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Genesis","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\nHISTORY\n\n\nThis e-text comes from multiple editions of Challoner's revised Douay-\nRheims Version of the Holy Bible.  In 1568 English exiles, many from\nOxford, established the English College of Douay (Douai/Doway), Flanders,\nunder William (later Cardinal) Allen.  In October, 1578, Gregory Martin\nbegan the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for\nCatholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English.\nAssisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and\nWilliam Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr. Martin's\nwork.  The college published the New Testament at Rheims (Reims/Rhemes),\nFrance, in 1582 through John Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes,\nauthored chiefly by Bristol, Allen, and Worthington.  Later the Old\nTestament was published at Douay in two parts (1609 and 1610) by Laurence\nKellam through the efforts of Dr. Worthington, then superior of the\nseminary.  The translation had been prepared before the appearance of the\nNew Testament, but the publication was delayed due to financial\ndifficulties.  The religious and scholarly adherence to the Latin Vulgate\ntext led to the less elegant and idiomatic words and phrases often found\nin the translation.  In some instances where no English word conveyed the\nfull meaning of the Latin, a Latin word was Anglicized and its meaning\ndefined in a glossary.  Although ridiculed by critics, many of these\nwords later found common usage in the English language.  Spellings of\nproper names and the numbering of the Psalms are adopted from the Latin\nVulgate.\n\nIn 1749 Dr. Richard Challoner began a major revision of the Douay and\nRheims texts, the spellings and phrasing of which had become increasingly\narchaic in the almost two centuries since the translations were first\nproduced.  He modernized the diction and introduced a more fluid style,\nwhile faithfully maintaining the accuracy of Dr. Martin's texts.  This\nrevision became the 'de facto' standard text for English speaking\nCatholics until the twentieth century.  It is still highly regarded by\nmany for its style, although it is now rarely used for liturgical\npurposes.  The notes included in this electronic edition are generally\nattributed to Bishop Challoner.\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nThe Old Testament\n\n  Book of Genesis\n  Book of Exodus\n  Book of Leviticus\n  Book of Numbers\n  Book of Deuteronomy\n  Book of Josue\n  Book of Judges\n  Book of Ruth\n  First Book of Samuel, alias 1 Kings\n  Second Book of Samuel, alias 2 Kings\n  Third Book of Kings\n  Fourth Book of Kings\n  First Book of Paralipomenon\n  Second Book of Paralipomenon\n  First Book of Esdras\n  Book of Nehemias, alias 2 Esdras\n  Book of Tobias\n  Book of Judith\n  Book of Esther\n  Book of Job\n  Book of Psalms\n  Book of Proverbs\n  Ecclesiastes\n  Solomon's Canticle of Canticles\n  Book of Wisdom\n  Ecclesiasticus\n  Prophecy of Isaias\n  Prophecy of Jeremias\n  Lamentations of Jeremias\n  Prophecy of Baruch\n  Prophecy of Ezechiel\n  Prophecy of Daniel\n  Prophecy of Osee\n  Prophecy of Joel\n  Prophecy of Amos\n  Prophecy of Abdias\n  Prophecy of Jonas\n  Prophecy of Micheas\n  Prophecy of Nahum\n  Prophecy of Habacuc\n  Prophecy of Sophonias\n  Prophecy of Aggeus\n  Prophecy of Zacharias\n  Prophecy of Malachias\n  First Book of Machabees\n  Second Book of Machabees\n\n\nThe New Testament\n\n  Gospel According to St. Matthew\n  Gospel According to St. Mark\n  Gospel According to St. Luke\n  Gospel According to St. John\n  Acts of the Apostles\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans\n  First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians\n  Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians\n  First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians\n  Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians\n  First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy\n  Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy\n  Epistle of St. Paul to Titus\n  Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon\n  Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews\n  Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle\n  First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle\n  Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle\n  First Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n  Second Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n  Third Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n  Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle\n  Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF GENESIS\n\nThis book is so called from its treating of the GENERATION, that is,\nof the creation and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it\nBERESITH, from the Word with which it begins. It contains not only\nthe history of the Creation of the world; but also an account of its\nprogress during the space of 2369 years, that is, until the death of\nJOSEPH.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 1\n\nGod createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.\n\n1:1. In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.\n\n1:2. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of\nthe deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.\n\n1:3. And God said: Be light made. And light was made.\n\n1:4. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light\nfrom the darkness.\n\n1:5. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was\nevening and morning one day.\n\n1:6. And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and\nlet it divide the waters from the waters.\n\nA firmament... By this name is here understood the whole space between\nthe earth, and the highest stars. The lower part of which divideth the\nwaters that are upon the earth, from those that are above in the clouds.\n\n1:7. And god made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under\nthe firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.\n\n1:8. And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning\nwere the second day.\n\n1:9. God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be\ngathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it\nwas so done.\n\n1:10. And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of\nthe waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:11. And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may\nseed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have\nseed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.\n\n1:12. And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth\nseed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed\neach one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.\n\n1:14. And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven,\nto divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for\nseasons, and for days and years:\n\n1:15. To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the\nearth, and it was so done.\n\n1:16. And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day;\nand a lesser light to rule the night: and The stars.\n\nTwo great lights... God created on the first day, light, which being\nmoved from east to west, by its rising and setting, made morning and\nevening. But on the fourth day he ordered and distributed this light,\nand made the sun, moon, and stars. The moon, though much less than the\nstars, is here called a great light, from its giving a far greater light\nto the earth than any of them.\n\n1:17. And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the\nearth.\n\n1:18. And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the\ndarkness. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:19. And the evening and morning were the fourth day.\n\n1:20. God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature\nhaving life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the\nfirmament of heaven.\n\n1:21. And God created the great whales, and every living and moving\ncreature, which the waaters brought forth, according to their kinds, and\nevery winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:22. And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nwaters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.\n\n1:23. And the evening and morning were the fifth day.\n\n1:24. And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its\nkind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to\ntheir kinds. And it was so done.\n\n1:25. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and\ncattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And\nGod saw that it was good.\n\n1:26. And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let\nhim have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air,\nand the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that\nmoveth upon the earth.\n\nLet us make man to our image... This image of God in man, is not in the\nbody, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with\nunderstanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to\ninsinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.\n\n1:27. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he\ncreated him: male and female he created them.\n\n1:28. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nearth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls\nof the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.\n\nIncrease and multiply... This is not a precept, as some Protestant\ncontrovertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful;\nfor God had said the same words to the fishes, and birds, (ver. 22) who\nwere incapable of receiving a precept.\n\n1:29. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon\nthe earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind,\nto be your meat:\n\n1:30. And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and\nto all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they\nmay have to feed upon. And it was so done.\n\n1:31. And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very\ngood. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.\n\nGenesis Chapter 2\n\nGod resteth on the seventh day and blesseth it. The earthly paradise, in\nwhich God placeth man. He commandeth him not to eat of the tree of\nknowledge. And formeth a woman of his rib.\n\n2:1. So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture\nof them.\n\n2:2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he\nrested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.\n\nHe rested, etc... That is, he ceased to make or create any new kinds of\nthings. Though, as our Lord tells us, John 5.17, \"He still worketh\",\nviz., by conserving and governing all things, and creating souls.\n\n2:3. And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he\nhad rested from all his work which God created and made.\n\n2:4. These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they\nwere created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the\nearth:\n\n2:5. And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and\nevery herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained\nupon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.\n\n2:6. But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the\nearth.\n\n2:7. And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed\ninto his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.\n\n2:8. And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the\nbeginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.\n\n2:9. And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees,\nfair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the\nmidst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.\n\nThe tree of life... So called because it had that quality, that by\neating of the fruit of it, man would have been preserved in a constant\nstate of health, vigour, and strength, and would not have died at all.\nThe tree of knowledge... To which the deceitful serpent falsely\nattributed the power of imparting a superior kind of knowledge, beyond\nthat which God was pleased to give.\n\n2:10. And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise,\nwhich from thence is divided into four heads.\n\n2:11. The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the\nland of Hevilath, where gold groweth.\n\n2:12. And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium,\nand the onyx stone.\n\n2:13. And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that\ncompasseth all the land of Ethiopia.\n\n2:14. And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along\nby the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.\n\n2:15. And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of\npleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.\n\n2:16. And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt\neat:\n\n2:17. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat.\nFor in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.\n\n2:18. And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us\nmake him a help like unto himself.\n\n2:19. And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of\nthe earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see\nwhat he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature\nthe same is its name.\n\n2:20. And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls\nof the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not\nfound a helper like himself.\n\n2:21. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was\nfast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.\n\n2:22. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a\nwoman: and brought her to Adam.\n\n2:23. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my\nflesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.\n\n2:24. Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to\nhis wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.\n\n2:25. And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not\nashamed.\n\nGenesis Chapter 3\n\nThe serpent's craft. The fall of our first parents. Their punishment.\nThe promise of a Redeemer.\n\n3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle tha any of the beasts of the earth\nwhich the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God\ncommanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?\n\n3:2. And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that\nare in paradise we do eat:\n\n3:3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God\nhath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch\nit, lest perhaps we die.\n\n3:4. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.\n\n3:5. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof,\nyour eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and\nevil.\n\n3:6. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the\neyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and\ndid eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.\n\n3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived\nthemselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made\nthemselves aprons.\n\nAnd the eyes, etc... Not that they were blind before, (for the woman saw\nthat the tree was fair to the eyes, ver. 6.) nor yet that their eyes\nwere opened to any more perfect knowledge of good; but only to the\nunhappy experience of having lost the good of original grace and\ninnocence, and incurred the dreadful evil of sin. From whence followed a\nshame of their being naked; which they minded not before; because being\nnow stript of original grace, they quickly began to be subject to the\nshameful rebellions of the flesh.\n\n3:8. And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise\nat the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of\nthe Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.\n\n3:9. And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?\n\n3:10. And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid,\nbecause I was naked, and I hid myself.\n\n3:11. And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked,\nbut that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou\nshouldst not eat?\n\n3:12. And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion,\ngave me of the tree, and I did eat.\n\n3:13. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And\nshe answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.\n\n3:14. And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this\nthing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon\nthy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy\nlife.\n\n3:15. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and\nher seed: she shall cursh thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her\nheel.\n\nShe shall crush... Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this\nplace, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed.\nThe sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the\nwoman crushes the serpent's head.\n\n3:16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy\nconceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt\nbe under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.\n\n3:17. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of\nthy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that\nthou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and\ntoil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.\n\n3:18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt\neat the herbs of the earth.\n\n3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to\nthe earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust\nthou shalt return.\n\n3:20. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the\nmother of all the living.\n\n3:21. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and\nclothed them.\n\n3:22. And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and\nevil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of\nthe tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.\n\nBehold Adam, etc... This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his\npride, in affecting a knowledge that might make him like to God.\n\n3:23. And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till\nthe earth from which he was taken.\n\n3:24. And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure\nCherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of\nthe tree of life.\n\nGenesis Chapter 4\n\nThe history of Cain and Abel.\n\n4:1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain,\nsaying: I have gotten a man through God.\n\n4:2. And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a\nshepherd, and Cain a husbandman.\n\n4:3. And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the\nfruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.\n\n4:4. Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat:\nand the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.\n\nHad respect... That is, shewed his acceptance of his sacrifice (as\ncoming from a heart full of devotion): and that, as we may suppose, by\nsome visible token, such as sending fire from heaven upon his offerings.\n\n4:5. But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was\nexceeding angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n4:6. And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy\ncountenance fallen?\n\n4:7. If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin\nforthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under\nthee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.\n\n4:8. And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when\nthey were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew\nhim.\n\n4:9. And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he\nanswered: I know not: am I my brother's keeper?\n\n4:10. And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy\nbrother's blood crieth to me from the earth.\n\n4:11. Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath\nopened her mouth and recieved the blood of thy brother at thy hand.\n\n4:12. When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a\nfugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.\n\n4:13. And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may\ndeserve pardon.\n\n4:14. Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth,\nand from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a\nfugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill\nme.\n\nEvery one that findeth me shall kill me... His guilty conscience made\nhim fear his own brothers and nephews; of whom, by this time, there might\nbe a good number upon the earth; which had now endured near 130 years;\nas may be gathered from Gen. 5.3, compared with chap. 4.25, though in\nthe compendious account given in the scriptures, only Cain and Abel are\nmentioned.\n\n4:15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever\nshall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark\nupon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.\n\nSet a mark, etc... The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy\nwrit supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a\nhorror and consternation in his countenance.\n\n4:16. And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a\nfugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.\n\n4:17. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth\nHenoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of\nhis son Henoch.\n\nHis wife... She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain's own sister; God\ndispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind\ncould not otherwise be propagated. He built a city, viz... In process of\ntime, when his race was multiplied, so as to be numerous enough to\npeople it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race might be\nmultiplied even to millions.\n\n4:18. And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot\nMathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech,\n\n4:19. Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of\nthe other Sella.\n\n4:20. And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell\nin tents, and of herdsmen.\n\n4:21. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that\nplay upon the harp and the organs.\n\n4:22. Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and\nartificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain\nwas Noema.\n\n4:23. And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye\nwives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the\nwounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.\n\nI have slain a man, etc... It is the tradition of the Hebrews, that\nLamech in hunting slew Cain, mistaking him for a wild beast; and that\nhaving discovered what he had done, he beat so unmercifully the youth,\nby whom he was led into that mistake, that he died of the blows.\n\n4:24. Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech\nseventy times sevenfold.\n\n4:25. Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and\ncalled his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel,\nwhom Cain slew.\n\n4:26. But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man\nbegan to call upon the name of the Lord.\n\nBegan to call upon, etc... Not that Adam and Seth had not called upon\nGod, before the birth of Enos; but that Enos used more solemnity in the\nworship and invocation of God.\n\nGenesis Chapter 5\n\nThe genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The\ntranslation of Henoch.\n\n5:1. This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God\ncreated man, he made him to the likeness of God.\n\n5:2. He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their\nname Adam, in the day when they were created.\n\n5:3. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his\nown image and likeness, and called his name Seth.\n\n5:4. And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred\nyears: and he begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:5. And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:6. Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.\n\n5:7. And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:8. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he\ndied.\n\n5:9. And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.\n\n5:10. After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:11. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he\ndied.\n\n5:12. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.\n\n5:13. And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:14. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he\ndied.\n\n5:15. And Malaleel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared.\n\n5:16. And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:17. And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:18. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.\n\n5:19. And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:20. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years,\nand he died.\n\n5:21. And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.\n\n5:22. And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala,\nthree hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:23. And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five\nyears.\n\n5:24. And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took\nhim.\n\n5:25. And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot\nLamech.\n\n5:26. And Mathlusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and\neighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:27. And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:28. And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.\n\n5:29. And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us\nfrom the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord\nhath cursed.\n\n5:30. And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:31. And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy-seven\nyears, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot\nSem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\nGenesis Chapter 6\n\nMan's sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is commanded to build the ark.\n\n6:1. And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and\ndaughters were born to them,\n\n6:2. The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair,\ntook to themselves wives of all which they chose.\n\nThe sons of God... The descendants of Seth and Enos are here called sons\nof God from their religion and piety: whereas the ungodly race of Cain,\nwho by their carnal affections lay grovelling upon the earth, are called\nthe children of men. The unhappy consequence of the former marrying with\nthe latter, ought to be a warning to Christians to be very circumspect\nin their marriages; and not to suffer themselves to be determined in\ntheir choice by their carnal passion, to the prejudice of virtue or\nreligion.\n\n6:3. And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because\nhe is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.\n\nHis days shall be, etc... The meaning is, that man's days, which before\nthe flood were usually 900 years, should now be reduced to 120 years. Or\nrather, that God would allow men this term of 120 years, for their\nrepentance and conversion, before he would send the deluge.\n\n6:4. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of\nGod went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children,\nthese are the mighty men of old, men of renown.\n\nGiants... It is likely the generality of men before the flood were of a\ngigantic stature in comparison with what men now are. But these here\nspoken of are called giants, as being not only tall in stature, but\nviolent and savage in their dispositions, and mere monsters of cruelty\nand lust.\n\n6:5. And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth,\nand that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,\n\n6:6. It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being\ntouched inwardly with sorrow of heart,\n\nIt repented him, etc... God, who is unchangeable, is not capable of\nrepentance, grief, or any other passion. But these expressions are used\nto declare the enormity of the sins of men, which was so provoking as to\ndetermine their Creator to destroy these his creatures, whom before he\nhad so much favoured.\n\n6:7. He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of\nthe earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the\nfowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.\n\n6:8. But Noe found grace before the Lord.\n\n6:9. These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in\nhis generations, he walked with God.\n\n6:10. And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n6:11. And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with\niniquity.\n\n6:12. And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh\nhad corrupted its way upon the earth),\n\n6:13. He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth\nis filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the\nearth.\n\n6:14. Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in\nthe ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.\n\n6:15. And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three\nhundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it\nthirty cubits.\n\nThree hundred cubits, etc... The ark, according to the dimensions here\nset down, contained four hundred and fifty thousand square cubits; which\nwas more than enough to contain all the kinds of living creatures, with\nall necessary provisions: even supposing the cubits here spoken of to\nhave been only a foot and a half each, which was the least king of\ncubits.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou\nfinish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the\nside: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.\n\n6:17. Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth,\nto destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All\nthings that are in the earth shall be consumed.\n\n6:18. And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter\ninto the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons\nwith thee.\n\n6:19. And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of\na sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and\nthe female.\n\n6:20. Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and\nof every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of\nevery sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.\n\n6:21. Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou\nshalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.\n\n6:22. And Noe did all things which God commanded him.\n\nGenesis Chapter 7\n\nNoe with his family go into the ark. The deluge overflows the earth.\n\n7:1. And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the\nark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.\n\n7:2. Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.\n\nOf all clean... The distintion of clean and unclean beasts appears to\nhave been made before the law of Moses, which was not promulgated till\nthe year of the world 2514.\n\n7:3. But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the\nfemale. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the\nfemale: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.\n\n7:4. For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth\nforty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I\nhave made, from the face of the earth.\n\n7:5. And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.\n\n7:6. And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:7. And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons\nwith him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.\n\n7:8. And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing\nthat moveth upon the earth,\n\n7:9. Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the\nLord had commanded Noe.\n\n7:10. And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month,\nin the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep\nwere broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:\n\n7:12. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\n\n7:13. In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons:\nhis wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.\n\n7:14. They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in\ntheir kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its\nkind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,\n\n7:15. Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was\nthe breath of life.\n\n7:16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as\nGod had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.\n\n7:17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters\nincreased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.\n\n7:18. For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the\nearth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.\n\n7:19. And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all\nthe high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.\n\n7:20. The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it\ncovered.\n\n7:21. And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of\nfowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep\nupon the earth: and all men.\n\n7:22. And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth,\ndied.\n\n7:23. And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from\nman even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and\nthey were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that\nwere with him in the ark.\n\n7:24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.\n\nGenesis Chapter 8\n\nThe deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice.\nGod's covenant to him.\n\n8:1. And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the\ncattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the\nearth, and the waters were abated:\n\n8:2. The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were\nshut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.\n\n8:3. And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and\nthey began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.\n\n8:4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth\nday of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.\n\n8:5. And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for\nin the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the\nmountains appeared.\n\n8:6. And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of\nthe ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:\n\n8:7. Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up\nupon the earth.\n\nDid not return... The raven did not return into the ark; but (as it may\nbe gathered from the Hebrew) went to and fro; sometimes going to the\nmountains, where it found carcasses to feed on: and other times\nreturning, to rest upon the top of the ark.\n\n8:8. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now\nceased upon the face of the earth.\n\n8:9. But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into\nthe ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his\nhand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.\n\n8:10. And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the\ndove out of the ark.\n\n8:11. And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive\ntree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the\nwaters were ceased upon the earth.\n\n8:12. And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove,\nwhich returned not any more unto him.\n\n8:13. Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month,\nthe first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and\nNoe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of\nthe earth was dried.\n\n8:14. In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the\nearth was dried.\n\n8:15. And God spoke to Noe, saying:\n\n8:16. Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of\nthy sons with thee.\n\n8:17. All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in\nfowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,\nbring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply\nupon it.\n\n8:18. So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his\nsons with him.\n\n8:19. And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep\nupon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.\n\n8:20. And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and\nfowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.\n\nHolocausts,... or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was\nconsumed by fire upon God's altar, and no part was reserved for the use\nof priest or people.\n\n8:21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more\ncurse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of\nman's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more\ndestroy every living soul as I have done.\n\nSmelled, etc... A figurative expression, denoting that God was well\npleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered.\n\n8:22. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,\nsummer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.\n\nGenesis Chapter 9\n\nGod besseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy\nthe world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.\n\n9:1. And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase,\nand multiply, and fill the earth.\n\n9:2. And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the\nearth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the\nearth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.\n\n9:3. And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even\nas the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:\n\n9:4. Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.\n\n9:5. For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every\nbeast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his\nbrother, will I require the life of man.\n\n9:6. Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man\nwas made to the image of God.\n\n9:7. But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.\n\n9:8. Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:\n\n9:9. Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed\nafter you:\n\n9:10. And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds,\nas in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the\nark, and in all the beasts of the earth.\n\n9:11. I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no\nmore destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from\nhenceforth a flood to waste the earth.\n\n9:12. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give\nbetween me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for\nperpetual generations.\n\n9:13. I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a\ncovenant between me and between the earth.\n\n9:14. And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in\nthe clouds:\n\n9:15. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living\nsoul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to\ndestroy all flesh.\n\n9:16. And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall\nremember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every\nliving soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.\n\n9:17. And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which\nI have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.\n\n9:18. And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.\n\n9:19. These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind\nspread over the whole earth.\n\n9:20. And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a\nvineyard.\n\n9:21. And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his\ntent.\n\nDrunk... Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in\nbeing overcome by wine: because he knew not the strength of it.\n\n9:22. Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his\nfather's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren\nwithout.\n\n9:23. But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going\nbackward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were\nturned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness.\n\nCovered the nakedness... Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 35; Moral.\nc. 22, we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of our\nspiritual parents and superiors.\n\n9:24. And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his\nyounger son had done to him,\n\n9:25. He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto\nhis brethren.\n\nCursed be Chanaan... The curses, as well as the blessings, of the\npartiarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular is here recorded by\nMoses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of\nChanaan. But why should Chanaan be cursed for his father's faults? The\nHebrews answer, that he being then a boy, was the first that saw his\ngrandfather's nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined with\nhim in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the rest of\nthe children of Cham, this prophetical curse.\n\n9:26. And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his\nservant.\n\n9:27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and\nChanaan be his servant.\n\n9:28. And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.\n\n9:29. And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years:\nand he died.\n\nGenesis Chapter 10\n\nThe genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled\nafter the flood.\n\n10:1. These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.\n\n10:2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and\nThubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.\n\n10:3. And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.\n\n10:4. And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.\n\n10:5. By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands,\nevery one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.\n\nThe islands... So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which\nthey went by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.\n\n10:6. And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.\n\n10:7. And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma,\nand Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.\n\n10:8. Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.\n\n10:9. And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb:\nEven as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.\n\nA stout hunter... Not of beasts but of men: whom by violence and tyranny\nhe brought under his dominion. And such he was, not only in the opinion\nof men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot be\ndeceived.\n\n10:10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and\nAchad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.\n\n10:11. Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the\nstreets of the city, and Chale.\n\n10:12. Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.\n\n10:13. And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.\n\n10:14. And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines,\nand the Capthorim.\n\n10:15. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,\n\n10:16. And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.\n\n10:17. The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,\n\n10:18. And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards\nthe families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.\n\n10:19. And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara\neven to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim\neven to Lesa.\n\n10:20. These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and\ngenerations, and lands, and nations.\n\n10:21. Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder\nbrother of Japheth, sons were born.\n\n10:22. The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.\n\n10:23. The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.\n\n10:24. But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.\n\n10:25. And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg,\nbecause in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name\nJectan.\n\n10:26. Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,\n\n10:27. And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,\n\n10:28. And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,\n\n10:29. And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of\nJectan.\n\n10:30. And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a\nmountain in the east.\n\n10:31. These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and\ntongues, and countries in their nations.\n\n10:32. These are the families of Noe, according to their people and\nnations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.\n\nGenesis Chapter 11\n\nThe tower of Babel. The confusion of tongues. The genealogy of Sem down\nto Abram.\n\n11:1. And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.\n\n11:2. And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the\nland of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.\n\n11:3. And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and\nbake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime\ninstead of mortar:\n\n11:4. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top\nwhereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we\nbe scattered abroad into all lands.\n\n11:5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the\nchildren of Adam were building.\n\n11:6. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue:\nand they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their\ndesigns, till they accomplish them in deed.\n\n11:7. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their\ntongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.\n\n11:8. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and\nthey ceased to build the city.\n\n11:9. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the\nlanguage of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord\nscattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.\n\nBabel... That is, confusion.\n\n11:10. These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old\nwhen he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.\n\n11:11. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:12. And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.\n\n11:13. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:14. Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.\n\n11:15. And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:16. And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.\n\n11:17. And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:18. Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.\n\n11:19. And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.\n\n11:21. And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:22. And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.\n\n11:23. And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:24. And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.\n\n11:25. And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:26. And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and\nAran.\n\n11:27. And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram,\nNachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.\n\n11:28. And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his\nnativity in Ur of the Chaldees.\n\n11:29. And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was\nSarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran,\nfather of Melcha and father of Jescha.\n\n11:30. And Sarai was barren, and had no children.\n\n11:31. And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's\nson, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and\nbrought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan:\nand they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.\n\n11:32. And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he\ndied in Haran.\n\nGenesis Chapter 12\n\nThe call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in\nChanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt.\n\n12:1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from\nthy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which\nI shall shew thee.\n\n12:2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and\nmagnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.\n\n12:3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee,\nand IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.\n\n12:4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with\nhim: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.\n\n12:5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the\nsubstance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten\nin Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when\nthey were come into it,\n\n12:6. Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far\nas the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.\n\n12:7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will\nI give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had\nappeared to him.\n\n12:8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east\nside of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west,\nand Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and\ncalled upon his name.\n\n12:9. And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.\n\n12:10. And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into\nEgypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.\n\n12:11. And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his\nwife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:\n\n12:12. And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is\nhis wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.\n\n12:13. Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may\nbe well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.\n\nMy sister... This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter\nto his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the Hebrews, she\nmight truly be called his sister, as Lot is called Abram's brother, Gen.\n14.14. See Gen. 20.12.\n\n12:14. And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman\nthat she was very beautiful.\n\n12:15. And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the\nwoman was taken into the house of Pharao.\n\n12:16. And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen\nand he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and\ncamels.\n\n12:17. But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous\nstripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.\n\n12:18. And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou\nhast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?\n\n12:19. For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might\ntake her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go\nthy way.\n\n12:20. And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him\naway and his wife, and all that he had.\n\nGenesis Chapter 13\n\nAbram and Lot part from each other. God's promise to Abram.\n\n13:1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he\nhad, and Lot with him into the south.\n\n13:2. And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.\n\n13:3. And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to\nBethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel\nand Hai,\n\n13:4. In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he\ncalled upon the name of the Lord.\n\n13:5. But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds\nof beasts, and tents.\n\n13:6. Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell\ntogether: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell\ntogether.\n\n13:7. Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram\nand of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in\nthat country.\n\n13:8. Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech\nthee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for\nwe are brethren.\n\n13:9. Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee:\nif thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose\nthe right hand, I will pass to the left.\n\n13:10. And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the\nJordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom\nand Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes\nto Segor.\n\n13:11. And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he\ndeparted from the east: and they were separated one brother from the\nother.\n\n13:12. Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns,\nthat were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.\n\n13:13. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the\nface of the Lord beyond measure.\n\n13:14. And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him:\nLift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the\nnorth and to the south, to the east and to the west.\n\n13:15. All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever.\n\n13:16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be\nable to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy\nseed also.\n\n13:17. Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth\nthereof: for I will give it to thee.\n\n13:18. So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of\nMambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.\n\nGenesis Chapter 14\n\nThe expedition of the four kings; the victory of Abram; he is blessed by\nMelchisedech.\n\n14:1. And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar,\nand Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and\nThadal, king of nations,\n\n14:2. Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and against Bersa, king of\nGomorrha, and against Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber, king\nof Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.\n\n14:3. All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the\nsalt sea.\n\n14:4. For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the\nthirteenth year they revolted from him.\n\n14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that\nwere with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the\nZuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.\n\n14:6. And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of\nPharan, which is in the wilderness.\n\n14:7. And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same\nis Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the\nAmorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.\n\n14:8. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of\nAdama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor,\nwent out: and they set themselves against them in battle array, in the\nwoodland vale:\n\n14:9. To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal\nking of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of\nPontus: four kings against five.\n\n14:10. Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of\nSodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown\nthere: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.\n\nOf slime. Bituminis... This was a kind of pitch, which served for mortar\nin the building of Babel, Gen. 11.3, and was used by Noe in pitching the\nark.\n\n14:11. And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and\nGomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:\n\n14:12. And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and\nhis substance.