He then raised a stone for a remembrance in the place where God spake to him, and anointed it with oil, calling the name of the place Bethel.  He went thence and came in veer time unto the land that goeth to Ephrath, in which place Rachel bare a son.  And the death drawing near, she named him Benoni, which is as much to say as the son of my sorrow.  The father called him Benjamin, that is to say the son of the right hand.  There Rachel died and was buried in the way toward Ephrath, that is Bethlehem.  Jacob raised a title upon her tomb; this is the title of the monument of Rachel unto this present day.  Jacob went thence and came to Isaac his father into Mamre the city of Arbah, that is Hebron, in which dwelled Abraham and Isaac.  And all the days of Isaac were complete, which were an hundred and fourscore years, and he consumed and died in good mind, and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

Thus endeth the history of Isaac and his two sons Esau and Jacob.

HERE BEGINNETH THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN

Which is read the Third Sunday in Lent

Joseph when he was sixteen years old began to keep and feed the flock with his brethren, he being yet a child, and was accompanied with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, wives of his father.  Joseph complained on his brethren, and accused them to their father of the most evil sin.  Israel loved Joseph above all his sons for as much as he had gotten him in his old age, and made for him a motley coat.  His brethren then seeing that he was beloved of his father more than they were, hated him and might not speak to him a peaceable word.  It happed on a time that Joseph dreamed, and saw a sweven [dream], and told it to his brethren, which caused them to hate him yet more.  Joseph said to his brethren:  Hear ye my dream that I had; methought that we bound sheaves in the field, and my sheaf stood up and yours standing round about and worshipped my sheaf.  His brethren answered:  Shalt thou be our king and shall we be subject and obey thy commandment?  Therefore this cause of dreams and of these words ministered the more fume of hate and envy.  Joseph saw another sweven and told to his father and brethren:  Methought I saw in my sleep the sun, the moon, and eleven stars worship me.  Which when his father and his brethren had heard, the father blamed him, and said:  What may betoken this dream that thou sawest?  Trowest thou that I, thy mother and thy brethren, shall worship thee upon the earth?  His brethren had great envy hereat.

The father thought and considered a thing secretly in himself.  On a time when his brethren kept their flocks of sheep in Shechem, Israel said to Joseph:  Thy brethren feed their sheep in Shechem, come and I shall send thee to them, which answered:  I am ready, and he said:  Go and see if all things be well and prosperous at thy brethren and beasts, and come again and tell me what they do.  He went