Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money – the full amount – in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.

Then put my cup – the silver cup – in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.

Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

So the sons of Israel did as he said. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

They replied, “The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

He instructed the servant who was over his household, “Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.