Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.

Judah said, “Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

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.

Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

You are also commanded to say, ‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

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

After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”