He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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.

And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

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

Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.