Bereshith (Genesis)

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Gen 33:1 And Ya‛aqoḇ lifted his eyes and looked and saw Ĕsaw coming,
and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children among Lĕ’ah,
and Raḥĕl, and the two female servants.
Gen 33:2 And he put the female servants and their children in front, and
Lĕ’ah and her children behind, and Raḥĕl and Yosĕph last.
Gen 33:3 And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Gen 33:4 And Ĕsaw ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck
and kissed him, and they wept.
Gen 33:5 And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said,
“Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children with whom Elohim
has favoured your servant.”
Gen 33:6 Then the female servants came near, they and their children, and
bowed themselves.
Gen 33:7 And Lĕ’ah also came near with her children, and they bowed
themselves. And Yosĕph and Raḥĕl came near, and they bowed themselves.
Gen 33:8 Then Ĕsaw said, “What do you mean by all this company which I
met?” And he said, “To find favour in the eyes of my master.”
Gen 33:9 But Ĕsaw said, “I have enough, my brother, let what you have
remain yours.”
Gen 33:10 And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “No, please, if I have now found favour in
your eyes, then receive my present from my hand, because I have seen your
face like seeing the face of Elohim, and you were pleased with me.
Gen 33:11 “Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because Elohim
has favoured me, and because I have all I need.” And he urged him, and he
took it.
Gen 33:12 And he said, “Let us depart and go, and let me go before you.”
Gen 33:13 But he said to him, “My master knows that the children are weak,
and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men
should drive them hard one day, all the flocks shall die.
Gen 33:14 “Please let my master go before his servant, and let me lead on
slowly according to the pace of the livestock that go before me, and
according to the pace of the children, until I come to my master in Sĕ‛ir.”
Gen 33:15 And Ĕsaw said, “Please let me leave with you some of the
people who are with me.” But he said, “Why this? Let me find favour in the
eyes of my master.”
Gen 33:16 And Ĕsaw returned that day on his way to Sĕ‛ir.
Gen 33:17 And Ya‛aqoḇ set out to Sukkoth, and built himself a house, and
made booths for his livestock. That is why the name of the place is called
Sukkoth.
Gen 33:18 And Ya‛aqoḇ came safely to the city of Sheḵem, which is in the
land of Kena‛an, when he came from Paddan Aram. And he pitched his tent
before the city.
Gen 33:19 And he bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his
tent, from the children of Ḥamor, Sheḵem’s father, for one hundred qesitah.
Gen 33:20 And he set up an altar there and called it Ĕl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl.

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Gen 34:1 And Dinah, the daughter of Lĕ’ah, whom she had borne to
Ya‛aqoḇ, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Gen 34:2 And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the land, saw
her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen 34:3 And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Ya‛aqoḇ, and he
loved the girl and spoke kindly to the girl.
Gen 34:4 And Sheḵem spoke to his father Ḥamor, saying, “Take this girl for
me for a wife.”
Gen 34:5 And Ya‛aqoḇ heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now
his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Ya‛aqoḇ kept silent until they
came.
Gen 34:6 And Ḥamor, the father of Sheḵem, went out to Ya‛aqoḇ to speak
with him.
Gen 34:7 And the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ came in from the field when they heard it.
And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he had done a senseless
deed in Yisra’ĕl by lying with Ya‛aqoḇ’s daughter, which should not be done.
Gen 34:8 But Ḥamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being
longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
Gen 34:9 “And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our
daughters for yourselves,
Gen 34:10 and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and
move about in it, and have possessions in it.”
Gen 34:11 And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find
favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give.
Gen 34:12 “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give
according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.”
Gen 34:13 But the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father,
and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
Gen 34:14 And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give
our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.
Gen 34:15 “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as
we are, to have every male of you circumcised,
Gen 34:16 then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters
to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people.
Gen 34:17 “But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take
our daughter and go.”
Gen 34:18 And their words pleased Ḥamor and Sheḵem, Ḥamor’s son.
Gen 34:19 And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted
in Ya‛aqoḇ’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of
his father.
Gen 34:20 And Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son came to the gate of their city, and
spoke with the men of their city, saying,
Gen 34:21 “These men are at peace with us, so let them dwell in the land
and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take
their daughters for us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Gen 34:22 “Only on this condition would the men agree to dwell with us, to
be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are
circumcised.
Gen 34:23 “Their herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should
they not be ours? Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us.”
Gen 34:24 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Ḥamor
and Sheḵem his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the
gate of his city.
Gen 34:25 And it came to be on the third day, when they were in pain, that
two of the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ, Shim‛on and Lĕwi, Dinah’s brothers, each took
his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males.
Gen 34:26 And they killed Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah from Sheḵem’s house, and went out.
Gen 34:27 The sons of Ya‛aqoḇ came upon the slain, and plundered the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
Gen 34:28 They took their flocks and their herds, and their donkeys, and that
which was in the city and that which was in the field,
Gen 34:29 and all their wealth. And all their little ones and their wives they
took captive, and they plundered all that was in the houses.
Gen 34:30 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Shim‛on and Lĕwi, “You have troubled me
by making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Kena‛anites and the Perizzites. And I am few in number, they shall gather
themselves against me and shall smite me, and I shall be destroyed, my
household and I.”
Gen 34:31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a whore?”

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Gen 35:1 And Elohim said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Arise, go up to Bĕyth Ĕl and dwell
there. And make an altar there to Ĕl who appeared to you when you fled from
the face of Ĕsaw your brother.”
Gen 35:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to his household and to all who were with him,
“Put away the foreign mighty ones that are among you, and cleanse
yourselves, and change your garments.
Gen 35:3 “And let us arise and go up to Bĕyth Ĕl, and let me make there an
altar to Ĕl, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me
in the way which I have gone.”
Gen 35:4 So they gave Ya‛aqoḇ all the foreign mighty ones which were in
their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears. And Ya‛aqoḇ hid
them under the terebinth tree which was near Sheḵem.
Gen 35:5 And they departed, and the fear of Elohim was upon the cities that
were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ.
Gen 35:6 And Ya‛aqoḇ came to Luz, that is Bĕyth Ĕl, which is in the land of
Kena‛an, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen 35:7 And he built there an altar and called the place El Bĕyth Ĕl,
because there Elohim appeared to him when he fled from the face of his
brother.
Gen 35:8 And Deḇorah, Riḇqah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below
Bĕyth Ĕl under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Baḵuth.
Gen 35:9 And Elohim appeared to Ya‛aqoḇ again, when he came from
Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
Gen 35:10 And Elohim said to him, “Your name is Ya‛aqoḇ, your name is no
longer called Ya‛aqoḇ, but Yisra’ĕl is your name.” So He called his name
Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 35:11 And Elohim said to him, “I am Ĕl Shaddai. Bear fruit and
increase, a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and
sovereigns come from your body.
Gen 35:12 “And the land which I gave Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq I give to you.
And to your seed after you I give this land.”
Gen 35:13 And Elohim went up from him in the place where He had spoken
with him.
Gen 35:14 And Ya‛aqoḇ set up a standing column in the place where He had
spoken with him, a monument of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it,
and he poured oil on it.
Gen 35:15 And Ya‛aqoḇ called the name of the place where Elohim spoke
with him, Bĕyth Ĕl.
Gen 35:16 Then they set out from Bĕyth Ĕl. And it came to be, when there
was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, that Raḥĕl began to give birth, and
had great difficulty giving birth.
Gen 35:17 And it came to be, as she was having great difficulty giving birth,
that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for it is another son for you.”
Gen 35:18 And it came to be, as her life was going out – for she died – that
she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Binyamin.
Gen 35:19 So Raḥĕl died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is
Bĕyth Leḥem.
Gen 35:20 And Ya‛aqoḇ set a standing column on her grave, which is the
monument of Raḥĕl’s grave to this day.
Gen 35:21 And Yisra’ĕl set out and pitched his tent beyond the tower of
Ĕḏer.
Gen 35:22 And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕl dwelt in that land, that Re’uḇĕn
went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Yisra’ĕl heard about it.
Now the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ were twelve:
Gen 35:23 the sons of Lĕ’ah were Re’uḇĕn, Ya‛aqoḇ’s first-born, and
Shim‛on, and Lĕwi, and Yehuḏah, and Yissasḵar, and Zeḇulun;
Gen 35:24 the sons of Raḥĕl were Yosĕph and Binyamin;
Gen 35:25 the sons of Bilhah, Raḥĕl’s female servant, were Dan and
Naphtali;
Gen 35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Lĕ’ah’s female servant, were Gaḏ and
Ashĕr. These were the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ who were born to him in Paddan
Aram.
Gen 35:27 And Ya‛aqoḇ came to his father Yitsḥaq at Mamrĕ, or Qiryath
Arba, that is Ḥeḇron, where Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq had dwelt.
Gen 35:28 And the days of Yitsḥaq were one hundred and eighty years.
Gen 35:29 So Yitsḥaq breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his
people, aged and satisfied of days. And his sons Ĕsaw and Ya‛aqoḇ buried
him.

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Gen 36:1 And this is the genealogy of Ĕsaw, who is Eḏom.
Gen 36:2 Ĕsaw took his wives from the daughters of Kena‛an: Aḏah the
daughter of Ĕlon the Ḥittite, and Oholiḇamah the daughter of Anah, the
daughter of Tsiḇ‛on the Ḥiwwite;
Gen 36:3 and Basemath, Yishma‛ĕl’s daughter, sister of Neḇayoth.
Gen 36:4 And Aḏah bore Eliphaz to Ĕsaw, and Basemath bore Re‛uw’ĕl.
Gen 36:5 And Oholiḇamah bore Ye‛ush, and Ya‛lam, and Qoraḥ. These
were the sons of Ĕsaw who were born to him in the land of Kena‛an.
Gen 36:6 And Ĕsaw took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all
the beings of his household, and his herds and all his beasts, and all his
possessions which he had gained in the land of Kena‛an, and went to a land
away from the presence of his brother Ya‛aqoḇ.
Gen 36:7 For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together,
and the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their
herds.
Gen 36:8 So Ĕsaw dwelt in Mount Sĕ‛ir. Ĕsaw is Eḏom.
Gen 36:9 And this is the genealogy of Ĕsaw the father of the Eḏomites in
Mount Sĕ‛ir.
Gen 36:10 These were the names of Ĕsaw’s sons: Eliphaz son of Aḏah, wife
of Ĕsaw, and Re‛uw’ĕl son of Basemath, wife of Ĕsaw.
Gen 36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Tĕman, Omar, Tsepho, and Gatam,
and Qenaz.
Gen 36:12 And Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Ĕsaw’s son, and she
bore Amalĕq to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Aḏah, Ĕsaw’s wife.
Gen 36:13 These were the sons of Re‛uw’ĕl: Naḥath and Zeraḥ, Shammah
and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Ĕsaw’s wife.
Gen 36:14 These were the sons of Oholiḇamah, Ĕsaw’s wife, the daughter of
Anah, the daughter of Tsiḇ‛on. And she bore to Ĕsaw: Ye‛ush, and Ya‛lam,
and Qoraḥ.
Gen 36:15 These were the chiefs of the sons of Ĕsaw. The sons of Eliphaz,
the first-born son of Ĕsaw, were Chief Tĕman, Chief Omar, Chief Tsepho,
Chief Qenaz,
Gen 36:16 Chief Qoraḥ, Chief Gatam, Chief Amalĕq. These were the chiefs
of Eliphaz in the land of Eḏom. They were the sons of Aḏah.
Gen 36:17 And these were the sons of Re‛uw’ĕl, Ĕsaw’s son: Chief Naḥath,
Chief Zeraḥ, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of
Re‛uw’ĕl in the land of Eḏom. These were the sons of Basemath, Ĕsaw’s
wife.
Gen 36:18 And these were the sons of Oholiḇamah, Ĕsaw’s wife: Chief
Ye‛ush, Chief Ya‛lam, and Chief Qoraḥ. These were the chiefs descending
from Oholiḇamah, Ĕsaw’s wife, the daughter of Anah.
Gen 36:19 These were the sons of Ĕsaw, who is Eḏom, and these were their
chiefs.
Gen 36:20 These were the sons of Sĕ‛ir the Ḥorite who inhabited the land:
Lotan, and Shoḇal, and Tsiḇ‛on, and Anah,
Gen 36:21 and Dishon, and Ĕtser, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the
Ḥorites, the sons of Sĕ‛ir, in the land of Eḏom.
Gen 36:22 And the sons of Lotan were Ḥori and Hĕmam. Lotan’s sister was
Timna.
Gen 36:23 And these were the sons of Shoḇal: Alwan, and Manaḥath, and
Ĕyḇal, Shepho, and Onam.
Gen 36:24 And these were the sons of Tsiḇ‛on: both Ayah and Anah. This
was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he fed the donkeys of
his father Tsiḇ‛on.
Gen 36:25 And these were the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholiḇamah the
daughter of Anah.
Gen 36:26 And these were the sons of Dishon: Ḥemdan, and Eshban, and
Yithran, and Keran.
Gen 36:27 These were the sons of Ĕtser: Bilhan, and Za‛awan, and Aqan.
Gen 36:28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uts and Aran.
Gen 36:29 These were the chiefs of the Ḥorites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shoḇal,
Chief Tsiḇ‛on, Chief Anah,
Gen 36:30 Chief Dishon, Chief Ĕtser, and Chief Dishan. These were the
chiefs of the Ḥorites, according to their chiefs in the land of Sĕ‛ir.
Gen 36:31 And these were the sovereigns who reigned in the land of Eḏom
before any sovereign reigned over the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 36:32 And Bela the son of Be‛or reigned in Eḏom, and the name of his
city was Dinhaḇah.
Gen 36:33 And Bela died, and Yoḇaḇ son of Zeraḥ of Botsrah reigned in his
place.
Gen 36:34 And Yoḇaḇ died, and Ḥusham of the land of the Tĕmanites
reigned in his place.
Gen 36:35 And Ḥusham died, and Haḏaḏ son of Beḏaḏ, who smote Miḏyan
in the field of Mo’aḇ, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was
Awith.
Gen 36:36 And Haḏaḏ died, and Samlah of Masrĕqah reigned in his place.
Gen 36:37 And Samlah died, and Sha’ul of Reḥoḇoth by the River reigned in
his place.
Gen 36:38 And Sha’ul died, and Ba‛al-Ḥanan son of Aḵbor reigned in his
place.
Gen 36:39 And Ba‛al-Ḥanan son of Aḵbor died, and Haḏar reigned in his
place. And the name of his city was Pa‛u. And his wife’s name was
Mehĕtab’ĕl, the daughter of Matrĕḏ, the daughter of Mĕyzahaḇ.
Gen 36:40 And these were the names of the chiefs of Ĕsaw, according to
their clans and their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alwah,
Chief Yethĕth,
Gen 36:41 Chief Oholiḇamah, Chief Ĕlah, Chief Pinon,
Gen 36:42 Chief Qenaz, Chief Tĕman, Chief Miḇtsar,
Gen 36:43 Chief Maḡdi’ĕl, Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Eḏom,
according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. Ĕsaw was
the father of the Eḏomites.