Pharaoh king of Egypt, he
asked his wise men and sorcerers to cure him.

29v And his wise men and sorcerers said unto him, That if the blood of little
children were put into the wounds he would be healed.

30v And Pharaoh hearkened to them, and sent his ministers to Goshen to the
children of Israel to take their little children.

31v And Pharaoh's ministers went and took the infants of the children of
Israel from the bosoms of their mothers by force, and they brought them to
Pharaoh daily, a child each day, and the physicians killed them and applied
them to the plague; thus did they all the days.

32v And the number of the children which Pharaoh slew was three hundred-and
seventy-five.

33v But the Lord hearkened not to the physicians of the king of Egypt, and the
plague went on increasing mightily.

34v And Pharaoh was ten years afflicted with that plague, still the heart of
Pharaoh was more hardened against the children of Israel.

35v And at the end of ten years the Lord continued to afflict Pharaoh with
destructive plagues.

36v And the Lord smote him with a bad tumor and sickness at the stomach, and
that plague turned to a severe boil.

37v At that time the two ministers of Pharaoh came from the land of Goshen
where all the children of Israel were, and went to the house of Pharaoh and
said to him, We have seen the children of Israel slacken in their work and
negligent in their labor.

38v And when Pharaoh heard the words of his ministers, his anger was kindled
against the children of Israel exceedingly, for he was greatly grieved at his
bodily pain.

39v And he answered and said, Now that the children of Israel know that I am
ill, they turn and scoff at us, now therefore harness my chariot for me, and I
will betake myself to Goshen and will see the scoff of the children of Israel
with which they are deriding me; so his servants harnessed the chariot for
him.

40v And they took and made him ride upon a horse, for he was not able to ride
of himself.

41v And he took with him ten horsemen and ten footmen, and went to the
children of Israel to Goshen.

42v And when they had come to the border of Egypt, the king's horse passed
into a narrow place, elevated in the hollow part of the vineyard, fenced on
both sides, the low, plain country being on the other side.

43v And the horses ran rapidly in that place and pressed each other, and the
other horses pressed the king's horse.

44v And the king's horse fell into the low plain whilst the king was riding
upon it, and when he fell the chariot turned over the king's face and the
horse lay upon the king, and the king cried out, for his flesh was very sore.

45v And the flesh of the king was torn from him, and his bones were broken and
he could not ride, for this thing was from the Lord to him, for the Lord had
heard the cries of his people the children of Israel and their affliction.

46v And his servants carried him upon their shoulders, a little at a time, and
they brought him back to Egypt, and the horsemen who were with him came also
back to Egypt.

47v And they placed him in his bed, and the king knew that his end was come to
die, so Aparanith the queen his wife came and cried before the king, and the
king wept a great weeping with her.

48v And all his nobles and servants came on that day and saw the king in that
affliction, and wept a great weeping with him.

49v And the princes of the king and all his counsellors advised the king to
cause one to reign in his stead in the land, whomsoever he should choose from
his sons.

50v And the king had three sons and two daughters which Aparanith the queen
his wife had borne to him, besides the king's children of concubines.

51v And these were their names, the firstborn Othri, the second Adikam, and
the third Morion, and their sisters, the name of the elder Bathia and of the
other Acuzi.

52v And Othri the first born of the king was an idiot, precipitate and hurried
in his words.

53v But Adikam was a cunning and a wise man and knowing in all the wisdom of
Egypt, but of unseemly aspect, thick in flesh, and very short in stature; his
height was one cubit.

54v And when the king saw Adikam his son intelligent and wise in all things,
the king resolved that he should be king in his stead after his death.

55v And he took for him a wife Gedudah daughter of Abilot, and he was ten
years old, and she bare unto him four sons.

56v And he afterward went and took three wives and begat eight sons and three
daughters.

57v And the disorder greatly prevailed over the king, and his flesh stank like
the flesh of a carcass cast upon the field in summer time, during the heat of
the sun.

58v And when the king saw that his sickness had greatly strengthened itself
over him, he ordered his son Adikam to be brought to him, and they made him
king over the land in his place.

59v And at the end of three years, the king died, in shame, disgrace, and
disgust, and his servants carried him and buried him in the sepulchre of the
kings of Egypt in Zoan Mizraim.

60v But they embalmed him not as was usual with kings, for his flesh was
putrid, and they could not approach to embalm him on account of the stench, so
they buried him in haste.

61v For this evil was from the Lord to him, for the Lord had requited him evil
for the evil which in his days he had done to Israel.

62v And he died with terror and with shame, and his son Adikam reigned in his
place.

Chapter 77. Adikam Pharaoh Afflicts Israel more than ever. Moses is Released
by Reuel, and Marries his Daughter Zipporah. Moses obtains possession of the
Stick Jehovah.

1v Adikam was twenty years old when he reigned over Egypt, he reigned four
years.

2v In the two hundred and sixth year of Israel's going down to Egypt did
Adikam reign over Egypt, but he continued not so long in his reign over Egypt
as his fathers had continued their reigns.

3v For Melol his father reigned ninety-four years in Egypt, but he was ten
years sick and died, for he had been wicked before the Lord.

4v And all the Egyptians called the name of Adikam Pharaoh like the name of
his fathers, as was their custom to do in Egypt.

5v And all the wise men of Pharaoh called the name of Adikam Ahuz, for short
is called Ahuz in the Egyptian languag.

6v And Adikam was exceedingly ugly, and he was a cubit and a span and he had a
great beard which reached to the soles of his feet.

7v And Pharaoh sat upon his father's throne to reign over Egypt, and he
conducted the government of Egypt in his wisdom.

8v And whilst he reigned he exceeded his father and all the preceding kings in
wickedness, and he increased his yoke over the children of Israel.

9v And he went with his servants to Goshen to the children of Israel, and he
strengthened the labor over them, and he said unto them, Complete your work,
each day's task, and let not your hands slacken from our work from this day
forward as you did in the days of my father.

10v And he placed officers over them from amongst the children of Israel, and
over these officers he placed taskmasters from amongst his servants.

11v And he placed over them a measure of bricks for them to do according to
that number, day by day, and he turned back and went to Egyp.

12v At that time the task-masters of Pharaoh ordered the officers of the
children of Israel according to the command of Pharaoh, saying.

13v Thus says Pharaoh, Do your work each day, and finish your task, and
observe the daily measure of bricks; diminish not anything.

14v And it shall come to pass that if you are deficient in your daily bricks,
I will put your young children in their stead.

15v And the task-masters of Egypt did so in those days as Pharaoh had ordered
them.

16v And whenever any deficiency was found in the children of Israel's measure
of their daily bricks, the taskmasters of Pharaoh would go to the wives of the
children of Israel and take infants of the children of Israel to the number of
bricks deficient, they would take them by force from their mother's laps, and
put them in the building instead of the bricks.

17v Whilst their fathers and mothers were crying over them and weeping when
they heard the weeping voices of their infants in the wall of the building.

18v And the task-masters prevailed over Israel, that the Israelites should
place their children in the building, so that a man placed his son in the wall
and put mortar over him, whilst his eyes wept over him, and his tears ran down
upon his child.

19v And the task-masters of Egypt did so to the babes of Israel for many days,
and no one pitied or had compassion over the babes of the children of Israel.

20v And the number of all the children killed in the building was two hundred
and seventy, some whom they had built upon instead of the bricks which had
been left deficient by their fathers, and some whom they had drawn out dead
from the building.

21v And the labor imposed upon the children of Israel in the days of Adikam
exceeded in hardship that which they performed in the days of his father.

22v And the children of Israel sighed every day on account of their heavy
work, for they had said to themselves, Behold when Pharaoh shall die, his son
will rise up and lighten our work.

23v But they increased the latter work more than the former, and the children
of Israel sighed at this and their cry ascended to God on account of their
labor.

24v And God heard the voice of the children of Israel and their cry, in those
days, and God remembered to them his covenant which he had made with Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.

25v And God saw the burden of the children of Israel, and their heavy work in
those days, and he determined to deliver them.

26v And Moses the son of Amram was still confined in the dungeon in those
days, in the house of Reuel the Midianite, and Zipporah the daughter of Reuel
did support him with food secretly day by day.

27v And Moses was confined in the dungeon in the house of Reuel for ten years.

28v And at the end of ten years, which was the first year of the reign of
Pharaoh over Egypt, in the place of his father.

29v Zipporah said to her father Reuel, No person inquires or seeks after the
Hebrew man, whom thou didst bind in prison now ten years.

30v Now therefore, if it seem good in thy sight, let us send and see whether
he is living or dead, but her father knew not that she had supported him.

31v And Reuel her father answered and said to her, Has ever such a thing
happened that a man should be shut up in a prison without food for ten years,
and that he should live.

32v And Zipporah answered her father, saying, Surely thou hast heard that the
God of the Hebrews is great and awful, and does wonders for them at all times.

33v He it was who delivered Abraham from Ur of the Chaldeans, and Isaac from
the sword of his father, and Jacob from the angel of the Lord who wrestled
with him at the ford of Jabbuk.

34v Also with this man has he done many things, he delivered him from the
river in Egypt and from the sword of Pharaoh, and from the children of Cush,
so also can he deliver him from famine and make him live.

35v And the thing seemed good in the sight of Reuel, and he did according to
the word of his daughter, and sent to the dungeon to ascertain what became of
Moses.

36v And he saw, and behold the man Moses was living in the dungeon, standing
upon his feet, praising and praying to the God of his ancestors.

37v And Reuel commanded Moses to be brought out of the dungeon, so they shaved
him and he changed his prison garments and ate bread.

38v And afterward Moses went into the garden of Reuel which was behind the
house, and he there prayed to the Lord his God, who had done mighty wonders
for him.

39v And it was that whilst he prayed he looked opposite to him, and behold a
sapphire stick was placed in the ground, which was planted in the midst of the
garden.

40v And he approached the stick and he looked, and behold the name of the Lord
God of hosts was engraved thereon, written and developed upon the stick.

41v And he read it and stretched forth his hand and he plucked it like a
forest tree from the thicket, and the stick was in his hand.

42v And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were performed,
after he had created heaven and earth, and all the host of them, seas, rivers
and all their fishes.

43v And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden, he took the stick in
his hand and went and tilled the ground from which he was taken.

44v And the stick came down to Noah and was given to Shem and his descendents,
until it came into the hand of Abraham the Hebrew.

45v And when Abraham had given all he had to his son Isaac, he also gave to
him this stick.

46v And when Jacob had fled to Padan-aram, he took it into his hand, and when
he returned to his father he had not left it behind him.

47v Also when he went down to Egypt he took it into his hand and gave it to
Joseph, one portion above his brethren, for Jacob had taken it by force from
his brother Esau.

48v And after the death of Joseph, the nobles of Egypt came into the house of
Joseph, and the stick came into the hand of Reuel the Midianite, and when he
went out of Egypt, he took it in his hand and planted it in his garden.

49v And all the mighty men of the Kinites tried to pluck it when they
endeavored to get Zipporah his daughter, but they were unsuccessful.

50v So that stick remained planted in the garden of Reuel, until he came who
had a right to it and took it.

51v And when Reuel saw the stick in the hand of Moses, he wondered at it, and
he gave him his daughter Zipporah for a wife.

Chapter 78. Moses has Two Sons. Pharaoh withholds Straw from the Israelites.

1v At that time died Baal Channan son of Achbor, king of Edom, and was buried
in his house in the land of Edom.

2v And after his death the children of Esau sent to the land of Edom, and took
from there a man who was in Edom, whose name was Hadad, and they made him king
over them in the place of Baal Channan, their King.

3v And Hadad reigned over the children of Edom forty-eight years.

4v And when he reigned he resolved to fight against the children of Moab, to
bring them under the power of the children of Esau as they were before, but he
was not able, because the children of Moab heard this thing, and they rose up
and hastened to elect a king over them from amongst their brethren.

5v And they afterward gathered together a great people, and sent to the
children of Ammon their brethren for help to fight against Hadad king of Edom.

6v And Hadad heard the thing which the children of Moab had done, and was
greatly afraid of them, and refrained from fighting against them.

