Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied.

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

So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

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

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.