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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.

840 verses · 1 book covered

Verses from This Period

  1. and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

  2. And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name `Oak of weeping.'

  3. And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;

  4. and God saith to him, `Thy name is Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.

  5. And God saith to him, `I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

  6. and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac--to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

  7. And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.

  8. And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;

  9. and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.

  10. And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

  11. and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.'

  12. Genesis 35:18c. 1729 BC

    And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

  13. Genesis 35:19c. 1729 BC

    and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,

  14. Genesis 35:20c. 1729 BC

    and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which is the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

  15. Genesis 35:21c. 1729 BC

    And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar;

  16. Genesis 35:22c. 1729 BC

    and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

  17. Genesis 35:23c. 1729 BC

    And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

  18. Genesis 35:24c. 1729 BC

    Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  19. Genesis 35:25c. 1729 BC

    And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.

  20. Genesis 35:26c. 1729 BC

    And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These are sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.

  21. Genesis 35:27c. 1729 BC

    And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.

  22. Genesis 35:28c. 1729 BC

    And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years,

  23. Genesis 35:29c. 1716 BC

    and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

  24. Genesis 36:1c. 1796 BC

    And these are births of Esau, who is Edom.

  25. Genesis 36:2c. 1796 BC

    Esau hath taken his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,