He said, “What pledge should I give you?” She replied, “Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had sex with her. She became pregnant by him.

Doesn’t my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!’”

Joseph said to them, “What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.