So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord who rules over all.

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”

At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

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

Then she will reply to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”

But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”