7v In those days Moses, the son of Amram, in Midian, took Zipporah, the
daughter of Reuel the Midianite, for a wife.

8v And Zipporah walked in the ways of the daughters of Jacob, she was nothing
short of the righteousness of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.

9v And Zipporah conceived and bare a son and he called his name Gershom, for
he said, I was a stranger in a foreign land; but he circumcised not his
foreskin, at the command of Reuel his father-in-law.

10v And she conceived again and bare a son, but circumcised his foreskin, and
called his name Eliezer, for Moses said, Because the God of my fathers was my
help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

11v And Pharaoh king of Egypt greatly increased the labor of the children of
Israel in those days, and continued to make his yoke heavier upon the children
of Israel.

12v And he ordered a proclamation to be made in Egypt, saying, Give no more
straw to the people to make bricks with, let them go and gather themselves
straw as they can find it.

13v Also the tale of bricks which they shall make let them give each day, and
diminish nothing from them, for they are idle in their work.

14v And the children of Israel heard this, and they mourned and sighed, and
they cried unto the Lord on account of the bitterness of their souls.

15v And the Lord heard the cries of the children of Israel, and saw the
oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them.

16v And the Lord was jealous of his people and his inheritance, and heard
their voice, and he resolved to take them out of the affliction of Egypt, to
give them the land of Canaan for a possession.

Chapter 79. The Lord appears to Moses and commands him to go down to Egypt to
Deliver Israel. Aaron meets him. Israel on hearing of his Mission greatly
rejoices. Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh, who calls all the Magicians to meet
Moses. They Perform Miracles as well as Moses, and thus Deceive the King.
Pharaoh, not finding the Name of Jehovah on any of the Books of Records, says
he does not know who He is, and will not let his People go. Moses and Aaron
teach Pharaoh, but he will not hearken, but causes the labor of the Children
of Israel to be increased. Moses being discouraged is told by the Lord that
with an outstretched hand and heavy Plagues, Israel shall be Delivered.

1v  And in those days Moses was feeding the flock of Reuel the Midianite his
father-in-law, beyond the wilderness of Sin, and the stick which he took from
his father-in-law was in his hand.

2v And it came to pass one day that a kid of goats strayed from the flock, and
Moses pursued it and it came to the mountain of God to Horeb.

3v And when he came to Horeb, the Lord appeared there unto him in the bush,
and he found the bush burning with fire, but the fire had no power over the
bush to consume it.

4v And Moses was greatly astonished at this sight, wherefore the bush was not
consumed, and he approached to see this mighty thing, and the Lord called unto
Moses out of the fire and commanded him to go down to Egypt, to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, to send the children of Israel from his service.

5v And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, return to Egypt, for all those men who
sought thy life are dead, and thou shalt speak unto Pharaoh to send forth the
children of Israel from his land.

6v And the Lord showed him to do signs and wonders in Egypt before the eyes of
Pharaoh and the eyes of his subjects, in order that they might believe that
the Lord had sent him.

7v And Moses hearkened to all that the Lord had commanded him, and he returned
to his father-in-law and told him the thing, and Reuel said to him, Go in
peace.

8v And Moses rose up to go to Egypt, and he took his wife and sons with him,
and he was at an inn in the road, and an angel of God came down, and sought an
occasion against him.

9v And he wished to kill him on account of his first born son, because he had
not circumcised him, and had transgressed the covenant which the Lord had made
with Abraham.

10v For Moses had hearkened to the words of his father-in-law which he had
spoken to him, not to circumcise his first born son, therefore he circumcised
him not.

11v And Zipporah saw the angel of E the Lord seeking an occasion against
Moses, and she knew that this thing was owing to his not having circumcised
her son Gershom.

12v And Zipporah hastened and took of the sharp rock stones that were there,
and she circumcised her son, and delivered her husband and her son from the
hand of the angel of the Lord.

13v And Aaron the son of Amram, the brother of Moses, was in Egypt walking at
the river side on that day.

14v And the Lord appeared to him in that place, and he said to him, Go now
toward Moses in the wilderness, and he went and met him in the mountain of
God, and he kissed him.

15v And Aaron lifted up his eyes, and saw Zipporah the wife of Moses and her
children, and he said unto Moses, Who are these unto thee.

16v And Moses said unto him, They are my wife and sons, which God gave to me
in Midian; and the thing grieved Aaron on account of the woman and her
children.

17v And Aaron said to Moses, Send away the woman and her children that they
may go to her father's house, and Moses hearkened to the words of Aaron, and
did so.

18v And Zipporah returned with her children, and they went to the house of
Reuel, and remained there until the time arrived when the Lord had visited his
people, and brought them forth from Egypt from the hand of Pharaoh.

19v And Moses and Aaron came to Egypt to the community of the children of
Israel, and they spoke to them all the words of the Lord, and the people
rejoiced an exceeding great rejoicing.

20v And Moses and Aaron rose up early on the next day, and they went to the
house of Pharaoh, and they took in their hands the stick of God.

21v And when they came to the king's gate, two young lions were confined there
with iron instruments, and no person went out or came in from before them,
unless those whom the king ordered to come, when the conjurors came and
withdrew the lions by their incantations, and thus brought them to the king.

22v And Moses hastened and lifted up the stick upon the lions, and he loosed
them, and Moses and Aaron came into the king's house.

23v The lions also came with them in joy, and they followed them and rejoiced
as a dog rejoices over his master when he comes from the field.

24v And when Pharaoh saw this thing he was astonished at it, and he was
greatly terrified at the report, for their appearance was like the appearance
of the children of God.

25v And Pharaoh said to Moses, What do you require? and they answered him,
saying, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent us to thee, to say, Send forth my
people that they may serve me.

26v And when Pharaoh heard their words he was greatly terrified before them,
and he said to them, Go today and come back to me tomorrow, and they did
according to the word of the king.

27v And when they had gone Pharaoh sent for Balaam the magician and to Jannes
and Jambres his sons, and to all the magicians and conjurors and counsellors
which belonged to the king, and they all came and sat before the king.

28v And the king told them all the words which Moses and his brother Aaron had
spoken to him, and the magicians said to the king, But how came the men to
thee, on account of the lions which were confined at the gate.

29v And the king said, Because they lifted up their rod against the lions and
loosed them, and came to me, and the lions also rejoiced at them as a dog
rejoices to meet his master.

30v And Balaam the son of Beor the magician answered the king, saying, These
are none else than magicians like ourselves.

31v Now therefore send for them, and let them come and we will try them, and
the king did so.

32v And in the morning Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron to come before the
king, and they took the rod of God, and came to the king and spoke to him,
saying.

33v Thus said the Lord God of the Hebrews, Send my people that they may serve
me.

34v And the king said to them, But who will believe you that you are the
messengers of God and that you come to me by his order.

35v Now therefore give a wonder or sign in this matter, and then the words
which you speak will be believed.

36v And Aaron hastened and threw the rod out of his hand before Pharaoh and
before his servants, and the rod turned into a serpent.

37v And the sorcerers saw this and they cast each man his rod upon the ground
and they became serpents.

38v And the serpent of Aaron's rod lifted up its head and opened its mouth to
swallow the rods of the magicians.

39v And Balaam the magician answered and said, This thing has been from the
days of old, that a serpent should swallow its fellow, and that living things
devour each other.

40v Now therefore restore it to a rod as it was at first, and we will also
restore our rods as they were at first, and if thy rod shall swallow our rods,
then shall we know that the spirit of God is in thee, and if not, thou art
only an artificer like unto ourselves.

41v And Aaron hastened and stretched forth his hand and caught hold of the
serpent's tail and it became a rod in his hand, and the sorcerers did the like
with their rods, and they got hold, each man of the tail of his serpent, and
they became rods as at first.

42v And when they were restored to rods, the rod of Aaron swallowed up their
rods.

43v And when the king saw this thing, he ordered the book of records that
related to the kings of Egypt, to be brought, and they brought the book of
records, the chronicles of the kings of Egypt, in which all the idols of Egypt
were inscribed, for they thought of finding therein the name of Jehovah, but
they found it not.

44v And Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron, Behold I have not found the name of
your God written in this book, and his name I know not.

45v And the counsellors and wise men answered the king, We have heard that the
God of the Hebrews is a son of the wise, the son of ancient kings.

46v And Pharaoh turned to Moses and Aaron and said to them, I know not the
Lord whom you have declared, neither will I send his people.

47v And they answered and said to the king, The Lord God of Gods is his name,
and he proclaimed his name over us from the days of our ancestors, and sent
us, saying, Go to Pharaoh and say unto him, Send my people that they may serve
me.

48v Now therefore send us, that we may take a journey for three days in the
wilderness, and there may sacrifice to him, for from the days of our going
down to Egypt, he has not taken from our hands either burnt offering, oblation
or sacrifice, and if thou wilt not send us, his anger will be kindled against
thee, and he will smite Egypt either with the plague or with the sword.

49v And Pharaoh said to them, Tell me now his power and his might; and they
said to him, He created the heaven and the earth, the seas and all their
riches, he formed the light, created the darkness, caused rain upon the earth
and watered it, and made the herbage and grass to sprout, he created man and
beast and the animals of the forest, the birds of the air and the fish of the
sea, and by his mouth they live and die.

50v Surely he created thee in thy mother's womb, and put into thee the breath
of life, and reared thee and placed thee upon the royal throne of Egypt, and
he will take thy breath and soul from thee, and return thee to the ground
whence thou wast taken.

51v And the anger of the king was kindled at their words, and he said to them,
But who amongst all the Gods of nations can do this? my river is mine own, and
I have made it for mysel.

52v And he drove them from him, and he ordered the labor upon Israel to be
more severe than it was yesterday and before.

53v And Moses and Aaron went out from the king's presence, and they saw the
children of Israel in an evil condition for the task-masters had made their
labor exceedingly heavy.

54v And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Why hast thou ill treated thy
people? for since I came to speak to Pharaoh what thou didst send me for, he
has exceedingly ill used the children of Israel.

55v And the Lord said to Moses, Behold thou wilt see that with an outstretched
hand and heavy plagues, Pharaoh will send the children of Israel from his
land.

56v And Moses and Aaron dwelt amongst their brethren the children of Israel in
Egypt.

57v And as for the children of Israel the Egyptians embittered their lives,
with the heavy work which they imposed upon them.

Chapter 80. After Two Years, Moses and Aaron again go to Pharaoh, but Pharaoh
will not Hearken. The Lord afflicts Egypt with all manner of Plagues and
Afflictions. The First-born of all the Egyptians is Slain. Pharaoh sends the
Children of Israel away, and all the Egyptians rise up to urge their
Departure, but they will not go in the Night.

1v And at the end of two years, the Lord again sent Moses to Pharaoh to bring
forth the children of Israel, and to send them out of the land of Egypt.

2v And Moses went and came to the house of Pharaoh, and he spoke to him the
words of the Lord who had sent him, but Pharaoh would not hearken to the voice
of the Lord, and God roused his might in Egypt upon Pharaoh and his subjects,
and God smote Pharaoh and his people with very great and sore plagues.

3v And the Lord sent by the hand of Aaron and turned all the waters of Egypt
into blood, with all their streams and rivers.

4v And when an Egyptian came to drink and draw water, he looked into his
pitcher, and behold all the water was turned into blood; and when he came to
drink from his cup the water in the cup became blood.

5v And when a woman kneaded her dough and cooked her victuals, their
appearance was turned to that of blood.

6v And the Lord sent again and caused all their waters to bring forth frogs,
and all the frogs came into the houses of the Egyptians.

7v And when the Egyptians drank, their bellies were filled with frogs and they
danced in their bellies as they dance when in the river.

8v And all their drinking water and cooking water turned to frogs, also when
they lay in their beds their perspiration bred frogs.

9v Notwithstanding all this the anger of the Lord did not turn from them, and
his hand was stretched out against all the Egyptians to smite them with every
heavy plague.

10v And he sent and smote their dust to lice, and the lice became in Egypt to
the height of two cubits upon the earth.

