Genesis 36–38

Chapter 36

¹And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom. ²Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Basmath Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ⁴And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel. ⁵And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob. ⁷For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle. ⁸Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom.

⁹And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir. ¹⁰These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basmath the wife of Esau. ¹¹—And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹²And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. ¹³—And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau’s wife. ¹⁴—And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. ¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath Esau’s wife. ¹⁸—And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, ²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²—And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. ²³—And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. ²⁴—And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. ²⁵—And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. ²⁶—And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷—These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸—These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, ³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a 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 the Temanites reigned in his stead. ³⁵And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields 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 Rehoboth on 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 Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred daughter of Mezahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, with their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, ⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, ⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, ⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.

Chapter 37

¹And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned—in the land of Canaan. ²These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them. ³And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours. ⁴And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

⁵And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more. ⁶And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I have dreamt: ⁷Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf. ⁸And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule 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 to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me. ¹⁰And he told it to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? ¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.

¹²And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock at Shechem. ¹³And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I. ¹⁴And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see after the welfare of thy brethren, and after the welfare of the flock; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came towards Shechem. ¹⁵And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? ¹⁶And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks. ¹⁷And the man said, They have removed from this; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them at Dothan. ¹⁸And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death. ¹⁹And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that dreamer! ²⁰And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams. ²¹And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²²And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him—in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him to his father again.

²³And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his vest, the vest of many colours, which he had on; ²⁴and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty—there was no water in it. ²⁵And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum—going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood? ²⁷Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened to him. ²⁸And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt. ²⁹And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his garments, ³⁰and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

³¹And they took Joseph’s vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood; ³²and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son’s vest or not. ³³And he discerned it, and said, It is my son’s vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces! ³⁴And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him. ³⁶And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.

Chapter 38

¹And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a man of Adullam whose name was Hirah. ²And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanitish man whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her. ³And she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Er. ⁴And she again conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. ⁵And again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah; and he was at…