He said, &#8220;No, my brothers! Don&#8217;t act so wickedly!<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Joel the brother of Nathan,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Mibhar son of Hagri,p>

<p class="bodytext">The brother of Micah:p> <p class="bodytext">Isshiah.p> <p class="bodytext">Zechariah from the sons of Isshiah.p>

<p class="bodytext">So ten of Joseph&#8217;s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they<n id="1" /> mourned over him, saying, &#8220;Ah, my brother!&#8221;

Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was the leader of the family.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The sons of his brother<n id="1" /> Shemer:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">Rohgah, Hubbah,<n id="3" /> and Aram.p>

<p class="poetry">My brothers<n id="1" /> have been as treacherous<n id="2" /> as a seasonal stream,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that flow away.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;He has put my relatives<n id="1" /> far from me;p> <p class="poetry">my acquaintances only<n id="2" /> turn away from me.p>

<p class="poetry">For the sake of my brothers and my neighborsp> <p class="poetry">I will say, &#8220;May there be peace in you!&#8221;p>

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban,<n id="1" /> and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he<n id="2" /> went over<n id="3" /> and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">And sons were also born<n id="1" /> to Shem (the older brother of Japheth),<n id="2" /> the father of all the sons of Eber.p>

They also took Abram&#8217;s nephew<n id="1" /> Lot and his possessions when<n id="2" /> they left, for Lot<n id="3" /> was living in Sodom.<n id="4" />p>

(Now<n id="1" /> Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor.

Now then, my son, do what I say.<n id="1" /> Run away immediately<n id="2" /> to my brother Laban in Haran.

<p class="bodytext">Jacob asked them, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221; They replied, &#8220;We&#8217;re from Haran.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;Should you work<n id="1" /> for me for nothing because you are my relative?<n id="2" /> Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;

But Esau said, &#8220;I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.&#8221;

He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Please tell<n id="1" /> me where they are grazing their flocks.&#8221;

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.<n id="1" />