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The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth | Genesis 1:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:1",
"Text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:2",
"Text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:3",
"Text": "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:4",
"Text": "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:5",
"Text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:6",
"Text": "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:7",
"Text": "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:8",
"Text": "And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:9",
"Text": "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:10",
"Text": "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:11",
"Text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:12",
"Text": "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:13",
"Text": "And the evening and the morning were the third day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:14",
"Text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:15",
"Text": "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:16",
"Text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:17",
"Text": "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:18",
"Text": "And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:19",
"Text": "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:20",
"Text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:21",
"Text": "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:22",
"Text": "And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:23",
"Text": "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:24",
"Text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:25",
"Text": "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:26",
"Text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:27",
"Text": "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:28",
"Text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:29",
"Text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:30",
"Text": "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 1:31",
"Text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:1",
"Text": "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:2",
"Text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:3",
"Text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
}
] | Genesis 2:3 |
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden | Genesis 2:4 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:4",
"Text": "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:5",
"Text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:6",
"Text": "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:7",
"Text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:8",
"Text": "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:9",
"Text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:10",
"Text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:11",
"Text": "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:12",
"Text": "And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:13",
"Text": "And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:14",
"Text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:15",
"Text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:16",
"Text": "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:17",
"Text": "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:18",
"Text": "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:19",
"Text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:20",
"Text": "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:21",
"Text": "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:22",
"Text": "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:23",
"Text": "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:24",
"Text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 2:25",
"Text": "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
}
] | Genesis 2:25 |
The Fall of Man | Genesis 3:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:1",
"Text": "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:2",
"Text": "And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:3",
"Text": "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:4",
"Text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:5",
"Text": "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:6",
"Text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:7",
"Text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:8",
"Text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:9",
"Text": "And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:10",
"Text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:11",
"Text": "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:12",
"Text": "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:13",
"Text": "And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:14",
"Text": "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:15",
"Text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:16",
"Text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:17",
"Text": "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:18",
"Text": "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:19",
"Text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art , and unto dust shalt thou return."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:20",
"Text": "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:21",
"Text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:22",
"Text": "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:23",
"Text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 3:24",
"Text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
}
] | Genesis 3:24 |
The Descendants of Adam | Genesis 4:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:1",
"Text": "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:2",
"Text": "And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:3",
"Text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:4",
"Text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:5",
"Text": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:6",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:7",
"Text": "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:8",
"Text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:9",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:10",
"Text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:11",
"Text": "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:12",
"Text": "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:13",
"Text": "And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:14",
"Text": "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:15",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:16",
"Text": "And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:17",
"Text": "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:18",
"Text": "And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begot Mehujael: and Mehujael begot Methusael: and Methusael begot Lamech."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:19",
"Text": "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:20",
"Text": "And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:21",
"Text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:22",
"Text": "And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:23",
"Text": "And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:24",
"Text": "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:25",
"Text": "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she , hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 4:26",
"Text": "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:1",
"Text": "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:2",
"Text": "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:3",
"Text": "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:4",
"Text": "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:5",
"Text": "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:6",
"Text": "And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:7",
"Text": "And Seth lived after he begot Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:8",
"Text": "And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:9",
"Text": "And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:10",
"Text": "And Enos lived after he begot Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:11",
"Text": "And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:12",
"Text": "And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:13",
"Text": "And Cainan lived after he begot Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:14",
"Text": "And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:15",
"Text": "And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:16",
"Text": "And Mahalaleel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:17",
"Text": "And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:18",
"Text": "And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begot Enoch:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:19",
"Text": "And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:20",
"Text": "And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:21",
"Text": "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:22",
"Text": "And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:23",
"Text": "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:24",
"Text": "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:25",
"Text": "And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:26",
"Text": "And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:27",
"Text": "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:28",
"Text": "And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:29",
"Text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:30",
"Text": "And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begot sons and daughters:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:31",
"Text": "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 5:32",
"Text": "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
}
] | Genesis 5:32 |
Corruption on the Earth | Genesis 6:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:1",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:2",
"Text": "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:3",
"Text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:4",
"Text": "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:5",
"Text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:6",
"Text": "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:7",
"Text": "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."
}
] | Genesis 6:7 |
The Call of Noah | Genesis 6:8 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:8",
"Text": "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:9",
"Text": "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:10",
"Text": "And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:11",
"Text": "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:12",
"Text": "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:13",
"Text": "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:14",
"Text": "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:15",
"Text": "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of : The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:16",
"Text": "A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:17",
"Text": "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:18",
"Text": "But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:19",
"Text": "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:20",
"Text": "Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:21",
"Text": "And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 6:22",
"Text": "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:1",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:2",
"Text": "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:3",
"Text": "Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:4",
"Text": "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:5",
"Text": "And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:6",
"Text": "And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:7",
"Text": "And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:8",
"Text": "Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:9",
"Text": "There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah."
