But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

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

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

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?

Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

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

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community of the Israelites, ‘Come before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung the protecting curtain, and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.