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Sheni [2nd]: ^32:13He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esav, his brother: ^32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ^32:15thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals. ^32:16He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." ^32:17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esav, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?' ^32:18Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Ya`akov's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esav. Behold, he also is behind us.'" <sup>32:19</sup>He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esav, when you find him. <sup>32:20</sup>You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Ya`akov, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

^32:21So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

^32:22He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Yabbok. ^32:23He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. ^32:24Ya`akov was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. <sup>32:25</sup>When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh was strained, as he wrestled. ^32:26The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."

Ya`akov said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

^32:27He said to him, "What is your name?"

He said, "Ya`akov." <sup>32:28</sup>He said, "Your name will no longer be called 'Ya`akov,' but, 'Yisra'el,' for you have fought with G-d and with men, and have prevailed."

^32:29Ya`akov asked him, "Please tell me your name."

He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

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Shlishi [3rd]: ^32:30Ya`akov called the name of the place Peni'el: for, he said, "I have seen G-d face to face, and my life is preserved." <sup>32:31</sup>The sun rose on him as he passed over Peni'el, and he limped because of his thigh. <sup>32:32</sup>Therefore the children of Yisra'el don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

^33:1Ya`akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Le'ah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids. ^33:2He put the handmaids and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef at the rear. ^33:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

^33:4Esav ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. ^33:5He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?"

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R'vi'i [4th]: He said, "The children whom G-d has graciously given your servant." ^33:6Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. ^33:7Le'ah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

^33:8Esav said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"

Ya`akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

^33:9Esav said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

^33:10Ya`akov said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of G-d, and you were pleased with me. ^33:11Please take the gift that I brought to you; because G-d has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

^33:12Esav said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

^33:13Ya`akov said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. <sup>33:14</sup>Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Se`ir."

^33:15Esav said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me."

He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

^33:16So Esav returned that day on his way to Se`ir. <sup>33:17</sup>Ya`akov traveled to Sukkot, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot.

^33:18Ya`akov came in shalom to the city of Shekhem, which is in the land of Kana`an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped before the city. ^33:19He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, Shekhem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. ^33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Yisra'el.

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Chamishi [5th]: ^34:1Dinah, the daughter of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov, went out to see the daughters of the land. <sup>34:2</sup>Shekhem the son of Chamor the Chivvi, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. <sup>34:3</sup>His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Ya`akov, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. ^34:4Shekhem spoke to his father, Chamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

^34:5Now Ya`akov heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Ya`akov held his shalom until they came. ^34:6Chamor the father of Shekhem went out to Ya`akov to talk with him. <sup>34:7</sup>The sons of Ya`akov came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Yisra'el in lying with Ya`akov's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. ^34:8Chamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shekhem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. ^34:9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. ^34:10You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

^34:11Shekhem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. ^34:12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

^34:13The sons of Ya`akov answered Shekhem and Chamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, ^34:14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. ^34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; ^34:16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. ^34:17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

^34:18Their words pleased Chamor, and Shekhem, Chamor's son. ^34:19The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya`akov's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. ^34:20Chamor and Shekhem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, ^34:21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ^34:22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. ^34:23Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

^34:24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Chamor, and to Shekhem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. ^34:25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Ya`akov's sons, Shim`on and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. ^34:26They killed Chamor and Shekhem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shekhem's house, and went away. ^34:27Ya`akov's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. <sup>34:28</sup>They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field; <sup>34:29</sup>and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. <sup>34:30</sup>Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kana`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

^34:31They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

^35:1God said to Ya`akov, "Arise, go up to Beit-El, and live there. Make there an altar to G-d, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esav your brother."

^35:2Then Ya`akov said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments. ^35:3Let us arise, and go up to Beit-El. I will make there an altar to G-d, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

^35:4They gave to Ya`akov all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Ya`akov hid them under the oak which was by Shekhem. ^35:5They traveled: and a terror of G-d was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Ya`akov. <sup>35:6</sup>So Ya`akov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kana`an (the same is Beit-El), he and all the people who were with him. ^35:7He built an altar there, and called the place El-Beit-El; because there G-d was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. ^35:8Devorah, Rivka's nurse, died, and she was buried below Beit-El under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-Bakhut.

