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The 30th Chapter
When Rahel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said unto Jacob: give
me children, or else I am but dead. Then was Jacob wroth with Rahel
saying: Am I in Gods stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy
womb? Then she said: here is my maid Bilha: go in unto her, that she
may bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her. And she gave
him Bilha her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her: And
Bilha conceived and bare Jacob a son. Then said Rahel: God hath
given sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voice, and hath
given me a son. Therefore called she him Dan. And Bilha Rahels maid
conceived again, and bare Jacob another son. And Rahel said. God is
turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the
upper hand. And she called his name: Naphtali.
When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Silpha her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. And Silpha Leas maid bare Jacob a
son. Then said Lea: Good luck: and called his name Gad. And Silpha
Leas maid bare Jacob another son. Then said Lea: happy am I, for the
daughters will call me blessed. And called his name Asser.
And Ruben went out in the wheat harvest and found mandragoras
in the fields, and brought them unto his mother Lea. Then said Rahel
to Lea give me of thy sons mandragoras. And Lea answered: Is it not
enough, that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away
my sons mandragoras also? Then said Rahel: well, let him sleep with
thee this night, for thy sons mandragoras. And when Jacob came from
the fields at even, Lea went out to meet him, and said: come in to
me, for I have bought thee with my sons mandragoras.
And he slept with her that night. And God heard Lea, that she
conceived and bare unto Jacob the fifth son. Then said Lea: God hath
given me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband, and she
called him Isachar. And Lea conceived yet again, and bare Jacob the
sixth son. Then said she: God hath endued me with good dowry. Now
will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons:
and called his name Zabulon. After that she bare a daughter, and
called her Dina.
And God remembered Rahel, heard her, and made her fruitful: so
that she conceived and bare a son, and said: God hath taken away my
rebuke. And she called his name Joseph saying: The Lord give me yet
another son. As soon as Rahel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban:
Send me away that I may go unto mine own place and country, give me
my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go:
for thou knowest what service I have done thee. Then said Laban unto
him: If I have found favour in thy sight (for I suppose that the
Lord hath blessed me for thy sake) appoint what thy reward shall be,
and I will give it thee. But he said unto him: thou knowest what
service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been
under me: For it was but little that thou hadst before I came, and
now it is increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee
for my sake. But now when shall I make provision for mine own house
also? And he said: what shall I give thee? And Jacob answered: thou
shalt give me nothing at all, if thou wilt do this one thing for me:
And then will I turn again, and feed thy sheep and keep them.
I will go about all thy sheep this day, and separate from them
all the sheep that are spotted and of diverse colors, and all black
sheep among the lambs, and the party and spotted among the kids: And
the same shall be my reward. So shall my righteousness answer for
me: when the time cometh that I shall receive my reward of thee: So
that whatsoever is not speckled and party among the goats and black
among the lambs, let that be theft with me. Then said Laban: Lo, I
am content, that it be according as thou hast said. And he took out
that same day the he goats that were party and of diverse colors,
and all the goats that were spotted and party colored, and all that
had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them
in the keeping of his sons, and set three days journey betwixt
himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Labans sheep.
Jacob took *rods of green poplar, *hazel, and of *chestnut
trees, and *pilled white streaks in them and made the white appear
in the staves: And he put the staves which he had pilled, even
before the sheep, in the gutters and watering troughs, when the
sheep came to drink: that they should conceive when they came to
drink. And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth
streaked, spotted and party. Then Jacob parted the lambs and turned
the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner
of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him
flocks of his own by them self, which he put not unto the flocks of
Laban. And always in the first bucking time of the sheep, Jacob put
the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive
before the staves: But in the latter bucking time, he put them not
there: so the last brood was Labans and the first Jacobs. And the
man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants,
menservants, camels and asses.
*rods (thin branch)
*hazel, (lt/yellow brown) *chestnut (reddish brown) *pilled (peeled)
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The 31st Chapter
And Jacob heard the words of
Labans sons how they said: Jacob hath taken away all that was our
fathers, and of our fathers goods, hath he gotten all this honor.
