circa 1900–1700 BC
Jacob, Joseph & Egypt
Jacob wrestles with God and becomes Israel; Joseph is sold into slavery yet rises to save the world from famine.
- Genesis 31:45c. 1739 BC
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- Genesis 31:46c. 1739 BC
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
- Genesis 31:47c. 1739 BC
And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:48c. 1739 BC
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
- Genesis 31:49c. 1739 BC
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
- Genesis 31:50c. 1739 BC
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
- Genesis 31:51c. 1739 BC
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
- Genesis 31:52c. 1739 BC
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
- Genesis 31:53c. 1739 BC
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 31:54c. 1739 BC
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
- Genesis 31:55c. 1739 BC
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
- Genesis 32:1c. 1739 BC
¶ And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Genesis 32:2c. 1739 BC
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:3c. 1739 BC
¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Genesis 32:4c. 1739 BC
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
- Genesis 32:5c. 1739 BC
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
- Genesis 32:6c. 1739 BC
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
- Genesis 32:7c. 1739 BC
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
- Genesis 32:8c. 1739 BC
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
- Genesis 32:9c. 1739 BC
¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
- Genesis 32:10c. 1739 BC
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
- Genesis 32:11c. 1739 BC
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
- Genesis 32:12c. 1739 BC
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 32:13c. 1739 BC
¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
- Genesis 32:14c. 1739 BC
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,