When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Here we are; we are your slaves.”

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said, “We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!”