So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me – Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre – let them take their share.”

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”

so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”

Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”

Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

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

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

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

He said, “What pledge should I give you?” She replied, “Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had sex with her. She became pregnant by him.

The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”