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.

and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

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

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, “Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?”

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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

but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you say.”

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!