Genesis Chapter One

Genesis 1:1 (NIV)

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2 (NIV)

² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 1:3 (NIV)

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:4 (NIV)

⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5 (NIV)

⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning–the first day.

Genesis 1:6 (NIV)

⁶ And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.”

Genesis 1:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ God made the dome (of the expanse) and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; and it was so,

Genesis 1:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ and God called the dome (of expanse) Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let dry land appear,” and it was so.

Genesis 1:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth, the gathering together of the water he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:12 (NIV)

¹² The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:13 (NIV)

¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning–the third day.

Genesis 1:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,

Genesis 1:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ God made two great lights–the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Genesis 1:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,

Genesis 1:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning–the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20 (NIV)

²⁰ And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

Genesis 1:21 (NIV)

²¹ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:22 (NIV)

²² God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

Genesis 1:23 (NIV)

²³ And there was evening, and there was morning–the fifth day.

Genesis 1:24 (NIV)

²⁴ And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:25 (NIV)

²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26 (NIV)-M

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Genesis 1:27 (NIV)-M

²⁷ So God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:28 (NKJV)

²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:30 (NIV)

³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground–everything that has the breath of life in it–I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:31 (NIV)

³¹ God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning–the sixth day.

Genesis Chapter 2

Genesis 2:1 (NIV)

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Genesis 2:2 (CJB)

² On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:3 (NIV)

³ And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Genesis 2:4 (NIV)

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens–

Genesis 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 2:6 (NASB)

⁶ But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 2:7 (NIV)

⁷ the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:8 (NIV)

⁸ Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:9 (NASB)

⁹ Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

Genesis 2:11 (NASB)

¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12 (NASB)

¹² The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

Genesis 2:13 (NASB)

¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

Genesis 2:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

Genesis 2:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Genesis 2:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Genesis 2:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 2:20 (NIV)

²⁰ So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

Genesis 2:21 (NIV)

²¹ So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

Genesis 2:22 (NIV)

²² Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23 (NIV)

²³ The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Genesis 2:24 (NIV)

²⁴ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 2:25 (NASB)

²⁵ And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis Chapter 3

Genesis 3:1 (7KB)

¹ Now the serpent was more cunning and crafty and shrewd than any other living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2 (NIV)

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

Genesis 3:3 (NASB)

³ but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'”

Genesis 3:4 (CJB)

⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “It is not true that you will surely die;

Genesis 3:5 (NIV)

⁵ “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7 (NASB)

⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

Genesis 3:8 (NASB)

⁸ They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9 (NASB)

⁹ Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3:12 (NASB)

¹² The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15 (7KB)

¹⁵ And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 3:16 (NLT2)

¹⁶ Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,’ the ground is cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live.

Genesis 3:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21 (7KB)

²¹ And the LORD God sacrificed animals to obtain their skins and provided garments (as a covering for the sin and nakedness of Adam and his wife).

Genesis 3:22 (NIV)

²² And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Genesis 3:23 (NASB)

²³ therefore the LORD God sent him out from the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:24 (NASB)

²⁴ So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis Chapter 4

Genesis 4:1 (7KB)

¹ Now Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a man-child with the help of the LORD.”

Genesis 4:2 (NIV)

² Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

Genesis 4:3 (7KB)

³ In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil (produced by the sweat of his brow-laboring under the curse of Adam his father) as an offering to the LORD.

Genesis 4:4 (7KB)

⁴ But Abel brought fat portions from sacrificing some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering (which contained atoning blood),

Genesis 4:5 (7KB)

⁵ but on Cain and his “bloodless-offering” of produce God did not look with favor because Cain’s offering represents human toil of earning salvation by self-effort (without offering blood to make atonement for sin).

Genesis 4:6 (7KB)

⁶ Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? Do you really have a reason to be angry (because your own bloodless sacrifice was not acceptable)?

Genesis 4:7 (NLT2)

⁷ You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”

Genesis 4:8 (NIV)-M

⁸ Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and (murdered) him.

Genesis 4:9 (NASB)

⁹ Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Genesis 4:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11 (7KB)

¹¹ Now you are under a curse and will experience a curse from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:12 (7KB)

¹² When you farm the ground it will be cursed for you and it will no longer yield its crops to you. You will be a fugitive, wandering the earth.”

Genesis 4:13 (NKJV)

¹³ And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!

Genesis 4:14 (7KB)

¹⁴ You are banning me today from the blessings and fruitfulness of the land and have separated me from your presence. I will be a fugitive wandering the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.

Genesis 4:15 (7KB)

¹⁵ So the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

Genesis 4:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ Cain had sexual relations with his wife; she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch.

Genesis 4:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

Genesis 4:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah and of the other was Zillah.

Genesis 4:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

Genesis 4:21 (CJB)-M

²¹ His brother’s name was Jubal; and he was the ancestor of all who play lyre and flute.

Genesis 4:22 (NASB)

²² As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 4:23 (7KB)

²³ And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I am saying: for I have killed a man to my wounding of my conscience and a young man to my hurt of my guilt.

Genesis 4:24 (NIV)

²⁴ If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”

Genesis 4:25 (NASB)-M

²⁵ Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain murdered him.”

Genesis 4:26 (NKJV)

²⁶ And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.

Genesis Chapter 5

Genesis 5:1 (NKJV)

¹ This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 5:2 (KJV)

² Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5:3 (NIV)

³ When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 5:4 (NIV)

⁴ After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:5 (NASB)

⁵ So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Genesis 5:6 (NIV)

⁶ When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.

Genesis 5:7 (NIV)

⁷ And after he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:8 (NASB)

⁸ So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

Genesis 5:9 (CJB)

⁹ Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Kenan.

Genesis 5:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ After Kenan was born, Enosh lived another 815 years and had sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:12 (NIV)

¹² When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

Genesis 5:13 (NIV)

¹³ And after he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Altogether, Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

Genesis 5:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ And after he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Altogether, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

Genesis 5:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And after he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:21 (NIV)

²¹ When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22 (NIV)

²² And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:23 (NIV)

²³ Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years.

Genesis 5:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Genesis 5:25 (NIV)

²⁵ When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5:26 (NIV)

²⁶ And after he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:28 (NIV)

²⁸ When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

Genesis 5:29 (NIV)

²⁹ He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

Genesis 5:30 (NIV)

³⁰ After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:31 (NIV)

³¹ Altogether, Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:32 (NIV)

³² After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis Chapter 6

Genesis 6:1 (NASB)

¹ Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2 (NASB)

² that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)-M

³ And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with [humans] forever, for they are indeed flesh; yet their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:4 (NKJV)

⁴ There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:5 (NASB)

⁵ Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:6 (NASB)

⁶ The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:7 (NASB)

⁷ The LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:8 (NIV)

⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:9 (NIV)

⁹ This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 6:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis 6:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 6:12 (NIV)

¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Genesis 6:13 (NIV)

¹³ So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

Genesis 6:14 (7KB)

¹⁴ “Make for yourself a wooden ark; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

Genesis 6:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.

Genesis 6:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.

Genesis 6:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Genesis 6:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark–you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 6:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Genesis 6:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:21 (NASB)

²¹ “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”

Genesis 6:22 (NIV)

²² Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Genesis Chapter 7

Genesis 7:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

Genesis 7:2 (NIV)

² Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

Genesis 7:3 (NKJV)

³ also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:4 (NASB)

⁴ “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

Genesis 7:5 (NASB)

⁵ Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:6 (NIV)

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:7 (NIV)

⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:8 (NASB)

⁸ Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 7:9 (NASB)

⁹ there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11 (NIV)

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12 (NASB)

¹² The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:13 (NASB)

¹³ On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

Genesis 7:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ they, and every animal of every species, all the livestock of every species, every animal that creeps on the ground of every species, and every bird of every species — all sorts of winged creatures.

Genesis 7:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

Genesis 7:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Genesis 7:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

Genesis 7:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ The water overpowered the earth mightily; all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered;

Genesis 7:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.

Genesis 7:21 (NIV)

²¹ Every living thing that moved on the earth perished–birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 7:22 (NIV)

²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Genesis 7:23 (NIV)

²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis Chapter 8

Genesis 8:1 (NIV)

¹ But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 8:2 (NIV)

² Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 8:3 (NIV)

³ The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:4 (NASB)

⁴ In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5 (NIV)

⁵ The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

Genesis 8:6 (NIV)

⁶ After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Genesis 8:7 (NIV)

⁷ and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

Genesis 8:9 (NIV)

⁹ But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

Genesis 8:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:11 (NIV)

¹¹ When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

Genesis 8:12 (NIV)

¹² He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Genesis 8:13 (NIV)

¹³ By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Genesis 8:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Then God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you–the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground–so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.”

Genesis 8:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

Genesis 8:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds–everything that moves on the earth–came out of the ark, one kind after another.

Genesis 8:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

Genesis 8:21 (NIV)

²¹ The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Genesis 8:22 (NIV)

²² “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Genesis Chapter 9

Genesis 9:1 (NIV)

¹ Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:2 (NLT)-M

² All the animals of the earth, (including all livestock and wildlife) all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power (under your dominion).

Genesis 9:3 (NLT)-M

³ I have given them (all living creatures) to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.

Genesis 9:4 (NIV)

⁴ “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Genesis 9:5 (NLT)

⁵ “And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.

Genesis 9:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.

Genesis 9:7 (NIV)

⁷ As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Genesis 9:8 (NASB)

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Genesis 9:9 (NASB)

⁹ “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

Genesis 9:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and with every living creature that was with you–the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you–every living creature on earth.

Genesis 9:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:12 (NASB)

¹² God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

Genesis 9:13 (NIV)

¹³ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

Genesis 9:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings.

Genesis 9:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

Genesis 9:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

Genesis 9:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Genesis 9:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21 (NIV)

²¹ When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22 (NIV)

²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23 (NIV)

²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9:24 (NLT)

²⁴ When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.

Genesis 9:25 (NASB)

²⁵ So he said, “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26 (NASB)

²⁶ He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

Genesis 9:27 (NASB)

²⁷ “May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”

Genesis 9:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Genesis 9:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.

Genesis Chapter 10

Genesis 10:1 (NIV)

¹ This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

Genesis 10:2 (NIV)

² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.

Genesis 10:3 (NIV)

³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.

Genesis 10:4 (NIV)

⁴ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim.

Genesis 10:5 (NLT2)

⁵ Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

Genesis 10:6 (NIV)

⁶ The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7 (NIV)

⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:8 (NIV)

⁸ Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.

Genesis 10:9 (NLT)

⁹ Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.”

Genesis 10:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.

Genesis 10:11 (NIV)

¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah

Genesis 10:12 (NIV)

¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

Genesis 10:13 (NIV)

¹³ Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

Genesis 10:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

Genesis 10:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

Genesis 10:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

Genesis 10:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

Genesis 10:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

Genesis 10:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 10:20 (NIV)

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

Genesis 10:21 (NIV)

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 10:22 (NASB)

²² The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

Genesis 10:23 (NASB)

²³ The sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

Genesis 10:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.

Genesis 10:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

Genesis 10:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10:27 (NASB)

²⁷ and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

Genesis 10:28 (NASB)

²⁸ and Obal and Abimael and Sheba

Genesis 10:29 (NASB)

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

Genesis 10:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

Genesis 10:31 (NIV)

³¹ These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

Genesis 10:32 (NASB)

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

Genesis Chapter 11

Genesis 11:1 (NIV)

¹ Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Genesis 11:2 (NIV)

² As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:3 (HCSB)

³ They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.

Genesis 11:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:5 (NIV)

⁵ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

Genesis 11:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

Genesis 11:7 (NASB)

⁷ “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8 (NASB)

⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9 (NASB)

⁹ Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

Genesis 11:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12 (NIV)

¹² When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

Genesis 11:13 (NIV)

¹³ And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

Genesis 11:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

Genesis 11:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

Genesis 11:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20 (NIV)

²⁰ When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

Genesis 11:21 (NIV)

²¹ And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22 (NIV)

²² When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

Genesis 11:23 (NIV)

²³ And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24 (NIV)

²⁴ When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 11:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26 (NIV)

²⁶ After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Genesis 11:27 (NASB)

²⁷ Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

Genesis 11:28 (NIV)

²⁸ While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

Genesis 11:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 11:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Genesis 11:31 (NASB)

³¹ Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

Genesis 11:32 (NIV)

³² Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Genesis Chapter 12

Genesis 12:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:2 (NIV)

² “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12:3 (NLT)

³ I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:4 (NIV)

⁴ So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

Genesis 12:5 (NASB)

⁵ Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:6 (NIV)

⁶ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 12:7 (NASB)

⁷ The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8 (NIV)

⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:9 (NASB)

⁹ Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

Genesis 12:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 12:11 (NIV)

¹¹ As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

Genesis 12:12 (NIV)

¹² When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

Genesis 12:13 (NIV)

¹³ Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

Genesis 12:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.

Genesis 12:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Genesis 12:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

Genesis 12:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

Genesis 12:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

Genesis Chapter 13

Genesis 13:1 (NIV)

¹ So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

Genesis 13:2 (NIV)

² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3 (NASB)

³ He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:4 (NASB)

⁴ to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:5 (NIV)

⁵ Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

Genesis 13:6 (NASB)

⁶ And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

Genesis 13:7 (NIV)

⁷ And quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

Genesis 13:8 (NASB)

⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

Genesis 13:9 (NASB)

⁹ “Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left.”

Genesis 13:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 13:11 (NIV)

¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

Genesis 13:12 (NIV)

¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

Genesis 13:13 (NASB)

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LORD.

Genesis 13:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Genesis 13:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.

Genesis 13:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.

Genesis 13:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

Genesis 13:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis Chapter 14

Genesis 14:1 (NIV)

¹ At this time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim

Genesis 14:2 (NIV)

² went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 14:3 (NIV)

³ All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14:4 (NIV)

⁴ For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14:5 (NIV)

⁵ In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim

Genesis 14:6 (NIV)

⁶ and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

Genesis 14:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 14:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim

Genesis 14:9 (NIV)

⁹ against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar–four kings against five.

Genesis 14:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.

Genesis 14:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Then they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply, and departed.

Genesis 14:12 (NIV)

¹² They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

Genesis 14:13 (NASB)

¹³ Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were allies with Abram.

Genesis 14:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 14:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

Genesis 14:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

Genesis 14:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Genesis 14:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,

Genesis 14:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.

Genesis 14:20 (NIV)

²⁰ And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Genesis 14:21 (NIV)

²¹ The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”

Genesis 14:22 (NIV)

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath

Genesis 14:23 (NIV)

²³ that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

Genesis 14:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me–to Aner, Eshcol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”

Genesis Chapter 15

Genesis 15:1 (NIV)

¹ After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

Genesis 15:2 (NIV)

² But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 15:3 (NIV)

³ And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

Genesis 15:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 15:5 (NASB)

⁵ And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 15:6 (NIV)

⁶ Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Genesis 15:7 (NIV)

⁷ He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

Genesis 15:8 (NIV)

⁸ But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

Genesis 15:9 (NIV)

⁹ So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

Genesis 15:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Genesis 15:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:12 (NIV)

¹² As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

Genesis 15:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Genesis 15:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

Genesis 15:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

Genesis 15:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates–

Genesis 15:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Genesis 15:20 (NASB)

²⁰ and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim

Genesis 15:21 (NASB)

²¹ and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”

Genesis Chapter 16

Genesis 16:1 (NIV)

¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;

Genesis 16:2 (NASB)

² So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:3 (NASB)

³ After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

Genesis 16:4 (NASB)

⁴ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.

Genesis 16:5 (NASB)

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

Genesis 16:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Your servant is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

Genesis 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

Genesis 16:8 (NIV)

⁸ And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

Genesis 16:9 (NASB)

⁹ Then the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

Genesis 16:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The angel of the LORD also said to her: “You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.

Genesis 16:12 (CJB)

¹² He will be a wild donkey of a man, with his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, living his life at odds with all his kinsmen.”

Genesis 16:13 (NASB)

¹³ Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?”

Genesis 16:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Genesis 16:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

Genesis Chapter 17

Genesis 17:1 (NIV)

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 17:2 (NASB)

² “I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17:3 (NIV)

³ Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

Genesis 17:4 (NIV)

⁴ “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5 (NIV)

⁵ No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 17:7 (NIV)

⁷ I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:8 (NIV)

⁸ The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 17:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

Genesis 17:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Genesis 17:12 (CJB)

¹² Generation after generation, every male among you who is eight days old is to be circumcised, including slaves born within your household and those bought from a foreigner not descended from you.

Genesis 17:13 (CJB)

¹³ The slave born in your house and the person bought with your money must be circumcised; thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin — that person will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my covenant.”

Genesis 17:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

Genesis 17:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?“

Genesis 17:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!”

Genesis 17:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17:21 (NIV)

²¹ But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”

Genesis 17:22 (NASB)

²² When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23 (NIV)

²³ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

Genesis 17:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17:25 (NASB)

²⁵ And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.

Genesis 17:27 (NIV)

²⁷ And every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.

Genesis Chapter 18

Genesis 18:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.

Genesis 18:2 (NIV)

² Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 18:3 (NIV)

³ He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.

Genesis 18:4 (NIV)

⁴ Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.

Genesis 18:5 (NIV)

⁵ Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way–now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”

Genesis 18:6 (NASB)

⁶ So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes.”

Genesis 18:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

Genesis 18:8 (NASB)

⁸ He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.

Genesis 18:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.

Genesis 18:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Genesis 18:12 (NIV)

¹² So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

Genesis 18:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’

Genesis 18:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.”

Genesis 18:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Sarah denied it however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Genesis 18:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.

Genesis 18:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Genesis 18:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 18:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Genesis 18:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous

Genesis 18:21 (NIV)

²¹ that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

Genesis 18:22 (NIV)

²² The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Genesis 18:23 (NIV)

²³ Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:24 (NIV)

²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?

Genesis 18:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing–to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Genesis 18:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 18:27 (NASB)

²⁷ And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:28 (NASB)

²⁸ “Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Genesis 18:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

Genesis 18:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 18:31 (NIV)

³¹ Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 18:32 (NIV)

³² Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 18:33 (NIV)

³³ When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

Genesis Chapter 19

Genesis 19:1 (NIV)

¹ The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 19:2 (NIV)

² “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

Genesis 19:3 (NIV)

³ But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

Genesis 19:4 (NIV)

⁴ Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom–both young and old–surrounded the house.

Genesis 19:5 (NIV)

⁵ They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Genesis 19:6 (NIV)

⁶ Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

Genesis 19:7 (NIV)

⁷ and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.

Genesis 19:8 (NIV)

⁸ Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

Genesis 19:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Get out of our way,” they replied. And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

Genesis 19:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.

Genesis 19:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

Genesis 19:12 (NIV)

¹² The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here–sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

Genesis 19:13 (NIV)

¹³ because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 19:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Genesis 19:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Genesis 19:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.

Genesis 19:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

Genesis 19:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!

Genesis 19:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

Genesis 19:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it–it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

Genesis 19:21 (NIV)

²¹ He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

Genesis 19:22 (NIV)

²² But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

Genesis 19:23 (NIV)

²³ By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

Genesis 19:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah–from the LORD out of the heavens.

Genesis 19:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities–and also the vegetation in the land.

Genesis 19:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

Genesis 19:28 (NIV)

²⁸ He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

Genesis 19:29 (NIV)

²⁹ So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

Genesis 19:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

Genesis 19:31 (NIV)

³¹ One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth.

Genesis 19:32 (NIV)

³² Let’s get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Genesis 19:33 (NIV)

³³ That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Genesis 19:34 (NIV)

³⁴ The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I lay with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”

Genesis 19:35 (NIV)

³⁵ So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Genesis 19:36 (NIV)

³⁶ So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Genesis 19:37 (NIV)

³⁷ The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

Genesis 19:38 (NIV)

³⁸ The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Genesis Chapter 20

Genesis 20:1 (NIV)

¹ Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,

Genesis 20:2 (NIV)

² and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

Genesis 20:3 (NASB)

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married.”

Genesis 20:4 (NIV)

⁴ Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?

Genesis 20:5 (NASB)

⁵ “Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

Genesis 20:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 20:7 (NIV)

⁷ Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all yours will die.”

Genesis 20:8 (NASB)

⁸ So Abimelech arose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were greatly frightened.

Genesis 20:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”

Genesis 20:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ And Abimelech asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”

Genesis 20:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

Genesis 20:12 (NIV)

¹² Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20:13 (NIV)

¹³ And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”‘”

Genesis 20:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then Abimelech brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.

Genesis 20:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”

Genesis 20:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”

Genesis 20:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his slave girls so they could have children again,

Genesis 20:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ for the LORD had closed up every womb in Abimelech’s household because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

Genesis Chapter 21

Genesis 21:1 (NIV)

¹ Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

Genesis 21:2 (NIV)

² Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.

Genesis 21:3 (NIV)

³ Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.

Genesis 21:4 (NIV)

⁴ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.

Genesis 21:5 (NIV)

⁵ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Genesis 21:6 (NIV)

⁶ Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21:7 (NIV)

⁷ And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Genesis 21:8 (NIV)

⁸ The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.

Genesis 21:9 (NIV)

⁹ But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,

Genesis 21:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

Genesis 21:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.

Genesis 21:12 (NIV)

¹² But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

Genesis 21:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”

Genesis 21:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.

Genesis 21:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 21:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis 21:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Genesis 21:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 21:20 (NIV)

²⁰ God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

Genesis 21:21 (NIV)

²¹ While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Genesis 21:22 (NIV)

²² At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Genesis 21:23 (NIV)

²³ Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you are living as an alien the same kindness I have shown to you.”

Genesis 21:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Abraham said, “I swear it.”

Genesis 21:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

Genesis 21:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”

Genesis 21:27 (NIV)

²⁷ So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a treaty.

Genesis 21:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Genesis 21:29 (NIV)

²⁹ and Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”

Genesis 21:30 (NIV)

³⁰ He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”

Genesis 21:31 (NIV)

³¹ So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

Genesis 21:32 (NIV)

³² After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 21:33 (NIV)

³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Genesis 21:34 (NIV)

³⁴ And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

Genesis Chapter 22

Genesis 22:1 (NIV)

¹ Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Genesis 22:2 (NIV)

² Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Genesis 22:3 (NIV)

³ Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.

Genesis 22:4 (NIV)

⁴ On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Genesis 22:5 (NIV)

⁵ He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

Genesis 22:6 (NIV)

⁶ Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

Genesis 22:7 (NIV)

⁷ Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Genesis 22:8 (NIV)

⁸ Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

Genesis 22:9 (NIV)

⁹ When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Genesis 22:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Genesis 22:11 (NASB)

¹¹ But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:12 (NIV)

¹² “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

Genesis 22:13 (NIV)

¹³ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.”

Genesis 22:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time

Genesis 22:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Genesis 22:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Genesis 22:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed — because you obeyed my order.”

Genesis 22:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Genesis 22:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Some time later Abraham was told, “Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

Genesis 22:22 (NIV)

²² Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.”

Genesis 22:23 (NIV)

²³ Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 22:24 (NIV)

²⁴ His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis Chapter 23

Genesis 23:1 (CJB)

¹ Sarah lived to be 127 years old; these were the years of Sarah’s life.

Genesis 23:2 (NIV)

² She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

Genesis 23:3 (NIV)

³ Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. He said,

Genesis 23:4 (CJB)

⁴ “I am a foreigner living as an alien with you; let me have a burial site with you, so that I can bury my dead wife.”

Genesis 23:5 (NIV)

⁵ The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Genesis 23:6 (NASB)

⁶ “Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”

Genesis 23:7 (NASB)

⁷ So Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.

Genesis 23:8 (NIV)

⁸ He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

Genesis 23:9 (NIV)

⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”

Genesis 23:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 23:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

Genesis 23:12 (NIV)

¹² Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

Genesis 23:13 (NASB)

¹³ He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me that I may bury my dead there.”

Genesis 23:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

Genesis 23:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ “My lord, listen to me. A plot of land worth 400 silver shekels — what is that between me and you? Just bury your dead.”

Genesis 23:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

Genesis 23:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over

Genesis 23:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

Genesis 23:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:20 (NASB)

²⁰ So the field and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth.

Genesis Chapter 24

Genesis 24:1 (NASB)

¹ Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.

Genesis 24:2 (NASB)

² Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:3 (NIV)

³ I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

Genesis 24:4 (NASB)

⁴ but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24:5 (NASB)

⁵ The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?”

Genesis 24:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.

Genesis 24:7 (NIV)

⁷ “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’–he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24:8 (NIV)

⁸ If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

Genesis 24:9 (NASB)

⁹ So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:12 (NASB)

¹² He said, “O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:13 (NIV)

¹³ See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ May it be that when I say to a girl, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’–let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

Genesis 24:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 24:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The girl was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever lain with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

Genesis 24:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”

Genesis 24:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking.”

Genesis 24:20 (NIV)

²⁰ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.

Genesis 24:21 (NIV)

²¹ Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.

Genesis 24:22 (NASB)

²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

Genesis 24:23 (NIV)

²³ Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Genesis 24:24 (NIV)

²⁴ She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

Genesis 24:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”

Genesis 24:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,

Genesis 24:27 (NIV)

²⁷ saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Genesis 24:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

Genesis 24:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:30 (NIV)

³⁰ As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.

Genesis 24:31 (NASB)

³¹ And he said, “Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”

Genesis 24:32 (NASB)

³² So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Genesis 24:33 (NIV)

³³ Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” [Laban] said.

Genesis 24:34 (NIV)

³⁴ So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

Genesis 24:35 (NIV)

³⁵ The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 24:36 (NIV)

³⁶ My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

Genesis 24:37 (NIV)

³⁷ And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

Genesis 24:38 (NASB)

³⁸ but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24:39 (NIV)

³⁹ “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’

Genesis 24:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ “He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;

Genesis 24:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ Then, when you go to my clan, you will be released from my oath even if they refuse to give her to you–you will be released from my oath.’

Genesis 24:42 (NIV)

⁴² “When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.

Genesis 24:43 (NIV)

⁴³ See, I am standing beside this spring; if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

Genesis 24:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ and if she says to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too,” let her be the one the LORD has chosen for my master’s son.’

Genesis 24:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ “Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

Genesis 24:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ “She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels also.

Genesis 24:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ “I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,

Genesis 24:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Genesis 24:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”

Genesis 24:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.

Genesis 24:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”

Genesis 24:52 (NIV)

⁵² When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

Genesis 24:53 (NIV)

⁵³ Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 24:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”

Genesis 24:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”

Genesis 24:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master.”

Genesis 24:57 (CJB)

⁵⁷ They said, “We will call the girl and see what she says.”

Genesis 24:58 (NASB)

⁵⁸ Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”

Genesis 24:59 (NIV)

⁵⁹ So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Genesis 24:60 (NASB)

⁶⁰ They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 24:61 (NASB)

⁶¹ Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

Genesis 24:62 (NASB)

⁶² Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the Negev.

Genesis 24:63 (NASB)

⁶³ Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming.

Genesis 24:64 (NASB)

⁶⁴ Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.

Genesis 24:65 (NIV)

⁶⁵ and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

Genesis 24:66 (NIV)

⁶⁶ Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.

Genesis 24:67 (NIV)

⁶⁷ Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis Chapter 25

Genesis 25:1 (NIV)

¹ Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Genesis 25:2 (NIV)

² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.

Genesis 25:3 (NIV)

³ Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.

