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Genesis 33

Jacob and Esau Meet.^*

1Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided his children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants,

2putting the maidservants and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

3He himself went on ahead of them, bowing to the ground seven times, until he reached his brother.

4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, and flinging himself on his neck, kissed him as he wept.

5Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children and asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “They are the children with whom God has graciously favored your servant.”

6Then the maidservants and their children came forward and bowed low;

7next, Leah and her children came forward and bowed low; lastly, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed low.

8Then Esau asked, “What did you intend with all those herds that I encountered?” Jacob answered, “It was to gain my lord’s favor.”

9Esau replied, “I have plenty; my brother, you should keep what is yours.”

10“No, I beg you!” said Jacob. “If you will do me the favor, accept this gift from me, since to see your face is for me like seeing the face of God—and you have received me so kindly.

11Accept the gift I have brought you. For God has been generous toward me, and I have an abundance.” Since he urged him strongly, Esau accepted.

12Then Esau said, “Let us break camp and be on our way; I will travel in front of you.”

13But Jacob replied: “As my lord knows, the children are too young. And the flocks and herds that are nursing are a concern to me; if overdriven for even a single day, the whole flock will die.

14Let my lord, then, go before his servant, while I proceed more slowly at the pace of the livestock before me and at the pace of my children, until I join my lord in Seir.”

15Esau replied, “Let me at least put at your disposal some of the people who are with me.” But Jacob said, “Why is this that I am treated so kindly, my lord?”

16So on that day Esau went on his way back to Seir,

17and Jacob broke camp for Succoth.^* There Jacob built a home for himself and made booths for his livestock. That is why the place was named Succoth.

18Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram. He encamped in sight of the city.^a

19The plot of ground on which he had pitched his tent he bought for a hundred pieces of money^* from the descendants of Hamor, the father of Shechem.^b

20He set up an altar there and invoked “El, the God of Israel.”^c

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Genesis 34

The Rape of Dinah.

1^* Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit some of the women of the land.

2When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite,^* the leader of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.

3He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.

4Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman for a wife.”

5Meanwhile, Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but since his sons were out in the field with his livestock, Jacob kept quiet until they came home.

6Now Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out to discuss the matter with Jacob,

7just as Jacob’s sons were coming in from the field. When they heard the news, the men were indignant and extremely angry. Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter; such a thing is not done.^a

8Hamor appealed to them, saying: “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

9Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

10Thus you can live among us. The land is open before you. Settle and move about freely in it and acquire holdings here.”^*

11Then Shechem appealed to Dinah’s father and brothers: “Do me this favor, and whatever you ask from me, I will give.

12No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.”

Revenge of Jacob’s Sons.

13Jacob’s sons replied to Shechem and his father Hamor with guile, speaking as they did because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

14They said to them, “We are not able to do this thing: to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For that would be a disgrace for us.

15Only on this condition will we agree to that: that you become like us by having every male among you circumcised.

16Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters in marriage; we will settle among you and become one people.

17But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we will take our daughter and go.”

18Their proposal pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

19The young man lost no time in acting on the proposal, since he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more highly regarded than anyone else in his father’s house.

20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and said to the men of their city:

21“These men are friendly toward us. Let them settle in the land and move about in it freely; there is ample room in the land for them. We can take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.

22But only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and form one people with us: that every male among us be circumcised as they themselves are.

23Would not their livestock, their property, and all their animals then be ours? Let us just agree with them, so that they will settle among us.”

24All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the males, all those who went out of the gate of the city,^* were circumcised.

25On the third day, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, each took his sword, advanced against the unsuspecting city and massacred all the males.^b

26After they had killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, they took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.^c

27Then the other sons of Jacob followed up the slaughter and sacked the city because their sister had been defiled.

28They took their sheep, cattle and donkeys, whatever was in the city and in the surrounding country.

29They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their women, and looted whatever was in the houses.^d

30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have brought trouble upon me by making me repugnant to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have so few men that, if these people unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be wiped out.”

31But they retorted, “Should our sister be treated like a prostitute?”

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Genesis 35

Bethel Revisited.

1^* God said to Jacob: Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.^a

2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him: “Get rid of the foreign gods^* among you; then purify yourselves and change your clothes.

3Let us now go up to Bethel so that I might build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

4They gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and also the rings they had in their ears^* and Jacob buried them under the oak that is near Shechem.

