He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me yet another son.”

We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.

Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, “God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said. “I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!