‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

Abraham bowed before the local people

You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

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

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

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

Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!”

Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Then he washed his face and came out. With composure he said, “Set out the food.”

He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.