He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies.”

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

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

They replied, “You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Here we are; we are your slaves.”

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?

The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

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

But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.