{
"book": "genesis",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In [1] the beginning God created heaven and earth.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Act. 14, 15. 17, 24."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "[1] And the earth was void and vacant, and darkness was upon the face of the depth: and the Spirit of God moved over the waters.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Psal. 32, 6. 135, 5. Eccl. 10, 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And God said: Be light made. And light was made."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And God saw the light that it was good: and he divided the light from the darkness. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 11, 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he called the light, Day, and the darkness, Night: and there was evening & morning, that made one day."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "[1] God also said: Be (a) a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide between waters and waters.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Job. 38. Jer. 10, 13."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The firmament is all the space from the earth to the highest stars: the lowest part divideth between the waters on the earth and the waters in the air. S. Aug. l. 11. de Gen. ad lit c. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And God called the firmament, (b) Heaven: and there was evening & morning that made the second day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Likewise heaven is all the space above the earth; in whose lowest part are birds and waters, in the higher part stars: the highest is the Empyreal heaven. Esa. 66."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "God also said: let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And God called the dry land, Earth, and the gathering of waters together, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And said: Let the earth shoot forth green herbs, and such as may seed, & fruit-trees yielding fruit after his kind, such as may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the earth brought forth green herb, such as seedeth according to his kind, and tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to his kind. And God saw that it was good."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And there was evening and morning that made the third day."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Again God said: Be there lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be (c) for signs & seasons, and days and years;",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The lights made the first day are disposed the fourth day in their proper courses for more distinction of times. S. Dionys. ca. 4. de divin. nom. S. Tho. p. 1. q. 67. a. 4. & q. 70. a. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "to shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And God made two (d) great lights; a greater light to govern the day, and a lesser light to govern the night; and stars.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The Sun & Moon: for though the moon be the least visible star except Mercury, yet it giveth more light on the earth by reason it is nearer, & so Moyses speaketh according to the vulgar capacity and use of things. S. Aug. l. 2. de Gen. ad lit. cap. 16."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to shine upon the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and to govern the day & the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And there was evening and morning that made the fourth day."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "God also said: Let the waters bring forth creeping creature having life, and flying fowl, over the earth under the firmament of heaven."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And God created huge whales, and all living and moving creature, that the waters brought forth according to each sort, and all fowl according to their kind. And God saw that it was good."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And he blessed them saying: Increase and multiply, and replenish the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And there was evening and morning that made the fifth day."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "God said moreover: Let the earth bring forth living creature in his kind, cattle, and such as creep, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds: and it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and all that creepeth on the earth in his kind. And God saw that it was good,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "[1] and he said Let us make Man to our image & likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and all creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Col. 3, 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him, male and female he created them."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And God blessed them, and saith: [1] Increase and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes and the sea, and fowls of the air & all living creatures that move upon the earth.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Mat. 19, 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And God said: Behold I have given you all manner of herb that seedeth upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And God saw all things that he had made, and (e) they were very good. And there was evening and morning that made the sixth day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Every creature in nature is good, but all considered together make the whole world perfect, most apt to man's use and God's glory. S. Aug. li. 1. de Gen. cont. Manich. ca. 21."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "God created heaven and earth, and all things therein; distinguishing and beautifying the same. Last of all, the sixth day he createth man; to whom he subjecteth all corporal things of this inferior world. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The first part. Of the creation of all things. The Church readeth this book in her Office from Septuagesima till Passion Sunday. Also this first chapter & beginning of the second on Easter Eve before Mass."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The [1] heavens therefore & the earth were fully finished, and all the furniture of them.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Exod. 20, 11. Deut. 5, 14. Heb. 4, 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and rested [1] the seventh day, from all work that he had done.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "God createth not new kinds of creatures, yet still worketh. Io. 5, 17. conserving & governing all things, and createth souls, grace, & glory of the same kind. S. Aug. l. 4. de Gen. ad lit. c. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he blessed the seventh day & sanctified it: because in it he had ceased from all his work which God created to make."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "These are the generations of heaven & earth, when they were created in the day, when our Lord God made the heaven, and the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and every plant of the field, before it shot up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it sprang. For our Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and man was not to till the earth:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the overmost part of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Our Lord God therefore formed man of the slime of the earth: and (a) breathed into his face the breath of life, & man became a living soul. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1. Cor. 15, 45."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Man's soul is immediately created by God, not produced of other substance, as the souls of beasts and plants are."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord God had (b) planted Paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Whether this Paradise be now extant is uncertain, though it be certain that Enoch & Elias are yet living in earth. S. Aug. l. 2. cont. Pelagi. c. 23. See Pererius. l. 3. q. 5. & l. 7. q. ultima."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the middle of Paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And a river issued out of the place of pleasure to water Paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The name of one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the stone onyx."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the name of the second river is Gehon: that is it which compasseth all the land of Ethiopia."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the name of the third river is Tigris: that same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river, the same is Euphrates."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Our Lord God therefore took man, & put him in the Paradise of pleasure, to work, & keep it."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he commanded him saying: Of every tree of Paradise eat thou:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But of the tree of knowledge of good & evil eat thou not. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Our Lord God also said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Our Lord God therefore having formed of clay all beasts of the earth, and fowls of the air; brought them to Adam, that he might see what to call them: for all that Adam called any living creature, the same is his name."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Adam called all beasts by their names, and all fowls of the air, and all cattle of the field: but unto Adam there was not found an helper like himself."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Our Lord God therefore cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, & filled up flesh for it."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord God (c)[1] built the rib which he took of Adam into a woman, & brought her to Adam."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Wherefore man shall leave his father & mother, & shall cleave to his wife, & they shall be (d) two in one flesh.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Not three, nor four, nor more, for then two were changed to another number. S. Jer. l. 1. cont. Iovi."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And they were both naked, to wit Adam and his wife; and were not ashamed."
}
],
"summary": "The work of six days being finished, God rested the seventh day, & blessed it. 8. Then placing man in Paradise (planted with beautiful & sweet trees, & watered with four rivers) 16. commandeth him not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good & evil. 18. And formed a woman of a rib of Adam."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "But (a) the serpent also was more subtile than all the beasts of the earth, which our Lord God had made. Which said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of Paradise?",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Serpents most crafty to escape harm when they hurt men: so is the devil."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "To whom the woman answered: Of the fruit of the trees that are in Paradise we do eat:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of Paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat: and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "[1] And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "2. Cor. 11, 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The woman therefore saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delectable to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, & did eat, & gave to her husband, who did eat. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Eccl. 25. 1. Tim. 2, 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they (b) perceived themselves to be naked, they sowed together leaves of a fig tree, and made themselves aprons.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "After sin they were ashamed, not before. S. Chrisos."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And hearing the voice of our Lord God walking in Paradise at the afternoon air, Adam hid himself, and so did his wife from the face of our Lord God, amidst the trees of Paradise."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who said: I heard thy voice in Paradise: and I feared, because I was naked, and I hid me."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "To whom he said: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Adam said: The woman which thou gavest me to be my fellow-companion, gave me of the tree, & I did eat."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? Who answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, (c) accursed art thou among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, & (d) earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "All this curse pertaineth to the devil that spake in the serpent. S. Aug. l. 2. de Gen. ad lit. c. 36. S. Beda in hunc locum."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Earthly or worldly and carnal men S. Greg. in"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "I will put enmity between thee & the woman, & thy seed and the seed of her: she shall bruise thy head in pieces, and thou shalt lie in wait (e) of her heel.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Though good men resist tentations at the first assaults, and so bruise the serpent's head, yet he endeavoureth still to deceive especially in the end of man's life, signified by the heel. S. Gre. in cap. 1. Iob."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy travails and thy child-bearings: in travail shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1. Cor. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And to Adam he said: Because thou hast heard the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree wherefore I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with (f) much toiling shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "All men travail one way or other: & such as suffer weeds to overgrow (in their souls) shall after this life either sustain the fire of Purgatory, or eternal pain. S. Aug. l. 2. c. 20. Gen. con. Man."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to earth, of which thou wast taken: because dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Adam called the name of his wife, Eve: for because (g) she was mother of all the living.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "She was mother rather of all the dying: but in figure of our B. Lady who is mother of Christ, life itself, she is called mother of the living. S. Epiph. her. 78."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Our Lord God also made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And said: Lo Adam is become as it were one of us, knowing good & evil: now therefore lest perhaps he reach forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord God sent him out of the Paradise of pleasure, to work the earth of which he was taken."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he cast out Adam, and placed before the Paradise of pleasure Cherubins, and a flaming and a turning sword, for to keep the way of the tree of life."
}
],
"summary": "By the craft of the Devil speaking in a serpent, our first parents transgressed God's commandment. 7. Who being ashamed would hide themselves: 9. but are reproved by God. 14. And besides other particular punishments (yet with promise of a Redeemer) are cast out of Paradise. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The second part. Of the fall of man, & propagation of man & of sin."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Adam knew Eve his wife, who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, & Cain a husbandman."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And it befell after many days that Cain [1] offered of the fruits of the earth gifts to our Lord.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Abel also (a) offered of the first-begotten of his flock, and of their fat: and our Lord had respect of Abel, & to his gifts.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Afigure of the Lamb that was slain from the beginning of the world. Apoc. 13. v. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But to Cain, and to his gifts he had not respect: And Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance abated."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If thou do well, shall thou not receive again: but if thou doest ill, shall not thy sin forthwith be present at the door? But the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Sap. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord said to Cain: Where is Abel thy brother? Who answered: I know not, am I my brother's keeper? [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1. Io. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he said to him: what hast thou done? (b) The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth to me out of the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Willful murder is one of the sins that cry to God for revenge."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth, & received the blood of thy brother at thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee her fruit: a rogue and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Cain said to our Lord: Mine iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Lo thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me shall kill me."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished seven-fold. And our Lord put a mark on Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Cain went forth from the face of our Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Cain knew his wife, who conceived and brought forth Enoch: And (c) he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son, Enoch.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By the increase of Abraham's seed (by the line only of Isaac and Jacob, besides themselves of Ismael and Esau) in little more than 400. years to above six hundred thousand men able to bear arms (Num. 1.) it appeareth that Cain's progeny in as many years might suffice to people a city, yea a whole country. S. Aug. l. civit. c. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Moreover Enoch begat Irad, and Irad begat Maviael, and Maviael begat Mathusael, and Mathusael begat Lamech."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Who took (d) two wives, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "This Lamech of Cain's issue, is the first that is noted in Scripture to have taken two wives."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Ada brought forth Iabel, who was the father of them that dwell in tents, and of herdsmen."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that sing on harp & organs."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and worker in all work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice ye wives of Lamech, harken to my talk: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to mine own dry blow bruising.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Seven-fold vengeance shall be taken of Cain: but of Lamech seventy times seven-fold."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, & called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me other seed for Abel, whom Cain slew."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos, this man began to invocate the name of our Lord.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "Wicked Cain killeth holy Abel: 9. whose blood cryeth for revenge. 11. Cain a cursed vagabond, 17. hath much issue. 25. Adam also hath Seth, and Seth Enos."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "This [1] is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day, when God created man, to the likeness of God made he him.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Sap. 2, 24. Eccl. 17, 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Male and female created he them; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years; & begat to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the days of Adam, after he begat Seth, came to eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred & thirty years, and he died.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Set also lived an hundred five years, and begat Enos."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Seth lived after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And all the days of Seth came to nine hundred & twelve years, and he died."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And all the days of Enos came to nine hundred and five years, and he died."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Cainan also lived seventy years, & begat Malaleel."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Cainan lived after he begat Malaleel, eight hundred & forty years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And all the days of Cainan came to nine hundred and ten years, and he died."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Malaleel lived sixty five years and begat Jared."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Malaleel lived after he begat Jared, eight hundred & thirty years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And all the days of Malaleel came to eight hundred ninety five years, and he died."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Jared lived an hundred sixty two years, and begat Enoch."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And all the days of Jared came to nine hundred sixty two years, and he died."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Moreover Enoch lived sixty five years, and begat Mathusala."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Enoch (a) walked with God: and lived after he begat Mathusala, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This Hebrew phrase walked with God, signifieth that he lived well & pleased God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And all the days of Enoch came to three hundred sixty five years."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God (b) took him.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The seventy two Interpreters say, God translated him, and so doth S. Paul. Heb. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Mathusala also lived an hundred eighty seven years, and begat Lamech."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Mathusala lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And all the days of Mathusala came to (c) nine hundred sixty nine years, and he died.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This is the longest life of all here recited. But if we consider that Adam was as strong of body the first day he was created, as these others were at the age of 60. years (before which, none are said to have begot children & so subtract 60. years from Mathusala, then Adam lived in man's state longer than he by 21. years."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Lamech lived an hundred eighty two years, & begat a son:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and he called his name Noe, saying: This son shall comfort us from the works & labours of our hands on the earth, which our Lord cursed."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Lamech lived, after he begat Noe, five hundred ninety five years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred seventy seven years, and he died. And (d) Noe when he was five hundred years old, begat Sem, Cham, and Japhet.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The second prophecy before Mass on Easter Eve."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The progeny of Adam, & number of their years (with the death of the rest, & translation of Enoch) in the line of Seth, to Noe and his three sons."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and had procreation of daughters,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "the (a) sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives out of all which they had chosen.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The professors of true religion were called the sons of God; the followers of errors the sons of men."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh: and his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God did company with the daughters of men, & they brought forth children, these be the mighty of the old world, famous men.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And God seeing the malice of men was much on the earth, & that all the cogitation of their heart was bent to evil at all times,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "it (b) repented him that he had made man on the earth. And touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God who is immutable, & subject to no passion, yet by the enormity of sins seemeth provoked to wrath, and to repent that he had made man. S. Amb. li. de Noe & arca. c. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "I will, saith he, clean take away man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from that which creepeth even unto the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But Noe found grace before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in (c)[1] his generations, he did walk with God.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he begat three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the earth was corrupted before God, & was replenished with iniquity."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when God had perceived that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth)"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is replenished with iniquity from the face of them, and I will destroy them with the earth."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Make thee an ark of timber plank: cabinets shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitume."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the Ark shall be three hundred cubits: fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Thou shalt make a window in the ark, & in a cubit finish the top of it: & the door of the ark thou shalt set at the side below, middle chambers & third lofts shalt thou make in it."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, that I may destroy all flesh wherein there is breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And of all living creatures of all flesh, thou shalt bring pairs into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex and the female."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Of fowls according to their kind, and beasts in their kind, and of all that creepeth on the earth, according to their kind: pairs of all sorts shall enter in with thee, that they may live."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Thou shalt take therefore with thee of all meats, that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay them up with thee: & they shall be meat for thee and them."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Noe therefore (d)[1] did all things which God commanded him."
}
],
"summary": "Man's sins cause of the deluge. 4. Giants were then upon the earth. 8. Noe being just was commanded to build the Ark, 18. wherein he with seven persons more, and the seed of other living things were saved."
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: Get thee in, thou and all thy house into the ark; for I have seen thee just (a) in my sight in this generation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Noe was just not only by the estimation of men, but indeed and before God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Of all beasts that are (b) clean, thou shalt take seven and seven, male and female:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Observation of clean and unclean beasts by tradition, before the law of Moyses."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "but of the beasts that are unclean two and two, male and female. Yea and of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, male and female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "For yet a while, and after seven days I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will clean destroy all substance that I have made, from the face of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Noe therefore did all things which our Lord had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood flowed over the earth."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "[1] And Noe entered and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Mat. 24. Luc. 17."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Of beasts also the clean and the unclean, and of fowls, and of all that moveth upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "two and two went to Noe into the ark, male and female, as our Lord had commanded Noe."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood flowed over the earth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "In the six hundred year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the (c) great depth were broken up, and (d) the flood-gates of heaven were opened:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Hebrew word Thehom signifieth a gulf of water, from whence new fountains sprang, more abundantly than ever since or before."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Arubbah signifieth great pipes or windows, by which water fell down in great abundance from the air, here called heaven. S. Hier. quest. Heb. S. Epiph, ad Io. Hierosolym. S. Chr. ho. 25. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "In the very point of that day entered Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons; and his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "they and every beast according to their kind, and all cattle in their kind, and all that moveth upon the earth according to their kind, and all fowl according to their kind, all birds, and all that fly."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "went to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein there was breath of life."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And such as entered in, male and female of all flesh did enter in, as God had commanded him: and our Lord shut him in on the out side.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the flood grew forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "For they overflowed exceedingly; and filled all on the face of the earth: moreover the ark fleeted upon the waters."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the waters prevailed out of measure upon the earth; and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Fifteen cubits higher was the water above the mountains, which it covered."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And all flesh was consumed that moved upon the earth, of fowl, of cattle, of beasts, and of all creepers, that creep upon the earth: all men,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and all things, wherein there is breath of life on the earth, died. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Sap. 10, 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "[1] And he clean destroyed all substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, as well it that creepeth, as the fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from off the earth: but only Noe remained, and they that were with him in the ark.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Eccl. 39."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "[1] And the waters held on above the earth an hundred fifty days.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1. Pet. 3."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Noe with his family, and pairs of all kinds of beasts and fowls, being entered into the ark, 12. it raineth forty nights. 21. All men and other living creatures on the earth, without the ark, are destroyed."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] God remembered Noe, and all the beasts, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters decreased.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third part of this book. Of the new increase & multiplication of the world."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the fountains of the depth and the flood-gates of heaven were shut up: and the rain from heaven was stayed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the waters returned from the earth going & coming: and they began to decrease after an hundred fifty days."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the ark rested the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But the waters for all that were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, let forth a crow:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "which went forth, and did (a) not return, till the waters were dried upon the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The crow returned not into the ark, but (as appeareth by the Hebrew text) going and returning rested upon the ark."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters were ceased yet upon the face of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Which finding not where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he stretched forth his hand and caught her, and brought her into the ark."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And having expected yet seven more days again he let forth a dove out of the ark."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But she came to him at eventide, carrying a bough of an olive tree that had green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And he expected yet nevertheless other seven days: and he sent forth a dove, which returned not any more unto him."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Therefore in the sixth hundred and one year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were clean diminished upon the earth: & Noe opening the roof of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "In (b) the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month the earth was dried.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "They entered into the ark the 17. day, the second month of the other year: so they remained there a whole year & ten days."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And God spake to Noe, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "All cattle that are with thee, of all flesh, as well in fowls, as in beasts, and all creepers that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Noe therefore went forth, and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Yea and all cattle, beasts, & creepers that creep upon the earth, according to their kind, went forth out of the ark."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Noe built an Altar to our Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered Holocausts upon the Altar.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for men: for the sense and cogitation of man's heart are prone to evil from their youth: I will no more therefore strike every living soul as I have done."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "All the days of the earth, (c) seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day shall not rest.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "In the whole year of the flood was no sowing nor reaping, nor pleasant variety of times, but all desolate and miserable: hence forth God promiseth more seasonable times. S. Amb. li. de Noe & Arca. c. 33."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The waters diminishing by little & little, 5. Noe sendeth forth a crow, 8. after him a dove, thrice: 18. lastly goeth forth with all that were with him in the ark, 20. erecteth an Altar, and offereth Sacrifice. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The second Age of the world."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And God blessed Noe and his sons, And he said to them: (a) Increase & multiply, and replenish the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Of this commandment, or rather blessing see the Annotations chap. 1. v. 28."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And your terror and dread be it upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, with all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered to your hand."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And all that moveth and liveth shall be yours for meat: even as the green herbs have I delivered all to you.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. [1]",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Levi. 17."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "For I will require the blood of your souls at the hands of all beasts: and at the hand of man, at the hand of each man, and of his brother, will I require the soul of man."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for to the image of God man was made."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Thus also said God to Noe, and his sons with him:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and with every living soul that is with you, as well in all fowls as in cattle & beasts of the earth that are come forth out of the ark, and in all beasts of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from hence-forth a flood to waste the earth."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and between every living soul, that is with you, for perpetual generations:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "(b) my bow will I set in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The rainbow was before, but was not a sign, as God saith hence forth it should be, for men to remember his promise. Severianus in Gen. S. Tho. Quodlib. 3. a. 30."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And when I shall cover the element with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and I shall remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood, to destroy all flesh."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And my bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and I shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I established between me & all flesh of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The sons therefore of Noe, that came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham he is the father of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "These three are the sons of Noe: and (c) of these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By this it is clear that Noe had no more children after the flood. S. Chrysost. ho. 29. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and naked in his tabernacle.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit that his father's privities were bare, he told it to his two brethren abroad."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But indeed Sem and Japhet put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the privities of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's privities."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "he said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And he saith: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, Chanaan be his servant. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Apoc. 13, 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "God enlarge Japheth, and dwell he in the tabernacles of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Noe lived after the flood three hundred fifty years. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And all his days were in the whole nine hundred fifty years: and he died."
}
],
"summary": "God reneweth the blessing of multiplication, 3. alloweth the eating of flesh, but not of blood. 8. promiseth never again to destroy the world by water. 22. Cham saw and reported his father's nakedness, which Sem and Japheth covered. 24. For which he is cursed, and they are blessed."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and children were born to them after the flood."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The children of Japheth: Gomer, & Magog, & Madai, & Javan, & Tubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Moreover the children of Gomer: Ascenez, and Riphath, and Thogorma."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the sons of Javan: Elisa, and Tharsis, the Cetims and the Dodanims."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Of these were divided the Isles of Nations in their countries, each one according to his tongue, & their families in their nations."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the sons of Cham: Chus, & Mesraim, & Phut, and Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the sons of Chus: Saba, Hevila, and Sabatha, & Regma, & Sabathaca. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Moreover Chus begat Nemrod: he began to be mighty in the earth.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and he was a valiant hunter (a) before our Lord. Thereof rose a proverb: As it were Nemrod the valiant hunter before our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "That is, in his sight who cannot be deceived."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Out of that land came forth Assur, & builded Ninive, & the streets of the city, and Chale.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Resen also between Ninive, & Chale: this is the great city."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But Mesraim also begat the Ludims, & the Anamims, & the Laabims, the Nephthuims,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and the Phetrusims, & the Casluims: of whom came forth the Philistims & the Caphtorims."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Chanaan begat Sidon his first-begotten, Hethaeus,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and Iebusaeus, and Amorrhaeus, and Gergesaeus."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Hevaeus and Aracaeus, Sinaeus,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and Aradius, Samaraeus, and Hamathaeus: and afterwards were spread the people of the Chananites."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as we come to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter to Sodoma and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim, even to Lesa."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "These are the children of Cham in their kindreds, and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Of Sem also (b) father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, were born:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Hence S. Augustin gathereth that the people of Israel were called Hebrews of this Heber. l. 16. c. 3. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The children of Sem: Aelam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The children of Aram: Us, and Hul, and Gether, and Mes."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Arphaxad also begat Sale, of whom was born Heber."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, (c) because that in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name was Jectan.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Heber having a son born when the tongues were divided called him Phaleg, which signifieth division. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 11. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The which Jectan begat Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare;"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the children of Jectan."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar a mountain in the east."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "These are the children of Sem according to their kindred, and tongues, and countries in their nations."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "These are the families of Noe, according to their peoples and nations. Of these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "The genealogy of Noe's children, by whom the world was increased again after the flood."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the earth was of one tongue, and all one speech."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stone, and bitume instead of mortar:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and they said, Come, let us make us a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us renown our name before we be dispersed into all lands.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam builded,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and he said: Behold, it is one people, and one tongue is to all: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their determinations, till they accomplish them indeed."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Come ye therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that none may hear his neighbour's voice.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And so our Lord dispersed them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, (a) because there the tongue of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence our Lord dispersed them upon the face of all countries.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He that speaketh so confusedly that he is not understood is said to babble."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "These are (b) the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred years old when he begat Arphaxad, two years after the flood.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Moyses here sheweth the succession of Patriarchs, from Sem to Abraham, as he did before from Adam to Noe. S. Aug. l. 16. c. 10. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Sem lived after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Moreover Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begat Sale.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Arphaxad lived after he begat Sale, three hundred three years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Sale also lived thirty years, and begat Heber."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Sale lived after he begat Heber, four hundred three years, & begat sons & daughters."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Heber lived thirty four years, and begat Phaleg."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Heber lived after he begat Phaleg, four hundred thirty years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begat Reu."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Phaleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred nine years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Reu lived thirty two years, and begat Sarug."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Reu lived also after he begat Sarug, two hundred seven years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Sarug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Sarug lived after he begat Nachor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Thare."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Nachor lived after he begat Thare, and hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Thare lived seventy years, and begat Abram, and Nachor, and Aran."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begat Abram, Nachor, and Aran. Moreover Aran begat Lot."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity, in (c) Ur of the Chaldees.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Ur a city, or territory of Chaldea. 70. Interpret. and Josephus l. 1. Antiq."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram his wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor his wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha, and the father of Jescha."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Sarai was barren, neither had she children."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Thare therefore (d) took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, for to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelled there.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Abram was commanded to go forth of Chaldea, as appeareth Act. 7. v. 4. though this journey is here ascribed to Thare as the principal person."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And the days of Thare came to two hundred five years, and he died in Haran."
}
],
"summary": "God hindreth the vain purpose of building a high tower, 7. by confounding men's tongues: 9. whereof it is called Babel. 10. The genealogy of Sem to Abram. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fourth part of this book. Of the division of tongues and nations."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1][2] our Lord said to Abram: Go forth of thy country, and out of thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into a land which I will shew thee.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Act. 7."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "2",
"text": "The fifth part of this book. Of Abraham's leaving his country, God's blessing of his seed, and commandment of Circumcision."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and (a) IN Thee shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 11."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In Christ born of Abraham's seed all nations are blessed. Gal. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Abram therefore went out as our Lord had commanded him, and with him went Lot: seventy five years old was Abraham when he went forth out of Haran."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had possessed, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and went forth to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Abram passed through the country unto the place Sichem, as far as the noble vale: and the Chananite was at that time in the country."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. Who builded there (b) an altar to our Lord, that had appeared to him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Abram dedicated Altars to God especially in those places where he received promises, or benefits. S. Chrisost. ho. 31. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And marching on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, there he pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he builded there also an altar to our Lord, and called upon his name."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Abram went forward going, and proceeding on to the south."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And there came a famine in the country: and Abram descended into Aegypt, to be as a pilgrim there: for the famine was very sore in the land."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when he was near to enter into Aegypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a fair woman,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and that when the Aegyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife; and they will kill me, and reserve thee."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Say therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "When Abram therefore was entered into Aegypt, the Aegyptians, saw the woman that she was passing beautiful."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the Princes told Pharao, and praised her to him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and Camels."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord (c) scourged Pharao with very sore plagues, and his house, for Sarai Abram's wife.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God by corporal affliction hindered Pharao & his men from doing violence to Sarai. S. Chris. ho. 32. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "For what cause didst thou say she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy ways."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Pharao gave certain men commandment in the behalf of Abram: and they conducted him, and his wife, and all that he had."
}
],
"summary": "Abram commanded by God to leave his country, with promise to be blessed in his seed, 5. taking his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot, 6. Wandereth in the land of Chanaan, 7. erecteth an Altar in Sichem, 8. another in Bethel. 10. Thence by occasion of famine passeth into Aegypt: 14. where his wife (called his sister) is taken into the King's house, 19. but untouched is restored to him. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The beginning of the third Age."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Abram therefore ascended out of Aegypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him to the south coast."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he returned by the way that he came, from the south unto Bethel, even to the place where before he had pitched a tabernacle between Bethel and Hai:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "in the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But Lot also that was with Abram had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Neither was the land able to receive them for to dwell together: for their substance was much, and they could not dwell together."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Whereupon also there arose strife amongst the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And that time the Chananite and the Pherisite dwelled in that country."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no brawl, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen, and thy herdsmen: for we be (a) brethren.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Four sorts of brethren in holy writ: german brothers, as Jacob and Esau: of kindred, as Abraham and Lot: of same nation, as the Jews & Samaritanes: in Religion as all Catholics."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Behold the whole land is before thee: go apart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Lot therefore lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about Jordan, which was watered throughout before that our Lord subverted Sodome and Gomorre, as the Paradise of our Lord, and like as Aegypt as men come unto Segor."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Lot chose unto him the country about Jordan, and he departed from the East: and they were separated either brother from the other."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns that were about Jordan, and dwelt in Sodome."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the men of Sodome were very wicked, and sinners before the face of our Lord out of measure."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: Lift up thine eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and south, to the east and west:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "All the land which thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And I will make (b) thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, thy seed also shall he be able to number.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Not the children of the flesh, but the children of promise are the seed, Rom. 9. and are innumerable. Apoc. 7. v. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Abram therefore removing his tent, came, and dwelt beside the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he builded there an altar to our Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Abram and Lot return from Aegypt into Chanaan, 6. and being rich separate themselves, 10, Lot choosing the country about Iordan, Abram dwelleth in Chanaan. 14. Where again God promiseth him that land, and multiplication of his seed. 18. And he erected another Altar to God."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass in that time, that Amraphel the king of Sennaar, and Arioch the king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal the king of Nations."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "made war against Barra the king of Sodome, and against Bersa the king of Gomorra, and against Sennaab the king of Adama, and against Semebar the king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, the same is Segor."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "All these came together into the wood-land vale, which now is the salt sea."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, & the thirteenth year they revolted from him."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Therefore in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him, and they struck Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and Susim with them, and Emim in Savee of Cariathaim,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and the Corrheans in the mountains of Seir, even to the Champion country of Pharan, which is in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And they returned, and came as far as the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they struck all the country of the Amelechites, and of the Amorrheans, that dwell in Asasonthamar."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And they went forth the king of Sodome, and the king of Gomorra, and the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, moreover also the king of Bala, which is Segor: and they set themselves against them in battle array in the wood-land vale:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "to wit against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of Nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But the wood-land vale had many pits of bitume. Therefore the king of Sodome and of Gomorra turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained fled to the mountain."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And they took all the substance of the Sodomites and Gomorrheans, and took all kind of victuals, and went their way:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and Lot also and his substance, the son of Abrams brother, who dwelled in Sodom."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And behold one that had escaped told Abram the Hebrew, that dwelt in the vale of Mambre, the Amorrean, brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aner: for these made a league with Abram."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, well appointed, three hundred and eighteen: and pursued them unto Dan."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And dividing his company, he ran upon them in the night, and struck them, and pursued them unto Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother with his substance, the women also and the people."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the king of Sodom went forth to meet them, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale Savee, which is the king's vale."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But Melchisedech the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the Priest of God most High,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram to God the Highest, which created heaven and earth:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and blessed be God the Highest, by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the souls, and the rest take to thee."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Who answered him: I lift up my hand to my Lord God most High, possessor of heaven and earth,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "that from the very woof-thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of all that are thine, (a) lest thou say, I have enriched Abram:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Abraham enriched by God, would take no more of man, but his soldiers' sustenance, the proper hire of spiritual workmen. S. Chrisost. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares of the men that came with me, Aner, Eschol, and Mambre: these shall take their shares."
}
],
"summary": "The King of Sodom with other four Kings are overcome in battle by four others, 12. where Lot is taken. 14. But Abram with 318. persons prosecuting and overcoming the victorers, 16. rescued Lot, with all the captives and prey. 18. Melchisedech King and Priest blessed Abram, 20. Abram payed tithes to him, 21. and rendered the spoil to the King of Sodom."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "When these things therefore were done, the word of our Lord was made to Abram by a vision saying: fear not Abram, I am thy Protector, and thy reward exceeding great."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and Lo my servant born in my house shall be mine heir."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And immediately the word of our Lord came to him saying: He shall not be thine heir: but he that shall come out of thy womb him shalt thou have thine heir."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: so shall thy seed be."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "[1] Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Ro. 4. Gal. 3. Iac. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he said to him: I am the Lord that brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees for to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But he said: Lord God, how may I know that I shall possess it?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord answered, and said: (a) Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These three kinds of beasts & two of birds signify that the Israelites should be three generations in a strange land, the fourth in the desert, the fifth in possession of Chanaan. Theod. q. 65. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who taking all these, divided them by the midst, and laid each two pieces arow one against the other: but the birds he divided not."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the fowls lighted upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror invaded him."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "[1] And it was said unto him: Know and foreknow that a pilgrim shall thy seed be in a land not their own (and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them) (b) four hundred years.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Act. 17."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Abraham & his seed were in a strange land 400. and odd years, but in servitude & affliction about 140."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "[1] But the Nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge: and after this they shall go forth with great substance.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Exod. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, buried in a good old age."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for (c) as yet the iniquities of the Amorrheans are not at the full until this present time.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God deferreth to punish, either that the wicked may amend, or the good be exercised by them. S. Aug. Psal. 54. or because the iniquity is not come to that great measure which his wisdom foreseeth, and will punish in the end, to his own more glory, & more good of others. S. Greg. ho. 11. in 3. Ezech."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Therefore when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a furnace smoking, and a flake of fire passing between those divisions."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land from the river of Aegypt even to the great river Euphrates."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "the Cineans, and Cenezeites, the Cedmonites,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and the Hethits, and the Pherezits, the Raphaims also,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and the Amorreans and the Chananites, and Gargasites, and the Jebusites."
}
],
"summary": "Abram doubting and lamenting that he should have no child, God promiseth him much issue, 6. who believing is justified. 9. offereth sacrifice prescribed by God, 13. & is forewarned that his seed shall be in a strange land 400. years. 14. shall be delivered from servitude, 18. and possess Chanaan."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Sarai therefore the wife of Abram had brought forth no children; but having an handmaid, an Aegyptian named Agar,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "she said to her husband: Behold, our Lord hath closed me, that I might not bear; Go in unto my handmaid, if happily of her at the least I may have children. And when he agreed to her in this request,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "she took Agar the Aegyptian her handmaid ten years after that they first dwelled in the land of Chanaan, and gave her unto her husband to wife.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Who did company with her, but she (a) perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Some obey whilst they are rude, or in low state, but having got a little knowledge or advancement disdain their advancers. S. Gregory. li. 21. in 1. Reg. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Sarai said to Abram: Thou doest unjustly against me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, who perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. Our Lord judge between me and thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "To whom Abram [1][2] [3][4] [5] [6][7]",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Manichees condemned plurality of wives in the Patriarchs."
},
{
"label": "2",
"text": "S. Aug. l. 22. c. 47. cont. Faust."
},
{
"label": "3",
"text": "Luther alloweth it in Christians."
},
{
"label": "4",
"text": "Luther proposit. 62. 65. & 66."
},
{
"label": "5",
"text": "Other Protestants in some case."
},
{
"label": "6",
"text": "Two sorts of making answer: Behold, saith he, thy handmaid is in thine own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. When Sarai therefore did afflict her, she ran away."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And an Angel of our Lord having found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "he said to her: Agar, the handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? And whither goest thou? Who answered: From the face of Sarai my mistress do I fly."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the Angel of our Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And again: Multiplying, saith he, will I multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for the multitude thereof."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And again after that: Behold, saith he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thine affliction."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "He shall be a wild man: his hand shall be against all men, and all men's hands against him; and over against all his brethren shall he pitch his tents."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And she called the name of our Lord that spake unto her: Thou the God which hast seen me. For she said: verily here have I seen the back parts of him that hast seen me."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cadesse and Barad."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: Who called his name Ismael."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Eighty and six years old was Abram when Agar brought him forth Ismael."
}
],
"summary": "Sarai giveth her hand-maid Agar as a wife to Abram: 4. who conceiving despiseth her mistress, is therefore afflicted, and flyeth away. 7. But is warned by an Angel to return and humble herself, 15. which she doth, and beareth Ismael"
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And after that he began to be ninety and nine years old, our Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him: I am the God almighty: walk before me, and be (a) perfect.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He is perfect in this life, that sincerely tendeth towards perfection of the next life. And this God here commanded to Abraham, & Christ to all Christians. Mat. 5. S. Aug. l. de perfect. cont. Caelest. See Gen. 6. v. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Abram fell flat on his face."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many Nations."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram; but thou shalt be called Abraham: because a father of many Nations I have made thee.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make thee into Nations, and kings shall come forth of thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations by a perpetual covenant: to be thy God, and thy seeds after thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And I will give to thee, and to thy seed the land of thy peregrination, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and you shall circumcise the flesh of your prepuce, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "An infant of (b) eight days shall be circumcised among you, all male-kind in your generations: as well the homebred shall be circumcised, as the bought servant of whosoever he is, not of your stock:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Circumcision and name received the eighth day signified the association of Saints in heaven after the seven days travail of this world. Ser. de circum. apud S. Cyprian."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The male, whose flesh of his prepuce shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall be into Nations, and kings of peoples shall spring of him."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Abraham fell upon his face, and (c) laughed, saying in his heart: Shall trowest thou to him that is an hundred year old a son be born? And Sara that is ninety years old shall she bear?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Abraham laughed not doubting but rejoicing. S. Ambro. li. de Abraham c. 4. S. Aug. l. 16. c. 26. de civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And he said to God: I would that Ismael may live before thee."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant to him for a perpetual covenant, and to his seed after him."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Concerning Ismael also I have heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase and multiply him exceedingly: twelve Dukes shall he beget, and I will make him into a great Nation."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But my covenant I will establish with (d) Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time another year.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Temporal blessings were common to Ismael, but spiritual pertained properly to Isaac and Israel, & their successors."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when he had left off speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all the homebred of his house: and all whom he had bought, all the males of all the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their prepuce forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his prepuce."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And (e) all the men of his house, as well the homebred as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised together.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Conformity in Religion conserveth peace in every family. Tho. Anglus in hunc locum."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "God renewing his promises to Abram 5. changeth his name, 10. and commandeth Circumcision. 15. changeth also his wife's name, promiseth a son of her. 20. Likewise that Ismael shall prosper. 23. And the same day Abraham circumcised himself, and Ismael, and all the men of his house."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And God appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he sat in the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near unto him: whom after he had seen, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored to the ground."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And He said (a) Lord, if I have found grace in thy sight, go not past thy servant: [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 13."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Abraham saw three, and adored one, professing three divine Persons and one God. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 29. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen your heart, afterward you shall pass: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. Who said: Do as thou hast spoken."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make hearth cakes."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man: who made haste and boiled it."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but himself did stand beside them under the tree."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "To whom he said: Returning I will come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara thy wife shall have a son [1]. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Rom. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And they were both aged, and far entered in years, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Who laughed secretly saying: After I am waxen old, and my Lord is an old one, shall I give myself to pleasure?"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I an old woman bear a child indeed?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee this very self-same time, life accompanying, & Sara shall have a son."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Sara denied, saying: I laughed not; being much afraid. But our Lord: (b) It is not so, saith he, but thou didst laugh.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Abraham laughing with admiration for joy was not reprehended, but Sara laughing of diffidence was reprehended, by him that seeth the heart. S. Aug. q. 36. in Gen. & li. 16. c. 31. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "When the men therefore were risen up from thence, they turned their eyes against Sodome: and Abraham did go with them, bringing them on the way."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord said: Can I conceal from Abraham the things which I will do,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "whereas he shall be into a Nation great, and very strong, and in him are TO BE Blessed All The Nations of The Earth?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "For I know that he will command his children, and his house after him that they keep the way of the Lord, & do judgement and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things that he hath spoken unto him. Therefore said our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The cry of Sodome and Gomorre is multiplied, and their sin is aggravated exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "I will descend, and see whether they have in act accomplished the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodome: but Abraham as yet stood before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And approaching he said: What! Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "(c) If there shall be fifty just persons in the city, shall they perish withal? And wilt thou spare that place for fifty just, if they be therein?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "what a wall are just men to their country? Their faith saveth us, their justice defendeth us from destruction. S. Amb. li. 1. de Abrah. c. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Be it far from thee, that thou do this thing, and that thou kill the just with the wicked, and that the just be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee, which judgest all the earth: no, thou wilt not do this judgement."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: If I shall find in Sodome fifty just persons within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And Abraham answered, and said: Because I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "What if there shall be five less than fifty just persons? Wilt thou for forty five destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I shall find five and forty."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And again he said unto him: But if forty shall be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not strike it for forty's sake."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Lord, saith he, be not angry I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I shall find thirty there."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Because, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty shall be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for twenty's sake."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And our Lord departed after that he ceased to speak unto Abraham: and Abraham returned into his place."
}
],
"summary": "Angels entertained as guests by Abraham 10. tell when Sara shall bear a son, whereat she laughing, they confirm that they had said. 16. They also foretell the destruction of Sodome, 22. for which Abraham prayed six times."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the two (a) Angels came to Sodome at even, and Lot sitting in the gates of the city. Who when he had seen them, rose up & went to meet them: and adored prostrate unto the ground,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Abraham and Lot by hospitality merited to receive Angels instead of men. Heb. 13."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and said: I beseech you, my Lords, turn into the house of your servant, and lodge there: Wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go forth on your way. Who said: No, but we will abide in the street."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "He compelled them earnestly to turn in unto him: and when they were entered into his house, he made them a banquet, and baked unleavened bread, and they did eat."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house from young to old, all the people together."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? Bring them forth hither that we may know them."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Lot going forth to them, and shutting the door after him, said:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "I have two daughters, which as yet have not known man: I will bring them forth to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are entered under the shadow of my roof."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, what to be a Judge? Thyself therefore we will afflict more than these. And they did violence to Lot exceedingly: and it was even now at the point that they would break the doors."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And behold the men put forth their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and them that were without they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? Son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine, bring them out of this city:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "for we will destroy this place, for that (b) their cry is waxen loud before our Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This sin cryeth to heaven for revenge."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore Lot went forth, and spake to his sons in law that were to take his daughters, and said: Arise, get you forth out of this place, because our Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed unto them to speak as it were in jest."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when it was morning, the Angels urged him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish withal in the wickedness of the city."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "He lingering, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because our Lord spared him."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And they led him forth, and set him without the city; and there they spake to him, saying: Save thy life; look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou also perish withal."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast wrought with me, in that thou wouldest save my life, and safe I cannot be in the mountain, lest perhaps the evil catch me, and I die."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "There is this city here-by at hand, whereunto I may fly, a little one, and I shall be safe in it: is it not a little one, and my life shall be saved?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he said to him: Behold also in this point I have heard thy prayers, not to overthrow the city for which thou hast spoken."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou enter in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called [1] Segor.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "a little one."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore our Lord rained upon Sodome and Gomorre brimstone & fire from our Lord out of heaven:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and he subverted these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And his wife (c) looking behind her, was turned into a statua of salt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Lot's wife turned into salt, admonisheth the servants of God to proceed in virtue, & not to look back to vice. Luc. 17. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 30. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And Abraham getting up early in the morning, there where before he had stood with our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "beheld Sodome and Gomorre, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the cinders rise up from the earth as it were the smoke of a furnace."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "For when God subverted the cities of that country, he (d) remembering Abraham, delivered Lot out of the subversion of the cities wherein he had dwelt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Lot neither perfect nor very wicked was delivered for Abraham's sake. S. Aug. q. 45. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Lot ascended out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, his two daughters also with him (for he was afraid to abide in Segor) and he abode in a cave himself, and his two daughters with him."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, that may company with us after the manner of the whole earth."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "They therefore made their father to drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "The next day also the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay yesternight with my father, let us make him drink wine also this night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then truly did he perceive when she lay down, or when she rose up."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "The two daughters therefore of Lot were with child by their father."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And the elder bare a son and she called his name Moab: he is the (e) father of the Moabites even to this present day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Moabites & Ammonites were two distinct Nations, perhaps of the 72. See. p. 41."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "The younger also bare a son, and she called his name Ammon, that is the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites even to this day."
}
],
"summary": "Lot receiving Angels in his house is abused by the Sodomites. 12. He with his wife (26. who for looking back is turned into a statua of salt) and his two daughters, are delivered. 24. Sodome and Gomorre are burned. 31. Lot lieth unwitting with both his daughters, & begat of them Moab and Ammon, of whom came the Moabites and Ammonites."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Abraham removed from thence into the south country and dwelt between Cades, and Sur: and he lived as a pilgrim in Gerara."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he said of Sara his wife: She is (a) my sister. Abimelech therefore, the king of Gerara, sent and took her.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See pag. 50."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord wilt thou kill a Nation that is ignorant & just?"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Did not he say to me: She is my sister? And she say, He is my brother? In simplicity of my heart and cleanness of my hands have I done this."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And God said to him: And I do know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, and I permitted not that thou shouldest touch her."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Now therefore restore the wife to her husband, because he is a Prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. But if thou wilt not restore her, know thou that dying thou shalt die, thou and all things that are thine."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and he spake all these words to their ears, and all the men were sore afraid."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Abimelech called also for Abraham, & said to him: What hast thou done to us? What have we offended against thee, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? That which thou oughtest not to do, thou hast done to us."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And again expostulating, he said: What sawest thou, that thou didest this?"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place, & they will kill me for my wife:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "howbeit otherwise also in very deed she is my sister, (b) the daughter of my father, & not the daughter of my mother, & I took her to wife.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Not his father's own daughter, but of his progeny. S. Aug. l. 22. cont. Faust. c. 35. & l. 16. c. 19. & 30. de civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And after that God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: This mercy thou shalt do with me: In every place which we shall come unto, thou shalt say that I am thy brother."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore Abimelech (c) took sheep and oxen, and servants, and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Kings of the earth esteeming the Church only for a laudable people of God, seek to subject her to themselves: but knowing he to be the inviolable spouse of Christ, subject themselves to her, & offer to her most honourable gifts. S. Aug. li. 22. cont. Faust. c. 38."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shalt please thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a veil of thine eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go, remember also thou wast taken."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Abraham praying, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bare children:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "for our Lord had closed up every matrice of the house of Abimelech for Sara Abraham's wife."
}
],
"summary": "Isaac is born, 4. circumcised, 8. and weaned. 9. Agar and Ismael are put forth of Abraham's house, 15. but after desolation are nourished, and prosper in the desert. 22. King Abimelech and Abraham make a league confirming it with oath. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The sixth part of this book."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled the things which he spake.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Of the progeny and other blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And she conceived & bare a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Abraham called the name of his son, which Sara bare him, (a) Isaac:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Abraham & Sara laughed (he admiring, she doubting) at the joyful promise of a son, & therefore he is called Isaac, which signifieth laughter. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 31. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "when he was an hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Sara said: Laughter God hath made to me: whosoever shall hear of it, will laugh with me."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And again she said: Who that shall hear of it would believe Abraham, that Sara gave suck to a son, which she bare him now being an old man?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The child therefore grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Aegyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Cast out this handmaid, & her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Abraham took this grievously for his son."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "To whom God said: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy handmaid: all things that Sara shall say to thee, hear her voice: because (b)[1] in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But the son also of the handmaid I will make into a great nation, because he is thy seed."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Abraham therefore rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and dismissed her. Who went away, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And she went her way, and sat over against a great way off as far as a bow can cast, for she said: I will no see the child dying. And sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And God heard the voice of the boy: and an Angel of God called Agar from heaven, saying: What doest thou Agar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Arise, take up the boy, & hold his hand; for into a great nation will I make him."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And God opened her eyes: who seeing a well of water, went, and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And God was with him: who grew, and abode in the wilderness, and became a young man archer."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The same time said Abimelech, and Phicol the General of his army, to Abraham: God is with thee in all things which thou doest."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Swear therefore by God, not to hurt me, and my posterity, and my stock: but according to the mercy, that I have done thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Abraham said: I will swear."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And he rebuked Abimelech for the well of water, which his servants had taken away by force."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: yea and thyself didst not tell me, and I heard not of it but today."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Abraham therefore took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelech: and both of them made a league."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "To whom Abimelech said: What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast made to stand apart?"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "But he said: Seven ewe lambs shalt thou take at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I digged this well."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Therefore was that place called [1] Bersabee: because there both did swear.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "well of oath"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And they made a league for the well of oath."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Abimelech arose, and Phicol the General of his army, and they returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and called there upon the name of our Lord God eternal."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which [1] things being done, [2] God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. But he answered: Here I am.",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Judith. 8."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "2",
"text": "The third prophecy in the Office before Mass on Easter eve. And the first on Whitsun-eve."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "[1] He said to him: (a) Take thy only begotten son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and go into the Land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Heb. 11"
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This history is clear, and a most notorious example of perfect obedience."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Therefore Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: taking with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place a far off:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and he said to his young men: Tarry you here with the ass: I and the boy going with speed as far as yonder, after we have adored will return to you."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "He took also the wood of the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and himself carried in his hand fire and a sword. And as they went on together,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou son? Behold, saith he, fire & wood; where is the victim of the holocaust?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Abraham said: God will provide unto himself the victim of the holocaust, my son. They went on therefore together:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and they came to the place which God had shewed him, wherein he builded an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he stretched forth his hand, and caught the sword, for to sacrifice his son."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And behold an Angel of our Lord from heaven cried, saying: Abraham, Abraham. Who answered: Here I am."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And he said to him: Stretch not forth thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now have I known that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine only begotten son for my sake."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took & offered an holocaust instead of his son."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And he called the name of that place, (b) Our Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said, In the mountain our Lord will see.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It is a grateful and religious thing, by naming of places to conserve the memory of God's benefits, that posterity may know them. S. Chrisost. ho. 48. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the Angel of our Lord called Abraham the second time from heaven, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine only begotten son for my sake;"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and IN Thy Seed Shall be Blessed All The Nations of The Earth, because thou hast obeyed my voice."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "These things so being done, it was (c) told Abraham that Melcha also had born children to Nachor his brother,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Nachor's progeny is here mentioned to shew whence Rebecca came, whom Isaac married."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Hus the first-begotten, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Sirians,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and Cased, and Azau, Pheldas also and Iedlaph,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And his concubine, named Roma, bare Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha."
}
],
"summary": "The faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to sacrifice his son Isaac. 11. He is stayed from the act by an Angel. 16. Former promises are renewed to him. 20. And his brother Nachor hath also much issue."
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Sara lived an hundred twenty seven years."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: And Abraham came to mourn and weep for her."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And after that he was risen up from (a) the funeral obsequies, he spake to the children of Heth, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Aclear example of religious Office in burying the dead."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "I am a stranger and pilgrim among you: give me the right of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The children of Heth answered, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "My lord hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: in our principal sepulchres bury thou thy dead: and no man can let thee but that in his own monument thou mayest bury thy dead."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Abraham rose up and (b) adored the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth;",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Adoration used for reverence done to men. See also c. 27. v. 29. c. 33. v. 3. 7. and S. Aug. q. 61. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and he said to them: If it please your soul that I bury my dead, hear me, and be intercessors for me to Ephron the son of Seor:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "that he give me the double cave, which he hath in the uttermost part of his field: for money to the worth therefore let him deliver it to me before you for possession of a sepulchre."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "No, it shall not be so, my lord, but thou rather hearken to that which I do say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Abraham adored before the people of the land."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he spoke to Ephron, his people standing round about: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field: take it, and so I will bury my dead in it."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Ephron answered:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "My lord hear me. The ground which thou desirest is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but how much is this? Bury thy dead."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Which when Abraham had heard, he weighed the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver of common current money."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the field that before time was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, as well it, as the cave, and all the trees thereof in all the limits thereof round about,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And so Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, of the Children of Heth."
}
],
"summary": "Sara dying Abraham solemnizeth her funeral: 4. buyeth a field with a double cave of Ephron, 15. for four hundred sicles. 19. and there buryeth her."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Abraham was old, and of many days, and our Lord had blessed him in all things."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he said to the elder servant of his house, which was ruler over all that he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "that I may adjure thee by our Lord God of heaven and earth, that thou (a) take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Chananites, among whom I dwell:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In choosing a wife a virtuous stock and family, especially true faith and religion, are before all other things to be considered and preferred. S. Amb. li. 1. c. 9. de Abrah. S. Chrisost. ho. 48. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but that thou go unto mine own country and kindred, and thence take a wife for my son Isaac."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, whether must I bring thy son back again to the place, from whence thou didst come forth?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Our Lord God of heaven, which took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, which spake to me, and sware to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shall take from thence a wife for my son:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "but if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son thither again."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The servant therefore put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sware to him upon this word."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he took ten camels of his lord's herd, and departed, of all his goods carrying something with him, and setting forward went on into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when he had made the camels lie down without the town beside a well of water at even, at the time when women are wont to come forth to draw water, he said:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "O Lord God of my lord Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and do mercifully with my master Abraham."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Behold I stand nigh to the fountain of water and the daughters of the inhabiters of this city will come forth to draw water."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore the maid, to whom I shall say: Bow down thy tankard that I may drink; and she shall answer: Drink, yea to thy camels also will I give drink; she it is, whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this I shall understand, that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Neither had he yet ended these words within himself, & behold Rebecca came forth, the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a tankard on her shoulder;"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "a passing comely maid, & most beautiful virgin, & not known to man: and she was gone down to the fountain, and had filled her tankard, and came back."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy tankard."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who answered: Drink my lord. And quickly she let down the tankard upon her arm, and gave him drink."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when he had drunk, she added: but for thy camels also I will draw water, till all do drink."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And pouring out the tankard into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water: and being drawn gave it to all the camels."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But he musing beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether our Lord had made his journey prosperous or not."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And after that the camels had drunk, the man plucked forth golden earlets, weighing two sicles, and as many bracelets of ten sicles weight."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? Shew me; is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Who answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bare to Nachor."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And she added, saying: Of straw also and hay we have good store, and a large place to lodge in."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The man bowed himself, and adored our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "saying: blessed be the Lord God of my lord Abraham, that hath not taken away his mercy & truth from my lord, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my lord's brother."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The maid therefore ran, and reported into (b) her mother's house all things that she had heard.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Her father having perhaps many wives & every one a several house, she went to her mother's house."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who in all haste went forth to the man, where the fountain was."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And when he had seen the earlets and bracelets in his sister's hands, and hand heard all her words reporting: These words spake the man unto me; he came to the man which stood beside the camels, and nigh to the fountain of water:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and said to him: Come in, thou blessed of our Lord: Why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And he brought him into his lodging: and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and of the men that were come with him."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And bread was set before him. Who said: I will not eat till I speak my message. He answered him: Speak."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And our Lord hath blessed my lord wonderfully, and he is magnified: and he hath given him sheep, & oxen, silver and gold, men servants & women servants, camels, and asses."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And Sara my lord's wife hath born my lord a son in her old age, and he hath given him all things that he had."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And my lord adjured me saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chananites, in whose land I dwell:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "but thou shalt go to my father's house, and of mine own kindred shalt thou take a wife for my son:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "but I answered my lord: What if the woman will not come with me?"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Our Lord, saith he, in whose sight I walk, will send his Angel with thee, & will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of mine own kindred, and of my father's house."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Thou shalt be innocent from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kin, and they will not give her thee."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "I came therefore today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my lord Abraham, if thou hast directed my way, wherein I now walk,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "behold I stand besides the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come forth to draw water, when she shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy tankard;"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and she shall say to me: Drink both thou and for thy camels I will draw also; that is the woman, which our Lord hath prepared for my master's son."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared coming with a tankard, which she carried upon her shoulder: & she went down to the fountain, & drew water."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "And I said to her: Give me a little to drink. Who speedily let down the tankard from her shoulder, and said to me: Drink Both thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? Who answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bare him. I hung therefore earlets to adorn her face, and I put bracelets upon her hands."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And prostrate I adored our Lord, blessing the Lord God of my lord Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my lord's brother for his son."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Wherefore if you do according to mercy and truth with my lord, shew me: but if it please you otherwise, that also tell me, that I may go to the right hand or to the left."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And Laban and Bathuel answered: From our Lord the word hath proceeded: we cannot speak any other thing with thee besides his pleasure."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "Behold Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy ways, & let her be the wife of thy lord's son, as our Lord hath spoken."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down he adored our Lord to the ground."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "And taking forth vessels of silver, and gold, and garments, gave them to Rebecca for a present. To her brothers also, and to her mother he offered gifts."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "Abanquet was made, and eating and drinking together they lodged there. And in the morning the servant arose, and said: Dismiss me, that I may go to my lord."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid tarry at the least ten days with us, & after she shall depart."
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "Stay me not, said he, because our Lord hath directed my way: dismiss me that I may go on to my lord."
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "And they said: Let us call the maid, and (c) ask her will.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "As children ought not to marry without their parent's good liking; so the parties' own consent is most necessary. S. Amb. Epist. 43."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "And being called, when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? Who said: I will go."
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "They dismissed her therefore, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company,"
},
{
"verse": 60,
"text": "wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, increase thou into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies."
},
{
"verse": 61,
"text": "Therefore Rebecca and her maids being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned unto his lord; and"
},
{
"verse": 62,
"text": "the same time Isaac walked along the way, that leadeth to the well of the Living and the seeing, so called; for he dwelt in the south country:"
},
{
"verse": 63,
"text": "and he was gone forth to (d) meditate in the field, the day now being well spent: and when he head cast up his eyes, he saw camels coming a far off.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Suach signifieth to speak considerately with heart or mouth. Here S. Ambrose (li. 1. c. 1. de Isaac) and S. Aug. (q. 69. in Gen.) understand it of mental prayer."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 64,
"text": "Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,"
},
{
"verse": 65,
"text": "and said to the servant: Who is that man which cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: The same is my lord. But she quickly taking her cloak, covered herself."
},
{
"verse": 66,
"text": "And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done."
},
{
"verse": 67,
"text": "Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, & took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it did moderate the sorrow which was chanced of his mother's death."
}
],
"summary": "Abraham's servant adjured and sent by him into Mesopotamia, to seek a wife for Isaac, 12. prayeth to God for a sign, findeth Rebecca, 34. and demanding her for this purpose, 50. with her parents, 58. and her own consent, she goeth with him, 67. is married to Isaac: who thereby is comforted for the death of his mother."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Which bare him Zamran, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Jecsan also begat Saba & Dadan. The Children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomim."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But also of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and to the children of his concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, whilst himself yet lived, to the east country.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the days of Abraham's life were an hundred seventy and five years."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And decaying died in (a) a good old age, and having lived a great time, and being full of days and was gathered to his people.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The life of the just hath fullness of days though it be otherwise short; the days of the wicked are void of fruit, be they many or few. S. Ambros. li. de Abraham."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And there buried him Isaac and Ismael his sons in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over-against Mambre,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And after his death God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelled beside the well of the Living & Seeing, so named."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Aegyptian bare him, Sara's servant: &"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "These are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The first begotten of Ishmael Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Masma also, and Duma, and Massa,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Hadar, and Thema, and Iethur, and Naphis, and Cedma."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve Princes of their tribes."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the years of Ismael's life came to an hundred thirty seven, and decaying died, and was put unto his people."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And he dwelt from Hevila even to Sur, which looketh towards Aegypt, as they enter to the Assyrians, before the face of all his brethren died he."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Isaac besought our Lord for his wife, because she was barren: who heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But the little ones struggled in her womb; who said: If it should be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she (b) went to consult our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "S. Augustin (q. 72. in Gen.) disputeth, but could not decide, whether Rebecca went to some Priest, or Prophet, or Altar, or whither else, or only retired to private prayer."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Now her time was come to be delivered, and behold twins were found in her womb."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "He that came forth first, was red, and all hairy in manner of a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's plant in his hand: and therefore he called him Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Threescore years old was Isaac, when the little ones were born unto him."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Who being grown up, Esau became a man cunning in hunting, & a husband man: but Jacob (c) a plain man dwelled in tents:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Holy Scripture premonisheth Jacob's sincerity, lest in the Mysteries following he might be suspected of false dealing. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 37. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "& Jacob boiled broth: to whom Esau being come faint out of the field,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "said: Give me of this red broth, because I am exceeding faint. For which cause his name was called Edom."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "To whom Jacob said: sell me thy first-birth-right.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "He answered, Lo I die, what will the first-birth-right avail me?"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau sware to him, and sold his first-birth-right."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And so taking bread and the rice broth, did eat, and drink, and went his way; little esteeming that he had sold his first-birth-right."
}
],
"summary": "Abraham having many children by his wife Cetura, died at the age of 175. years: 12. Ismael also having twelve sons Dukes, died. 19. Isaac praying for his barren wife, she hath Esau and Jacob twins. 30. Esau selleth his first birth right to Jacob for a mess of potage."
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And when a famine was risen in the land, after that sterility that had chanced in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines into Gerara."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord appeared to him, and said: (a) Go not down into Aegypt, but rest in the land which I shall tell thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God by Abraham's exemplar life invited the Aegyptians to true religion: now commandeth Isaac to stay in Gerara to the like end. S. Theod. q. 76. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, accomplishing the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed Shall be Blessed All The Nations of The Earth,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "for because Abraham obeyed my voice, & kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore Isaac abode in Gerara."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Who when he was asked by the men of that place concerning his wife, answered: She is (b) my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was married to him, thinking lest peradventure they would kill him because of her beauty.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "See pag. 50."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when very many days were passed, & he abode there, Abimelech the king of the Palestines looking forth through a window saw him sporting with Rebecca his wife."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And calling for him, he said: it is evident that she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lien with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us (c) a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Adultery a great sin also among Paynims."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "He that shall touch this man's wife, dying shall die."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year and hundred fold: and our Lord blessed him.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the man was made rich, and he went prospering and increasing, till he was made exceeding great:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and he had also possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. For this the Palestines envying him,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "stopped at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "in so much that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, because thou art become mightier than we a great deal."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And departing, to come to the Torrent of Gerara, and to dwell there,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "again he digged other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which after his death the Philistines had stopped up of old: & he called them by the same names which his father before had called them."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And they digged in the [1] Torrent, and found living water:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* The channel where sometimes a vehement stream runneth, sometimes none at all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "but there also the pastors of Gerara made a brawl against the pastors of Isaac, saying: it is our water. For which cause he called the name of the well, by occasion of that which had happened, [1] Calumny.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Wrangling."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And they digged also another; and for that they brawled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Going forward from thence he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath our Lord dilated us, and made us to increase upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And he went up from that place unto Bersabee,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Where our Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, because I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Therefore he builded there an altar: and having called upon the name of our Lord, he pitched his tent: & commanded his servants that they should dig a well."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "To the which place when there were come from Gerara Abimelech, and Ocozath his friend, & Phicol chief Captain of his soldiers,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Isaac spake to them: Why are ye come to me a man whom you hated, and have thrust out from you?"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Who answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and (d) let us make a league,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "So nations of the world first envied the Church of Christ, but after made peace with it."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "that thou do us no harm, as we also have touched nothing of thine, neither have we done that which might hurt thee: but with peace have we dismissed thee increased with the blessing of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Therefore he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunken,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Arising in the morning, they sware one to another: and Isaac dismissed them peaceably into their place."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And behold the same day came the servants of Isaac telling him of a well, which they had digged, and saying: We have found water."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was given Bersabee, even unto this present day."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "But Esau being forty years old married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Both which had (e) offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Esau by marrying against his parents' will, made breach from them."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Isaac by reason of famine goeth into Gerara, 3. where God reneweth to him the promises made to Abraham. 9. King Abimelech blameth him for calling his wife his sister. 15. The people envying his wealth, quarreleth for his wells. 26. At last Abimelech maketh league with Isaac."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau his elder son, and said to him: My son? Who answered: Here I am.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle on Saturday the second week in Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "To whom his father: Thou seest, quoth he, that I am old, and know not the day of my death."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Take thy instruments, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad: and when thou hast taken any thing by hunting,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "make me broth thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring that I may eat, and my soul may bless thee before I die."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Which when Rebecca had heard, and he was gone into the field to fulfill his father's commandment,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "she said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying to him:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of our Lord before I die."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Now therefore, my son, assent to my counsel:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "To whom he answered: Thou knowest that Esau my brother is an hairy man, and I am smooth:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "if my father shall feel me, and perceive it, (a) I fear lest he will think I would have deluded him, and I shall bring upon me a curse for a blessing.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Jacob secure in conscience that the right of first-birth belonged to him, yet feared to give occasion of offence to his father."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "To whom his mother said: This curse, my son, light upon me, only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, even as she knew his father liked."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And she did on him the garments of Esau very good, which she had at home with her:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And she gave him the broth, and delivered him bread that she had baked."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou my son?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Jacob said: I am thy first begotten Esau: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my hunting, that thy soul may bless me.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And again Isaac to his son: How couldest thou, said he, find it so quickly, my son? Who answered: (b) It was the will of God that that which I would came quickly in my way.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It was truly God's will, but not in that sense as Isaac understood it."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice verily, is the voice of Jacob: but the hands are the hands of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And he knew him not, because his hairy hands had made him like unto the elder. Blessing him therefore,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "he said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. Which when they were brought and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "he said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he felt the fragrant savour of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold the savour of my son is as the savour of a plentiful field, which our Lord hath blessed."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "God give thee of the dew of heaven, & of the fatness of the earth abundance of corn and wine."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And let peoples serve thee, and tribes adore thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and thy mother's children bow they before thee. He that shall curse thee, be he cursed: and he that shall bless thee, be he replenished with blessings."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Isaac had scarce ended his words, and Jacob now gone forth abroad, but Esau came,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and brought in to his father meats made of his hunting, saying: Arise my father, and eat of thy son's hunting; that thy soul may bless me."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Isaac said to him: Why! Who art thou? Who answered: I am thy first begotten son Esau."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Isaac was amazed and astonished exceedingly, and marveling more than a man can believe, said: Who is he then that even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I did eat of all things before thou camest, and I have blessed him, (c) and he shall be blessed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Isaac now knowing it to be God's will, ratified that he had done."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry; and being dismayed, said: Bless me also, my father."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Who said: Thy brother came deceitfully and took thy blessing."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo the second time: my first-birth-right he took before, and now the second time he hath stolen my blessing. And again to his father he said: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and all his brethren I have made subject to his service: with corn and wine I have established him, and for thee, my son, what shall I do more after this?"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "To whom Esau said: Hast thou one only blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept that he howled again,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Isaac being moved, said to him: In (d) the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "worldlings' blessing consisteth in transitory wealth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt serve thy brother: and (e) the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The Idumeans being subdued by King David (2. Reg. 8.) revolted from King Joram, & had a King of their own (4. Reg. 8.) they were again subdued by Hircanus (teste Iosepho. li. 13. Antiq.) but again Herod an Idumean reigned in Jewry Math. 2. Luc. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Esau therefore always hated Jacob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning of my father, and I will kill Jacob my brother."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "These things were told to Rebecca: who sending and calling Jacob her son, said to him: Behold Esau thy brother threateneth to kill thee."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, and get thee up and fly to Laban my brother into Haran:"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the fury of thy brother be assuaged,"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "and his indignation cease, and he forget those things which thou hast done to him: afterward I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both sons in one day?"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life for the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I list not live."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob by his mother's counsel getteth his father's blessing in place of Esau. 42. And by her is advised (for avoiding Esau's wrath, who threatened to kill him) to fly to his uncle Laban, in Haran of Mesopotamia."
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Isaac therefore called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan;"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "but go and make a journey into Mesopotamia of Syria; to the house of Bathuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thine uncle."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayest be into multitudes of peoples."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And (a) give he thee the blessings of Abraham, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayest possess the land of thy peregrination, which he promised to thy grandfather.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Isaac again confirmeth the blessings of Abraham to Jacob and his seed, omitting Esau; yea and God repeateth the same v. 13."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when Isaac had dismissed him, taking his journey he came to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban, the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had commanded him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan;"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "having trial also that his father did not willingly see the daughters of Chanaan,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "he went to Ismael, and took to wife besides them which he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael Abraham's son, sister to Nabajoth."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "[1] Therefore Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle in a votive Mass for travellers."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sun set, he took one of the stones that lay there, and putting it under his head, slept in the same place.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "[1] And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, & the top thereof touching heaven: the Angels also of God ascending & descending by it,",
"has_annotation": true,
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Sap. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and our Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, & the God of Isaac: the Land wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South: and IN Thee And Thy Seed All The Tribes of The Earth Shall be Blessed."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Iwill be thy keeper whither soever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all things which I have said."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when Jacob was awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed our Lord is in this place, and I wist not."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Jacob arising in the morning took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and erected it for a title, pouring oil upon the top.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And he called the name of the city [1] Bethel, which before was called Luza.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "House of God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And he vowed a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by the which I walk, and shall give me (b) bread to eat, and raiment to put on,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "To whom enough is not enough, to him nothing is enough. Aulus Gell."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and I shall be returned prosperously to my father's house, the Lord shall be my God,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and this stone, which I have erected for a title, shall be called the House of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob with his father's blessing, and admonition not to take a wife of Chanaan, but of the daughters of his uncle Laban, goeth into Mesopotamia. 6. Esau in the mean time marrieth a third wife, his uncle Ismael's daughter. 11. Jacob seeth in sleep a ladder reaching to heaven, Angels ascending and descending, and our Lord leaning thereon renewed the promises made to Abraham and Isaac. 16. And he awaking maketh a vow."
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Jacob therefore going on his journey, came into the East country."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying beside it: for of it the beasts were watered, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the manner was when all the sheep were gathered together they did roll off the stone, and after the sheep were refreshed they put it on the mouth of the well again."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? Who answered: Of Haran."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban the son of Nachor? They said: We do know him."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Is he in health? Quoth he: He is in health, say they: And behold Rachel his daughter cometh with his flock."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so bring them back to feed."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Who answered: we cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together: and we remove the stone from the well's mouth, that we may water the flocks."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she fed the flock."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Whom when Jacob had seen, & knew her to be his cousin-german, & that they were the sheep of Laban his uncle, he removed the stone, wherewith the well was closed."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And having watered the flock, he (a) kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "S. Augustine (q. 87. in Gen.) commendeth familiar kissing of kinsfolk and friends as a laudable custom in some countries. It is no-where more civil & modest than in England."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she in haste went & told her father."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Who when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, he ran forth to meet him, & embracing him & heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "he answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "he said to him: because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me [1] gratis? Tell me, what wages wilt thou take?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Without wages?"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "He had indeed two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; & the younger was called Rachel."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But Lia was blear-eyed, Rachel well favoured, & of a beautiful countenance."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Whom Jacob loving, said: I will serve thee for Rachel thy younger daughter seven years."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man, tarry with me."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Jacob therefore served for Rachel seven years: and they seemed a few days because of the greatness of his love."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he said to Laban: give me my wife: because now the time is complete, that I may company with her."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Who having bid a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And at night (b) he brought in Lia his daughter to him,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Laban grievously offended, neither could Lia be excused, but Jacob was innocent in this fact."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. With whom when Jacob had companied after the manner, when morning was come he saw Lia:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Why hast thou deceived me?"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, that we bestow the younger in marriage first."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Make up the (c) week of days of this match: and I will give thee this same also, for the work that thou shalt serve me other seven years.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "After seven days he had Rachel who was his first spouse. S. Hierom. Tradit. Heb. S. Aug. q. 89. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "He yielded to his pleasure; and after the week was past, he married Rachel to wife:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "to whom her father had delivered Bala for to be her servant."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And having at length obtained the marriage that he wished, he preferred the love of the later before the former, serving with him other seven years."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And our Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, her sister remaining barren."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Who conceived and bare a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: Our Lord saw mine affliction: now my husband will love me."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And again she conceived and bare a son, and said: For because our Lord heard that I was contemned, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And she conceived the third time, and bare another son: and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, for because I have born him three sons: and therefore she called his name, Levi."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "The fourth time she conceived and bare a son, and said: Now will I confess to our Lord. And for this she called him Juda: And she left bearing."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob entertained by Laban, 15. serveth him seven years for Rachel, 23. but first receiving Lia, 27. seven days after receiveth also Rachel, and serveth for her seven years more. 31. She remaining barren, Lia beareth four sons."
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Rachel seeing she was unfruitful, (a) envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Not properly envy, but grief & lawful emulation. S. Aug. li. 22. c. 54. cont. Faust."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "With whom Jacob being angry answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But she said: I have here my servant Bala: Company with her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children of her."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And she gave him Bala unto (b) marriage: who,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Of plurality of wives see pag. 60."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "When her husband had companied with her, conceived and bare a son."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Rachel said: Our Lord hath judged for me and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name, Dan."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And again Bala conceiving bare another,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "for whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Lia perceiving that she had left bearing, delivered Zelpha her handmaid to her husband."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who conceiving and bringing forth a son,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "she said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Zelpha also bare another."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Lia said: This is for my blessedness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Ruben, going forth in the time of wheat harvest into the field, found mandragoras: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's (c) mandragoras.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Holy Scripture (saith S. Augustine) would never have mentioned such womanly desires, but to admonish us to seek great mysteries therein. li. 22. c. 56. cont. Faustum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandragoras? Rachel said: For thy son's mandragoras let him sleep with thee this night."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Company with me, because with wages I have hired thee for my son's mandragoras. And he slept with her that night."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bare the fifth son,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Again Lia conceiving, bare the sixth son,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "& said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, for because I have born him six sons, and therefore she called his name, Zabulon."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "After whom she bare a daughter named Dina."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Our Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who conceived and bare a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And she called his name, Joseph, saying: Our Lord add to me another son."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Dismiss me that I may return into my country, and to my land."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have served thee."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Laban said to him: Let me find grace in thy sight: I have learned by experience that God hath blessed me for thy sake:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "appoint thee wages which I shall give thee."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Thou hadest a small thing before I came to thee, and now thou art made rich: and our Lord hath blessed thee at my coming in. It is reason therefore that once I provide also for mine own house."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I will nothing: but if thou wilt do that which I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep again."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Go round about all the flocks, and separate all the sheep of diverse colours, of speckled fleece: and what-soever shall be russet and spotted, and of diverse colours, as well in the sheep as in the goats, shall be my wages."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that shall not be of diverse colours, and spotted, and russet, as well in the sheep as in the goats, shall accuse me of theft."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And Laban said: I like well that thou demandest."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of diverse colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is of white and black fleece, he delivered in the hand of his sons."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And he put a space of three days' journey betwixt him and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Jacob therefore (d) taking green rods of the poplar, and of the almond, and of the plane-trees, in part pilled them: and when the barks were taken off, in the parts that were pilled there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was made diverse.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Jacob did justly use this means to recover that which Laban withheld from him, being due for the dowry of his wives, and recompence for his service. Rupert. l. 7. c. 39. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them conceive."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And it came to pass that in the very heat of the ramming, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of diverse colours, and speckled."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And Jacob divided the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's, and the rest, Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Therefore when the ewes went to ram, in the prime time Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that in looking upon them they might conceive:"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "but when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward became Laban's: and they of the prime time, Jacob's."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And the man was enriched beyond measure, and he had many flock, women servants and men servants, camels and asses."
}
],
"summary": "Rachel yet barren delivereth her handmaid to Jacob, who beareth two sons. 9. Lia ceasing to bear giveth her handmaid also, and she beareth two more. 17 Then Lia beareth other two sons, and one daughter. 22. Rachel beareth Joseph. 25. Jacob desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a certain part of the stock's increase. 43. Whereby he becometh exceeding rich."
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "After he heard the words of Laban's sons saying: Jacob hath taken all that was our father's, and being enriched of his substance, is become great:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and perceiving also Laban's countenance, that it was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "especially our Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee;"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "he sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field where he fed the flocks,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and said to them: I see your father's countenance that it is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: and the God of my father hath been with me."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And yourselves know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Yea your father also hath circumvented me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If at any time he said: They of diverse colours shall be thy wages; all the sheep brought forth young of diverse colours. But when he said contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages; all the flocks brought forth white ones."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in my sleep the males ascending upon the females of diverse colours, and the spotted, and the speckled."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the Angel of God said to me in sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Who said: Lift up thine eyes, and see all the males ascending upon the females, them of diverse colours, the spotted and the speckled. For I have seen all things that Laban hath done to thee."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst (e) anoint the stone, and didst vow the vow unto me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, returning into the land of thy nativity.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Anointing of Altars, and free vows are grateful offices to God. See chap. 28."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left in the goods and heritage of our father's house?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Hath he not reputed us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all things that God hath commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Jacob therefore rose up, and setting his children and wives upon camels, went his way."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father into the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the [1] idols of her father.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Teraphim."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he fled."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And when he was gone as well himself as all things that were his right, & having passed the river was marching on to the Mount Galaad,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "it was told Laban the third day that Jacob fled."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who, taking his brethren unto him, pursued him seven days: and he overtook him in the Mount Galaad."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he saw in his sleep God saying unto him: Take heed thou speak not roughly any thing against Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Jacob had now pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same Mount Galaad."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And he said to Jacob: Why didst thou so, that unwitting to me thou wouldst carry away my daughters as captives with the sword?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Why wouldst thou fly without my knowledge, and not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and songs, and timbrels, and citterns?"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: now also indeed,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "my hand is able to requite thee evil: but the God of your father said unto me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing against Jacob roughly."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing to thy father's house, why didst thou steal my gods?"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Jacob answered: In that I departed unwitting to thee, I feared lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "But whereas thou chargest me with theft; with whom soever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren: search whatsoever of thy things thou shalt find with me, and take away. Saying this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Laban therefore having gone into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel's tent,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "she in haste hid the idols under the camel's litter, and sat thereupon: and when he had sought all the tent, and found nothing,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "she said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because according to the custom of women it is now chanced to me. So his carefulness in seeking was deluded."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And Jacob being (f) angry said in chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence of my part hast thou so chased after me,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Jacob in this just expostulation was angry and sinned not. Psal. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "and searched all my household-stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? Lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? Thy ewes and goats were not barren, the wethers of thy flock I did not eat:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "neither that which the beast had caught did I shew to thee, I made good all the damage: whatsoever perished by theft thou didst exact it of me:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, & sleep did fly from mine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And in this sort have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had holpen me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my daughters, and nephews?"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Come therefore, let us enter in league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "Jacob therefore took a stone, and erected it for a title:"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "and he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. Who gathering them together made a heap, and they did eat upon it:"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "Which Laban called the witness-heap: and Jacob called the hillock of testimony, either of men according to the property of his language."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness-heap."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Our Lord behold and judge us when we shall be departed one from the other,"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "if thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them; none is witness of our talk but God, who is present and beholdeth."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have erected between me and thee,"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor judge between us, the God of their father, Jacob therefore sware by the fear of his father Isaac:"
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "and after he had offered victims in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. Who when they had eaten, lodged there."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "but Laban arising in the night, kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned unto his place."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob by God's commandment parteth secretly with all he hath towards his father. 21. Laban pursueth him. 26. expostulating why he went in secret manner, 30. especially chargeth him with stealing his gods. 31. Jacob excuseth himself, not knowing that Rachel had taken away the Idols. 34. And she deludeth his diligent searching for them. 36. Then Jacob expostulateth with Laban for this unkindness. 43. Finally, they make a league and depart each to his own country."
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Jacob also went on his journey that he had begun: and the Angels of God met him."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Whom when he had seen, he said: These are the Camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he sent also messengers before him to Esau his brother into the land of Seir, into the country of Edom:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and he commanded them, saying: Thus speak ye unto my lord Esau: This saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned, and have been with Laban until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "I have oxen, & asses, & sheep, & men servants: & women servants: & now I send a legacy to my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, & behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Jacob feared exceedingly: and being sore afraid divided the people that was with him, the flocks also and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two troops,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "saying: If Esau come to one troop, and strike it, the other troop that remaineth shall be saved."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac; O Lord that didst say to me: Return into thy land, and into the place of thy nativity, and I will do thee good:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "I am inferior to all thy mercies, and thy truth that thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan: and now with two troops I do return."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, because I am sore afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and strike the mother with the children."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Thou didst say that thou wouldst do good to me, and dilate my seed as the sand of the sea, which for multitude cannot be numbered."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when he had slept there that night, he separated of those things which he had, gifts to his brother Esau,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "she goats two hundred, he goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and their foals ten."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he sent by the hands of his servants every flock by it-self, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between flock and flock."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he commanded the former, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee, whose art thou? Or whither goest thou? Or whose are these that thou doest follow?"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt answer: Jacob's thy servant, he hath sent them for gifts to my lord Esau: himself also cometh after us."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "In like manner he gave commandments to the second, and the third, and to all that followed the flocks, saying: With the self-same words speak ye to Esau, when you shall find him."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And ye shall add: Jacob also thy servant himself followeth on after us; for he said: I will pacify him with the gifts that go before, and afterward I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious unto me."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "The gifts therefore went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when he was risen early, he took his two wives, and his handmaids as many, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Iaboc."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And when he had set over all things that appertained to him,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "he tarried alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Who when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And he said to him: Let me go for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "He therefore said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "But he, no, thy name, quoth he, (a) shall not be called Jacob. But Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The changing of his name here promised, is performed chap. 35. S. Hierom Tradit. Heb."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? and blessed him in the same place."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul was made safe."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And immediately the sun rose to him, after that he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "For which cause the children of Israel eat not the sinew, that shrunk in Jacob's thigh, unto this present day: because he touched the sinew of his thigh, and it shrunk."
}
],
"summary": "Angels meet Jacob by the way. 3. He sendeth messengers and gifts to pacify his brother Esau. 24. Wrestling with an Angel is not overcome, in fine the Angel benumbeth his thigh, blesseth him, and foretelleth that he shall be called Israel."
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia, and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And himself going forward adored prostrate to the ground seven times, until his brother came near."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Esau therefore running to meet his brother, embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him wept."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And casting up his eyes he saw the women and their little ones, and said: What mean these? And do they pertain to thee? He answered: They are the little ones which God hath given to me thy servant."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the handmaids and their children coming near bowed themselves."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Lia also with her children came near: and when they had adored in like manner, last Joseph and Rachel adored."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Esau said: What are the troops that I did meet? He answered: That I might find grace before my lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But he said: I have plenty, my brother, be thy things to thyself,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Jacob said: Do not so, I beseech thee, but if I have found grace in thine eyes, take a little present at my hands: for so have I seen thy face as if I should have seen (a) the countenance of God: be gracious to me,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Jacob seeing God's hand in this change of his brother's mind, not of flattery, but sincerely acknowledged his benignity, as God's countenance towards him."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. Scarce at his brother's great instance taking it,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "he said: let us march on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Jacob said: My lord thou knowest that I have with me little ones, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I cause to overlabour themselves in going, in one day all the flocks will die."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "It may please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my little ones to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Esau answered: I beseech thee, that of my people at the leastwise, which is with me, there may remain some to accompany thee in the way. It is not needful, said he, this only I have need of, that I may find grace (my lord) in thy sight."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Esau therefore returned that day the same way that he came, into Seir."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Jacob cometh into Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched his tents, he called the name of that place Socoth, that is, Tabernacles."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and he passed into Salem a city of the Sichimites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt beside the town."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And he bought that part of the field, wherein he had pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for an hundred lambs."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And erecting an altar there, on it he called upon the most Mighty God of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob seeing Esau come with a great troop of men, feareth harm, but is most courteously entertained by him. 10. He hardly persuaded Esau to take gifts, 13. and to return home. 17. So Jacob coming by Socoth to Salem, there buyeth a field, pitcheth his tents, and erecteth an Altar."
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Dina the daughter of Lia went forth to see the women of that country.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "O Dina (saith S. Bernard) what need was there to see women of a strange country! Tract. de gradib. humilitatis."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Whom when Sichem had seen, the son of Hemor the Hevite, the Prince of that land, he was in love with her: and he took her away, and lay with her, by force ravishing the virgin."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And his soul was fast knit unto her, and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And going to Hemor his father, he said: Take me this wench to be my wife."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Which when Jacob had heard, his sons being absent and occupied in feeding of the cattle, he held his peace till they returned."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And when Hemor, Sichem's father was come forth to speak unto Jacob,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "behold his sons came out of the field; and hearing what had passed, they were passing wrath, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful fact in ravishing Jacob's daughter."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Hemor therefore spake to them: The soul of my son Sichem is fastened to your daughter: Give her unto him to wife:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And dwell with us: the land is at your commandment, till, occupy, and possess it."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Yea and Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find grace in your sight: and what soever you shall appoint I will give:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "raise the dowry, and require gifts, and I shall gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this wench to wife."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Jacob's sons answered Sichem & his father (a) in guile, being wrath for the deflowering of their sister:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "They offended by falsely pretending religion, and by excess in revenge, & therefore are reproved by their father. v. 30. & cap. 49. v. 5. Otherwise their zeal was just to punish so foul a fault Judith. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "We cannot do that which you demand, nor give our sister to an uncircumcised person; which with us is an unlawful & abominable thing."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But in this order we may be considerate, if you will be like to us, and all the man sex among you be circumcised:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "then will we give and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "but if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter, and depart."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The offer pleased Hemor and Sichem his son:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "neither did the young man make delay, but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded: for he loved the wench exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And going into the gate of the city, they spake to the people:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "These men are men of peace, and are willing to dwell with us: let them occupy in the land, and till it, which being large and wide doth lack men to till it: their daughters we shall take to wife, and ours we will give to them."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "One thing there is for the which so great a good is deferred: If we circumcise our men sex, following the rite of the nation."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And their substance, and cattle, and all things that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and dwelling together we shall make one people."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And they all assented, and circumcised all the man sex."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And behold the third day, when the grief of the wounds is most painful: Jacob's two sons Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered into the city boldly: and killing all the man sex,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "murdered withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichem's house."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "When they were gone forth, the other sons of Jacob ran in upon them that were slain, and spoiled the city in revenge of the rape."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And wasting all things that were in their houses and fields, their sheep and herds, and asses,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "their little ones also, and their wives they led away captive."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Which things when they had boldly achieved, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me odious to the Chananites, and Pherezites, the inhabiters of this land. We are few: they being gathered together will strike me; and I and my house shall be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "They answered: What? Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?"
}
],
"summary": "For ravishing Dina the Sichimites (being first circumcised) are slain by Simeon & Levi her brothers. 27. The rest of Jacob's sons spoil the city. 30. Jacob blameth them, fearing harm may come by this fact."
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In the mean time God spake to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make an altar to God that appeared to thee when thou didst fly from Esau thy brother."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Jacob having called together all his house, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Arise, and let us go up into Bethel, that we may make there an altar unto God: who herd me in the day of my tribulation, and accompanied me in my journey."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "They gave to him therefore all the strange gods that they had, and the earlets which were in their ears: but he buried them under the [1] terebinth that is behind the city of Sichem.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "An execrable tree."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when they were departed, (a) the terror of God invaded all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue them going away.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God (when it pleaseth him) maketh the weak stronger than the mighty, and few more terrible than many. S. Chrisost. ho. 59. S. Aug. q. 112. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that was with him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he builded there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The same time died Debora the nurse of Rebecca, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called The oak of weeping."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And God appeared again to Jacob after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "saying: Thou (b) shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The name of supplanter not sufficiently expressing his valor he is also called Israel. See the Annotation."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and multiply: Of thee shall be nations and peoples of nations, kings shall come forth of thy loins."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he departed from him."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But he erected a title of stone in the place where God had spoken unto him: offering upon it liquid offerings, and pouring oil on it,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and calling the name of that place, Bethel."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And being gone forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "because of difficulty in her travail, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said unto her: Fear not, for thou shalt have also this a son."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And her soul departing for pain, and death now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is the son of the right hand."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Rachel therefore died, and was buried in the high way that leadeth to Ephrata, this same is Bethleem. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Math. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Jacob erected a title over her sepulchre: This is the title of Rachel's monument, until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and (c) slept with Bala his father's concubine: which thing he was not ignorant of. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "For this fact Ruben was excluded from the chief dignity among his brethren. Gen. 49."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The sons of Lia: Ruben the first begotten, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judas, and Issachar, and Zabulon."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The sons of Bala Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The sons of Zelpha Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "He came also to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And the days of Isaac were complete an hundred eighty years."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And spent with age he died, and was put to his people, being old and full of days, and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob purging his whole family of idols, goeth by God's commandment into Bethel, 7. There buildeth an Altar. 8. Debora dieth. 9. God appearing again to Jacob blesseth him, and changeth his name into Israel 16. Rachel bearing Benjamin dieth, and is buried in Bethleem, 22. Ruben lieth with Bala. 23. Israel's twelve sons are recited. 28. Isaac dieth at the age of 180. years: and his sons Esau and Jacob bury him."
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hetheite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana daughter of Sebeon the Heveite:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Basemath also the daughter of Ismael sister of Nabajoth."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Ada bare Eliphaz: Basemath bare Rahuel:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Oolibama bare Jehus and Ihelon and Core, these are the sons of Esau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And (a) Esau took his wives and sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he could have in the land of Chanaan: and he went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The separation of Esau from Jacob."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land of their peregrination able to bear them, for the multitude of flocks."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Esau dwelt in Mount Seir, he is Edom."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and these are the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada the wife of Esau: Rahuel also the son of Basemath his wife."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Eliphas had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gathan, and Cenes."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphas the son of Esau: which bare to him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada the wife of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "These also were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, which she bare to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "These were Dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-begotten of Esau: Duke Theman, Duke Omar, Duke Sepho, Duke Cenes,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Duke Core, Duke Gatham, Duke Amalech, these are the sons of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, & these are the sons of Ada."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "These also were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: Duke Nahath, Duke Zara, Duke Samma, Duke Meza. And these be the Dukes of Rahuel, in the Land of Edom: these be the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And these were the sons of Oolibama the wife of Esau: Duke Jehus, Duke Ihelon, Duke Core. These be the Dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "These are the sons of Esau, and these are the Dukes of them: the same is Edom."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "These are the sons of Seir the Horreite, the inhabiters of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are Dukes of the Horreite, the sons of Seir in the Land of Edom."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And these were the sons of Sobal: Alvan and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Onam."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And these were the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon his father:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and Iethram, and Charan."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Disan had sons: Hus, and Aram."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "These were Dukes of the Horreites: Duke Lotan, Duke Sobal, Duke Sebeon, Duke Ana,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Duke Dison, Duke Eser, Duke Disan: these were Dukes of the Horreites that ruled in the Land Seir."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before that the children of Israel had a king, were these:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Bela died, and (b) Jobab the son of Zara of Bosra reigned in his stead.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "By the common opinion of Latin and Greek fathers this was holy Job, as we shall discuss when we come to his book"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And when Jobab was dead, Husam of the land of the Themans reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "He also being dead, there reigned in his stead Adad the son of Badad, that struck Madian in the country of Moab: and the name of his city was Avith."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And when Adad was dead, there reigned for him Semla of Masreca."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "He also being dead, Saul of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And when he also was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor succeeded into the Kingdom."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "This men also being dead Adar reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "These therefore be the names of the Dukes of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings: Duke Thamna, Duke Alva, Duke Jetheth,"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Duke Oolibama, Duke Ela, Duke Phinon,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Duke Cenez, Duke Theman, Duke Mabsar,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Duke Magdiel, Duke Hiram: these are the Dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their Empire, the same is Esau the father of the Idumeans."
}
],
"summary": "Esau with his wives and children parteth from Jacob. 9. His genealogy is recited, with their habitations."
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And (a) these are his generations: Joseph when he was sixteen years old, fed the flock with his brethren being yet a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of (b) a most wicked crime.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These things following happened to Jacob, in his generations, that is in his children. See S. Chrisost. ho. 23. in Gen."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "That for ill life they were infamous, the Hebrew word dibba signifieth infamy."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had begotten him in his old age and he made him a coat of diverse colours.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And his brethren seeing that he was loved of his father more than all his sons, they hated him, neither could they speak any thing to him peaceably."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "It chanced also that he reported to his brethren a dream that he had seen, which occasion was the seed of great hatred."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he said to them: hear my dream which I have seen:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "[1] I thought we bound sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about did adore my sheaf.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle on Friday, in the second week of Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "His brethren answered: What? Shalt thou be our king? Or shall we be subject to thy dominion? This occasion of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to the envy and hatred."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He saw also another dream, which telling his brethren, he said: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars adore me."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Which when he had reported to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast seen? Why, shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren adore thee upon the earth?"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "His brethren therefore envied him: but (c) his father considered the thing with himself.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Brothers easily envy each other: but the parents are glad of their children's advancement."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's flocks,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. Who answering,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "I am ready; he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again what they do. Being sent therefore from the Vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But he answered: (d) I seek my brethren, shew me where they feed the flocks.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "So Christ, & all good Pastors."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go into Dothain. Joseph therefore went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who when they had seen him a far off, before he came nigh them, they devised to kill him:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and spake among themselves: Behold the dreamer cometh,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "come, let us kill him, and cast him into an old cistern: and we will say a naughty wild beast hath devoured him: (e) and then it shall appear what his dreams do profit him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "So the Jews thinking to prevent Christ's exaltation cooperated unwitting thereto. Prosper. li. de promiss. Dei."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Do not take away his life, neither shed ye blood: but cast him into this cistern that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: and he said this, desirous to deliver him out of their hands, and to restore him to his father."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "As soon therefore as he came unto his brethren, forthwith they stripped him out of his side coat, and of diverse colours,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and cast him into the old cistern, that had not water."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And sitting to eat bread, they saw Ismaelites wayfaring men coming from Galaad, and their camels carrying spices, and rosen, and myrrh into Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Judas therefore said to his brethren: What availeth it us if we kill our brother, and conceal his blood?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not polluted: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren assented to his words."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drawing him out of the cistern, sold him to the Ismaelites, for (f) twenty pieces of silver, who brought him into Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Some read thirty: And as the reading is diverse, so Christ whom Joseph signified is more & less esteemed of"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Ruben returning to the cistern, findeth not the boy:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and renting his garments went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid which they had killed,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "sending some that should carry it to their father, and should say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or no."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Which when the father acknowledged, he said: It is my son's coat, a naughty wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And tearing his garments, did on sackcloth, mourning his son a great time."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And all his children being gathered together to assuage their father's sorrow, he would not take comfort, but said: I will descend unto my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he persevered in weeping,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "the Madianites sold Joseph in Aegypt to Putiphar an Eunuch of Pharao's, master of the soldiers."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph informing his father of his brethren's faults, 5. and telling his dreams, is by them more hated. 13. being sent to visit them, 18. they first think to kill him, 26. but by Judas' counsel sell him to the Ismaelites, 29. unwitting to Ruben. 33. His father lamenteth supposing him to be slain by some wild beast. 36. He is sold again to Putiphar in Aegypt. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The seventh part of this book. How Joseph was sold into Aegypt, and there advanced."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The (a) same time Judas going down from his brethren, turned in to a man an Odolamite, named Hiras.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Moyses inserteth here this history, because Christ should be born of the genealogy of Judas and Phares. Mat. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he did company with her."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Who conceived, and bare a son, and called his name Her."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And conceiving a child again, she called her son after he was born, Onan."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "She bare also the third, whom she called Sela: after whose birth, she ceased to bear any more."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Judas gave a wife to Her his first-begotten, named Thamar."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Also Her the first-begotten of Judas, was wicked in the sight of our Lord, and was slain of him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Judas therefore said to Onan his son: Company with thy brother's wife, and be joined to her, that thou mayest raise seed to thy brother.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He knowing that the children should not be born to himself, companying with his brother's wife, shed his seed upon the ground, lest children might be born in his brother's name."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And therefore our Lord struck him, because he did a detestable thing."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "For the which cause Judas said to Thamar his daughter in law: Be a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he feared lest he also might die, as his brethren. Who went her way and dwelt in her father's house."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And after many days were come and gone, the daughter of Sue the wife of Judas died. Who after his mourning having received consolation, went up to the shearers of his sheep, himself and Hiras his shepherd of his flock, the Odolamite, into Thamnas."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And it was told (b) Thamar that her father in law came up into Thamnas to shear his sheep.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Thamar sinned desiring to be a mother without lawful marriage: and Judas sinned lying with a supposed harlot S. Aug. li. 22. c. 61. 62. & 63. cont. Faust."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Who putting off the garments of her widowhood, took a veil: and changing her habit, sat in the cross way that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown, and she had not taken him to her husband."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Whom when Judas had seen, he supposed her to be an harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And going unto her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter in law. Who answering: What wilt thou give me that thou mayest enjoy my company?"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flocks. And when she said again: I will suffer that thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till thou send that which thou dost promise;"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Judas said: What wilt thou to be given thee for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring, and bracelet, and staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore by once companying conceived,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and rising she went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Judas sent a kid by his shepherd the Odolamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: who when he had not found her,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "he asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? All making answer: There was no harlot in this place,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "he returned to Judas, and said to him: I have not found her: yea the men also of that place said unto me, that there never sat harlot there."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Judas said: Let her take it to her, surely she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And behold after three months they told Judas, saying: Thamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot, and her belly seemeth to swell. And Judas said: Bring her forth (c) that she may be burnt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Adultery punishable by death, in the law of nature."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Who when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By that man, whose these things are, have I conceived: look whose the ring is, and the bracelet, and the staff."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Who acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela my son. But he knew her no more."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her belly: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth the hand, wherein the midwife tied a scarlet string, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "This shall come forth the former."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? And for this cause called his name Phares."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Afterward his brother came forth, in whose hand was the scarlet string: whom she called Zara."
}
],
"summary": "Judas having three sons by a Chananite, 6. marrieth the first, and after his death, the second to Thamar. 10. who also dying, he delayeth to match the third with her. 15. But himself begetteth of her (taking her for a harlot) two sons twins, Phares and Zara:"
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore Joseph was brought into Aegypt, and Putiphar an Eunuch of Pharao, Prince of his army, a man of Aegypt bought him, at the hand of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And (a) our Lord was with him, and he was a man that in all things did prosperously: and he dwelt in his master's house,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Joseph endowed with all virtues was a special mirror of chastity. S. Amb. li. de Ioseph. c. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "who knew very well that our Lord was with him, and that all things which he did were directed by him in his hand."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Joseph found grace before his master, and ministered to him: by whom being made ruler over all his things, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered unto him:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "[1] and our Lord blessed the house of the Aegyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied as well in houses, as in lands all his substance.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The four cardinal virtues reigned in him."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was of beautiful countenance, and comely favoured to behold."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "After many days therefore his Mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Sleep with me."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Who (b) in nowise assenting to that wicked act, said to her: Behold, my master having delivered all things unto me, knoweth not what he hath in his own house:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Temperance."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, beside thee, that art his wife: (c) how therefore can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Justice."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "With these kind of words (d) day by day both the woman was importune upon the young man, and he refused the adultery.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Fortitude."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And it chanced on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and did some business without any man with him:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Sleep with me. Who (e) leaving the cloak in her hand, fled, and went forth abroad.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Prudence."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself to be contemned,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "she called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See he hath brought in an Hebrew to delude us: he came upon me for to lie with me; and when I had cried out,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and he heard my voice, he left the cloak that I held, and fled forth."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For an argument therefore of her credit she reserved the cloak, & shewed it to her husband returning home,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and said: There came unto me the Hebrew servant, whom thou didst bring hither, for to delude me:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and when he heard me cry, he left the cloak which I held, and fled forth."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "His master hearing these things, and giving over light credit to his wife's words, was very wrath:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and delivered Joseph into prison, where the king's prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And (f) our Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him grace in the sight of the chief of the prison.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "God is more specially with his servants in affliction than in prosperity. S. Amb. li. de Ioseph. c. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Who delivered in his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody: and whatsoever was done, was under him."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Neither did himself know anything, having committed all things to him: for our Lord was with him, and directed all his works."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph being in great credit with his Master, hath the whole charge of his house. 7. Contemning his Mistress' solicitation to incontinence, 13. is falsely accused by her to his Master, 20. and cast into prison. 21. Where again he getteth credit, and hath the charge of all the prisoners."
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These things being so done, it chanced that two Eunuchs, the cup-bearer of the king of Aegypt, and his baker, offended against their lord."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Pharao being wrath against them (for the one was chief of the cup-bearers, the other chief baker)"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "he sent them into the prison of the captain of the soldiers, in the which Joseph also was prisoner."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, who also ministered to them: some little time was passed, and they were kept in custody."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they saw each of them both a dream in one night, according to an interpretation agreeing to themselves:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "to whom when Joseph was entered in the morning, and saw them sad,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "he asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than it was wont?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Who answered: We have seen a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Why doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have seen.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The chief of the cup-bearers first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "wherein were three branches, growing by little and little into buds, and after the blossoms, the grapes waxed ripe:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and the cup of Pharao in my hand: and I took the grapes, and wrung them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "after the which Pharao will remember thy service, & will restore thee to thy old degree: & thou shalt give him the cup according to thine office, as before thou hadst wont to do."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this mercy, to put Pharao in mind that he take me out of this prison:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "because I was taken away by stealth, out of the land of the Hebrews, and here an innocent was I cast into the lake."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The master of the bakers seeing that he had wisely resolved the dream, he said: And I also saw a dream, that I had three baskets of meal upon my head:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and that in one basket that was the higher, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds did eat out of it."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "after the which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee (a) on the cross, and the fowls shall tear thy flesh.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Death on the cross was most cruel, & most ignominious. Cicero 7. Ver. yet suffered by Christ and by him made glorious. Sap. 2. Philip. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The third day after this was the birth-day of Pharao: who making a great feast to his servants, at the banquet he remembered the master of the cup-bearers, and the chief of the bakers."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he restored the one into his place, to reach him the cup,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "the other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be approved."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And yet notwithstanding the chief of the cup-bearers, prosperous things succeeding, forgat his interpreter."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph interpreteth the dreams of two Eunuchs prisoners, 12. that the one should be restored to his office, 16. the other be hanged. 20. The third day the event declared the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is forgotten."
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "After two years (a) Pharao saw a dream. He thought he stood upon a river,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Pharao his dreams, and his Eunuchs' were prophetical. For by them God forshewed things to come v. 25. yet they were no Prophets, but Joseph: who had the gift to interpret them. S. Aug. l. 12. c. 9. de Gen. ad lit. S. Greg. l. 11. Moral. in c. 13. Iob."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "out of the which came up seven kine, fair and fat exceedingly: and they fed in marish places."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Other seven also came up out of the river, foul, and carrion lean: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and they devoured them that had the marvelous beauty and good state of bodies. Pharao after he waked,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "slept again, and saw another dream: Seven ears of corn grew forth upon one stalk full and fair:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "there sprang also other ears as many, thin and blasted with adustion,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "devouring all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaking up after his rest,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and when morning was come being frighted with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Aegypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, told them his dream, neither was there any that could interpret it."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Then at length the master of the cup-bearers remembering himself, said: I confess my sin:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief of the bakers to be cast into the prison of the Captain of the soldiers:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "where in one night both of us saw a dream portending things to come."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "There was there a young man an Hebrew, servant to the same Captain of the soldiers, to whom telling our dreams,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "we heard whatsoever afterward the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office, and he was hanged upon a gibbet."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Forthwith at the king's commandment, Joseph being brought out of the prison they polled him: and changing his apparel, brought him unto him."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To whom he said: I have seen dreams, and there is not any that can expound them; which I have heard, thou dost most wisely interpret."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Joseph answered: Without me, God shall answer prosperous things to Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Pharao therefore told that he had see: Me thought I stood upon the bank of the river,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and seven kine came up out of the bank of the river, exceeding fair, and full of flesh: which grazed on green places in a marish pasture."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And behold there followed these other seven kine, so passing ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Aegypt;"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "which having devoured and consumed the former,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "gave no token of their fullness: but with the like leanness & deformity looked heavily. Awaking, and fallen again into a deep sleep,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Isaw a dream: Seven ears of corn grew forth upon one stalk, full and very fair."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Other seven also thin and blasted with adustion, sprang of the stalk,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "which devoured the beauty of the former: I told the dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can declare it."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewed to Pharao (b) the things that he will do.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These things came to pass by God's particular providence. Psal. 4. God called (or caused) a famine upon the land."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The seven fair kine, and the seven full ears, be seven years of plentifulness and both contain the self-same meaning of the dream."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Also the seven lean and thin kine, that came up after them, and the seven thin ears, and blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Which shall be fulfilled in this order."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Behold there shall come seven years of great fertility in the whole Land of Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "after which shall follow other seven years of so great sterility, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And in that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing, it is a token of the certainty for that the word of God shall come to pass, and be fulfilled speedily."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Now therefore let the king provide a wise man and industrious, & make him Ruler over the Land of Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "that he may appoint overseers over all countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven years of the fertility,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "that now presently shall ensue: and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao's hands, and let it be reserved in the cities."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And let it be in a readiness against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Aegypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and he spake to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God?"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "He said therefore to Joseph: Because God hath shewed thee all things that thou hast spoken, can I find a wiser and one like unto thee?"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Thou shalt be over my house, & at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in the throne of the Kingdom I will go before thee."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a silk robe, and put a chain of gold about his neck."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made Governor over the whole Land of Aegypt.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And he turned his name, & called him in the Aegyptian tongue the Saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth the daughter of Putiphar (c) Priest of Heliopolis. Joseph therefore went forth to the land of Aegypt",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Cohen signifieth Priest; as not only the Latin, but also the 70. & Philo and Iosephus here translate; though sometimes it signifieth Prince, as the Chaldey paraphrasis interpreteth, whereby it is probable that this Putiphar was both a priest, and a prince."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "(and he was thirty years old when he stood in the sight of king Pharao) and did circuit all the countries of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "And the fertility of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves was gathered into the barns of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "All the abundance also of grain was laid up in every city."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it became equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And there were born unto Joseph two sons before the famine came: whom Aseneth the daughter of Putiphar Priest of Heliopolis bare him."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "And he called the name of the first-begotten [1] Manasses, saying: God made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* Oblivion."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "The name also of the second he called [1] Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to increase in the land of my poverty.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* Fruitful or Growing."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "Therefore when the seven years of the plentifulness, that had been in Aegypt were passed:"
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "the seven years of scarcity began to come, which Joseph foretold: and in the whole world the famine prevailed, but in all the land of Aegypt there was bread."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "The which being in hunger, the people cried to Pharao, desiring food. To whom he answered: Go ye to Joseph: & whatsoever he shall say to you, that do ye."
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "And the famine daily increased in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Aegyptians: for them also the famine had oppressed."
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "And all Provinces came into Aegypt, to buy victuals, and to moderate the misery of the scarcity."
}
],
"summary": "Pharao dreaming of fat & lean kine: 5. also of full and thin ears of corn, 8. no other being able to interpret, 9. Joseph is remembered. 25. Who interpreting the same, 38. is made ruler over all Aegypt, 50. marrieth, and hath two sons, Manasses and Ephraim."
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Jacob hearing that victuals were sold in Aegypt, he said to his sons: Why neglect ye?"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "I have heard that wheat is sold in Aegypt: Go ye down and buy us necessaries, that we may live and not be consumed with lack."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Therefore the ten brethren of Joseph going down to buy corn in Aegypt,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Benjamin being kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "entered into the land of Aegypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Joseph was Prince in the land of Aegypt, and at his pleasure corn was sold to the people. And when his brethren had adored him,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and he knew them, he spake as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: From whence came you? Who answered: From the Land of Chanaan, that we may buy necessaries to live.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And yet himself knowing his brethren, was not known of them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And remembering the dreams, which sometimes he had seen, he said to them: You are spies: to view the weaker parts of the land you are come.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who said: It is not so, my Lord, but thy servants are come to buy victuals."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "We are all the sons of one man: we are come as men of peace, neither do thy servants go about any evil."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "To whom he answered: It is otherwise: you came to consider the undefensed parts of this land."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But they: We thy servants, say they, are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the Land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "This is it, quoth he, that I said: You are spies."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Now presently I will take a trial of you: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother do come,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Send you one of you to bring him: and you shall be in prison till the things be proved which you have said, whether they be true or false: (a) otherwise by the health of Pharao you are spies.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If these things which ye say be proved false, ye are to be held as spies for your lying. S. Aug. q. 139. super Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Therefore he put them in prison three days."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the third day bringing them out of prison, he said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "If you be men of peace, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought unto your houses,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and bring your youngest brother to me, that I may prove your sayings to be true, and that you die not. They did as he had said,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and they talked one to another: Worthily do we suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the distress of his soul whilst he besought us, and we heard not: therefore is this tribulation come upon us."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Among whom Ruben one of them, said: Why, did not I say to you: Sin not against the boy; and you heard me not? Lo his blood is required."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And they knew not that Joseph understood: because he spake to them by an interpreter."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he turned away himself a little while, and wept: and returning he spake to them."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants that they should fill up their sacks with wheat, and put every man's money again in their bags, giving them besides for to eat on the way: who did so."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But they carrying their corn upon their asses, took their journey."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And one of them opening his sack to give his beast provender in the Inn, beholding the money in the sack's mouth,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "he said to his brethren: My money is given me again, behold it is in the sack. And being astonished and troubled amongst themselves, they said: What is this, that God hath done unto us?"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And they came to Jacob their father into the land of Chanaan, & they told him all things that had chanced unto them, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "The lord of the land spake to us roughly, & thought us to be spies of the province,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "to whom we answered: We are men of peace, neither do we attempt any treachery."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the Land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Who said to us: Thus shall I try that you be men of peace: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye provision necessary for your houses, and go your ways,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this fellow again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have license to buy what things you will."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "This being said when they poured out their corn, every man found his money tied in the mouth of the sacks: and all being astonished together,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children, Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils, are fallen upon me."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "To whom Ruben answered: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him unto thee."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he alone is remaining: if any adversity shall chance to him in the land to the which you go, you shall bring down (b) my hoar hairs with sorrow unto hell.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Mine old age, or, me an old man. S. Aug. q. 142."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Jacob sendeth ten of his sons to buy corn in Aegypt. 7. where Joseph knowing them, they not knowing him, with hard speeches putteth them in prison. 18. At last Simeon remaining in custody, till Benjamin be brought, the rest are dismissed, 25. with their money, unknown to them, in their sacks."
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In the mean time the famine did oppress all the land very sore."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the provision being spent, which they had brought out of Aegypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little victual."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Judas answered: That Same man denounced unto us under attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will go forward together, and will buy necessaries for thee:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "but if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, denounced unto us saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Israel said to them: You have done this to my misery, in that you told him that you had another brother also."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But they answered: The man asked us in order our progeny: if our father lived; if we had a brother: and we answered him consequently to that which he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Judas also said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest we and our little ones die."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Itake upon me the boy: require him of my hand, unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be (a) guilty of sin against thee for ever.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Guilt of sin is a greater bond than the life of Ruben's sons, which he offered, and Jacob yielded not thereto; & yet granted to this offer of Judas."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If delay had not been made, we had been come now the second time."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Therefore Israel their father said to them: If it must needs be so, do that you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry to the man for presents, a courtesy of rosen, & of honey, & of incense, of myrrh, of terebinth, and of almonds."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Double money also carry with you: and recarry that you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by an error:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "but take also your brother, and go to the man."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And my God almighty make him favourable unto you; and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: as for me I shall be desolate without children."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The men therefore took the presents, & the double money, & Benjamin; & went down into Aegypt, & stood before Joseph."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Whom when he had seen & Benjamin withal, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast; because they shall eat with me at noon."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He did that which was commanded him, and brought the men into the house."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And there being sore afraid, they said one to another: because of the money which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may turn upon us [1] a false accusation, and forcibly bring both us and our asses into bondage.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Calumniam."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Wherefore in the very door stepping to the steward of the house,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "They spake: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. Now once before we came down to buy provision:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Which being bought, when we were come to the Inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But we have brought other money besides, to buy the things that are necessary for us: our conscience is not privy, who put it in our bags."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But he answered: Peace be with you, fear you not: your God, and the God of your father hath given you treasures in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought forth Simeon unto them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And being brought into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But they made ready the presents, till Joseph should come in at noon: for they had heard that they should eat bread there."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Therefore Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him presents holding them in their hands, and (b) they adored prostrate to the ground.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "They now adore him, who they sold, lest they should adore him. S. Greg. ho. 22. in Ezech."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But he courteously resaluting them, asked them saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Who answered: Thy servant our father is in health, he is yet living. And bowing themselves they adored him."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin his brother of the same mother, and said: is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And again: God, saith he, be merciful unto thee my son."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And he made haste because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears brake forth: and entering into his chamber he wept."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And when he had washed his face, coming forth again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Which being set down, to Joseph apart, and to his brethren apart, to the Aegyptians also that did eat with him apart (for it is unlawful for the Aegyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and (c) they think such a feast profane)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "See Exodi. 8. v. 26."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "they sat before him, the first begotten according to his first-birth, and the youngest according to his age. And they marveled out of measure,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Taking the portions that they received of him: and the greater portion came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded (d) by five parts. And they drank and were inebriated with him.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Every one having five portions, Benjamin had double. Josephus li. 1. Antiq."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The famine pressing the land, Jacob willeth his sons to go again into Aegypt to buy more corn: 3. Who refusing to go without Benjamin, 11. he is sent with them, and presents and double money, lest the former were brought back by error. 16. Joseph seeing Benjamin, 23. delivereth Simeon, and entertaineth them all at dinner."
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And in the sack's mouth (a) of the younger put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By this Joseph tried his brethren's affection, whether they would entreat for Benjamin, or suffer him to be captive: as they had before sold himself to captivity. Theo. q. 105. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when the morning rose, they were dismissed with their asses."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: then Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, quote he, and pursue the men: and overtaking them say to them: Why have you rendered evil for good?"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The cup which you have stolen is that wherein my lord doth drink, and wherein he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "He did as he had commanded. And having overtaken them, he spake to them in the same order."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Who answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The money that we found in the top of our sacks, we recarried to thee from the land of Chanaan: & how followeth it, that we have stolen out of thy lord's house gold or silver?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "With whom soever of thy servants that shall be found which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of our lord."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who said to them: Be it done according to your sentence: with whom soever it shall be found, be he my bondman, and you shall be guiltless."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Therefore in haste taking down their sacks upon the ground, every man opened."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Which when he had searched, beginning from the elder even to the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But they (b) renting their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Otorments of mercy! He vexeth whom he loveth. S. Greg. ho. 22. in Ezech."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Judas foremost with his brethren entered in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they fell together before him on the ground."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To whom he said: Why would you do so? Know you not that there is not the like to me in the science (c) of divining.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Joseph being indeed a Prophet, knowing more than all sorcerers in Aegypt spoke of himself as he was esteemed in that place. S. Aug. q. 145. super Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "To whom Judas said: What shall we answer, my lord? Or what shall we speak, or be able justly to pretend? God hath found the iniquity of thy servants: lo we are all bondmen to my Lord, both we, & he with whom the cup was found."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Joseph answered: God forbid that I should so do: he that stole the cup, the same be my bondman: and go you free unto your father."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Judas approaching nearer said boldly: I beseech thee my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thine ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "my Lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother?"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and we answered thee my lord: We have a father an old man, and a little boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead: and his mother hath him only, and his father loveth him tenderly."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set mine eyes on him."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And thou saidst to thy servants: Unless your youngest brother come with you, you shall no more see my face."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all things that my lord did speak."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "To whom we said: We cannot go: if our youngest brother shall go down with us, we will set forward together: otherwise he being absent, we dare not see the man's face."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bare me two."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "One went forth, and you said: A beast did devour him: and hitherto he appeareth not."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "If you take this also, and ought befall him in the way, you shall bring down (d) my hoar hairs with sorrow unto hell.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "See Gen. 42. v. 38."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Therefore if I shall enter to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him)"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his hoar hairs with sorrow unto hell."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Let me be thy proper servant that did take him into my protection and promised, saying: Unless I bring him again I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Itherefore thy servant will tarry instead of the child in the service of my lord, and let the child go up with his brethren."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "For I cannot return to my father, the child being absent; lest I stand by a witness of the calamity that shall oppress my father."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph causeth their sacks to be filled with corn, and their money to be put again therein, and in Benjamin's sack also a silver cup, 4. and when they were parted, sending after them, chargeth them with theft. 12. And the cup being found in Benjamin's sack, they all much afflicted return to Joseph. 17. who threatening to keep Benjamin, 18. Judas entreateth, 32. & finally offereth himself to servitude for him."