Genesis 25:4 (NIV)

⁴ The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

Genesis 25:5 (NIV)

⁵ Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

Genesis 25:6 (NIV)

⁶ But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Genesis 25:7 (AMP)

⁷ The days of Abraham’s life were 175 years.

Genesis 25:8 (NASB)

⁸ Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:9 (NIV)

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,

Genesis 25:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

Genesis 25:11 (NASB)

¹¹ It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

Genesis 25:12 (AMP)

¹² Now this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 25:13 (NIV)

¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Genesis 25:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Genesis 25:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

Genesis 25:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.

Genesis 25:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Altogether, Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

Genesis 25:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ And this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac.

Genesis 25:20 (NIV)

²⁰ and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 25:21 (NIV)

²¹ Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 25:22 (NASB)

²² But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.

Genesis 25:23 (NIV)

²³ The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 25:24 (NIV)

²⁴ When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

Genesis 25:25 (NIV)

²⁵ The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.

Genesis 25:26 (7KB)

²⁶ After this, his twin brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

Genesis 25:27 (AMP)

²⁷ When the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain and quiet man, dwelling in tents.

Genesis 25:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 25:29 (7KB)

²⁹ When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;

Genesis 25:30 (7KB)

³⁰ He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Genesis 25:31 (7KB)

³¹ Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

Genesis 25:32 (7KB)

³² “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

Genesis 25:33 (7KB)

³³ But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.

Genesis 25:34 (7KB)

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis Chapter 26

Genesis 26:1 (NASB)

¹ Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:2 (NIV)

² The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

Genesis 26:3 (NKJV)

³ Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26:4 (CJB)

⁴ I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, I will give all these lands to your descendants, and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless themselves.

Genesis 26:5 (AMP)

⁵ For Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.

Genesis 26:6 (NKJV)

⁶ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

Genesis 26:7 (NIV)

⁷ When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

Genesis 26:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife.

Genesis 26:9 (NASB)

⁹ Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘I might die on account of her.'”

Genesis 26:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Genesis 26:11 (NIV)

¹¹ So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

Genesis 26:12 (NIV)

¹² Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

Genesis 26:13 (NKJV)

¹³ The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;

Genesis 26:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

Genesis 26:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Genesis 26:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ So Isaac went away from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

Genesis 26:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water,

Genesis 26:20 (NIV)

²⁰ But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

Genesis 26:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Genesis 26:22 (NIV)

²² He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Genesis 26:23 (NIV)

²³ From there he went up to Beersheba.

Genesis 26:24 (NIV)

²⁴ That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 26:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

Genesis 26:26 (NASB)

²⁶ Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

Genesis 26:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”

Genesis 26:28 (NIV)

²⁸ They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’–between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you

Genesis 26:29 (NIV)

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

Genesis 26:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 26:31 (NIV)

³¹ Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Genesis 26:32 (NIV)

³² That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!”

Genesis 26:33 (NIV)

³³ He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.

Genesis 26:34 (NIV)

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 26:35 (NIV)

³⁵ They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Genesis Chapter 27

Genesis 27:1 (NIV)

¹ When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.

Genesis 27:2 (NIV)

² Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.

Genesis 27:3 (NASB)

³ “Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

Genesis 27:4 (NIV)

⁴ Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”

Genesis 27:5 (NIV)

⁵ Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,

Genesis 27:6 (NIV)

⁶ Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:7 (NIV)

⁷ ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

Genesis 27:8 (NIV)

⁸ Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:

Genesis 27:9 (NIV)

⁹ Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

Genesis 27:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”

Genesis 27:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I’m a man with smooth skin.

Genesis 27:12 (NASB)

¹² “Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

Genesis 27:13 (NIV)

¹³ His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”

Genesis 27:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

Genesis 27:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Genesis 27:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.

Genesis 27:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

Genesis 27:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”

Genesis 27:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing.”

Genesis 27:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,” he replied.

Genesis 27:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27:22 (NIV)

²² Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Genesis 27:23 (NIV)

²³ He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

Genesis 27:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.

Genesis 27:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

Genesis 27:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

Genesis 27:27 (NIV)

²⁷ So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

Genesis 27:28 (NIV)

²⁸ May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness– an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:29 (NIV)

²⁹ May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”

Genesis 27:30 (NIV)

³⁰ After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

Genesis 27:31 (NIV)

³¹ He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Genesis 27:32 (NIV)

³² His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”

Genesis 27:33 (NIV)

³³ Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him–and indeed he will be blessed!”

Genesis 27:34 (NASB)

³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

Genesis 27:35 (NIV)

³⁵ But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

Genesis 27:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

Genesis 27:37 (NASB)

³⁷ But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

Genesis 27:38 (NASB)

³⁸ Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

Genesis 27:39 (NIV)

³⁹ His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

Genesis 27:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

Genesis 27:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 27:42 (NIV)

⁴² When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.

Genesis 27:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Genesis 27:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.

Genesis 27:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Genesis 27:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

Genesis Chapter 28

Genesis 28:1 (NIV)

¹ So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 28:2 (NKJV)

² Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28:3 (NIV)

³ May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

Genesis 28:4 (NIV)

⁴ May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 28:6 (NIV)

⁶ Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

Genesis 28:7 (NIV)

⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

Genesis 28:8 (NIV)

⁸ Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

Genesis 28:9 (NIV)

⁹ so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

Genesis 28:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Genesis 28:11 (NIV)

¹¹ When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

Genesis 28:12 (NIV)

¹² He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28:13 (NASB)

¹³ And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.

Genesis 28:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 28:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Genesis 28:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

Genesis 28:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Then he became afraid and said, “This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

Genesis 28:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

Genesis 28:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.

Genesis 28:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear

Genesis 28:21 (NIV)

²¹ so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God

Genesis 28:22 (7KB)

²² And this standing-stone I have setup will be a memorial pillar and will become a place for worshiping God, and of everything you give me, I will faithfully return one-tenth to you.”

Genesis Chapter 29

Genesis 29:1 (NASB)

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.

Genesis 29:2 (NIV)

² There he saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

Genesis 29:3 (CJB)

³ and only when all the flocks had gathered there would they roll the stone away from the opening of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place on the well’s opening.

Genesis 29:4 (NASB)

⁴ Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”

Genesis 29:5 (NASB)

⁵ He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” And they said, “We know him.“

Genesis 29:6 (NASB)

⁶ And he said to them, “Is it well with him?” And they said, “It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.”

Genesis 29:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

Genesis 29:8 (NASB)

⁸ But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

Genesis 29:9 (CJB)

⁹ While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, because she took care of them.

Genesis 29:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Genesis 29:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept.

Genesis 29:12 (NASB)

¹² Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.

Genesis 29:13 (NIV)

¹³ As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

Genesis 29:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

Genesis 29:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Genesis 29:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful.

Genesis 29:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”

Genesis 29:20 (NIV)

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Genesis 29:21 (AMP)

²¹ Finally, Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, so that I may take her to me.

Genesis 29:22 (NIV)

²² So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.

Genesis 29:23 (NIV)

²³ But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her.

Genesis 29:24 (NIV)

²⁴ And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her maidservant.

Genesis 29:25 (NASB)

²⁵ So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”

Genesis 29:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.

Genesis 29:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”

Genesis 29:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Genesis 29:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Laban gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

Genesis 29:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Genesis 29:31 (NIV)

³¹ When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 29:32 (AMP)

³² And Leah became pregnant and bore a son and named him Reuben [See, a son!]; for she said, Because the Lord has seen my humiliation and affliction; now my husband will love me.

Genesis 29:33 (NASB)

³³ Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.

Genesis 29:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

Genesis 29:35 (NIV)

³⁵ She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

Genesis Chapter 30

Genesis 30:1 (AMP)

¹ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die!

Genesis 30:2 (NIV)

² Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

Genesis 30:3 (NIV)

³ Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family.”

Genesis 30:4 (NASB)

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

Genesis 30:5 (NASB)

⁵ Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.

Genesis 30:7 (NIV)

⁷ Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9 (NIV)

⁹ When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Then Leah said, Victory and good fortune have come; and she named him Gad [fortune].

Genesis 30:12 (NIV)

¹² Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

Genesis 30:14 (7KB)

¹⁴ During the wheat harvest season Ruben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes [so that I can be fertile].”

Genesis 30:15 (HCSB)

¹⁵ But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?” “Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son’s mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.

Genesis 30:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Genesis 30:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

Genesis 30:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

Genesis 30:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

Genesis 30:21 (NIV)

²¹ Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

Genesis 30:22 (CJB)

²² Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile.

Genesis 30:23 (NIV)

²³ She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

Genesis 30:24 (NASB)

²⁴ She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD give me another son.”

Genesis 30:25 (NIV)

²⁵ After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.

Genesis 30:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

Genesis 30:27 (NKJV)

²⁷ And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

Genesis 30:28 (NIV)

²⁸ He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

Genesis 30:29 (7KB)

²⁹ Jacob replied, “You know how faithfully I have served you and how your livestock have prospered under my care.

Genesis 30:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”

Genesis 30:31 (NIV)

³¹ “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

Genesis 30:32 (NIV)

³² Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

Genesis 30:33 (7KB)

³³ And I will let my integrity stand as witness against me in the future: when you come to look over the animals constituting my wages, every goat that isn’t speckled or spotted and every sheep that isn’t brown or colored will count as stolen by me.”

