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

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Joseph replied, “This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

The land produced vegetation – plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.

So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

He instructed the servant leading the first herd, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say, “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)

God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.