Genesis 36–38

Now these are the generations of Esau, ^awho is Edom. ^2bEsau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and ^cAholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; ³and ^dBashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth. ⁴And Adah bare to Esau ^eEliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; ⁵and Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. ^7fFor their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land ^gwherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. ⁸Thus dwelt Esau in ^hmount Seir: ⁱEsau is Edom.

⁹And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: ¹⁰these are the names of Esau’s sons; ^kEliphaz the son of ^lAdah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. ¹¹And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹²And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz ^mAmalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. ¹³And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. ¹⁴And these were the sons of ⁿAholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. ¹⁵These were dukes of the sons of Esau: ^othe sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, ¹⁶duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are the sons of ^pReuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. ¹⁸And these are the sons of ^qAholibamah Esau’s wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, ^rwho is Edom, and these are their dukes.

^20sThese are the sons of Seir ^tthe Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, ²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was ^uTimna. ²³And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. ²⁴And these are the children of Zibeon; both Aiah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. ²⁵And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and ^wAholibamah the daughter of Anah. ²⁶And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran. ²⁹These are the dukes that came of the Horites; ^xduke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, ³⁰duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.

³¹And ^ythese are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. ³²And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. ³³And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. ³⁴And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. ³⁵And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith. ³⁶And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. ³⁷And Samlah died, and Saul of ^zRehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. ³⁸And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. ³⁹And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and ^aHadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of ^bthe dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, ⁴¹duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, ⁴²duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, ⁴³duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

XXXVII.And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. ²These are ^athe generations of Jacob. Joseph, being ^bseventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father ^ctheir evil report. ³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was ^dthe son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. ⁴And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. ⁵And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. ⁶And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: ⁷for, ^ebehold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood round about, and ^fmade obeisance to my sheaf. ⁸And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. ⁹And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. ¹⁰And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and ^gthy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? ¹¹And ^hhis brethren envied him; but his father ⁱobserved the saying.

¹²And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in ^kShechem. ¹³And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. ¹⁴And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of ^lHebron, and he came to Shechem. ¹⁵And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? ¹⁶And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks. ¹⁷And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in ^mDothan. ¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. ¹⁹And they said one to another. Behold, this dreamer cometh. ²⁰Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. ²¹And ⁿReuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. ²²And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him, ^othat he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. ²³And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; ²⁴and they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. ²⁵And they sat down to eat bread: and they lift up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of ^pIshmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing ^qspicery and ^rbalm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and ^sconceal his blood? ²⁷Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and ^tlet not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and ^uour flesh. And his brethren were content. ²⁸Then there passed by ^wMidianites merchantmen; and they drew and lift up Joseph out of the pit, ^xand sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty ^ypieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. ²⁹And Reuben returned unto the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he ^zrent his clothes. ³⁰And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child ^ais not; and I, whither shall I go? ³¹And they took ^bJoseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; ³²and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: ^cknow now whether it be thy son’s coat or no. ³³And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an ^devil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. ³⁴And Jacob ^erent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters ^frose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For ^gI will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. ³⁶And ^hthe Medanites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

XXXVIII.And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and ^aturned in to a certain ^bAdullamite, whose name was Hirah. ²And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was ^cShuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. ³And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. ⁴…