Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

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 sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt – each man with his household entered with Jacob:

He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

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