}
] | Genesis 7:9 |
The Flood | Genesis 7:10 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:10",
"Text": "And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:11",
"Text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:12",
"Text": "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:13",
"Text": "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:14",
"Text": "They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:15",
"Text": "And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:16",
"Text": "And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:17",
"Text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:18",
"Text": "And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:19",
"Text": "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:20",
"Text": "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:21",
"Text": "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:22",
"Text": "All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land , died."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:23",
"Text": "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive , and they that were with him in the ark."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 7:24",
"Text": "And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:1",
"Text": "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:2",
"Text": "The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:3",
"Text": "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:4",
"Text": "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:5",
"Text": "And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month , on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:6",
"Text": "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:7",
"Text": "And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:8",
"Text": "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:9",
"Text": "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:10",
"Text": "And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:11",
"Text": "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:12",
"Text": "And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:13",
"Text": "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month , the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:14",
"Text": "And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:15",
"Text": "And God spoke unto Noah, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:16",
"Text": "Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:17",
"Text": "Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:18",
"Text": "And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:19",
"Text": "Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark."
}
] | Genesis 8:19 |
The Noahic Covenant | Genesis 8:20 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:20",
"Text": "And Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:21",
"Text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 8:22",
"Text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:1",
"Text": "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:2",
"Text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:3",
"Text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:4",
"Text": "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:5",
"Text": "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:6",
"Text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:7",
"Text": "And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:8",
"Text": "And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:9",
"Text": "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:10",
"Text": "And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:11",
"Text": "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:12",
"Text": "And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:13",
"Text": "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:14",
"Text": "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:15",
"Text": "And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:16",
"Text": "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:17",
"Text": "And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."
}
] | Genesis 9:17 |
The Descendants of Noah | Genesis 9:18 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:18",
"Text": "And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:19",
"Text": "These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:20",
"Text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:21",
"Text": "And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:22",
"Text": "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:23",
"Text": "And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:24",
"Text": "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:25",
"Text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:26",
"Text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:27",
"Text": "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:28",
"Text": "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 9:29",
"Text": "And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died."
}
] | Genesis 9:29 |
The Table of Nations | Genesis 10:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:1",
"Text": "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:2",
"Text": "The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:3",
"Text": "And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:4",
"Text": "And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:5",
"Text": "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:6",
"Text": "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:7",
"Text": "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:8",
"Text": "And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:9",
"Text": "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:10",
"Text": "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:11",
"Text": "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:12",
"Text": "And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:13",
"Text": "And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:14",
"Text": "And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:15",
"Text": "And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:16",
"Text": "And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:17",
"Text": "And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:18",
"Text": "And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:19",
"Text": "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:20",
"Text": "These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:21",
"Text": "Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:22",
"Text": "The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:23",
"Text": "And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:24",
"Text": "And Arphaxad begot Salah; and Salah begot Eber."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:25",
"Text": "And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:26",
"Text": "And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:27",
"Text": "And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:28",
"Text": "And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:29",
"Text": "And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:30",
"Text": "And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:31",
"Text": "These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 10:32",
"Text": "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood."
}
] | Genesis 10:32 |
The Tower of Babel | Genesis 11:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:1",
"Text": "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:2",
"Text": "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:3",
"Text": "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:4",
"Text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:5",
"Text": "And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:6",
"Text": "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:7",
"Text": "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:8",
"Text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:9",
"Text": "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
}
] | Genesis 11:9 |
The Genealogy of Abram | Genesis 11:10 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:10",
"Text": "These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:11",
"Text": "And Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:12",
"Text": "And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begot Salah:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:13",
"Text": "And Arphaxad lived after he begot Salah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:14",
"Text": "And Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:15",
"Text": "And Salah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:16",
"Text": "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:17",
"Text": "And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:18",
"Text": "And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:19",
"Text": "And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:20",
"Text": "And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:21",
"Text": "And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:22",
"Text": "And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:23",
"Text": "And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:24",
"Text": "And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:25",
"Text": "And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:26",
"Text": "And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:27",
"Text": "Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:28",
"Text": "And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:29",
"Text": "And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:30",
"Text": "But Sarai was barren; she had no child."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:31",
"Text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 11:32",
"Text": "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."
}
] | Genesis 11:32 |
The Call of Abram | Genesis 12:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:1",
"Text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:2",
"Text": "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:3",
"Text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:4",
"Text": "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:5",
"Text": "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:6",
"Text": "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:7",
"Text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:8",
"Text": "And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:9",
"Text": "And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south."
