Then Esau said, “Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

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

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

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “What if some accident happens to him?”

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

They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

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

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

She went on to say, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

“I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”

Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.