So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.

So the sons of Israel did as he said. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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

So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said.

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

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, “Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?”

Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”