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Joseph could no longer refrain many standing by in presence: whereupon he commanded that all should go forth, and no stranger should be present at their acknowledging one of another."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Aegyptians heard, and all the house of Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he said to his Brethren: I am Joseph: is my father yet living? His brethren could not answer him being terribly astonished out of measure."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "To whom gently he said: Come hither to me. And when they were come near him, I am, quoth he, Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Be not afraid, neither let it seem to you a hard case that you did sell me into these countries: for (a) God sent me before you into Aegypt for your preservation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God's providence turned their evil dealing to the good of the whole family, chap. 50. v. 20."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the earth, and yet five years remain, wherein there can be neither earing nor reaping."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have victuals to live."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Not by your counsel, but by the will of God was I sent hither: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and Prince in all the land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Make haste and get ye up to my father, and you shall say to him: Thy son Joseph willeth thus: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Aegypt: come down to me, tarry not."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me thou and thy sons, and thy son's children, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou dost possess."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And there I will feed thee (for yet there are five years of famine remaining) lest both thou perish and thy house, and all things that thou dost possess."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin do see, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Report to my father my whole glory & all things that you have seen in Aegypt: make haste, and bring him to me."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, embracing him he wept: he also in like manner weeping upon his neck."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one: after which things they were bold to speak unto him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And it was heard of, and very famously reported abroad in the king's court: The brethren of Joseph are come: and (b) Pharao was glad, and all his family.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Joseph's prudent proceeding before he made himself known to his brethren and them to Pharao, procured all this joy and favour towards them in Aegypt."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he spake to Joseph that he should command his brethren, saying: Loading your beasts go into the Land of Chanaan,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and take thence your father and kin, and come to me: and I will give you all the good things of Aegypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Give commandment also that they take wains out of the land of Aegypt, for the carriage of their little ones and wives: and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Neither do you leave any thing of your household stuff: for all the riches of Aegypt shall be yours."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the sons of Israel did as it was commanded them. To whom Joseph gave wains according to Pharao's commandment, and victuals for the way."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He bade also to be brought up for every one two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with five robes of the best:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "sending to his father as much money & raiment, adding besides them he asses that should carry of all the riches of Aegypt, and as many she asses, carrying wheat for the journey and bread."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore he dismissed his brethren, and when they were departing he said to them: Be not angry in the way.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Who going up out of Aegypt, came into the land of Chanaan to their father Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And they told him saying: Joseph thy son is living: and he ruleth in all the Land of Aegypt. Which when Jacob heard, awaking as it were out of a heavy sleep, notwithstanding did not believe them."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "They on the contrary side reported the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wains and all things that he had sent, his spirit revived,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and he said: It sufficeth me if Joseph my son be living yet: I will go, and see him before I die."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph manifesteth himself to his brethren. Who being much terrified he comforteth them, and weeping embraceth every one. 16. The bruit whereof coming to Pharao, he congratulating commandeth Joseph to call his father with all his family into Aegypt. 21. So the eleven brothers are sent away with gifts & provision for Jacob's journey. 26. All which the father understanding is revived in spirit."
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Israel taking his journey with all things that he had came to the well of the oath, and killing there victims to the God of his father Isaac,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Of Jacob and his progenies going into Aegypt. Of his and Joseph's death."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "he heard him by a vision of the night calling him, and saying unto him: Jacob, Jacob. To whom he answered: Lo here I am."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father: fear not, go down into Aegypt, for into a great nation will I make thee there."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "I will go down with thee thither, and thence will I bring thee returning: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their little ones and wives in the wains, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and all that he had possessed in the Land of Chanaan: and he came into Aegypt with all his seed,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "His sons, and nephews, daughters, and all his progeny together."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Aegypt, himself with his children. His first-begotten Ruben."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu and Hesron and Charmi."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The sons of Simeon: Iamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul the Son of Chananitess."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath and Merari."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The sons of Juda: Her & Onan and Sela and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And there were sons born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua and Job and Semron."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The sons of Zabulon: Sared and Elon and Iahelel."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "These are the sons of Lia, which she bare (a) in Mesopotamia of Syria with Dina his daughter. All the souls of his sons and daughters are thirty three.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "That is, She bare their fathers in Mesopotamia. S. Aug. q. 131. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi and Siuni & Esebon and Heri and Arodi and Areli."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua and Jessui and Beria, Sara also their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "these be the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia his daughter, and these she bare to Jacob sixteen souls."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And there were sons born to Joseph in the Land of Aegypt, which Aseneth the daughter of Putiphar Priest of Heliopolis bare to him: Manasses and Ephraim."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor and Asbel and Gera and Naaman and Echi and Ros and Mophim and Ophim and Ared."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "These be the sons of Rachel, which she bare to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The sons of Dan: Husim."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni and Ieser and Sallem."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "These be the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter: and these she bare to Jacob; all the souls, seven."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "All the souls, that entered with Jacob into Aegypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his son's wives, sixty six.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Aegypt, two souls, All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Aegypt, were seventy."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And he sent Judas before him to Joseph, that he should tell him, and he should come into Gessen to meet him."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Wither when he was come, Joseph addressing his chariot went up to meet his father, unto the same place: and seeing him fell upon his neck, and as they embraced he wept."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And his father said to Joseph: Now will I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and do leave thee alive."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But he spake to his brethren, and to all his father's house: I will go up, & will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and my father's house that were in the Land of Chanaan, are come to me:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and the men are pastors of sheep, & their trade is to feed flocks: their cattle, & herds, and all that they could have, they have brought with them."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And when he shall call you & shall say: What is your trade?"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "You shall answer: We thy servants are pastors, from our infancy until this present, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the Land of Gessen, because the Aegyptians (b) detest all pastors of sheep.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Aegyptians honouring sheep, goats, and kine for gods, detested them that did govern, kill, or eat those cattle."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Israel warranted in a vision from God, goeth into Aegypt with all his family, 8. who are here recited. 28. Joseph meeting him in Gessen, adviseth him to tell Pharao that they are shepherds by their trade of life. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The eighth and last part of this book."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Joseph therefore going in told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and herds, and all things that they possess, are come out of the Land of Chanaan; and behold they stay in the Land of Gessen."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The utmost also of his brethren five persons he presented before the king:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "whom he asked: What trade have you? They answered: We thy servants are pastors of sheep, both we, and our fathers."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "We are come to sojourn in the land, because there is no grass for thy servant's flocks, the famine being very sore in the land of Chanaan: and we desire thee to command that we thy servants may be in the Land of Gessen."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The Land of Aegypt is in thy sight: make them to dwell in the best place, & deliver them the Land of Gessen. And if so be thou know that there are industrious men among them, appoint them masters of my cattle."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and set him before him: who blessed him,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and being asked of him: How many be the days of the years of thy life?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He answered: The days of the pilgrimage of my life are an hundred thirty years, (a) few and evil, and they are not come to the days of my fathers, in which they were pilgrims.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Every man's life is short, & replenished with many miseries. Job. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And blessing the king, he went forth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But Joseph gave possession to his father and his brethren in Aegypt, in the best place of the land, in Rhamesses, as Pharao had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing victuals to every one."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "For in the whole world there wanted bread. & famine oppressed the land, especially of Aegypt and Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Out of which he gathered together all the money for the selling of corn, & brought it in unto the king's treasure."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when the buyers wanted money, all Aegypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why die we before thee, our money failing?"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "To whom he answered: Bring your cattle, and for them I will give you victuals, if you have not to pay."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Which when they had brought, he gave them sustenance for horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he sustained them that year for the exchange of the cattle."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not conceal from our lord, that our money failing, our cattle withal have failed: neither art thou ignorant, that we have nothing besides our bodies and land."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Why therefore shall we die in thy sight? Both we and our land will be thine: buy us to be the king's bondmen, & give us seed, lest for default of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Joseph therefore bought all the Land of Aegypt, every man selling his possessions for the greatness of the famine. And he brought it under Pharao's hands,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and all the people thereof from the farthest ends of Aegypt, even to the uttermost coasts thereof,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "saving the land of the Priests, which the king had delivered them: (b) to whom also a certain allowance of victuals was given out of the common barns, and therefore they were not driven to sell their possessions.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Priests of Aegypt being not forced to labour for their living, found out the Mathematics as witnesseth Aristotle in princ. Metaph."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Joseph therefore said to the people: Behold as you see, Pharao possesseth both you and your land: take seed, and sow the fields,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "that you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king: the other four Iam content you shall have for seed, & for food to your families & your children."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Who answered: Our life is in thy hand: only let our lord have a respect unto us, and we will gladly serve the king."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "From that time until this present day in the whole land of Aegypt, the fifth part is payed to the kings, and it became as it were a law, saving the land of the Priests, which was free from this condition."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Israel therefore dwelt in Aegypt, that is, in the Land of Gessen, and possessed it: and was increased, & multiplied exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to an hundred forty seven years."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And when he saw that the day of his death approached, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh: and thou shalt do me this mercy and truth. Not to bury me in Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "but I will sleep with my fathers, and take me away out of this land, & bury me in the sepulchre of my ancestors. To whom Joseph answered: I will do that thou hast commanded.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And he said: Swear then to me. Who swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed's head.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "Jacob with his sons being come into Gessen, Pharao granteth them the same place to dwell in. 13. The famine forceth the Aegyptians to sell all their goods, lands, and possessions to the King, 22. except the Priest's part, to whom the King alloweth necessary food, without paying for it. 27. After seventeen years Jacob adjureth Joseph to bury him amongst his Ancestors."
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These things being so done, it was told Joseph that his father was sick: who, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim, went forward."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. Who being strengthened sat on his bed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Joseph being entered in to him, he said: God Almighty appeared to me in Luza, which is in the Land of Chanaan: and he blessed me,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and said: I will increase, and multiply thee, and make thee into multitudes of peoples: and I will give thee this land, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Thy two sons therefore which were born to thee in the Land of Aegypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses, as Ruben and Simeon shall be reputed to me."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But the rest begotten of thee after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "For unto me, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I entered into Ephrata, and buried her by the way side to Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethleem. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Mat. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And seeing his sons he said to him: Who are these?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. Bring them, quoth he, to me, that I may bless them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of very great age, and he could not see clearly. And when they were set beside him, kissing and embracing them,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "he said to his son: I am not defrauded of thy sight, moreover God hath shewed me thy seed."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when Joseph had taken them from his father's lap, he adored prostrate unto the ground."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, on the left hand of Israel: but Manasses on his own left hand, to wit, on his father's right hand, and put them near to him."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Who stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of Ephraim the younger brother: (a) and the left upon the head of Manasses, that was the elder, changing hands.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By this he made a cross prefiguring the Cross of Christ. Isidor. in hunc locum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham & Isaac have walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this present day:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The Angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these children: and be my name called upon them, the names also of my fathers Abraham, and Isaac, and grow they into a multitude upon the earth.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, took it heavily: and taking his father's hand he went about to lift it from Ephraim's head & to remove it upon the head of Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And he said to his father: It is not convenient father so to be: because this is the first-begotten put thy right hand upon his head."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Who refusing, said: I know my son, I know: and this same indeed shall be into peoples, and shall be multiplied: but his younger brother shall be greater than he: and his seed shall grow into nations."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do unto thee as unto Ephraim, & as unto Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he said to Joseph his son: Behold I die, & God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "I do give thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhean with my sword and bow."
}
],
"summary": "Joseph visiteth his father being sick. 5. Who adopteth his two son Manasses and Ephraim, 13. And blesseth them, preferring the younger before the elder, contrary to Joseph's mind. 22. And giveth a portion of land to Joseph, above his brethren."
},
{
"chapter": 49,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Come together, that I (a) may shew you the things that shall come to you in the last days.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These are predictions, not all blessings. S. Amb. li. de Benedict Patriar."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Come together, and hear you sons of Jacob, hear ye Israel your father."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Ruben my first-begotten, thou art my strength, & the beginning of my sorrow: former in gifts, greater in Empire."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Thou art poured out as water, (b) increase thou not: because thou didst ascend thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Aprophecy not an imprecation. S. Aug. li. 12. c. 33. cont. Faust."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity warring.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Into their counsel come not my soul, and in their congregation be not my glory: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their willfulness they undermined a wall."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Cursed be their fury, because it is stubborn; and their indignation, because it is hard: I will divide them in Jacob, and will disperse them in Israel."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Judas, thee thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children shall adore thee."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Alion's whelp Judas: to the prey my son thou didst ascend: taking thy rest thou didst lie as a lion, and as it were a lioness, who shall raise him up?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "[1] The Sceptre Shall Not be Taken Away From Judas, And Aduke Out of His Thigh, Till he do Come That is to be Sent, And The Same Shall be The Expectation of The Gentiles.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "That these are most profound Mysteries, is easy to conceive, but most hard to understand them. In some the Patriarch recounteth things past in his life, foretelling the effects thereof to come. Other things he foresheweth pertaining to the division of the Land of Chanaan, others to the times of the Judges, of the Kings, of the Captivity, of Delivery from thence, of Christ, of Antichrist, and of the end of this world. Of all which diverse ancient fathers have written large commentaries, and godly treatises."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Tying to the vineyard his colt, and to the vine, o my son, his she ass. He shall wash his stole in wine, and in the blood of the grape his cloak.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Zabulon shall dwell in the shore of the sea, and in the road of ships reaching as far as Sidon."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Issachar a strong ass lying at rest between the borders."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "He saw rest that it was good; and the earth that it was very good: and he put under his shoulder to carry, and became serving under tributes."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Dan shall judge his own people, as also another tribe in Israel."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Be Dan a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, biting the hoofs of the horse, that his rider may fall backward.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "I will expect Thy Salvation o Lord."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Gad, the girded shall fight before him: and himself shall be girded backward."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Aser, his bread is fat, and he shall give dainties to kings."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Nephthali, a hart let forth, and giving speeches of beauty."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Joseph a child increasing, increasing and comely to behold: the daughters coursed to and fro upon the wall.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But the dart men did exasperate him, and brawled, and envied him."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "His bow sat upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were dissolved, by the hands of the Mighty of Jacob: thence came forth a pastor, the son of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven from above, with the blessings of the depth that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the paps and of the womb."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The blessings of thy father were strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the eternal hills came: be they upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Benjamin (c) a ravening wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This prophecy S. Augustin understandeth of S. Paul, of the tribe of Benjamin, who was first a persecutor, and after an Apostle of Christ. Ser. 14. de Sanctis."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "All these in the tribes of Israel twelve: these things spake their father to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And he commanded them, saying: I am gathered unto my people: bury you me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Against Mambre in the Land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And when he had finished the precepts wherewith he instructed his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed, and died; and he was put unto his people."
}
],
"summary": "Jacob replenished with the spirit of prophecy, a little before his death, foretelleth his sons many things that shall happen to their posterity. Chargeth some of them with faults past, blesseth every one. 29. Appointeth where to bury him, 32. and dieth."
},
{
"chapter": 50,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which Joseph seeing fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he commanded his servants the physicians, that they should embalm his father with spices."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Who fulfilling his commandments, there passed forty days; for this was the manner of corpses embalmed, and Aegypt mourned him seventy days."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the mourning time being expired, Joseph spake to the family of Pharao: If I have found grace in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "for so much as my father did adjure me, saying: Behold I die, in my sepulchre (a) which I digged for myself in the land of Chanaan, thou shalt bury me. I will go up therefore, and bury my father, and return.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Jacob digged a sepulchre for himself, though it be not heretofore mentioned when he did it. S. Aug. q. 170. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father as thou wast adjured."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Who going up, there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the Land of Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "the house of Joseph with his brethren, saving their little ones, and the flocks and herds, which they had left in the Land of Gessen."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it became no small multitude."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And they came to the floor of Atad, which is situate beyond Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with great and vehement mourning, they spent full seven days."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Which when the Inhabiters of the Land of Chanaan had seen, they said: This is a great mourning unto the Aegyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Therefore the sons of Jacob did as he commanded them:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and carrying him into the Land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought with the field for a possession to bury in of Ephron the Hethite against Mambre."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Joseph returned into Aegypt with his brethren, and with all the train, his father being buried."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "After whose death his brethren fearing, & talking one with another: Lest perhaps he be mindful of the injury which he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we have done;"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "they advertised him saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "that we should say thus much to thee in his words: I beseech that thou forget the wicked fact of thy brethren, and the sin and malice which they have exercised against thee: we also desire thee, that to the servants of the God of thy father thou remit this iniquity. Whom when Joseph had heard he wept."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And his brethren came to him; and (b) adoring prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This word adoring often in holy Scripture signifieth civil honour; as here it can have no other sense."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "To whom he answered: Fear not; can we resist the will of God?"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "You thought evil against me, but God turned that into good, that he might exalt me, as presently you see, and might save many peoples.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Fear not: I will feed you and your little ones, and he comforted them, and spake gently & mildly."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And he dwelt in Aegypt, with all his father's house: and lived an hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim unto the third generation. Also the children of Machir the son of Manasses were born in Joseph's knee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Which things being done he spake to his brethren: After my death God will visit you, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he sware to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And when he had adjured them and said. God will visit you carry my bones with you out of this place:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "he died, being an hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed with spices, was put in a coffin in Aegypt.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "Joseph causeth his father's body to be embalmed; 3. the days of mourning being expired, 9. with Pharao's leave, Joseph with the ancients of Aegypt, all his brethren, and elder sort of Israelites, go and solemnly bury the body in Chanaan. 14. After their return, his brethren fearing lest Joseph will now revenge former injuries, he freely forgiveth all. 22. At the age of 110. years, adjuring the posterity to carry his bones into Chanaan he dieth, and is put in a coffin."
}
]
}