Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 35
The Five Books of Moses
3 your clothing, and let us be rising; and wc will go to Beth-el; and I will there build an Altar to the GOD who piticd me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the journey that They, therefore, gave to ]:icob all
the strarige Gods which were in their hands, and the earrings that were in their ears, and jacob buried them under the oak which was near Shek- hem. Then they marched, and a terror from G0:) was upon their neighbours, and they did not pursue after the sons of jacob. So jacob came to Luz in the land of Canan (it is Beth—el{and his people with him. ; He also uilt an altar there, and
called the House of Gon, Beth-el,1 for there GOD appeared to him in his Bight from the presence of his brother. But Deborah the nurse of Rebekka died, and he burietl her between Beth-el and Alon, and called the The Oak of 3uaily2r Qhiixinz lppzarnuzz iu Qnrulw, IO I1 :6 mth §r¤mi¤z¤. GOD also appeared another time to
jacob, on his return from Padan Aram, and spoke with him, when GOD said ‘ Your name shall no longer be called jacob, for Israel shall be your name ; ’ so He called his name Israel ; and I am the Armionry GOD. Be fruitful and multiply. A Nation and an Assembly of Nations shall come from you, and Kings shall proceed from your loins; and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and the same land I will give to you and your race Then the Divine Messen- ger went up from. him from theplace where he spoke with him. So jacob erected a pillar at the place where he had spoken with him,-——a pillar of stone, and poured alibation upon it, and poured oil upon it. jacob also called the name of that place where GOD spoke with him GOD’s HOUSE.? He afterwards marched from there,
and had gone some distance into the country towards Ephrathah, when Rachel was taken in labour, and the childing went hard with her; but when she was delivered with hard * Beth-el. Be not down-hearted, for this child is a But she breathing- out her 18 life—for she was dying——·named him Son·of—my-Anguish,1 but his father called him Benjamin.? S0 Rachel died, and they buried her at Ephra- thah, which is near Bethlehem, and jacob erected a pillar over her tomb.8 Then Israel marched from there,
and pitched his tent at the encamp— ment of Migdal·Adar. And it was whilst Israel resided in that country, that Reuben went and committed adultery with Bilah his father’s second wife,——and Israel heard of it. iirgisirrs uf Qnrolfs Suns. These are the twelve sons of jacob :
The first born by Leah to jacob, Reuben; then Simeon; then Levi; then judah; and Issackar; then Zebulon. The sons of Rachel joseph and
Benjamin. And the sons of -Bilah the servant of Rachel; Dan and Naphthali: And the sons of Zilpha, the servant of Leah, Gad and Asher; these are the sons of jacob, who were born to him in Padan-Aram. jacob afterwards went to his father
Isaac, at Mamra, near Kiriath Arba,* where Abraham and Isaac dwelt. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. Then Isaac expired, and died, and was added to his people, old and satisfied with years, and Esau and jacob his sons buried him. Qisturg of ®zn1t rmttimtzh. 20 2 I 22 26 28
Now {these are the descendants of 36 Esau, who is Edom : Esau took wives from the women of
Canan; Ada the daughter of Ailon the Hitite; and Ahlibamah, the daughter of- Zibaon the Hivite; and Bashmath the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Benaioth. And Ada bore to Esau Ailifaz, and
Bashmath bore Rauel ; and Ahlibamah bore jaish and jamal, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, which they bore to him in the land of Canan. Esau afterwards took his wives, and
his sons and daughters, and all the persons of his house, and the flocks, and all his cattle, and all property 1 Ben·0ml. 2 Son of my right hand. This pillar-at Rachel’s grave still exists!
Editorial note by an Old H cbrew editor.-···F. F. is also an ancient explanatory note.-F. F. 35
