Genesis — Chapter 35

firft extirpateth al Idolatrie from amongtft- his people ; and then by Sacrifice appeafeth Gods wrath, pronoked howfoeuer , and {pecially by Simeon and Leui killing the Sichemites. Duely confidering that what people or perfon defireth Gods protcétion and bleflings, muft firft be pure in Religion , and clenfed trom finnes : Qsstirei nulla nocedit aanerfitas , fi nulla es do- miner iniquitas : becaufe no aduerfitic shal hurt him, if no iniquitie haue domi- nion ouer him. orat. fer. 6. poft cineres, Se

And his feule was fait knit vnto her , and wheras fhe was{ad, he comforted her with fweet words. 4. And goingto He- mor his father, he faid: Take me this wenchto be my wite. 5, Which when lacob had heard, his fonnes being abfent and occupied in feeding ofthe cattle, he held his peace cilthey returned, 6. And when Hemor Sichems tather was come forth to fpeake vnto Jacob, 7. behold his fornes came out of the field; and hearing what had paffed, they were pafling weath, becaufe he had done a foule thing in rael, and comit- tcd an vnlawtul fact in rauihing lacobs daughter, 8. Hemortherfore fpake to them : The foule of my fonne Sichem is faiined to your daugh- ter : Giue her vnto himio wise: y. and letvs contract martages cne Ww ith ODina ( faith S, Bernard) what need was there to fce women of a ftrange coun- tie! Traé, de yradib bumui- asia, --- PAGE 120 --- (4) They of- fended by falfly preten- ding religion, and by exceffe inreuenge, & therfore are reproued by theyr father, Vv. 30. & cap,

father feiourned. 2. And (4) thefe arc his genera- tions : lofeph when he was fixteen yeares old,ted the flock with his brethren being yet a boy : and he was with che fonnes of Bala and Zclpha his fathers wiues: SRS and he accufed his brethren to his father of (¥) a moft wicked crime. 2. And Ifrael loued lofeph aboue al his fonnes, becaufe colours. 4. And his brethen fecing that he was loued of his father more then al his fonnes, they hated him , neither could they {peake any thing to him peaceably, 5. It chanced alfo that he reported to his bre- threna dreame that he had feen, which occation was the feed of grea. ter hatred. 6. And he faidto them: Heare my dreame which T haue feen: 7. I thought we bound iheaues in the ficld : and my fheate arofe as it were, and flood , and your fheaues ttanding about did adore my ; theafe. 8, His brethren anfwered : What? fhaltthou bc our K ing: or thal we be fubicct to thy dominion ? This occation of his dreames end Words miniitred nouridiment to the cnuic and hatred. ©. He fewalfa another dreame ; which telling hts brethren , he fatd: 1 faw in a dreame , as it were the funne , and the moone , and cleuen fiarres adore me. -10. Which when he had reported to his father and brethren , his father rebuked him , and {aid : What meancth this dreame that thou haft feen ? Why , fal I and thy mother , and thy bre- thren adore thee vpon the earth ? 11. His brethren therfore enuyed him: but («) his father confidered the thing with himfclfe. 12. And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their fathers deckcs ,1:. Hrael aidto him : Thy brethren feed sheep in sichem : come, I wil fend thee tothem, Who aniwering , 14. Lamreadie; he faid to nim: Goe , and feeif al things be wel with thy brethren and the iheep , axd bring me word againe what they doe, Being fent therfore trom the Vale ot He- bron, he came to Sichem: 1<. and aman found him chere wandring in the field, and asked what he fought. 16. Butheanfwered: (d) Iieeke my brethren, fhew me where they tecd the fleckes. 17. And the Man! lofeph. GENESIS. 109 man faid to him: They are departed from this place : for [heard them fay : Let vs goeinto Dothain. lofeph therfore went forward atter his brethren,and found them in Dothain. 18. Who when they had {een him a tarre off , betore he came nigh them , they deuifed to kil him: 19, and {pake among themfelues : Behold the dreamer commeth, 20. come, let vs kil him, and caft him into an old cefterne: and we wil fay a naugh- tie wild beatt hath deuoured him: (¢) and then it {hal appeare what his dreames doe profite him. 21. And Ruben hearing this , cndeauoured to deliucr him out oftheir hands , and faid: 22. Doe not take away his lite , neither theed ye bloud : but caft him into this cefterne that is m the wildernefle , and Keep your hands harmeles : and he faid this, deti- rous to deliuer him out of their hands , and to reftore him: to his tather. 23.As fonne therfore as he came vno his brethren, forthwith they ftrip- ped him out of his tide coate, and of diuers colours , 23. and cafthim _ into the old cefterne, that had not water. 25. And fitting toeate bread, they faw Ifmaelites waytaring men comming from Galaad, and their _ camels carying {pices , and rofen, and mirrh into Agypt. 26. ludas therfore faid to his brethren : What auaileth it vs if we kil our brother, and conceale his bloud 2 27, Itis berter that he be fold to the I{maelites, and that our hands be not polluted : for he is our brother and our fleth, His brethren affented to his words. 2%, And whenthe Madianite mar- chants pafled by, they drawing him out of the cefterne, fold him tothe Ifmaelites,for(f)twentie pieces of filuer,who brought him into Agypt.

appeared to him when he fled trom his brother. 8. The fame time died Debora the nurfe of Rebceca , and was buried atthe foot of Bethel vnder an oke : and the name of that place was called The oke of weeping, 9. And Ged appeared againe to (2) God (when it pleafeth him) maketh the weake ttronger then the mightie , and few mere. terrible then. manie. S, Chri- foil. bo. $9. S, Iacob after he returned trom Mefopotamia of Siria , and he bleffed him , to. faying : Thou (4) fhalt not be called any more Lacob , but Hrael flial be thy name. And he called him Ifraal, 1s. and {aid to him; : Iam God Almightie , encreafe thou and multiplie: Of thee thal be Nations and peoples of nations , Kings thal come forth of thy loynes, 12, And the land which J gaue to Abraham and aac , 1 wil giue to! thee , and to thy feed atter thee. 13. And he departed trom him. 14.But he erccted a title of {tone in the place where God had {poken ynto.; him : offering vpon itliquid offerings , and powring oile on.it, 1s, and: calling the name of that place , Bethel. 16. And being gone forth trom thence , he came in the {pring time to the land which leadeth to. P 1 i Epnraia: Aug. Gi U2. in Gen, (6) The name- of fupplanter not fuficiently expreiing his valure he is: alfo called Ifrael. Sce the

Tuthe faid: 1 haue plentie, my brother, be thy things to thy felfe, to. AndJacob faid : Doe not fo, I befeech thee, but if T haue found grace in thine eyes, take a litle prefent at my hands : for fo hauel feen thy face as if I fhould haue feen (4) the countenance of God: be gracious to me, 11. and take the bleffing which I haue brought thee, and which God hath giuen me , who giueth al things. Scarce at kis brothers great inftance taking it, 12, he faid: Let vs march on together , and J wil accompanie thee in thy lourney. 13, And lacob faid ~My Lord thou knoweft that I haue with mc litle ones, and Ofee nh theep,! --- PAGE 119 --- Iacob, GENESIS. 191 fheep, and kine with yong:which if caufe to ouerlabour themfelues in going, in one day al the flocks wil die, 14.1t may pleafe my Lord to goe before his feruant: and J wil follow foftly after him, as I fhal fee my litle ones to be able,vntil [cometo my Lord in Seir.t5.Efauanfwered: I befeechthee that of my people at the leaft wife whichis with me, there may remaine fome to accompanie thee in the way. It is not need- ful, faid he, this only I haue need of, that may find grace (my Lord) inthy fight. 16, Efau therefore returned thatday the fame way that hecame, into Seir.17, And Iacob commeth into Socoth ; where hauing built a houfe, and pitched his tents, he called the name of that place Socoth, that is , Tabernacles. 18. andhe paffed into Salema citie of the Sichimites , which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mefopotamia oft Siria: and he dwelt betide the towne. 19, And he bought that part ofthe field , wherin he had picched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for an hundred lambs,

new name, For Iacob @ fupplanter , fiyni- fying toofma] force and praifefor fuch a champion , God therefore honoured him with the name of Ifrael, That is, One that feet and comemplatesh God , as moft ancient writers expound it. Alfo —4 prince , or valient with Ged, as S, Hierome sheweth Tradit Heb, For Ira in Hebrew fignifieth To dominier , or rule eucr , and E! fignfieth God. And fo this name giucn to him teftifieth that he, by Gods guift and grace , was valiant euen againft an Angel , reprefenting God, much more againftmen , and other aduerfaries. Others interprete it , Zhe righs one of Ged , as witneffeth the fame S, Hierome both heer , and in his commentaries in 44. Math 2, Tacob GENESIS. 105 ! in 4a. (faix, Al doe importa great excclicncie in this Patriarch, And the fuc- 1 cele of things confirincth the fame. Particularly in that not onlic fome one of ' his fonnes ( as in the ilfue of Abraham and Ifaac, the reft being excluded ) but : his whole progenie of tweluc fonnes, making twelue Tribes , were participant of the peculiar blefings, in their ofspring poileiting the promifed Jand , and! exccedinyly increafiag became the moft principal nation in the world , the fele@ed people of God , called by the name anu title Of the children of tfrael, Of whom nor only Moyfes, butal the oid Teftament moft {pecially treateth , and of whom and in whom the promifed Mcilias , the Redeemer of mankind} should be borue,

