So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

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

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

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.

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

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

Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

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

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, “What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him. So he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.