Genesis

KING JAMES

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him.

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

ANCHOR

When God set about to create heaven and earth--the world being then a formless waste, with darkness over the seas and only an awesome wind sweeping over the water--God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.

(1: 1-3)

"Your home shall be far from the earth's riches

And the dew of heaven above. By your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve. But as you grow restive, You shall throw off his yoke from your neck."

(27: 39-40)

Joseph is a wild colt, A wild colt by a spring, Wild asses on a hillside.

Archers in their hostility Harried and attacked him.

(49: 22-23)

Blessings of grain-stalk and blossom

Blessings of mountains eternal,

The delights of hills everlasting.

May they rest upon the head of Joseph,

The crown of one set apart from his

brothers!

(49: 26)

"But my brother Esau," Jacob said to his mother, "is a hairy man, and I am smooth-skinned! Suppose my father feels me? He will think me frivolous, and I shall bring on myself a curse instead of a blessing."

(27: 11-12)

And I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and give all these lands to your offspring, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring--all because Abraham heeded my call and kept my mandate: my commandments, my laws and my teachings.

(26: 4-5)

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