11v The lice were also very numerous, in the flesh of man and beast, in all
the inhabitants of Egypt, also upon the king and queen the Lord sent the lice,
and it grieved Egypt exceedingly on account of the lice.

12v Notwithstanding this, the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and his
hand was still stretched out over Egypt.

13v And the Lord sent all kinds of beasts of the field into Egypt, and they
came and destroyed all Egypt, man and beast, and trees, and all things that
were in Egypt.

14v And the Lord sent fiery serpents, scorpions, mice, weasels, toads,
together with others creeping in dust.

15v Flies, hornets, fleas, bugs and gnats, each swarm according to its kind.

16v And all reptiles and winged animals according to their kind came to Egypt
and grieved the Egyptians exceedingly.

17v And the fleas and flies came into the eyes and ears of the Egyptians.

18v And the hornet came upon them and drove them away, and they removed from
it into their inner rooms, and it pursued them.

19v And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm of animals,
they locked their doors after them, and God ordered the Sulanuth which was in
the sea, to come up and go into Egypt.

20v And she had long arms, ten cubits in length of the cubit of a man.

21v And she went upon the roofs and uncovered the raftering and flooring and
cut them, and stretched forth her arm into the house and removed the lock and
the bolt, and opened the houses of Egypt.

22v Afterward came the swarm of animals into the houses of Egypt, and the
swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians, and it grieved them exceedingly.

23v Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away from the
Egyptians, and his hand was yet stretched forth against them.

24v And God sent the pestilence, and the pestilence pervaded Egypt, in the
horses and asses, and in the camels, in herds of oxen and sheep and in man.

25v And when the Egyptians rose up early in the morning to take their cattle
to pasture they found all their cattle dead.

26v And there remained of the cattle of the Egyptians only one in ten, and of
the cattle belonging to Israel in Goshen not one died.

27v And God sent a burning inflammation in the flesh of the Egyptians, which
burst their skins, and it became a severe itch in all the Egyptians from the
soles of their feet to the crowns of their heads.

28v And many boils were in their flesh, that their flesh wasted away until
they became rotten and putrid.

29v Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and his hand
was still stretched out over all Egypt.

30v And the Lord sent a very heavy hail, which smote their vines and broke
their fruit trees and dried them up that they fell upon them.

31v Also every green herb became dry and perished, for a mingling fire
descended amidst the hail, therefore the hail and the fire consumed all
things.

32v Also men and beasts that were found abroad perished of the flames of fire
and of the hail, and all the young lions were exhausted.

33v And the Lord sent and brought numerous locusts into Egypt, the Chasel,
Salom, Chargol, and Chagole, locusts each of its kind, which devoured all that
the hail had left remaining.

34v Then the Egyptians rejoiced at the locusts, although they consumed the
produce of the field, and they caught them in abundance and salted them for
food.

35v And the Lord turned a mighty wind of the sea which took away all the
locusts, even those that were salted, and thrust them into the Red Sea; not
one locust remained within the boundaries of Egypt.

36v And God sent darkness upon Egypt, that the whole land of Egypt and Pathros
became dark for three days, so that a man could not see his hand when he
lifted it to his mouth.

37v At that time died many of the people of Israel who had rebelled against
the Lord and who would not hearken to Moses and Aaron, and believed not in
them that God had sent them.

38v And who had said, We will not go forth from Egypt lest we perish with
hunger in a desolate wilderness, and who would not hearken to the voice of
Moses.

39v And the Lord plagued them in the three days of darkness, and the
Israelites buried them in those days, without the Egyptians knowing of them or
rejoicing over them.

40v And the darkness was very great in Egypt for three days, and any person
who was standing when the darkness came, remained standing in his place, and
he that was sitting remained sitting, and he that was lying continued lying in
the same state, and he that was walking remained sitting upon the ground in
the same spot; and this thing happened to all the Egyptians, until the
darkness had passed away.

41v And the days of darkness passed away, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron to
the children of Israel, saying, Celebrate your feast and make your Passover,
for behold I come in the midst of the night amongst all the Egyptians, and I
will smite all their first born, from the first born of a man to the first
born of a beast, and when I see your Passover, I will pass over you.

42v And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had
commanded Moses and Aaron, thus did they in that night.

43v And it came to pass in the middle of the night, that the Lord went forth
in the midst of Egypt, and smote all the first born of the Egyptians, from the
first born of man to the first born of beast.

44v And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the
Egyptians, and there was a great cry throughout Egypt in that night, for there
was not a house in which there was not a corpse.

45v Also the likenesses of the first born of Egypt, which were carved in the
walls of their houses, were destroyed and fell to the ground.

46v Even the bones of their first born who had died before this and whom they
had buried in their houses, were raked up by the dogs of Egypt on that night
and dragged before the Egyptians and cast before them.

47v And all the Egyptians saw this evil which had suddenly come upon them, and
all the Egyptians cried out with a loud voice.

48v And all the families of Egypt wept upon that night, each man for his son
and each man for his daughter, being the first born, and the tumult of Egypt
was heard at a distance on that night.

49v And Bathia the daughter of Pharaoh went forth with the king on that night
to seek Moses and Aaron in their houses, and they found them in their houses,
eating and drinking and rejoicing with all Israel.

50v And Bathia said to Moses, Is this the reward for the good which I have
done to thee, who have reared thee and stretched thee out, and thou hast
brought this evil upon me and my father's house.

51v And Moses said to her, Surely ten plagues did the Lord bring upon Egypt;
did any evil accrue to thee from any of them? did one of them affect thee? and
she said, No.

52v And Moses said to her, Although thou art the first born to thy mother,
thou shalt not die, and no evil shall reach thee in the midst of Egypt.

53v And she said, What advantage is it to me, when I see the king, my brother,
and all his household and subjects in this evil, whose first born perish with
all the first born of Egypt.

54v And Moses said to her, Surely thy brother and his household, and subjects,
the families of Egypt, would not hearken to the words of the Lord, therefore
did this evil come upon them.

55v And Pharaoh king of Egypt approached Moses and Aaron, and some of the
children of Israel who were with them in that place, and he prayed to them,
saying.

56v Rise up and take your brethren, all the children of Israel who are in the
land, with their sheep and oxen, and all belonging to them, they shall leave
nothing remaining, only pray for me to the Lord your God.

57v And Moses said to Pharaoh, Behold though thou art thy mother's first born,
yet fear not, for thou wilt not die, for the Lord has commanded that thou
shalt live, in order to show thee his great might and strong stretched out
arm.

58v And Pharaoh ordered the children of Israel to be sent away, and all the
Egyptians strengthened themselves to send them, for they said, We are all
perishing.

59v And all the Egyptians sent the Israelites forth, with great riches, sheep
and oxen and precious things, according to the oath of the Lord between him
and our father Abraham.

60v And the children of Israel delayed going forth at night, and when the
Egyptians came to them to bring them out, they said to them, Are we thieves,
that we should go forth at night.

61v And the children of Israel asked of the Egyptians, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and garments, and the children of Israel stripped the
Egyptians.

62v And Moses hastened and rose up and went to the river of Egypt, and brought
up from thence the coffin of Joseph and took it with him.

63v The children of Israel also brought up, each man his father's coffin with
him, and each man the coffins of his tribe.

Chapter 81. The Departure of the Israelites from Egypt with Great Riches and
Flocks and Herds. After the Egyptians bury their First-born, many of them go
after the Israelites to induce them to return. But they refuse to return, and
fight the Nobles of Egypt and drive them home. Pharaoh resolves with the
Egyptians to pursue Israel and compel them to Return. The Children of Israel
are divided some wanting to go back. Moses prays for deliverance. The Lord
tells him not to cry to him, but proceed. The waters of the Red Sea are
Divided. The Israelites pass Through in Safety, but the Egyptians are utterly
Destroyed. The Israelites proceed on their Journey, and are fed with Manna.
The Children of Esau fight Israel, but the Latter Prevail.

1v And the children of Israel journeyed from Raamses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones and their wives.

2v Also a mixed multitude went up with them, and flocks and herds, even much
cattle.

3v And the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of
Egypt in hard labor, was two hundred and ten years.

4v And at the end of two hundred and ten years, the Lord brought forth the
children of Israel from Egypt with a strong hand.

5v And the children of Israel traveled from Egypt and from Goshen and from
Raamses, and encamped in Succoth on the fifteenth day of the first month.

6v And the Egyptians buried all their first born whom the Lord had smitten,
and all the Egyptians buried their slain for three days.

7v And the children of Israel traveled from Succoth and encamped in Ethom, at
the end of the wilderness.

8v And on the third day after the Egyptians had buried their first born, many
men rose up from Egypt and went after Israel to make them return to Egypt, for
they repented that they had sent the Israelites away from their servitude.

9v And one man said to his neighbor, Surely Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh,
saying, We will go a three days' journey in the wilderness and sacrifice to
the Lord our God.

10v Now therefore let us rise up early in the morning and cause them to
return, and it shall be that if they return with us to Egypt to their masters,
then shall we know that there is faith in them, but if they will not return,
then will we fight with them, and make them come back with great power and a
strong hand.

11v And all the nobles of Pharaoh rose up in the morning, and with them about
seven hundred thousand men, and they went forth from Egypt on that day, and
came to the place where the children of Israel were.

12v And all the Egyptians saw and behold Moses and Aaron and all the children
of Israel were sitting before Pi-hahiroth, eating and drinking and celebrating
the feast of the Lord.

13v And all the Egyptians said to the children of Israel, Surely you said, We
will go a journey for three days in the wilderness and sacrifice to our God
and return.

14v Now therefore this day makes five days since you went, why do you not
return to your masters.

15v And Moses and Aaron answered them, Saying, Because the Lord our God has
testified in us, saying, You shall no more return to Egypt, but we will betake
ourselves to a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord our God had sworn
to our ancestors to give to us.

16v And when the nobles of Egypt saw that the children of Israel did not
hearken to them, to return to Egypt, they girded themselves to fight with
Israel.

17v And the Lord strengthened the hearts of the children of Israel over the
Egyptians, that they gave them a severe beating, and the battle was sore upon
the Egyptians, and all the Egyptians fled from before the children of Israel,
for many of them perished by the hand of Israel.

18v And the nobles of Pharaoh went to Egypt and told Pharaoh, saying, The
children of Israel have fled, and will no more return to Egypt, and in this
manner did Moses and Aaron speak to us.

19v And Pharaoh heard this thing, and his heart and the hearts of all his
subjects were turned against Israel, and they repented that they had sent
Israel; and all the Egyptians advised Pharaoh to pursue the children of Israel
to make them come back to their burdens.

20v And they said each man to his brother, What is this which we have done,
that we have sent Israel from our servitude.

21v And the Lord strengthened the hearts of all the Egyptians to pursue the
Israelites, for the Lord desired to overthrow the Egyptians in the Red Sea.

22v And Pharaoh rose up and harnessed his chariot, and he ordered all the
Egyptians to assemble, not one man was left excepting the little ones and the
women.

23v And all the Egyptians went forth with Pharaoh to pursue the children of
Israel, and the camp of Egypt was an exceedingly large and heavy camp, about
ten hundred thousand men.

24v And the whole of this camp went and pursued the children of Israel to
bring them back to Egypt, and they reached them encamping by the Red Sea.

25v And the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and beheld all the
Egyptians pursuing them, and the children of Israel were greatly terrified at
them, and the children of Israel cried to the Lord.

26v And on account of the Egyptians, the children of Israel divided themselves
into four divisions, and they were divided in their opinions, for they were
afraid of the Egyptians, and Moses spoke to each of them.

27v The first division was of the children of Reuben, Simeon, and Issachar,
and they resolved to cast themselves into the sea, for they were exceedingly
afraid of the Egyptians.

28v And Moses said to them, Fear not, stand still and see the salvation of the
Lord which He will effect this day for you.

29v The second division was of the children of Zebulun, Benjamin and Naphtali,
and they resolved to go back to Egypt with the Egyptians.

30v And Moses said to them, Fear not, for as you have seen the Egyptians this
day, so shall you see them no more for ever.

