When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!”

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt – Jacob and his sons: Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.