Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.