\n\n14:13. And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who\ndwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the\nbrother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.\n\n14:14. Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was\ntaken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and\neighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.\n\n14:15. And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and\ndefeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left\nhand of Damascus.\n\n14:16. And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with\nhis substance, the women also, and the people.\n\n14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned\nfrom the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him\nin the vale of Save, which is the king's vale.\n\n14:18. But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and\nwine, for he was the priest of the most high God,\n\n14:19. Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who\ncreated heaven and earth.\n\n14:20. And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the\nenemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.\n\n14:21. And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the\nrest take to thyself.\n\n14:22. And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most\nhigh, the possessor of heaven and earth,\n\n14:23. That from the very woofthread unto the shoe latchet, I will not\ntake of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram.\n\n14:24. Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares of\nthe men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take\ntheir shares.\n\nGenesis Chapter 15\n\nGod promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifice and vision.\n\n15:1. Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to\nAbram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy\nreward exceeding great.\n\n15:2. And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go\nwithout children: and the son of the steward of my house is this\nDamascus Eliezer.\n\n15:3. And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my\nservant born in my house, shall be my heir.\n\n15:4. And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He\nshall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him\nshalt thou have for thy heir.\n\n15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to\nheaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall\nthy seed be.\n\n15:6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.\n\n15:7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of\nthe Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.\n\n15:8. But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?\n\n15:9. And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old,\nand a she goat of three years and a ram of three years, a turtle also,\nand a pigeon.\n\n15:10. And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid\nthe two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided\nnot.\n\n15:11. And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them\naway.\n\n15:12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a\ngreat and darksome horror seized upon him.\n\n15:13. And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed\nshall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them\nunder bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.\n\n15:14. But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after\nthis they shall come out with great substance.\n\n15:15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a\ngood old age.\n\n15:16. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet\nthe iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present\ntime.\n\n15:17. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there\nappeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those\ndivisions.\n\n15:18. That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will\nI give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river\nEuphrates.\n\n15:19. The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,\n\n15:20. And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,\n\n15:21. And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and\nthe Jebusites.\n\nGenesis Chapter 16\n\nAbram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.\n\n16:1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but\nhaving a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,\n\n16:2. She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from\nbearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at\nleast. And when he agreed to her request,\n\n16:3. She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they\nfirst dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.\n\nTo wife... Plurality of wives, though contrary to the primitive\ninstitution of marriage, Gen. 2.24, was by divine dispensation allowed\nto the patriarchs: which allowance seems to have continued during the\ntime of the law of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its\nprimitive institution. Matt. 19.\n\n16:4. And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child,\ndespised her mistress.\n\n16:5. And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my\nhandmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child,\ndespiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.\n\n16:6. And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in\nthy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her,\nshe ran away.\n\n16:7. And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water\nin the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,\n\n16:8. He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and\nwhither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my\nmistress.\n\n16:9. And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and\nhumble thyself under her hand.\n\n16:10. And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it\nshall not be numbered for multitude.\n\n16:11. And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt\nbring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord\nhath heard thy affliction.\n\n16:12. He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all\nmen's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all\nhis brethren.\n\n16:13. And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the\nGod who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder\nparts of him that seeth me.\n\n16:14. Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and\nseeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.\n\n16:15. And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name\nIsmael.\n\n16:16. Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him\nforth Ismael.\n\nGenesis Chapter 17\n\nThe Covenant of circumcision.\n\n17:1. And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord\nappeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before\nme, and be perfect.\n\n17:2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will\nmultiply thee exceedingly.\n\n17:3. Abram fell flat on his face.\n\n17:4. And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou\nshalt be a father of many nations.\n\n17:5. Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be\ncalled Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.\n\nAbram... in the Hebrew, signifies a high father: but Abraham, the father\nof the multitude; Sarai signifies my Lady, but Sara absolutely Lady.\n\n17:6. And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations\nof thee, and kings shall come out of thee.\n\n17:7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between\nthy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be\na God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n17:8. And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy\nsojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I\nwill be their God.\n\n17:9. Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my\ncovenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.\n\n17:10. This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you,\nand thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised.\n\n17:11. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may\nbe for a sign of the covenant between me and you.\n\n17:12. An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every\nmanchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as\nthe bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your\nstock:\n\n17:13. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.\n\n17:14. The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised,\nthat soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken\nmy covenant.\n\n17:15. God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call\nSarai, but Sara.\n\n17:16. And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I\nwill bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall\nspring from him.\n\n17:17. Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart:\nShall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old?\nand shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?\n\n17:18. And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.\n\n17:19. And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and\nthou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with\nhim for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.\n\n17:20. And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless\nhim, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve\nchiefs, and I will make him a great nation.\n\n17:21. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall\nbring forth to thee at this time in the next year.\n\n17:22. And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from\nAbraham.\n\n17:23. And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his\nhouse: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his\nhouse: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very\nsame day, as God had commanded him.\n\n17:24. Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the\nflesh of his foreskin.\n\n17:25. And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his\ncircumcision.\n\n17:26. The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.\n\n17:27. And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his\nhouse, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.\n\nGenesis Chapter 18\n\nAngels are entertained by Abraham. They foretell the birth of Isaac.\nAbraham's prayer for the men of Sodom.\n\n18:1. And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was\nsitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.\n\n18:2. And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three\nmen standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet\nthem from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.\n\n18:3. And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not\naway from thy servant.\n\n18:4. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest\nye under the tree.\n\n18:5. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart,\nafterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your\nservant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.\n\n18:6. Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make\nhaste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the\nhearth.\n\n18:7. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very\ntender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and\nboiled it.\n\n18:8. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled,\nand set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.\n\n18:9. And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife?\nHe answered: Lo she is in the tent.\n\n18:10. And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time,\nlife accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara\nheard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.\n\n18:11. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had\nceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.\n\n18:12. And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my\nlord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?\n\n18:13. And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall\nI, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?\n\n18:14. Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will\nreturn to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have\na son.\n\n18:15. Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the\nLord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.\n\n18:16. And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes\ntowards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:\n\n18:18. Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all\nthe nations of the earth shall be blessed?\n\n18:19. For I know that he will command his children, and his household\nafter him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice:\nthat for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he\nhath spoken unto him.\n\n18:20. And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied,\nand their sin is become exceedingly grievous.\n\n18:21. I will go down and see whether they have done according to the\ncry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.\n\nI will go down, etc... The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the\nway of speaking and acting amongst men; for he knoweth all things, and\nneedeth not to go anywhere for information. Note here, that two of the\nthree angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who\nrepresented the Lord, remained with Abraham.\n\n18:22. And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to\nSodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.\n\n18:23. And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the\nwicked?\n\n18:24. If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal?\nand wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if\nthey be therein?\n\n18:25. Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with\nthe wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is\nnot beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this\njudgment.\n\n18:26. And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within\nthe city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.\n\n18:27. And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will\nspeak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.\n\n18:28. What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for\nfive and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy\nit, if I find five and forty.\n\n18:29. And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt\nthou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.\n\n18:30. Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if\nthirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find\nthirty there.\n\n18:31. Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord:\nWhat if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the\nsake of twenty.\n\n18:32. I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once\nmore: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy\nit for the sake of ten.\n\n18:33. And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and\nAbraham returned to his place.\n\nGenesis Chapter 19\n\nLot, entertaining Angels in his house, is delivered from Sodom, which is\ndestroyed: his wife for looking back is turned into a statue of salt.\n\n19:1. And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was\nsitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to\nmeet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.\n\n19:2. And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your\nservant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall\ngo on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.\n\n19:3. He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were\ncome into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread,\nand they ate:\n\n19:4. But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house,\nboth young and old, all the people together.\n\n19:5. And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came\nin to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:\n\n19:6. Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:\n\n19:7. Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.\n\n19:8. I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring\nthem out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you\ndo no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my\nroof.\n\n19:9. But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in,\nsaid they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will\nafflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot:\nand they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.\n\n19:10. And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them,\nand shut the door.\n\n19:11. And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the\nleast to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.\n\n19:12. And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or\nsons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:\n\n19:13. For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud\nbefore the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.\n\n19:14. So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have\nhis daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the\nLord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were\nin jest.\n\n19:15. And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise,\ntake thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also\nperish in the wickedness of the city.\n\n19:16. And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife,\nand of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.\n\n19:17. And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and\nthere they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither\nstay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain,\nlest thou be also consumed.\n\n19:18. And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,\n\n19:19. Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast\nmagnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and\nI cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.\n\n19:20. There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a\nlittle one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my\nsoul shall live?\n\n19:21. And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy\nprayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.\n\n19:22. Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing\ntill thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called\nSegor.\n\nSegor... That is, a little one.\n\n19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.\n\n19:24. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire\nfrom the Lord out of heaven.\n\n19:25. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the\ninhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.\n\n19:26. And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of\nsalt.\n\nAnd his wife... As a standing memorial to the servants of God to proceed\nin virtue, and not to look back to vice or its allurements.\n\n19:27. And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where\nhe had stood before with the Lord:\n\n19:28. He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that\ncountry: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a\nfurnace.\n\n19:29. Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering\nAbraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein\nhe had dwelt.\n\n19:30. And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his\ntwo daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt\nin a cave, he and his two daughters with him.\n\n19:31. And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there\nis no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the\nwhole earth.\n\n19:32. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him,\nthat we may preserve seed of our father.\n\n19:33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder\nwent in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his\ndaughter lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:34. And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last\nnight with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou\nshalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.\n\n19:35. They made their father drink wine that night also, and the\nyounger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he\nperceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:36. So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.\n\n19:37. And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the\nfather of the Moabites unto this day.\n\n19:38. The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that\nis, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this\nday.\n\nGenesis Chapter 20\n\nAbraham sojourned in Gerara: Sara is taken into king Abimelech's house,\nbut by God's commandment is restored untouched.\n\n20:1. Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt\nbetween Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.\n\n20:2. And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the\nking of Gerara sent, and took her.\n\n20:3. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him:\nLo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a\nhusband.\n\n20:4. Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou\nslay a nation that is ignorant and just?\n\n20:5. Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my\nbrother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I\ndone this.\n\n20:6. And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere\nheart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I\nsuffered thee not to touch her.\n\n20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and\nhe shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not\nrestore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are\nthine.\n\n20:8. And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his\nservants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men\nwere exceedingly afraid.\n\n20:9. And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast\nthou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought\nupon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou\noughtest not to do.\n\n20:10. And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou,\nthat thou hast done this?\n\n20:11. Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is\nnot the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of\nmy wife:\n\n20:12. Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of\nmy father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.\n\n20:13. And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her:\nThou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come,\nthou shalt say that I am thy brother.\n\n20:14. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids,\nand gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,\n\n20:15. And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall\nplease thee.\n\n20:16. And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand\npieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to\nall that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember\nthou wast taken.\n\n20:17. And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and\nhis handmaids, and they bore children:\n\n20:18. For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech,\non account of Sara, Abraham's wife.\n\nGenesis Chapter 21\n\nIsaac is born. Agar and Ismael are cast forth.\n\n21:1. And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what\nhe had spoken.\n\n21:2. And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that\nGod had foretold her.\n\n21:3. And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.\n\nIsaac... This word signifies laughter.\n\n21:4. And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,\n\n21:5. When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father,\nwas Isaac born.\n\n21:6. And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall\nhear of it will laugh with me.\n\n21:7. And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear\nthat Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?\n\n21:8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast\non the day of his weaning.\n\n21:9. And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with\nIsaac, her son, she said to Abraham:\n\n21:10. Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman\nshall not be heir with my son Isaac.\n\n21:11. Abraham took this grievously for his son.\n\n21:12. And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the\nboy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken\nto her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.\n\n21:13. But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation,\nbecause he is thy seed.\n\n21:14. So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle\nof water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her\naway. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.\n\n21:15. And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy\nunder one of the trees that were there.\n\n21:16. And she went her way, and sat overagainst him a great way off, as\nfar as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and\nsitting overagainst, she lifted up her voice and wept.\n\n21:17. And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to\nAgar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God\nhath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.\n\n21:18. Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make\nhim a great nation.\n\n21:19. And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went\nand filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.\n\n21:20. And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness,\nand became a young man, an archer.\n\n21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a\nwife for him out of the land of Egypt.\n\n21:22. At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army,\nsaid to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.\n\n21:23. Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my\nposterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done\nto thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a\nstranger.\n\n21:24. And Abraham said: I will swear.\n\n21:25. And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants\nhad taken away by force.\n\n21:26. And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou\ndidst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.\n\n21:27. Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and\nboth of them made a league.\n\n21:28. And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.\n\n21:29. And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which\nthou hast set apart?\n\n21:30. But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they\nmay be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.\n\n21:31. Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of\nthem did swear.\n\nBersabee... That is, the well of oath.\n\n21:32. And they made a league for the well of oath.\n\n21:33. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and\nreturned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in\nBersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.\n\n21:34. And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.\n\nGenesis Chapter 22\n\nThe faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to\nsacrifice his son Isaac. He is stayed from the act by an angel. Former\npromises are renewed to him. His brother Nachor's issue.\n\n22:1. After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham,\nAbraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\nGod tempted, etc... God tempteth no man to evil, James 1.13; but by\ntrial and experiment maketh known to the world, and to ourselves, what\nwe are, as here by this trial the singular faith and obedience of\nAbraham was made manifest.