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward
him as it was in times past. And the Lord said unto Jacob: turn
again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be
with thee. Then Jacob sent and called Rahel and Lea to the field
unto his sheep, and said unto them: I see your fathers countenance
that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my
father hath been with me. And ye know how that I have served your
father with all my might. And your father hath deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.
When he said, the spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheep
bare spotted. If he said, the streaked shall be thy reward, then
bare all the sheep streaked: thus hath God taken away your fathers
cattle and given them me. For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes
and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were
streaked, spotted and party. And the angel of God spake unto me in a
dream saying: Jacob? And I answered: here am I. And he said: lift up
thine eyes and see, how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are
streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth
unto thee. I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone,
and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of
this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born.
Then answered Rahel and Lea, and said unto him: we have no
part nor inheritance in our fathers house: he counteth us even as
strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of
us. Moreover all the riches which God hath taken from our father,
that is ours and our childrens. Now therefore whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, that do. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and
wives up upon camels, and carried away all his cattle and all his
substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his
father unto the land of Canaan. Laban was gone to shear his sheep,
and Rahel had stolen her fathers images. And Jacob stale away the
heart of Laban the Sirian, and told him not that he fled. So fled he
and all that he had, and made himself ready, and passed over the
rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead.
Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was
fled. Then he
took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days
journey, and overtook him at the mount Gilead. And God came to Laban
the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him: take heed to
thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good. And Laban
overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And
Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount
Gilead. Then said Laban to Jacob: why hast thou this done to steal
away my heart, and carry away my daughters as though they had been
taken captive with sword? Wherefore wentest thou away secretly
unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee
on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps, and hast not
suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool
to do it, for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father
spake unto me yesterday saying: take heed that thou speak not to
Jacob ought save good. And now though thou wentest thy way because
thou longest after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen
my gods?
Jacob answered and said to Laban: because I was afraid, and
thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me.
But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before
our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee: for
Jacob knew not that Rahel had stolen them. Then went Laban into
Jacobs tent, and into Leas tent, and into two maidens tents: but
found them not. Then went he out of Leas tent, and entered into
Rahels tent. And Rahel took the images, and put them in the camels
straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but
found them not. Then said she to her father: my lord, be not angry
that I cannot rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come
upon me. So searched he, but found them not.
Jacob was wroth, and *chode with Laban. Jacob also answered
and said to him: what have I trespassed or what have I offended,
that thou followedest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuff, and
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? put it here before
thy brethren and mine, and let them judge betwixt us both. This
twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats
have not been barren, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made
it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was
stolen by day or night. Moreover by day the heat consumed me, and
the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep,
and thou hast changed my reward ten times. And except the God of my
father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth had been
with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God
beheld my tribulation, and the labor of my hands: and rebuked thee
yesterday.
Laban answered and said unto Jacob: the daughters are my
daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my
sheep, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do this day
unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have
born? Now therefore come on, let us make a bond, I and thou
together, and let it be a witness between thee and me. Then took
Jacob a stone and set it up on end, and said unto his brethren,
gather stones. And they took stones, and made an heap, and they ate
there upon the heap. And Laban called it Zegar Sahadutha, but Jacob
called Gilead.
Then said Laban: this heap be witness between thee and me this
day (therefore is it called Gilead) and this toot hill which the
Lord seeth (said he) be witness between me and thee when we are
departed one from another: that thou shalt not vex my daughters
neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us:
behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me. And Laban said moreover
to Jacob: behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here,
betwixt me and thee: this heap be witness and also this mark, that I
will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over
this heap and this mark, to do any harm. The God of Abraham, the God
of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us.
And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Then
Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat
bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill. And
early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his
daughters, and blessed them and departed and went unto his place
again. But Jacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God
came and met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said: this is Gods
host: and called the name of that same place, Mahanaim.
*chode (scold )
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The 32nd Chapter
Jacob sent
messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and
the field of Edom. And he commanded them saying: see that ye speak
after this manner to my lord Esau: thy servant Jacob saith thus. I
have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time and
have gotten oxen, asses and sheep, menservants and womenservants,
and have sent to show it my lord, that I may find grace in thy
sight. And the messengers came again to Jacob saying: we came unto
thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee and four hundred men
with him. Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and knew not which way to
turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the
sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies, and said: If Esau come
to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself.
