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 Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

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

So the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

But Moses said, “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God?