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Genesis · read by J. Vernon McGee
1022 verses, in order. Only the verses J. read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
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Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:2
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And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:3-5
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God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:3-5
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And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:6-8
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And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:9-13
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The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:14-19
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God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:14-19
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to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:14-19
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And God said, "Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:20-23
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:20-23
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Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:26-31
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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:26-31
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Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:26-31
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And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:26-31
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And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 1:26-31
Genesis 2
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:1-3
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And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:1-3
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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:1-3
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This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:4-6
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Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:4-6
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But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:4-6
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Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:7
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And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:8-14
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Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:15-17
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:15-17
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3 Introduction
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:18-20
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So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man's ribs and closed up the area with flesh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:21-25
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And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:21-25
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And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for out of man she was taken."Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:21-25
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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:21-25
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And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 2:21-25
Genesis 3
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3 Introduction
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The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3 Introduction
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but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3 Introduction
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"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:1-5
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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:6-7
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Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:8-9
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"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:10-13
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"Who told you that you were naked?" asked the LORD God. "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:10-13
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And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:10-13
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Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:10-13
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So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:14-19
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To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:14-19
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And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:14-19
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Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:14-19
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."Read from KJV · The Potter and the Clay
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And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:20-24
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And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:20-24
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Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:20-24
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Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:20-24
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So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 3:20-24
Genesis 4
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while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:3-5
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but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:3-5
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"Why are you angry," said the LORD to Cain, "and why has your countenance fallen?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:6-7
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:6-7
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Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:8-10
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:8-10
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"What have you done?" replied the LORD. "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:8-10
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Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:11-15
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When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:11-15
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But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:11-15
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Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:11-15
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"Not so!" replied the LORD. "If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold." And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:11-15
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So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:16-26
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Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:16-26
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If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:16-26
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And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:16-26
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And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 4:16-26
Genesis 5
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This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 5:1-2
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And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 5:3-23
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Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 5:24-32
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After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 5:24-32
Genesis 6
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Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:1-7
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:1-7
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So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:1-7
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:1-7
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And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:1-7
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This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:8-12
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Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:8-12
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And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:8-12
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Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:8-12
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And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:14-16
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And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:17-22
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But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:17-22
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And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:17-22
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You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:17-22
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So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 6:17-22
Genesis 7
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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 7
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And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
Genesis 8
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But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the arkRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:1-19
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:20-22
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As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 8:20-22
Genesis 9
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The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:1-5
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Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:1-5
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And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:1-5
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Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:6-17
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The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
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May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 9:18-29
Genesis 10
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This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 10:1-6
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 10:8-32
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Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 10:8-32
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All these are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 10:8-32
Genesis 11
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Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:1-4
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And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:1-4
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"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:1-4
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Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:5-9
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And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:5-9
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So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:5-9
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That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:5-9
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When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
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And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
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When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
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During his father Terah's lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
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And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 11:10-32
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:1-3
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:1-3
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:4-9
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring. " So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:4-9
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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
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and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
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Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
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Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 12:10-20
Genesis 13
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So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:1-4
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And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:1-4
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to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:1-4
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Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:5-13
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:14-18
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Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:14-18
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So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 13:14-18
Genesis 14
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went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:1-4
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The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea ).Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:1-4
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They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:12-17
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During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer's army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:12-17
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He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:12-17
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After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:12-17
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High —Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:18-24
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and he blessed Abram and said: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:18-24
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and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:18-24
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:18-24
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But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 14:18-24
Genesis 15
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But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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Abram continued, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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And the LORD took him outside and said, "Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able." Then He told him, "So shall your offspring be."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:1-5
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And the LORD said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:6-10
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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:6-10
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:11-21
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.Read from KJV · (Exodus) Exodus 1:9-16
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:11-21
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:11-21
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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:11-21
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 15:11-21
Genesis 16
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So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:1-5
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So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:1-5
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And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:1-5
