Torah. The Pentateuch of Moses in weekly chapters, in poetic form. Sergiusz Mangiejewski

      On his way to Haran, Ya’akov stopped for the night at one place,

      G-d appeared to him and promised his descendants the land on which he was reclining.

      Ya’akov set up a stone as an altar and monument and vowed,

      To erect on this place G-d’s House, the Temple, a pedestal for G-d.

      Rivka’s brother Lavan gave away his daughters to Yaakov: Leah and Rachel, the ‘reward’ from his uncle.

      Leah gave birth to Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Issachar, Zevulun. Yosef gives birth to Rachel,

      The maids Bilgah and Zilpah legitimately give birth to Dan, Naftali, Asher and Gad.

      Yaakov and his family secretly depart for the Holy Land – to fulfil G-d’s purpose.

      Lavan and his posse sets off in pursuit of Yaakov and his family is set upon,

      G-d appears to Lavan in a dream and warns him not to do any harm to Yaakov.

      Lavan and Yaakov meet on the hill of Gal-Ed and make a peace agreement,

      Finally, Ya’akov goes to Knaan, where a pair of angels has been waiting for him for a long time.

      Yaakov sends messenger angels to his brother Esav in hopes of reconciliation,

      Esav is outraged. Yaakov prepares for battle, but prays and sends gifts to his brother.

      Fighting Esav’s patron angel, Yaakov has the strength to overpower him,

      The angel names Yaakov Yisrael1. The brothers reconciled, but have seen each other ever since.

      Yaakov and his numerous family members buy a plot of land near the city of Shechem,

      The son of the ruler of that city captures and rapes Dina, Yaakov’s daughter.

      Her brothers Shimon and Levin kill all the men in Shechem and a problem arises,

      Yaakov’s family goes to Yitzchak’s father in Havron, from Shechem from revenge rather away.

      On the way, Rachel gives birth to a son Binyamin and dies in childbirth,

      The twelve heads of the tribes of Israel are now complete.

      Reuven is denied the right of primogeniture because of his failure to honour the traditions of the people,

      Yitzchak died at the age of 180, and Yaakov and his sons gave him a proper burial.

      Out of jealousy, brothers Shimon and Levi sell Yosef into Egyptian slavery,

      lying to his father that his brother was attacked and devoured by a wild beast.

      Yitzchak, having become his own with the king and unwilling to allow sacrilege to his wife,

      He was slandered and thrown into prison behind a heavy, bolted prison door.

      In his imprisonment Yosef meets the cupbearer and the baker, Pharaoh’s officials,

      He interprets their dreams and they come true: the latter is hanged, the former is released.

      Yosef asks the freed cupbearer to put in a good word with his patron,

      But the latter did not, and his sense of gratitude was completely devoid of gratitude.

      Meanwhile, Yosef’s brother Yehuda gives birth to three sons,

      The eldest son Er marries Tamar, but dies childless and young,

      His brother Onan marries Tamar but dies quickly, sin is the cause,

      Tamar by Yehudah bears sons Peretz and Zerach, driven by her instinct.

      By interpreting Pharaoh’s own dreams, Yosef not only came out of his imprisonment,

      But he became the de facto ruler of Egypt, the second person after Pharaoh.

      Yosef married and had sons, but he never strayed from G-d’s teachings,

      He kept the commandments, missed his father and brothers, remembered his home.

      The sons of Yaakov, because of the famine, went to Egypt to buy food,

      They did not recognise their brother in the king, but Yosef recognised them at once.

      Declaring the brothers to be spies, he left Shimon as a hostage while the others,

      went after his brother Binyamin, with G-d’s help, Yosef calculated everything.

      Yehuda convinced Yaakov to release Binyamin on his own recognisance,

      Satisfied, Yosef released Shimon and gave the brothers a farewell feast.

      Putting Binyamin in the cup and ‘making’ him guilty by detaining him accordingly,

      As punishment, making his younger brother his slave, Binyamin fell into a trap.

      Yehuda begs Yosef to free his younger brother Binyamin and offers,

      To remain in slavery in his place, by his devotion Yosef has defeated him.

      Convinced of his brothers’ unity, Yosef reveals himself to them,

      ‘Is my father Yaakov still alive?’ – ‘Is my father Yaakov still alive?

      The brothers are hurt, ashamed and remorseful for what they have done against their brother,

      ‘G-d sent me to Egypt to save my family,’ Yosef comforted them.

      The brothers returned to their father with good news, and Yaakov, rejoicing more than ever,

      Goes to Egypt to his son, accompanied by seventy souls of relatives.

      On the way, Yaakov is favoured and instructed by G-d:

      ‘Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make your people great,

      – I will raise you up from there again,’ which gave Yisrael encouragement,

      Pharaoh allotted the land of Goshen