31v The third division was of the children of Judah and Joseph, and they
resolved to go to meet the Egyptians to fight with them.

32v And Moses said to them, Stand in your places, for the Lord will fight for
you, and you shall remain silent.

33v And the fourth division was of the children of Levi, Gad, and Asher, and
they resolved to go into the midst of the Egyptians to confound them, and
Moses said to them, Remain in your stations and fear not, only call unto the
Lord that he may save you out of their hands.

34v After this Moses rose up from amidst the people, and he prayed to the Lord
and said.

35v O Lord God of the whole earth, save now thy people whom thou didst bring
forth from Egypt, and let not the Egyptians boast that power and might are
theirs.

36v So the Lord said to Moses, Why dost thou cry unto me? speak to the
children of Israel that they shall proceed, and do thou stretch out thy rod
upon the sea and divide it, and the children of Israel shall pass throug.

37v And Moses did so, and he lifted up his rod upon the sea and divided it.

38v And the waters of the sea were divided into twelve parts, and the children
of Israel passed through on foot, with shoes, as a man would pass through a
prepared road.

39v And the Lord manifested to the children of Israel his wonders in Egypt and
in the sea by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

40v And when the children of Israel had entered the sea, the Egyptians came
after them, and the waters of the sea returned upon them, and they all sank in
the water, and not one man was left excepting Pharaoh, who gave thanks to the
Lord and believed in him, therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at
that time with the Egyptians.

41v And the Lord ordered an angel to take him from amongst the Egyptians, who
cast him upon the land of Ninevah and he reigned over it for a long time.

42v And on that day the Lord saved Israel from the hand of Egypt, and all the
children of Israel saw that the Egyptians had perished, and they beheld the
great hand of the Lord, in what he had performed in Egypt and in the sea.

43v Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, on the
day when the Lord caused the Egyptians to fall before them.

44v And all Israel sang in concert, saying, I will sing to the Lord for He is
greatly exalted: the horse and his rider has he cast into the sea; behold it
is written in the book of the law of God.

45v After this the children of Israel proceeded on their journey, and encamped
in Marah, and the Lord gave to the children of Israel statutes and judgments
in that place in Marah, and the Lord commanded the children of Israel to walk
in all his ways and to serve him.

46v And they journeyed from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim were twelve
springs of water and seventy date trees, and the children encamped there by
the waters.

47v And they journeyed from Elim and came to the wilderness of Sin, on the
fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from Egypt.

48v At that time the Lord gave the manna to the children of Israel to eat, and
the Lord caused food to rain from heaven for the children of Israel day by
day.

49v And the children of Israel ate the manna for forty years, all the days
that they were in the wilderness, until they came to the land of Canaan to
possess it.

50v And they proceeded from the wilderness of Sin and encamped in Alush.

51v And they proceeded from Alush and encamped in Rephidim.

52v And when the children of Israel were in Rephidim, Amalek the son of
Eliphaz, the son of Esau, the brother of Zepho, came to fight with Israel.

53v And he brought with him eight hundred and one thousand men, magicians and
conjurers, and he prepared for battle with Israel in Rephidim.

54v And they carried on a great and severe battle against Israel, and the Lord
delivered Amalek and his people into the hands of Moses and the children of
Israel, and into the hand of Joshua, the son of Nun, the Ephrathite, the
servant of Moses.

55v And the children of Israel smote Amalek and his people at the edge of the
sword, but the battle was very sore upon the children of Israel.

56v And the Lord said to Moses, Write this thing as a memorial for thee in a
book, and place it in the hand of Joshua, the son of Nun, thy servant, and
thou shalt command the children of Israel, saying, When thou shalt come to the
land of Canaan, thou shalt utterly efface the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven.

57v And Moses did so, and he took the book and wrote upon it these words,
saying.

58v Remember what Amalek has done to thee in the road when thou wentest forth
from Egypt.

59v Who met thee in the road and smote thy rear, even those that were feeble
behind thee when thou wast faint and weary.

60v Therefore it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about in the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance, to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven, thou shalt not forget it.

61v And the king who shall have pity on Amalek, or upon his memory or upon his
seed, behold I will require it of him, and I will cut him off from amongst his
people.

62v And Moses wrote all these things in a book, and he enjoined the children
of Israel respecting all these matters.

Chapter 82. The Ten Commandments are Given. While Moses is in the Mount, Aaron
makes a Golden Calf, and Israel Worships it. Civil War. The Lord has a
Sanctuary Built for His Worship in the Wilderness.

1v And the children of Israel proceeded from Rephidim and they encamped in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the third month from their going forth from Egypt.

2v At that time came Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, with
Zipporah his daughter and her two sons, for he had heard of the wonders of the
Lord which he had done to Israel, that he had delivered them from the hand of
Egypt.

3v And Reuel came to Moses to the wilderness where he was encamped, where was
the mountain of God.

4v And Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law with great honor, and all
Israel was with him.

5v And Reuel and his children remained amongst the Israelites for many days,
and Reuel knew the Lord from that day forward.

6v And in the third month from the children of Israel's departure from Egypt,
on the sixth day thereof, the Lord gave to Israel the ten commandments on
Mount Sinai.

7v And all Israel heard all these commandments, and all Israel rejoiced
exceedingly in the Lord on that day.

8v And the glory of the Lord rested upon Mount Sinai, and he called to Moses,
and Moses came in the midst of a cloud and ascended the mountain.

9v And Moses was upon the mount forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread
and drank no water, and the Lord instructed him in the statutes and judgments
in order to teach the children of Israel.

10v And the Lord wrote the ten commandments which he had commanded the
children of Israel upon two tablets of stone, which he gave to Moses to
command the children of Israel.

11v And at the end of forty days and forty nights, when the Lord had finished
speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, then the Lord gave to Moses the tablets of
stone, written with the finger of God.

12v And when the children of Israel saw that Moses tarried to come down from
the mount, they gathered round Aaron, and said, As for this man Moses we know
not what has become of him.

13v Now therefore rise up, make unto us a god who shall go before us, so that
thou shalt not die.

14v And Aaron was greatly afraid of the people, and he ordered them to bring
him gold and he made it into a molten calf for the people.

15v And the Lord said to Moses, before he had come down from the mount, Get
thee down, for thy people whom thou didst bring forth from Egypt have
corrupted themselves.

16v They have made to themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, now
therefore leave me, that I may consume them from off the earth, for they are a
stiffnecked people.

17v And Moses besought the countenance of the Lord, and he prayed to the Lord
for the people on account of the calf which they had made, and he afterward
descended from the mount and in his hands were the two tablets of stone, which
God had given him to command the Israelites.

18v And when Moses approached the camp and saw the calf which the people had
made, the anger of Moses was kindled and he broke the tablets under the mount.

19v And Moses came to the camp and he took the calf and burned it with fire,
and ground it till it became fine dust, and strewed it upon the water and gave
it to the Israelites to drink.

20v And there died of the people by the swords of each other about three
thousand men who had made the calf.

21v And on the morrow Moses said to the people, I will go up to the Lord,
peradventure I may make atonement for your sins which you have sinned to the
Lord.

22v And Moses again went up to the Lord, and he remained with the Lord forty
days and forty nights.

23v And during the forty days did Moses intreat the Lord in behalf of the
children of Israel, and the Lord hearkened to the prayer of Moses, and the
Lord was intreated of him in behalf of Israel.

24v Then spake the Lord to Moses to hew two stone tablets and to bring them up
to the Lord, who would write upon them the ten commandments.

25v Now Moses did so, and he came down and hewed the two tablets and went up
to Mount Sinai to the Lord, and the Lord wrote the ten commandments upon the
tablets.

26v And Moses remained yet with the Lord forty days and forty nights, and the
Lord instructed him in statutes and judgments to impart to Israel.

27v And the Lord commanded him respecting the children of Israel that they
should make a sanctuary for the Lord, that his name might rest therein, and
the Lord showed him the likeness of the sanctuary and the likeness of all its
vessels.

28v And at the end of the forty days, Moses came down from the mount and the
two tablets were in his hand.

29v And Moses came to the children of Israel and spoke to them all the words
of the Lord, and he taught them laws, statutes and judgments which the Lord
had taught him.

30v And Moses told the children of Israel the word of the Lord, that a
sanctuary should be made for him, to dwell amongst the children of Israel.

31v And the people rejoiced greatly at all the good which the Lord had spoken
to them, through Moses, and they said, We will do all that the Lord has spoken
to thee.

32v And the people rose up like one man and they made generous offerings to
the sanctuary of the Lord, and each man brought the offering of the Lord for
the work of the sanctuary, and for all its service.

33v And all the children of Israel brought each man of all that was found in
his possession for the work of the sanctuary of the Lord, gold, silver and
brass, and every thing that was serviceable for the sanctuary.

34v And all the wise men who were practised in work came and made the
sanctuary of the Lord, according to all that the Lord had commanded, every man
in the work in which he had been practised; and all the wise men in heart made
the sanctuary, and its furniture and all the vessels for the holy service, as
the Lord had commanded Moses.

35v And the work of the sanctuary of the tabernacle was completed at the end
of five months, and the children of Israel did all that the Lord had commanded
Moses.

36v And they brought the sanctuary and all its furniture to Moses; like unto
the representation which the Lord had shown to Moses, so did the children of
Israel.

37v And Moses saw the work, and behold they did it as the Lord had commanded
him, so Moses blessed them.

Chapter 83. Aaron and his Sons are Placed in charge of the Lord's Service. The
Sacrifices and Offerings. The Passover is Celebrated. The People lust for
Flesh to eat. Their punishment. Moses sends Twelve Men to explore the Land of
Canaan. Ten of them bring an Evil Report, and the People want to Return to
Egypt. For their Lack of Faith that Generation shall not Live to obtain their
Possessions.

1v And in the twelfth month, in the twenty-third day of the month, Moses took
Aaron and his sons, and he dressed them in their garments, and anointed them
and did unto them as the Lord had commanded him, and Moses brought up all the
offerings which the Lord had on that day commanded him.

2v Moses afterward took Aaron and his sons and said to them, For seven days
shall you remain at the door of the tabernacle, for thus am I commanded.

3v And Aaron and his sons did all that the Lord had commanded them through
Moses, and they remained for seven days at the door of the tabernacle.

4v And on the eighth day, being the first day of the first month, in the
second year from the Israelites' departure from Egypt, Moses erected the
sanctuary, and Moses put up all the furniture of the tabernacle and all the
furniture of the sanctuary, and he did all that the Lord had commanded him.

5v And Moses called to Aaron and his sons, and they brought the burnt offering
and the sin offering for themselves and the children of Israel, as the Lord
had commanded Moses.

6v On that day the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took strange fire and
brought it before the Lord who had not commanded them, and a fire went forth
from before the Lord, and consumed them, and they died before the Lord on that
day.

7v Then on the day when Moses had completed to erect the sanctuary, the
princes of the children of Israel began to bring their offerings before the
Lord for the dedication of the altar.

8v And they brought up their offerings each prince for one day, a prince each
day for twelve days.

9v And all the offerings which they brought, each man in his day, one silver
charger weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour,
mingled with oil for a meat offering.

10v One spoon, weighing ten shekels of gold, full of incense.

11v One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt
offering.

12v And one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

13v And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats,
five lambs of a year old.

14v Thus did the twelve princes of Israel day by day, each man in his day.

15v And it was after this, in the thirteenth day of the month, that Moses
commanded the children of Israel to observe the Passover.

16v And the children of Israel kept the Passover in its season in the
fourteenth day of the month, as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the
children of Israel.

17v And in the second month, on the first day thereof, the Lord spoke unto
Moses, saying.

18v Number the heads of all the males of the children of Israel from twenty
years old and upward, thou and thy brother Aaron and the twelve princes of
Israel.

19v And Moses did so, and Aaron came with the twelve princes of Israel, and
they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

20v And the numbers of the children of Israel by the houses of their fathers,
from twenty years old and upward, were six hundred and three thousand, five
hundred and fifty.

21v But the children of Levi were not numbered amongst their brethren the
children of Israel.

