Genesis 29 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east. ² And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field. And, lo, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it, for they watered the flocks out of that well. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great. ³ And all the flocks were gathered there. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place. ⁴ And Jacob said to them, My brothers, where are ye from? And they said, We are of Haran. ⁵ And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. ⁶ And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well. And, behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep. ⁷ And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. ⁸ And they said, We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep. ⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. ¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. ¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father. ¹³ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. ¹⁴ And Laban said to him, Surely thou are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. ¹⁵ And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou are my brother, should thou therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall thy wages be? ¹⁶ And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷ And Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. ²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. ²² And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. ²³ And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. ²⁵ And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou have done to me? Did I not serve with thee for Rachel? Why then have thou beguiled me? ²⁶ And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shall serve with me yet seven other years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife. ²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. ³⁰ And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. ³¹ And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. ³² And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because LORD has looked upon my affliction, for now my husband will love me. ³³ And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Because LORD has heard that I am regarded inferior, he has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again, and bore a son. And she said, This time I will praise LORD. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his first born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. ²³ And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

⁵ And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take for him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him an order, saying, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, ⁷ and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.

⁷ And he took up his oracle, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, they came up against them.

³³ Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the sons of the east assembled themselves together. And they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the sons of the east, for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew a sword.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

³² I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shall enlarge my heart.

⁶⁰ I made haste, and delayed not, to observe thy commandments.

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.

¹² And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

¹¹ And he made the camels to kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

¹³ Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

² He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

⁶ Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept. ⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed thy flock, where thou make it to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions?

¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them even by springs of water.

⁶ And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied from the journey, thus was sitting on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

¹⁷ Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will tend them, and will lead them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

⁴³ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.

¹⁰ And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

² And he said, Men! Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.

⁴ Then after coming out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God resettled him in this land in which ye now dwell.

²⁴ And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

⁵³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

¹⁴ And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brothers, and well with the flock, and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

²⁷ And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

⁷ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

²² And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and saluted his brothers.

⁵ And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

⁹ And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding. ¹⁰ So then as we have time, let us work what is good toward all men, and especially toward those belonging to a household of the faith.

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

³ And all the flocks were gathered there. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.

¹⁴ and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a reproach to us.

³² And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

³ And they said to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the sepulcher?

² And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, before he was done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed thy flock, where thou make it to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

²⁶ And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept.

³⁰ And Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned over his brother, and he sought where to weep. And he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

² And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

¹⁴ And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

²⁷ And LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him.

¹⁶ Salute each other by a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers.

¹⁴ And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. ¹⁵ And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and also the women, and the people.

²⁸ And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

³⁹ And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.

⁴⁵ Thou gave me no kiss, but this woman, since I came in, has not ceased kissing my feet much.

³⁷ And there developed considerable weeping of all. And having fallen on Paul's neck, they kissed him much,

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those outside, redeeming the time,

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.

¹⁵ And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou are my brother, should thou therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?

² Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Which is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy men, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

¹ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

¹² Ye are my brothers, ye are my bone and my flesh. Why then are ye the last to bring back the king? ¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Are thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou not be captain of the army before me continually in the place of Joab.

⁵ Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lies in thy bosom.

³⁰ because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

²⁸ And he said, Appoint for me thy wages, and I will give it.

⁷ And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

¹⁷ And Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

²⁵ And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou have done to me? Did I not serve with thee for Rachel? Why then have thou beguiled me? ²⁶ And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shall serve with me yet seven other years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife. ²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. ³⁰ And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. ³¹ And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. ³² And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because LORD has looked upon my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

¹⁹ And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

⁴ And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

² And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah,

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon.

¹⁶ And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

⁶ And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well. And, behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep. ⁷ And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. ⁸ And they said, We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep. ⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. ¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. ¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die. ² And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

²² And God remembered Rachel. And God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

¹⁹ And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem). ²⁰ And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he knew nothing that was with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was comely, and well-favored.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bore to him. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

⁷ And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

² When thou are departed from me today, then thou shall find two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say to thee, The donkeys which thou went to seek are found, and, lo, thy father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears LORD, she shall be praised.

