“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah.

His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

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

So they approached the man who was in charge of Joseph’s household and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, “Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?”

If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves!”

The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malkiel.

These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”