When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

So each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

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

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies.”

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.