But Isaac<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away<n id="2" /> your blessing.&#8221;

But the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;What have you done?<n id="1" /> The voice<n id="2" /> of your brother&#8217;s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Live with him for a little while<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s rage subsides.

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Have sexual relations with<n id="1" /> your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise<n id="2" /> up a descendant for your brother.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Judah,<n id="1" /> your brothers will praise you.p> <p class="poetry">Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies,p> <p class="poetry">your father&#8217;s sons will bow down before you.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Cain, &#8220;Where is your brother Abel?&#8221;<n id="1" /> And he replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know! Am I my brother&#8217;s guardian?&#8221;<n id="2" />

So now, you are banished<n id="1" /> from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother&#8217;s blood from your hand.

<p class="bodytext">After these things Abraham was told, &#8220;Milcah<n id="1" /> also has borne children to your brother Nahor &#8211;

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, &#8220;Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

<p class="poetry">You will live by your swordp> <p class="poetry">but you will serve your brother.p> <p class="poetry">When you grow restless,p> <p class="poetry">you will tear off his yokep> <p class="poetry">from your neck.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The messengers returned to Jacob and said, &#8220;We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.&#8221;

Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Your brothers<n id="1" /> are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m ready,&#8221;<n id="2" /> Joseph replied.<n id="3" />

So Jacob<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Go now and check on<n id="2" /> the welfare<n id="3" /> of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.&#8221; So Jacob<n id="4" /> sent him from the valley of Hebron.p>

Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Say to your brothers, &#8216;Do this: Load your animals and go<n id="1" /> to the land of Canaan!

As one who is above your<n id="1" /> brothers, I give to you the mountain slope,<n id="2" /> which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said,<n id="1" /> she quickly summoned<n id="2" /> her younger son Jacob and told him, &#8220;Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.<n id="3" />

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel<n id="2" /> and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.&#8221;<n id="3" />

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men<n id="1" /> among them, put them in charge<n id="2" /> of my livestock.&#8221;p>

&#8216;Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.<n id="1" />