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"Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:6-10
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Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:6-10
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"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:6-10
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So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:6-10
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Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:6-10
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He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:11-16
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So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me, " for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:11-16
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 16:11-16
Genesis 17
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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:1-4
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"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:1-4
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No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:5-7
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:5-7
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And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:8
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God also said to Abraham, "You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:9-14
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This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:9-14
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Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:9-14
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But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:9-14
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Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:15-18
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And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:15-18
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But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
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When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham's household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
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So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
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And all the men of Abraham's household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 17:19-27
Genesis 18
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Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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"My lord," said Abraham, "if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:1-8
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"Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked. "There, in the tent," he replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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And the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really bear a child when I am old?'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, "I did not laugh." "No," replied the LORD, "but you did laugh."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:9-16
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And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:17-21
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Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:17-21
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For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38 Introduction
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Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:17-21
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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So the LORD replied, "If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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Then Abraham answered, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:22-23
Genesis 19
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Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 19:1-5
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But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 19:1-5
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 19:1-5
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They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 19:1-5
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Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:6-11
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"Please, my brothers," he pleaded, "don't do such a wicked thing!Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:6-11
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:6-11
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But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:6-11
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And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:6-11
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Then the two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 18:12-27
Genesis 20
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Abraham replied, "I thought to myself, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 20
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 20
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So when God had me journey from my father's house, I said to Sarah, 'This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 20
Genesis 21
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Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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Then Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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She added, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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and she said to Abraham, "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:1-11
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But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, "I cannot bear to watch the boy die!" And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
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And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 21:11-34
Genesis 22
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Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:1-2
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"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:1-2
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So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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"Stay here with the donkey," Abraham told his servants. "The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" "Here I am, my son," he replied. "The fire and the wood are here," said Isaac, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:11-14
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Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:3-10
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And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:11-14
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And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,Read from KJV · The Individual the Family the Group the Nation
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saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,Read from KJV · The Individual the Family the Group the Nation
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I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Read from KJV · The Individual the Family the Group the Nation
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And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."Read from KJV · The Individual the Family the Group the Nation
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Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:17-20
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Some time later, Abraham was told, "Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 22:17-20
Genesis 23
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She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:1-6
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Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:1-6
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"I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:1-6
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"Listen to us, sir. You are God's chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:1-6
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Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:7-9
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"If you are willing for me to bury my dead," he said to them, "listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalfRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:7-9
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to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:7-9
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Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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"No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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and said to Ephron in their presence, "If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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"Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded overRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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to Abraham's possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
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So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 23:10-20
Genesis 24
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By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:1
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So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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Abraham replied, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:2-9
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Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Aram-naharaim.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:10-14
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As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:10-14
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"O LORD, God of my master Abraham," he prayed, "please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:10-14
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Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:10-14
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Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who responds, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:10-14
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Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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So the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me have a little water from your jar."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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"Drink, my lord," she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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After she had given him a drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:15-20
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Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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Then she added, "We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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saying, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:21-29
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As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and heard Rebekah's words, "The man said this to me," he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:30-31
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"Come, you who are blessed by the LORD," said Laban. "Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:30-31
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Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say." So Laban said, "Please speak."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:32-35
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My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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My master made me swear an oath and said, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Then I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not come back with me?'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, 'Please let me drink a little water from your jar,'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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and she replies, 'Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,' may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master's son.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She replied, 'The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:36-49
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Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, "Send me on my way to my master."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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But her brother and mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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But he replied, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:50-57
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They called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:58
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So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
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Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
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Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
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And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camelRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
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and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" "It is my master," the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 24:59-67
Genesis 25
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and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:1-2
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But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:5-18
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And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:5-18
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His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:5-18
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This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:5-18
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This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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and He declared to her: "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.Read from NASB1995 · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:19-26
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Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:27-28
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One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:29-32
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He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished." (That is why he was also called Edom. )Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:29-32
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"Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:29-32
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"Swear to me first," Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:33-34
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Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 25:33-34
Genesis 26
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Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:1-5
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:1-5
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:1-5
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:1-5
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But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister." For he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," since he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:6-12
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When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:6-12
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Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is really your wife! How could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought I might die on account of her."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:6-12
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So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:6-12
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Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:6-12