Genesis 30:34 (7KB)

³⁴ Laban was thrilled with this proposal and said, “Oh, that it would be according to your word!” [thinking that it would be impossible for all-white animals to give birth to colored offspring]!

Genesis 30:35 (7KB)

³⁵ So on that day, Laban removed all of the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every colored animal with some white in it, and all the black ones and colored among the sheep, and placed all these colored animals into the care of his sons.

Genesis 30:36 (7KB)

³⁶ Then Laban put a three-day journey between these colored flocks and separated these from Jacob, who was left to manage only the remaining all-white colored flocks of Laban.

Genesis 30:37 (NIV)

³⁷ Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

Genesis 30:38 (HCSB)

³⁸ He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

Genesis 30:39 (HCSB)

³⁹ The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

Genesis 30:40 (7KB)

⁴⁰ Jacob managed the breeding of his flocks by separating the ewes from the flock and permitted them to breed only with animals that were streaked or brown within the flock of Laban which he was tending. Thus, he kept his own colored livestock separate from the rest of Laban’s flock and bred only animals of color together (producing separate flocks for himself as his wages).

Genesis 30:41 (7KB)

⁴¹ Whenever the stronger white-females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches. Thus, using the principle of faith and visualization Jacob caused the white-animals of Laban to give birth to colored offspring. Then breeding these colored offspring together resulted in the multiplication of the flocks of Jacob which were set apart as his wages.

Genesis 30:42 (7KB)

⁴² but if the white-animals were weak, he would not place the peeled rods in the troughs. Thus, the weak white-animals gave birth to white weaker-animals (which went to Laban) and the stronger colored animals (which were born) went to Jacob.

Genesis 30:43 (NIV)

⁴³ In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis Chapter 31

Genesis 31:1 (NASB)

¹ Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth.”

Genesis 31:2 (NIV)

² And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.

Genesis 31:3 (AMP)

³ Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your people, and I will be with you.

Genesis 31:4 (7KB)

⁴ So Jacob called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was tending his flock.

Genesis 31:5 (7KB)

⁵ He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not favorable as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me so I could not be harmed or cheated.

Genesis 31:6 (NIV)

⁶ You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength,

Genesis 31:7 (7KB)

⁷ and your father has tried to diminish me by changing my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to do me any damage [by prospering me under whatever terms I was given].

Genesis 31:8 (CJB)

⁸ If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to streaked young.

Genesis 31:9 (NIV)-M

⁹ In this manner, God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ Once, during the breeding season, I had a dream in which I looked up and there in front of me the male goats which mated with the females were streaked, speckled and mottled.

Genesis 31:11 (7KB)

¹¹ Then, in the dream, the angel of God said to me, Jacob!’ and I replied, ‘Here I am.’

Genesis 31:12 (7KB)

¹² And the angel of God said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the females are streaked, speckled and mottled; for I have seen everything Laban has been doing to you.

Genesis 31:13 (7KB)

¹³ ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a standing-stone with oil, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.'”

Genesis 31:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Rachel and Leah said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

Genesis 31:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us.

Genesis 31:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Genesis 31:17 (7KB)

¹⁷ Then Jacob prepared for his departure and put his children and his wives on camels,

Genesis 31:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31:19 (7KB)

¹⁹ Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and while he was gone from his house Rachel stole Laban’s household idols.

Genesis 31:20 (NKJV)

²⁰ And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 31:21 (7KB)

²¹ So he fled with all he had, and crossing the Euphrates River, he headed for the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:22 (7KB)

²² It was not until three days later that Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Genesis 31:23 (7KB)

²³ So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after Jacob for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.

Genesis 31:26 (AMP)

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What do you mean stealing away and leaving like this without my knowing it, and carrying off my daughters as if captives of the sword?

Genesis 31:27 (CJB)

²⁷ Why did you flee in secret and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you off with joy and singing to the music of tambourines and lyres.

Genesis 31:28 (NIV)

²⁸ You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters good-by. You have done a foolish thing.

Genesis 31:29 (7KB)

²⁹ I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, ‘Be careful that you don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Genesis 31:30 (7KB)

³⁰ Granted that you had to leave, because you longed so deeply for your father’s household; but why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:31 (NIV)

³¹ Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

Genesis 31:32 (NKJV)

³² With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:33 (NIV)

³³ So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

Genesis 31:34 (NKJV)

³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them.

Genesis 31:35 (HCSB)

³⁵ She said to her father, “Sir, don’t be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Genesis 31:36 (NASB)

³⁶ Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

Genesis 31:37 (NIV)

³⁷ Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.

Genesis 31:38 (NASB)

³⁸ “These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

Genesis 31:39 (NIV)

³⁹ I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

Genesis 31:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:41 (CJB)

⁴¹ These twenty years I’ve been in your house — I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock; and you changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 31:42 (NIV)

⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”

Genesis 31:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

Genesis 31:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”

Genesis 31:45 (AMP)

⁴⁵ So Jacob set up a stone for a pillar or monument.

Genesis 31:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:48 (NKJV)

⁴⁸ And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed,

Genesis 31:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ It was also called Mizpah, because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.

Genesis 31:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

Genesis 31:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me.

Genesis 31:52 (NIV)

⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me.

Genesis 31:53 (7KB)

⁵³ Laban swore by multiple gods and included the God of Abraham together with the false gods of Nahor, and the false gods of their father Terah (who were idolaters) and said, “Let these gods judge between us!” But Jacob swore only by the one true God who was reverenced by his father Isaac.

Genesis 31:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.

Genesis 31:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.

Genesis Chapter 32

Genesis 32:1 (NASB)

¹ Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.

Genesis 32:2 (NKJV)

² When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3 (NIV)

³ Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Genesis 32:4 (NKJV)

⁴ And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.

Genesis 32:5 (NIV)

⁵ I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.'”

Genesis 32:6 (NIV)

⁶ When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Genesis 32:7 (NASB)

⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;

Genesis 32:8 (NIV)

⁸ He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”

Genesis 32:9 (NASB)

⁹ Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’

Genesis 32:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 32:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.

Genesis 32:12 (NASB)

¹² “For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'”

Genesis 32:13 (NLT2)

¹³ Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

Genesis 32:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males,

Genesis 32:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”

Genesis 32:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’

Genesis 32:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.'”

Genesis 32:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Genesis 32:20 (NIV)

²⁰ And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.'” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”

Genesis 32:21 (NIV)

²¹ So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

Genesis 32:22 (NASB)

²² Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32:23 (NIV)

²³ After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

Genesis 32:24 (HCSB)

²⁴ Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Genesis 32:25 (NIV)

²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

Genesis 32:26 (NASB)

²⁶ Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Genesis 32:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.

Genesis 32:28 (NKJV)

²⁸ And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Genesis 32:29 (NASB)

²⁹ Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30 (NIV)

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Genesis 32:31 (NIV)

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Genesis 32:32 (NIV)

³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

Genesis Chapter 33

Genesis 33:1 (NIV)

¹ Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two maidservants.

Genesis 33:2 (NASB)

² He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Genesis 33:3 (NIV)

³ He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Genesis 33:4 (NIV)

⁴ But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

Genesis 33:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 33:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.

Genesis 33:7 (NIV)

⁷ Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

Genesis 33:8 (7KB)

⁸ ‘Esau asked, “What was the meaning of this procession of droves I encountered?” and he answered, “It was to win my lord’s favor.”

Genesis 33:9 (NIV)

⁹ But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

Genesis 33:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.

Genesis 33:11 (CJB)

¹¹ So please accept the gift I have brought you, for God has dealt kindly with me and I have enough.” Thus he urged him, until he accepted it.

Genesis 33:12 (NIV)

¹² Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

Genesis 33:13 (NIV)

¹³ But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 33:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, 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 at Seir.”

Genesis 33:15 (CJB) -M

¹⁵ ‘Esau replied, “Then let me leave with you some of the people I have with me.” But Jacob said, “There’s no need for my lord to be so kind to me.”

Genesis 33:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

Genesis 33:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Jacob, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Succoth.

Genesis 33:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

Genesis 33:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 33:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis Chapter 34

Genesis 34:1 (AMP)-M

¹ Now Dinah daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out [unattended] to see the girls of the place.

Genesis 34:2 (NIV)

² When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her.

Genesis 34:3 (CJB)-M

³ But actually he was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he fell in love with the girl and tried to win her affection.

Genesis 34:4 (NIV)

⁴ And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”

Genesis 34:5 (NIV)

⁵ When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he kept quiet about it until they came home.

Genesis 34:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.

Genesis 34:7 (NIV)

⁷ Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter–a thing that should not be done.

Genesis 34:8 (NIV)

⁸ But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Genesis 34:9 (NIV)

⁹ Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”

Genesis 34:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

Genesis 34:12 (NIV)

¹² Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife.”

Genesis 34:13 (NIV)

¹³ Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

Genesis 34:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ They said to them, “We can’t do it, because it would be a disgrace to give our sister to someone who hasn’t been circumcised.

Genesis 34:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ Only on this condition will we consent to what you are asking: that you become like us by having every male among you get circumcised.

Genesis 34:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.

Genesis 34:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”

Genesis 34:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

Genesis 34:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

Genesis 34:20 (NASB)

²⁰ So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34:21 (NIV)

²¹ “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.

