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36 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon (a Hittite) and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah (the daughter of Zibeon, a Hivite).
3 He also took Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
4 And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel.
5 Also, Aholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 So Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the souls of his house, and his flocks and all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in the land of Canaan and went into a different country from his brother Jacob.
7 For their riches were so great that they could not dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not receive them because of their flocks.
8 Therefore, Esau dwelt on Mount Seir. This Esau is Edom.
9 So, these are the generations of Esau, father of Edom, on Mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah (the wife of Esau), and Reuel, the son of Basemath, (the wife of Esau).
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son, and bore to Eliphaz, Amalek. 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 Basemath, Esau’s wife.
14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah (daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife). For she bore to Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah.
15 These were Chiefs of the sons of Esau, the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,
16 Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, and Chief Amalek. These are the Chiefs who came from Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, Chief Mizzah. These are the Chiefs who came from Reuel, in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
18 Likewise, these were the sons of Aholibamah, Esau’s wife. Chief Jeush, Chief Jaalam, Chief Korah. These Chiefs came from Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
19 These are the children of Esau; and these are the Chiefs of them. This is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Seir, the Horite, who inhabited the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah
21 and 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 the sons of Shobal were these: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal Shepho and Onam.
24 And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah (this was Anah who found mules in the wilderness as he fed his father Zibeon’s donkeys).
25 And the children of Anah were these: Dishon and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
26 Also, these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.
27 The sons of Ezer are these: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan.
28 The sons of Dishan are these: Uz and Aran.
29 These are the Chiefs of the Horites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shobal, Chief Zibeon, Chief Anah,
30 Chief Dishon, Chief Ezer, Chief Dishan. These are the Chiefs of the Horites, after their Chiefdoms, in the land of Seir.
31 And these are the Kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any King over the children of Israel.
32 Then Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
33 And when Bela died, Jobab (the son of Zerah, of Bozrah) reigned in his place.
34 When Jobab also died, Husham, of the land of Temani, reigned in his place.
35 And after the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad (who killed Midian in the field of Moab), reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
36 When Hadad died, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
37 When Samlah died Saul of Rehoboth (by the river), reigned in his place.
38 When Saul died, Baal-Hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.
39 And after the death of Baal-Hanan, the son of Achbor, Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau. And his wife’s name was Mehetabel (the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab).
40 These, then, are the names of the Chiefs of Esau, according to their families, their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth.
41 Chief Aholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon,
42 Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
43 Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These are the Chiefs of Edom, according to their dwellings, in the land of their inheritance. This Esau is the father of Edom.
37 Now, Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah (his father’s wives). And Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he begat him in his old age; and he made him a coat of many colors.
4 So, when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, then they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers, who hated him so much the more.
6 For he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed!
7 “Behold now, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves surrounded it, and did reverence to my sheaf.”
8 Then his brothers said to him, “What!? Shall you reign over us, and rule us? Or, shall you have complete dominion over us?” And they hated him so much the more, for his dreams and for his words.
9 Again, he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have had one more dream. And behold, the Sun and the Moon and eleven stars did reverence to me.”
10 Then, he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this, your dream which you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and fall on the ground before you?”
11 And his brothers envied him. But his father noted the saying.
12 Then, his brothers went to keep their father’s sheep in Shechem.
13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Do not your brothers pasture their flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them.”
14 And he answered him, “I am here.” Then he said to him, “Go now; see whether all is well with your brothers and how the flocks prosper. And report back.” So, he sent him from the valley of Hebron; and he came to Shechem.
15 Then, a man found him. For lo, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What do you seek?”
16 And he answered, “I seek my brothers. Please, tell me where they are pasturing.”
17 And the man said, “They have left here. For I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him from far away, even before he came near, they conspired against him, to kill him.
19 For they said, one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
20 “Come now, therefore, and let us kill him and cast him into some pit. And we will say, ‘A wicked beast has devoured him.’ Then we shall see what will come of his dreams.”
21 But when Reuben heard that, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”
22 And Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness; and lay no hand upon him.” (so that he might deliver him out of their hand and restore him to his father)
23 Now, when Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his parti-colored coat that was upon him.
24 And they took him and cast him into a pit; and the pit was empty, without water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And behold, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, their camels laden with spicery and balm and myrrh, who were going to carry it down into Egypt.
26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What does it profit us if we kill our brother yet keep his blood secret?
27 “Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; and do not let our hands be upon him. For he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers obeyed.
28 Then, the Midianites’ merchant men passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit. And they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, who brought Joseph into Egypt.
29 Afterward, Reuben returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. Then he tore his clothes
30 and returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more. And I? Where shall I go?”
