That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

After three months Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

They told him, “Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.

And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, “Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

“‘When a person sins in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened) and he does not make it known, then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.