Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)

These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.

Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.

And shall not their cattle and their herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.

And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.

And they slew Emmor and Sychem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina out of the house of Sychem, and went forth.

But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.

And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatsoever were in the city, and whatsoever were in the plain.

And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.

And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, Ye have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.

And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Bæthel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

And let us rise and go up to Bæthel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the ear-rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Secima, and destroyed them to this day.

So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, which is Bæthel, he and all the people that were with him.

And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Bæthel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

And Deborrha, Rebecca's nurse, died, and was buried below Bæthel under the oak; and Jacob called its name, The Oak of Mourning.

And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luza, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.

And God said to him, Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.

And God said to him, I am thy God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

And the land which I gave to Abraam and Isaac, I have given it to thee; and it shall come to pass that I will give this land also to thy seed after thee.

And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God spoke with him, [even] a pillar of stone; and offered a libation upon it, and poured oil upon it.

And Jacob called the name of the place in which God spoke with him, Bæthel.

[And Jacob removed from Bæthel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader,] and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labour.

And it came to pass in her hard labour, that the midwife said to her, Be of good courage, for thou shalt also have this son.

And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

So Rachel died, and was buried in the way of the course of Ephratha, this is Bethleem.

And Jacob set up a pillar on her tomb; this is the pillar on the tomb of Rachel, until this day.

And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Ruben went and lay with Balla, the concubine of his father Jacob; and Israel heard, and the thing appeared grievous before him. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

The sons of Lea, the first-born of Jacob; Ruben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon.

And the sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin.

And the sons of Balla, the hand-maid of Rachel; Dan and Nephthalim.

And the sons of Zelpha, the hand-maid of Lea; Gad and Aser. These [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mambre, to a city of the plain; this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraam and Isaac sojourned.

And the days of Isaac which he lived were an hundred and eighty years.

And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

And these [are] the generations of Esau; this is Edom.

And Esau took to himself wives of the daughters of the Chananites; Ada, the daughter of Ælom the Chettite; and Olibema, daughter of Ana the son of Sebegon, the Evite;

and Basemath, daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabaioth.

And Ada bore to him Eliphas; and Basemath bore Raguel.

And Olibema bore Jeus, and Jeglom, and Core; these [are] the sons of Esau, which were born to him in the land of Chanaan.

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had got, and all things whatsoever he had acquired in the land of Chanaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob.

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojourning could not bear them, because of the abundance of their possessions.

And Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau, he is Edom.

And these [are] the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the mount Seir.

And these [are] the names of the sons of Esau. Eliphas, the son of Ada, the wife of Esau; and Raguel, the son of Basemath, wife of Esau.

And the sons of Eliphas were Thæman, Omar, Sophar, Gothom, and Kenez.

And Thamna was a concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau; and she bore Amalec to Eliphas. These [are] the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.

And these [are] the sons of Raguel; Nachoth, Zare, Some, and Moze. These were the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau.

And these [are] the sons of Olibema, the daughter of Ana, the son of Sebegon, the wife of Esau; and she bore to Esau, Jeus, and Jeglom, and Core.

These [are] the chiefs of the son of Esau, [even] the sons of Eliphas, the first-born of Esau; chief Thæman, chief Omar, chief Sophar, chief Kenez,

chief Core, chief Gothom, chief Amalec. These [are] the chiefs of Eliphas, in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Ada.

And these [are] the sons of Raguel, the son of Esau; chief Nachoth, chief Zare, chief Some, chief Moze. These [are] the chiefs of Raguel, in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau.

And these [are] the sons of Olibema, wife of Esau; chief Jeus, chief Jeglom, chief Core. These [are] the chiefs of Olibema, daughter of Ana, wife of Esau.

These [are] the sons of Esau, and these are the chiefs; these are the sons of Edom.

And these [are] the sons of Seir, the Chorrhite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, Sobal, Sebegon, Ana,

and Deson, and Asar, and Rison. These [are] the chiefs of the Chorrhite, the son of Seir, in the land of Edom.

And the sons of Lotan [were] Chorrhi and Hæman; and the sister of Lotan, Thamna.

And these [are] the sons of Sobal; Golam, and Manachath, and Gæbel, and Sophar, and Omar.

And these [are] the sons of Sebegon; Aïe, and Ana; this is the Ana who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Sebegon.

And these [are] the sons of Ana; Deson—and Olibema [was] daughter of Ana.

And these [are] the sons of Deson; Amada, and Asban, and Ithran, and Charrhan.

And these [are] the sons of Asar; Balaam, and Zucam, and Jucam.

And these [are] the sons of Rison; Hos, and Aran.

And these [are] the chiefs of Chorri; chief Lotan, chief Sobal, chief Sebegon, chief Ana,

chief Deson, chief Asar, chief Rison. These [are] the chiefs of Chorri, in their principalities in the land of Edom.

And these [are] the kings which reigned in Edom, before a king reigned in Israel.

And Balac, son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city [was] Dennaba.

And Balac died; and Jobab, son of Zara, from Bosorrha reigned in his stead.

And Jobab died; and Asom, from the land of the Thæmanites, reigned in his stead.

And Asom died; and Adad son of Barad, who cut off Madiam in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.

And Adad died; and Samada of Massecca reigned in his stead.

And Samada died; and Saul of Rhoöboth by the river reigned in his stead.

And Saul died; and Ballenon the son of Achobor reigned in his stead.

And Ballenon the son of Achobor died; and Arad the son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Phogor; and the name of his wife was Metebeel, daughter of Matraith, son of Maizoöb.

These [are] the names of the chiefs of Esau, in their tribes, according to their place, in their countries, and in their nations; chief Thamna, chief Gola, chief Jether,

chief Olibema, chief Helas, chief Phinon,

chief Kenez, chief Thæman, chief Mazar,

chief Magediel, chief Zaphoin. These are the chiefs of Edom in their dwelling-places, in the land of their possession; this is Esau, the father of Edom.

And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Chanaan.

And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Balla, and with the sons of Zelpha, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.

And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colours.

And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.

And he said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed.

I thought ye were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and my sheaf stood up and was erected, and your sheaves turned round, and did obeisance to my sheaf.

And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us, or shalt thou indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.

And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.

And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

And his brethren went to feed the sheep of their father to Sychem.

And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed their flock in Sychem? Come, I will send thee to them; and he said to him, Behold, I [am here].

And Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brethren and the sheep are well, and bring me word; and he sent him out of the valley of Chebron, and he came to Sychem.

And a man found him wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

And he said, I am seeking my brethren; tell me where they feed [their flocks].

And the man said to him, They have departed hence, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothaim; and Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothaim.

And they spied him from a distance before he drew nigh to them, and they wickedly took counsel to slay him.