Gen_32:1-32; Gen_33:1-20; Gen_34:1-31; Gen_35:1-29; Gen_36:1-43

Pgs.108-119

Ch.32-36

SECTION VIII.

VAYISHLACH. AND Jakob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to theland of Seir,^{[1] <l >} in the region of Edom; and heinstructed them, saying, So shall you tell to my lord, to Esau: Thus saith thyservant Jakob, With Laban I have dwelt, and have tarried, until now. And I haveoxen, and asses, sheep, and servants, and handmaids, and have sent to show mylord, to find grace in thine eyes. And the messengers returned to Jakob,saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he cometh also to meet thee, andfour hundred men with him. And Jakob feared greatly, and it distressed him. Andhe divided the people that were with him, and the sheep, and oxen, and camels,into two hosts, and said, If Esau come to the one host and smite it, the hostthat is left may escape. And Jakob said, God of my father Abraham, and God ofmy father Izhak, the Lord, who didst say to me, Return to thy country and tothy native place, and I will do thee good; less are my righteousnesses than allthe mercies and all the benefits which Thou hast performed unto Thy servant:for alone I passed this Yardena, and now I have become two bands. Deliver menow from the hand of my brother, from the band of Esau; for I am afraid of him,lest he come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And Thou hastsaid, In doing good I will do good with thee, and will make thy sons many asthe sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for number. And he housed therethat night, and took of that which came to his hand, an offering for Esau hisbrother; goats two hundred, rams twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,camels giving milk and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bulls ten, she-assestwenty, and colts ten. And he gave them into the hand of his servants, herd byherd separately, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a spacebetween herd and herd. And he commanded the foremost, saying, If Esau mybrother meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and, Whither goestthou? and, Whose are these that are before thee? thou shalt say, They are anoffering of thy servant Jakob, which he hath sent to my lord, to Esau; and,behold, he also cometh after us. And he instructed also the second and thethird, and all of them who followed the herds, saying, According to this wordyou shall speak with Esau, when you find him; and say also, Behold, thy servantJakob cometh after. For he said, I will quiet his anger by the offering thatgoeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.And the offering went over before his face, and he himself lodged that night inthe camp. And he arose in the night, and took his two wives, and his twoconcubines, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jubeka; and he tookthem and made them pass over the torrent, and made what was his to pass over. And Jakobremained alone; and a Man wrestled with him till the morning ascended. And hesaw that he prevailed not with him, and he touched the hollow^{[2] <l >} of histhigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated^{[3] <l >} inwrestling with him. And he said, Let me go;^{[4] <l >} for the morningascendeth. And he said, I will not let Thee go, unless Thou bless me. And Hesaid to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jakob. And He said, Thy name shallbe no longer Jakob, but Israel; for a prince art thou before the Lord, and withmen, and thou hast prevailed. And Jakob asked Him, and said, Show me now ThyName! And He said, Why dost thou ask My Name? And He blessed him there. AndJakob called the name of the place Peniel: because I have seen the Angel of theLord face to face, and my soul hath been saved! And the sun arose upon him ashe passed over Penuel, and he went lame upon his thigh. Therefore the sons ofIsrael do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of thethigh, unto this day, because He touched the hollow of Jakob’s thigh in thesinew that shrank.

XXXIII.And Jakob lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, Esau came, and with himfour hundred men; and he divided the children with Leah, and with Rahel, andwith the two concubines. And he set the concubines and their children first,and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph after them. And he passedover before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came nigh to hisbrother. And Esau ran to meet him,^{[5] <l >} and embraced him, and fell upon hisneck, and kissed him; and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw thewomen and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, Thechildren whom the Lord hath given to thy servant. And the concubinesapproached, they and their children, and bowed. And Leah also approached andher children, and bowed; and afterward Joseph and Rahel approached, and bowed.And he said, What to thee is all this troop which I have met? And he said, Tofind mercy in the eyes of my lord. And Esau said, I have much, my brother; letwhat is thine own profit thee.^{[6] <l >} And Jakob said, I pray thee, if Ihave now found mercy in thine eyes, that thou wouldst accept the present frommy hand, because I have now seen thy face as the vision of the face of theGreat, and thou art pleased with me. Receive, I pray, my offering which isbrought to thee, because the Lord hath been merciful to me, and because I haveall. And he was urgent on him, and he took it. And he said, Let us journey andgo, and I will go along with thee. And he said, My lord knoweth that the littleones are tender, and the sheep and kine giving milk are with me; and if theyoverdrive them one day, all the flock may die. Let my lord pass on before hisservant, and I will lead on quietly, according to the foot of the little ones,according to the foot of the work that is before me, and according to the footof the sucklings, until I come to my lord at Seir.^{[7] <l >} AndEsau said, Let me leave with thee of the people who are with me. And he said,Why should this be? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord. And Esau returnedthat day on his way to Seir. And Jakob journeyed to Succoth, and builded him anhouse, and made tabernacles for his cattle; therefore he called the name of theplace Succoth.^{[8] <l >} And Jakobcame in peace to the city of Shekem, which is in the land of Kenaan, in hiscoming from Padan Aram, and he abode near the face of the city. And he boughtthe possession of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of thesons of Hamor, the father of Shekem, for a hundred lambs. And he raised therean altar, and offered service upon it before God, the God of Israel.

