I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

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.’

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

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

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph – he forgot him.

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies!

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He did not have sexual relations with her again.

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

So she said to Abraham, “Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”