Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” “I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

Joseph said to them, “What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”

and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.