\n\n22:2. He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou\nlovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him\nfor an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.\n\n22:3. So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with\nhim two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the\nholocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.\n\n22:4. And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar\noff.\n\n22:5. And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and\nthe boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have\nworshipped, will return to you.\n\n22:6. And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his\nson; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they\ntwo went on together,\n\n22:7. Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt\nthou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the\nholocaust?\n\n22:8. And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an\nholocaust, my son. So they went on together.\n\n22:9. And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built\nan altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound\nIsaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.\n\n22:10. And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his\nson.\n\n22:11. And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him,\nsaying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\n22:12. And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do\nthou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not\nspared thy only begotten son for my sake.\n\n22:13. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram,\namongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and\noffered for a holocaust instead of his son.\n\n22:14. And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon,\neven to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.\n\n22:15. And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from\nheaven, saying:\n\n22:16. By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast\ndone this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:\n\n22:17. I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of\nheaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess\nthe gates of their enemies.\n\n22:18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,\nbecause thou hast obeyed my voice.\n\n22:19. Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee\ntogether, and he dwelt there.\n\n22:20. After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had\nborne children to Nachor his brother.\n\n22:21. Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father\nof the Syrians,\n\n22:22. And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,\n\n22:23. And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha\nbear to Nachor, Abraham's brother.\n\n22:24. And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas,\nand Maacha.\n\nGenesis Chapter 23\n\nSara's death and burial in the field bought of Ephron.\n\n23:1. And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.\n\n23:2. And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of\nChanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.\n\n23:3. And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the\nchildren of Heth, saying:\n\n23:4. I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a\nburying place with you, that I may bury my dead.\n\n23:5. The children of Heth answered, saying:\n\n23:6. My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead\nin our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee\nfrom burying thy dead in his sepulchre.\n\n23:7. Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit,\nthe children of Heth:\n\nBowed down to the people... Adoravit, literally adored. But this word\nhere, as well as in many other places in the Latin scriptures, is used\nto signify only an inferior honour and reverence paid to men, expressed\nby a bowing down of the body.\n\n23:8. And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my\ndead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.\n\n23:9. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of\nhis field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before\nyou, for a possession of a burying place.\n\n23:10. Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron\nmade answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of\nthe city, saying:\n\n23:11. Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I\nsay: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the\npresence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.\n\n23:12. Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.\n\n23:13. And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech\nthee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I\nbury my dead in it.\n\n23:14. And Ephron answered:\n\n23:15. My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four\nhundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but\nwhat is this? bury thy dead.\n\n23:16. And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that\nEphron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred\nsicles of silver, of common current money.\n\n23:17. And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double\ncave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees\nthereof, in all its limits round about,\n\n23:18. Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the\nchildren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.\n\n23:19. And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the\nfield, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of\nChanaan.\n\n23:20. And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in\nit, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.\n\nGenesis Chapter 24\n\nAbraham's servant, sent by him into Mesopotamia, bringeth from thence\nRebecca, who is married to Isaac.\n\n24:1. Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed\nhim in all things.\n\n24:2. And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over\nall he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,\n\n24:3. That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and\nearth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the\nChanaanites, among whom I dwell:\n\n24:4. But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife\nfrom thence for my son Isaac.\n\n24:5. The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this\nland, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou\ncamest out?\n\n24:6. And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again\nthither.\n\n24:7. The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and\nout of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To\nthy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and\nthou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.\n\nHe will send his angel before thee... This shows that the Hebrews\nbelieved that God gave them guardian angels for their protection.\n\n24:8. But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by\nthe oath: only bring not my son back thither again.\n\n24:9. The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham,\nhis lord, and swore to him upon his word.\n\n24:10. And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed,\ncarrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and\nwent on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.\n\n24:11. And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near a\nwell of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come\nout to draw water, he said:\n\n24:12. O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech\nthee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.\n\n24:13. Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of\nthe inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:\n\n24:14. Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy\npitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give\nthy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for\nthy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn\nkindness to my master.\n\n24:15. He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold\nRebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor\nthe brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:\n\n24:16. An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not\nknown to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher,\nand was coming back.\n\n24:17. And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water\nto drink of thy pitcher.\n\n24:18. And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the\npitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.\n\n24:19. And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels\nalso, till they all drink.\n\n24:20. And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the\nwell to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.\n\n24:21. But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether\nthe Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.\n\n24:22. And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden\nearrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles\nweight.\n\n24:23. And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there\nany place in thy father's house to lodge?\n\n24:24. And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of\nMelcha, whom she bore to Nachor.\n\n24:25. And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw\nand hay, and a large place to lodge in.\n\n24:26. The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,\n\n24:27. Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath\nnot taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me\nthe straight way into the house of my master's brother.\n\n24:28. Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she\nhad heard.\n\n24:29. And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to\nthe man, to the well.\n\n24:30. And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's\nhands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man\nspoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the\nspring of water,\n\n24:31. And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest\nthou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.\n\n24:32. And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the\ncamels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet\nof the men that were come with him.\n\n24:33. And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I\ntell my message. He answered him: Speak.\n\n24:34. And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:\n\n24:35. And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become\ngreat: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men\nservants and women servants, camels and asses.\n\n24:36. And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her old\nage, and he hath given him all that he had.\n\n24:37. And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife\nfor my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:\n\n24:38. But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of\nmy own kindred for my son:\n\n24:39. But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with\nme?\n\n24:40. The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel\nwith thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my\nson of my own kindred, and of my father's house.\n\n24:41. But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my\nkindred, if they will not give thee one.\n\n24:42. And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my\nmaster, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,\n\n24:43. Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall\ncome out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to\ndrink of thy pitcher:\n\n24:44. And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for\nthy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for\nmy master's son.\n\n24:45. And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca\nappeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and\nshe went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a\nlittle to drink.\n\n24:46. And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said\nto me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank,\nand she watered the camels.\n\n24:47. And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she\nanswered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha\nbore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put\nbracelets on her hands.\n\n24:48. And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my\nmaster, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the\ndaughter of my master's brother for his son.\n\n24:49. Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master,\ntell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may\ngo to the right hand, or to the left.\n\n24:50. And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the\nLord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.\n\n24:51. Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let\nher be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n24:52. Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground,\nhe adored the Lord.\n\n24:53. And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he\ngave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her\nbrothers, and to her mother.\n\n24:54. And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and\nlodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me\ndepart, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:55. And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least,\nten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.\n\n24:56. Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way:\nsend me away, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:57. And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.\n\nLet us call the maid, and ask her will... Not as to her marriage, as she\nhad already consented, but of her quitting her parents and going to her\nhusband.\n\n24:58. And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou\ngo with this man? She said: I will go.\n\n24:59. So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and\nhis company.\n\n24:60. Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our\nsister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed\npossess the gates of their enemies.\n\n24:61. So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the\nman: who with speed returned to his master.\n\n24:62. At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well\nwhich is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south\ncountry:\n\n24:63. And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now\nwell spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming\nafar off.\n\n24:64. Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,\n\n24:65. And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us\nalong the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she\nquickly took her cloak, and covered herself.\n\n24:66. And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.\n\n24:67. Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to\nwife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was\noccasioned by his mother's death.\n\nGenesis Chapter 25\n\nAbraham's children by Cetura; his death and that of Ismael. Isaac hath\nEsau and Jacob twins. Esau selleth his first birthright to Jacob.\n\n25:1. And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:\n\n25:2. Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and\nJesboc, and Sue.\n\n25:3. Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were\nAssurim, and Latusim, and Loomim.\n\n25:4. But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and\nEldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.\n\n25:5. And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:\n\n25:6. And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated\nthem from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.\n\nConcubines... Agar and Cetura are here called concubines, (though they\nwere lawful wives, and in other places are so called,) because they were\nof an inferior degree, and such in scripture are usually called\nconcubines.\n\n25:7. And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five\nyears.\n\n25:8. And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long\ntime, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.\n\n25:9. And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which\nwas situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over\nagainst Mambre,\n\n25:10. Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried,\nand Sara his wife.\n\n25:11. And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the\nwell named Of the living and seeing.\n\n25:12. These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar\nthe Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:\n\n25:13. And these are the names of his children according to their\ncalling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then\nCedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,\n\n25:14. And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,\n\n25:15. Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.\n\n25:16. These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their\ncastles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.\n\n25:17. And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven,\nand decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.\n\n25:18. And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards\nEgypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of\nall his brethren.\n\n25:19. These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham:\nAbraham begot Isaac:\n\n25:20. Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the\ndaughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.\n\n25:21. And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren:\nand he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.\n\n25:22. But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were\nto be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to\nconsult the Lord.\n\n25:23. And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two\npeoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome\nthe other, and the elder shall serve the younger.\n\n25:24. And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were\nfound in her womb.\n\n25:25. He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his\nname was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his\nbrother's foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.\n\n25:26. Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto\nhim.\n\n25:27. And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a\nhusbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.\n\n25:28. Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca\nloved Jacob.\n\n25:29. And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the\nfield,\n\n25:30. Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For\nwhich reason his name was called Edom.\n\n25:31. And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.\n\n25:32. He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?\n\n25:33. Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold\nhis first birthright.\n\n25:34. And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and\ndrank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his\nfirst birthright.\n\nGenesis Chapter 26\n\nIsaac sojourneth in Gerara, where God reneweth to him the promise made\nto Abraham. King Abimelech maketh league with him.\n\n26:1. And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which\nhad happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of\nthe Palestines, to Gerara.\n\n26:2. And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt,\nbut stay in the land that I shall tell thee.\n\n26:3. And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee:\nfor to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil\nthe oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.\n\n26:4. And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will\ngive to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the\nnations of the earth be blessed.\n\n26:5. Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and\ncommandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.\n\n26:6. So Isaac abode in Gerara.\n\n26:7. And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his\nwife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that\nshe was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of\nher beauty.\n\n26:8. And when very many days were passed, and he abode there,\nAbimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw him\nplaying with Rebecca, his wife.\n\n26:9. And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why\ndidst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I\nshould die for her sake.\n\n26:10. And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the\npeople might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a\ngreat sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:\n\n26:11. He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to\ndeath.\n\n26:12. And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a\nhundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.\n\n26:13. And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and\nincreasing, till he became exceeding great.\n\n26:14. And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great\nfamily. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,\n\n26:15. Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:\n\n26:16. Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us,\nfor thou art become much mightier than we.\n\n26:17. So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell\nthere:\n\n26:18. And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines\nhad of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which\nhis father before had called them.\n\n26:19. And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:\n\nTorrent... That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent or violent\nstream had run.\n\n26:20. But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen\nof Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the\nwell, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.\n\n26:21. And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled\nlikewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.\n\n26:22. Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they\ncontended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying:\nNow hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.\n\nLatitude... That is, wideness, or room.\n\n26:23. And he went up from that place to Bersabee,\n\n26:24. Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the\nGod of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless\nthee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.\n\n26:25. And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the\nLord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.\n\n26:26. To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and\nPhicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,\n\n26:27. Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate,\nand have thrust out from you?\n\n26:28. And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and\ntherefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a\ncovenant,\n\n26:29. That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing\nof thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent\nthee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.\n\n26:30. And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:\n\n26:31. Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent\nthem away peaceably to their own home.\n\n26:32. And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him\nof a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.\n\n26:33. Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was\ncalled Bersabee, even to this day.\n\n26:34. And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the\ndaughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of\nthe same place.\n\n26:35. And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.\n\nGenesis Chapter 27\n\nJacob, by him mother's counsel, obtaineth his father's blessing instead\nof Esau. And by her is advised to fly to his uncle Laban.\n\n27:1. Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see:\nand he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n27:2. And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know not\nthe day of my death.\n\n27:3. Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou\nhast taken something by hunting,\n\n27:4. Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring\nit that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.\n\n27:5. And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to\nfulfil his father's commandment,\n\n27:6. She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau,\nthy brother, and saying to him:\n\n27:7. Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and\nbless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.\n\n27:8. Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:\n\n27:9. And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I\nmay make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.\n\n27:10. Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless\nthee before he die.\n\n27:11. And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a\nhairy man, and I am smooth:\n\n27:12. If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will\nthink I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead\nof a blessing.\n\n27:13. And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only\nhear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.\n\n27:14. He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed\nmeats, such as she knew his father liked.\n\n27:15. And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at\nhome with her:\n\n27:16. And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and\ncovered the bare of his neck.\n\n27:17. And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that\nshe had baked.\n\n27:18. Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he\nanswered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?\n\n27:19. And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou\ndidst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may\nbless me.\n\nI am Esau thy firstborn... St. Augustine (L. Contra mendacium, c. 10),\ntreating at large upon this place, excuseth Jacob from a lie, because\nthis whole passage was mysterious, as relating to the preference which\nwas afterwards to be given to the Gentiles before the carnal Jews, which\nJacob by prophetic light might understand. So far is certain, that the\nfirst birthright, both by divine election and by Esau's free cession\nbelonged to Jacob: so that if there were any lie in the case, it could\nbe no more than an officious and venial one.\n\n27:20. And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly,\nmy son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came\nquickly in my way:\n\n27:21. And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and\nmay prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.\n\n27:22. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said:\nThe voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of\nEsau.\n\n27:23. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the\nelder. Then blessing him,\n\n27:24. He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.\n\n27:25. Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my\nsoul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he\noffered him wine also, which after he had drunk,\n\n27:26. He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.\n\n27:27. He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the\nfragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the smell\nof my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath\nblessed.