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and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:13-17
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He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:13-17
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So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:13-17
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:13-17
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So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:13-17
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Then Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, "At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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"Why have you come to me?" Isaac asked them. "You hated me and sent me away."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
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"We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you," they replied. "We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with youRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 26:18-35
Genesis 27
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," Esau replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:1-4
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"Look," said Isaac, "I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:1-4
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Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:1-4
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Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:1-4
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Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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'Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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His mother replied, "Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:5-17
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So Jacob went to his father and said, "My father." "Here I am!" he answered. "Which one are you, my son?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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But Isaac asked his son, "How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the LORD your God brought it to me," he replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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"Serve me," said Isaac, "and let me eat some of my son's game, so that I may bless you." Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near and kiss me, my son."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:18-29
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father's presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, "My father, sit up and eat of your son's game, so that you may bless me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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But his father Isaac replied, "Who are you?" "I am Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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Isaac began to tremble violently and said, "Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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When Esau heard his father's words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me too, O my father!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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But Isaac replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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So Esau declared, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing." Then he asked, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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But Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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His father Isaac answered him: "Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:30-41
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When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:42-46
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So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:42-46
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Stay with him for a while, until your brother's fury subsides—Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:42-46
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until your brother's rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:42-46
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 27:42-46
Genesis 28
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. "Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women," he commanded.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28 Introduction
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"Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28 Introduction
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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:1-9
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On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:10-11
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And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down the ladder.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:12-15
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:12-15
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:12-15
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When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
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And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
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Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
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and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
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so that I may return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
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And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 28:16-22
Genesis 29
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Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:1-5
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He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:1-5
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"My brothers," Jacob asked the shepherds, "where are you from?" "We are from Haran," they answered.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:1-5
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"Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?" Jacob asked. "We know him," they replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:1-5
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"Is he well?" Jacob inquired. "Yes," they answered, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:6-10
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"Look," said Jacob, "it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:6-10
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But they replied, "We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:6-10
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While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:6-10
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As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother's brother Laban, with Laban's sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:6-10
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When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:11-14
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Laban said to him, "Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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Finally Jacob said to Laban, "Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:15-22
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And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:22-29
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When morning came, there was Leah! "What have you done to me?" Jacob said to Laban. "Wasn't it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:22-29
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Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:22-29
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Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:22-29
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Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:22-29
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When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:30-32
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And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, "The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 29:30-32
Genesis 30
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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. "Give me children, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:1-24
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Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:1-24
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Then she said, "Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:1-24
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Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:1-24
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She named him Joseph, and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:1-24
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Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:25-30
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Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:25-30
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But Laban replied, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:25-30
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Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:25-30
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"What can I give you?" Laban asked. "You do not need to give me anything," Jacob replied. "If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban's flocks.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
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Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 30:31-39
Genesis 31
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And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:7-13
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In that dream the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:7-13
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'Look up,' he said, 'and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:7-13
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And Rachel and Leah replied, "Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father's house?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:14-19
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Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:20-25
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Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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Now you have gone off because you long for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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"I was afraid," Jacob answered, "for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:26-31
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If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:32-36
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Rachel said to her father, "Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period." So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:32-36
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Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. "What is my crime?" he said. "For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:32-36
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I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:38-41
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I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:38-41
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Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:38-41
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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:42-49
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But Laban answered Jacob, "These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:42-49
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Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:42-49
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Then Laban declared, "This mound is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore the place was called Galeed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:42-49
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It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, "May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 31:42-49
Genesis 32
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Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God." So he named that place Mahanaim.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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He instructed them, "You are to say to my master Esau, 'Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:1-8
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Then Jacob declared, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, 'Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:9-12
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I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:9-12
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:9-12
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30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:13-19
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He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, "Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:13-19
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He instructed the one in the lead, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:13-19
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You are also to say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" For he thought, "I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:20-23
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So Jacob's gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:20-23
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During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:20-23
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He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:20-23
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So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:24
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When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob's hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
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Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
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"What is your name?" the man asked. "Jacob," he replied.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
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And Jacob requested, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
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So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, "Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
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The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 32:25-32
Genesis 33
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Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Jacob answered, "These are the children God has graciously given your servant."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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"What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?" asked Esau. "To find favor in your sight, my lord," Jacob answered.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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"I already have plenty, my brother," Esau replied. "Keep what belongs to you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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But Jacob insisted, "No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need." So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:1-12
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But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:13-17
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Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:13-17
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"Let me leave some of my people with you," Esau said. But Jacob replied, "Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:13-17
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After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:18-20
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And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:18-20
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There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 33:18-20
Genesis 34
