We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

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

“Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’

So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

So he said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”