CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]. Common English Bible

CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]

Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have only a few men. They may join forces, attack me, and destroy me, me and my household."

³¹They said, "But didn't he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

Jacob establishes worship at Bethel

Genesis 35God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you ran away from your brother Esau."

²Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you. Clean yourselves and change your clothes. ³Then let's rise and go up to Bethel so that I can build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and who has been with me wherever I've gone."⁴So they gave Jacob all of the foreign gods they had, as well as the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth at Shechem. ⁵When they set out, God made all of the surrounding cities fearful so that they didn't pursue Jacob's sons. ⁶Jacob and all of the people with him arrived in Luz, otherwise known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan. ⁷He built an altar there and named the place El-bethel,^w because God had revealed himself to him there when he ran away from his brother. ⁸Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried at Bethel under the oak, and Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.^x

⁹God appeared to Jacob again, while he was on his way back from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. ¹⁰God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will be Jacob no longer. No, your name will be Israel." And he named him Israel. ¹¹God said to him, "I am El Shaddai.^y Be fertile and multiply. A nation, even a large group of nations, will come from you; kings will descend from your own children. ¹²The land I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I give to you; and I will give the land to your descendants after you."¹³Then God ascended, leaving him alone in the place where he spoke to him. ¹⁴So Jacob set up a sacred pillar, a stone pillar, at the place God spoke to him. He poured an offering of wine on it and then poured oil over it. ¹⁵Jacob named the place Bethel where God spoke to him.

Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death

¹⁶They left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into hard labor. ¹⁷During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid. You have another son."¹⁸As her life faded away, just before she died, she named him Ben-oni,^z but his father named him Benjamin.^a ¹⁹Rachel died and was buried near the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. ²⁰Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. It's the pillar on Rachel's tomb that's still there today. ²¹Israel continued his trip and pitched his tent farther on near the tower of Eder.

Jacob's family

²²While Israel stayed in that place, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah his father's secondary wife, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons. ²³The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's oldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons born to him in Paddan-aram.

Isaac's death

²⁷Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, that is, Kiriath-arba. This is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac lived as immigrants. ²⁸At the age of 180 years, ²⁹Isaac took his last breath and died. He was buried with his ancestors after a long, satisfying life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Esau's descendants

Genesis 36These are the descendants of Esau, that is, Edom. ²Esau married Canaanite women: Adah the daughter of the Hittite Elon; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah son of the Hittite Zibeon,^b ³and Basemath the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. ⁴Adah gave birth to Eliphaz for Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel, ⁵and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are Esau's sons born to him in the land of Canaan.

⁶Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and everyone in his household, and his livestock, all of his animals, and all of the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he moved away from the land of Canaan^c and from his brother Jacob. ⁷They had so many possessions that they couldn't live together. The land where they lived as immigrants couldn't support all of their livestock. ⁸So Esau, that is, Edom, lived in the mountains of Seir.

⁹These are the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of Edom, which lies in the mountains of Seir. ¹⁰These are the names of Edom's sons: Eliphaz son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹¹Eliphaz's sons were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹²Timna was the secondary wife of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she gave birth to Amalek for Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau's wife Adah. ¹³These are Reuel's sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹⁴These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, Zibeon's son:^d she gave birth to Esau, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

¹⁵These are the tribal chiefs from Esau's sons. The sons of Eliphaz, Esau's oldest son: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz, ¹⁶Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, and Chief Amalek. These are the tribal chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; they are Adah's sons. ¹⁷These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These are the tribal chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹⁸These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Chief Jeush, Chief Jalam, and Chief Korah. They are the tribal chiefs of Esau's wife Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their tribal chiefs.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir, the Horite, who live in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ²¹Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the Horite tribal chiefs, Seir's sons, in the land of Edom. ²²Lotan's sons are Hori and Heman, and Lotan's sister was Timna. ²³These are Shobal's sons: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. ²⁴These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah. Anah is the one who found water^e in the desert while pasturing his father Zibeon's donkeys.

²⁵These are Anah's children: Dishon and Anah's daughter Oholibamah. ²⁶These are Dishon's^f sons: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷These are Ezer's sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸These are Dishan's sons: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These are the Horite tribal chiefs: Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ³⁰Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the Horite tribal chiefs, listed according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before a king ruled over the Israelites. ³²Bela, Beor's son, ruled in Edom; his city's name was Dinhabah. ³³After Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah became king. ³⁴After Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king. ³⁵After Husham died, Hadad, Bedad's son who defeated Midian in the countryside of Moab, became king; his city's name was Avith. ³⁶After Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king. ³⁷After Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river became king. ³⁸After Shaul died, Baal-hanan, Achbor's son, became king. ³⁹After Baal-hanan, Achbor's son, died, Hadar became king; his city's name was Pau and his wife's name was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Me-zahab.

⁴⁰These are the names of Esau's tribal chiefs according to their families, their locations, and their names: Chief Timna, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth, ⁴¹Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, ⁴²Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, ⁴³Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These are Edom's tribal chiefs according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This is Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.

Joseph dreams of power

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