Sefer HaYoveliym — Maṣḥafa Kufale — Chapter 38

And after that Yehudah spoke to Ya’aqov, his father, and said to him: "Bend your bow, father, and send forth your arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy;

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and mayest you have the power, for we shall not slay your brother, for he is such as you, and he is like you: let us give him (this) honour."

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Then Ya’aqov bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck Esav, his brother, (on his right breast) and slew him.

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And again he sent forth an arrow and struck ’Adôrân the Aramaean, on the left breast, and drove him backward and slew him.

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And then went forth the sons of Ya’aqov, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.

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And Yehudah went forth in front, and Naphtaliy and Gad with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower, and they slew all they found before them, and not one individual of them escaped.

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And Levi and Dan and Asher went forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty (men) with them, and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.

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And Re’uven and Yissakhar and Zebulon went forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Pelishtiym.

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And Shim’on and Binyamin and Chanokh, Re’uven's son, went forth on the west side of the tower, and fifty (men) with them, and they slew of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout warriors; and six hundred fled,

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and four of the sons of Esav fled with them, and left their father lying slain, as he had fallen on the hill which is in ’Adûrâm.

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And the sons of Ya’aqov pursued after them to the mountains of Seir. And Ya’aqov buried his brother on the hill which is in ’Adûrâm, and he returned to his house.

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And the sons of Ya’aqov pressed hard upon the sons of Esav in the mountains of Seir, and bowed their necks so that they became servants of the sons of Ya’aqov.

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And they sent to their father (to inquire) whether they should make peace with them or slay them. And Ya’aqov sent word to his sons that they should make peace,

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and they made peace with them, and placed the yoke of servitude upon them, so that they paid tribute to Ya’aqov and to his sons always.

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And they continued to pay tribute to Ya’aqov until the day that he went down into Mitsrayim. And the sons of Edom have not got quit of the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Ya’aqov had imposed on them until this day.

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And these are the kings that reigned in Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Yis’rael [until this day] in the land of Edom....

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And Bâlâq, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Danâbâ.

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And Bâlâq died, and Jobab, the son of Zârâ of Bôsêr, reigned in his stead.

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And Jobab died, and ’Asâm, of the land of Têmân, reigned in his stead. And ’Asâm died, and ’Adâth, the son of Barad, who slew Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith.

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And ’Adâth died, and Salman, from ’Amâsêqâ, reigned in his stead.

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And Salman died, and Saul of Râ’abôth (by the) river, reigned in his stead.

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And Saul died, and Ba’êlûnân, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead.

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And Ba’êlûnân, the son of Achbor, died, and ’Adâth reigned in his stead, and the name of his wife was Maiṭabîth, the daughter of Mâṭarat, the daughter of Mêtabêdzâ’ab.

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These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom.

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