Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.

Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

One of them said, “I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.”

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)