TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
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Page 16 of 227. 11323 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.26
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.27
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.28
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.29
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.30
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.31
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.32
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Read word by wordHe put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read word by wordBut Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Read word by wordEsau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
Read word by wordWhen Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Read word by wordThen the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
Read word by wordLeah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
Read word by word“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
Read word by word“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
Read word by wordBut Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
Read word by wordPlease accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
Read word by wordThen Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
Read word by wordBut Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
Read word by word“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Read word by wordSo that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
Read word by wordbut Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
Read word by wordAfter Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Read word by wordAnd the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Read word by wordThere he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Read word by wordNow Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Read word by wordWhen Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
Read word by wordAnd his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Read word by wordSo Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Read word by wordJacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
Read word by wordWhen Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
Read word by wordBut Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
Read word by wordThen Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Read word by wordBut because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
Read word by word“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
Read word by wordThen we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
Read word by wordBut if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Read word by wordTheir offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
Read word by wordSo Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
Read word by wordAll the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
Read word by wordThree days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Read word by wordThey killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Read word by wordJacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
Read word by wordThey carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.
Read word by wordThen Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Read word by wordBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Read word by wordThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
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