}
] | Genesis 12:9 |
Abram and Sarai in Egypt | Genesis 12:10 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:10",
"Text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:11",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:12",
"Text": "Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:13",
"Text": "Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:14",
"Text": "And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:15",
"Text": "The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:16",
"Text": "And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:17",
"Text": "And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:18",
"Text": "And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:19",
"Text": "Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her , and go thy way."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 12:20",
"Text": "And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had."
}
] | Genesis 12:20 |
Abram and Lot | Genesis 13:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:1",
"Text": "And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:2",
"Text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:3",
"Text": "And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:4",
"Text": "Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:5",
"Text": "And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:6",
"Text": "And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:7",
"Text": "And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:8",
"Text": "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we be brethren."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:9",
"Text": "Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:10",
"Text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:11",
"Text": "Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:12",
"Text": "Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:13",
"Text": "But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:14",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:15",
"Text": "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:16",
"Text": "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:17",
"Text": "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 13:18",
"Text": "Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD."
}
] | Genesis 13:18 |
War of the Four Kings vs. the Five Kings | Genesis 14:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:1",
"Text": "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:2",
"Text": "That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:3",
"Text": "All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:4",
"Text": "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:5",
"Text": "And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:6",
"Text": "And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:7",
"Text": "And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:8",
"Text": "And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:9",
"Text": "With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:10",
"Text": "And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:11",
"Text": "And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:12",
"Text": "And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:13",
"Text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:14",
"Text": "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants , born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:15",
"Text": "And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:16",
"Text": "And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people."
}
] | Genesis 14:16 |
Melchizedek Blesses Abram | Genesis 14:17 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:17",
"Text": "And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:18",
"Text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:19",
"Text": "And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:20",
"Text": "And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:21",
"Text": "And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:22",
"Text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:23",
"Text": "That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 14:24",
"Text": "Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion."
}
] | Genesis 14:24 |
The Covenant Between the Parts | Genesis 15:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:1",
"Text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:2",
"Text": "And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:3",
"Text": "And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:4",
"Text": "And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:5",
"Text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:6",
"Text": "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:7",
"Text": "And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:8",
"Text": "And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:9",
"Text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:10",
"Text": "And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:11",
"Text": "And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:12",
"Text": "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:13",
"Text": "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:14",
"Text": "And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:15",
"Text": "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:16",
"Text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:17",
"Text": "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:18",
"Text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:19",
"Text": " The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:20",
"Text": "And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 15:21",
"Text": "And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
}
] | Genesis 15:21 |
Hagar and Ishmael | Genesis 16:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:1",
"Text": "Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:2",
"Text": "And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:3",
"Text": "And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:4",
"Text": "And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:5",
"Text": "And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:6",
"Text": "But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:7",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:8",
"Text": "And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:9",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:10",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:11",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:12",
"Text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:13",
"Text": "And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:14",
"Text": "Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:15",
"Text": "And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 16:16",
"Text": "And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram."
}
] | Genesis 16:16 |
The Covenant of Circumcision | Genesis 17:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:1",
"Text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:2",
"Text": "And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:3",
"Text": "And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:4",
"Text": "As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:5",
"Text": "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:6",
"Text": "And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:7",
"Text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:8",
"Text": "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:9",
"Text": "And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:10",
"Text": "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:11",
"Text": "And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant between me and you."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:12",
"Text": "And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:13",
"Text": "He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:14",
"Text": "And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:15",
"Text": "And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:16",
"Text": "And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:17",
"Text": "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:18",
"Text": "And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:19",
"Text": "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:20",
"Text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:21",
"Text": "But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:22",
"Text": "And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:23",
"Text": "And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:24",
"Text": "And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:25",
"Text": "And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:26",
"Text": "In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 17:27",
"Text": "And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him."
}
] | Genesis 17:27 |
The Three Visitors | Genesis 18:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:1",
"Text": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:2",
"Text": "And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them , he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:3",
"Text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:4",
"Text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:5",
"Text": "And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:6",
"Text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it , and make cakes upon the hearth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:7",
"Text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:8",
"Text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:9",
"Text": "And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:10",
"Text": "And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:11",
"Text": "Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:12",
"Text": "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:13",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:14",
"Text": "Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:15",
"Text": "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh."
