Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied.

You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

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

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.