Pharaoh should do this – he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father?” “What is it, my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

They told him, “We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me.”

This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

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.

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.