Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.

Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, despite your many incantations and your numerous amulets.

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.

You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.

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,