\n\n27:28. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the\nearth, abundance of corn and wine.\n\n27:29. And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord\nof thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee.\nCursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled\nwith blessings.\n\n27:30. Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out\nabroad, Esau came,\n\n27:31. And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in\nhunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that\nthy soul may bless me.\n\n27:32. And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy\nfirstborn son, Esau.\n\n27:33. Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and\nwondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even\nnow brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou\ncamest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.\n\n27:34. Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great\ncry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.\n\n27:35. And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.\n\n27:36. But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath\nsupplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before,\nand now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he\nsaid to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?\n\nJacob... That is, a supplanter.\n\n27:37. Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all\nhis brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine,\nand after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?\n\n27:38. And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I\nbeseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,\n\n27:39. Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in\nthe dew of heaven from above,\n\n27:40. Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt\nserve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off\nand loose his yoke from thy neck.\n\n27:41. Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his\nfather had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of\nthe mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.\n\n27:42. These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob,\nher son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill\nthee.\n\n27:43. Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my\nbrother, to Haran:\n\n27:44. And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy\nbrother be assuaged,\n\n27:45. And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast\ndone to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither.\nWhy shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?\n\n27:46. And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the\ndaughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I\nchoose not to live.\n\nGenesis Chapter 28\n\nJacob's journey to Mesopotamia: his vision and vow.\n\n28:1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying:\nTake not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:\n\n28:2. But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house\nof Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the\ndaughters of Laban, thy uncle.\n\n28:3. And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and\nmultiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.\n\n28:4. And give the blessings of Araham to thee, and to thy seed after\nthee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he\npromised to thy grandfather.\n\n28:5. And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to\nMesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother\nto Rebecca, his mother.\n\n28:6. And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent\nhim into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after\nthe blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of\nthe daughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:7. And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:\n\n28:8. Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the\ndaughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:9. He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before,\nMaheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.\n\n28:10. But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.\n\n28:11. And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it\nafter sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under\nhis head, slept in the same place.\n\n28:12. And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the\ntop thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and\ndescending by it.\n\n28:13. And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord\nGod of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou\nsleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.\n\n28:14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread\nabroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south:\nand IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.\n\n28:15. And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring\nthee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have\naccomplished all that I have said.\n\n28:16. And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is\nin this place, and I knew it not.\n\n28:17. And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no\nother but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.\n\n28:18. And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had\nlaid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top\nof it.\n\n28:19. And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was\ncalled Luza.\n\nBethel... This name signifies the house of God.\n\n28:20. And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall\nkeep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and\nraiment to put on,\n\n28:21. And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord\nshall be my God:\n\n28:22. And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called\nthe house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will\noffer tithes to thee.\n\nGenesis Chapter 29\n\nJacob serveth Laban seven years for Rachel: but is deceived with Lia: he\nafterwards marrieth Rachel. Lia bears him four sons.\n\n29:1. Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.\n\n29:2. And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by\nit: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was\nclosed with a great stone.\n\n29:3. And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to\nroll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the\nmouth of the well again.\n\n29:4. And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They\nanswered: Of Haran.\n\n29:5. And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor? They\nsaid: We know him.\n\n29:6. He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold,\nRachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.\n\n29:7. And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it\ntime to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep\ndrink, and so lead them back to feed.\n\n29:8. They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered\ntogether, and we remove the stone from the well's mouth, that we may\nwater the flocks.\n\n29:9. They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's\nsheep; for she fed the flock.\n\n29:10. And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german, and\nthat they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone\nwherewith the well was closed.\n\n29:11. And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his\nvoice wept.\n\n29:12. And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of\nRebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.\n\n29:13. Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran\nforth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought\nhim into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,\n\n29:14. He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of\none month were expired,\n\n29:15. He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me\nwithout wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.\n\n29:16. Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the\nyounger was called Rachel.\n\n29:17. But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a\nbeautiful countenance.\n\n29:18. And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven\nyears for Rachel, thy younger daughter.\n\n29:19. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to\nanother man; stay with me.\n\n29:20. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few\ndays, because of the greatness of his love.\n\n29:21. And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is\nfulfilled, that I may go in unto her.\n\n29:22. And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the\nfeast, made the marriage.\n\n29:23. And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,\n\n29:24. Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had\ngone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was\nLia.\n\n29:25. And he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean\nto do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?\n\n29:26. Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the\nyounger in marriage first.\n\n29:27. Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her\nalso, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.\n\n29:28. He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he\nmarried Rachel:\n\n29:29. To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.\n\n29:30. And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he\npreferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him\nother seven years.\n\n29:31. And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but\nher sister remained barren.\n\n29:32. And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben,\nsaying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.\n\n29:33. And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the\nLord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she\ncalled his name Simeon.\n\n29:34. And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said:\nNow also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three\nsons: and therefore she called his name Levi.\n\n29:35. The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will\nI praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left\nbearing.\n\nGenesis Chapter 30\n\nRachel, being barren, delivereth her handmaid to Jacob; she beareth two\nsons. Lia ceasing to bear, giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth two\nmore. Then Lia beareth other two sons and one daughter. Rachel beareth\nJoseph. Jacob, desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a certain\npart of the flock's increase, whereby he becometh exceeding rich.\n\n30:1. And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and\nsaid to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.\n\n30:2. And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath\ndeprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?\n\n30:3. But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that\nshe may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.\n\n30:4. And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,\n\n30:5. When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.\n\n30:6. And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my\nvoice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.\n\n30:7. And again Bala conceived, and bore another,\n\n30:8. For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I\nhave prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.\n\n30:9. Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her\nhandmaid, to her husband.\n\n30:10. And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,\n\n30:11. She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.\n\n30:12. Zelpha also bore another.\n\n30:13. And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me\nblessed. Therefore she called him Aser.\n\n30:14. And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the\nfield, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel\nsaid: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.\n\n30:15. She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast\ntaken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes?\nRachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's\nmandrakes.\n\n30:16. And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to\nmeet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired\nthee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.\n\n30:17. And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth\nson:\n\n30:18. And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid\nto my husband. And she called his name Issachar.\n\n30:19. And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,\n\n30:20. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also\nmy husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and\ntherefore she called his name Zabulon.\n\n30:21. After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.\n\n30:22. The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.\n\n30:23. And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my\nreproach.\n\n30:24. And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also\nanother son.\n\n30:25. And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send\nme away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.\n\n30:26. Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee,\nthat I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.\n\n30:27. Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have\nlearned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.\n\n30:28. Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.\n\n30:29. But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how\ngreat thy possession hath been in my hands.\n\n30:30. Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art\nbecome rich:  and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is\nreasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.\n\n30:31. And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require\nnothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy\nsheep again.\n\n30:32. Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of\ndivers colours, and speckled; and all that is brown and spotted, and of\ndivers colours, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall be my\nwages.\n\n30:33. And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the\ntime of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours,\nand spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats,\nshall accurse me of theft.\n\n30:34. And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.\n\n30:35. And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and\nthe he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the\nflock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he deliverdd\ninto the hands of his sons.\n\n30:36. And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and\nhis son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.\n\n30:37. And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane\ntrees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the\nparts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that\nwere whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.\n\n30:38. And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out;\nthat when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods\nbefore their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.\n\n30:39. And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep\nbeheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and\nspeckled.\n\n30:40. And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs\nbefore the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were\nLaban's, and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one\nfrom the other.\n\n30:41. So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the\ntroughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they\nmight conceive while they were looking upon them.\n\n30:42. But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did\nnot put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of\nthe first time, Jacob's.\n\n30:43. And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks,\nmaidservants and menservants, camels and asses.\n\nGenesis Chapter 31\n\nJacob's departure: he is pursued and overtaken by Laban. They make a\ncovenant.\n\n31:1. But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban,\nsaying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being\nenriched by his substance is become great.\n\n31:2. And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him\nas yesterday and the other day.\n\n31:3. Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy\nfathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:4. He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed\nthe flocks,\n\n31:5. And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards\nme as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been\nwith me.\n\n31:6. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my\npower.\n\n31:7. Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my\nwages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.\n\n31:8. If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the\nsheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou\nshalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth\nwhite ones.\n\n31:9. And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.\n\n31:10. For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my\neyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females\nwere of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.\n\n31:11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n31:12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping\nupon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I\nhave seen all that Laban hath done to thee.\n\n31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and\nmake a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and\nreturn into thy native country.\n\n31:14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the\ngoods and inheritance of our father's house?\n\n31:15. Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up\nthe price of us?\n\n31:16. But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us,\nand to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.\n\n31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon\ncamels, went his way.\n\n31:18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had\ngotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the\nland of Chanaan.\n\n31:19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole\naway her father's idols.\n\nHer father's idols... By this it appears that Laban was an idolater; and\nsome of the fathers are of opinion that Rachel stole away these idols to\nwithdraw him from idolatry, removing the occasion of his sin.\n\n31:20. And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was\nflying away.\n\n31:21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and\nhaving passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,\n\n31:22. It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.\n\n31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven\ndays; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.\n\n31:24. And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak\nnot any thing harshly against Jacob.\n\n31:25. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with\nhis brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount\nof Galaad.\n\n31:26. And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away,\nwithout my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?\n\n31:27. Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I\nmight have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with\ntimbrels, and with harps?\n\n31:28. Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou\nhast done foolishly; and now indeed,\n\n31:29. It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father\nsaid to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against\nJacob.\n\n31:30. Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a\nlonging after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?\n\n31:31. Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear\nlest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.\n\n31:32. But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou\nshalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and\nif thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said\nthis, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.\n\n31:33. So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the\nhandmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel's\ntent,\n\n31:34. She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat\nupon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,\n\n31:35. She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before\nthee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of\nwomen. So his careful search was in vain.\n\n31:36. And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault\nof mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,\n\n31:37. And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all\nthe substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy\nbrethren, and let them judge between me and thee.\n\n31:38. Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and\ngoats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:\n\n31:39. Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made\ngood all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it\nof me:\n\n31:40. Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep\ndeparted from my eyes.\n\n31:41. And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years,\nfourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed\nalso my wages ten times.\n\n31:42. Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had\nstood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld\nmy affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.\n\n31:43. Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and\nthy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my\nchildren, and grandchildren?\n\n31:44. Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a\ntestimony between me and thee.\n\n31:45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.\n\n31:46. And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they,\ngathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.\n\n31:47. And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of\ntestimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.\n\n31:48. And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee\nthis day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The\nwitness heap.\n\n31:49. The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one\nfrom the other.\n\n31:50. If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives\nover them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and\nbeholdeth.\n\n31:51. And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which\nI have set up between me and thee,\n\n31:52. Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for\na testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or\nthou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.\n\n31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their\nfather, judge betweeen us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father\nIsaac:\n\n31:54. And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called\nhis brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:\n\n31:55. But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters,\nand blessed them: and returned to his place.\n\nGenesis Chapter 32\n\nJacob's vision of angels; his message and presents to Esau; his\nwrestling with an angel.\n\n32:1. Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God\nmet him.\n\n32:2. And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he\ncalled the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.\n\n32:3. And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the\nland of Seir, to the country of Edom:\n\n32:4. And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord\nEsau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and\nhave been with him until this day:\n\n32:5. I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and\nwomenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find\nfavour in thy sight.\n\n32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy\nbrother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred\nmen.\n\n32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people\nthat was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the\ncamels, into two companies,\n\n32:8. Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other\ncompany that is left, shall escape.\n\n32:9. And Jacob said: O God of my fahter Abraham, and God of my father\nIsaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of\nthy birth, and I will do well for thee.\n\n32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth\nwhich thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over\nthis Jordan; and now I return with two companies.\n\n32:11. Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly\nafraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the\nchildren.\n\n32:12. Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my\nseed like the sand of the sea, which connot be numbered for multitude.\n\n32:13. And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the\nthings which he had, presents for his brother Esau,\n\n32:14. Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and\ntwenty rams,\n\n32:15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty\nbulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.\n\n32:16. And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by\nitself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a\nspace between drove and drove.\n\n32:17. And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau,\nand he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are\nthese before thee?\n\n32:18. Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a\npresent to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.\n\n32:19. In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all\nthat followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when\nye find him.\n\n32:20. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after\nus; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before,\nand afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.\n\n32:21. So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in\nthe camp.\n\n32:22. And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids,\nwith his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.\n\n32:23. And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,\n\n32:24. He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till\nmorning.\n\nA man, etc... This was an angel in human shape, as we learn from Osee\n12.4. He is called God, ver. 28 and 30, because he represented the\nperson of the Son of God. This wrestling, in which Jacob, assisted by\nGod, was a match for an angel, was so ordered (ver. 28,) that he might\nlearn by this experiment of the divine assistance, that neither Esau,\nnor any other man, should have power to hurt him.-It was also spiritual,\nas appeareth by his earnest prayer, urging and at last obtaining the\nangel's blessing.\n\n32:25. And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the\nsinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.\n\n32:26. And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He\nanswered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.\n\n32:27. And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.\n\n32:28. But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for\nif thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail\nagainst men?