}
] | Genesis 18:15 |
Sodom and Gomorrah | Genesis 18:16 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:16",
"Text": "And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:17",
"Text": "And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:18",
"Text": "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:19",
"Text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:20",
"Text": "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:21",
"Text": "I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:22",
"Text": "And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:23",
"Text": "And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:24",
"Text": "Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:25",
"Text": "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:26",
"Text": "And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:27",
"Text": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:28",
"Text": "Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:29",
"Text": "And he spoke unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:30",
"Text": "And he said unto him , Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it , if I find thirty there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:31",
"Text": "And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:32",
"Text": "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 18:33",
"Text": "And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:1",
"Text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:2",
"Text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:3",
"Text": "And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:4",
"Text": "But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:5",
"Text": "And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:6",
"Text": "And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:7",
"Text": "And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:8",
"Text": "Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:9",
"Text": "And they said, Stand back. And they said again , This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:10",
"Text": "But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:11",
"Text": "And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:12",
"Text": "And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters? and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:13",
"Text": "For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:14",
"Text": "And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:15",
"Text": "And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:16",
"Text": "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:17",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:18",
"Text": "And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:19",
"Text": "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:20",
"Text": "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:21",
"Text": "And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:22",
"Text": "Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:23",
"Text": "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:24",
"Text": "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:25",
"Text": "And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:26",
"Text": "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:27",
"Text": "And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:28",
"Text": "And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:29",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:30",
"Text": "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:31",
"Text": "And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:32",
"Text": "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:33",
"Text": "And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:34",
"Text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:35",
"Text": "And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:36",
"Text": "Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:37",
"Text": "And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 19:38",
"Text": "And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day."
}
] | Genesis 19:38 |
Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech | Genesis 20:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:1",
"Text": "And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:2",
"Text": "And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:3",
"Text": "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:4",
"Text": "But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:5",
"Text": "Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:6",
"Text": "And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:7",
"Text": "Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:8",
"Text": "Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:9",
"Text": "Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:10",
"Text": "And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:11",
"Text": "And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:12",
"Text": "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:13",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:14",
"Text": "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:15",
"Text": "And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:16",
"Text": "And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other : thus she was reproved."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:17",
"Text": "So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bore children ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 20:18",
"Text": "For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife."
}
] | Genesis 20:18 |
The Birth of Isaac | Genesis 21:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:1",
"Text": "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:2",
"Text": "For Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:3",
"Text": "And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:4",
"Text": "And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:5",
"Text": "And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:6",
"Text": "And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:7",
"Text": "And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:8",
"Text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned."
}
] | Genesis 21:8 |
The Casting Out of Hagar and Ishmael | Genesis 21:9 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:9",
"Text": "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:10",
"Text": "Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:11",
"Text": "And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:12",
"Text": "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:13",
"Text": "And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:14",
"Text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:15",
"Text": "And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:16",
"Text": "And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him , and lifted up her voice, and wept."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:17",
"Text": "And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:18",
"Text": "Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:19",
"Text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:20",
"Text": "And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:21",
"Text": "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt."
}
] | Genesis 21:21 |
The Covenant at Beersheba | Genesis 21:22 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:22",
"Text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:23",
"Text": "Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:24",
"Text": "And Abraham said, I will swear."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:25",
"Text": "And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:26",
"Text": "And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it , but today."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:27",
"Text": "And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:28",
"Text": "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:29",
"Text": "And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:30",
"Text": "And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:31",
"Text": "Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:32",
"Text": "Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:33",
"Text": "And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 21:34",
"Text": "And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days."
}
] | Genesis 21:34 |
The Binding of Isaac | Genesis 22:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:1",
"Text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:2",
"Text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:3",
"Text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and cleaved the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:4",
"Text": "Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:5",
"Text": "And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:6",
"Text": "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:7",
"Text": "And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:8",
"Text": "And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:9",
"Text": "And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:10",
"Text": "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:11",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:12",
"Text": "And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:13",
"Text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:14",
"Text": "And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:15",
"Text": "And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:16",
"Text": "And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son :"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:17",
"Text": "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:18",
"Text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:19",
"Text": "So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba."
}
] | Genesis 22:19 |
The Genealogy of Rebekah | Genesis 22:20 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:20",
"Text": "And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:21",
"Text": " Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:22",
"Text": "And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:23",
"Text": "And Bethuel begot Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 22:24",
"Text": "And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah."
}
] | Genesis 22:24 |
The Death and Burial of Sarah | Genesis 23:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:1",
"Text": "And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:2",
"Text": "And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:3",
"Text": "And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the sons of Heth, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:4",
"Text": "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:5",
"Text": "And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:6",
"Text": "Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:7",
"Text": "And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:8",
"Text": "And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:9",
"Text": "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burial place amongst you."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:10",
"Text": "And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:11",
"Text": "Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:12",
"Text": "And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:13",
"Text": "And he spoke unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it , I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:14",
"Text": "And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:15",
"Text": "My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy dead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:16",
"Text": "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:17",
"Text": "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:18",
"Text": "Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:19",
"Text": "And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 23:20",
"Text": "And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burial place by the sons of Heth."
}
] | Genesis 23:20 |
Abraham Sends His Servant | Genesis 24:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:1",
"Text": "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:2",
"Text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:3",
"Text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:4",
"Text": "But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:5",
"Text": "And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:6",
"Text": "And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:7",
"Text": "The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spoke unto me, and that swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:8",
"Text": "And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:9",
"Text": "And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning that matter."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:10",
"Text": "And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:11",
"Text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:12",
"Text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:13",
"Text": "Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:14",
"Text": "And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master."
