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Bible Reading for January 11

Genesis 33
[1] 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. [2] And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost. [3] And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. [4] And Esau ran to
meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they
wept.
[5] 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.
[6] Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed
themselves.
[7] And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and
after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. [8] 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. [9] And Esau said, I have
enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
[13] 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. [14] 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. [15] 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.
[16] So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. [17] And Jacob
journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his
cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. [18] 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. [19] 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 an hundred pieces of money.
[20] And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

Genesis 34
[1] And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to
see the daughters of the land.
[2] 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. [3] And his soul
clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake
kindly unto the damsel. [4] And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor,
saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
[5] 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.
[6] And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with
him. [7] 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. [8] And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem
longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. [9] And make ye
marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters
unto you.
[10] And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell
and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. [11] 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. [12] 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. [13] And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor
his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their
sister: [14] 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: [15]
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every
male of you be circumcised;
[16] 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.
[17] But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we
take our daughter, and we will be gone. [18] And their words pleased Hamor,
and Shechem Hamor's son. [19] And the young man deferred not to do the
thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more
honourable than all the house of his father.
[20] And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and
communed with the men of their city, saying, [21] 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. [22] 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. [23] 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. [24] 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.
[25] 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. [26] 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. [27] The sons of Jacob came upon the
slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
[28] They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which
was in the city, and that which was in the field, [29] And all their
wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and
spoiled even all that was in the house. [30] 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. [31] And they said, Should he deal with our
sister as with an harlot?

Genesis 35
[1] 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.
[2] 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:
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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. [6] So
Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and
all the people that were with him. [7] And he built there an altar, and
called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he
fled from the face of his brother. [8] But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died,
and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was
called Allon-bachuth. [9] And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came
out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
[10] 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. [11] 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;
[12] 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. [13] And God went up from
him in the place where he talked with him. [14] 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.
[15] And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
[16] And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come
to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. [17] And it came
to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear
not; thou shalt have this son also. [18] 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. [19] And Rachel died, and was buried in the way
to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
[20] And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's
grave unto this day.
[21] And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
[22] 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:
[23] The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
[24] The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: [25] And the sons of Bilhah,
Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: [26] 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. [27] And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
[28] And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. [29] 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 36
[1] Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. [2] 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;
[3] And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. [4] And Adah bare
to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; [5] And Aholibamah bare Jeush,
and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him
in the land of Canaan. [6] 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. [7] 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.
[8] Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. [9] And these are the
generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
[10] 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. [11] And the sons of
Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. [12] And Timna was
concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were
the sons of Adah Esau's wife. [13] And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath,
and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's
wife. [14] And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam,
and Korah.
[15] 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, [16]
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. [17] 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. [18] 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.
[19] These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
[20] These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan,
and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
[21] And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites,
the children of Seir in the land of Edom. [22] And the children of Lotan
were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
[23] And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal,
Shepho, and Onam.
[24] 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.
[25] And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah.
[26] And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran,
and Cheran.
[27] The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. [28] The
children of Dishan are these: Uz, and Aran. [29] These are the dukes that
came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
[30] Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of
Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. [31] And these are the kings
that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the
children of Israel. [32] And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the
name of his city was Dinhabah.
[33] And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
[34] And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.
[35] 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.
[36] And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. [37] And
Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
[38] And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
[39] And Baal-hanan 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. [40] 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,
[41] Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, [42] Duke Kenaz, duke Teman,
duke Mibzar, [43] 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.

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