\n\n32:29. Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He\nanswered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same\nplace.\n\n32:30. And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have\nseen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.\n\nPhanuel... This word signifies the face of God, or the sight, or seeing\nof God.\n\n32:31. And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel;\nbut he halted on his foot.\n\n32:32. Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the\nsinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his\nthigh and it shrank.\n\nGenesis Chapter 33\n\nJacob and Esau meet: Jacob goeth to Salem, where he raiseth an altar.\n\n33:1. And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four\nhundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of\nthe two handmaids.\n\n33:2. And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia\nand her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.\n\n33:3. And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground\nseven times, until his brother came near.\n\n33:4. Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping\nhim fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.\n\n33:5. And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and\nsaid: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are\nthe children which God hath given to me, thy servant.\n\n33:6. Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed\nthemselves.\n\n33:7. Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like\nmanner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.\n\n33:8. And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I\nmight find favour before my lord.\n\n33:9. But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for\nthyself.\n\n33:10. And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found\nfavour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have\nseen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be\ngracious to me,\n\n33:11. And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God\nhath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his\nbrother's earnest pressing him,\n\n33:12. And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy\njourney.\n\n33:13. And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender\nchildren, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be\noverdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.\n\n33:14. May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow\nsoftly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to\nmy lord in Seir.\n\n33:15. Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least,\nwho are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said:\nThere is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my\nlord, in thy sight.\n\n33:16. So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.\n\n33:17. And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched\ntents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.\n\n33:18. And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is\nin the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and\nhe dwelt by the town.\n\n33:19. And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his\ntents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred\nlambs.\n\n33:20. And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty\nGod of Israel.\n\nGenesis Chapter 34\n\nDina is ravished, for which the Sichemites are destroyed.\n\n34:1. And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that\ncountry.\n\n34:2. And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that\nland, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with\nher, ravishing the virgin.\n\n34:3. And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he\ncomforted her with sweet words.\n\n34:4. And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to\nwife.\n\n34:5. But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed\nin feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.\n\n34:6. And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to\nJacob,\n\n34:7. Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed,\nthey were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel,\nand committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.\n\n34:8. And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing\nfor your daughter: give her him to wife:\n\n34:9. And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your\ndaughters, and take you our daughters.\n\n34:10. And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and\npossess it.\n\n34:11. Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find\nfavour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:\n\n34:12. Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you\nshall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.\n\n34:13. The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully,\nbeing enraged at the deflowering of their sister:\n\nDeceitfully... The sons of Jacob, on this occasion, were guilty of a\ngrievous sin, as well by falsely pretending religion, as by excess of\nrevenge: though otherwise their zeal against so foul a crime was\ncommendable.\n\n34:14. We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is\nuncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.\n\n34:15. But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us,\nand all the male sex among you be circumcised:\n\n34:16. Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours; and\nwe will dwell with you, and will be one people:\n\n34:17. But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and\ndepart.\n\n34:18. Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son:\n\n34:19. And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was\nrequired: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest\nman in all his father's house.\n\n34:20. And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:\n\n34:21. These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let\nthem trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth\nmen to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will\ngive them ours.\n\n34:22. One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must\ncircumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.\n\n34:23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall\nbe ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we\nshall make one people.\n\n34:24. And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.\n\n34:25. And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was\ngreatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of\nDina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the\nmen.\n\n34:26. And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their sister\nDina out of Sichem's house.\n\n34:27. And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon\nthe slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.\n\n34:28. And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses,\nwasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.\n\n34:29. And their children and wives they took captive.\n\n34:30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to\nSimeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the\nChanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few:\nthey will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my\nhouse shall be destroyed.\n\n34:31. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?\n\nGenesis Chapter 35\n\nJacob purgeth his family from idols: goeth by God's commandment to\nBethel, and there buildeth an altar. God appearing again to Jacob\nblesseth him, and changeth his name into Israel. Rachel dieth in\nchildbirth. Isaac also dieth.\n\n35:1. In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and\ndwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when\nthou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.\n\n35:2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast\naway the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change\nyour garments.\n\n35:3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar\nto God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in\nmy journey.\n\n35:4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings\nwhich were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree,\nthat is behind the city of Sichem.\n\n35:5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the\ncities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went\naway.\n\n35:6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed\nBethel: he and all the people that were with him.\n\n35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place,\nThe house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his\nbrother.\n\n35:8. At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was\nburied at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place\nwas called, The oak of weeping.\n\n35:9. And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from\nMesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,\n\n35:10. Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall\nbe thy name. And he called him Israel.\n\nIsrael... This name signifieth one that prevaileth with God.\n\n35:11. And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be\nmultiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings\nshall come out of thy loins.\n\n35:12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to\nthee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n35:13. And he departed from him.\n\n35:14. But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had\nspoken to him: pouring drink fferings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:\n\n35:15. And calling the name of that place Bethel.\n\n35:16. And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the\nland which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,\n\n35:17. By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the\nmidwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.\n\n35:18. And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at\nhand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my\npain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right\nhand.\n\n35:19. So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to\nEphrata, this is Bethlehem.\n\n35:20. And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar\nof Rachel's monument, to this day.\n\n35:21. Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.\n\n35:22. And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with\nBala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the\nsons of Jacob were twelve.\n\nThe concubine... She was his lawful wife; but, according to the style of\nthe Hebrews, is called concubine, because of her servile extraction.\n\n35:23. The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and\nJuda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.\n\n35:24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n35:25. The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.\n\n35:26. The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the\nsons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.\n\n35:27. And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee,\nthis is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.\n\n35:28. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.\n\n35:29. And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people,\nbeing old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.\n\nGenesis Chapter 36\n\nEsau with his wives and children parteth from Jacob. An account of his\ndescendants, and of the first kings of Edom.\n\n36:1. And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.\n\n36:2. Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of\nElon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of\nSebeon the Hevite:\n\nAda... These wives of Esau are called by other names, Gen. 26. But it\nwas very common amongst the ancients for the same persons to have two\nnames, as Esau himself was also called Edom.\n\n36:3. And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.\n\n36:4. And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.\n\n36:5. Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of\nEsau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.\n\n36:6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every\nsoul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was\nable to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country,\nand departed from his brother Jacob.\n\n36:7. For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together:\nneither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the\nmultitude of their flocks.\n\n36:8. And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.\n\n36:9. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in\nmount Seir.\n\n36:10. And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the wife\nof Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.\n\n36:11. And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.\n\n36:12. And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she\nbore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:13. And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza.\nThese were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:14. And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the\ndaughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and\nIhelon, and Core.\n\n36:15. These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the\nfirstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,\n\n36:16. Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of\nEliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.\n\n36:17. And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath,\nduke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in\nthe land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:18. And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus,\nduke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of\nAna, and wife of Esau.\n\n36:19. These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same\nis Edom.\n\n36:20. These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the\nland: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,\n\n36:21. And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites,\nthe sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.\n\n36:22. And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was\nThamna.\n\n36:23. And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and\nSepho, and Onam.\n\n36:24. And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found\nthe hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon, his\nfather:\n\n36:25. And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.\n\n36:26. And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and\nJethram, and Charan.\n\n36:27. These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.\n\n36:28. And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.\n\n36:29. These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke\nSebeon, duke Ana,\n\n36:30. Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the\nHorrites that ruled in the land of Seir.\n\n36:31. And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children\nof Israel had a king, were these:\n\n36:32. Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.\n\n36:33. And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n36:34. And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n36:35. And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his\nstead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Boab; and the name\nof his city was Avith.\n\n36:36. And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of\nMasreca.\n\n36:37. And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n36:38. And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor, succeeded\nto the kingdom.\n\n36:39. This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the name\nof his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of\nMatred, daughter of Mezaab.\n\n36:40. And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds,\nand places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,\n\n36:41. Duke Oolibama, duke Ela,  duke Phinon,\n\n36:42. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,\n\n36:43. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in\nthe land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the\nEdomites.\n\nGenesis Chapter 37\n\nJoseph's dreams: he is sold by his brethren, and carried into Egypt.\n\n37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father\nsojourned.\n\n37:2. And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years\nold, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he\nwas with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he\naccused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.\n\n37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in\nhis old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.\n\n37:4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than\nall his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him.\n\n37:5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he\nhad dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.\n\nA dream... These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God;\nas were also those which he interpreted, Gen. 40. and 41.; otherwise\ngenerally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the\nScripture, as superstitious and sinful. See Deut. 18.10; Eccli. 34.2,3.\n\n37:6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.\n\n37:7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose\nas it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before\nmy sheaf.\n\n37:8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be\nsubject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words\nministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.\n\n37:9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying:\nI saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars\nworshipping me.\n\n37:10. And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father\nrebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed?\nshall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?\n\nWorship... This word is not used here to signify divine worship, but an\ninferior veneration, expressed by the bowing of the body, and that,\naccording to the manner of the eastern nations, down to the ground.\n\n37:11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the\nthing with himself.\n\n37:12. And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father's\nflocks,\n\n37:13. Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come,\nI will send thee to them. And when he answered:\n\n37:14. I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well\nwith thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is\ndoing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:\n\n37:15. And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what\nhe sought.\n\n37:16. But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the\nflocks.\n\n37:17. And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I\nheard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his\nbrethren, and found them in Dothain.\n\n37:18. And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they\nthought to kill him:\n\n37:19. And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.\n\n37:20. Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we\nwill say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear\nwhat his dreams avail him:\n\n37:21. And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their\nhands, and said:\n\n37:22. Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into\nthis pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now\nhe said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to\nrestore him to his father.\n\n37:23. And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him\nof his outside coat, that was of divers colours:\n\n37:24. And cast him into an old pit where there was not water.\n\n37:25. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their\nway coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm,\nand myrrh to Egypt.\n\n37:26. And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our\nbrother, and conceal his blood?\n\n37:27. It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our\nhands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren\nagreed to his words.\n\n37:28. And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of\nthe pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver:\nand they led him into Egypt.\n\n37:29. And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:\n\n37:30. And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The\nboy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?\n\n37:31. And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid,\nwhich they had killed:\n\n37:32. Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we\nhave found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.\n\n37:33. And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an\nevil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.\n\n37:34. And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his\nson a long time.\n\n37:35. And all his children being gathered together to comfort their\nfather in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go\ndown to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,\n\nInto hell... That is, into limbo, the place where the souls of the just\nwere received before the death of our Redeemer. For allowing that the\nword hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot be so taken in\nthis place; since Jacob did not believe his son to be in the grave,\n(whom he supposed to be devoured by a wild beast,) and therefore could\nnot mean to go down to him thither: but certainly meant the place of\nrest where he believed his soul to be.\n\n37:36. The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, captain of the soldiers.\n\nAn eunuch... This word sometimes signifies a chamberlain, courtier, or\nofficer of the king: and so it is taken in this place.\n\nGenesis Chapter 38\n\nThe sons of Juda: the death of Her and Onan: the birth of Phares and\nZara.\n\n38:1. At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a\ncertain Odollamite, named Hiras.\n\n38:2. And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and\ntaking her to wife, he went in unto her.\n\n38:3. And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her.\n\n38:4. And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan.\n\n38:5. She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth,\nshe ceased to bear any more.\n\n38:6. And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was\nThamar.\n\n38:7. And Her, the first born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the\nLord: and was slain by him.\n\n38:8. Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's wife\nand marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.\n\n38:9. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to\nhis brother's wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children\nshould be born in his brother's name.\n\n38:10. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable\nthing:\n\n38:11. Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow\nin thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest\nhe also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in\nher father's house.\n\n38:12. And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of\nJuda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up\nto Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite,\nthe shepherd of his flock.\n\n38:13. And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to\nThamnas to shear his sheep.\n\n38:14. And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil:\nand changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas:\nbecause Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.\n\n38:15. When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had\ncovered her face, lest she should be known.\n\n38:16. And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he\nknew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou\ngive me to enjoy my company?\n\n38:17. He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she\nsaid again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till\nthou send what thou promisest.\n\n38:18. Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy\nring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The\nwoman therefore at one copulation conceived.\n\n38:19. And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which\nshe had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.\n\n38:20. And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he\nmight receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but he,\nnot finding her,\n\n38:21. Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the\ncross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this\nplace,\n\n38:22. He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her;\nmoreover, the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a\nharlot there.\n\n38:23. Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge\nus with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find\nher.\n\n38:24. And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar,\nthy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a\nbig belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.\n\n38:25. But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law,\nsaying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See\nwhose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.\n\n38:26. But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I:\nbecause I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.\n\n38:27. And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins\nin her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a\nhand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:\n\n38:28. This shall come forth the first.\n\n38:29. But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman\nsaid: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his\nname Phares.\n\nPhares... That is, a breach or division.\n\n38:30. Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet\nthread: and she called his name Zara.\n\nGenesis Chapter 39\n\nJoseph hath charge of his master's house: rejecteth his mistress's\nsolicitations: is falsely accused by her, and cast into prison, where he\nhath the charge of all the prisoners.\n\n39:1. And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the\nIsmaelites, by whom he was brought.\n\n39:2. And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all\nthings: and he dwelt in his master's house:\n\n39:3. Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that\nhe did to prosper in his hand.\n\n39:4. And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered\nto him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed\nto him, and all things that were delivered to him:\n\n39:5. And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake,\nand multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.\n\n39:6. Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And\nJoseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.\n\n39:7. And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and\nsaid: Lie with me.\n\n39:8. But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her:\nBehold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what\nhe hath in his own house:\n\n39:9. Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he\nhath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do\nthis wicked thing, and sin against my God?\n\n39:10. With such words as these day by day, both the woman was\nimportunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.\n\n39:11. Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the\nhouse, and was doing some business, without any man with him:\n\n39:12. And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But\nhe leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out.\n\n39:13. And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself\ndisregarded,\n\n39:14. She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he\nhath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me;\nand when I cried out,\n\n39:15. And he heard my voice, he left the garment that I held, and got\nhim out.\n\n39:16. For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and\nshewed it to her husband when he returned home:\n\nA proof of her fidelity... or an argument to gain credit, argumentum\nfidei.\n\n39:17. And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me\nto abuse me.\n\n39:18. And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and\nfled out.\n\n39:19. His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to\nhis wife's words, was very angry,\n\n39:20. And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were\nkept, and he was there shut up.\n\n39:21. But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him\nfavour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison:\n\n39:22. Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in\ncustody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.\n\n39:23. Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all\nthings to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to\nprosper.\n\nGenesis Chapter 40\n\nJoseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Pharao's servants in prison:\nthe event declareth the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is\nforgotten.\n\n40:1. After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the\nbaker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.\n\n40:2. And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler,\nthe other chief baker,)\n\n40:3. He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in\nwhich Joseph also was prisoner.\n\n40:4. But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he\nserved them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.\n\n40:5. And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the\ninterpretation agreeing to themselves:\n\n40:6. And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them\nsad,\n\n40:7. He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than\nusual?\n\n40:8. They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to\ninterpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation\nbelong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:\n\nDoth not interpretation belong to God?... When dreams are from God, as\nthese were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But the\ngenerality of dreams are not of this sort; but either proceed from the\nnatural complexions and dispositions of persons, or the roving of their\nimaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with,\nor from their mind being disturbed with cares and troubles, and\noppressed with bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil\nspirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds, in order to gain belief,\nand so draw them into error or superstition; or at least to trouble them\nin their sleep, whom they cannot move when they are awake: so that the\ngeneral rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to give\nany credit to them.\n\n40:9. The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,\n\n40:10. On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out\nbuds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:\n\n40:11. And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and\npressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.\n\n40:12. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree branches, are yet three days:\n\n40:13. After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore\nthee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according\nto thy office, as before thou was wont to do.\n\n40:14. Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this\nkindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:\n\n40:15. For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here\nwithout any fault was cast into the dungeon.\n\n40:16. The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream,\nsaid: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my\nhead:\n\n40:17. And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats\nthat are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.\n\n40:18. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree baskets, are yet three days:\n\n40:19. After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on\na cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.\n\n40:20. The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made\na great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief\nbutler, and the chief baker.\n\n40:21. And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:\n\n40:22. The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the\ninterpreter might be shewn.\n\n40:23. But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his\ninterpreter.\n\nGenesis Chapter 41\n\nJoseph interpreteth the two dreams of Pharao: he is made ruler over all\nEgypt.\n\n41:1. After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the\nriver,\n\n41:2. Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they\nfed in marshy places.\n\n41:3. Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and lean\nfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:\n\n41:4. And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well\nconditioned. So Pharao awoke.\n\n41:5. He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came\nup upon one stalk full and fair:\n\n41:6. Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,\n\n41:7. And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his\nrest:\n\n41:8. And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all\nthe interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being\ncalled for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could\ninterpret it.\n\n41:9. Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my\nsin:\n\n41:10. The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the\nchief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.\n\n41:11. Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to\ncome.\n\n41:12. There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain\nof the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,\n\n41:13. And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be\nso. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.\n\n41:14. Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the\nprison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to\nhim.\n\n41:15. And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one\nthat can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at\ninterpreting them:\n\n41:16. Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous\nanswer.\n\n41:17. So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the\nbank of the river,\n\n41:18. And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and\nfull of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.\n\n41:19. And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill\nfavoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:\n\n41:20. And they devoured and consumed the former,\n\n41:21. And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and\nill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,\n\n41:22. And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk,\nfull and very fair.\n\n41:23. Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:\n\n41:24. And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to\nthe conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.\n\n41:25. Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to\nPharao what he is about to do.\n\n41:26. The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven\nyears of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.\n\n41:27. And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the\nseven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years\nof famine to come:\n\n41:28. Which shall be fulfilled in this order.\n\n41:29. Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole\nland of Egypt:\n\n41:30. After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity,\nthat all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall\nconsume all the land,\n\n41:31. And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of\nthe plenty.\n\n41:32. And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to\nthe same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God\ncometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.\n\n41:33. Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man,\nand make him ruler over the land of Egypt:\n\n41:34. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather\ninto barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful\nyears,\n\n41:35. That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up,\nunder Pharao's hands, and be reserved in the cities.\n\n41:36. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to\ncome, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with\nscarcity.\n\n41:37. The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.\n\n41:38. And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full\nof the spirit of God?\n\n41:39. He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that\nthou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?\n\n41:40. Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth\nall the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above\nthee.\n\n41:41. And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee\nover the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:42. And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into  his\nhand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about\nhis neck.\n\n41:43. And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier\nproclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they\nshould know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:44. And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment\nno man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:45. And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the\nsaviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of\nPutiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of\nEgypt.\n\nThe saviour of the world... Zaphnah paaneah.\n\n41:46. (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao),\nand he went round all the countries of Egypt.\n\n41:47. And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being\nbound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.\n\n41:48. And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.\n\n41:49. And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to\nthe sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.\n\n41:50. And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom\nAseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.\n\n41:51. And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God\nhath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.\n\nManasses... That is, oblivion, or forgetting.\n\n41:52. And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow\nin the land of my poverty.\n\nEphraim... That is, fruitful, or growing.\n\n41:53. Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were\npassed:\n\n41:54. The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to\ncome: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread\nin all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:55. And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried\nto Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that\nhe shall say to you.\n\n41:56. And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened\nall the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed\nthem also.\n\n41:57. And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some\nrelief of their want.\n\nGenesis Chapter 42\n\nJacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt. Their treatment by\nJoseph.\n\n42:1. And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons:\nWhy are ye careless?\n\n42:2. I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us\nnecessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.\n\n42:3. So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:\n\n42:4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his\nbrethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.\n\n42:5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to\nbuy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by\nhis direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to\nhim,\n\n42:7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat\nroughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of\nChanaan, to buy necessaries of life.\n\n42:8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.\n\n42:9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said\nto them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the\nland.\n\nYou are spies... This he said by way of examining them, to see what they\nwould answer.\n\n42:10. But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come\nto buy food.\n\n42:11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men,\nneither do thy servants go about any evil.\n\n42:12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider\nthe unfenced parts of this land.\n\n42:13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of\none man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the\nother is not living.\n\n42:14. He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.\n\n42:15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao,\nyou shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.\n\n42:16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till\nwhat you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by\nthe health of Pharao you are spies.\n\nOr else by the health of Pharao you are spies... That is, if these\nthings you say be proved false, you are to be held for spies for your\nlying, and shall be treated as such. Joseph dealt in this manner with\nhis brethren, to bring them by the means of affliction to a sense of\ntheir former sin, and a sincere repentance for it.\n\n42:17. So he put them in prison three days.\n\n42:18. And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as\nI have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.\n\n42:19. If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in\nprison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought,\nunto your houses.\n\n42:20. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words\nto be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.\n\n42:21. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these\nthings, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish\nof his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is\nthis affliction come upon us.\n\n42:22. And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin\nagainst the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is\nrequired.\n\n42:23. And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to\nthem by an interpreter.\n\n42:24. And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and\nreturning, he spoke to them.\n\n42:25. And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he\ncommanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every\nman's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions\nfor the way: and they did so.\n\n42:26. But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.\n\n42:27. And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in\nthe inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth,\n\n42:28. And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it\nis in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one\nanother: What is this that God hath done unto us?\n\n42:29. And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and\nthey told him all things that had befallen them, saying:\n\n42:30. The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies\nof the country.\n\n42:31. And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.\n\n42:32. We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the\nyoungest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:33. And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable\nmen: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision\nfor your houses, and go your ways,\n\n42:34. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are\nnot spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison:\nand afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.\n\n42:35. When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every\nman found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being\nastonished together,\n\n42:36. Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children:\nJoseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will\ntake away: all these evils are fallen upon me.\n\n42:37. And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not\nagain to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.\n\n42:38. But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is\ndead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to\nwhich you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.\n\nTo hell... That is, to that place, where the souls then remained, as\nabove, chapter 37. ver. 35.\n\nGenesis Chapter 43\n\nThe sons of Jacob go again into Egypt with Benjamin. They are\nentertained by Joseph.\n\n43:1. In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.\n\n43:2. And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought\nout of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little\nfood.\n\n43:3. Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an\noath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest\nbrother with you.\n\n43:4. If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together,\nand will buy necessaries for thee.\n\n43:5. But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have\noften said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without\nyour youngest brother.\n\n43:6. Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you\ntold him you had also another brother.\n\n43:7. But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our\nkindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him\nregularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would\nsay: Bring hither your brother with you?\n\n43:8. And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set\nforward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.\n\n43:9. I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him\nagain, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for\never.\n\n43:10. If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second\ntime.\n\n43:11. Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you\nwill: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry\ndown presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh,\nturpentine, and almonds.\n\nBalm... Literally rosin, resinae; but here by that name is meant balm.\n\n43:12. And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in\nyour sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.\n\n43:13. And take also your brother, and go to the man.\n\n43:14. And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back\nwith you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me\nI shall be desolate without children.\n\n43:15. So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and\nwent down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.\n\n43:16. And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded\nthe steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and\nkill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at\nnoon.\n\n43:17. He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.\n\n43:18. And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of\nthe money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are\nbrought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by\nviolence make slaves of us and our asses.\n\n43:19. Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,\n\n43:20. They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. We came down once\nbefore to buy food:\n\n43:21. And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our\nsacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now\nbrought again in the same weight.\n\n43:22. And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we\ncannot tell who put it in our bags.\n\n43:23. But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the\nGod of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the\nmoney, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to\nthem.\n\n43:24. And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and\nthey washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.\n\n43:25. But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon:\nfor they had heard that they should eat bread there.\n\n43:26. Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the\npresents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their\nface to the ground.\n\n43:27. But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is\nthe old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet\nliving?\n\n43:28. And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is\nyet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.\n\n43:29. And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the\nsame mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me?\nAnd he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.\n\n43:30. And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother,\nand tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.\n\n43:31. And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained\nhimself, and said: Set bread on the table.\n\n43:32. And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren\napart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is\nunlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such\na feast profane):\n\n43:33. They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,\nand the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;\n\n43:34. Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater\nmess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they\ndrank, and were merry with him.\n\nGenesis Chapter 44\n\nJoseph's contrivance to stop his brethren. The humble supplication of\nJuda.\n\n44:1. And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their\nsacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every\none in the top of his sack.\n\n44:2. And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the\nprice which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.\n\n44:3. And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.\n\n44:4. And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone\nforward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said:\nArise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say\nto them: Why have you returned evil for good?\n\n44:5. The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh,\nand in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.\n\n44:6. He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he\nspoke to them the same words.\n\n44:7. And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy\nservants had committed so heinous a fact?\n\n44:8. The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back\nto thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should\nsteal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?\n\n44:9. With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou\nseekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.\n\n44:10. And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with\nwhomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be\nblameless.\n\n44:11. Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every\nman opened his sack.\n\n44:12. Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending\nat the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.\n\n44:13. Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again,\nreturned into the town.\n\n44:14. And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he\nwas not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down\nbefore him on the ground.\n\n44:15. And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there\nis no one like me in the science of divining.\n\nThe science of divining... He speaks of himself according to what he was\nesteemed in that kingdom. And indeed, he being truly a prophet, knew\nmore without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers.\n\n44:16. And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall\nwe say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of\nthy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he\nwith whom the cup was found.\n\n44:17. Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole\nthe cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.\n\n44:18. Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord,\nlet thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy\nservant: for after Pharao thou art.\n\n44:19. My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a\nfather or a brother.\n\n44:20. And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a\nyoung boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is\ndead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him\ntenderly.\n\n44:21. And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I\nwill set my eyes on him.\n\n44:22. We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if\nhe leave him, he will die.\n\n44:23. And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother\ncome with you, you shall see my face no more.\n\n44:24. Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told\nhim all that my lord had said.\n\n44:25. And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.\n\n44:26. And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down\nwith us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not\nsee the man's face.\n\n44:27. Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.\n\n44:28. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he\nappeareth not.\n\n44:29. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you\nwill bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\n44:30. Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy\nbe wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)\n\n44:31. And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy\nservants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\nHis gray hairs... That is, his person, now far advanced in years.-With\nsorrow unto hell... The Hebrew word for hell is here sheol, the Greek\nhades: it is not taken for the hell of the damned; but for that place of\nsouls below where the servants of God were kept before the coming of\nChrist. Which place, both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named\nhell.\n\n44:32. Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and\npromised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin\nagainst my father for ever.\n\n44:33. Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the\nservice of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.\n\n44:34. For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a\nwitness of the calamity that will oppress my father.\n\nGenesis Chapter 45\n\nJoseph maketh himself known to his brethren: and sendeth for his father.\n\n45:1. Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by:\nwhereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be\npresent at their knowing one another.\n\n45:2. And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and\nall the house of Pharao heard.\n\n45:3. And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet living?