The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.

He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”

‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.