Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.

May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph’s. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

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

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, and they bowed down to the ground before him.

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he had sexual relations with his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely so as not to give his brother a descendant.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: Nebaioth (Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,