Gen. 29:1‑30:43• 1And Jacob continued his journey, and went into the land of the children of the east.
2And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the fields, and behold there, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was at the mouth of the well.
3And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the mouth of the well in its place.
4And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
5And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We do know him.
6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and behold, there comes Rachel his daughter with the sheep.
7And he said, Behold, it is yet high day; it is not time that the cattle should be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, feed them.
8And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep.
9While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
10And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.
11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.
12And Jacob told Rachel that he was a brother of her father, and that he was Rebecca's son; and she ran and told her father.
13And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house; and he told Laban all these things.
14And Laban said to him, Thou art indeed my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him a month's time.
15And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall be thy wages?
16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel.
17And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of beautiful form and beautiful countenance.
18And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.
22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to her.
24And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his maidservant, to be maidservant to Leah his daughter.
25And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done to me? Have I not served thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me?
26And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27Fulfil the week with this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.
28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week with this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife.
29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah, his maidservant, to be her maidservant.
30And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.
31And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
32And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
33And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.
34And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi.
35And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.
1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
3And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.
4And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.
7And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.
8And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.
9And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.
10And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.
11And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.
12And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.
14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
16And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.
19And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
20and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
21And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
24And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son.
25And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country.
26Give me my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.
27And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes--I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.
28And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.
29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.
30For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?
31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and that shall be my hire.
33And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.
34And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word.
35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.
37And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.
38And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.
39And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
41And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;
42but when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.
43And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses. (Gen. 29:1‑30:43)
Gen. 49:1‑33• 1And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days.
2Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father.
3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, My might, and the firstfruits of my vigour: Excellency of dignity, and excellency of strength.
4Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my bed.
5Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
6My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
7Cursed be their anger, for it was violent; And their rage, for it was cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
8Judah--as to thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's children will bow down to thee.
9Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
10The sceptre will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.
11He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in the blood of grapes.
12The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth are white with milk.
13Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will be at the shore of the ships, And his side toucheth upon Sidon.
14Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.
15And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And was a tributary servant.
16Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.
17Dan will be a serpent on the way, A horned snake on the path, Which biteth the horse's heels, So that the rider falleth backwards.
18I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
19Gad--troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel.
20Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties.
21Naphtali is a hind let loose; He giveth goodly words.
22Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; His branches shoot over the wall.
23The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
24But his bow abideth firm, And the arms of his hands are supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:
25From the *God of thy father, and he will help thee; And from the Almighty, and he will bless thee--With blessings of heaven from above, With blessings of the deep that lieth under, With blessings of the breast and of the womb.
26The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my ancestors, Unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
27Benjamin--as a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will divide the booty.
28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre.
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.
33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his peoples. (Gen. 49:1‑33)
1 Chron. 2:1‑55• 1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
2Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
3The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.
4And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
5The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul.
6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
7And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.
8And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.
9And the sons of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
10And Ram begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
11and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz,
12and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;
13and Jesse begot his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
14Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
16and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
17And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18And Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth: her sons are these: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
19And Azubah died, and Caleb took him Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.
20And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel.
21And afterwards Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
22And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;
23and Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
24And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
25And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were: Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, of Ahijah.
26And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
27And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
28And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
29And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
30And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died without sons.
31And the sons of Appaim: Jishi; and the sons of Jishi: Sheshan; and the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
32And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without sons.
33And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
34And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters; and Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha;
35and Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.
36And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,
37and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,
38and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah,
39and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Elasah,
40and Elasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum,
41and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.
42And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
43And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
44And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem begot Shammai;
45and the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
46And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.
47And the sons of Jehdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
48Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah;
49and she bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
50These are the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah: Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
51Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
52And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, Hazi-Hammenuhoth.
53And the families of Kirjath-jearim were the Jithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zoreathites and the Eshtaolites.
54The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites. Atroth-Beth-Joab, and the Hazi-Hammanahethites, the Zorites;
55and the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Tireathites, the Shimeathites, the Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. (1 Chron. 2:1‑55)
1 Chron. 8:1‑40• 1And Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
3And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
4and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
5and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
6--And these are the sons of Ehud (these were the chief fathers of the inhabitants of Geba; and they carried them away to Manahath;
7even Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera; he removed them), and he begot Uzza and Ahihud.
8And Shaharaim begot children in the land of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
9And he begot of Hodesh his wife: Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
10and Jeuz, and Shobia, and Mirmah; these were his sons, chief fathers.
11And of Hushim he begot Abitub, and Elpaal.
12And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemer, who built Ono, and Lod and its dependent villages;
13and Beriah, and Shema, who were chief fathers of the inhabitants of Ajalon; they drove away the inhabitants of Gath.
14And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
15and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,
16and Michael, and Jishpah, and Joha were the sons of Beriah.
17And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hiski, and Heber,
18and Jishmerai, and Jizliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
19And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
20and Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
21and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
22And Jishpah, and Eber, and Eliel,
23and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
24and Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
25and Jiphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.
26And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
27and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.
28These were the chief fathers, according to their generations, principal men; these dwelt in Jerusalem.
29And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; and his wife's name was Maachah.
30And his son, the firstborn, was Abdon; and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
31and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher.
32And Mikloth begot Shimeah. And these also dwelt beside their brethren in Jerusalem, with their brethren.
33And Ner begot Kish; and Kish begot Saul; and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
34And the son of Jonathan was Merib-Baal; and Merib-Baal begot Micah.
35And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
36And Ahaz begot Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begot Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begot Moza;
37and Moza begot Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
38And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bochru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan; all these were sons of Azel.
39And the sons of Eshek his brother were Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
40And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers; and they had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin. (1 Chron. 8:1‑40)