Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

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

At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”