Genesis 35-37 (New American Standard Bible)

Genesis 35

Jacob Moves to Bethel

 ¹Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to ^(A)Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to ^(B)God, who appeared to you ^(C)when you fled from your brother Esau."

 ²So Jacob said to his ^(D)household and to all who were with him, "Put away ^(E)the foreign gods which are among you, and ^(F)purify yourselves and change your garments;

 ³and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^(G)an altar there to God, ^(H)who answered me in the day of my distress and ^(I)has been with me wherever I have gone."

 ⁴So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

 ⁵As they journeyed, there was ^(J)a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

 ⁶So Jacob came to ^(K)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

 ^7(L)He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

 ⁸Now ^(M)Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named ^[a]Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

 ⁹Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^(N)blessed him.

 ^10(O)God said to him,
         "Your name is Jacob;
         You shall no longer be called Jacob,
         But Israel shall be your name."
         Thus He called him Israel.

 ¹¹God also said to him,
         "I am ^(P)God Almighty;
         ^(Q)Be fruitful and multiply;
         A nation and a ^(R)company of nations shall come from you,
         And ^(S)kings shall come forth from you.
    ¹²"^(T)The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
         I will give it to you,
         And I will give the land to your descendants after you."

 ¹³Then ^(U)God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

 ¹⁴Jacob set up ^(V)a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

 ¹⁵So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^[b](W)Bethel.

 ¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to ^(X)Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor.

 ¹⁷When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now ^(Y)you have another son."

 ¹⁸It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ^[c]Ben-oni; but his father called him ^[d]Benjamin.

 ¹⁹So ^(Z)Rachel died and was buried on the way to ^(AA)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

 ²⁰Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the ^(AB)pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

 ²¹Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^(AC)tower of Eder.

 ²²It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that ^(AD)Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.

The Sons of Israel Now there were twelve sons of Jacob--

 ^23(AE)the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

 ^24(AF)the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

 ²⁵and ^(AG)the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali;

 ²⁶and ^(AH)the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

 ²⁷Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^(AI)Mamre of ^(AJ)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

 ²⁸Now the days of Isaac were ^(AK)one hundred and eighty years.

 ²⁹Isaac breathed his last and died and was ^(AL)gathered to his people, an ^(AM)old man of ripe age; and ^(AN)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 36

Esau Moves

 ¹Now these are the records of the generations of ^(AO)Esau (that is, Edom).

 ²Esau ^(AP)took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and ^(AQ)Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and the ^(AR)granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

 ³also Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

 ⁴Adah bore ^(AS)Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel,

 ⁵and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

 ^6(AT)Then Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his goods which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.

 ^7(AU)For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the ^(AV)land where they ^(AW)sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

 ⁸So Esau lived in the hill country of ^(AX)Seir; Esau is ^(AY)Edom.

Descendants of Esau

 ⁹These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

 ¹⁰These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Esau's wife Adah, Reuel the son of Esau's wife Basemath.

 ¹¹The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz.

 ¹²Timna was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz and she bore ^(AZ)Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau's wife Adah.

 ¹³These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.

 ¹⁴These were the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon: she bore to Esau, Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

 ¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau, are chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

 ¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

 ¹⁷These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.

 ¹⁸These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs descended from Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

 ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

 ²⁰These are the sons of Seir ^(BA)the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,

 ²¹and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the chiefs descended from the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

 ²²The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

 ²³These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

 ²⁴These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah--he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

 ²⁵These are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

 ²⁶These are the sons of ^(BB)Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.

 ²⁷These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan.

 ²⁸These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

 ²⁹These are the chiefs descended from the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

 ³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs descended from the Horites, according to their various chiefs in the land of Seir.

 ³¹Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any ^(BC)king reigned over the sons of Israel.

 ^32(BD)Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

 ³³Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place.

 ³⁴Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place.

 ³⁵Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

 ³⁶Then Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.

 ³⁷Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.

 ³⁸Then Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king in his place.

 ³⁹Then Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar became king in his place; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

 ⁴⁰Now these are the names of the chiefs descended from Esau, according to their families and their localities, 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 (that is, Esau, the father of the Edomites), according to their habitations in the land of their possession.

Genesis 37

Joseph's Dream

 ¹Now Jacob lived in ^(BE)the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

 ²These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when ^(BF)seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with ^(BG)the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives And Joseph brought back a ^(BH)bad report about them to their father.

 ³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was ^(BI)the son of his old age; and he made him a ^[e](BJ)varicolored tunic.

 ⁴His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they ^(BK)hated him and could not speak to him ^[f]on friendly terms.

 ⁵Then Joseph ^(BL)had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

 ⁶He said to them, "Please listen to this dream which I have had;

 ⁷for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and ^(BM)bowed down to my sheaf."

 ⁸Then his brothers said to him, "^(BN)Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

 ⁹Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, "Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

 ¹⁰He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and ^(BO)your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?"

 ^11(BP)His brothers were jealous of him, but his father ^(BQ)kept the saying in mind.

 ¹²Then his brothers went to pasture their father's flock in Shechem.

 ¹³Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock in ^(BR)Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I will go."

 ¹⁴Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of ^(BS)Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

 ¹⁵A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

 ¹⁶He said, "I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock."

 ¹⁷Then the man said, "They have moved from here; for I heard them say, 'Let us go to ^(BT)Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

The Plot against Joseph

 ¹⁸When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they ^(BU)plotted against him to put him to death.

 ¹⁹They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer!

 ²⁰"Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and ^(BV)we will say, 'A wild beast devoured him.' Then let us see what will become of his dreams!"

 ²¹But ^(BW)Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, "Let us not take his life."

 ²²Reuben further said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him"--that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.

 ²³So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him;

 ²⁴and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.

 ²⁵Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of ^(BX)Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing ^(BY)aromatic gum and ^(BZ)balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.

 ²⁶Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it for us to kill our brother and ^(CA)cover up his blood?

 ²⁷"^(CB)Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.

 ²⁸Then some ^(CC)Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and ^(CD)sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver Thus ^(CE)they brought Joseph into Egypt.

 ²⁹Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he ^(CF)tore his garments.

 ³⁰He returned to his brothers and said, "^(CG)The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?"

 ³¹So ^(CH)they took Joseph's tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

 ³²and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."

 ³³Then he examined it and said, "It is my son's tunic. ^(CI)A wild beast has devoured him; ^(CJ)Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"

 ³⁴So Jacob ^(CK)tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

 ³⁵Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will ^(CL)go down to Sheol in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.

 ³⁶Meanwhile, the Midianites ^(CM)sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, the captain of the bodyguard.