\nHis brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding great\nfear.\n\n45:4. And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were\ncome near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into\nEgypt.\n\n45:5. Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you\nsold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for\nyour preservation.\n\n45:6. For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land,\nand five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor\nreaping.\n\n45:7. And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth,\nand may have food to live.\n\n45:8. Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who\nhath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house,\nand governor in all the land of Egypt.\n\n45:9. Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith\nthy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come\ndown to me, linger not.\n\n45:10. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be\nnear me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy\nherds, and all things that thou hast.\n\n45:11. And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of\nfamine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things\nthat thou hast.\n\n45:12. Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see that\nit is my mouth that speaketh to you.\n\n45:13. You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you\nhave seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.\n\n45:14. And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced\nhim and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.\n\n45:15. And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of\nthem: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.\n\n45:16. And it was heard, and the fame was spread abroad in the king's\ncourt: The brethren of Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family\nwas glad.\n\n45:17. And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his\nbrethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,\n\n45:18. And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to\nme; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat\nthe marrow of the land.\n\n45:19. Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt,\nfor the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up\nyour father, and make haste to come with all speed:\n\n45:20. And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of\nEgypt shall be yours.\n\n45:21. And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them\nwagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the way.\n\n45:22. He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two\nrobes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with five\nrobes of the best:\n\n45:23. Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides,\nten he asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she\nasses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.\n\n45:24. So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to\nthem: Be not angry in the way.\n\n45:25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan,\nto their father Jacob.\n\n45:26. And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is\nruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it\nwere out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.\n\n45:27. They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And\nwhen he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,\n\n45:28. And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet\nliving: I will go and see him before I die.\n\nGenesis Chapter 46\n\nIsrael, waranted by a vision from God, goeth down into Egypt with all\nhis family.\n\n46:1. And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the\nwell of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father\nIsaac,\n\nThe well of the oath... Bersabee.\n\n46:2. He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to\nhim: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.\n\n46:3. God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not,\ngo down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.\n\n46:4. I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again\nfrom thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.\n\n46:5. And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him\nup, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent\nto carry the old man,\n\n46:6. And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt\nwith all his seed;\n\n46:7. His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring\ntogether.\n\n46:8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered\ninto Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,\n\n46:9. The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.\n\n46:10. The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and\nSohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan.\n\n46:11. The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.\n\n46:12. The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara.\nAnd Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to\nPhares: Hesron and Hamul.\n\n46:13. The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron.\n\n46:14. The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel.\n\n46:15. These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria,\nwith Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters,\nthirty-three.\n\n46:16. The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and Heri\nand Arodi, and Areli.\n\n46:17. The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and\nSara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.\n\n46:18. These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his\ndaughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.\n\n46:19. The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n46:20. And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth,\nthe daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Manasses and\nEphraim.\n\n46:21. The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and\nNaaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.\n\n46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the\nsouls, fourteen.\n\n46:23. The sons of Dan: Husim.\n\n46:24. The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.\n\n46:25. These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his\ndaughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.\n\n46:26. All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out\nof his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.\n\n46:27. And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of\nEgypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into\nEgypt, were seventy.\n\n46:28. And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he\nshould meet him in Gessen.\n\n46:29. And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and\nwent up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell\nupon his neck, and embracing him, wept.\n\n46:30. And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, becuase\nI have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.\n\n46:31. And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father's house: I\nwill go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and\nmy father's house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me:\n\n46:32. And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed\ncattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought\nwith them.\n\n46:33. And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your\noccupation?\n\n46:34. You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our\ninfancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that\nyou may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all\nshepherds in abomination.\n\nGenesis Chapter 47\n\nJacob and his sons are presented before Pharao: he giveth them the land\nof Gessen. The famine forceth the Egyptians to sell all their\npossessions to the king.\n\n47:1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and\nbrethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are\ncome out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of\nGessen.\n\n47:2. Five men also, the last of his brethren, he presented before the\nking:\n\nThe last...Extremos. Some interpret this word of the chiefest, and most\nrightly: but Joseph seems rather to have chosen out such as had the\nmeanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing them at\ncourt, with danger of their morals and religion.\n\n47:3. And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy\nservants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.\n\n47:4. We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for\nthe flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land\nof Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be\nin the land of Gessen.\n\n47:5. The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are\ncome to thee.\n\n47:6. The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best\nplace, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there\nare industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.\n\n47:7. After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and presented\nhim before him: and he blessed him.\n\n47:8. And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy\nlife?\n\n47:9. He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty\nyears, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the\npilgrimage of my fathers.\n\n47:10. And blessing the king, he went out.\n\n47:11. But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in\nEgypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had\ncommanded.\n\n47:12. And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food\nto every one.\n\n47:13. For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had\noppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;\n\n47:14. Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they\nbought, and brought it in to the king's treasure.\n\n47:15. And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph,\nsaying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no\nmoney?\n\n47:16. And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will\ngive you food, if you have no money.\n\n47:17. And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for\ntheir horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them\nthat year for the exchange of their cattle.\n\n47:18. And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide\nfrom our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are\ngone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our\nbodies and our lands.\n\n47:19. Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine,\nboth we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us\nseed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.\n\n47:20. So Joesph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his\npossessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it\ninto Pharao's hands:\n\n47:21. And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to\nthe other end thereof,\n\n47:22. Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the\nking: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the\npublic stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their\npossessions.\n\n47:23. Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and\nyour lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,\n\n47:24. That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the\nking; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your\nfamilies and children.\n\n47:25. And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord look\nfavourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.\n\n47:26. From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the\nfifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the\nland of the priests, which was free from this covenant.\n\n47:27. So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and\npossessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.\n\n47:28. And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life\ncame to a hundred and forty-seven years.\n\n47:29. And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called\nhis son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight,\nput thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and\ntruth, not to bury me in Egypt.\n\n47:30. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out\nof this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And\nJoseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.\n\n47:31. And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel\nadored God, turning to the bed's head.\n\nTo the bed's head... St. Paul, Heb. 11.21, following the Greek\ntranslation of the Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where\nnote, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the different\npointing of it, signifies both a bed and a rod. And to verify both these\nsentences, we must understand that Jacob leaning on Joseph's rod adored,\nturning towards the head of his bed: which adoration, inasmuch as it was\nreferred to God, was an absolute and sovereign worship: but inasmuch as\nit was referred to the rod of Joseph, as a figure of the sceptre, that\nis, of the royal dignity of Christ, was only an inferior and relative\nhonour.\n\nGenesis Chapter 48\n\nJoseph visiteth his father in his sickness, who adopteth his two sons\nManasses and Ephraim, and blesseth them, preferring the younger before\nthe elder.\n\n48:1. After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick;\nand he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.\n\n48:2. And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee.\nAnd being strengthened, he sat on his bed.\n\n48:3. And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty\napppeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed\nme,\n\n48:4. And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will\nmake of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee,\nand to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.\n\n48:5. So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before\nI came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be\nreputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.\n\n48:6. But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and\nshall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.\n\n48:7. For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the\nland of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was\ngoing to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by\nanother name is called Bethlehem.\n\n48:8. Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?\n\n48:9. He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this\nplace. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.\n\n48:10. For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he\ncould not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and\nembraced them,\n\n48:11. And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover\nGod hath shewn me thy seed.\n\n48:12. And when Joseph had taken them from his father's lap, he bowed\ndown with his face to the ground.\n\n48:13. And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, towards the left\nhand of Israel; but Manasses on his left hand, to wit, towards his\nfather's right hand, and brought them near to him.\n\n48:14. But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of\nEphraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses,\nwho was the elder, changing his hands.\n\n48:15. And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose\nsight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my\nyouth until this day:\n\n48:16. The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys:\nand let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham\nand Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.\n\n48:17. And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the\nhead of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father's hand, he\ntried to lift it from Ephraim's head, and to remove it to the head of\nManasses.\n\n48:18. And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father; for\nthis is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.\n\n48:19. But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also\nshall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother\nshall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.\n\n48:20. And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be\nblessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to\nManasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.\n\n48:21. And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be\nwith you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.\n\n48:22. I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the\nhand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.\n\nGenesis Chapter 49\n\nJacob's prophetical blessings of his twelve sons: his death.\n\n49:1. And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves\ntogether, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the\nlast days.\n\n49:2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken\nto Israel, your father:\n\n49:3. Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my\nsorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.\n\nMy strength, etc... He calls him his strength, as being born whilst his\nfather was in his full strength and vigour: he calls him the beginning\nof his sorrow, because cares and sorrows usually come on with the birth\nof children. Excelling in gifts, etc., because the firstborn had a title\nto a double portion, and to have the command over his brethren, which\nRuben forfeited by his sin; being poured out as water, that is, spilt\nand lost.\n\n49:4. Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest\nup to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.\n\nGrow thou not... This was not meant by way of a curse or imprecation;\nbut by way of a prophecy foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should not\ninherit the pre-eminences usually annexed to the first birthright, viz.,\nthe double portion, the being prince or lord over the other brethren,\nand the priesthood: of which the double portion was given to Joseph, the\nprincely office to Juda, and the priesthood to Levi.\n\n49:5. Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.\n\n49:6. Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their\nassembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their selfwill\nthey undermined a wall.\n\nSlew a man,... viz., Sichem the son of Hemor, with all his people, Gen.\n34.; mystically and prophetically it alludes to Christ, whom their\nposterity, viz., the priests and the scribes, put to death.\n\n49:7. Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath,\nbecause it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them\nin Israel.\n\n49:8. Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the\nnecks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.\n\n49:9. Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up:\nresting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse\nhim?\n\nA lion's whelp, etc... This blessing of Juda foretelleth the strength of\nhis tribe, the fertility of his inheritance; and principally that the\nsceptre and legislative power should not be utterly taken away from his\nrace till about the time of the coming of Christ: as in effect it never\nwas: which is a demonstration against the modern Jews, that the Messiah\nis long since come; for the sceptre has long since been utterly taken\naway from Juda.\n\n49:10. The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from\nhis thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the\nexpectation of nations.\n\n49:11. Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the\nvine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of\nthe grape.\n\n49:12. His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than\nmilk.\n\n49:13. Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships,\nreaching as far as Sidon.\n\n49:14. Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.\n\n49:15. He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent:\nand he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.\n\n49:16. Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.\n\nDan shall judge, etc... This was verified in Samson, who was of the\ntribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel. Judges 13.5. But as this\ndeliverance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch\n(ver. 18) aspires after another kind of deliverer, saying: I will look\nfor thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:17. Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth\nthe horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.\n\n49:18. I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:19. Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall\nbe girded backward.\n\nGad being girded, etc... It seems to allude to the tribe of Gad; when\nafter they had received for their lot the land of Galaad, they marched\nin arms before the rest of the Israelites, to the conquest of the land\nof Chanaan: from whence they afterwards returned loaded with spoils. See\nJos. 4. and 12.\n\n49:20. Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to\nkings.\n\n49:21. Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.\n\n49:22. Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the\ndaughters run to and fro upon the wall;\n\nRun to and fro, etc... To behold his beauty; whilst his envious brethren\nturned their darts against him, etc.\n\n49:23. But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him,\nand envied him.\n\n49:24. His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his\nhands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he\ncame forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.\n\nHis bow rested upon the strong, etc... That is, upon God, who was his\nstrength: who also loosed his bands, and brought him out of prison to be\nthe pastor, that is, the feeder and ruler of Egypt, and the stone, that\nis, the rock and support of Israel.\n\n49:25. The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall\nbless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the\ndeep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the\nwomb.\n\n49:26. The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings\nof his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come:\nmay they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite\namong his brethren.\n\nThe blessings of thy father, etc... That is, thy father's blessings are\nmade more prevalent and effectual in thy regard, by the additional\nstrength they receive from his inheriting the blessings of his\nprogenitors Abraham and Isaac. The desire of the everlasting hills,\netc... These blessings all looked forward towards Christ, called the\ndesire of the everlasting hills, as being longed for, as it were, by the\nwhole creation. Mystically, the patriarchs and prophets are called the\neverlasting hills, by reason of the eminence of their wisdom and\nholiness. The Nazarite... This word signifies one separated; and agrees\nto Joseph, as being separated from, and more eminent than, his brethren.\nAs the ancient Nazarites were so called from their being set aside for\nGod, and vowed to him.\n\n49:27. Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and\nin the evening shall divide the spoil.\n\n49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their\nfather spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper\nblessings.\n\n49:29. And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my\npeople: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the\nfield of Ephron the Hethite,\n\nTo be gathered to my people... That is, I am going to die, and so to\nfollow my ancestors that are gone before me, and to join their company\nin another world.\n\n49:30. Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought\ntogether with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury\nin.\n\n49:31. There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried\nwith Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.\n\n49:32. And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed\nhis sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was\ngathered to his people.\n\nGenesis Chapter 50\n\nThe mourning for Jacob, and his interment. Joseph's kindness towards his\nbrethren. His death.\n\n50:1. And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping\nand kissing him.\n\n50:2. And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his\nfather.\n\n50:3. And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty\ndays: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt\nmourned for him seventy days.\n\n50:4. And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the\nfamily of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the\nears of Pharao:\n\n50:5. For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou\nshalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land\nof Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.\n\n50:6. And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he\nmade thee swear.\n\n50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of\nPharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.\n\n50:8. And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children,\nand their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.\n\n50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great\ncompany.\n\n50:10. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated\nbeyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and\nvehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.\n\n50:11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is\na great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place\nwas called, The mourning of Egypt.\n\n50:12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.\n\n50:13. And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the\ndouble cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a\npossession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against\nMambre.\n\n50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that\nwere in his company, after he had buried his father.\n\n50:15. Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with\nanother: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and\nrequite us all the evil that we did to him.\n\n50:16. And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us\nbefore he died,\n\n50:17. That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to\nforget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they\npractised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of\nthe God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he\nwept.\n\n50:18. And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the\nground, they said: We are thy servants.\n\n50:19. And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?\n\n50:20. You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he\nmight exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.\n\n50:21. Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted\nthem, and spoke gently and mildly.\n\n50:22. And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house; and lived a\nhundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third\ngeneration. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born\non Joseph's knees.\n\n50:23. After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my\ndeath, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he\nswore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n50:24. And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry\nmy bones with you out of this place:\n\n50:25. And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being\nembalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":43242}