}
] | Genesis 24:14 |
Rebekah is Chosen | Genesis 24:15 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:15",
"Text": "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:16",
"Text": "And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:17",
"Text": "And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:18",
"Text": "And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:19",
"Text": "And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:20",
"Text": "And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water , and drew for all his camels."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:21",
"Text": "And the man wondering at her held his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:22",
"Text": "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:23",
"Text": "And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:24",
"Text": "And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bore unto Nahor."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:25",
"Text": "She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:26",
"Text": "And the man bowed down his head, and worshiped the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:27",
"Text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:28",
"Text": "And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:29",
"Text": "And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:30",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:31",
"Text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:32",
"Text": "And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:33",
"Text": "And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:34",
"Text": "And he said, I am Abraham's servant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:35",
"Text": "And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:36",
"Text": "And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:37",
"Text": "And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:38",
"Text": "But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:39",
"Text": "And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:40",
"Text": "And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:41",
"Text": "Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one , thou shalt be clear from my oath."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:42",
"Text": "And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:43",
"Text": "Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water , and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:44",
"Text": "And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:45",
"Text": "And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water : and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:46",
"Text": "And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder , and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:47",
"Text": "And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:48",
"Text": "And I bowed down my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:49",
"Text": "And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:50",
"Text": "Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:51",
"Text": "Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her , and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:52",
"Text": "And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:53",
"Text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:54",
"Text": "And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:55",
"Text": "And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:56",
"Text": "And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:57",
"Text": "And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:58",
"Text": "And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:59",
"Text": "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:60",
"Text": "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:61",
"Text": "And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way."
}
] | Genesis 24:61 |
Isaac Marries Rebekah | Genesis 24:62 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:62",
"Text": "And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:63",
"Text": "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:64",
"Text": "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:65",
"Text": "For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:66",
"Text": "And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 24:67",
"Text": "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death ."
}
] | Genesis 24:67 |
Abraham and Keturah | Genesis 25:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:1",
"Text": "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:2",
"Text": "And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:3",
"Text": "And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:4",
"Text": "And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:5",
"Text": "And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:6",
"Text": "But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country."
}
] | Genesis 25:6 |
The Death and Burial of Abraham | Genesis 25:7 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:7",
"Text": "And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:8",
"Text": "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years ; and was gathered to his people."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:9",
"Text": "And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:10",
"Text": "The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:11",
"Text": "And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi."
}
] | Genesis 25:11 |
The Descendants of Ishmael | Genesis 25:12 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:12",
"Text": "Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:13",
"Text": "And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:14",
"Text": "And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:15",
"Text": "Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:16",
"Text": "These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:17",
"Text": "And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:18",
"Text": "And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren."
}
] | Genesis 25:18 |
Birth of Jacob and Esau | Genesis 25:19 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:19",
"Text": "And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:20",
"Text": "And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:21",
"Text": "And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:22",
"Text": "And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:23",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:24",
"Text": "And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:25",
"Text": "And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:26",
"Text": "And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bore them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:27",
"Text": "And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:28",
"Text": "And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob."
}
] | Genesis 25:28 |
Esau Sells His Birthright | Genesis 25:29 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:29",
"Text": "And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:30",
"Text": "And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage ; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:31",
"Text": "And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:32",
"Text": "And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:33",
"Text": "And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 25:34",
"Text": "Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
}
] | Genesis 25:34 |
Isaac and Abimelech | Genesis 26:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:1",
"Text": "And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:2",
"Text": "And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:3",
"Text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:4",
"Text": "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:5",
"Text": "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:6",
"Text": "And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:7",
"Text": "And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he , the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:8",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:9",
"Text": "And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:10",
"Text": "And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:11",
"Text": "And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
}
] | Genesis 26:11 |
The Three Wells | Genesis 26:12 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:12",
"Text": "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:13",
"Text": "And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:14",
"Text": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:15",
"Text": "For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:16",
"Text": "And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:17",
"Text": "And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:18",
"Text": "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:19",
"Text": "And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:20",
"Text": "And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:21",
"Text": "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:22",
"Text": "And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:23",
"Text": "And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:24",
"Text": "And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:25",
"Text": "And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well."
}
] | Genesis 26:25 |
The Covenant at Beersheba | Genesis 26:26 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:26",
"Text": "Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:27",
"Text": "And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:28",
"Text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:29",
"Text": "That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:30",
"Text": "And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:31",
"Text": "And they rose up quickly in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:32",
"Text": "And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:33",
"Text": "And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day."
