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33 And as Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maids.
2 And he put the maids and their children first, then Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.
3 So, he went before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” And he answered, “The children whom God, by His grace, has given your servant.”
6 Then the maids came near, they and their children, and bowed themselves.
7 Also Leah, with her children, came near and bowed down. And after that, Joseph and Rachel drew near and did reverence.
8 Then he said, “What do you mean by all these flocks which I met?” Who answered, “I have sent them so that I may find favor in the sight of my lord.”
9 And Esau said, “I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
10 But Jacob answered, “No, please, if I have found grace now in your sight, then receive my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, because you have accepted me.
11 “Please take my blessing that is brought to you. For God has had mercy on me; and therefore, I have all things.” So, he compelled him and he took it.
12 And he said, “Let us take our journey and go; and I will go before you.”
13 Then he answered him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and the ewes and cows are with young under my hand. And if they should overdrive them one day, all the flock would die.
14 “Let now my lord go before his servant; and I will drive softly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me, and as the children are able to endure, until I come to my lord, to Seir.”
15 Then Esau said, “Then I will leave some of my folk with you.” And he answered, “What is the need? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.”
16 So Esau returned and went his way that same day, to Seir.
17 And Jacob went forward toward Succoth, and built a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore, he called the name of the place, Succoth.
18 Afterward, Jacob came safely to , a city, which is in the land of Canaan (when he came from Padan Aram and pitched before the city).
19 And there he bought a parcel of ground from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money, where he pitched his tent.
20 And he set up an altar there, and called it, “The Mighty God of Israel”.
34 Then Dinah (the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob), went out to see the daughters of that country.
2 When Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite (lord of that country), saw her, he took her and lay with her and defiled her.
3 So, his heart desired Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the maid and spoke kindly to the maid.
4 Then Shechem said to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this maid to wife.”
5 Now, Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Therefore, Jacob held his peace until they had come.
6 Then, Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 And when the sons of Jacob had come out of the field and heard it, it grieved the men. They were very angry because he had brought disgrace in Israel in that he had laid with Jacob’s daughter, which ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as wife.
9 “So make marriages with us, give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
10 “And you shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you. Dwell and do your business in it and have your possessions therein.”
11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes; and I will give whatever you shall appoint to me.
12 “Ask of me abundantly both dowry and gifts; and I will give as you appoint to me, so that you give the maid to me as wife.”
13 Then, the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor, his father, talking deceitfully because he had defiled their sister.
14 And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for that would be a reproach to us.
15 “But we will consent to you in this: if you will be as we are, in that every male child among you be circumcised.
16 “Then we will give our daughters to you. And we will take your daughters to us. And will dwell with you and be one people.
17 “But, if you will not listen to us (to be circumcised), then we will take our daughter and depart.”
18 Now their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
19 And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing because he loved Jacob’s daughter. He was also the most honorable of all his father’s house.
20 Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the gate of their city and communed with the men of their city, saying,
21 “These men are peaceable with us. And in order for them to dwell in the land and do their affairs therein (for behold, the land has enough room for them), let us take their daughters as wives and give them our daughters.
22 “Only herein will the men consent to dwell with us and to be one people: if all the male children among us are circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23 “Shall not their flocks and their substance and all their cattle be ours? Only, let us consent to them; and they will dwell with us.”
24 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. And all the male children were circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
25 And on the third day (while they were sore) two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, both took sword and went boldly into the city and killed every male.
26 They also killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went their way.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep and their cattle and their donkeys and whatever was in the city and in the fields.
29 Also, they took captives and plundered all their goods and all their children and their wives and all that was in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me and made me stink among the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And they shall gather themselves together against us (we being few in number) and kill me; and so shall I and my house be destroyed.”
31 And they answered, “Should he abuse our sister as a whore?”
35 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise. Go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar to God (Who appeared to you when you fled from Esau, your brother).”
2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the strange gods that are among you; and cleanse yourselves and change your garments.
3 “For we will rise and go up to Bethel. And I will make there an altar to God (Who heard me on the day of my tribulation and was with me on the way which I went).”
4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under an oak which was by Shechem.
5 Then they went on their journey. And the fear of God was upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not follow after the sons of Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people that were with him.
7 And he built an altar there and had called the place “The God of Bethel”, because God appeared to him there when he fled from his brother.
8 But Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried beneath Bethel, under an oak. And he called the name of it “Allon Bachuth”.
9 Again, God appeared to Jacob after he came to Padan Aram and blessed him.
10 Moreover, God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. No more shall your name be called ‘Jacob’, but ‘Israel’ shall be your name.” And He called his name “Israel”.
11 And God said to him, “I am God All-Sufficient. Grow and multiply. A nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from you; and kings shall come out of your loins.
12 “I will also give you the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac; and I will give that land to your seed after you.”
13 So God ascended from him in the place where he had talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him (a pillar of stone) and poured drink offerings on it. He also poured oil on it.
15 And Jacob called the name of that place where God spoke with him, “Bethel”.
16 Then they departed from Bethel, and when they were about half a day’s journey from Ephrath, Rachel labored; and she was in peril in her labor.
17 And when she was in the pains of her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear. For you shall have this son also.”
18 Then, as she was about to give up the ghost (for she died), she called his name, “Ben-Oni”. But his father called him “Benjamin”.
19 Thus Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. This is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
21 Then Israel went forward and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22 Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. And Israel heard about it. And Jacob had twelve sons.
23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s eldest son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin.
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali.
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.
27 Then Jacob came to Isaac, his father, to Mamre, a city of Kirjath Arbah (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac were strangers.
28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days; and his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
10 And He called His twelve disciples to Him, and gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every sickness, and every disease.
2 Now the names of the twelve Apostles are these: The first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
3 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus (whose surname was Thaddaeus),
4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot (who also betrayed Him).
5 Jesus sent forth these twelve and commanded them, saying, “Do not go the way of the Gentiles. And do not enter into the cities of the Samaritans.
6 “But rather, go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
7 “And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
8 “Heal the sick. Cleanse the lepers. Raise up the dead. Cast out the demons. Freely you have received. Freely give.
9 “Do not keep gold or silver or money in your belts,
10 “nor a bag for the journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff. For the worker is worthy of his food.
11 “And into whatever city or town you shall come, inquire who is worthy in it, and stay there until you move on.
12 “And when you come into a house, greet it.
13 “And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 “And whoever shall not receive you or hear your words, shake off the dust of your feet when you depart from that house, or that city.
15 “Truly I say to you, it shall be easier for those of the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the Day of Judgment, than for that city.
16 “Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of the wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
17 “But beware of men. For they will deliver you up to the councils and will scourge you in their synagogues.
18 “And you shall be brought to the governors and kings for My sake, in witness to them and to the Gentiles.
19 “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak. For what you shall say will be given to you at that hour.
20 “For it is not you who speak. But the Spirit of your Father speaks in you.
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