Yahwist, Elohist, Moses

“ See, the scent of my son,
like the scent of a field blessed by Yahweh.
28May God give you heavenly dew,
of the oils of the land,
an abundance of grain and mead.
29Peoples will serve you,
nations bow down to you.
Become mightier than your brother;
And your mother's descendents will bow down to you.
Cursed be whomever curses you;
blessed be whomever blesses you.
30 And as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, just as Jacob went exiting from his father Isaac's presence, Esau arrived from his hunting. ”

“ I give to you every seeding plant throughout all the earth, and every tree which has tree fruit, which produces seed. They are for you to eat. 30 And to every wild animal, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything crawling on the land which has within it the breath of life, every green plant for food. ”

“ Gather, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the latter days. [219] 2 Gather you and hear you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and my first ability. Abundant in dignity and abundant in courage. 4 Restless as water, without power, because you went atop your father's lay. You did defile yourself, gone on my issuer. [220]
5 Brothers Simeon and Levi, weapons of hatred are their familiars. 6 Let my soul not come into their confidence, and let my honor dwell not within their crowd. ”

“ Every thing that crawls on the earth, in their families, exited the ark.
20 And Noaḥ built an altar for Yahweh. And he took from every pure beast, and from every pure bird, and raised it in offer on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing scent, and in his heart he thought: "No more will I curse the ground over mankind, just because the products of man's heart are evil from adolescence. And I will not go on to strike down all life, as I have done. 22 Onward, all the days of the earth: seeding and reaping, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and night and day, will not arrest." ”

“ So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were no good in the eyes of Isaac his father. 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, a daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, Nebaioth's sister, to be his wife, in addition to his wives.
10 And Jacob left Beer-sheba, going toward Haran. 11 And he was crossing and kipped down at a spot at sunset, and he took one of the stones there and placed it under his head, and he lay down in that spot. 12
And he dreamed.
And here: a ladder is planted on the earth, with its top reaching the sky. And on it God's angels ascend and descend. ”

“ From every animal I will reckon it, and from the hand of a man, from the hand of man and his brother, will I reckon the soul of man."
6 "Any spiller of man's blood, by man his blood be spilled. Because in the image of God is man made." ”

“ And they saw the bags of money, their father and them, and were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father told them, "You made a fool of me. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you'll take Benjamin. It all falls on me."
37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying "Put my two sons to death if we don't bring him to you. Put him in my hands and I'll return him to you."
38 And he said, "My son will not go down with you: because his brother's dead and he alone is left. And if some disaster strikes on your traveling path, then you'll bring my gray hair down in sorrow onto the underworld." ”

“ We came as your servants, to buy food. 11 We are, all of us, the sons of one man. We are honest. Your servants would not be spies!"
12 And he told them, "No! You have come to see the land's desolation."
13 And they said, "Your twelve servants are brothers, sons of one man in Canaan's land. And see, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer." [215]
14 And Joseph told them, "It's like I told you, when I said 'you're spies'. 15 In this you'll be tested: on Pharaoh's life, you'll get out of this only if you bring your younger brother here. ”

“ Chapter 24 1 Now Abraham was old, advanced in years, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his household, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I'll make you swear by Yahweh, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you won't take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, 4 but you'll go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac." ”

“ Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
8 Judah, you are well known to your brothers. Your hand's on the nape of your enemies' neck. Your father's sons will bow down to you. 9 You are a lion's cub, Judah, you rose above preying my son. You kneel and stalk crouched as the lion and her cubs. Who shall found us? 10 The sceptre will not leave Judah, nor the lawmaker's staff between his legs. So long as they come to Shiloh, him will the people obey. 11 I will bind his foal to the vine, and to the best vine his donkey's foal. ”

“ And God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. And they will oversee the fish of the sea and the bird of the sky, and the domestic beasts, and all the wild animals and all the crawlers that crawl the earth." ”

“ And I told the scribes, and no one can tell me."
25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh's dream is one. God told Pharaoh what God is going to do. 26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good stalks are seven years. It's one dream. 27 And the seven bad, weak cows rising after them, are seven years — and the seven weak front-stripped stalks will be seven years — of famine. 28 These are the words which I speak to Pharaoh. God showed Pharaoh what God is going to do."
29 "And here seven years are coming — a great plenty over all of Egypt. ”

“ Don't be afraid of going down to Egypt, because I will turn you there into a big people. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will raise you up also. And Joseph will extend his hand to your eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba. And Israel's sons carried their father Jacob, their tots and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle and their property, acquired in Canaan's land, and they came to Egypt: Jacob, and all his offspring with him. ”

“ Then, when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
9 And Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?"
And he said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's guardian?"
10 And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood [30] shouts to me from the ground. 11 And now, cursed are you from the earth, who has opened her mouth to take your brother's blood from your hands. 12 As you will work the ground, she will no longer give her strength to you. You will sway and wander on the earth." ”

“ You're an emissary of God among us. [154] Bury your dead in the best of our graves. Not one of us will withhold his graves from you, for you to bury your dead."
7 And Abraham arose, and bowed flat before the land's people, before the Ḥittites. 8 And he spoke with them, saying, "If your judgment deems that I should bury my dead away from me, listen to me, and alert 'Ephron Ẓoḥar's son about me, 9 so that he will give me the cave of the Machpelah, which is his, which is at the edge of his field. Let him sell me at the full cost, within you, for a gravesite. ”

“ And Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh's house.
15 When the money from Egypt and Canaan's land was gone, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us bread! How could we die in front of you, because there's no money?" 16 And Joseph said, "Bring your herds. So I'll give to you for your herds — if your money's gone."
17 And they brought their herds to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for their horses, the sheep and goat herds, and the cattle herds, and the donkeys, and he negotiated bread for all their livestock that year. ”

“ And she said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai's presence."
9 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and suffer her hands."
10 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will make your offspring many. Too many to count."
11 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Here you are pregnant, and you will bear a son, and you gave him the name Ishmael (God-will-hear) because Yahweh has heard your agony. 12 And he will be a wild man, his hand in everything, and the hand of every man upon him. He will dwell facing his brothers." ”

“ Look — this land is broad enough for their presence. We'll take their daughters for our wives, and our daughters we'll give to them. 22 But only this way will they give their consent to live among us and become one people: if every male among us is circumcised just as they are circumcised. 23 Their livestock , possessions, all their animals, won't they be ours? If only we agree, and they settle with us?"
24 And all the people of his city listened to Ḥamor and his son Shechem, and they circumcised all the males who passed the city's gate. ”

“ And Pharaoh told all of Egypt, "Go to Joseph, and do what he tells you."
56 And the famine was over the entire Earth. But Joseph opened every store they had, and it provided grain for Egypt. And the famine intensified over Egypt. 57 And all the Earth went to Egypt for grain, to Joseph: because the famine was strong over the entire Earth.
Chapter 42 1 And Jacob saw that there is grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why would you get frightened?" 2 And he said, "Here, I've heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us from there, so we'll live and not die." ”

“ The Hebrew oph, here translated as flier, is the most common word for "bird" in the Bible, although it technically can include flying insects as well. Therefore, one possibility is that an editor added the words every bird, every wing, meaning every winged bird to clarify that in this case, Noah was only taking in birds, and not insects. On the other hand, perhaps the word wing means winged insect in this context. In that case every flier: every bird, every winged insect is a way to explicitly make it clear that both birds and insects were included on the ark. ”

“ So he supported his father's hand to take it off Ephraim's head, onto Menashe's head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, father. Because this is the firstborn. Put your hand on his head."
19 And his father declined, and said, "I know, my son. I know. He will also be a great nation, and he also will grow in number. But his younger brother will outgrow him, and his offspring will fill the nations." ”

“ And if not, I will know it."
22 And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham was still left standing before Yahweh. [133]
23 And Abraham submitted to ask: "Will you slay the righteous with the wicked? 24 Maybe there are fifty righteous in the city. Will you slay and not spare the place? For the fifty righteous ones' sake, within? 25 Unthinkable of you, to do such a thing. To put to death the righteous along with the wicked, and the righteous would be as the wicked. Unthinkable of you. Will the whole earth's judge not bring justice?" ”

“ And he stayed with him a full month.
15 And Laban said to Jacob, "Because you're my kin, should you work here for free? Tell me, what's your wage?"
16 And Laban had two daughters. The elder named Leah, and the younger named Rachel. 17 And Leah's eyes were gentle, [178] but Rachel had a beautiful body and beautiful face. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, "I will work for you seven years, for Rachel, your youngest daughter."
19 And Laban said, "Better I give her to you, than give her to another man. Stay with me." ”

“ Circumcise, circumcise the son of your household slaves, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your offspring. 13 You must circumcise anyone born into your household or bought with money. And my pact will be in your flesh, a permanent pact. 14 And a foreskinned man, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, such a one will be shunned from his people. ”

“ The term El is a generic semitic word for God, but was also the proper name of the head Canaanite deity. It is purposefully applied as a common name referring to Yahweh in Genesis. In English the location is more commonly known as Bethel, but writing the name as Beth-El, following the Hebrew convention of treating this name as two words, allows the capitalization of El, which suggests a proper name interpretation as well, without forcing it down the reader's throat.↑ The Negev is the same as the modern Israeli Negev, an arid area toward the south part of Canaan.↑ (12:10) famine. ”

“ Chapter 6
1 So it was, as mankind began to be plentiful upon the ground, and girls were born to them, 2 that the sons of the gods [46] saw the daughters of Adam, that they were beautiful, and took for themselves wives of anyone they chose. 3 And Yahweh said, "My spirit will not contend with [47] a man forever, furthermore [48] he is flesh, so his days will be one hundred and twenty years." 4 The Fallen-Titans [49] were in the land in those days, and also afterward when the sons of the gods came to the daughters of Adam, who bore children for them. ”