JACOB

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• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 25:24

  When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 27:2

  He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

• Genesis 27:3

  Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

• Genesis 27:4

  Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

• Genesis 27:5

  Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

• Genesis 27:42

  The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 27:43

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

• Genesis 27:44

  Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;

• Genesis 27:45

  until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

• Genesis 28:1

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 28:2

  Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

• Genesis 28:3

  May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

• Genesis 28:4

  and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

• Genesis 28:5

  Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

• Genesis 28:10

  Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

• Genesis 28:11

  He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

• Genesis 28:12

  He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

• Genesis 28:13

  Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.

• Genesis 28:14

  Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.

• Genesis 28:15

  Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

• Genesis 28:16

  Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

• Genesis 28:17

  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 28:19

  He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• Genesis 28:21

  so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

• Genesis 28:22

  then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:31

  Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Genesis 29:35

  She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:4

  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:9

  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• Genesis 30:14

  Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:35

  That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

• Genesis 30:36

  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 32:1

  Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

• Genesis 32:2

  When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

• Genesis 32:28

  He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

• Genesis 33:4

  Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

• Genesis 33:17

  Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

• Genesis 33:18

  Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

• Genesis 33:20

  He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

• Genesis 35:1

  God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 35:3

  Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Genesis 35:5

  They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

• Genesis 35:6

  So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

• Genesis 35:7

  He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

• Genesis 35:9

  God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

• Genesis 35:10

  God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

• Genesis 35:11

  God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

• Genesis 35:12

  The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you will I give the land.”

• Genesis 35:13

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

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

• Genesis 35:15

  Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

• Genesis 35:16

  They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

• Genesis 35:17

  When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

• Genesis 35:18

  As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:19

  Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• Genesis 35:22

  While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:25

  The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

• Genesis 35:26

  The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

• Genesis 35:27

  Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

• Genesis 37:1

  Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

• Genesis 37:4

  His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

• Genesis 37:10

  He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”

• Genesis 37:11

  His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

• Genesis 42:1

  Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

• Genesis 42:2

  He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

• Genesis 42:36

  Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

• Genesis 43:1

  The famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 43:2

  When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

• Genesis 43:3

  Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

• Genesis 43:4

  If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food,

• Genesis 43:5

  but if you’ll not send him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

• Genesis 43:6

  Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

• Genesis 43:7

  They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”

• Genesis 43:8

  Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

• Genesis 43:9

  I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

• Genesis 43:10

  for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”

• Genesis 43:11

  Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

• Genesis 43:12

  and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

• Genesis 43:13

  Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

• Genesis 43:14

  May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

• Genesis 45:26

  They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

• Genesis 45:27

  They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

• Genesis 45:28

  Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

• Genesis 46:1

  Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

• Genesis 46:2

  God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 46:3

  He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

• Genesis 46:4

  I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes.”

• Genesis 46:5

  Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

• Genesis 46:6

  They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt — Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

• Genesis 46:7

  his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.

• Genesis 46:8

  These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

• Genesis 46:9

  The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

• Genesis 46:10

  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

• Genesis 46:11

  The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• Genesis 46:12

  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

• Genesis 46:13

  The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

• Genesis 46:14

  The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

• Genesis 46:15

  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

• Genesis 46:16

  The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

• Genesis 46:17

  The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

• Genesis 46:18

  These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

• Genesis 46:19

  The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 46:20

  To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 46:21

  The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

• Genesis 46:22

  These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

• Genesis 46:23

  The son of Dan: Hushim.

• Genesis 46:24

  The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

• Genesis 46:25

  These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

• Genesis 46:26

  All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

• Genesis 46:27

  The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

• Genesis 46:28

  He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 46:29

  Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

• Genesis 46:30

  Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

• Genesis 46:31

  Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

• Genesis 46:32

  These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

• Genesis 46:33

  It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

• Genesis 46:34

  that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

• Genesis 47:1

  Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:2

  From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:3

  Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”

• Genesis 47:4

  They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:5

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

• Genesis 47:6

  The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

• Genesis 47:7

  Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:8

  Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

• Genesis 47:10

  Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:11

  Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

• Genesis 47:12

  Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

• Genesis 47:27

  Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

• Genesis 47:28

  Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

• Genesis 47:29

  The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

• Genesis 47:30

  but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”

• Genesis 47:31

  He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

• Genesis 48:7

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 48:21

  Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Genesis 49:5

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

• Genesis 49:6

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

• Genesis 49:8

  “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Genesis 49:13

  “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

• Genesis 49:14

  “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

• Genesis 49:16

  “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

• Genesis 49:18

  I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

• Genesis 49:19

  “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

• Genesis 49:20

  “Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

• Genesis 49:21

  “Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

• Genesis 49:22

  “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

• Genesis 49:25

  even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

• Genesis 49:27

  “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

• Genesis 49:29

  He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

• Genesis 49:30

  in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

• Genesis 49:33

  When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 50:2

  Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:4

  When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

• Genesis 50:5

  ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

• Genesis 50:6

  Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

• Genesis 50:7

  Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

• Genesis 50:8

  All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 50:9

  There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Genesis 50:12

  His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

• Genesis 50:13

  for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

• Joshua 24:4

  I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 12:8

  “When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:34

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 16:13

  you offspring of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

• 1 Chronicles 16:14

  He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

• 1 Chronicles 16:15

  Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

• 1 Chronicles 16:16

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

• 1 Chronicles 16:17

  He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• 1 Chronicles 16:18

  saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,”

• Psalms 105:23

  Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

• Hosea 12:12

  Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

• John 4:5

  So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

• Acts 7:8

  He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 7:14

  Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

• Acts 7:15

  Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.