It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

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

Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, “Let’s not take his life!”

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.