¹⁵ Thus says LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

¹⁸ A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children. And she did not want to be comforted, because they are not.

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

³⁰ And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.

¹² Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me, but give me the damsel to wife.

¹⁶ And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

¹⁴ And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver to me my wife Michal whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

² So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

¹¹ Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol. The flashes of it are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. ⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

¹ And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.

¹⁶ And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in to thee, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will thou give me, that thou may come in to me?

¹ But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber, but her father would not allow him to go in.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way. For his mother Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found having in her womb from the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. ¹² And Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you. If ye can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment, ¹³ but if ye cannot declare it to me, then ye shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment. And they said to him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. ¹⁴ And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle. ¹⁵ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have ye called us to impoverish us? Is it not so? ¹⁶ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou do but hate me, and not love me. Thou have put forth a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee? ¹⁷ And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her because she pressed him greatly. And she told the riddle to the sons of her people. ¹⁸ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye would not have found out my riddle.

¹⁰ Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. Ye are witnesses this day. ¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. ¹² And let thy house be like the house of Perez whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which LORD shall give thee by this young woman. ¹³ So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

² The kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a king who made a wedding for his son. ³ And he sent forth his bondmen to call those who were invited to the wedding festivities, and they did not want to come. ⁴ Again he sent forth other bondmen, saying, Speak to those who were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding festivities. ⁵ But having disregarded, they departed, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, ⁶ and the others having seized his bondmen, abused and killed them. ⁷ But having heard that, the king was angry, and having sent forth his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. ⁸ Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding is indeed ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. ⁹ Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities. ¹⁰ And those bondmen having departed into the roads, they gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was filled with those who were dining.

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to the bridegroom's gathering. ² And five of them were wise, and five were foolish, ³ foolish women, who, having taken their lamps, took no olive oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took olive oil in their vessels with their lamps. ⁵ Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. ⁶ But at midnight a shout occurred, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go ye forth for his gathering. ⁷ Then all those virgins were roused, and put their lamps in order. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out. ⁹ But the wise answered, saying, Perhaps there may not be enough for us and you. But go ye rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut.

¹ And the third day a wedding occurred in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ² And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding. ³ And having lacked wine the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine. ⁴ And Jesus says to her, What is with me and with thee, woman? My hour is not yet here. ⁵ His mother says to the helpers, Whatever he may say to you, do. ⁶ Now there were six stone water pots laying there in accordance with the purification of the Jews, containing two or three measures each. ⁷ Jesus says to them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them until over. ⁸ And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry to the feast-ruler. And they carried. ⁹ And when the feast-ruler tasted the water that became wine, and had not known from where it was (but the helpers who drew the water had known), the feast-ruler called the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and says to him, Every man sets out the good wine first, and when they drank much, then the lesser. Thou have kept the good wine until now.

⁹ And he says to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true sayings of God.

⁶⁵ And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.

¹⁴ And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given to him to wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

⁵⁹ And they sent Rebekah their sister away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, Fortunate! And she called his name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

³⁵ And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and has taken away thy blessing. ³⁶ And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

³¹ Behold, a righteous man shall be recompensed in the earth, how much more the wicked man and the sinner!

² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.

¹² All things therefore, as many as ye may want that men should do to you, so also do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹³ each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

² And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came in to him at evening. And, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more.

¹⁸ And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

¹⁰ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

¹² And Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you. If ye can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment,

¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

²⁴ And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

³ And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain sons by her. ⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in to her. ⁵ And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. ⁶ And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan. ⁷ And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.

²² And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali.

² These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph brought the evil report of them to their father.

³¹ And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

²⁵ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. ²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.

¹⁵ Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

²⁷ And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons.

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other regarded inferior, and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one regarded inferior, and if the firstborn son be hers who was regarded inferior,

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to thee for a wife. Only be thou valiant for me, and fight LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. ¹⁸ And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king? ¹⁹ But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife. ²⁰ And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. ²¹ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, Thou shall this day be my son-in-law a second time. ²² And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Converse with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his servants love thee. Now therefore be the king's son-in-law. ²³ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? ²⁴ And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner David spoke. ²⁵ And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king does not desire any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶ And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired. ²⁷ And David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

²⁴ No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

²⁶ If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

¹⁸ For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

²¹ And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

² And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and did not bear. ³ And the agent of LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, thou are barren, and do not bear, but thou shall conceive, and bear a son.

