May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

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

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him.

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

This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

“I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, “Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?”

Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac.