And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, You are our sister; [may] you become [the mother] of thousands and thousands, and let your seed possess the cities of their enemies.

Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb.

Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them; they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.

Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table.

May the Lord bless you out of Zion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life

And Leah conceived and bore a son to Jacob; and she called his name Reuben, saying, Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, and has given me a son, now then my husband will love me.

And she conceived yet again, and bore a son, and said, In the present time my husband will be with me, for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name Levi.

And Rachel, having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.

And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived yet again, and bore a second son to Jacob.

And Leah saw that she ceased from bearing, and she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife; and he went in to her.

And Leah said, It is happily: and she called his name Gad.

And Leah said, I am blessed, for the women will pronounce me blessed; and she called his name Asher.

And Leah said, [Is it] not enough for you that you have taken my husband, will you also take my son's mandrakes? And Rachel said, Not so: let him lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.

And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob a sixth son.

And after this she bore a daughter; and she called her name Dinah.

And she conceived, and bore Jacob a son; and Rachel said, God has taken away my reproach.

(And Jacob journeyed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader,) and it came to pass when he drew near to Habratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel labored [in childbirth]; and she had hard labor.

And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

And Jacob set up a pillar on her tomb; this is the pillar on the tomb of Rachel, until this day.

And these are the names of the sons of Israel that went into Egypt with their father Jacob- Jacob and his sons. The firstborn of Jacob [was] Reuben.

And the sons of Simeon [were] Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

And the sons of Judah [were] Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).

And the sons of Zebulun [were] Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

And the sons of Gad [were] Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbron, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, who bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.

And there were sons born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, even Manasseh and Ephraim. And there were sons born to Manasseh, which the Syrian concubine bore to him, [even] Machir. And Machir begot Gilead. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasseh [were] Sutalaam, and Taam. And the son of Sutalaam [was] Edom.

These are the sons of Rachel, which she bore to Jacob; eighteen persons in all.

And the sons of Naphtali [were] Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

And all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, were sixty-six persons in all.

And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the priest, saying,

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke in Araboth of Moab at the Jordan by Jericho, saying,

Reuben [was] the firstborn of Israel: and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and the family of Hanoch; to Pallu belongs the family of the Palluites.

These [are] the families of Reuben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

And the sons of Eliab [were] Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram: these [are] renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Korah, in the rebellion against the Lord.

But the sons of Korah died not.

To Zerah the family of the Zarhites; to Saul the family of the Saulites.

The sons of Gad according to their families [were]: to Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; to Haggi, the family of the Haggites; to Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

to Arodi, the family of the Arodites; to Ariel, the family of the Arielites.

And the sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

And the sons of Perez were: to Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; to Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

And the sons of Issachar according to their families [were]: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah, the family of the Punites.

These [are] the families of Issachar according to their numbering: sixty-four thousand four hundred.

These [are] the families of Zebulun according to their numbering: sixty thousand five hundred.

The sons of Mannasseh: of Machir the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

And to Zelophedad the son of Hopher there were no sons, but daughters: and these [were] the names of the daughters of Zelophedad: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcha, and Tirzah.

And these [are] the children of Ephraim: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Tanach, the family of the Tanachites.

These [are] the families of Ephraim according to their numbering: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These [are] the families of the children of Joseph according to their families.

of Sophan, the family of the Sophanites.

These [are] the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering: thirty-five thousand five hundred.

All the families of Shuhamites according to their numbering [were] sixty-four thousand four hundred.

To Hober, the family of the Hoberites; to Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

These [are] the families of Asher according to their numbering; forty-three thousand four hundred.

To Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; to Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

This [is] the numbering of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

To these the land shall be divided, so that they may inherit according to the number of the names.

The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.

And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; to Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites.

And the name of his wife [was] Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

And Nadab and Abiud died when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.

And this [is] the numbering of Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in Araboth of Moab, at the Jordan by Jericho.

For the Lord said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness; and there was not left even one of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.

Wise women build houses, but a foolish one digs [hers] down with her hands.

And the man's name [was] Elimelech, and his wife's name [was] Naomi, and the names of his two sons [were] Mahlon and Chilion- Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they came to the land of Moab, and remained there.

(And Jacob journeyed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader,) and it came to pass when he drew near to Habratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel labored [in childbirth]; and she had hard labor.

So Rachel died, and was buried in the way of the course of Ephratha, (that is, Bethlehem.)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood.

And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.

'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.'"