After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.

In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies.”

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

So they approached the man who was in charge of Joseph’s household and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say, “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

she called for her household servants and said to them, “See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to have sex with me, but I screamed loudly.