⁵ but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.

²⁰ And it came to pass, when the time came about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son. And she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of LORD.

²⁷ I prayed for this child, and LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.

²¹ And LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before LORD.

³ Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, and the fruit of the womb is a reward.

³ but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

⁷ And there was no child to them because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in their days.

¹¹ And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction.

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

²¹ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²² And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

²⁹ And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes,

²² And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

²⁷ And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey provender in the lodging place, he saw his money, and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

³ Reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. ⁴ Boiling over as water, thou shall not have the pre-eminence, because thou went up to thy father's bed, then thou defiled it; he went up to my couch.

³¹ And the people believed. And when they heard that LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

⁷ And we cried to LORD, the God of our fathers, and LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but will give to thy handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

¹² It may be that LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that LORD will reward me good for his cursing of me this day.

¹ And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and so the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry.

²⁵ Thus the Lord has done to me during the days in which he looked, to take away my shame among men.

⁶ And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.

⁸ And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.

¹⁸ And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

²⁰ And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

²⁵ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

²⁴ And he turned himself around from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their swords. ⁶ O my soul, come not thou into their council, to their assembly, my glory, be not thou united, for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked an ox.

¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their swords. ⁶ O my soul, come not thou into their council, to their assembly, my glory, be not thou united, for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked an ox. ⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

¹ And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

²⁶ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on LORD's side, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. ²⁷ And he said to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. ²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ²⁹ And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to LORD, yea, every man against his son, and against his brother, that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

² And thy brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined to thee, and minister to thee, but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony. ³ And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tent. Only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor ye. ⁴ And they shall be joined to thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, and a stranger shall not come near to you.

⁸ And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy holy man, whom thou proved at Massah, with whom thou strove at the waters of Meribah, ⁹ who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant. ¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, and Israel thy law. They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thine altar.

²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

¹ And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. ² And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he took her, and went in to her. ³ And she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Er. ⁴ And she conceived again, and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. ⁵ And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah. And he was at Chezib, when she bore him. ⁶ And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. ⁷ And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of LORD, and LORD killed him. ⁸ And Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to thy brother. ⁹ And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. And it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. ¹⁰ And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of LORD, and he killed him also. ¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up, for he said, Lest he also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. ¹² And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ¹³ And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep. ¹⁴ And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given to him to wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face. ¹⁶ And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in to thee, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will thou give me, that thou may come in to me? ¹⁷ And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? ¹⁸ And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. ¹⁹ And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. ²⁰ And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her. ²¹ Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, who was at Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There has been no prostitute here. ²² And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her, and also the men of the place said, There has been no prostitute here. ²³ And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and thou have not found her. ²⁴ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. ²⁵ When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, I am with child. And she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose these are, the signet, and the cords, and the staff. ²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. ²⁷ And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. ²⁸ And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand. And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. ²⁹ And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out. And she said, Why have thou made a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called Perez. ³⁰ And afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand. And his name was called Zerah.

⁸ And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the young man with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. ⁹ I will be surety for him, of my hand shall thou require him. If I do not bring him to thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever.

¹⁸ Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant, for thou are even as Pharaoh. ¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? ²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him. ²¹ And thou said to thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him. ²² And we said to my lord, The young man cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die. ²³ And thou said to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. ²⁴ And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. ²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down, for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother be with us. ²⁷ And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since. ²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life, ³¹ it will come to pass, when he sees that the young man is not with us, that he will die. And thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³² For thy servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. ³³ Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the young man, and let the young man go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah. But Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁸ Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be. ¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes. ¹² His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

⁷ And this is of Judah: And he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him into his people. With his hands he contended for himself, and thou shall be a help against his adversaries.

² Now Judah prevailed above his brothers, and the ruler came from him, but the birthright was Joseph's),

² Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,