Genesis 34:22 (NIV)

²² But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.

Genesis 34:23 (NIV)

²³ Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us.”

Genesis 34:24 (NIV)

²⁴ All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.

Genesis 34:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

Genesis 34:26 (AMP)

²⁶ And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house [where she had been all this time] and departed.

Genesis 34:27 (NLT2)

²⁷ Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob’s sons arrived. Finding the men slaughtered, they plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there.

Genesis 34:28 (CJB)

²⁸ They took their flocks, cattle and donkeys, and everything else, whether in the city or in the field,

Genesis 34:29 (NIV)

²⁹ They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

Genesis 34:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Genesis 34:31 (NKJV)

³¹ But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”

Genesis Chapter 35

Genesis 35:1 (NIV)

¹ Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2 (NASB)

² So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;

Genesis 35:3 (NIV)

³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:4 (NIV)

⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.

Genesis 35:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

Genesis 35:6 (NIV)

⁶ Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 35:7 (NIV)

⁷ There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Genesis 35:8 (NIV)

⁸ Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth.

Genesis 35:9 (NIV)

⁹ After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

Genesis 35:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.

Genesis 35:12 (NIV)

¹² The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Genesis 35:13 (NASB)

¹³ Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

Genesis 35:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ Jacob set up a standing-stone as a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

Genesis 35:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor.

Genesis 35:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”

Genesis 35:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:19 (CJB)-M

¹⁹ So Rachel died and was buried along the road leading to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 35:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.

Genesis 35:21 (NIV)

²¹ Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

Genesis 35:22 (NIV)

²² While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 35:23 (NASB)

²³ the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

Genesis 35:24 (NASB)

²⁴ the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

Genesis 35:25 (NASB)

²⁵ and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;

Genesis 35:26 (NASB)

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

Genesis 35:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Genesis 35:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.

Genesis 35:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis Chapter 36

Genesis 36:1 (NASB)

¹ Now these are the records of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 36:2 (NIV)

² Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite–

Genesis 36:3 (NIV)

³ also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

Genesis 36:4 (NIV)

⁴ Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

Genesis 36:5 (NIV)

⁵ and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.

Genesis 36:6 (NIV)

⁶ Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.

Genesis 36:7 (CJB)

⁷ For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the countryside through which they were traveling couldn’t support so much livestock.

Genesis 36:8 (NIV)

⁸ So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.

Genesis 36:9 (NKJV)

⁹ And this is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

Genesis 36:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Genesis 36:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.

Genesis 36:12 (NIV)

¹² Esau’s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.

Genesis 36:13 (NIV)

¹³ The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Genesis 36:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam and Korah.

Genesis 36:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ These were the chiefs among Esau’s descendants: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

Genesis 36:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Korah, Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; they were grandsons of Adah.

Genesis 36:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in Edom; they were grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Genesis 36:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

Genesis 36:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.

Genesis 36:20 (NIV)

²⁰ These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Genesis 36:21 (NIV)

²¹ Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.

Genesis 36:22 (NIV)

²² The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

Genesis 36:23 (NIV)

²³ The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

Genesis 36:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

Genesis 36:25 (NIV)

²⁵ The children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

Genesis 36:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, , Ithran and Keran.

Genesis 36:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.

Genesis 36:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

Genesis 36:29 (NIV)

²⁹ These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Genesis 36:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These were the Horite chiefs, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.

Genesis 36:31 (NIV)

³¹ These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:

Genesis 36:32 (NIV)

³² Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.

Genesis 36:33 (NIV)

³³ When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36:34 (NIV)

³⁴ When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36:35 (NIV)

³⁵ When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.

Genesis 36:36 (NIV)

³⁶ When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36:37 (NIV)

³⁷ When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36:38 (NIV)

³⁸ When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Acbor succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36:39 (NIV)

³⁹ When Baal-Hanan son of Acbor died, Hadad succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

Genesis 36:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Genesis 36:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

Genesis 36:42 (NIV)

⁴² Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

Genesis 36:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied. This was Esau the father of the Edomites.

Genesis Chapter 37

Genesis 37:1 (NIV)

¹ Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:2 (NIV)

² This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Genesis 37:3 (NIV)

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.

Genesis 37:4 (NIV)

⁴ When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

Genesis 37:5 (NIV)

⁵ Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

Genesis 37:6 (NIV)

⁶ He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

Genesis 37:7 (NIV)

⁷ We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

Genesis 37:8 (NIV)

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

Genesis 37:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Genesis 37:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Genesis 37:11 (NIV)

¹¹ His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 37:12 (NIV)

¹² Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

Genesis 37:13 (NIV)

¹³ and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.

Genesis 37:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

Genesis 37:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ where a man found him wandering around in the countryside. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Genesis 37:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”

Genesis 37:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.'” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.

Genesis 37:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Genesis 37:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ They said to each other, “Look, this dreamer is coming!

Genesis 37:20 (CJB)

²⁰ So come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these water cisterns here. Then we’ll say some wild animal devoured him. We’ll see then what becomes of his dreams!”

Genesis 37:21 (NASB)

²¹ But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, “Let us not take his life.”

Genesis 37:22 (NIV)

²² “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

Genesis 37:23 (NIV)

²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe–the richly ornamented robe he was wearing–

Genesis 37:24 (NIV)

²⁴ and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

Genesis 37:25 (NIV)

²⁵ As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

Genesis 37:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Genesis 37:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.

Genesis 37:28 (NIV)

²⁸ So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 37:29 (NIV)

²⁹ When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:30 (HCSB)

³⁰ He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

Genesis 37:31 (NIV)

³¹ Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

Genesis 37:32 (NIV)

³² They took the ornamented robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”

Genesis 37:33 (NIV)

³³ He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”

Genesis 37:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:35 (NIV)

³⁵ All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “in mourning will I go down to the grave to my son.” So his father wept for him.

Genesis 37:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

Genesis Chapter 38

Genesis 38:1 (NIV)

¹ At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.

Genesis 38:2 (NIV)

² There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and lay with her;

Genesis 38:3 (NIV)

³ she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er.

Genesis 38:4 (NIV)

⁴ She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan.

Genesis 38:5 (NIV)

⁵ She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.

Genesis 38:6 (NIV)

⁶ Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Genesis 38:7 (7KB)

⁷ But Er, Judah’s firstborn , was evil in the Lord’s perspective; so the LORD put him to death.

Genesis 38:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, “Lie with your brother’s wife and preform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and preserve your brother’s line of descent.

Genesis 38:9 (7KB)

⁹ But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother’s wife, he prevented conception by spilling his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his deceased brother.

Genesis 38:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ What he did by denying offspring to his deceased brother was wicked from the Lord’s perspective, so he put him to death also.

Genesis 38:11 (7KB)

¹¹ Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “I don’t want him to die also, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:12 (7KB)

¹² Now after a considerable time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

Genesis 38:13 (CJB)

¹³ Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law has gone up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Genesis 38:14 (7KB)

¹⁴ So Tamar took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

Genesis 38:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ He turned to her by the road and said, Come, let me have intercourse with you; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me that you may have intercourse with me?

Genesis 38:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ He answered, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge (deposit) until you send it?

Genesis 38:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

Genesis 38:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes again.

Genesis 38:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.

Genesis 38:21 (NIV)

²¹ He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

Genesis 38:22 (NIV)

²² So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.'”

Genesis 38:23 (NIV)

²³ Then Judah said, “Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.”

Genesis 38:24 (NIV)

²⁴ About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”

Genesis 38:25 (NIV)

²⁵ As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”

Genesis 38:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.

Genesis 38:27 (NIV)

²⁷ When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

Genesis 38:28 (NIV)

²⁸ As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, “This one came out first.”

Genesis 38:29 (NIV)

²⁹ But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.

Genesis 38:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.

Genesis Chapter 39

Genesis 39:1 (NASB)

¹ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

Genesis 39:2 (NASB)

² The LORD was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

Genesis 39:3 (NASB)

³ Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and how the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39:4 (NKJV)

⁴ So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority.

Genesis 39:5 (NIV)

⁵ From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.

Genesis 39:6 (NIV)

⁶ So he left in Joseph’s care everything he had; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

Genesis 39:7 (NIV)

⁷ and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

Genesis 39:8 (AMP)

⁸ But he refused and said to his master’s wife, See here, with me in the house my master has concern about nothing; he has put all that he has in my care.

Genesis 39:9 (NASB)

⁹ “There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”

Genesis 39:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

Genesis 39:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside.

Genesis 39:12 (NIV)

¹² She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

Genesis 39:13 (NIV)

¹³ When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

Genesis 39:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.

Genesis 39:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Genesis 39:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.

Genesis 39:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.

Genesis 39:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Genesis 39:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.

Genesis 39:20 (AMP)

²⁰ And Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the state prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

Genesis 39:21 (AMP)

²¹ But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy and loving-kindness and gave him favor in the sight of the warden of the prison.

Genesis 39:22 (NIV)

²² So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.

Genesis 39:23 (NIV)

²³ The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

Genesis Chapter 40

Genesis 40:1 (NKJV)

¹ It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40:2 (NASB)

² Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 40:3 (NASB)

³ So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

Genesis 40:4 (NIV)

⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,

Genesis 40:5 (CJB)

⁵ One night the two of them, the king of Egypt’s cupbearer and his baker, there in prison, both had dreams, each dream with its own meaning.