^35:9God appeared to Ya`akov again, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him. <sup>35:10</sup>God said to him, "Your name is Ya`akov. Your name shall not be Ya`akov any more, but your name will be Yisra'el." He named him Yisra'el. ^35:11God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.

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Shishi [6th]: ^35:12The land which I gave to Avraham and Yitzchak, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

^35:13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. ^35:14Ya`akov set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it. <sup>35:15</sup>Ya`akov called the name of the place where G-d spoke with him "Beit-El."

^35:16They traveled from Beit-El. There was still some distance to come to Efrat, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. ^35:17It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

^35:18It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Binyamin. ^35:19Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem). ^35:20Ya`akov set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. <sup>35:21</sup>Yisra'el traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of `Eder. ^35:22It happened, while Yisra'el lived in that land, that Re'uven went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Yisra'el heard of it.

Now the sons of Ya`akov were twelve. <sup>35:23</sup>The sons of Le'ah: Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun. <sup>35:24</sup>The sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin. <sup>35:25</sup>The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naftali. <sup>35:26</sup>The sons of Zilpah (Le'ah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Ya`akov, who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. ^35:27Ya`akov came to Yitzchak his father, to Mamre, to Kiryat-Arba (the same is Chevron), where Avraham and Yitzchak lived as foreigners.

^35:28The days of Yitzchak were one hundred eighty years. ^35:29Yitzchak gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esav and Ya`akov, his sons, buried him.

^36:1Now this is the history of the generations of Esav (the same is Edom). ^36:2Esav took his wives from the daughters of Kana`an: `Adah the daughter of Elon, the Chittite; and Oholivamah the daughter of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, the Chivvi; ^36:3and Basemat, Yishma'el's daughter, sister of Nevayot. ^36:4`Adah bore to Esav Elifaz. Basemat bore Re`u'el. ^36:5Oholivamah bore Ye`ush, Ya`lam, and Korach. These are the sons of Esav, who were born to him in the land of Kana`an. <sup>36:6</sup>Esav took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Kana`an, and went into a land away from his brother Ya`akov. <sup>36:7</sup>For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle. <sup>36:8</sup>Esav lived in the hill country of Se`ir. Esav is Edom.

^36:9This is the history of the generations of Esav the father of the Edom in the hill country of Se`ir: <sup>36:10</sup>these are the names of Esav's sons: Elifaz, the son of `Adah, the wife of Esav; and Re`u'el, the son of Basemat, the wife of Esav. <sup>36:11</sup>The sons of Elifaz were Teman, Omar, Tzefo, and Ga`tam, and Kenaz. ^36:12Timna was concubine to Elifaz, Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz `Amalek. These are the sons of `Adah, Esav's wife. ^36:13These are the sons of Re`u'el: Nachat, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemat, Esav's wife. <sup>36:14</sup>These were the sons of Oholivamah, the daughter of `Anah, the daughter of Tziv`on, Esav's wife: she bore to Esav Ye`ush, Ya`lam, and Korach.

^36:15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of Elifaz the firstborn of Esav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Tzefo, chief Kenaz, ^36:16chief Korach, chief Ga`tam, chief `Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Elifaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of `Adah. <sup>36:17</sup>These are the sons of Re`u'el, Esav's son: chief Nachat, chief Zerach, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Re`u'el in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemat, Esav's wife. <sup>36:18</sup>These are the sons of Oholivamah, Esav's wife: chief Ye`ush, chief Ya`lam, chief Korach: these are the chiefs who came of Oholivamah the daughter of `Anah, Esav's wife. ^36:19These are the sons of Esav, and these are their chiefs. The same is Edom.

