<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph&#8217;s brothers<n id="1" /> saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Then Israel said, &#8220;Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field<n id="2" /> had yet sprouted, for the <sc>Lordsc> God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.<n id="3" />

Before they could lie down to sleep,<n id="1" /> all the men &#8211; both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom &#8211; surrounded the house.<n id="2" />

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then<n id="1" /> I will eat it so that I may bless you<n id="2" /> before I die.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came.<n id="1" /> Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah<n id="1" /> with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor).<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Before I finished praying in my heart,<n id="1" /> along came Rebekah<n id="2" /> with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, &#8216;Please give me a drink.&#8217;

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>