}
] | Genesis 26:33 |
Esau's Wives | Genesis 26:34 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:34",
"Text": "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 26:35",
"Text": "Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah."
}
] | Genesis 26:35 |
The Deception for the Blessing | Genesis 27:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:1",
"Text": "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:2",
"Text": "And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:3",
"Text": "Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:4",
"Text": "And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:5",
"Text": "And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:6",
"Text": "And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:7",
"Text": "Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:8",
"Text": "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:9",
"Text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:10",
"Text": "And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:11",
"Text": "And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:12",
"Text": "My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:13",
"Text": "And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:14",
"Text": "And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:15",
"Text": "And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:16",
"Text": "And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:17",
"Text": "And she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:18",
"Text": "And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:19",
"Text": "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou biddest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:20",
"Text": "And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:21",
"Text": "And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:22",
"Text": "And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:23",
"Text": "And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:24",
"Text": "And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:25",
"Text": "And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:26",
"Text": "And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:27",
"Text": "And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:28",
"Text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:29",
"Text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:30",
"Text": "And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:31",
"Text": "And he also had made savory meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:32",
"Text": "And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:33",
"Text": "And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:34",
"Text": "And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:35",
"Text": "And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:36",
"Text": "And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:37",
"Text": "And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:38",
"Text": "And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:39",
"Text": "And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:40",
"Text": "And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck."
}
] | Genesis 27:40 |
Jacob sent to Laban | Genesis 27:41 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:41",
"Text": "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:42",
"Text": "And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:43",
"Text": "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:44",
"Text": "And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:45",
"Text": "Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 27:46",
"Text": "And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:1",
"Text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:2",
"Text": "Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:3",
"Text": "And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:4",
"Text": "And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:5",
"Text": "And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:6",
"Text": "When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:7",
"Text": "And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:8",
"Text": "And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:9",
"Text": "Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife."
}
] | Genesis 28:9 |
Jacob's Ladder | Genesis 28:10 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:10",
"Text": "And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:11",
"Text": "And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:12",
"Text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:13",
"Text": "And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:14",
"Text": "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:15",
"Text": "And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:16",
"Text": "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:17",
"Text": "And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:18",
"Text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:19",
"Text": "And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:20",
"Text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:21",
"Text": "So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 28:22",
"Text": "And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee."
}
] | Genesis 28:22 |
Jacob, Rachel, and Leah | Genesis 29:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:1",
"Text": "Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:2",
"Text": "And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:3",
"Text": "And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:4",
"Text": "And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:5",
"Text": "And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:6",
"Text": "And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:7",
"Text": "And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:8",
"Text": "And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:9",
"Text": "And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:10",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:11",
"Text": "And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:12",
"Text": "And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:13",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:14",
"Text": "And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:15",
"Text": "And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for naught? tell me, what shall thy wages be ?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:16",
"Text": "And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:17",
"Text": "Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:18",
"Text": "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:19",
"Text": "And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:20",
"Text": "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:21",
"Text": "And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:22",
"Text": "And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:23",
"Text": "And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:24",
"Text": "And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for a handmaid."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:25",
"Text": "And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:26",
"Text": "And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:27",
"Text": "Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:28",
"Text": "And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:29",
"Text": "And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:30",
"Text": "And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years."
}
] | Genesis 29:30 |
Eleven Sons of Jacob | Genesis 29:31 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:31",
"Text": "And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:32",
"Text": "And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:33",
"Text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:34",
"Text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 29:35",
"Text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:1",
"Text": "And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:2",
"Text": "And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:3",
"Text": "And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:4",
"Text": "And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:5",
"Text": "And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:6",
"Text": "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:7",
"Text": "And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:8",
"Text": "And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:9",
"Text": "When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:10",
"Text": "And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:11",
"Text": "And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:12",
"Text": "And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a second son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:13",
"Text": "And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:14",
"Text": "And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:15",
"Text": "And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:16",
"Text": "And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:17",
"Text": "And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:18",
"Text": "And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:19",
"Text": "And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:20",
"Text": "And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:21",
"Text": "And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:22",
"Text": "And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:23",
"Text": "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:24",
"Text": "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son."
}
] | Genesis 30:24 |
Six More Years for Laban's Flocks | Genesis 30:25 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:25",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:26",
"Text": "Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:27",
"Text": "And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:28",
"Text": "And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:29",
"Text": "And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:30",
"Text": "For it was little which thou hadst before I came , and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:31",
"Text": "And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:32",
"Text": "I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:33",
"Text": "So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:34",
"Text": "And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:35",
"Text": "And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:36",
"Text": "And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:37",
"Text": "And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:38",
"Text": "And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:39",
"Text": "And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:40",
"Text": "And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:41",
"Text": "And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:42",
"Text": "But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 30:43",
"Text": "And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses."