Genesis 40:6 (NIV)

⁶ When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.

Genesis 40:7 (NASB)

⁷ He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

Genesis 40:8 (NIV)

⁸ “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Genesis 40:9 (NIV)

⁹ So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,

Genesis 40:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

Genesis 40:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”

Genesis 40:12 (NIV)

¹² “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.

Genesis 40:13 (NIV)

¹³ Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 40:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ But remember me when it goes well with you; and show me kindness, please; and mention me to Pharaoh, so that he will release me from this prison.

Genesis 40:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ For the truth is that I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing wrong that would justify putting me in this dungeon.”

Genesis 40:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.

Genesis 40:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 40:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Genesis 40:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

Genesis 40:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

Genesis 40:21 (NIV)

²¹ He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand,

Genesis 40:22 (NIV)

²² but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.

Genesis 40:23 (AMP)

²³ But [even after all that] the chief butler gave no thought to Joseph, but forgot [all about] him.

Genesis Chapter 41

Genesis 41:1 (NIV)

¹ When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile,

Genesis 41:2 (NIV)

² when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.

Genesis 41:4 (NIV)

⁴ And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Genesis 41:5 (NIV)

⁵ He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:6 (NIV)

⁶ After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted–thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:7 (NIV)

⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.

Genesis 41:8 (NIV)

⁸ In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Genesis 41:9 (7KB)

⁹ Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today reminds me of something wherein I am at fault being negligent and having withheld information that I possess:

Genesis 41:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his officials and put me in the prison of the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

Genesis 41:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

Genesis 41:12 (NIV)

¹² Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream.

Genesis 41:13 (NIV)

¹³ And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

Genesis 41:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream and interpret it.

Genesis 41:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Joseph answered Pharaoh, It is not in me; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a [favorable] answer of peace.

Genesis 41:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

Genesis 41:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.

Genesis 41:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ After them, seven other cows came up–scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

Genesis 41:21 (NIV)

²¹ But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

Genesis 41:22 (CJB)

²² But I dreamed again and saw seven full, ripe ears of grain growing out of a single stalk.

Genesis 41:23 (NIV)

²³ After them, seven other heads sprouted–withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none could explain it to me.”

Genesis 41:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.

Genesis 41:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:30 (NIV)

³⁰ but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

Genesis 41:31 (NIV)

³¹ The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Genesis 41:32 (NIV)

³² The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.

Genesis 41:33 (NIV)

³³ “And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Genesis 41:35 (NASB)

³⁵ “Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it.

Genesis 41:36 (NIV)

³⁶ This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”

Genesis 41:37 (NIV)

³⁷ The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials.

Genesis 41:38 (CJB)

³⁸ Pharaoh said to his officials, “Can we find anyone else like him? The Spirit of God lives in him!”

Genesis 41:39 (NIV)

³⁹ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

Genesis 41:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Genesis 41:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41:42 (NIV)

⁴² Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.

Genesis 41:43 (NIV)

⁴³ He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and men shouted before him, “Make way!” Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”

Genesis 41:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt.

Genesis 41:47 (NASB)

⁴⁷ During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

Genesis 41:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

Genesis 41:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

Genesis 41:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Genesis 41:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

Genesis 41:52 (NIV)

⁵² The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Genesis 41:53 (NIV)

⁵³ The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

Genesis 41:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

Genesis 41:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.

Genesis 41:57 (NIV)

⁵⁷ And all the countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the world.

Genesis Chapter 42

Genesis 42:1 (NASB)

¹ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

Genesis 42:2 (CJB)

² Look,” he said, “I’ve heard that there’s grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us from there, so that we can stay alive and not die!”

Genesis 42:3 (AMP)

³ So ten of Joseph’s brethren went to buy grain in Egypt.

Genesis 42:4 (AMP)

⁴ But Benjamin, Joseph’s [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.

Genesis 42:5 (NIV)

⁵ So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.

Genesis 42:6 (AMP)

⁶ Now Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land; and Joseph’s [half] brothers came and bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 42:7 (NIV)

⁷ As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”

Genesis 42:8 (NIV)

⁸ Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Genesis 42:9 (NASB)

⁹ Joseph remembered the dreams which he had about them, and said to them, “You are spies; you have come to look at the undefended parts of our land.”

Genesis 42:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ But they said to him, No, my lord, but your servants have come [only] to buy food.

Genesis 42:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “We are all sons of one man; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42:12 (NASB)

¹² Yet he said to them, “No, but you have come to look at the undefended parts of our land!”

Genesis 42:13 (NASB)

¹³ But they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”

Genesis 42:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Joseph said to them, “It is just as I told you: You are spies!

Genesis 42:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Genesis 42:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Then he put all of them together in prison for three days.

Genesis 42:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Genesis 42:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.

Genesis 42:20 (NIV)

²⁰ But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.

Genesis 42:21 (NIV)

²¹ They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come upon us.”

Genesis 42:22 (NIV)

²² Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

Genesis 42:23 (AMP)

²³ But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter.

Genesis 42:24 (NIV)

²⁴ He turned away from them and began to weep, but then turned back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

Genesis 42:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man’s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,

Genesis 42:26 (NIV)

²⁶ they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

Genesis 42:27 (NIV)

²⁷ At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 42:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Genesis 42:29 (7KB)

²⁹ They returned to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them.

Genesis 42:30 (CJB)

³⁰ “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us. He took us for spies in his country.

Genesis 42:31 (NIV)

³¹ But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.

Genesis 42:32 (NIV)

³² We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.’

Genesis 42:33 (NIV)

³³ “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.

Genesis 42:34 (NIV)

³⁴ But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.'”

Genesis 42:35 (NASB)

³⁵ Now it came about as they were emptying their sacks, that behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.

Genesis 42:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”

Genesis 42:37 (7KB)

³⁷ Reuben said to his father, “If I don’t bring him back to you, you can kill my own two sons! Put him in my care; I will return him to you.”

Genesis 42:38 (NIV)

³⁸ But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”

Genesis Chapter 43

Genesis 43:1 (NIV)

¹ Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 43:2 (NIV)

² So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 43:3 (AMP)

³ But Judah said to him, The man solemnly and sternly warned us, saying, You shall not see my face again unless your brother is with you.

Genesis 43:4 (NIV)

⁴ If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Genesis 43:5 (NIV)

⁵ But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'”

Genesis 43:6 (NIV)

⁶ Israel asked, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?”

Genesis 43:7 (NIV)

⁷ They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’ he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

Genesis 43:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

Genesis 43:9 (NIV)

⁹ I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

Genesis 43:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ As it is, if we had not delayed, we could have gone and returned twice.”

Genesis 43:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift–a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Genesis 43:12 (NIV)

¹² Take double the amount of silver with you, for you must return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 43:13 (NIV)

¹³ Take your brother also and go back to the man at once.

Genesis 43:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 43:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.

Genesis 43:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare dinner; they are to eat with me at noon.”

Genesis 43:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The man did as Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph’s house.

Genesis 43:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, “We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys.”

Genesis 43:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ So they went up to Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

Genesis 43:20 (7KB)

²⁰ And they said, “Please, sir,” we came down here the first time to buy food.

Genesis 43:21 (NIV)

²¹ But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver–the exact weight–in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.

Genesis 43:22 (NIV)

²² We have also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don’t know who put our silver in our sacks.”

Genesis 43:23 (AMP)

²³ But [the steward] said, Peace be to you, fear not; your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money. And he brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 43:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet and provided fodder for their donkeys.

Genesis 43:25 (NIV)

²⁵ They prepared their gifts for Joseph’s arrival at noon, because they had heard that they were to eat there.

Genesis 43:26 (NIV)

²⁶ When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.

Genesis 43:27 (NIV)

²⁷ He asked them how they were, and then he said, “How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?”

Genesis 43:28 (NIV)

²⁸ They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed low to pay him honor.

Genesis 43:29 (AMP)

²⁹ And he looked up and saw his [full] brother Benjamin, his mother’s [only other] son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to you, my son!

Genesis 43:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

Genesis 43:31 (NIV)

³¹ After he had washed his face, he came out and, controlling himself, said, “Serve the food.”

Genesis 43:32 (NIV)

³² They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that is detestable to Egyptians.

Genesis 43:33 (NIV)

³³ The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment.

Genesis 43:34 (NIV)

³⁴ When portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as anyone else’s. So they feasted and drank freely with him.

Genesis Chapter 44

Genesis 44:1 (NIV)

¹ Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 44:2 (NIV)

² Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph said.

Genesis 44:3 (NIV)

³ As morning dawned, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.

Genesis 44:4 (NIV)

⁴ They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

Genesis 44:5 (NLT2)

⁵ Why have you stolen my master’s silver cup, which he uses to predict the future? What a wicked thing you have done!’”

Genesis 44:6 (NIV)

⁶ When he caught up with them, he repeated these words to them.

Genesis 44:7 (NIV)

⁷ But they said to him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!

Genesis 44:8 (NIV)

⁸ We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Genesis 44:9 (NIV)

⁹ If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves.”

Genesis 44:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Very well, then,” he said, “let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame.”

