When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”

This is what she said to him: “That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.

They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

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,

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.

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

At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.