Vayishlach 32:3-36:43
Haftarah Hoshea 11:7-12:12
‫( ראשון‬Rishon)
3 And Yaakov sent messengers before him
to Esav his brother to the land of Seir, the
country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, So
shall you speak to my master Esav; Your
eved Yaakov says this, I have sojourned
with Lavan, and stayed there until now:
5 And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks,
and male avadim, and female avadim:
and I have sent to tell my master, that I
may find favor in your sight.
6 And the messengers returned to
Yaakov, saying, We came to your brother
Esav, and also he comes to meet you, and
four hundred men with him.
7 Then Yaakov was greatly afraid and
distressed: and he divided the people that
were with him, and the flocks, and herds,
and the camels, into two camps - groups;
8 And said, If Esav comes to the one
camp, and smites it, then the other camp
that is left shall escape.
9 And Yaakov said, O Elohim of my abba
Avraham, and Elohim of my abba
Yitzchak, YHWH who said to me, Return
to your country, and to your mishpacha,
and I will deal well with you:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
chesed, and of all the emet, which You
have shown to Your eved; for with just my
staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I
have become two camps of peoples.
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my
brother, from the hand of Esav: for I fear
him, lest he will come and smite me, and
the eema with the children.
12 And You did say, I will surely do you
tov, and make your zera as the sand of the
sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
‫( שני‬Sheni)
13 And he lodged there that same night;
and took of that which came to his hand a
present for Esav his brother;
14 Two hundred female goats, and twenty
male goats, two hundred ewes, and
twenty rams,
15 Thirty milk camels with their colts,
forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty female
donkeys, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of
his avadim, every drove by themselves;
and said to his avadim, Go ahead of me,
and put a space between drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost,
saying, When Esav my brother meets you,
and asks you, saying, Whose are you? And
where are you going? And whose are these
before you?
18 Then you shall say, They are your eved
Yaakov's; it is a present sent to my
master Esav: and, see, also Yaakov is
behind us.
19 And so in like manner he commanded
the second, and the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, In this
manner shall you speak to Esav, when
you find him.
20 And say also, See, your eved Yaakov is
behind us. For he said, I will appease him
with the present that goes before me, and
after that I will see his face; I suppose he
will then accept me.
21 So the present went before him: and he
himself lodged that night in the company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his
two wives, and his two female avadim,
and his eleven sons, and passed over the
ford Yavok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over
the brook, and sent over what he had.
24 And Yaakov was left alone; and there
wrestled a Man with Yaakov until the
breaking of the day.
25 And when the Man saw that He
prevailed not against him, the Man
touched the hollow of Yaakov’s thigh; and
the hollow of Yaakov's thigh was out of
joint, as the Man wrestled with Yaakov.
26 And the Man said, Let Me go, for the
day breaks. And Yaakov said, I will not
let You go, except You bless me.
27 And the Man said to Yaakov, What is
your name? And he answered, Yaakov.
28 And the Man said, your name shall no
longer be called Yaakov, but Yisrael: for
as a sar you have power with Elohim and
with men, and have prevailed.
29 And Yaakov asked Him, and said,
Please tell me Your Name. And He said,
Why is it that you do ask about My
Name? And He blessed him there.
‫( שלישי‬Shlishi)
30 And Yaakov called the name of the
place Peni-El: for I have seen Elohim
panayim-el-panayim, and still - my
chayim has been preserved.
31 And as he passed over Peni-El the sun
rose upon him, and he limped on his hip.
32 Therefore the children of Yisrael eat
not of the sinew which shrank, that is
upon the socket of the thigh, to this day:
because He touched the socket of Yaakov's
thigh in the sinew of the hip.
33 And Yaakov lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, see, Esav came, and with him
four hundred men. And he divided the
children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to
the two handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids and their
children in the front, and Leah and her
children after them, and Rachel and
Yoseph in the back.
3 And he passed over before them, and
bowed himself to the ground seven times,
until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esav ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him: and they wept.
5 And Esav lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children; and said, Who
are those with you? And Yaakov said, The
children that Elohim has by His
unmerited favor given to your eved.
‫( רביעי‬Revi’i)
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they
and their children, and they bowed
themselves.
7 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves: and after
came Yoseph near with Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
8 And he said, What do you mean by all
this company that I met? And Yaakov
said, These are to find favor in the sight of
my master.
9 And Esav said, I have enough, my
brother; keep what you have for yourself.
10 And Yaakov said, No, Please, if now I
have found favor in your sight, then
receive my present from my hand:
because I see your face towards me, as
though I had seen the face of Elohim, and
you were pleased with me.
11 Please take my bracha that is brought
to you; because Elohim has dealt with me
through unmerited favor, and because I
have enough. And he urged him, and Esav
took it.
12 And he said, Let us take our journey,
and let us go, and I will go before you.
13 And he said to him, My master knows
that the children are tender, and the
flocks and herds with young are with me:
and if men should overdrive them one
day, all the flock will die.
14 Please let my master pass over before
his eved. And I will journey on gently,
according to the pace of the cattle that
goes before me, and the pace that the
children are able to endure, until I come
to my master to Seir.
15 And Esav said, Let me now leave with
you some of the folks that are with me.
And Yaakov said, What need do I have for
them? Let me find favor in the sight of my
master.
16 So Esav returned that day on his
derech to Seir.
17 And Yaakov journeyed to Sukkot, and
built himself a bayit, and made booths for
his cattle: therefore the name of the place
is called Sukkot.
18 And Yaakov came to Shalem, a city of
Shechem, which is in the land of Kanaan,
when he came from Padan-Aram; and
camped his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field,
where he had spread his tent, at the hand
of the children of Chamor, Shechem's
abba, for one hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it El-Elohei-Yisrael.
‫( חמישי‬Chamishi)
34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah,
whom she bore to Yaakov, went out to see
the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Chamor
the Hivite, sar of the country, saw her, he
took her, and lay with her, and defiled
her.
3 And his being did cleave to Dinah the
daughter of Yaakov, and he loved the
young girl, and spoke kindly to the young
girl.
4 And Shechem spoke to his abba
Chamor, saying, Get me this young girl to
be my wife.
5 And Yaakov heard that he had defiled
Dinah his daughter: now his sons were
with his cattle in the field: and Yaakov
held his silence until they had come.
6 And Chamor the abba of Shechem went
out to Yaakov to commune with him.
7 And the sons of Yaakov came out of the
field when they heard it: and the men
were grieved, and they were very angry,
because he had wrought folly in Yisrael in
lying with Yaakov's daughter; which thing
should not to be done.
8 And Chamor communed with them,
saying, The being of my son Shechem
longs for your daughter: Please give her to
him to be his wife.
9 And make many marriages with us, and
give your daughters to us, and take our
daughters to you.
10 And you shall dwell with us: and the
land shall be before you; dwell and trade
in it, and get possessions in it.
11 And Shechem said to her abba and to
her brothers, Let me find favor in your
eyes, and what you shall say to me I will
give.
12 Ask me much dowry and gift, and I will
give it according as you shall tell me: but
give me the young girl to be my wife.
13 And the sons of Yaakov answered
Shechem and Chamor his abba
deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah
their sister:
14 And they said to them, We cannot do
this thing, to give our sister to one that
has not performed brit-milah; for that
would be a reproach to us:
15 But in this request we will consent to
you: If you will be as we are, that every
male of yours performs brit-milah;
16 Then will we give our daughters to
you, and we will take your daughters to
us, and we will dwell with you, and we
will become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us, to
perform brit-milah; then will we take our
daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Chamor, and
Shechem Chamor's son.
19 And the young man did not hesitate to
perform brit-milah, because he delighted
in Yaakov's daughter: and he was more
honorable than all in the bayit of his
abba.
20 And Chamor and Shechem his son
came to the gate of their city, and
communed with the men of their city,
saying,
21 These men are in shalom with us;
therefore let them dwell in the land, and
trade in it; for look at the land; it is large
enough for them also; let us take their
daughters to us for our wives, and let us
give them our daughters.
22 Only in this manner will the men
consent to dwell with us, to be one people,
if every male among us performs britmilah, as they are in brit-milah.
23 Shall not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of theirs
become ours? Only let us consent to them,
and they will dwell with us.
24 And to Chamor and to Shechem his son
listened all that went out of the gate of his
city; and every male performed brit-milah
including all that went out of the gate of
his city.
25 And it came to pass on the third day,
when the men were still sore, that two of
the sons of Yaakov, Shimeon and Lewi,
Dinah's brothers, took each man his
sword, and came upon the city boldly, and
killed all the males.
26 And they killed Chamor and Shechem
his son with the edge of the sword, and
took Dinah out of Shechem's bayit, and
went out.
27 The sons of Yaakov came upon the
slain, and plundered the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their oxen,
and their donkeys, and that which was in
the city, and that which was in the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their little
ones, and their wives they took captive,
and plundered even all that was in the
bayit.
30 And Yaakov said to Shimeon and Lewi,
You have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land, among
the Kanaanites and the Perizzites: and I
being few in number, they shall gather
themselves together against me, and kill
me; and I shall be destroyed, I and also
kol Beit Yisrael.
31 And they said to Yaakov, Should he
deal with our sister as with a harlot?
35 And Elohim said to Yaakov, Arise, go
up to Beth-El, and dwell there: and make
there an altar to El, that appeared to you
when you fled from the face of Esav your
brother.
2 Then Yaakov said to his household, and
to all that were with him, Put away the
strange elohim that are among you, and
be clean, and change your garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-El;
and I will make there an altar to El, who
answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the derech which I
went.
4 And they gave to Yaakov all the strange
elohim that were in their hands, and all
their earrings that were in their ears; and
Yaakov hid them under the oak which
was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of
Elohim was upon the cities that were
around them, so that they did not pursue
after the sons of Yaakov.
6 So Yaakov came to Luz, which is in the
land of Kanaan, that is, Beth-El, he and
all the people that were with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and called
the place El-Beth-El: because there
Elohim appeared to him, when he fled
from the face of his brother.
8 But Devorah Rivkah's nurse died, and
she was buried beneath Beth-El under an
oak: and the name of it was called AllonBachuth.
9 And Elohim appeared to Yaakov again,
when he came out of Padan-Aram, and
blessed him.
10 And Elohim said to him, Your name is
Yaakov: your name shall not be called any
more Yaakov, but Yisrael shall be your
name: and He called his name Yisrael.
11 And Elohim said to him, I am ElShaddai: be fruitful and multiply; a
nation-goy; and a congregation of nationskahal-goyim; shall come from you, and
Melechim shall come out of your loins;
‫( ששי‬Shishi)
12 And the land that I gave Avraham and
Yitzchak, to you I will give it, and to your
zera after you will I give the land.
13 And Elohim went up from him in the
place where He talked with him.
14 And Yaakov set up a pillar in the place
where He talked with him, even a pillar of
stone: and he poured a drink offering on
it, and he poured oil on it.
15 And Yaakov called the name of the
place where Elohim spoke with him, BethEl.
16 And they journeyed from Beth-El; and
there was just a little way to go to
Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labor.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in
hard labor, that the midwife said to her,
Fear not; you shall have this son also.
18 And it came to pass, as her chayim was
leaving, - for she died - that she called his
name Ben-Oni: but his abba called him
Benyamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried on
the way to Ephrath, which is BethLechem.
20 And Yaakov set a pillar upon her
grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave
to this day.
21 And Yisrael journeyed, and spread his
tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Yisrael
dwelt in that land, that Reuven went and
lay with Bilhah his abba's concubine: and
Yisrael heard of it. Now the sons of
Yaakov were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuven, Yaakov's
bachor, and Shimeon, and Lewi, and
Yahudah, and Yissacher, and Zevulon:
24 The sons of Rachel; Yoseph, and
Benyamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the
sons of Yaakov, who were born to him in
Padan-Aram.
27 And Yaakov came to Yitzchak his abba
at Mamre, to the city of Arbah, which is
Hevron, where Avraham and Yitzchak
sojourned.
28 And the days of Yitzchak were one
hundred eighty years.
29 And Yitzchak gave up the ruach, and
died, and was gathered to his people,
being old and full of days: and his sons
Esav and Yaakov buried him.
36 Now these are the generations of
Esav, who is Edom.
2 Esav took his wives of the daughters of
Kanaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the
Hittite, and Aholivamah the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Ziveon the Hivite.
3 And Bashemath Yishma-El's daughter,
sister of Nevayoth.
4 And Adah bore to Esav Elifaz; and
Bashemath bore Reuel;
5 And Aholivamah bore Yeush, and
Yaalam, and Korach: these are the sons of
Esav, which were born to him in the land
of Kanaan.
6 And Esav took his wives, and his sons,
and his daughters, and all the persons of
his bayit, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his substance, that he had
gotten in the land of Kanaan; and went
into the country away from the face of his
brother Yaakov.
7 For their riches were more than what
would allow them to dwell together; and
the land in which they were gerim could
not bear them both because of their cattle.
8 So Esav dwelt in Mount Seir: Esav is
Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esav
the abba of the Edomites in Mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esav's sons;
Elifaz the son of Adah the wife of Esav,
Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of
Esav.
11 And the sons of Elifaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Elifaz
Esav's son; and she bore to Elifaz Amalek:
these were the sons of Adah Esav's wife.
13 And these are the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerach, Shammah, and
Mizzah: these were the sons of
Bashemath Esav's wife.
14 And these were the sons of
Aholivamah, the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Ziveon, Esav's wife: and she
bore to Esav Yeush, and Yaalam, and
Korach.
15 These were chiefs of the sons of Esav:
the sons of Elifaz the bachor son of Esav;
chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho,
chief Kenaz,
16 Chief Korach, chief Gatam, and chief
Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of
Elifaz in the land of Edom; these were the
sons of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esav's
son; chief Nahath, chief Zerach, chief
Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the
chiefs that came from Reuel in the land of
Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath
Esav's wife.
18 And these are the sons of Aholivamah
Esav's wife; chief Yeush, chief Yaalam,
chief Korach: these were the chiefs that
came from Aholivamah the daughter of
Anah, Esav's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esav, who is
Edom, and these are their chiefs.
‫( שביעי‬Shavi’i)
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite,
who inhabited the land; Lotan, and
Shoval, and Ziveon, and Anah,
21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan:
these are the chiefs of the Horites, the
children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was
Timna.
23 And the children of Shoval were these;
Alvan, and Manahath, and Eival, Shepho,
and Onam.
24 And these are the children of Ziveon;
both Ayah, and Anah: this was that Anah
that found the mules in the wilderness, as
he fed the donkeys of Ziveon his abba.
25 And the children of Anah were these;
Dishon, and Aholivamah the daughter of
Anah.
26 And these are the children of Dishon;
Hemdan, and Eshvan, and Ithran, and
Cheran.
27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan,
and Zaavan, and Akan.
28 The children of Dishan are these: Uz,
and Aran.
29 These are the chiefs that came from
the Horites; chief Lotan, chief Shoval,
chief Ziveon, chief Anah,
30 Chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief
Dishan: these are the chiefs that came
from the Horites, among their chiefs in
the land of Seir.
31 And these are the melechim that
reigned in the land of Edom, before there
reigned any melech over the children of
Yisrael.
32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in
Edom: and the name of his city was
Dinhavah.
33 And Bela died, and Yovav the son of
Zerach of Bozrah reigned in his place.
34 And Yovav died, and Husham of the
land of Temani reigned in his place.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son
of Bedad, who smote Midyan in the field
of Moav, reigned in his place: and the
name of his city was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his place.
37 And Samlah died, and Shaul of
Rehovoth by the river reigned in his place.
38 And Shaul died, and Ba’al-Chanan the
son of Achvor reigned in his place.
39 And Ba’al-Chanan the son of Achvor
died, and Hadar reigned in his place: and
the name of his city was Pau; and his
wife's name was Mehetavel, the daughter
of Matred, the daughter of Mezahav.
40 And these are the names of the chiefs
that came from Esav, according to their
mishpachot, after their places, by their
names; chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief
Yetheth,
41 Chief Aholivamah, chief Elah, chief
Pinon,
42 Chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mivzar,
43 Chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are
the chiefs of Edom, according to their
dwellings in the land of their possession:
he is Esav the abba of the Edomites.