XXXIV. AndDinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bare to Jakob, went forth to see thedaughters of the land. And Shekem bar Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land,saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. And his soul tookpleasure in Dinah the daughter of Jakob, and he loved the damsel, and spake tothe heart of the damsel. And Shekem spake to Hamor his father, saying, Take tome this damsel for a wife. And Jakob heard that he had polluted Dinah hisdaughter. And his sons were with his flocks in the field; and Jakob was silentuntil they were come. And Hamor the father of Shekem came forth to Jakob tospeak with him. And the sons of Jakob came up from the field when they heard.And the men were indignant and very angry, because shame had been wrought inIsrael by his lying with the daughter of Jacob; for so it should not have beendone. Hamor spake with them, saying, The soul of Shekem my son hath pleasure inyour daughter; give her now to him to wife. And marry with us, and take ourdaughters to you; and the land shall be before you; inhabit and do business init, and possess it. And Shekem said to her father and to her brethren, Let mefind favour in your eyes, and what you shall tell me I will give. Multiply uponme dowry and present, and I will give as you may tell me; but give me thedamsel to wife. And the sons of Jakob answered Shekem and Hamor his father, andwith subtlety they spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. And theysaid to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a manuncircumcised; for that (would be) a reproach to us. Nevertheless in this wewill agree with you, if you will be as we are, by circumcising every male amongyou, and we will give our daughters to you, and your daughters will we take tous, and will dwell with you and be one people. But if you will not consent tous to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and go. And their words werepleasing in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shekem the son of Hamor. Andthe young man delayed not to do the thing, because he delighted in the daughterof Jakob, and he was more honourable than all his father’s house. And Hamorcame, and Shekem his son, to the gate of the city, and spake to the men of thecity, saying, These men are friendly^{[9] <l >} with us, and they may dwell in theland, and do business in it,^{[10] <l >} and the land, behold, it is wide (onboth) hands before them; their daughters we will take to us for wives, and ourdaughters we will give to them. Only in this will the men agree with us todwell with us, to be one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as theyare circumcised. Their flocks, and their possessions, and all their cattle,will they not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell withus. And every one who went out of the gate of his city received of Hamor and ofShekem his son, and they were circumcised, every male, every one who went outof the gate of his city. And it was on the third day, when their pains werestrong upon them,^{[11] <l >} that the two sons of Jakob, Shemeonand Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took each man his sword, and came upon thecity, which dwelt in security, and slew every male, and Hamor and Shekem hisson they killed with the edge of the sword. And they brought Dinah out of thehouse of Shekem, and went. And the sons of Jakob came up to the spoil of theslain, and sacked the town, because they had defiled their sister. Their sheep,and their oxen, and their asses, and all that was in the city and the field, they took. And all their substance, andall their little ones, and their wives, they captured and spoiled, and allwhich was in the house. And Jakob said to Shemeon and Levi, You have troubledme, in putting strife between me and the inhabitants of the land, theKenaanites and the Perrezites, and I a people (few) for number; and they willgather against me, and smite me, and I shall perish, I and the men of my house.And they said, As with an outcast should he deal with our sister?

