Torah
Bereshit33
Genesis · Chapter 33
And Ya'aqov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Le'ah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yoseph hindermost.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who
are those with thee? And he said, The children which Elohim hath graciously given thy servant.
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
And Le'ah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Yoseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
And he said, What
meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said,
These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
And Ya'aqov said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of Elohim, and thou wast pleased with me.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because Elohim hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took
it.
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children
are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young
are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee
some of the folk that
are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
And Ya'aqov journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
And Ya'aqov came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which
is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Yisra'el.
Torah
Bereshit34
Genesis · Chapter 34
And Dinah the daughter of Le'ah, which she bare unto Ya'aqov, went out to see the daughters of the land.
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
And his nephesh clave unto Dinah the daughter of Ya'aqov, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
And Ya'aqov heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Ya'aqov held his peace until they were come.
And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Ya'aqov to commune with him.
And the sons of Ya'aqov came out of the field when they heard
it:
and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Yisra'el in lying with Ya'aqov’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The nephesh of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
And make ye marriages with us,
and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
And the sons of Ya'aqov answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that
were a reproach unto us:
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we
be,
that every male of you be circumcised;
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Ya'aqov’s daughter: and he
was more honourable than all the house of his father.
And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
These men
are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold,
it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they
are circumcised.
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs
be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Ya'aqov, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
The sons of Ya'aqov came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which
was in the city, and that which
was in the field,
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that
was in the house.
And Ya'aqov said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I
being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Torah
Bereshit35
Genesis · Chapter 35
And Elohim said unto Ya'aqov, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto Elohim, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Then Ya'aqov said unto his household, and to all that
were with him, Put away the strange gods that
are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto Elohim, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
And they gave unto Ya'aqov all the strange gods which
were in their hand, and
all their earrings which
were in their ears; and Ya'aqov hid them under the oak which
was by Shechem.
And they journeyed: and the terror of Elohim was upon the cities that
were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Ya'aqov.
So Ya'aqov came to Luz, which
is in the land of Canaan, that
is, Bethel, he and all the people that
were with him.
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there Elohim appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
But Devorah Rivqah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
And Elohim appeared unto Ya'aqov again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
And Elohim said unto him, Thy name
is Ya'aqov: thy name shall not be called any more Ya'aqov, but Yisra'el shall be thy name: and he called his name Yisra'el.
And Elohim said unto him, I
am Elohim Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
And the land which I gave Avraham and Yitschaq, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
And Elohim went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
And Ya'aqov set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him,
even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
And Ya'aqov called the name of the place where Elohim spake with him, Bethel.
And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
And it came to pass, as her nephesh was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
is
Beit Lechem.
And Ya'aqov set a pillar upon her grave: that
is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
And Yisra'el journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
And it came to pass, when Yisra'el dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Yisra'el heard
it.
Now the sons of Ya'aqov were twelve:
The sons of Le'ah; Reuben, Ya'aqov’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
The sons of Rachel; Yoseph, and Benjamin:
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
And the sons of Zilpah, Le'ah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these
are the sons of Ya'aqov, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
And Ya'aqov came unto Yitschaq his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which
is Chevron, where Avraham and Yitschaq sojourned.
And the days of Yitschaq were an hundred and fourscore years.
And Yitschaq gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people,
being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Ya'aqov buried him.