The Sons Of Jacob

• Anointing
• Camel
• Communion

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. And Jacob beheld The countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. And The LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto The land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to The field unto his flock, read more 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. And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all The cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all The cattle ringstraked. Thus God hath taken away The cattle of your father, and given them to me. 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 ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. And The angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all The rams which leap upon The cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 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. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 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. Then Jacob rose up, and set his Sons and his wives upon camels; 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 Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in The land of Canaan. And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen The images that were her father's. And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban The Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 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. And it was told Laban on The third day that Jacob was fled. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in The mount Gilead. 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. Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in The mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in The mount of Gilead. 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? 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? And hast not suffered me to kiss my Sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. It is in The power of my hand to do you hurt: but The God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. 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. 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. 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. 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. And Jacob was wroth, and chode 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? 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 betwixt us both. 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. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare The loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in The day The drought consumed me, and The frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 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. 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 labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 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? Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon The heap. And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was The name of it called Galeed; And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 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 betwixt me and thee. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 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. The God of Abraham, and The God of Nahor, The God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by The fear of his father Isaac. 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. 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. show less

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.

And The Sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

• Revenge

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.

The Sons of Jacob came upon The slain, and spoiled The city, because they had defiled their sister.

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.

• Reuben
• Adultery
• Reuben

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:

The Sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

And The Sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are The Sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

• Death

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.

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.

• Concubinage
• Joseph
• Talebearer

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.

And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and The Sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in The wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And these are The names of The children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his Sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

These be The Sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all The souls of his Sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

These are The Sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

The Sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

These are The Sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all The souls were fourteen.

These are The Sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all The souls were seven.

All The souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's Sons' wives, all The souls were threescore and six;

And The Sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all The souls of The house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

• Death

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his Sons, he gathered up his feet into The bed, and yielded up The ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

And The bones of Joseph, which The children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of The Sons of Hamor The father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became The inheritance of The children of Joseph.

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to The number of The tribes of The Sons of Jacob, unto whom The word of The LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The Sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

{To The chief Musician, A Psalm for The Sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back The captivity of Jacob.

• Righteous

And The remnant of Jacob shall be in The midst of many people as a dew from The LORD, as The showers upon The grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for The Sons of men.

For I am The LORD, I change not; therefore ye Sons of Jacob are not consumed.

• Death
• Faith

By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both The Sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon The top of his staff.