22v And the number of all the males of the children of Israel from one month
old and upward, was twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.

23v And the number of the children of Levi from one month old and above, was
twenty-two thousand.

24v And Moses placed the priests and the Levites each man to his service and
to his burden to serve the sanctuary of the tabernacle, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.

25v And on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken away from the
tabernacle of testimony.

26v At that time the children of Israel continued their journey from the
wilderness of Sinai, and they took a journey of three days, and the cloud
rested upon the wilderness of Paran; there the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Israel, for they had provoked the Lord in asking him for meat, that
they might eat.

27v And the Lord hearkened to their voice, and gave them meat which they ate
for one month.

28v But after this the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he
smote them with a great slaughter, and they were buried there in that place.

29v And the children of Israel called that place Kebroth Hattaavah, because
there they buried the people that lusted flesh.

30v And they departed from Kebroth Hattaavah and pitched in Hazeroth, which is
in the wilderness of Paran.

31v And whilst the children of Israel were in Hazeroth, the anger of the Lord
was kindled against Miriam on account of Moses, and she became leprous, white
as snow.

32v And she was confined without the camp for seven days, until she had been
received again after her leprosy.

33v The children of Israel afterward departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
the end of the wilderness of Paran.

34v At that time, the Lord spoke to Moses to send twelve men from the children
of Israel, one man to a tribe, to go and explore the land of Canaan.

35v And Moses sent the twelve men, and they came to the land of Canaan to
search and examine it, and they explored the whole land from the wilderness of
Sin to Rechob as thou comest to Chamoth.

36v And at the end of forty days they came to Moses and Aaron, and they
brought him word as it was in their hearts, and ten of the men brought up an
evil report to the children of Israel, of the land which they had explored,
saying, It is better for us to return to Egypt than to go to this land, a land
that consumes its inhabitants.

37v But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephuneh, who were of
those that explored the land, said, The land is exceedingly good.

38v If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us to this land and give it
to us, for it is a land flowing with milk and honey.

39v But the children of Israel would not hearken to them, and they hearkened
to the words of the ten men who had brought up an evil report of the land.

40v And the Lord heard the murmurings of the children of Israel and he was
angry and swore, saying.

41v Surely not one man of this wicked generation shall see the land from
twenty years old and upward excepting Caleb the son of Jephuneh and Joshua the
son of Nun.

42v But surely this wicked generation shall perish in this wilderness, and
their children shall come to the land and they shall possess it; so the anger
of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the
wilderness for forty years until the end of that wicked generation, because
they did not follow the Lord.

43v And the people dwelt in the wilderness of Paran a long time, and they
afterward proceeded to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

Chapter 84. The Earth Swallows up the Rebellious. The Children of Israel
commanded not to War with the Children of Esau, or Moab. The Edomites will not
let Israel pass through their Land.

1v At that time Korah the son of Jetzer the son of Kehath the son of Levi,
took many men of the children of Israel, and they rose up and quarreled with
Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation.

2v And the Lord was angry with them, and the earth opened its mouth, and
swallowed them up, with their houses and all belonging to them, and all the
men belonging to Korah.

3v And after this God made the people go round by the way of Mount Seir for a
long time.

4v At that time the Lord said unto Moses, Provoke not a war against the
children of Esau, for I will not give to you of any thing belonging to them,
as much as the sole of the foot could tread upon, for I have given Mount Seir
for an inheritance to Esau.

5v Therefore did the children of Esau fight against the children of Seir in
former times, and the Lord had delivered the children of Seir into the hands
of the children of Esau, and destroyed them from before them, and the children
of Esau dwelt in their stead unto this day.

6v Therefore the Lord said to the children of Israel, Fight not against the
children of Esau your brethren, for nothing in their land belongs to you, but
you may buy food of them for money and eat it, and you may buy water of them
for money and drink it.

7v And the children of Israel did according to the word of the Lord.

8v And the children of Israel went about the wilderness, going round by the
way of Mount Sinai for a long time, and touched not the children of Esau, and
they continued in that district for nineteen years.

9v At that time died Latinus king of the children of Chittim, in the
forty-fifth year of his reign, which is the fourteenth year of the children of
Israel's departure from Egypt.

10v And they buried him in his place which he had built for himself in the
land of Chittim, and Abimnas reigned in his place for thirty-eight years.

11v And the children of Israel passed the boundary of the children of Esau in
those days, at the end of nineteen years, and they came and passed the road of
the wilderness of Moab.

12v And the Lord said to Moses, besiege not Moab, and do not fight against
them, for I will give you nothing of their land.

13v And the children of Israel passed the road of the wilderness of Moab for
nineteen years, and they did not fight against them.

14v And in the thirty-sixth year of the children of Israel's departing from
Egypt the Lord smote the heart of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and he waged
war, and went forth to fight against the children of Moab.

15v And Sihon sent messengers to Beor the son of Janeas, the son of Balaam,
counsellor to the king of Egypt, and to Balaam his son, to curse Moab, in
order that it might be delivered into the hand of Sihon.

16v And the messengers went and brought Beor the son of Janeas, and Balaam his
son, from Pethor in Mesopotamia, so Beor and Balaam his son came to the city
of Sihon and they cursed Moab and their king in the presence of Sihon king of
the Amorites.

17v So Sihon went out with his whole army, and he went to Moab and fought
against them, and he subdued them, and the Lord delivered them into his hands,
and Sihon slew the king of Moab.

18v And Sihon took all the cities of Moab in the battle; he also took Heshbon
from them, for Heshbon was one of the cities of Moab, and Sihon placed his
princes and his nobles in Heshbon, and Heshbon belonged to Sihon in those
days.

19v Therefore the parable speakers Beor and Balaam his son uttered these
words, saying, Come unto Heshbon, the city of Sihon will be built and
established.

20v Woe unto thee Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh! behold it is
written upon the book of the law of God.

21v And when Sihon had conquered Moab, he placed guards in the cities which he
had taken from Moab, and a considerable number of the children of Moab fell in
battle into the hand of Sihon, and he made a great capture of them, sons and
daughters, and he slew their king; so Sihon turned back to his own land.

22v And Sihon gave numerous presents of silver and gold to Beor and Balaam his
son, and he dismissed them, and they went to Mesopotamia to their home and
country.

23v At that time all the children of Israel passed from the road of the
wilderness of Moab, and returned and surrounded the wilderness of Edom.

24v So the whole congregation came to the wilderness of Sin in the first month
of the fortieth year from their departure from Egypt, and the children of
Israel dwelt there in Kadesh, of the wilderness of Sin, and Miriam died there
and she was buried there.

25v At that time Moses sent messengers to Hadad king of Edom, saying, Thus
says thy brother Israel, Let me pass I pray thee through thy land, we will not
pass through field or vineyard, we will not drink the water of the well; we
will walk in the king's road.

26v And Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass through my country, and Edom
went forth to meet the children of Israel with a mighty people.

27v And the children of Esau refused to let the children of Israel pass
through their land, so the Israelites removed from them and fought not against
them.

28v For before this the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, saying, You
shall not fight against the children of Esau, therefore the Israelites removed
from them and did not fight against them.

29v So the children of Israel departed from Kadesh, and all the people came to
Mount Hor.

30v At that time the Lord said to Moses, Tell thy brother Aaron that he shall
die there, for he shall not come to the land which I have given to the
children of Israel.

31v And Aaron went up, at the command of the Lord, to Mount Hor, in the
fortieth year, in the fifth month, in the first day of the month.

32v And Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died in Mount
Hor.

Chapter 85. Some of the Canaanites rise up to fight Israel, who are frightened
and run away. But the Sons of Levi compel them to Return. They prevail over
their Enemies. They must not touch Ammon. Og, King of Bashan. Balaam is called
upon to curse Israel, but will not. Israel commits Whoredom with the Moabites,
and they are Smitten with Pestilence.

1v And king Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south, heard that the
Israelites had come by the way of the spies, and he arranged his forces to
fight against the Israelites.

2v And the children of Israel were greatly afraid of him, for he had a great
and heavy army, so the children of Israel resolved to return to Egypt.

3v And the children of Israel turned back about the distance of three days'
journey unto Maserath Beni Jaakon, for they were greatly afraid on account of
the king Arad.

4v And the children of Israel would not get back to their places, so they
remained in Beni Jaakon for thirty days.

5v And when the children of Levi saw that the children of Israel would not
turn back, they were jealous for the sake of the Lord, and they rose up and
fought against the Israelites their brethren, and slew of them a great body,
and forced them to turn back to their place, Mount Hor.

6v And when they returned, king Arad was still arranging his host for battle
against the Israelites.

7v And Israel vowed a vow, saying, If thou wilt deliver this people into my
hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

8v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and he delivered the
Canaanites into their hand, and he utterly destroyed them and their cities,
and he called the name of the place Hormah.

9v And the children of Israel journeyed from Mount Hor and pitched in Oboth,
and they journeyed from Oboth and they pitched at Ije-abarim, in the border of
Moab.

10v And the children of Israel sent to Moab, saying, Let us pass now through
thy land into our place, but the children of Moab would not suffer the
children of Israel to pass through their land, for the children of Moab were
greatly afraid lest the children of Israel should do unto them as Sihon king
of the Amorites had done to them, who had taken their land and had slain many
of them.

11v Therefore Moab would not suffer the Israelites to pass through his land,
and the Lord commanded the children of Israel, saying. That they should not
fight against Moab, so the Israelites removed from Moab.

12v And the children of Israel journeyed from the border of Moab, and they
came to the other side of Arnon, the border of Moab, between Moab and the
Amorites, and they pitched in the border of Sihon, king of the Amorites, in
the wilderness of Kedemoth.

13v And the children of Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites,
saying.

14v Let us pass through thy land, we will not turn into the fields or into the
vineyards, we will go along by the king's highway until we shall have passed
thy border, but Sihon would not suffer the Israelites to pass.

15v So Sihon collected all the people of the Amorites and went forth into the
wilderness to meet the children Israel, and he fought against Israel in Jahaz.

16v And the Lord delivered Sihon king of the Amorites into the hand of the
children of Israel, and Israel smote all the people of Sihon with the edge of
the sword and avenged the cause of Moab.

17v And the children of Israel took possession of the land of Sihon from Aram
unto Jabuk, unto the children of Ammon, and they took all the spoil of the
cities.

18v And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of
the Amorites.

19v And all the children of Israel resolved to fight against the children of
Ammon, to take their land also.

20v So the Lord said to the children of Israel, Do not besiege the children of
Ammon, neither stir up battle against them, for I will give nothing to you of
their land, and the children of Israel hearkened to the word of the Lord, and
did not fight against the children of Ammon.

21v And the children of Israel turned and went up by the way of Bashan to the
land of Og, king of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out to meet the
Israelites in battle, and he had with him many valiant men, and a very strong
force from the people of the Amorites.

22v And Og king of Bashan was a very powerful man, but Naaron his son was
exceedingly powerful, even stronger than he was.

23v And Og said in his heart, Behold now the whole camp of Israel takes up a
space of three parsa, now will I smite them at once without sword or spear.

24v And Og went up Mount Jahaz, and took therefrom one large stone, the length
of which was three parsa, and he placed it on his head, and resolved to throw
it upon the camp of the children of Israel, to smite all the Israelites with
that stone.

25v And the angel of the Lord came and pierced the stone upon the head of Og,
and the stone fell upon the neck of Og that Og fell to the earth on account of
the weight of the stone upon his neck.

26v At that time the Lord said to the children of Israel, Be not afraid of
him, for I have given him and all his people and all his land into your hand,
and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon.

27v And Moses went down to him with a small number of the children of Israel,
and Moses smote Og with a stick at the ankles of his feet and slew him.

28v The children of Israel afterward pursued the children of Og and all his
people, and they beat and destroyed them till there was no remnant left of
them.

29v Moses afterward sent some of the children of Israel to spy out Jaazer, for
Jaazer was a very famous city.

30v And the spies went to Jaazer and explored it, and the spies trusted in the
Lord, and they fought against the men of Jaazer.