And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac: Lord, which saidest unto me, return unto thy country
and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee. I am not worthy
of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed
unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now
have I gotten two droves. Deliver me from the hands of my brother
Esau: for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with
the children. Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and
wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be
numbered for multitude.
And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which
came to hand, a present, unto Esau his brother: Two hundred she
goats and twenty he goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams: thirty
milk camels with their colts: forty kine and ten bulls: twenty she
asses and ten foals and delivered them unto his servants, every
drove by themselves, and said unto them: go forth before me and put
a space betwixt every drove. And he commanded the foremost, saying:
When Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying:
whose servant art thou and where goest thou, and whose are these
that go before thee: thou shalt say, they be thy servant Jacobs, and
are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and behold, he himself cometh
after us. And so commanded he the second, and even so the third, and
likewise all that followed the droves saying, of this manner see
that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him, and say moreover. Behold
thy servant Jacob cometh after us, for he said. I will pease his
wrath with the present that goeth before me and afterward I will see
him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace. So went the
present before him and he tarried all that night in the tent, and
rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens
and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabok. And he took them
and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had and tarried
behind himself alone.
And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the
day. And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote
him under the thigh, and the sinew of Jacobs thigh shrank as he
wrestled with him. And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. And
he said: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said
unto him: what is thy name? He answered: Jacob. And he said: thou
shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled
with God and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked him saying, tell me thy name. And he said,
wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there. And
Jacob called the name of the place Pheniel, for I have seen God face
to face, and yet is my life reserved. And as he went over Peniel,
the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh: wherefore the
children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh,
unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the
sinew that shrank.
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The 33rd Chapter
Jacob
lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four
hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rahel and
unto the two maidens. And he put the maidens and their children
foremost, and Lea and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph
hindermost. And he went before them and fell on the ground seven
times, until he came unto his brother.
Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and
kissed him, and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes and saw the
wives and their children, and said: what are these which thou there
hast? And he said: they are the children which God hath given thy
servant. Then came the maidens forth, and did their obeisance. Lea
also and her children came and did their obeisance. And last of all
came Joseph and Rahel and did their obeisance.
And he said: what meanest thou with all the droves which I
met? And he answered: to find grace in the sight of my lord. And
Esau said: I have enough my brother, keep that thou hast unto
thyself. Jacob answered: oh nay, but if I have found grace in thy
sight, receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as
though I had seen the face of God: wherefore receive me to grace and
take my blessing that I have brought thee, for God hath given it me.
And I have enough of all things. And so he compelled him to take it.
And he said: let us take our journey and go, and I will go in thy
company. And he said unto him: my lord knoweth that I have tender
children, ewes and kine with young, under mine hand, which if men
should overdrive but even one day, the whole flock would die. Let my
lord therefore go before his servant and I will drive fair and
softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the
children, be able to endure: until I come to my lord unto Seir.
And Esau said: let me yet leave some of my folk with thee. And
he said: what needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
So Esau went his way again the same day unto Seir. And Jacob took
his journey toward Sucoth, and built him an house, and made booths
for his cattle: whereof the name of the place is called Sucoth.
And Jacob came peaceably in to the city of Sichem in the land
of Canaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched
before the city, and bought a parcel of ground where he pitched his
tent, of the children of Hemor Sichems father, for an hundred lambs,
And he made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of
Israel.
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The 34th Chapter
Dina the
daughter of Lea which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land. And Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite lord
of the country, saw her and took her, and lay with her, and forced
her: and his heart lay unto Dina the daughter of Jacob. And he loved
the damsel and spake kindly unto her, and spake unto his father
Hemor saying, get me this maiden unto my wife. And Jacob heard that
he had defiled Dina his daughter, but his sons were with the cattle
in the field, and therefore he held his peace, until they were come.
Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out unto Jacob, to commune with
him. And the sons of Jacob came out of the field as soon as they
heard it, for it grieved them, and they were not a little wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lain with
Jacobs daughter, which thing ought not to be done. And Hemor
communed with them saying: the soul of my son Sichem longeth for
your daughter: give her him to wife, and make marriages with us:
give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you, and
dwell with us, and the land shall be at your pleasure, dwell and do
your business, and have your possessions therein. And Sichem said
unto her father and her brethren: let me find grace in your eyes,
and whatsoever ye appoint me, that will I give. Ask freely of me
both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto
me, and give me the damsel to wife.
Then the sons of Jacob answered to Sichem and Hemor his father
deceitfully, because he had defiled Dina their sister. And they said
unto them, we cannot do this thing that we should give our sister to
one that is uncircumcised, for that were a shame unto us. Only in
this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that all the
men children among you be circumcised, then will we give our
daughter to you and take yours to us, and will dwell with you and be
one people. But and if ye will not hearken unto us to be
circumcised, than will we take our daughter and go our ways. And
their words pleased Hemor: and Sichem his son. And the young man
deferred not for to do the thing, because he had a lust to Jacobs
daughter: he was also most set by of all that were in his fathers
house. Then Hemor and Sichem went unto the gate of their city, and
communed with the men of their city saying: These men are peaceable
with us, and will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein.
And in the land is room enough for them, let us take their daughters
to wives and give them ours: only herein will they consent unto us
for to dwell with us and to be one people: if all the men children
that are among us be circumcised as they are. Their goods and their
substance and all their cattle are ours, only let us consent unto
them, that they may dwell with us.
And unto Hemor and Sichem his son hearkened all that went out
at the gate of his city. And all the men children were circumcised
whatsoever went out at the gates of his city. And the third day when
it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi
Dinas brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city
boldly, and slew all that was male, and slew also Hemor and Sichem
his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina their sister out
of Sichems house, and went their way.
Then came the sons of Jacob upon the deed, and spoiled the
city, because they had defiled their sister: and took their sheep,
oxen, asses and whatsoever was in the city and also in the fields.
And all their goods, all their children and their wives took they
captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: ye have troubled me and
made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Cananites
and also unto the Pherezites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they
shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so
shall I and my house be destroyed. And they answered: should they
deal with our sister as with an whore?
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The 35th Chapter
And God said unto Jacob, arise
and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar
unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from: Esau thy
brother. Then said Jacob unto his household and to all that were
with him, put away the strange gods that are among you and make
yourselves clean, and change your garments, and let us arise and go
up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there, unto God which heard
me in the day of my tribulation and was with me in the way which I
went.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were under
their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears, and
Jacob hid them under an oak at Sichem. And they departed. And the
fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that
they durst not follow after the sons of Jacob. So came Jacob to Lus
in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethell, with all the people
that was with him. And he builded there an altar, and called the
place Bethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled
from his brother.
Then died Debora Rebeccas nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel
under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
And God appeared unto Jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia
and blessed him and said unto him: Thy name is Jacob.
Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall
be thy name. And so was his name called Israel.
And God said unto him: I am God allmighty, grow and multiply:
for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee, yea and
kings shall come out of thy loins. And the land which I gave Abraham
and Isaac, will I give unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee will
I give it also. And God departed from him in the place where he
talked with him. And Jacob set up a mark in the place where he
talked with him: even a pillar of stone, and poured drink offering
theron and poured also oil theron, and called the name of the place
where God spake with him Bethell.
And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field
breadth from Ephrath, Rahel began to travail. And in travailing she
was in peril. And as she was in pains of her labor, the midwife said
unto her: fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. Then as her
soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Ben Oni.
But his father called him Ben Jamin. and thus died Rahel and was
buried in the way to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem. And
Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rahels grave
pillar unto this day. And Israel went then and pitched up his tent
beyond the tower of Eder. And it chanced as Israel dwelt in that
land, that Ruben went and lay with Bilha his fathers concubine, and
it came to Israels ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number. The
sons of Lea: Ruben, Jacobs eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Juda,
Isachar, and Zabulon. The sons of Rahel: Joseph and Ben Jamin. The
sons of Bilha Rahels maid: Dan and Nephtali. The sons of Zilpha Leas
maid Gad and Asser. These are the sons which were born him in
Mesopotamia.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre a principal
city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as
strangers. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and eighty years:
and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being
old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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The 36th Chapter
These are
the generations of Esau which is called Edom. Esau took his wives of
the daughters of Canaan: Ada the daughter of Elon an Hethite, and
Ahalibama the daughter of Ana, which Ana was the son of Zibeon an
Hevite, And Basmath Ismaels daughter and sister of Nebaioth. And Ada
bare unto Esau, Eliphas: and Basmath bare Reguel: And Ahalibama bare
Jeus, Jaelam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau which were born
him in the land of Canaan.
And Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters and all the
souls of his house: his goods and all his cattle and all his
substance which he had got in the land of Canaan, and went into a
country away from his brother Jacob: for their riches was so much,
that they could not dwell together, and that the land wherein they
were strangers, could not receive them: because of their cattle.
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir, which Esau is called Edom. These are
the generations of Esau father of the Edomites in mount Seir, and
these are the names of Esaus sons: Eliphas the son of Ada the wife
of Esau, and Reguel the son of Basmath the wife of Esau also. And
the sons of Eliphas were: Theman, Omar, Zepho, Gaetham and Kenas.
And Thimna was concubine to Eliphas Esaus son, and bare unto Eliphas,
Amalek. And these be the sons of Ada Esaus wife. And these are the
sons of Reguel: Nahath, Serah, Samma and Misa: these were the sons
of Basmath Esaus wife. And these were the sons of Ahalibama Esaus
wife the daughter of Ana son of Zebeon, which she bare unto Esau:
Jeus, Jaelam and Rorah.
These were dukes of the sons of Esau. The children of Eliphas
the first son of Esau were these: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Zepho,
duke Kenas, duke Rorah, duke Gaetham and duke Amaleck: these are the
dukes that came of Eliphas in the land of Edom, and these were the
sons of Ada. These were the children of Reguel Esaus son: duke
Nahath, duke Serah, duke Samma, duke Misa. These are the dukes that
came of Reguel in the land of Edom, and these were the sons of
Basmath Esaus wife. These were the children of Ahalibama Esaus wife:
duke Jeus, duke Gaelam, duke Korah, these dukes came of Ahalibama
the daughter of Ana Esaus wife. These are the children of Esau, and
these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom: These are
the children of Seir the Horite, the inhabiter of the land: Lothan,
Sobal, Zibeon, Ana, Dison, Eser and Disan. These are the dukes of
the Horites the children of Seir in the land of Edom. And the
children of Lothan were: Hori and Hemam. And Lothans sister was
called Thimna.
The children of Sobal were these: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Sepho
and Onam. These were the children of Zibeon. Aia and Ana, this was
that Ana that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed his
father Zibeons asses. The children of Ana were these. Dison and
Ahalibama the daughter of Ana. These are the children of Dison.
Hemdan, Esban, Jethran, and Cheran. The children of Ezer were these,
Bilhan, Seavan and Akan. The children of Disan were: Ur and Aran.
These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lothan, duke Sobal,
duke Zibeon, duke Ana, duke Dison, duke Ezer, duke Disan. These be
the dukes that came of Hori in their dukedoms in the land of Seir.
These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there
reigned any king among the children of Israel. Bela the son of Beor
reigned in Edomea, and the name of his city was Dinhaba. And when
Bela died, Jobab the son of Serah out of Bezara, reigned in his
stead. When Jobab was dead, Husam of the land of Themany reigned in
his stead. And after the death of Husam, Hadad the son of Bedad
which slew the Madianites in the field of the Moabites, reigned in
his stead, and the name of his city was Avith. When Hadad was dead,
Samla of Masreka reigned in his stead. When Samla was dead, Saul of
the river Rehoboth reigned in his stead. When Saul was dead, Baal
Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. And after the death of
Baal Hanan the son of Achbor, Hadad reigned in his stead, and the
name of his city was Pagu. And his wifes name Mehetabeel the
daughter of Matred the daughter of Mesaab.
These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, in their
kindreds, places and names: Duke Thimma, duke Alua, duke Jetheth,
duke Ahalibama, duke Ela, duke Pinon, duke Kenas, duke Theman, duke
Mibzar, duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Edomea in
their habitations, in the land of their possessions. This Esau is
the father of the Edomites.
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