When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

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

Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.

Jacob said, “Swear to me that you will do so.” So Joseph gave him his word. Then Israel bowed down at the head of his bed.

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

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.)

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.”

(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

“The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.