31v And these men took Jaazer and its villages, and the Lord delivered them
into their hand, and they drove out the Amorites who had been there.

32v And the children of Israel took the land of the two kings of the Amorites,
sixty cities which were on the other side of Jordan, from the brook of Arnon
unto Mount Hermon.

33v And the children of Israel journeyed and came into the plain of Moab which
is on this side of Jordan, by Jericho.

34v And the children of Moab heard all the evil which the children of Israel
had done to the two kings of the Amorites, to Sihon and Og, so all the men of
Moab were greatly afraid of the Israelites.

35v And the elders of Moab said, Behold the two kings of the Amorites, Sihon
and Og, who were more powerful than all the kings of the earth, could not
stand against the children of Israel, how then can we stand before them.

36v Surely they sent us a message before now to pass through our land on their
way, and we would not suffer them, now they will turn upon us with their heavy
swords and destroy us; and Moab was distressed on account of the children of
Israel, and they were greatly afraid of them, and they counselled together
what was to be done to the children of Israel.

37v And the elders of Moab resolved and took one of their men, Balak the son
of Zippor the Moabite, and made him king over them at that time, and Balak was
a very wise man.

38v And the elders of Moab rose up and sent to the children of Midian to make
peace with them, for a great battle and enmity had been in those days between
Moab and Midian, from the days of Hadad the son of Bedad king of Edom, who
smote Midian in the field of Moab, unto these days.

39v And the children of Moab sent to the children of Midian, and they made
peace with them, and the elders of Midian came to the land of Moab to make
peace in behalf of the children of Midian.

40v And the elders of Moab counselled with the elders of Midian what to do in
order to save their lives from Israel.

41v And all the children of Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now therefore
the children of Israel lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licks up
the grass of the field, for thus did they do to the two kings of the Amorites
who are stronger than we are.

42v And the elders of Midian said to Moab, We have heard that at the time when
Sihon king of the Amorites fought against you, when he prevailed over you and
took your land, he had sent to Beor the son of Janeas and to Balaam his son
from Mesopotamia, and they came and cursed you; therefore did the hand of
Sihon prevail over you, that he took your land.

43v Now therefore send you also to Balaam his son, for he still remains in his
land, and give him his hire, that he may come and curse all the people of whom
you are afraid; so the elders of Moab heard this thing, and it pleased them to
send to Balaam the son of Beor.

44v So Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab sent messengers to Balaam, saying.

45v Behold there is a people come out from Egypt, behold they cover the face
of the earth, and they abide over against me.

46v Now therefore come and curse this people for me, for they are too mighty
for me, peradventure I shall prevail to fight against them, and drive them
out, for I heard that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and whom thou cursest
is cursed.

47v So the messengers of Balak went to Balaam and brought Balaam to curse the
people to fight against Moab.

48v And Balaam came to Balak to curse Israel, and the Lord said to Balaam,
Curse not this people for it is blessed.

49v And Balak urged Balaam day by day to curse Israel, but Balaam hearkened
not to Balak on account of the word of the Lord which he had spoken to Balaam.

50v And when Balak saw that Balaam would not accede to his wish, he rose up
and went home, and Balaam also returned to his land and he went from there to
Midian.

51v And the children of Israel journeyed from the plain of Moab, and pitched
by Jordan from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim, at the end of the plains
of Moab.

52v And when the children of Israel abode in the plain of Shittim, they began
to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

53v And the children of Israel approached Moab, and the children of Moab
pitched their tents opposite to the camp of the children of Israel.

54v And the children of Moab were afraid of the children of Israel, and the
children of Moab took all their daughters and their wives of beautiful aspect
and comely appearance, and dressed them in gold and silver and costly
garments.

55v And the children of Moab seated those women at the door of their tents, in
order that the children of Israel might see them and turn to them, and not
fight against Moab.

56v And all the children of Moab did this thing to the children of Israel, and
every man placed his wife and daughter at the door of his tent, and all the
children of Israel saw the act of the children of Moab, and the children of
Israel turned to the daughters of Moab and coveted them, and they went to
them.

57v And it came to pass that when a Hebrew came to the door of the tent of
Moab, and saw a daughter of Moab and desired her in his heart, and spoke with
her at the door of the tent that which he desired, whilst they were speaking
together the men of the tent would come out and speak to the Hebrew like unto
these words:

58v Surely you know that we are brethren, we are all the descendents of Lot
and the descendents of Abraham his brother, wherefore then will you not remain
with us, and wherefore will you not eat our bread and our sacrifice.

59v And when the children of Moab had thus overwhelmed him with their
speeches, and enticed him by their flattering words, they seated him in the
tent and cooked and sacrificed for him, and he ate of their sacrifice and of
their bread.

60v They then gave him wine and he drank and became intoxicated, and they
placed before him a beautiful damsel, and he did with her as he liked, for he
knew not what he was doing, as he had drunk plentifully of wine.

61v Thus did the children of Moab to Israel in that place, in the plain of
Shittim, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel on account of
this matter, and he sent a pestilence amongst them, and there died of the
Israelites twenty-four thousand men.

62v Now there was a man of the children of Simeon whose name was Zimri, the
son of Salu, who connected himself with the Midianite Cosbi, the daughter of
Zur, king of Midian, in the sight of all the children of Israel.

63v And Phineas the son of Elazer, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this
wicked thing which Zimri had done, and he took a spear and rose up and went
after them, and pierced them both and slew them, and the pestilence ceased
from the children of Israel.

Chapter 86. All over twenty years of age at the time of Leaving Egypt die at
the Expiration of Forty Years. Israel is Numbered. The Midianites are
destroyed, and their Spoil is Divided among the People.

1v At that time after the pestilence, the Lord said to Moses, and to Elazer
the son of Aaron the priest, saying.

2v Number the heads of the whole community of the children of Israel, from
twenty years old and upward, all that went forth in the army.

3v And Moses and Elazer numbered the children of Israel after their families,
and the number of all Israel was seven hundred thousand, seven hundred and
thirty.

4v And the number of the children of Levi, from one month old and upward, was
twenty-three thousand, and amongst these there was not a man of those numbered
by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.

5v For the Lord had told them that they would die in the wilderness, so they
all died, and not one had been left of them excepting Caleb the son of
Jephuneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

6v And it was after this that the Lord said to Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel to avenge upon Midian the cause of their brethren the children of
Israel.

7v And Moses did so, and the children of Israel chose from amongst them twelve
thousand men, being one thousand to a tribe, and they went to Midian.

8v And the children of Israel warred against Midian, and they slew every male,
also the five princes of Midian, and Balaam the son of Beor did they slay with
the sword.

9v And the children of Israel took the wives of Midian captive, with their
little ones and their cattle, and all belonging to them.

10v And they took all the spoil and all the prey, and they brought it to Moses
and to Elazer to the plains of Moab.

11v And Moses and Elazer and all the princes of the congregation went forth to
meet them with joy.

12v And they divided all the spoil of Midian, and the children of Israel had
been revenged upon Midian for the cause of their brethren the children of
Israel.

Chapter 87. Moses appoints Joshua his successor. The Lord encourages Joshua.
Moses teaches the children of Israel to Walk in the Way of the Lord. He goes
up to Mount Abarim and dies there.

1v At that time the Lord said to Moses, Behold thy days are approaching to an
end, take now Joshua the son of Nun thy servant and place him in the
tabernacle, and I will command him, and Moses did so.

2v And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the
pillar of cloud stood at the entrance of the tabernacle.

3v And the Lord commanded Joshua the son of Nun and said unto him, Be strong
and courageous, for thou shalt bring the children of Israel to the land which
I swore to give them, and I will be with thee.

4v And Moses said to Joshua, Be strong and courageous, for thou wilt make the
children of Israel inherit the land, and the Lord will be with thee, he will
not leave thee nor forsake thee, be not afraid nor disheartened.

5v And Moses called to all the children of Israel and said to them, You have
seen all the good which the Lord your God has done for you in the wilderness.

6v Now therefore observe all the words of this law, and walk in the way of the
Lord your God, turn not from the way which the Lord has commanded you, either
to the right or to the left.

7v And Moses taught the children of Israel statutes and judgments and laws to
do in the land as the Lord had commanded him.

8v And he taught them the way of the Lord and his laws; behold they are
written upon the book of the law of God which he gave to the children of
Israel by the hand of Moses.

9v And Moses finished commanding the children of Israel, and the Lord said to
him, saying, Go up to the Mount Abarim and die there, and be gathered unto thy
people as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

10v And Moses went up as the Lord had commanded him, and he died there in the
land of Moab by the order of the Lord, in the fortieth year from the
Israelites going forth from the land of Egypt.

11v And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty
days, and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed.

Chapter 88. The Lord commands Joshua to prepare the People to pass over Jordan
to possess the Land. Jericho is Besieged, Taken, and Destroyed. Achan brings
evil upon the camp by Purloining the cursed thing, and Brings Destruction upon
Himself. Ai is taken and Destroyed. The Gibeonites cunningly save themselves.
Five Kings rise up against Israel and are destroyed. The Sun and Moon stand
still at Joshua's Command.

1v And it was after the death of Moses that the Lord said to Joshua the son of
Nun, saying.

2v Rise up and pass the Jordan to the land which I have given to the children
of Israel, and thou shalt make the children of Israel inherit the land.

3v Every place upon which the sole of your feet shall tread shall belong to
you, from the wilderness of Lebanon unto the great river the river of Perath
shall be your boundary.

4v No man shall stand up against thee all the days of thy life; as I was with
Moses, so will I be with thee, only be strong and of good courage to observe
all the law which Moses commanded thee, turn not from the way either to the
right or to the left, in order that thou mayst prosper in all that thou doest.

5v And Joshua commanded the officers of Israel, saying, Pass through the camp
and command the people, saying, Prepare for yourselves provisions, for in
three days more you will pass the Jordan to possess the land.

6v And the officers of the children of Israel did so, and they commanded the
people and they did all that Joshua had commanded.

7v And Joshua sent two men to spy out the land of Jericho, and the men went
and spied out Jericho.

8v And at the end of seven days they came to Joshua in the camp and said to
him, The Lord has delivered the whole land into our hand, and the inhabitants
thereof are melted with fear because of us.

9v And it came to pass after that, that Joshua rose up in the morning and all
Israel with him, and they journeyed from Shittim, and Joshua and all Israel
with him passed the Jordan; and Joshua was eighty-two years old when he passed
the Jordan with Israel.

10v And the people went up from Jordan on the tenth day of the first month,
and they encamped in Gilgal at the eastern corner of Jericho.

11v And the children of Israel kept the Passover in Gilgal, in the plains of
Jericho, on the fourteenth day of the month, as it is written in the law of
Moses.

12v And the manna ceased at that time on the morrow of the Passover, and there
was no more manna for the children of Israel, and they ate of the produce of
the land of Canaan.

13v And Jericho was entirely closed against the children of Israel, no one
came out or went in.

14v And it was in the second month, on the first day of the month, that the
Lord said to Joshua, Rise up, behold I have given Jericho into thy hand with
all the people thereof; and all your fighting men shall go round the city,
once each day, thus shall you do for six days.

15v And the priests shall blow upon trumpets, and when you shall hear the
sound of the trumpet, all the people shall give a great shouting, that the
walls of the city shall fall down; all the people shall go up every man
against his opponent.

16v And Joshua did so according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

17v And on the seventh day they went round the city seven times, and the
priests blew upon trumpets.

18v And at the seventh round, Joshua said to the people, Shout, for the Lord
has delivered the whole city into our hands.

19v Only the city and all that it contains shall be accursed to the Lord, and
keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make the camp of Israel
accursed and trouble it.

20v But all the silver and gold and brass and iron shall be consecrated to the
Lord, they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

21v And the people blew upon trumpets and made a great shouting, and the walls
of Jericho fell down, and all the people went up, every man straight before
him, and they took the city and utterly destroyed all that was in it, both man
and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword.

22v And they burned the whole city with fire; only the vessels of silver and
gold, and brass and iron, they put into the treasury of the Lord.

23v And Joshua swore at that time, saying, Cursed be the man who builds
Jericho; he shall lay the foundation thereof in his first-born, and in his
youngest son shall he set up the gates thereo.

24v And Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, son of
Judah, dealt treacherously in the accursed thing, and he took of the accursed
thing and hid it in the tent, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against
Israel.

25v And it was after this when the children of Israel had returned from
burning Jericho, Joshua sent men to spy out also Ai, and to fight against it.

26v And the men went up and spied out Ai, and they returned and said, Let not
all the people go up with thee to Ai, only let about three thousand men go up
and smite the city, for the men thereof are but few.

27v And Joshua did so, and there went up with him of the children of Israel
about three thousand men, and they fought against the men of Ai.

28v And the battle was severe against Israel, and the men of Ai smote
thirty-six men of Israel, and the children of Israel fled from before the men
of Ai.

29v And when Joshua saw this thing, he tore his garments and fell upon his
face to the ground before the Lord, he with the elders of Israel, and they put
dust upon their heads.

30v And Joshua said, Why O Lord didst thou bring this people over the Jordan?
what shall I say after the Israelites have turned their backs against their
enemies.

31v Now therefore all the Canaanites, inhabitants of the land, will hear this
thing, and surround us and cut off our name.

32v And the Lord said to Joshua, Why dost thou fall upon thy face? rise, get
thee off, for the Israelites have sinned, and taken of the accursed thing; I
will no more be with them unless they destroy the accursed thing from amongst
them.

33v And Joshua rose up and assembled the people, and brought the Urim by the
order of the Lord, and the tribe of Judah was taken, and Achan the son of
Carmi was taken.

34v And Joshua said to Achan, Tell me my son, what hast thou done, and Achan
said, I saw amongst the spoil a goodly garment of Shinar and two hundred
shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight; I coveted them
and took them, and behold they are all hid in the earth in the midst of the
tent.

35v And Joshua sent men who went and took them from the tent of Achan, and
they brought them to Joshua.

36v And Joshua took Achan and these utensils, and his sons and daughters and
all belonging to him and they brought them into the valley of Achor.

37v And Joshua burned them there with fire, and all the Israelites stoned
Achan with stones, and they raised over him a heap of stones; therefore did he
call that place the valley of Achor, so the Lord's anger was appeased, and
Joshua afterward came to the city and fought against it.

38v And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed, behold I
have given into thy hand Ai, her king and her people, and thou shalt do unto
them as thou didst to Jericho and her king, only the spoil thereof and the
cattle thereof shall you take for a prey for yourselves; lay an ambush for the
city behind it.

39v So Joshua did according to the word of the Lord, and he chose from amongst
the sons of war thirty thousand valiant men, and he sent them, and they lay in
ambush for the city.

40v And he commanded them, saying, When you shall see us we will flee before
them with cunning, and they will pursue us, you shall then rise out of the
ambush and take the city, and they did so.

41v And Joshua fought, and the men of the city went out toward Israel, not
knowing that they were lying in ambush for them behind the city.

42v And Joshua and all the Israelites feigned themselves wearied out before
them, and they fled by the way of the wilderness with cunning.

43v And the men of Ai gathered all the people who were in the city to pursue
the Israelites, and they went out and were drawn away from the city, not one
remained, and they left the city open and pursued the Israelites.

44v And those who were lying in ambush rose up out of their places, and
hastened to come to the city and took it and set it on fire, and the men of Ai
turned back, and behold the smoke of the city ascended to the skies, and they
had no means of retreating either one way or the other.

45v And all the men of Ai were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and
some on that side, and they smote them so that not one of them remained.

46v And the children of Israel took Melosh king of Ai alive, and they brought
him to Joshua, and Joshua hanged him on a tree and he died.

47v And the children of Israel returned to the city after having burned it,
and they smote all those that were in it with the edge of the sword.

48v And the number of those that had fallen of the men of Ai, both man and
woman, was twelve thousand; only the cattle and the spoil of the city they
took to themselves, according to the word of the Lord to Joshua.

49v And all the kings on this side Jordan, all the kings of Canaan, heard of
the evil which the children of Israel had done to Jericho and to Ai, and they
gathered themselves together to fight against Israel.

50v Only the inhabitants of Gibeon were greatly afraid of fighting against the
Israelites lest they should perish, so they acted cunningly, and they came to
Joshua and to all Israel, and said unto them, We have come from a distant
land, now therefore make a covenant with us.

51v And the inhabitants of Gibeon over-reached the children of Israel, and the
children of Israel made a covenant with them, and they made peace with them,
and the princes of the congregation swore unto them, but afterward the
children of Israel knew that they were neighbors to them and were dwelling
amongst them.

52v But the children of Israel slew them not; for they had sworn to them by
the Lord, and they became hewers of wood and drawers of water.

53v And Joshua said to them, Why did you deceive me, to do this thing to us?
and they answered him, saying, Because it was told to thy servants all that
you had done to all the kings of the Amorites! and we were greatly afraid of
our lives, and we did this thing.

54v And Joshua appointed them on that day to hew wood and to draw water, and
he divided them for slaves to all the tribes of Israel.

55v And when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem heard all that the children of
Israel had done to Jericho and to Ai, he sent to Hoham king of Hebron and to
Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish and to Deber king of
Eglon, saying.

56v Come up to me and help me, that we may smite the children of Israel and
the inhabitants of Gibeon who have made peace with the children of Israel.

57v And they gathered themselves together and the five kings of the Amorites
went up with all their camps, a mighty people numerous as the sand of the sea
shore.

58v And all these kings came and encamped before Gibeon, and they began to
fight against the inhabitants of Gibeon. and all the men of Gibeon sent to
Joshua, saying, Come up quickly to us and help us, for all the kings of the
Amorites have gathered together to fight against us.

59v And Joshua and all the fighting people went up from Gilgal, and Joshua
came suddenly to them, and smote these five kings with a great slaughter.

60v And the Lord confounded them before the children of Israel, who smote them
with a terrible slaughter in Gibeon, and pursued them along the way that goes
up to Beth Horon unto Makkedah, and they fled from before the children of
Israel.

61v And whilst they were fleeing, the Lord sent upon them hailstones from
heaven, and more of them died by the hailstones, than by the slaughter of the
children of Israel.

62v And the children of Israel pursued them, and they still smote them in the
road, going on and smiting them.

63v And when they were smiting, the day was declining toward evening, and
Joshua said in the sight of all the people, Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon,
and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon, until the nation shall have revenged
itself upon its enemies.

64v And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Joshua, and the sun stood still in
the midst of the heavens, and stood still six and thirty moments, and the moon
also stood still and hastened not to go down a whole day.

65v And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord
hearkened to the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.

Chapter 89. Joshua's Song of Praise. The Wars of Israel.

1v Then spoke Joshua this song, on the day that the Lord had given the
Amorites into the hand of Joshua and the children of Israel, and he said in
the sight of all Israel.

2v Thou hast done mighty things, O Lord, thou hast performed great deeds who
is like unto thee? my lips shall sing to thy name.

3v My goodness and my fortress, my high tower, I will sing a new song unto
thee, with thanksgiving will I sing to thee, thou art the strength of my
salvation.

4v All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, the princes of the world
shall sing to thee, the children of Israel shall rejoice in thy salvation,
they shall sing and praise thy power.

5v To thee, O Lord, did we confide; we said thou art our God, for thou wast
our shelter and strong tower against our enemies.

6v To thee we cried and were not ashamed, in thee we trusted and were
delivered; when we cried unto thee, thou didst hear our voice, thou didst
deliver our souls from the sword, thou didst show unto us thy grace, thou
didst give unto us thy salvation, thou didst rejoice our hearts with thy
strength.

7v Thou didst go forth for our salvation, with thine arm thou didst redeem thy
people; thou didst answer us from the heavens of thy holiness, thou didst save
us from ten thousands of people.

8v The sun and moon stood still in heaven, and thou didst stand in thy wrath
against our oppressors and didst command thy judgments over them.

9v All the princes of the earth stood up, the kings of the nations had
gathered themselves together, they were not moved at thy presence, they
desired thy battles.

10v Thou didst rise against them in thine anger, and didst bring down thy
wrath upon them; thou didst destroy them in thine anger, and cut them off in
thine heart.

11v Nations have been consumed with thy fury, kingdoms have declined because
of thy wrath, thou didst wound kings in the day of thine anger.

12v Thou didst pour out thy fury upon them, thy wrathful anger took hold of
them; thou didst turn their iniquity upon them, and didst cut them off in
their wickedness.

13v They did spread a trap, they fell therein, in the net they hid, their foot
was caught.

14v Thine hand was ready for all thine enemies who said, Through their sword
they possessed the land, through their arm they dwelt in the city; thou didst
fill their faces with shame, thou didst bring their horns down to the ground,
thou didst terrify them in thy wrath, and didst destroy them in thine anger.

15v The earth trembled and shook at the sound of thy storm over them, thou
didst not withhold their souls from death, and didst bring down their lives to
the grave.

16v Thou didst pursue them in thy storm, thou didst consume them in thy
whirlwind, thou didst turn their rain into hail, they fell in deep pits so
that they could not rise.

17v Their carcasses were like rubbish cast out in the middle of the streets.

18v They were consumed and destroyed in thine anger, thou didst save thy
people with thy might.

19v Therefore our hearts rejoice in thee, our souls exult in thy salvation.

20v Our tongues shall relate thy might, we will sing and praise thy wondrous
works.

21v For thou didst save us from our enemies, thou didst deliver us from those
who rose up against us, thou didst destroy them from before us and depress
them beneath our feet.

22v Thus shall all thine enemies perish O Lord, and the wicked shall be like
chaff driven by the wind, and thy beloved shall be like trees planted by the
waters.

23v So Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp in Gilgal, after
having smitten all the kings, so that not a remnant was left of them.

24v And the five kings fled alone on foot from battle, and hid themselves in a
cave, and Joshua sought for them in the field of battle, and did not find
them.

25v And it was afterward told to Joshua, saying, The kings are found and
behold they are hidden in a cave.

26v And Joshua said, Appoint men to be at the mouth of the cave, to guard
them, lest they take themselves away; and the children of Israel did so.

27v And Joshua called to all Israel and said to the officers of battle, Place
your feet upon the necks of these kings, and Joshua said, So shall the Lord do
to all your enemies.

28v And Joshua commanded afterward that they should slay the kings and cast
them into the cave, and to put great stones at the mouth of the cave.

29v And Joshua went afterward with all the people that were with him on that
day to Makkedah, and he smote it with the edge of the sword.

30v And he utterly destroyed the souls and all belonging to the city, and he
did to the king and people thereof as he had done to Jericho.

31v And he passed from there to Libnah and he fought against it, and the Lord
delivered it into his hand, and Joshua smote it with the edge of the sword,
and all the souls thereof, and he did to it and to the king thereof as he had
done to Jericho.

32v And from there he passed on to Lachish to fight against it, and Horam king
of Gaza went up to assist the men of Lachish, and Joshua smote him and his
people until there was none left to him.

33v And Joshua took Lachish and all the people thereof, and he did to it as he
had done to Libnah.

34v And Joshua passed from there to Eglon, and he took that also, and he smote
it and all the people thereof with the edge of the sword.

35v And from there he passed to Hebron and fought against it and took it and
utterly destroyed it, and he returned from there with all Israel to Debir and
fought against it and smote it with the edge of the sword.

36v And he destroyed every soul in it, he left none remaining, and he did to
it and the king thereof as he had done to Jericho.

37v And Joshua smote all the kings of the Amorites from Kadesh-barnea to Azah,
and he took their country at once, for the Lord had fought for Israel.

38v And Joshua with all Israel came to the camp to Gilgal.

39v When at that time Jabin king of Chazor heard all that Joshua had done to
the kings of the Amorites, Jabin sent to Jobat king of Midian, and to Laban
king of Shimron, to Jephal king of Achshaph, and to all the kings of the
Amorites, saying.

40v Come quickly to us and help us, that we may smite the children of Israel,
before they come upon us and do unto us as they have done to the other kings
of the Amorites.

