You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

When food was served, he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” “Tell us,” Laban said.

but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

If you send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.

Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”