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And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mambre, to a city of the plain; this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraam and Isaac sojourned.

And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had got, and all things whatsoever he had acquired in the land of Chanaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob.

And these are the sons of Sebegon; Aie, and Ana; this is the Ana who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Sebegon.

And Balac, son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dennaba.

And Balac died; and Jobab, son of Zara, from Bosorrha reigned in his stead.

And Jobab died; and Asom, from the land of the Thaemanites, reigned in his stead.

And Asom died; and Adad son of Barad, who cut off Madiam in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.

And Adad died; and Samada of Massecca reigned in his stead.

Samada died; and Saul of Rhooboth by the river reigned in his stead.

And Saul died; and Ballenon the son of Achobor reigned in his stead.

And Ballenon the son of Achobor died; and Arad the son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Phogor; and the name of his wife was Metebeel, daughter of Matraith, son of Maizoob.

And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Balla, and with the sons of Zelpha, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.

And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colours.

And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.

And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us, or shalt thou indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.

And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.

And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.