And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

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.

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said, “We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!”

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.