He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.

They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

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

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”

Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.