Anderecting an altar there, on it he called vpon the moft Mightie God of Ifrael, CHAP XXXIV. Fer rauishing Dina the Sichimites (being firjt circumcifed) ave flaine by Simeon G Leut her brothers, 27. The reft of ‘avovs fonnes fposle the cstse. 30. lacob bla~ meth them, fearing harme may come by this fact, mM Nv Dinathedaughter of Lia went forth to fee the women ofthatcounrrie. 2. Whom when Sichem had ’ feen, the fonne of Hemor the Heuite , the Prince of that land, he was inloue with her: and he tooke her away, and lay with her , by force rauifhing the virgin,

Lacobs finow shrunke vp, which made him to halt. v. 25. & 35, It was alfo fpiritual , as appeareth by his carneft prayer, vrging and at laft obrayning the Angels bleffing, S.Lyonif. c,4, cel, Hie- rer, S. Greg. prefat, inIob, Theadorct q. 91, in Gen, CHAP, XX XIII Facob feeing Efau come with a great troupe of men , feaveth barme » but ismoft curteoujly entertamed by bim, 10. He hardly per(waded Efau totake guifrs, 13, and to returac home, 17. So Lacob comming by Socoth to Salem,there buy- ech afield, pitcbech lus tents , and eredeth an Alta. ND lacob lifting vp his eyes , faw Efau comming, and with him foure hundred men : and he diuided the children of Lia , and of Rachel , and of the two handmatds : 2, and he put both the handmaids and their children foremoft : and Lia and her chil- dren inthe fecond place : and Rachel and lofeph laft,

murdred withal Hemorand Sichem , taking away Dina their fifter out ct Sichems houfc. 17. Whenthey were gone forth, the other fon- nes of lacob ranne in vpon them that wereflaine, and f{poiled the citie in rcuenge of the rape. 2&8. And waiting althings that were in their houfes and fieldes , their fheep and heards , and aifes , 29. their little ones alfo and their wiues they led away captiue. 30. which things when they had boldly atcheiued , Jacob {aid to Simeon and Leui: You haue troubled me , and made me odiousto the Chananites, and Phere- zites, the inhabiters of thisland. We are few :they being gathered to- gether wil ftrikeme; andI and my houfe fhal be deftroyed. 31. They amwered: What ?fhould they abufe our fifter as a ftrumpet> Cuap-. --- PAGE 121 --- An exe~ crable sree, Tacob. GENESIS. ‘103

Otherwife their zeale was iuft to pu- nish fo foulea fault bndsh, 9. Iaeob. GENESIS. with an other: giue vs your daughters , and take you our daughters. ro. And dwel with vs; theland is at your commandement , till , occupie, and poffefie it. 11. Yeaand Sichem alfofaidto her father and to her brethren: Letme find grace in your fight: and what foeuer you fhal appoint I wil giue: 12. raife the dowrie , and require guifts, and 1 fhal oladly giue what you fhal demand: onely giue me this wench to Wife. 13, Jacobs fonnes anfwered Sichem & his father (4) in guile, being wrath for the deflouring of their fifter: 14. We can not doe that which you demand, nor giue our filter to an vneircumcifed perfon ; which with vs isan vnlawful & abhominable thing. 1:.. But in this order we may be conicderate , if you wilbe like to vs, andalthe man {ex among you be circumcifed: 16. then wil we giue and take mutu- ally your daughters , and ours : and we wil dwel with you, and wil be one people: 17. but-if you wil not becircumcifed , we wil take our 102 daughter , and depart. 18. Theoffer pleafed Hemor and Sichem his fonne’ 19. neither didthe yong man make delay , but forthwith ful- filled that which was demanded ; for he loued the wench exceedingly, and he wasthe greateft man in al his fathers houfe.20, And going into the gate of the citie,they {pake to the people : 21. Thefe men are men of peace, and are willing to dwel withvs :. let them occupie in the land, and till it, which being large and wide doth Jacke men totill it; their daughters we fhaltaketo wife, and ours we wil giue to them, 22. One thing there is forthe which fo great agood is differred : If we circum- cife our man fex , followirg the rite of the nation, 2;. And their fub- tance, and cattle, and althings thatthey poffeffe, fhal be ours: only in 3 > g y this letvs condcicend, and dwelling together we ihal make one people .