}
] | Genesis 30:43 |
Jacob Flees | Genesis 31:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:1",
"Text": "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:2",
"Text": "And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:3",
"Text": "And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:4",
"Text": "And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:5",
"Text": "And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:6",
"Text": "And ye know that with all my power I have served your father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:7",
"Text": "And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:8",
"Text": "If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bore all the cattle ringstreaked."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:9",
"Text": "Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:10",
"Text": "And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:11",
"Text": "And the angel of God spoke unto me in a dream, saying , Jacob: And I said, Here am I."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:12",
"Text": "And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:13",
"Text": "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:14",
"Text": "And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:15",
"Text": "Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:16",
"Text": "For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:17",
"Text": "Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:18",
"Text": "And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:19",
"Text": "And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:20",
"Text": "And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:21",
"Text": "So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead."
}
] | Genesis 31:21 |
Laban Pursues | Genesis 31:22 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:22",
"Text": "And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:23",
"Text": "And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:24",
"Text": "And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:25",
"Text": "Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:26",
"Text": "And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:27",
"Text": "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:28",
"Text": "And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:29",
"Text": "It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spoke unto me last night, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:30",
"Text": "And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:31",
"Text": "And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:32",
"Text": "With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:33",
"Text": "And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:34",
"Text": "Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:35",
"Text": "And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:36",
"Text": "And Jacob was wroth, and chided with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:37",
"Text": "Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge between us both."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:38",
"Text": "This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:39",
"Text": "That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:40",
"Text": "Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:41",
"Text": "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:42",
"Text": "Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night."
}
] | Genesis 31:42 |
Jacob's Covenant with Laban | Genesis 31:43 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:43",
"Text": "And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:44",
"Text": "Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:45",
"Text": "And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:46",
"Text": "And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:47",
"Text": "And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:48",
"Text": "And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:49",
"Text": "And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:50",
"Text": "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 between me and thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:51",
"Text": "And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast between me and thee;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:52",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:53",
"Text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:54",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 31:55",
"Text": "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 31:55 |
Jacob Wrestles with God | Genesis 32:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:1",
"Text": "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:2",
"Text": "And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:3",
"Text": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:4",
"Text": "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:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:5",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:6",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:7",
"Text": "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;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:8",
"Text": "And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:9",
"Text": "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:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:10",
"Text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:11",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:12",
"Text": "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."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:13",
"Text": "And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:14",
"Text": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:15",
"Text": "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:16",
"Text": "And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:17",
"Text": "And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:18",
"Text": "Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:19",
"Text": "And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:20",
"Text": "And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:21",
"Text": "So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:22",
"Text": "And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:23",
"Text": "And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:24",
"Text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:25",
"Text": "And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:26",
"Text": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:27",
"Text": "And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:28",
"Text": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:29",
"Text": "And Jacob asked him , and said, Tell me , I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:30",
"Text": "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:31",
"Text": "And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 32:32",
"Text": "Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank."
}
] | Genesis 32:32 |
Jacob's Reunion with Esau | Genesis 33:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:1",
"Text": "And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:2",
"Text": "And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:3",
"Text": "And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:4",
"Text": "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:5",
"Text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:6",
"Text": "Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:7",
"Text": "And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:8",
"Text": "And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:9",
"Text": "And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:10",
"Text": "And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:11",
"Text": "Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:12",
"Text": "And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:13",
"Text": "And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:14",
"Text": "Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:15",
"Text": "And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:16",
"Text": "So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:17",
"Text": "And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth."
}
] | Genesis 33:17 |
The Purchase of Land | Genesis 33:18 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:18",
"Text": "And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:19",
"Text": "And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 33:20",
"Text": "And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel."
}
] | Genesis 33:20 |
The Defiling of Dinah | Genesis 34:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:1",
"Text": "And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:2",
"Text": "And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:3",
"Text": "And his soul cleaved unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly unto the damsel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:4",
"Text": "And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:5",
"Text": "And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:6",
"Text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:7",
"Text": "And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it : and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:8",
"Text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:9",
"Text": "And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:10",
"Text": "And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:11",
"Text": "And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:12",
"Text": "Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife."
}
] | Genesis 34:12 |
The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers | Genesis 34:13 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:13",
"Text": "And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:14",
"Text": "And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:15",
"Text": "But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be , that every male of you be circumcised;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:16",
"Text": "Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:17",
"Text": "But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:18",
"Text": "And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:19",
"Text": "And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honorable than all the house of his father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:20",
"Text": "And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:21",
"Text": "These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:22",
"Text": "Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:23",
"Text": "Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:24",
"Text": "And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:25",
"Text": "And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:26",
"Text": "And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:27",
"Text": "The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:28",
"Text": "They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:29",
"Text": "And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:30",
"Text": "And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 34:31",
"Text": "And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?"
