"Bend thy Bow, Father!"
38 And after that Judah spoke to his father Jacob and said to him: "Bend thy bow, father, and send forth thy arrow and cast down thy hater and slay thy enemy: and mayest thou have the power, for we will not slay thy brother, for to thee and with thee and to us it will be an honor."
Esau Cast Down
2And immediately Jacob bent the bow and sent forth his arrow, and cast down his brother Esau, and slew him. 3And again he sent forth his arrow and hit Adoran, the Aramaean, on the left breast, and drove him back and killed him.
Gentile Forces Defeated
4And then the sons of Jacob and their servants came out breaking forth from the four sides of the tower. 5Out came completely Judah, and Naphtali and Gad with him, and fifty young men with him out of the north side of the tower, and killed all that they found before them, and none escaped of those, not one. 6And Levi and Dan and Asher came out from the east side of the tower, and fifty with them, and they slew the warriors of Moab and Ammon. 7And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulun came out of the south side of the tower, and fifty with them, and they killed the fighters of Philistia. 8And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, the son of Reuben, came out of the west side of the tower, and fifty with them, and killed of those of Edom and Choran four hundred powerful men, and seven hundred escaped, and four of the sons of Esau fled with them, and left their father behind dead, as he had fallen on the hill which is called Aduram.
9And the sons of Jacob pursued after them to the mountains of Seir.
Esau is Buried
And Jacob buried his brother on the hill which is called Aduram, and returned to his house.
The Sons of Esau Made Servants
10And the sons of Jacob overcame the sons of Esau in the mountains of Seir, and made them bend their necks, so that they became the servants of the sons of Jacob; and they sent word to their father inquiring if they should make peace with them, or if they should kill them. 11And Jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace; and they made peace with them, and they placed the yoke of servitude upon them that they should pay tribute to Jacob and his sons all the days.
12And they continued to pay tribute to Jacob until the day when Jacob descended to the land of Egypt, and the sons of Esau did not cease from the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob had imposed upon them, until the present day.
13And these are the kings which ruled over Edom before a king ruled over the children of Israel, until the present day in the land of Edom; and Balak, the son of Beor, was king, and the name of his city was Dinaba. 14And Balak died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bezor, ruled in his stead. 15And Jobab died, and Adat, the son of Barad, who slew the Mediarites on the field of Moab, was king in his place, and the name of his city was Amot. 16And Adat died and Salman, of Amalek, was king in his stead. 17And Salman died and Saul, of the river Robaet, was king in his stead. 18And Saul died, and Beulunan, the son of Akbur, was king in his stead. 19And Beulunan died, and Adat was king in his stead, and the name of his wife was Matilat, the daughter of Matrit, the daughter of Metbed Zaab.
20These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom.