Genesis 35-37 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Genesis 35

 ¹In the meantime God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.

    ²And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.

    ³Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.

    ⁴So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

    ⁵And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

    ⁶And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

    ⁷And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

    ⁸At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

    ⁹And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

    ¹⁰Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

    ¹¹And said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

    ¹²And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

    ¹³And he departed from him.

    ¹⁴But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

    ¹⁵And calling the name of that place Bethel.

    ¹⁶And going forth from thence, he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

    ¹⁷By reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

    ¹⁸And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, The son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, The son of the right hand.

    ¹⁹So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem.

    ²⁰And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulcher: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

    ²¹Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

    ²²And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala, the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

    ²³The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zebulon.

    ²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

    ²⁵The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphthali.

    ²⁶The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

    ²⁷And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: Wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

    ²⁸And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

    ²⁹And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

   

Genesis 36

 ¹And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

    ²Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon the Hevite:

    ³And Basemath the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.

    ⁴And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel:

    ⁵Oolibama bore Jehus and Ihelon and Core. These are the sons of Esau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.

    ⁶And Esau took his wives and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.

    ⁷For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

    ⁸And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.

    ⁹And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir,

    ¹⁰And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada the wife of Esau: and Rahnel the son of Basemath his wife.

    ¹¹And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham, and Cenee.

    ¹²And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada the wife of Esau.

    ¹³And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau.

    ¹⁴And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core.

    ¹⁵These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,

    ¹⁶Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the Bone of Ada.

    ¹⁷And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath, duke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in the land of Edom: these the sons of Base- math the wife of Esau.

    ¹⁸And these the sons of Oolibama the wife of Esau: duke Jehus, duke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife of Esau.

    ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same is Edom.

    ²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horrite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,

    ²¹And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

    ²²And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.

    ²³And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Oman.

    ²⁴And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon his father:

    ²⁵And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.

    ²⁶And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and Jethram, and Charan.

    ²⁷These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.

    ²⁸And Disan had sons : Hus, and Aram.

    ²⁹These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon, duke Ana,

    ³⁰Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land of Seir.

    ³¹And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king were these:

    ³²Bela the son of Beer, and the name of his city Denaba.

    ³³And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zara of Bosra reigned in his stead.

    ³⁴And when Jobab was dead, Husam of the land of the Themanites reigned in his stead.

    ³⁵And after his death, Adad the son of Badad reigned in his stead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Moab: and the name of his city was Avith.

    ³⁶And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla of Masreca.

    ³⁷And he being dead, Saul of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his stead.

    ³⁸And when he also was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor succeeded to the kingdom.

    ³⁹This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.

    ⁴⁰And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,

    ⁴¹Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,

    ⁴²Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,

    ⁴³Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau the father of the Edomites.

   

Genesis 37

 ¹And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.

    ²And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of and of Zelpha his father's wives : and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

    ³Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

    ⁴And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

    ⁵Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

    ⁶And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

    ⁷I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.

    ⁸His brethren answered : Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

    ⁹He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

    ¹⁰And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

    ¹¹His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

    ¹²And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's docks,

    ¹³Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

    ¹⁴I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

    ¹⁵And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

    ¹⁶But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the docks.

    ¹⁷And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

    ¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.

    ¹⁹And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.

    ²⁰Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit : and we will say : Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him :

    ²¹And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:

    ²²Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.

    ²³And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:

    ²⁴And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

    ²⁵And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

    ²⁶And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

    ²⁷It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.

    ²⁸And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.

    ²⁹And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:

    ³⁰And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?

    ³¹And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed :

    ³²Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

    ³³And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

    ³⁴And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

    ³⁵And alibis children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

    ³⁶The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.