the name of Succoth--the "Booths "--by which appellation
it was henceforth known. Another locality where Jahveh had met Jacob
while he was pitching his tents, derived from this fact the designation
of the "Two Hosts"--Mahanaim.** On the other side of the river, at
Shechem,*** at Bethel,**** and at Hebron, near to the burial-place of
his family, traces of him are everywhere to be found blent with those of
Abraham.

* _Gen._ xxxii. 22-32. This is the account of the Jehovistic
writer. The Elohist gives a different version of the
circumstances which led to the change of name from Jacob to
Israel; he places the scene at Bethel, and suggests no
precise etymology for the name Israel (_Gen._ xxxv. 9-15).

** _Gen._ xxxii. 2, 3, where the theophany is indicated
rather than directly stated.

*** _Gen._ xxxiii. 18-20. Here should be placed the episode
of Dinah seduced by an Amorite prince, and the consequent
massacre of the inhabitants by Simeon and Levi (_Gen._
xxxiv.). The almost complete dispersion of the two tribes of
Simeon and Levi is attributed to this massacre: cf. _Gen._
xlix. 5-7.

**** _Gen._ xxxv. 1-15, where is found the Elohistic version
(9-15) of the circumstances which led to the change of name
from Jacob to Israel.

By his two wives and their maids he had twelve sons. Leah was the mother
of Keuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zabulon; Gad. and Asher
were the children of his slave Zilpah; while Joseph and Benjamin were
the only sons of Rachel--Dan and Naphtali being the offspring of her
servant Bilhah. The preference which his father showed to him caused
Joseph to be hated by his brothers; they sold him to a caravan of
Midianites on their way to Egypt, and persuaded Jacob that a wild beast
had devoured him. Jahveh was, however, with Joseph, and "made all that
he did to prosper in his hand." He was bought by Potiphar, a great
Egyptian lord and captain of Pharaoh's guard, who made him his overseer;
his master's wife, however, "cast her eyes upon Joseph," but finding
that he rejected her shameless advances, she accused him of having
offered violence to her person. Being cast into prison, he astonished
his companions in misfortune by his skill in reading dreams, and was
summoned to Court to interpret to the king his dream of the seven lean
kine who had devoured the seven fat kine, which he did by representing
the latter as se