³And Ya’akov sent messengers before him to Esav his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. ⁴And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esav: Thus saith thy servant Ya’akov, I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed until now: ⁵and I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight. ⁶And the messengers returned to Ya’akov, saying, We came to thy brother Esav, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. ⁷Then Ya’akov was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; ⁸and he said, If Esav come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape. ⁹And Ya’akov said, O God of my father Avraham, and God of my father Yitz’chak, O Yehovah, who saidst unto me, return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good: ¹⁰I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies. ¹¹Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esav: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children. ¹²And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹³And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esav his brother: ¹⁴two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁵thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. ¹⁶And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. ¹⁷And 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? ¹⁸then thou shalt say They are thy servant Ya’akov’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esav: and, behold, he also is behind us. ¹⁹And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esav, when ye find him; ²⁰and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Ya’akov 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 me. ²¹So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company. 

²²And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Yabok. ²³And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. ²⁴And Ya’akov was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Ya’akov’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. ²⁶And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ²⁷And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Ya’akov. ²⁸And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Ya’akov, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed. ²⁹And Ya’akov 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. ³⁰And Ya’akov called the name of the place Peni-El: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. ³¹And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peni-El, and he limped upon his thigh. ³²Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Ya’akov’s thigh in the sinew of the hip. 

33 And Ya’akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. ²And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef hindermost. ³And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. ⁴And Esav ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. ⁵And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant. ⁶Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. ⁷And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Yosef near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. ⁸And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord. ⁹And Esav said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine. ¹⁰And Ya’akov said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. ¹¹Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. ¹²And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. ¹³And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. ¹⁴Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Se’ir. ¹⁵And Esav said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord. ¹⁶So Esav returned that day on his way unto Se’ir. ¹⁷And Ya’akov journeyed to Sukkot, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot. 

¹⁸And Ya’akov came in peace to the city of Sh’khem, which is in the land of Kena’an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped before the city. ¹⁹And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Sh’khem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money. ²⁰And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel. 

34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Ya’akov, went out to see the daughters of the land. ²And Sh’khem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. ³And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Ya’akov, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. ⁴And Sh’khem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. ⁵Now Ya’akov heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Ya’akov held his peace until they came. ⁶And Hamor the father of Sh’khem went out unto Ya’akov to commune with him. ⁷And the sons of Ya’akov came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Ya’akov’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done. ⁸And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Sh’khem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife. ⁹And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. ¹⁰And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. ¹¹And Sh’khem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. ¹²Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. ¹³And the sons of Ya’akov answered Sh’khem and Hamor his father with guile, and spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, ¹⁴and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. ¹⁵Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; ¹⁶then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. ¹⁷But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 

¹⁸And their words pleased Hamor, and Sh’khem Hamor’s son. ¹⁹And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father. ²⁰And Hamor and Sh’khem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, ²¹These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ²²Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. ²³Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. ²⁴And unto Hamor and unto Sh’khem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. ²⁵And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Ya’akov, Shim’on and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. ²⁶And they slew Hamor and Sh’khem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Sh’khem’s house, and went forth. ²⁷The sons of Ya’akov came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field; ²⁹and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. ³⁰And Ya’akov said to Shim’on and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kena’ani and the P’rizi: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. ³¹And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? 

35 And God said unto Ya’akov, Arise, go up to Beit-El, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esav thy brother. ²Then Ya’akov said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments: ³and let us arise, and go up to Beit-El; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. ⁴And they gave unto Ya’akov all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya’akov hid them under the oak which was by Sh’khem. ⁵And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Ya’akov. ⁶So Ya’akov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kena’an the same is Beit-El), he and all the people that were with him. ⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beit-El [God of Beit-El]; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. ⁸And D’vorah Rivkah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beit-El under the oak: and the name of it was called Alon-Bakut [oak of weeping]. 

⁹And God appeared unto Ya’akov again, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him. ¹⁰And God said unto him, Thy name is Ya’akov: thy name shall not be called any more Ya’akov, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. ¹¹And 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; ¹²and the land which I gave unto Avraham and Yitz’chak, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. ¹³And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him. ¹⁴And Ya’akov set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. ¹⁵And Ya’akov called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beit-El. 

¹⁶And they journeyed from Beit-El; and there was still some distance to come to Efrat: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son. ¹⁸And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni: but his father called him Binyamin [son of the right hand, son of the south]

. ¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem). ²⁰And Ya’akov set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day. ²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-‘Eder. ²²And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard of it. 

Now the sons of Ya’akov were twelve: ²³the sons of Leah: Reuben, Ya’akov’s first-born, and Shim’on, and Levi, and Y’hudah, and Yissakhar, and Z’bulun; ²⁴the sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin; ²⁵and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naftali; ²⁶and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Ya’akov, that were born to him in Paddan-Aram. ²⁷And Ya’akov came unto Yitz’chak his father to Mamre, to Kiryat-Arba (the same is Hebron), where Avraham and Yitz’chak sojourned. 

²⁸And the days of Yitz’chak were a hundred and fourscore years. ²⁹And Yitz’chak gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esav and Ya’akov his sons buried him. 

36 Now these are the generations of Esav (the same is Edom). ²Esav took his wives of the daughters of Kena’an: Adah the daughter of Eilon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Tziv’on the Hivi, ³and Basmat Yishma’el’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth. ⁴And Adah bare to Esau Elifaz; and Basmat bare Re’u’el; ⁵and Oholivama bare Ye’ush, and Ya’lam, and Korach: these are the sons of Esav, that were born unto him in the land of Kena’an. ⁶And Esav 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, which he had gathered in the land of Kena’an; and went into a land away from his brother Ya’akov. ⁷For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle. ⁸And Esav dwelt in mount Se’ir: Esav is Edom. 

⁹And these are the generations of Esav the father of the Edom in mount Se’ir: ¹⁰these are the names of Esav’s sons: Elifaz the son of Adah the wife of Esav, Re’u’el the son of Bsemat the wife of Esav. ¹¹And the sons of Elifaz were Teman, Omar, Tzefo, and Ga’tam, and K’naz. ¹²And Timna was concubine to Elifaz Esav’s son; and she bare to Elifaz Amalec: these are the sons of Adah, Esav’s wife. ¹³And these are the sons of Re’u’el: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath, Esav’s wife. ¹⁴And these were the sons of Oholivama the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Tziv’on, Esav’s wife: and she bare to Esav Ye’ush, and Ya’lam, and Korach. 

¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of Elifaz the first-born of Esav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zefo, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶chief Korach, chief Gatam, chief Amalec: these are the chiefs that came of Elifaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are the sons of Re’u’el, Esav’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Re’u’el in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bsemath, Esav’s wife. ¹⁸And these are the sons of Oholivama, Esav’s wife: chief Je’ush, chief Ya’lam, chief Korach: these are the chiefs that came of Oholivama the daughter of Anah, Esav’s wife. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esav, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom. 

²⁰These are the sons of Se’ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, ²¹and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. ²³And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. ²⁴And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. ²⁵And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. ²⁶And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. ²⁷These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan. ²⁸These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, ³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are the chiefs that came 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 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 the Temanites 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 Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead. ³⁸And Shaul 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, the daughter of Me-zahab. 

⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by 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 habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.