Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

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

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

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

Then she had yet another son, whom she named Shelah. She gave birth to him in Kezib.

The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.