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

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

Pharaoh will summon you and say, ‘What is your occupation?’

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

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

Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

“Everything is fine,” the man in charge of Joseph’s household told them. “Don’t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

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.”

Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

You are also commanded to say, ‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

When you gather in the crop, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.”

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.