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When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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So Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as a wife."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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When Jacob's sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter—a thing that should not be done.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:1-9
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You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property."Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!"Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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"We cannot do such a thing," they said. "To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.Read from KJV · Genesis) Genesis 34:10-17
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The young man, who was the most respected of all his father's household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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"These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons (Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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Jacob's other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:18-30
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But they replied, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 34:31
Genesis 35
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Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:1-2
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So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:1-2
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As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob's sons.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:3-13
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So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:3-13
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After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:3-13
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And God said to him, "Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel. " So God named him Israel.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:3-13
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The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:3-13
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So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you are having another son."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel's tomb to this day.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
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Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 35:14-29
Genesis 36
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Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 36:1-12
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For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 36:1-12
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So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 36 Introduction
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All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 36:15-43
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These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 36:15-43
Genesis 37
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Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:1-3
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:1-3
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Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:4-6
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We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:7-12
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"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:7-12
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Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:7-12
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He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:7-12
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And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:7-12
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Then Israel told him, "Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me." So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:13-19
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"I am looking for my brothers," Joseph replied. "Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:13-19
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"They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:13-19
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Now Joseph's brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:13-19
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When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. "Let us not take his life," he said.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:20-26
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"Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:20-26
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and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:20-26
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And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:20-26
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Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:20-26
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Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh." And they agreed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:27-28
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So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:27-28
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When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:29-33
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returned to his brothers, and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:29-33
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Then they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:29-33
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They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, "We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe or not."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:29-33
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His father recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:29-33
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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:34-36
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All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said. "I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:34-36
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Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 37:34-36
Genesis 38
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About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:1-11
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When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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she removed her widow's garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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"I will send you a young goat from my flock," Judah answered. But she replied, "Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow's garments again.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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So Hirah returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, 'No shrine prostitute has been here.'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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"Let her keep the items," Judah replied. "Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah replied. "Let her be burned to death!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:12-24
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As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong." And she added, "Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:24-26
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Judah recognized the items and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not have relations with her again.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:24-26
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When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:27-30
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But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, "You have broken out first!" So he was named Perez.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:27-30
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Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 38:27-30
Genesis 39
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Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's household on account of him. The LORD's blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph's care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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and after some time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:1-7
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No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:8-10
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Although Potiphar's wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:8-10
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One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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So Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's cloak beside her until his master came home.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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Then she told him the same story: "The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," he burned with anger.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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So Joseph's master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king's prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:11-20
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the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:21-23
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And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph's care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:21-23
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The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39:21-23
Genesis 40
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Some time later, the king's cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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both of these men—the Egyptian king's cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so downcast today?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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"We both had dreams," they replied, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:1-8
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So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: "In my dream there was a vine before me,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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Joseph replied, "This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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Joseph replied, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:9-19
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On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:20-23
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Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:20-23
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But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:20-23
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The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 40:20-23
Genesis 41
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After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:1-8
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but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:1-8
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After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:1-8
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And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:1-8
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In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:1-8
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Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: "In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:9-16
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When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:21-32
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Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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So Pharaoh asked them, "Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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Pharaoh also told Joseph, "I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:33-41
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He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, "Bow the knee!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:42-45
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And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:42-45
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Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:42-45
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During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:46-49
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So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:46-49
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Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's household."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
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And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 41:50-57
Genesis 42
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When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you staring at one another?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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"Look," he added, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "I am afraid that harm might befall him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:1-6
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Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, "You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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"Not so, my lord," they replied. "Your servants have come to buy food.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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But they answered, "Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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and on the third day he said to them, "I fear God. So do this and you will live:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:7-18
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If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die." And to this they consented.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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Then they said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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And Reuben responded, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:19-24
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Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man's silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:25-28
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and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:25-28
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At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:25-28
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"My silver has been returned!" he said to his brothers. "It is here in my sack." Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:25-28
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When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:25-28
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"The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, 'This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
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But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 42:29-38
Genesis 43
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So when Jacob's sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little more food."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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"Why did you bring this trouble upon me?" Israel asked. "Why did you tell the man you had another brother?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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They replied, "The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, 'Bring your brother here'?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:1-15
