Jacob, Joseph & Egypt

And he saith, `What to thee is all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, `To find grace in the eyes of my lord.'

And Esau saith, `I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.'

And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;

receive, I pray thee, my blessing, which is brought to thee, because God hath favoured me, and because I have all things ;' and he presseth on him, and he receiveth,

and saith, `Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.'

And he saith unto him, `My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the suckling flock and the herd are with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died.

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I--I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.'

And Esau saith, `Let me, I pray thee, place with thee some of the people who are with me;' and he said, `Why is this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.'

And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;

and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth.

And Jacob cometh in to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encampeth before the city,

and he buyeth the portion of the field where he hath stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitah;

and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God--the God of Israel.

And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,

and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;

and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.

And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.

And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;

and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it is very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob--and so it is not done.

And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,

and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade in it, and have possessions in it.'

And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;

multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'