Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

When his master heard his wife say, “This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.

Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!