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When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, "Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph's house. "We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time," they said. "They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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"Please, sir," they said, "we really did come down here the first time to buy food.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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"It is fine," said the steward. "Do not be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, gave you the treasure that was in your sacks. I received your silver." Then he brought Simeon out to them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:16-23
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Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph's arrival at noon.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:24-30
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When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:24-30
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He asked if they were well, and then he asked, "How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:24-30
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"Your servant our father is well," they answered. "He is still alive." And they bowed down to honor him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:24-30
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Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, "Serve the meal."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:31-34
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They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:31-34
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They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 43:31-34
Genesis 44
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Then Joseph instructed his steward: "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's silver in the mouth of his sack.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, "Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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"Why does my lord say these things?" they asked. "Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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"As you say," replied the steward. "But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph's house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:1-15
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"What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord's slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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But Joseph replied, "Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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Then Judah approached Joseph and said, "Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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And we answered, 'We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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So we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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But you said to your servants, 'Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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But we answered, 'We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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And your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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When one of them was gone, I said: "Surely he has been torn to pieces." And I have not seen him since.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:16-17
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Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
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So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy's life,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
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sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
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Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father, saying, 'If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
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Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
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For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 44:18-34
Genesis 45
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near me." And they did so. "I am Joseph, your brother," he said, "the one you sold into Egypt!Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:1-4
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And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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Now return quickly to my father and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:5-12
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Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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When the news reached Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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So the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father's journey.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
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However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 45:13-28
Genesis 46
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So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:1-3
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And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. "Here I am," replied Jacob.Read from KJV · (Exodus) Exodus 1 Introduction
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"I am God," He said, "the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.Read from KJV · (Exodus) Exodus 1 Introduction
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I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph's own hands will close your eyes."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:4-7
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They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:4-7
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Jacob took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:4-7
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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:4-7
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All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob's sons—numbered sixty-six persons.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:26-28
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And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:26-28
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Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob's family arrived in the land of Goshen,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:26-28
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Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
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Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and inform Pharaoh: 'My brothers and my father's household from the land of Canaan have come to me.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
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The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
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When Pharaoh summons you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
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you are to say, 'Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 46:29-34
Genesis 47
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So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:1-6
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And he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:1-6
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Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:1-6
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Now that your father and brothers have come to you,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:1-6
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the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:1-6
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Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:7-9
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"My travels have lasted 130 years," Jacob replied. "My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:7-9
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Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:10-14
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So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:15-26
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Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father's household with food for their families.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:15-26
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There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:15-26
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Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh's palace.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:15-26
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When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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"Then bring me your livestock," said Joseph. "Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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However, he did not acquire the priests' portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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Then Joseph said to the people, "Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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"You have saved our lives," they said. "We have found favor in our lord's eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
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So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests' land does not belong to Pharaoh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 47:27-31
Genesis 48
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Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:1-3
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When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:1-3
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Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed meRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:1-3
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and told me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:4-6
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Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:4-6
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Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:7-13
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Joseph said to his father, "They are the sons God has given me in this place." So Jacob said, "Please bring them to me, that I may bless them."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:7-13
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Now Israel's eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:7-13
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Then Joseph removed his sons from his father's knees and bowed facedown.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:7-13
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And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand—and brought them close to him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:7-13
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But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh's head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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Then he blessed Joseph and said: "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he was displeased and took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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"Not so, my father!" Joseph said. "This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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But his father refused. "I know, my son, I know!" he said. "He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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So that day Jacob blessed them and said: "By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 48:15-22
Genesis 49
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Then Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:1
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Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:2-5
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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:2-5
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May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:6-7
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Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:6-7
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Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down to you.Read from KJV · The Individual the Family the Group the Nation
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Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:8-10
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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:8-10
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He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:11-15
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His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:11-15
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Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:11-15
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Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:11-15
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Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:16-21
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He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:16-21
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Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:16-21
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Asher's food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:16-21
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Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:22-27
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The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:29-33
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There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.Read from ESV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:29-33
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The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:29-33
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When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 49:29-33
Genesis 50
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Then Joseph fell upon his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:1-3
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And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:1-3
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taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:1-3
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When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh thatRead from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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my father made me swear an oath when he said, 'I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' Now let me go and bury my father, and then return."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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Pharaoh replied, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh's household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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along with all of Joseph's household, and his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians." Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:4-13
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After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Before he died, your father commanded,Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.' So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, "We are your slaves!"Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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But Joseph replied, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:14-20
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As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 39 Introduction
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Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:21-26
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Now Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:21-26
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:21-26
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And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, "God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place."Read from KJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:21-26
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So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Genesis) Genesis 50:21-26