He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.