But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

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

Then Judah said to Onan, “Have sexual relations with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

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

After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor –

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” “I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

So Jacob said to him, “Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.