Genesis 44:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Genesis 44:12 (NIV)

¹² Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44:13 (CJB)

¹³ At this, they tore their clothes from grief. Then each man loaded up his donkey and returned to the city.

Genesis 44:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Genesis 44:15 (NLT2)

¹⁵ “What have you done?” Joseph demanded. “Don’t you know that a man like me can predict the future?”

Genesis 44:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we reply? Or how shall we clear ourselves, since God has found out and exposed the iniquity of your servants? Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, the rest of us as well as he with whom the cup is found.

Genesis 44:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”

Genesis 44:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Then Judah went up to him and said: “Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

Genesis 44:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Genesis 44:20 (NIV)

²⁰ And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’

Genesis 44:22 (NIV)

²² And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’

Genesis 44:23 (NIV)

²³ But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

Genesis 44:24 (NIV)

²⁴ When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.

Genesis 44:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy a little more food.’

Genesis 44:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

Genesis 44:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44:28 (NIV)

²⁸ One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:29 (NKJV)

²⁹ But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

Genesis 44:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,

Genesis 44:31 (NIV)

³¹ sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

Genesis 44:32 (NIV)

³² Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’

Genesis 44:33 (NIV)

³³ “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

Genesis 44:34 (NIV)

³⁴ How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father.”

Genesis Chapter 45

Genesis 45:1 (NIV)

¹ Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 45:2 (NIV)

² And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Genesis 45:3 (NIV)

³ Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.

Genesis 45:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

Genesis 45:5 (NASB)

⁵ “Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45:6 (NASB)

⁶ “For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Genesis 45:7 (NIV)

⁷ But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:8 (NASB)

⁸ “Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:9 (NIV)

⁹ Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.

Genesis 45:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me–you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.

Genesis 45:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’

Genesis 45:12 (NIV)

¹² “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you.

Genesis 45:13 (NIV)

¹³ Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Genesis 45:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.

Genesis 45:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 45:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When the news reached Pharaoh’s palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased.

Genesis 45:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 45:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’

Genesis 45:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ “Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.

Genesis 45:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Never mind about your belongings, because the best of all Egypt will be yours.'”

Genesis 45:21 (NASB)

²¹ Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

Genesis 45:22 (NIV)

²² To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

Genesis 45:23 (NIV)

²³ And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.

Genesis 45:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don’t quarrel on the way!”

Genesis 45:25 (NIV)

²⁵ So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them.

Genesis 45:27 (NIV)

²⁷ But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

Genesis 45:28 (NIV)

²⁸ And Israel said, “I’m convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Genesis Chapter 46

Genesis 46:1 (NASB)

¹ So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:2 (NIV)

² And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Genesis 46:3 (NIV)

³ “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Genesis 46:4 (7KB)

⁴ I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.” [when your eyes are closed in death].

Genesis 46:5 (7KB)

⁵ Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

Genesis 46:6 (7KB)

⁶ They took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:

Genesis 46:7 (NASB)

⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Genesis 46:8 (NIV)

⁸ These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.

Genesis 46:9 (NIV)

⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

Genesis 46:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 46:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Genesis 46:12 (NIV)

¹² The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46:13 (NIV)

¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron.

Genesis 46:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.

Genesis 46:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.

Genesis 46:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.

Genesis 46:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.

Genesis 46:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah–sixteen in all.

Genesis 46:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 46:20 (NIV)

²⁰ In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Genesis 46:21 (NIV)

²¹ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.

Genesis 46:22 (NIV)

²² These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob–fourteen in all.

Genesis 46:23 (NIV)

²³ The son of Dan: Hushim.

Genesis 46:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.

Genesis 46:25 (NIV)

²⁵ These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel–seven in all.

Genesis 46:26 (NIV)

²⁶ All those who went to Egypt with Jacob–those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons’ wives–numbered sixty-six persons.

Genesis 46:27 (NIV)

²⁷ With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.

Genesis 46:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen,

Genesis 46:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.

Genesis 46:30 (7KB)

³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, because I have seen your face and seen that you are still alive.”

Genesis 46:31 (NIV)

³¹ Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

Genesis 46:32 (NIV)

³² The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’

Genesis 46:33 (NIV)

³³ When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

Genesis 46:34 (NIV)

³⁴ you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

Genesis Chapter 47

Genesis 47:1 (NIV)

¹ Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:2 (NIV)

² He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:3 (CJB)

³ Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They answered Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our ancestors,”

Genesis 47:4 (NIV)

⁴ They also said to him, “We have come to live here awhile, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:5 (NIV)

⁵ Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,

Genesis 47:6 (NIV)

⁶ and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

Genesis 47:7 (NASB)

⁷ Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:8 (NASB)

⁸ Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

Genesis 47:9 (NIV)

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

Genesis 47:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

Genesis 47:11 (NIV)

¹¹ So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.

Genesis 47:12 (NIV)

¹² Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

Genesis 47:13 (NASB)

¹³ Now there was no food in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

Genesis 47:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.

Genesis 47:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is used up.”

Genesis 47:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.”

Genesis 47:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

Genesis 47:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes–we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

Genesis 47:20 (NIV)

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

Genesis 47:21 (NIV)

²¹ and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

Genesis 47:22 (NIV)

²² However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

Genesis 47:23 (NIV)

²³ Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.

Genesis 47:24 (NIV)

²⁴ But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

Genesis 47:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

Genesis 47:26 (NIV)

²⁶ So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt–still in force today–that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

Genesis 47:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

Genesis 47:29 (NIV)

²⁹ When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Genesis 47:30 (AMP)

³⁰ But let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And [Joseph] said, I will do as you have directed.

Genesis 47:31 (NASB)

³¹ He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

Genesis Chapter 48

Genesis 48:1 (NASB)

¹ Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Genesis 48:2 (NIV)

² When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.

Genesis 48:3 (NIV)

³ Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me

Genesis 48:4 (NIV)

⁴ and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’

Genesis 48:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

Genesis 48:6 (NIV)

⁶ Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.

Genesis 48:7 (NIV)

⁷ As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 48:8 (NIV)

⁸ When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”

Genesis 48:9 (NIV)

⁹ “They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

Genesis 48:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Genesis 48:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

Genesis 48:12 (NIV)

¹² Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 48:13 (NIV)

¹³ And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel’s left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him.

Genesis 48:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.

Genesis 48:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Genesis 48:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ the Angel who has delivered me from all harm –may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly upon the earth.”

Genesis 48:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim’s head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Genesis 48:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Joseph said to him, “No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”

Genesis 48:20 (NIV)

²⁰ He blessed them that day and said, “In your name will Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

Genesis 48:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48:22 (NIV)

²² And to you, as one who is over your brothers, I give the ridge of land I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

Genesis Chapter 49

Genesis 49:1 (NIV)

¹ Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.

Genesis 49:2 (NIV)

² “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Genesis 49:3 (NIV)

³ “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

Genesis 49:4 (NIV)

⁴ Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

Genesis 49:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Simeon and Levi are brothers– their swords are weapons of violence.

Genesis 49:6 (NIV)

⁶ Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

Genesis 49:7 (NIV)

⁷ Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

Genesis 49:8 (NIV)

⁸ “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

Genesis 49:9 (NIV)

⁹ You are a lion’s cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness–who dares to rouse him?

Genesis 49:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.

Genesis 49:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Genesis 49:12 (NIV)

¹² His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.

Genesis 49:13 (7KB)

Zebulun will be enriched by seaborne trade being a haven for goods brought by sea and transported over his highways which extend from Zebulun (to Tyre) and as far as Sidon.

Genesis 49:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

Genesis 49:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.

Genesis 49:16 (7KB)

¹⁶ “Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:17 (7KB)

¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a serpent along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Genesis 49:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “I look for your deliverance, O LORD.

Genesis 49:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.

Genesis 49:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king.

Genesis 49:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Genesis 49:22 (NIV)

²² “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.

Genesis 49:23 (NIV)

²³ With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.

Genesis 49:24 (NIV)

²⁴ But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Genesis 49:25 (NIV)

²⁵ because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breast and womb.

Genesis 49:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

Genesis 49:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Genesis 49:28 (NIV)

²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.

Genesis 49:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:30 (NIV)

³⁰ the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.

Genesis 49:31 (NIV)

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

Genesis 49:32 (NIV)

³² The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.”

Genesis 49:33 (NIV)

³³ When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Genesis Chapter 50

Genesis 50:1 (NIV)

¹ Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:2 (NIV)

² Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,

Genesis 50:3 (NIV)

³ taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Genesis 50:4 (NIV)

⁴ When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,

Genesis 50:5 (NIV)

⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'”

Genesis 50:6 (NIV)

⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Genesis 50:7 (NIV)

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him–the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt–

Genesis 50:8 (NIV)

⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

Genesis 50:9 (NIV)

⁹ Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.

Genesis 50:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.

Genesis 50:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:12 (NIV)

¹² So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:

Genesis 50:13 (NIV)

¹³ They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.

Genesis 50:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.

Genesis 50:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”

Genesis 50:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:

Genesis 50:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

Genesis 50:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.

Genesis 50:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20 (NIV)

²⁰ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Genesis 50:21 (NIV)

²¹ So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50:22 (NIV)

²² Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years

Genesis 50:23 (NIV)

²³ and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 50:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Genesis 50:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Genesis 50:26 (NIV)

²⁶ So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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