She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, “Have sex with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”

But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’

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

After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor –

Then he said to them, “If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar

(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate of his city –

My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

But Hamor made this appeal to them: “My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.