Abraham bowed before the local people

So she said to Abraham, “Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you say.”

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, “Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”

He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”