5Then, as they set out, a great terror fell upon the surrounding towns, so that no one pursued the sons of Jacob.

6Thus Jacob and all the people who were with him arrived in Luz (now Bethel) in the land of Canaan.^b

7There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel,^* for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.^c

8Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was named Allon-bacuth.^*

9On Jacob’s arrival from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

10God said to him:

Your name is Jacob.

You will no longer be named Jacob,

but Israel will be your name.^d

So he was named Israel.

11Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you; and to your descendants after you I will give the land.^e

13Then God departed from him.

14In the place where God had spoken with him, Jacob set up a sacred pillar, a stone pillar, and upon it he made a libation and poured out oil.^f

15Jacob named the place where God spoke to him Bethel.

Jacob’s Family.

16Then they departed from Bethel; but while they still had some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and suffered great distress.

17When her labor was most intense, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”

18With her last breath—for she was at the point of death—she named him Ben-oni;^* but his father named him Benjamin.

19Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (now Bethlehem).^{* g}

20Jacob set up a sacred pillar on her grave, and the same pillar marks Rachel’s grave to this day.

21Israel moved on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

22While Israel was encamped in that region, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. When Israel heard of it, he was greatly offended.^{* h}

The sons of Jacob were now twelve.

23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

24^* the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

25the sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali;

26the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (now Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

28The length of Isaac’s life was one hundred and eighty years;

29then he breathed his last. He died as an old man and was gathered to his people. After a full life, his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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Genesis 36

Edomite Lists.^*

1These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom).

2^* Esau took his wives from among the Canaanite women: Adah, daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hivite;^a

3and Basemath, daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

4Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau; Basemath bore Reuel;^b

5and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.^c

6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock, all his cattle, and all the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.^d

7Their possessions had become too great for them to dwell together, and the land in which they were residing could not support them because of their livestock.

8So Esau settled in the highlands of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)^e

9These are the descendants of Esau,^* ancestor of the Edomites, in the highlands of Seir.

10These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, son of Adah, wife of Esau, and Reuel, son of Basemath, wife of Esau.

11^f The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

12Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. Those were the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau.

13These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Those were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.^g

14These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah—the daughter of Anah, son of Zibeon—whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.^h

15These are the clans of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, Esau’s firstborn: the clans of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the clans of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.

17These are the sons of Reuel, son of Esau: the clans of Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the clans of Reuel in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau.

18These were the sons of Oholibamah, wife of Esau: the clans of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the clans of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.

19These are the sons of Esau—that is, Edom—according to their clans.

20These are the sons of Seir the Horite,^* the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,ⁱ

21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; those are the clans of the Horites, sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

22^j The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam, and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

23These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Mahanath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

24These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. He is the Anah who found water in the desert while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

25These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.

26These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

27These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

28These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

29These are the clans of the Horites: the clans of Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

30Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; those are the clans of the Horites, clan by clan, in the land of Seir.

31^k These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.^*

32Bela, son of Beor, became king in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.

33When Bela died, Jobab, son of Zerah, from Bozrah, succeeded him as king.

34When Jobab died, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, succeeded him as king.

35When Husham died, Hadad, son of Bedad, succeeded him as king. He is the one who defeated Midian in the country of Moab; the name of his city was Avith.

36When Hadad died, Samlah, from Masrekah, succeeded him as king.

37When Samlah died, Shaul, from Rehoboth-on-the-River, succeeded him as king.

38When Shaul died, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, succeeded him as king.

39When Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, died, Hadad succeeded him as king; the name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, son of Mezahab.

40These are the names of the clans of Esau identified according to their families and localities: the clans of Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

41Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

42Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

43Magdiel, and Iram. Those are the clans of the Edomites, according to their settlements in their territorial holdings—that is, of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.

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Mark 6 :1-13

The Rejection at Nazareth.

1^a He departed from there and came to his native place,^* accompanied by his disciples.

2^* When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!

3^b Is he not the carpenter,^* the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

4^{* c} Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.”

5So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there,^* apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them.

6He was amazed at their lack of faith.

The Mission of the Twelve. He went around to the villages in the vicinity teaching.

7^d He summoned the Twelve^* and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

8^* He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts.

9They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.

10^* He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave from there.

11Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.”

12So they went off and preached repentance.

13^* They drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick^e and cured them.

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