May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.

but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

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

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

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

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’”