Vayishlach - And He Sent

32:4 He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my master Esau: 'Your servant Ya'acov says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my master, that I may find favor in your eyes.'"
6 When the messengers returned to Ya'acov, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
7 In great fear and distress Ya'acov divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
8 He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."
9 Then Ya'acov prayed, "O Elohim of my father Avraham, Elohim of my father Yitzchak, Yahuwah, who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Yarden, but now I have become two groups.
11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
12 But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'"
13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16 He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds."
17 He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'
18 then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Ya'acov. They are a gift sent to my master Esau, and he is coming behind us.'"
19 He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: "You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
20 And be sure to say, 'Your servant Ya'acov is coming behind us.'" For he thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me."
21 So Ya'acov's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

Ya'acov Wrestles with Elohim

22 That night Ya'acov got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Yabbok.
23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.
24 So Ya'acov was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Ya'acov's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Ya'acov replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Ya'acov," he answered.
28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Ya'acov, but Yisrael, because you have struggled with Elohim and with men and have overcome."
29 Ya'acov said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
30 So Ya'acov called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw Elohim face to face, and yet my life was spared."
31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.
32 Therefore to this day the sons of Yisrael do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Ya'acov's hip was touched near the tendon.

Ya'acov Meets Esau

33:1 Ya'acov looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two maidservants.
2 He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Yoseph in the rear.
3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
4 But Esau ran to meet Ya'acov and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.
5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. "Who are these with you?" he asked. Ya'acov answered, "They are the children Elohim has graciously given your servant."
6 Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
7 Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Yoseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
8 Esau asked, "What do you mean by all these droves I met?" "To find favor in your eyes, my master," he said.
9 But Esau said, "I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself."
10 "No, please!" said Ya'acov. "If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of Elohim, now that you have received me favorably.
11 Please accept the present that was brought to you, for Elohim has been gracious to me and I have all I need." And because Ya'acov insisted, Esau accepted it.
12 Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way; I'll accompany you."
13 But Ya'acov said to him, "My master knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
14 So let my master go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the droves before me and that of the children, until I come to my master in Seir."
15 Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my men with you." "But why do that?" Ya'acov asked. "Just let me find favor in the eyes of my master."
16 So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.
17 Ya'acov, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Succoth.
18 After Ya'acov came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.
19 For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Yisrael.

The Rape of Dinah

34:1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Ya'acov, went out to visit the women of the land.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her.
3 His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Ya'acov, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.
4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."
5 When Ya'acov heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he kept quiet about it until they came home.
6 Then Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Ya'acov.
7 Now Ya'acov's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful thing in Yisrael by lying with Ya'acov's daughter-- a thing that should not be done.
8 But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it."
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
12 Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I'll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife."
13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Ya'acov's sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
14 They said to them, "We can't do such a thing; we can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
15 We will give our consent to you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you.
17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go."
18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's household, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Ya'acov's daughter.
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to their fellow townsmen.
21 "These men are friendly toward us," they said. "Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
22 But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
23 Won't their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us."
24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Ya'acov's sons, Shim'on and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
27 The sons of Ya'acov came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.
28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
30 Then Ya'acov said to Shim'on and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."
31 But they replied, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"

Ya'acov at Bethel

35:1 Then Elohim said to Ya'acov, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to Elohim, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
2 So Ya'acov said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to Elohim, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
4 So they gave Ya'acov all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Ya'acov buried them under the oak at Shechem.
5 Then they set out, and the terror of Elohim fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
6 Ya'acov and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that Elohim revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rivkah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth.
9 After Ya'acov returned from Paddan Aram, Elohim appeared to him again and blessed him.
10 Elohim said to him, "Your name is Ya'acov, but you will no longer be called Ya'acov; your name will be Yisrael." So he named him Yisrael.
11 And Elohim said to him, "I am Elohim Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.
12 The land I gave to Avraham and Yitzchak I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you."
13 Then Elohim went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
14 Ya'acov set up a stone pillar at the place where Elohim had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
15 Ya'acov called the place where Elohim had talked with him Bethel.

The Birth of Binyamin and the Death of Rachel

16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son."
18 As she breathed her last-- for she was dying-- she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
20 Over her tomb Ya'acov set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.

Ya'acov Comes Home and Yitzchak's Death

21 Yisrael moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22 While Yisrael was living in that region, Re'uven went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Yisrael heard of it. Ya'acov had twelve sons:
23 The sons of Leah: Re'uven the firstborn of Ya'acov, Shim'on, Levi, Yehudah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel: Yoseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Ya'acov, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27 Ya'acov came home to his father Yitzchak in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Avraham and Yitzchak had stayed.
28 Yitzchak lived a hundred and eighty years.
29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Ya'acov buried him.

The Descendants of Esau

36:1 This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite--
3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,
5 and Oholibamah bore Yeush, Yalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.
6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Ya'acov.
7 Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.
8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
9 This is the account of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath.
11 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.
12 Esau's son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
13 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were grandsons of Esau's wife Basemath.
14 The sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau: Yeush, Yalam and Korah.
15 These were the chiefs among Esau's descendants: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
16 Korah, Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; they were grandsons of Adah.
17 The sons of Esau's son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in Edom; they were grandsons of Esau's wife Basemath.
18 The sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Yeush, Yalam and Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
19 These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.
20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
21 Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.
22 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan's sister.
23 The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
24 The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
25 The children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
26 The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Keran.
27 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.
28 The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
29 These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
30 Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These were the Horite chiefs, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.
31 These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Yisraelite king reigned:
32 Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.
33 When Bela died, Yobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.
34 When Yobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.
35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.
36 When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.
37 When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.
38 When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Acbor succeeded him as king.
39 When Baal-Hanan son of Acbor died, Hadad succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.
40 These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Yetheth,
41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
43 Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied. This was Esau the father of the Edomites.

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