Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 And so Jacob, setting out, arrived in the eastern land. 2 And he saw a well in a field, and also three flocks of sheep reclining near it. For the animals were watered from it, and its mouth was closed with a great stone. 3 And the custom was, when all the sheep were […]

1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.” 2 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?” 3 But she said: “I have […]

1 But afterwards, he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and being enlarged by his ability, he has become famous.” 2 Likewise, he observed that Laban’s face was not the same toward him as it was yesterday and the day before. 3 Most importantly, […]

1 Likewise, Jacob continued on the journey that he had begun. And the Angels of God met him. 2 When he had seen them, he said, “These are the Encampments of God.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, ‘Encampments.’ 3 Then he also sent messengers before him to his brother […]

1 Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau arriving, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the sons of Leah and Rachel, and of both the handmaids. 2 And he placed the two handmaids and their children at the beginning. Truly, Leah and her sons were in the second place. Then Rachel […]

1 Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region. 2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force. 3 […]

1 About this time, God said to Jacob, “Arise and go up to Bethel, and live there, and make an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” 2 In truth, Jacob, having called together all his house, said: “Cast away the foreign gods that are in your midst […]

1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. 2 Esau took wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebaioth. 4 Then Adah bore Eliphaz. Basemath […]

1 Now Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father sojourned. 2 And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, when he was still a boy. And he was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, the wives of his father. And […]

1 About the same time, Judah, descending from his brothers, turned toward an Adullamite man, named Hirah. 2 And he saw there the daughter of a man called Shua, of Canaan. And taking her as a wife, he entered to her. 3 And she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Er. […]