But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

They told him, “We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me.”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!