Genesis 32; Genesis 33; Genesis 34; Genesis 35; Genesis 36

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Genesis 32

1 Ya`akov went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 When he saw them, Ya`akov said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Machanayim.
3 Ya`akov sent messengers in front of him to Esav, his brother, to the land of Se`ir, the field of Edom.
4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esav: 'This is what your servant, Ya`akov, says. I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed until now.
5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
6 The messengers returned to Ya`akov, saying, "We came to your brother Esav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
7 Then Ya`akov was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
8 and he said, "If Esav comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
9 Ya`akov said, "God of my father Avraham, and God of my father Yitzchak, the LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I have become two companies.
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esav: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
13 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esav, his brother:
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.
16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."
17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esav, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Ya`akov's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esav. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esav, when you find him.
20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Ya`akov, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
21 So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Yabbok.
23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24 Ya`akov was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Ya`akov said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
27 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Ya`akov."
28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called 'Ya`akov,' but, 'Yisra'el,' for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
29 Ya`akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
30 Ya`akov called the name of the place Peni'el: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peni'el, and he limped because of his thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Yisra'el don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
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Genesis 33

1 Ya`akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Le'ah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef at the rear.
3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 Esav ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
7 Le'ah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8 Esav said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Ya`akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
9 Esav said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
10 Ya`akov said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
11 Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
12 Esav said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
13 Ya`akov said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Se`ir."
15 Esav said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
16 So Esav returned that day on his way to Se`ir.
17 Ya`akov journeyed to Sukkot, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot.
18 Ya`akov came in shalom to the city of Shekhem, which is in the land of Kana`an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped before the city.
19 He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shekhem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
20 He erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Yisra'el.
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Genesis 34

1 Dinah, the daughter of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2 Shekhem the son of Hamor the Hivvi, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Ya`akov, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
4 Shekhem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
5 Now Ya`akov heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Ya`akov held his shalom until they came.
6 Hamor the father of Shekhem went out to Ya`akov to talk with him.
7 The sons of Ya`akov came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Yisra'el in lying with Ya`akov's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shekhem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
11 Shekhem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
13 The sons of Ya`akov answered Shekhem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.
18 Their words pleased Hamor, and Shekhem, Hamor's son.
19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya`akov's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
20 Hamor and Shekhem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23 Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shekhem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Ya`akov's sons, Shim`on and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
26 They killed Hamor and Shekhem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shekhem's house, and went away.
27 Ya`akov's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
30 Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kana`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
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Genesis 35

1 God said to Ya`akov, "Arise, go up to Beit-El, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esav your brother."
2 Then Ya`akov said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
3 Let us arise, and go up to Beit-El. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
4 They gave to Ya`akov all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya`akov hid them under the oak which was by Shekhem.
5 They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Ya`akov.
6 So Ya`akov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kana`an (the same is Beit-El), he and all the people who were with him.
7 He built an altar there, and called the place El-Beit-El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8 Devorah, Rivka's nurse, died, and she was buried below Beit-El under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-Bakhut.
9 God appeared to Ya`akov again, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.
10 God said to him, "Your name is Ya`akov. Your name shall not be Ya`akov any more, but your name will be Yisra'el." He named him Yisra'el.
11 God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
12 The land which I gave to Avraham and Yitzchak, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
14 Ya`akov set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15 Ya`akov called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Beit-El."
16 They journeyed from Beit-El. There was still some distance to come to Efrat, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
17 It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Binyamin.
19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem).
20 Ya`akov set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21 Yisra'el journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of `Eder.
22 It happened, while Yisra'el lived in that land, that Re'uven went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Yisra'el heard of it. Now the sons of Ya`akov were twelve.
23 The sons of Le'ah: Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun.
24 The sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin.
25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naftali.
26 The sons of Zilpah (Le'ah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Ya`akov, who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.
27 Ya`akov came to Yitzchak his father, to Mamre, to Kiryat-Arba (the same is Hevron), where Avraham and Yitzchak sojourned.
28 The days of Yitzchak were one hundred eighty years.
29 Yitzchak gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esav and Ya`akov, his sons, buried him.
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Genesis 36

1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esav (the same is Edom).
2 Esav took his wives from the daughters of Kana`an: `Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholivamah the daughter of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, the Hivvi;
3 and Basemat, Yishma'el's daughter, sister of Nevayot.
4 `Adah bore to Esav Elifaz. Basemat bore Re`u'el.
5 Oholivamah bore Ye`ush, Ya`lam, and Korach. These are the sons of Esav, who were born to him in the land of Kana`an.
6 Esav took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Kana`an, and went into a land away from his brother Ya`akov.
7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle.
8 Esav lived in the hill country of Se`ir. Esav is Edom.
9 This is the history of the generations of Esav the father of the Edom in the hill country of Se`ir:
10 these are the names of Esav's sons: Elifaz, the son of `Adah, the wife of Esav; and Re`u'el, the son of Basemat, the wife of Esav.
11 The sons of Elifaz were Teman, Omar, Tzefo, and Ga`tam, and Kenaz.
12 Timna was concubine to Elifaz, Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz `Amalek. These are the sons of `Adah, Esav's wife.
13 These are the sons of Re`u'el: Nachat, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemat, Esav's wife.
14 These were the sons of Oholivamah, the daughter of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, Esav's wife: she bore to Esav Ye`ush, Ya`lam, and Korach.
15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of Elifaz the firstborn of Esav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Tzefo, chief Kenaz,
16 chief Korach, chief Ga`tam, chief `Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Elifaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of `Adah.
17 These are the sons of Re`u'el, Esav's son: chief Nachat, chief Zerach, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Re`u'el in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemat, Esav's wife.
18 These are the sons of Oholivamah, Esav's wife: chief Ye`ush, chief Ya`lam, chief Korach: these are the chiefs who came of Oholivamah the daughter of `Anah, Esav's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esav, and these are their chiefs. The same is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Se`ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv`on, `Anah,
21 Dishon, Etzer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Hori, the children of Se`ir in the land of Edom.
22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.
23 These are the children of Shoval: Alvan, Manachat, `Eval, Shefo, and Onam.
24 These are the children of Tziv`on: Ayah and `Anah. This is `Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Tziv`on his father.
25 These are the children of `Anah: Dishon and Oholivamah, the daughter of `Anah.
26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Yitran, and Keran.
27 These are the children of Etzer: Bilhan, Za`avan, and `Akan.
28 These are the children of Dishan: `Utz and Aran.
29 These are the chiefs who came of the Hori: chief Lotan, chief Shoval, chief Tziv`on, chief `Anah,
30 chief Dishon, chief Etzer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Hori, according to their chiefs in the land of Se`ir.
31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Yisra'el.
32 Bela, the son of Be'or, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhava.
33 Bela died, and Yovav, the son of Zerach of Botzrah, reigned in his place.
34 Yovav died, and Husham of the land of the Temani reigned in his place.
35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midyan in the field of Mo'av, reigned in his place. The name of his city was `Avit.
36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
37 Samlah died, and Sha'ul of Rechovot by the river, reigned in his place.
38 Sha'ul died, and Ba`al-Hanan, the son of `Akhbor reigned in his place.
39 Ba`al-Hanan the son of `Akhbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetav'el, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahav.
40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esav, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief `Alvah, chief Yetet,
41 chief Oholivamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mivtzar,
43 chief Magdi'el, and chief `Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esav, the father of the Edom.
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