Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

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.”

Judah replied, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

Then he said to them, “If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar