Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.”

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me yet another son.”

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”