“I will send it out,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

“I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph and will bring them back because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them.

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

But Jacob traveled to Succoth where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called Succoth.

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)

Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him kindness. He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.

The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

Now it was reported in the household of Pharaoh, “Joseph’s brothers have arrived.” It pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

These are the heads of their fathers’ households: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.