Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

Pharaoh said to Joseph’s brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.”

Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die,

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure!

God said to Noah and his sons,

But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!”

The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.