<p class="bodytext">When Joseph reached Shechem,<n id="1" /> a man found him wandering<n id="2" /> in the field, so the man asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Noah, a man of the soil,<n id="1" /> began to plant a vineyard.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When morning came,<n id="1" /> the men and their donkeys were sent off.<n id="2" />

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" />

The men are shepherds;<n id="1" /> they take care of livestock.<n id="2" /> They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.&#8217;

So Laban invited all the people<n id="1" /> of that place and prepared a feast.

He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.<n id="1" />p>

Come, let&#8217;s go down and confuse<n id="1" /> their language so they won&#8217;t be able to understand each other.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the men got up to leave,<n id="1" /> they looked out over<n id="2" /> Sodom. (Now<n id="3" /> Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)<n id="4" />

Laban replied, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather give her to you than to another man.<n id="1" /> Stay with me.&#8221;

It was also called Mizpah<n id="1" /> because he said, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> watch<n id="2" /> between us<n id="3" /> when we are out of sight of one another.<n id="4" />

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man<n id="1" /> wrestled<n id="2" /> with him until daybreak.<n id="3" />

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate<n id="1" /> of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

The <sc>Lordsc> was with Joseph. He was successful<n id="1" /> and lived<n id="2" /> in the household of his Egyptian master.

&#8220;The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us<n id="1" /> as if we were<n id="2" /> spying on the land.

Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream<n id="1" /> the same night.<n id="2" /> Each man&#8217;s dream had its own meaning.<n id="3" />

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Lamech said to his wives,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Adah and Zillah! Listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You wives of Lamech, hear my words!p> <p class="poetry">I have killed a man for wounding me,p> <p class="poetry">a young man<n id="1" /> for hurting me.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Noah.<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Noah was a godly man; he was blameless<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">among his contemporaries.<n id="3" /> He<n id="4" /> walked with<n id="5" /> God.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.<n id="1" />