Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

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

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

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

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

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

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good!

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your ancestors, as Aaron your brother was gathered to his ancestors.

Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?