41v And all these kings hearkened to the words of Jabin, king of Chazor, and
they went forth with all their camps, seventeen kings, and their people were
as numerous as the sand on the sea shore, together with horses and chariots
innumerable, and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, and
they were met together to fight against Israel.

42v And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear them not, for tomorrow about this time I
will deliver them up all slain before you, thou shalt hough their horses and
burn their chariots with fire.

43v And Joshua with all the men of war came suddenly upon them and smote them,
and they fell into their hands. for the Lord had delivered them into the hands
of the children of Israel.

44v So the children of Israel pursued all these kings with their camps, and
smote them until there was none left of them, and Joshua did to them as the
Lord had spoken to him.

45v And Joshua returned at that time to Chazor and smote it with the sword and
destroyed every soul in it and burned it with fire, and from Chazor, Joshua
passed to Shimron and smote it and utterly destroyed it.

46v From there he passed to Achshaph and he did to it as he had done to
Shimron.

47v From there he passed to Adulam and he smote all the people in it, and he
did to Adulam as he had done to Achshaph and to Shimron.

48v And he passed from them to all the cities of the kings which he had
smitten, and he smote all the people that were left of them and he utterly
destroyed them.

49v Only their booty and cattle the Israelites took to themselves as a prey,
but every human being they smote, they suffered not a soul to live.

50v As the Lord had commanded Moses so did Joshua and all Israel, they failed
not in anything.

51v So Joshua and all the children of Israel smote the whole land of Canaan as
the Lord had commanded them, and smote all their kings, being thirty and one
kings, and the children of Israel took their whole country.

52v Besides the kingdoms of Sihon and Og which are on the other side Jordan,
of which Moses had smitten many cities, and Moses gave them to the Reubenites
and the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

53v And Joshua smote all the kings that were on this side Jordan to the west,
and gave them for an inheritance to the nine tribes and to the half tribe of
Israel.

54v For five years did Joshua carry on the war with these kings, and he gave
their cities to the Israelites, and the land became tranquil from battle
throughout the cities of the Amorites and the Canaanites.

Chapter 90. The Edomites are Smitten by Chittim. The Land is Divided, and the
people have Rest. Joshua being Advanced in Years Exhorts the people to Observe
all the Laws of Moses, and then Dies.

1v At that time in the fifth year after the children of Israel had passed over
Jordan, after the children of Israel had rested from their war with the
Canaanites, at that time great and severe battles arose between Edom and the
children of Chittim, and the children of Chittim fought against Edom.

2v And Abianus king of Chittim went forth in that year, that is in the
thirty-first year of his reign, and a great force with him of the mighty men
of the children of Chittim, and he went to Seir to fight against the children
of Esau.

3v And Hadad the king of Edom heard of his report, and he went forth to meet
him with a heavy people and strong force, and engaged in battle with him in
the field of Edom.

4v And the hand of Chittim prevailed over the children of Esau, and the
children of Chittim slew of the children of Esau, two and twenty thousand men,
and all the children of Esau fled from before them.

5v And the children of Chittim pursued them and they reached Hadad king of
Edom, who was running before them and they caught him alive, and brought him
to Abianus king of Chittim.

6v And Abianus ordered him to be slain, and Hadad king of Edom died in the
forty-eighth year of his reign.

7v And the children of Chittim continued their pursuit of Edom, and they smote
them with a great slaughter and Edom became subject to the children of
Chittim.

8v And the children of Chittim ruled over Edom, and Edom became under the hand
of the children of Chittim and became one kingdom from that day.

9v And from that time they could no more lift up their heads, and their
kingdom became one with the children of Chittim.

10v And Abianus placed officers in Edom and all the children of Edom became
subject and tributary to Abianus, and Abianus turned back to his own land,
Chittim.

11v And when he returned he renewed his government and built for himself a
spacious and fortified palace for a royal residence, and reigned securely over
the children of Chittim and over Edom.

12v In those days, after the children of Israel had driven away all the
Canaanites and the Amorites, Joshua was old and advanced in years.

13v And the Lord said to Joshua, Thou art old, advanced in life, and a great
part of the land remains to be possessed.

14v Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and
to the half tribe of Manasseh, and Joshua rose up and did as the Lord had
spoken to him.

15v And he divided the whole land to the tribes of Israel as an inheritance,
according to their divisions.

16v But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, the offerings of the Lord
are their inheritance as the Lord had spoken of them by the hand of Moses.

17v And Joshua gave Mount Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephuneh, one portion
above his brethren, as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

18v Therefore Hebron became an inheritance to Caleb and his children unto this
day.

19v And Joshua divided the whole land by lots to all Israel for an
inheritance, as the Lord had commanded him.

20v And the children of Israel gave cities to the Levites from their own
inheritance, and suburbs for their cattle, and property, as the Lord had
commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land by
lot whether great or small.

21v And they went to inherit the land according to their boundaries, and the
children of Israel gave to Joshua the son of Nun an inheritance amongst them.

22v By the word of the Lord did they give to him the city which he required,
Timnath-serach in Mount Ephraim, and he built the city and dwelt therein.

23v These are the inheritances which Elazer the priest and Joshua the son of
Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes portioned out to the children
of Israel by lot in Shiloh, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle,
and they left off dividing the land.

24v And the Lord gave the land to the Israelites, and they possessed it as the
Lord had spoken to them, and as the Lord had sworn to their ancestors.

25v And the Lord gave to the Israelites rest from all their enemies around
them, and no man stood up against them, and the Lord delivered all their
enemies into their hands, and not one thing failed of all the good which the
Lord had spoken to the children of Israel, yea the Lord performed every thing.

26v And Joshua called to all the children of Israel and he blessed them, and
commanded them to serve the Lord, and he afterward sent them away, and they
went each man to his city, and each man to his inheritance.

27v And the children of Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and the
Lord gave them rest from all around them, and they dwelt securely in their
cities.

28v And it came to pass in those days, that Abianus king of Chittim died, in
the thirty-eighth year of his reign, that is the seventh year of his reign
over Edom, and they buried him in his place which he had built for himself,
and Latinus reigned in his stead fifty years.

29v And during his reign he brought forth an army, and he went and fought
against the inhabitants of Britannia and Kernania, the children of Elisha son
of Javan, and he prevailed over them and made them tributary.

30v He then heard that Edom had revolted from under the hand of Chittim, and
Latinus went to them and smote them and subdued them, and placed them under
the hand of the children of Chittim, and Edom became one kingdom with the
children of Chittim all the days.

31v And for many years there was no king in Edom, and their government was
with the children of Chittim and their king.

32v And it was in the twenty-sixth year after the children of Israel had
passed the Jordan, that is the sixty-sixth year after the children of Israel
had departed from Egypt, that Joshua was old, advanced in years, being one
hundred and eight years old in those days.

33v And Joshua called to all Israel, to their elders, their judges and
officers, after the Lord had given to all the Israelites rest from all their
enemies round about, and Joshua said to the elders of Israel, and to their
judges, Behold I am old, advanced in years, and you have seen what the Lord
has done to all the nations whom he has driven away from before you, for it is
the Lord who has fought for you.

34v Now therefore strengthen yourselves to keep and to do all the words of the
law of Moses, not to deviate from it to the right or to the left, and not to
come amongst those nations who are left in the land; neither shall you make
mention of the name of their gods, but you shall cleave to the Lord your God,
as you have done to this day.

35v And Joshua greatly exhorted the children of Israel to serve the Lord all
their days.

36v And all the Israelites said, We will serve the Lord our God all our days,
we and our children, and our children's children, and our seed for ever.

37v And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and he sent away
the children of Israel, and they went each man to his inheritance and to his
city.

38v And it was in those days, when the children of Israel were dwelling
securely in their cities, that they buried the coffins of the tribes of their
ancestors, which they had brought up from Egypt, each man in the inheritance
of his children, the twelve sons of Jacob did the children of Israel bury,
each man in the possession of his children.

39v And these are the names of the cities wherein they buried the twelve sons
of Jacob, whom the children of Israel had brought up from Egypt.

40v And they buried Reuben and Gad on this side Jordan, in Romia, which Moses
had given to their children.

41v And Simeon and Levi they buried in the city Mauda, which he had given to
the children of Simeon, and the suburb of the city was for the children of
Levi.

42v And Judah they buried in the city of Benjamin opposite Bethlehem.

43v And the bones of Issachar and Zebulun they buried in Zidon, in the portion
which fell to their children.

44v And Dan was buried in the city of his children in Eshtael, and Naphtali
and Asher they buried in Kadesh-naphtali, each man in his place which he had
given to his children.

45v And the bones of Joseph they buried in Shechem, in the part of the field
which Jacob had purchased from Hamor, and which became to Joseph for an
inheritance.

46v And they buried Benjamin in Jerusalem opposite the Jebusite, which was
given to the children of Benjamin; the children of Israel buried their fathers
each man in the city of his children.

47v And at the end of two years, Joshua the son of Nun died, one hundred and
ten years old, and the time which Joshua judged Israel was twenty-eight years,
and Israel served the Lord all the days of his life.

48v And the other affairs of Joshua and his battles and his reproofs with
which he reproved Israel, and all which he had commanded them, and the names
of the cities which the children of Israel possessed in his days, behold they
are written in the book of the words of Joshua to the children of Israel, and
in the book of the wars of the Lord, which Moses and Joshua and the children
of Israel had written.

49v And the children of Israel buried Joshua in the border of his inheritance,
in Timnath-serach, which was given to him in Mount Ephraim.

50v And Elazer the son of Aaron died in those days, and they buried him in a
hill belonging to Phineas his son, which was given him in Mount Ephraim.

Chapter 91. The Elders Judge Israel. They drive out all the Canaanites and
Inherit the Promised Land.

1v At that time, after the death of Joshua, the children of the Canaanites
were still in the land, and the Israelites resolved to drive them out.

2v And the children of Israel asked of the Lord, saying, Who shall first go up
for us to the Canaanites to fight against them? and the Lord said, Judah shall
go up.

3v And the children of Judah said to Simeon, Go up with us into our lot, and
we will fight against the Canaanites and we likewise will go up with you, in
your lot, so the children of Simeon went with the children of Judah.

4v And the children of Judah went up and fought against the Canaanites, so the
Lord delivered the Canaanites into the hands of the children of Judah, and
they smote them in Bezek, ten thousand men.

5v And they fought with Adonibezek in Bezek, and he fled from before them, and
they pursued him and caught him, and they took hold of him and cut off his
thumbs and great toes.

6v And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and
great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table, as I have done, so God
has requited me, and they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

7v And the children of Simeon went with the children of Judah, and they smote
the Canaanites with the edge of the sword.

8v And the Lord was with the children of Judah, and they possessed the
mountain, and the children of Joseph went up to Bethel, the same is Luz, and
the Lord was with them.

9v And the children of Joseph spied out Bethel, and the watchmen saw a man
going forth from the city, and they caught him and said unto him, Show us now
the entrance of the city and we will show kindness to thee.

10v And that man showed them the entrance of the city, and the children of
Joseph came and smote the city with the edge of the sword.

11v And the man with his family they sent away, and he went to the Hittites
and he built a city, and he called the name thereof Luz, so all the Israelites
dwelt in their cities, and the children of Israel dwelt in their cities, and
the children of Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders, who had lengthened their days after Joshua, and saw the
great work of the Lord, which he had performed for Israel.

12v And the elders judged Israel after the death of Joshua for seventeen
years.

13v And all the elders also fought the battles of Israel against the
Canaanites and the Lord drove the Canaanites from before the children of
Israel, in order to place the Israelites in their land.

14v And he accomplished all the words which he had spoken to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and the oath which he had sworn, to give to them and to their
children, the land of the Canaanites.

15v And the Lord gave to the children of Israel the whole land of Canaan, as
he had sworn to their ancestors, and the Lord gave them rest from those around
them, and the children of Israel dwelt securely in their cities.

16v Blessed be the Lord for ever, amen, and amen.

17v Strengthen yourselves, and let the hearts of all you that trust in the
Lord be of good courage.