In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

He turned aside to her along the road and said, “Come on! I want to have sex with you.” (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, “What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?”

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.