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Shvi'i [7th]: ^36:20These are the sons of Se`ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv`on, `Anah, <sup>36:21</sup>Dishon, Etzer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Chori, the children of Se`ir in the land of Edom. ^36:22The children of Lotan were Chori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna. ^36:23These are the children of Shoval: Alvan, Manachat, `Eval, Shefo, and Onam. <sup>36:24</sup>These are the children of Tziv`on: Ayah and `Anah. This is `Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Tziv`on his father. <sup>36:25</sup>These are the children of `Anah: Dishon and Oholivamah, the daughter of `Anah. <sup>36:26</sup>These are the children of Dishon: Chemdan, Eshban, Yitran, and Keran. <sup>36:27</sup>These are the children of Etzer: Bilhan, Za`avan, and `Akan. <sup>36:28</sup>These are the children of Dishan: `Utz and Aran. ^36:29These are the chiefs who came of the Chori: chief Lotan, chief Shoval, chief Tziv`on, chief `Anah, ^36:30chief Dishon, chief Etzer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Chori, according to their chiefs in the land of Se`ir.

^36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Yisra'el. ^36:32Bela, the son of Be'or, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhava. ^36:33Bela died, and Yovav, the son of Zerach of Botzrah, reigned in his place. ^36:34Yovav died, and Chusham of the land of the Temani reigned in his place. ^36:35Chusham died, and Chadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midyan in the field of Mo'av, reigned in his place. The name of his city was `Avit. <sup>36:36</sup>Chadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. <sup>36:37</sup>Samlah died, and Sha'ul of Rechovot by the river, reigned in his place. <sup>36:38</sup>Sha'ul died, and Ba`al-Chanan, the son of `Akhbor reigned in his place. <sup>36:39</sup>Ba`al-Chanan the son of `Akhbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetav'el, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahav.

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^1:1The vision of `Ovadyah. This is what the Lord G-d says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle. ^1:2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. ^1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' ^1:4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. ^1:5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes? ^1:6How Esav will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! ^1:7All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at shalom with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.

^1:8"Won't I in that day," says the LORD, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esav? ^1:9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esav by slaughter. ^1:10For the violence done to your brother Ya`akov, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. <sup>1:11</sup>In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim, even you were like one of them. <sup>1:12</sup>But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Yehudah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress. <sup>1:13</sup>Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. <sup>1:14</sup>Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. <sup>1:15</sup>For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. <sup>1:16</sup>For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. <sup>1:17</sup>But in Mount Tziyon, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Ya`akov will possess their possessions. ^1:18The house of Ya`akov will be a fire, the house of Yosef a flame, and the house of Esav for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esav." Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

^1:19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esav, and those of the lowland, the Pelishtim. They will possess the field of Efrayim, and the field of Shomron. Binyamin will possess Gil`ad. <sup>1:20</sup>The captives of this host of the children of Yisra'el, who are among the Kana`anim, will possess even to Tzarfat; and the captives of Yerushalayim, who are in Sefarad, will possess the cities of the Negev. ^1:21Saviors will go up on Mount Tziyon to judge the mountains of Esav, and the kingdom will be the LORD's.

^11:11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. ^11:12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. ^11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ^11:14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own. ^11:15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. ^11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore G-d is not ashamed of them, to be called their G-d, for he has prepared a city for them.

^11:17By faith, Avraham, being tested, offered up Yitzchak. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son; ^11:18even he to whom it was said, "In Yitzchak will your seed be called;" ^11:19accounting that G-d is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. ^11:20By faith, Yitzchak blessed Ya`akov and Esav, even concerning things to come.

The Blessing of the Messiah
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai Eh-lo-hay-noo, meh-lekh ha-oh-lahm, ah-sher keed-sha-noo beed-va-reh-kha v'na-tahn la-noo et Yeshua M'shee-khay-noo, v'tzee-va-noo l'he-oat oar la-oh-lahm. O-mein. Blessed are You, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us in Your Word, and given us us Yeshua, our Messiah, and commanded us to be a light to the world. Amen.

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