Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him.

Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

They replied, “You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

“No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.