Genesis 25 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Abraham took another wife named Keturah. ² She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. ³ And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. ⁴ And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah. ⁵ Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac; ⁶ But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country. ⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five. ⁸ And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people. ⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre; ¹⁰ The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife. ¹¹ Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son. ¹² Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah: ¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam ¹⁴ And Mishma and Dumah and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples. ¹⁷ And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people. ¹⁸ And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers. ¹⁹ Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac: ²⁰ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife. ²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child. ²² And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord. ²³ And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger. ²⁴ And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body. ²⁵ And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau. ²⁶ And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them. ²⁷ And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. ²⁸ Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob. ²⁹ And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food; ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright. ³² And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me? ³³ And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.

¹ Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven. ² And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

¹ Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. ³³ And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

³⁵ And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith.

²⁸ And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

³⁶ And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

¹ Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt. ² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land: ⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:

⁴ Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

¹⁷ Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them; ¹⁸ For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.

² Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

⁸ They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

¹ And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. ² And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places. ³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; ⁴ And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. ⁵ For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. ⁶ And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord. ⁷ And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord, ⁸ The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;

¹¹ And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

²⁵ And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

⁹ And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

¹ Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.

¹⁹ The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

²³ Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;

⁸ Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.

¹³ The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.

⁶ Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim.

²⁰ Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

⁶ You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.

¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. ¹¹ And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son. ¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

³⁶ And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

²⁷ All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

³⁵ The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

² Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

¹⁷ And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

²¹ So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours; ²² Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; ²³ And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

¹⁹ For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;

² But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

³ So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

¹⁴ And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

¹ And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

²² And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah. ² And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

⁴ And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹⁴ With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods. ¹⁵ As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

¹¹ And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹² Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³ If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

¹⁷ But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

¹⁵ As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

¹⁷ And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

²⁸ And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old. ²⁹ Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

⁸ And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you? ⁹ And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

²⁹ And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

³³ And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

²⁴ Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

¹³ And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:

¹⁰ And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

³² And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

²⁸ And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place.

²⁶ You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

¹⁷ And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.

¹¹ For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

⁵ And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.

¹⁰ And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac. ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

⁹ That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you. ¹⁰ Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying, ¹¹ No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead. ¹² And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land. ¹³ And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there. ¹⁴ So Ephron said to Abraham, ¹⁵ My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there. ¹⁶ And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money. ¹⁷ So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it, ¹⁸ Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town. ¹⁹ Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

²⁹ Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

²⁹ And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.

¹³ For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

¹⁶ And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

³¹ There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

¹⁴ So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁹ And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

⁶² Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

²⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered. ¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow. ¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers. ¹³ And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living? ¹⁴ So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵ And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

³ And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

²⁹ These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

⁵ Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

⁵ I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

¹⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end: ¹⁷ And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

¹¹ Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

¹¹ The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?

¹⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:

¹⁹ And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five. ⁸ And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

²⁹ And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

¹⁰ Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

¹ And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

²¹ And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

⁷ And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.

²⁹ In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

⁶⁴ Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

²³ In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

² The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

³⁴ The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

⁸ And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

²³ Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

²⁹ Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the water-spring.

⁶⁷ And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.

⁵ So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. ⁶ So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

¹⁸ And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.

²⁴ Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

⁹ Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

⁵ And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

²⁷ And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.

³⁰ And Sarai had no child.

² And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me. ³ And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

² And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring. ¹⁷ Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care! ¹⁹ And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.

¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

²⁷ My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:

²⁰ And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

²³ So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

² To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

¹⁹ To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

²⁴ The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

¹¹ The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

⁹ Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

²⁴ And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

⁷ And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

¹³ But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

¹⁰ And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac-- ¹¹ Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is, ¹² It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.

⁹ In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.

²² So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.

¹⁵ Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

⁶ And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

⁸ Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.

³¹ And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.

³⁷ This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

⁴ As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

⁶⁰ And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

²⁷ And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

²⁹ Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.

⁴⁰ By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

⁶ When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

³ And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

³¹ And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.

¹⁴ Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

¹⁴ And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

⁴⁷ At that time there was no king in Edom;

¹³ David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

¹¹ Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir; ¹² And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.

⁸ Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded. ⁹ Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

⁵ For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you: ⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre; ⁸ Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon: ¹⁰ Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste. ¹¹ Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna: ¹² Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God. ¹³ O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind. ¹⁴ As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains, ¹⁵ So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.

¹ Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it. ² For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction. ³ Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing. ⁴ And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree. ⁵ For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. ⁶ The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle. ⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion. ⁹ And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire. ¹⁰ It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever. ¹¹ But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land. ¹² The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end. ¹³ And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there. ¹⁵ The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos. ¹⁶ See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together. ¹⁷ And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation. ² Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes? ³ I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red. ⁴ For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come. ⁵ And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support. ⁶ And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

⁷ About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone? ⁸ Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment. ⁹ If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough? ¹⁰ I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours. ¹¹ Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me. ¹² For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup. ¹³ For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever. ¹⁴ Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight. ¹⁵ For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men. ¹⁶ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord. ¹⁷ And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments. ¹⁸ As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there. ¹⁹ See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me? ²⁰ For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them. ²¹ The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea. ²² See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

¹² This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them; ¹³ The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword. ¹⁴ I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

¹ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it, ³ And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder. ⁴ I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ⁵ Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end: ⁶ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you. ⁷ And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings. ⁸ I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword. ⁹ I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there: ¹¹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me. ¹² And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage. ¹³ And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears. ¹⁴ This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you: ¹⁵ You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹¹ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever. ¹² And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her. ² See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on. ³ You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth? ⁴ Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord. ⁵ If thieves came, attacking you by night, how are you cut off! would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all? ⁶ How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for! ⁷ All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place. ⁸ Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau? ⁹ And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau. ¹⁰ Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever. ¹¹ Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them. ¹² Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble. ¹³ Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall. ¹⁴ And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble. ¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head. ¹⁶ For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.

² You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me, ³ And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land. ⁴ Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever. ⁵ And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.

¹⁰ And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac-- ¹¹ Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is, ¹² It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger. ¹³ Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

¹¹ And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth:

¹⁶ And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck:

²³ And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.

³⁶ And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

²⁸ And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first. ²⁹ But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez. ³⁰ And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

³ In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

⁹ He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

²⁰ And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

³ So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me; ⁴ And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me. ⁵ Now Isaac's words to his son were said in Rebekah's hearing. Then Esau went out to get the meat.

¹⁰ So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran. ¹¹ And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place.

³⁹ Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night. ⁴⁰ This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes. ⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

³⁴ You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

³ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

⁹ By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

⁴ And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.

⁶ And Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to your brother Esau in my hearing, ⁷ Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.

⁹ Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:

¹⁹ And Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as you said: come now, be seated and take of my meat, so that you may give me a blessing.

²⁵ And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.

³¹ And he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it to his father, and said to him, Let my father get up and take of his son's meat, so that you may give me a blessing.

⁴ Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food. ⁵ And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

²⁸ Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

³¹ That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.

²⁵ The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength; ³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

¹ Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.

⁹ And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

⁴³ Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

¹⁵ The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

¹⁴ Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through; ¹⁵ How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers: ¹⁶ And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land; ¹⁷ Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land. ¹⁸ And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword. ¹⁹ And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more. ²⁰ But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army. ²¹ So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

⁷ But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

²⁰ In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

⁹ In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

⁹ For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

⁶ Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

²³ And he took an oath, saying to her, Whatever is your desire I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom.

¹⁶ For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

¹⁶ And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

²⁴ They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

¹⁵ So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

¹³ And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

¹⁵ What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

¹⁸ And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ¹⁹ And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ²⁰ And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

³² If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

¹⁸ For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

¹⁶ And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food. ¹⁷ For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.