31 And they took Joseph’s coat and killed a kid from the goats and dipped the coat in the blood.
32 So they sent that multi-colored coat; and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. See, now, whether it be your son’s coat or not.”
33 Then he knew it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. A wicked beast has devoured him. Joseph is surely torn in pieces.”
34 And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth around his waist and mourned for his son a long time.
35 Then all his sons and his daughters arose up to comfort him. But he would not be comforted, and said, “Surely I will go down into the grave mourning my son.” So, his father wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a Eunuch of Pharaoh’s, and his chief steward.
38 And at that time, Judah went down from his brothers and visited a man called Hirah, an Adullamite.
2 And there Judah saw a daughter of a man called Shua, a Canaanite. And he took her and went into her.
3 So she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name “Er”.
4 And she conceived again and bore a son; and she called his name “Onan”.
5 Moreover, she bore yet another son whom she called Shelah. And Judah was at Chezib when she bore him.
6 Then Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 Now, Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. Therefore, the LORD killed him.
8 And Judah said to Onan, “Go into your brother’s wife and do the office of a kinsman to her; and raise up seed to your brother.”
9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. Therefore, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
10 And it was wicked in the eyes of the LORD, that which he did. Therefore He killed him also.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah, my son, grows up (for he thought, “Lest he die, just as his brothers.”) So, Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, also died. Then Judah, when he had finished mourning, went up to his sheepshearers, to Timnah (he and his neighbor, Hirah the Adullamite).
13 And it was told to Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnath, to shear his sheep.
14 Then she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself and sat down in Pethah-enam (which is on the way to Timnah) because she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him as wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he judged her to be a whore, for she had covered her face.
16 And he made his way towards her, and said, “Please, come let me lie with you.” For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she answered, “What will you give me, to lie with me?”
17 Then he said, “I will send you a kid from the goats of the flock.” And she said, “If you will give me a pledge until you send it.”
18 Then he said, “What is the pledge that I shall give you?” And she answered, “Your signet and your cloak and your staff that is in your hand.” So, he gave it to her and lay with her; and she was with child by him.
19 Then she rose and went and took off her veil and put on her widow’s raiment.
20 Afterward, Judah sent a kid from the goats by the hand of his neighbor, the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand. But he did not find her.
21 Then he asked the men of the place, saying, “Where is the whore who sat in Enaim, by the wayside?” And they answered, “There was no whore there.”
22 Therefore, he came back to Judah, and said, “I cannot find her. And the men of the place also said, ‘There was no whore there.’”
23 Then Judah said, “Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.”
24 Now, after three months, one told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the whore; and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with child.” Then Judah said, “Bring her forth and let her be burnt.”
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these things pertain, am I with child.” And she also said, “Please determine who’s these are: the seal and the cloak and the staff.”
26 Then Judah knew, and said, “She is more righteous than me. For she has done it because I did not give her to Shelah, my son.” So, he lay with her no more.
27 Now, when the time had come that she should give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
28 And when she was in labor, one put out his hand. And the midwife took and bound a red thread around his hand, saying, “This has come out first.”
29 But when he drew his hand back again, lo, his brother came out; and the midwife said, “How have you broken through? A breach is upon you!” And his name was called “Perez”.
30 And afterward, his brother came out (who had the red thread around his hand); and his name was called “Zerah”.
21 “And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son. And the children shall rise against their parents and shall cause them to die.
22 “And you shall be hated by all for My Name. But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved.
23 “And when they persecute you in this city, flee into another. For truly I say to you, you shall not have completed all the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.
24 “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.
25 “It is enough for the disciple to be as his master is, and the servant as his Lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?
26 “Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that shall not be disclosed, nor hid, that shall not be known.
27 “What I tell you in darkness, speak in light. And what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.
28 “And do not fear them who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.
29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a pittance, and yet not one of them shall fall to the ground apart from your Father?
30 “Indeed. And all the hairs of your head are numbered.
31 “Therefore, do not fear. You are of more value than many sparrows.
32 “Whoever, then, shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father Who is in Heaven.
33 “But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father Who is in Heaven.
34 “Do not think that I came to send peace to the Earth. I did not come to send peace, but the sword.
35 “For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 “And a man’s enemies shall be those of his own household.
37 “The one who loves father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me. And the one who loves son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me.
38 “And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me, is not worthy of Me.
39 “The one who finds his life, shall lose it. And the one who loses his life for My sake, shall find it.
40 “The one who receives you, receives Me. And the one who receives Me, receives Him Who sent Me.
41 “The one who receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet’s reward. And the one who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a righteous man.
42 “And whoever shall give one of these little ones merely a cup of cold water to drink (in the name of a disciple), truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”
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