}
] | Genesis 34:31 |
Jacob Returns to Bethel | Genesis 35:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:1",
"Text": "And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:2",
"Text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:3",
"Text": "And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:4",
"Text": "And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:5",
"Text": "And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:6",
"Text": "So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is , Bethel, he and all the people that were with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:7",
"Text": "And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:8",
"Text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:9",
"Text": "And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:10",
"Text": "And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:11",
"Text": "And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:12",
"Text": "And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:13",
"Text": "And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:14",
"Text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:15",
"Text": "And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel."
}
] | Genesis 35:15 |
Benjamin Born, Rachel Dies | Genesis 35:16 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:16",
"Text": "And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:17",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:18",
"Text": "And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:19",
"Text": "And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:20",
"Text": "And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:21",
"Text": "And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:22",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it . Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:23",
"Text": "The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:24",
"Text": "The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:25",
"Text": "And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:26",
"Text": "And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram."
}
] | Genesis 35:26 |
The Death and Burial of Isaac | Genesis 35:27 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:27",
"Text": "And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:28",
"Text": "And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 35:29",
"Text": "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him."
}
] | Genesis 35:29 |
The Descendants of Esau | Genesis 36:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:1",
"Text": "Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:2",
"Text": "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:3",
"Text": "And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:4",
"Text": "And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bore Reuel;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:5",
"Text": "And Aholibamah bore Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:6",
"Text": "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:7",
"Text": "For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:8",
"Text": "Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:9",
"Text": "And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:10",
"Text": "These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:11",
"Text": "And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:12",
"Text": "And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:13",
"Text": "And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:14",
"Text": "And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:15",
"Text": "These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:16",
"Text": "Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:17",
"Text": "And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:18",
"Text": "And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:19",
"Text": "These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:20",
"Text": "These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:21",
"Text": "And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:22",
"Text": "And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:23",
"Text": "And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:24",
"Text": "And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:25",
"Text": "And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:26",
"Text": "And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Esh-ban, and Ithran, and Cheran."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:27",
"Text": "The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:28",
"Text": "The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:29",
"Text": "These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:30",
"Text": "Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:31",
"Text": "And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:32",
"Text": "And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:33",
"Text": "And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:34",
"Text": "And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:35",
"Text": "And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:36",
"Text": "And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:37",
"Text": "And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:38",
"Text": "And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:39",
"Text": "And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:40",
"Text": "And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:41",
"Text": "Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:42",
"Text": "Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 36:43",
"Text": "Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites."
}
] | Genesis 36:43 |
Joseph's Dreams | Genesis 37:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:1",
"Text": "And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:2",
"Text": "These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:3",
"Text": "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:4",
"Text": "And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:5",
"Text": "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:6",
"Text": "And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:7",
"Text": "For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:8",
"Text": "And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:9",
"Text": "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:10",
"Text": "And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:11",
"Text": "And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying."
}
] | Genesis 37:11 |
Joseph Sold into Egypt | Genesis 37:12 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:12",
"Text": "And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:13",
"Text": "And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:14",
"Text": "And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:15",
"Text": "And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:16",
"Text": "And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:17",
"Text": "And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:18",
"Text": "And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:19",
"Text": "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:20",
"Text": "Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:21",
"Text": "And Reuben heard it , and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:22",
"Text": "And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:23",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:24",
"Text": "And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:25",
"Text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:26",
"Text": "And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:27",
"Text": "Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:28",
"Text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:29",
"Text": "And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:30",
"Text": "And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:31",
"Text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:32",
"Text": "And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:33",
"Text": "And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:34",
"Text": "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:35",
"Text": "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 37:36",
"Text": "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard."
}
] | Genesis 37:36 |
Judah and Tamar | Genesis 38:1 | [
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:1",
"Text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:2",
"Text": "And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:3",
"Text": "And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:4",
"Text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:5",
"Text": "And she yet again conceived, and bore a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:6",
"Text": "And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:7",
"Text": "And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:8",
"Text": "And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:9",
"Text": "And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:10",
"Text": "And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:11",
"Text": "Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did . And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:12",
"Text": "And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:13",
"Text": "And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:14",
"Text": "And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:15",
"Text": "When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; because she had covered her face."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:16",
"Text": "And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:17",
"Text": "And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it ?"
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:18",
"Text": "And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:19",
"Text": "And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:20",
"Text": "And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:21",
"Text": "Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:22",
"Text": "And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place ."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:23",
"Text": "And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:24",
"Text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:25",
"Text": "When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:26",
"Text": "And Judah acknowledged them , and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:27",
"Text": "And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:28",
"Text": "And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:29",
"Text": "And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez."
},
{
"Reference": "Genesis 38:30",
"Text": "And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah."
}
] | Genesis 38:30 |
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