He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.<n id="1" />

And let me get<n id="1" /> a bit of food<n id="2" /> so that you may refresh yourselves<n id="3" /> since you have passed by your servant&#8217;s home. After that you may be on your way.&#8221;<n id="4" /> &#8220;All right,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;you may do as you say.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree<n id="1" /> of Moreh<n id="2" /> at Shechem.<n id="3" /> (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">He said, &#8220;My lord,<n id="1" /> if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.<n id="2" />

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him<n id="1" /> while he spent that night in the camp.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The sun rose<n id="1" /> over him as he crossed over Penuel,<n id="2" /> but<n id="3" /> he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob<n id="1" /> himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached<n id="2" /> his brother.

Joseph<n id="1" /> made all the people slaves<n id="2" /> from one end of Egypt&#8217;s border to the other end of it.

&#8220;This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch<n id="1" /> passed between the animal parts.<n id="2" />

He left<n id="1" /> with all he owned. He quickly crossed<n id="2" /> the Euphrates River<n id="3" /> and headed for<n id="4" /> the hill country of Gilead.p>

He entrusted them to<n id="1" /> his servants, who divided them into herds.<n id="2" /> He told his servants, &#8220;Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was 30 years old<n id="1" /> when he began serving<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by<n id="3" /> Pharaoh and was in charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">But God remembered<n id="1" /> Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over<n id="2" /> the earth and the waters receded.

<p class="bodytext">So Abraham agreed to Ephron&#8217;s price<n id="1" /> and weighed<n id="2" /> out for him<n id="3" /> the price<n id="4" /> that Ephron had quoted<n id="5" /> in the hearing of the sons of Heth &#8211; 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.<n id="6" />p>

Let me walk among<n id="1" /> all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb,<n id="2" /> and the spotted or speckled goats.<n id="3" /> These animals will be my wages.<n id="4" />

I am not worthy of all the faithful love<n id="1" /> you have shown<n id="2" /> your servant. With only my walking stick<n id="3" /> I crossed the Jordan,<n id="4" /> but now I have become two camps.

<p class="bodytext">During the night Jacob quickly took<n id="1" /> his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons<n id="2" /> and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.<n id="3" />

Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children,<n id="1" /> until I come to my lord at Seir.&#8221;p>

So when the Midianite<n id="1" /> merchants passed by, Joseph&#8217;s brothers pulled<n id="2" /> him<n id="3" /> out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites<n id="4" /> then took Joseph to Egypt.p>