“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

So she said to Abraham, “Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

They replied, “We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us – between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.