XXXV. Andthe Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make therean altar unto Eloha,^{[12] <l >} who appeared to thee when in thyflight from before Esau thy brother. And Jakob said to the men of his house,and to all who were with him, Put away the gentile idols^{[13] <l >} thatare among you, and purify; and change your raiment; and we will arise and go upto Bethel, and I will make there an altar unto Eloha, who heard my prayer inthe day of my distress, and whose Word was my helper in the way that I went.And they gave Jakob all the gentile idols that were in their hands, and thejewels that were in their ears, and Jakob hid them under the terebinth whichwas near Shekem. And they journeyed; and fear from before the Lord was upon thepeoples in the cities surrounding them; and they followed not after the sons ofJakob. And Jakob came to Luz, which is in the land of Kenaan, which is Bethel,he and all the people who were with him. And he builded there an altar, andcalled the place El Bethel, because the Angel of the Lord had appeared to himthere when he fled from before his brother. And Deborah, the nurse of Revekah,died, and was buried below Bethel, inthe declivity of the vale;^{[14] <l >} and he called the name of it, Thevale of weeping.^{[15] <l >} And theLord appeared unto Jakob again when he had come from Padan Aram, and blessedhim. And the Lord said to Jakob, Thy name shall be no more Jakob, but Israelshall be thy name; and he called his name Israel. And the Lord said to him, Iam El Shadai; increase and multiply; a people and an assemblage of tribes shallbe from thee, and kings who shall reign over the peoples shall come forth fromthee. And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Izhak I will give unto thee,and to thy sons after thee, will I give the land. And the glory of the Lordascended above him, in the place where He had spoken with him. And Jakob erecteda pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, andoutpoured libations upon it, and poured oil thereon. And Jakob called the nameof the place where the Lord bad spoken with him Bethel. And they journeyed fromBethel, and there was yet a space of land^{[16] <l >} to come unto Ephrath;and Rahel travailed, and had hard (pain) in her birth-labour. And as shetravailed in her labour, the midwife said to her, Fear not, for also this tothee is a son. And it was in the going forth of her soul, for she died, thatshe called his name The son of my woe;^{[17] <l >} but his father calledhim Benjamin.^{[18] <l >} And Rahel died, and was buried inthe way of Ephrath, which is Beth-Lechem. And Jakob erected a pillar uponher grave: that is the pillar of the tomb of Rahel unto this day. And Israelproceeded and spread his tabernacle beyond the tower of Adar. And it was whileIsrael dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubineof his father. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jakob were twelve. The sons of Leah, the firstborn ofJakob, Reuben, and Shemeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar, and Zebulon.The sons of Rahel, Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid ofRahel, Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpha, the handmaid of Leah, Gad andAsher. These are the sons of Jakob, who were born to him in Padan Aram. AndJakob came unto Izhak his father, unto Mamre, the city of Arba, which isHebron; for Abraham and Izhak had dwelt there. And the days of Izhak were anhundred and eighty years. And Izhak expired and died, and was gathered unto hispeople, old and content with days; and Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.

XXXVI. Andthese are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. Esau took his wives from thedaughters of Kenaan: Ada, daughter of Helon the Hittite, and Ahalivama, thedaughter of Ana, the daughter of Sibeon the Hivite, and Basemath, the daughterof Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth. And Ada bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemathbare Reuel; and Ahalivama bare Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach. These are thesons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Kenaan. And Esau took hiswives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and hisflocks, and all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gotten in the landof Kenaan, and went into another land from before Jakob his brother; becausetheir substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of theirhabitation could not sustain them with regard to their cattle. And Esau dweltin the mountain of Seir.^{[19] <l >} Esau is Edom. And these are thegenerations of Esau, the father of the Edomai, in the mountain of Seir, theseare the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Ada, the wife of Esau;Reuel, son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And the sons of Eliphaz were Theman,Omar, Zepho, and Gaetam, and Kenaz. And Thimna was the concubine of Eliphaz barEsau, and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Ada, the wife ofEsau. And these are the sons of Reuel, Nahath and Zara, Shamma and Meza. Theseare the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And these are the sons ofAhalivama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Zebeon, the wife of Esau; andshe bare unto Esau Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach. These are the chiefs^{[20] <l >}of the sons of Esau. Of the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau, RabbaTheman, Rabba Omar, Rabba Zepho, Rabba Kenaz, Rabba Korach, Rabba Gaetam, RabbaAmalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sonsof Ada. And these are the sons of Reuel bar Esau: Rabba Nachath, Rabba Zarach,Rabba Shamma, Rabba Meza. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom;these are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And these are the sons ofAhalivama, the wife of Esau: Rabba Jehus, Rabba Jaalam, Rabba Korach. These arethe chiefs of Ahalivama, the daughter of Ana the wife of Esau. These are thesons of Esau, and these are their chieftains. He is Edom.

