⚫ch. 43. 11. Prov. 18. 16. !... t Prov. 21. 14. + Heb. my face, Job 42. 8, 9. u Deut. 3. 16. + Heb. caused 'to pass. x Hos. 12.3, 4. Eph. 6. 12. +Heb. ascend ing of the morning. 11 P Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 ¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; S 14 Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she asses and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? hee The meeting of Jacob and Esau. the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. a 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but " Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. e 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name And he blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAPTER XXXIII. The kindness of Jacob and Esau at their meeting. 17 Jacob cometh to Succoth. 18 At Shalem he buyeth a field, and buildeth an altar. 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, "and passed over the ford Jabbok. 23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. 24 ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the † breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched B. C. 1739. y See Matt. 26. 41. 2 Cor. 12. 7. z See Luke 24. 28. a Hos. 12. 4. b ch. 35. 10. 2 Kings 17.34. That is, A prince of God. c Hos. 12.3, 4. d ch. 25. 31. & 27.33. e Judg. 13. 18. That is, The face of God. ch. 16. 13. Ex. 24. 11. & 33. 20. Deut. 5. 24. Judg. 6. 22. & 13. 22. Is. 6. 5. a ch. 32. 6. 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground b ch. 18. 2. & seven times, until he came near to his brother. d 42.6. & 43. 26. c ch. 32. 28. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, a ch. 45. 14, 15. and kissed him: and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those † with thee? And † Heb. to thee? he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves : and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. The Shechemites slain. B. C. GENESIS. 19 And the young man deferred not Jacob sent to Beth-el. about 1732. to do the thing, because he had de- ND God said unto Jacob, Arise, q 1 Chr. 4. 9. r ch. 23. 10. light in Jacob's daughter: and he was 20 T And Hamor and Shechem his 21 These men are peaceable with us; S r 25 T And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that ch. 49. 5, 6, 7. two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. + Heb. mouth. t ch. 49. 6. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. X 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have " troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot ? CHAPTER XXXV. God sendeth Jacob to Beth-el. 2 He putteth away the 2 Then Jacob said unto his house- d ch. 18. 19. hold, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and 'be clean, and change.1 Sam. 7. 3. your garments: e ch. 31. 19, 34. Josh. 24. 2, 23. f Ex. 19. 10. g ch. 32. 7, 24. 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, hand was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in i Hos. 2. 13. their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed: and 'the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: 'thy name shall not r ch. 17. 5. be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; "a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of strange gods from his household. He buildeth an the place where God spake with him, altar at Beth-el. 8 Deborah dieth. 9 God blesseth z Beth-el. 16 T And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but ta little way |