He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, “My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).

chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said, “We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

After some time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

He asked the men who were there, “Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?” But they replied, “There has been no cult prostitute here.”

The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.