These arethe sons of Seir, the Chorites,^{[21] <l >} the inhabitants of the land, Lothan,and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Ana, and Dishon, and Etser, and Dishan. These arethe chieftains of the Choraai, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom. And thesons of Loti were Hori and Hemaim, and the sister of Lotan was Timna. And theseare the Beni Shobal, Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And theseare the sons of Zebeon, Aya and Ana; he is Ana who found the giants^{[22] <l >}in the desert while he tended the asses of his father Zibeon. And these are thechildren of Ana, Dishon, and Ahalivania the daughter of Ana. And these are thesons of Dishan: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Jethran, and Keran. These are the sonsof Etser: Bilan, and Zaavan, and Akan. These are the sons of Dishan: Huts andAran. These are the chieftains of the Choraai: Rabba Lotan, Rabba Shobal, RabbaZebeon, Rabba Ana, Rabba Dishon, Rabba Etser, Rabba Dishan. These are thechieftains of the Choraai, according to their principalities in the land ofSeir. And theseare the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before that kings reigned amongthe sons of Israel: Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of hiscity was Dinhava. And Bela died, and instead of him reigned Yobab the son ofZerah of Botsra. And Yobab died, and instead of him reigned Husham, of the landof the south. And Husham, died, and instead of him reigned Hadad, the son ofBedad, who slew the Medianae in the fields of Moab; and the name of his citywas Avith. And Hadad died, and in his stead reigned Simlah of Masereka. AndSimlah died, and in his stead reigned Shaul of Rechovoth,^{[23] <l >}which is on the Ph’rat. And Shaul died, and in his stead reigned Baal-Chananbar Akbor. And Baal-Chanan bar Akbor died, and in his stead reignedHadar, and the name of his city was, Pau; and the name of his wife Mehetavel,the daughter of Matered, the daughterof a changer of gold.^{[24] <l >} And these are the names of thechieftains of Esau, after their kindreds, by their places, with their names:Rabba Timna, Rabba Alvah, Rabba Jetheth, Rabba Ahalivama, Rabba Elah, RabbaPhinon, Rabba Kenez, Rabba Teman, Rabba Mabzar, Rabba Magdiel, Rabba Iram:these are the chieftains of Edom, after their habitations in the land of theirpossessions. He is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

^[1] Sam. Vers. gabla, (gebel,)"the mountain."

^[1] Or, "the palm."

^[1] Or, "moved."

^[1] "Send me away."

^[1] Or, "to prevent him."

^[1] Or, "propser with thine own."

^[1] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."

^[1] ’Tabernacles."

^[1]Shalemin.

^[1]Yabedun ba sechorta.

^[1] Sam. Vers. "when they werewounded."

^[1] Sam. Vers. "the Most MightyOne."

^[1] "The idols of the peoples."

^[1]Shephuli misera.

^[1]Misar bekitha.

^[1] Literally, kerub araah, "an acre of ground." Some think that kerubaraah means as much land as can be ploughedin a day; a tract of ground.

^[1]Bar de-wai.

^[1] "Son of my right hand."

^[1] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."

^[1]Ravrevee.

^[1]Chor,"a cavern in a mountain."

^[1]Ith gibbaraia. Hebrew, ha yemim, "the mules." The Sam. Vers. has amaimai, "the Emim people."

^[1] Sam. Vers. "Pathe."

^[1]Bath Metsareph dahaba.

^{[1] <l >} Sam. Vers. gabla, (gebel,)"the mountain."

^{[2] <l >} Or, "the palm."

^{[3] <l >} Or, "moved."

^{[4] <l >} "Send me away."

^{[5] <l >} Or, "to prevent him."

^{[6] <l >} Or, "propser with thineown."

^{[7] <l >} Sam. Vers. "Gabla."

^{[8] <l >} ’Tabernacles."

^{[9] <l >}Shalemin.

^{[10] <l >}Yabedun ba sechorta.

^{[11] <l >} Sam. Vers. "when they werewounded."

^{[12] <l >} Sam. Vers. "the Most MightyOne."

^{[13] <l >} "The idols of thepeoples."

^{[14] <l >}Shephuli misera.

^{[15] <l >}Misar bekitha.

^{[16] <l >} Literally, kerub araah, "an acre of ground." Some think that kerubaraah means as much land as can be ploughedin a day; a tract of ground.

^{[17] <l >}Bar de-wai.

^{[18] <l >} "Son of my right hand."

^{[19] <l >} Sam. Vers. "Gabla."

^{[20] <l >}Ravrevee.

^{[21] <l >}Chor, "a cavern in a mountain."

^{[22] <l >}Ith gibbaraia. Hebrew, ha yemim, "the mules." The Sam. Vers. has amaimai, "the Emim people."

^{[23] <l >} Sam. Vers. "Pathe."

^{[24] <l >}Bath Metsareph dahaba.