When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

But now give back the man&#8217;s wife. Indeed<n id="1" /> he is a prophet<n id="2" /> and he will pray for you; thus you will live.<n id="3" /> But if you don&#8217;t give her back,<n id="4" /> know that you will surely die<n id="5" /> along with all who belong to you.&#8221;p>

When God made me wander<n id="1" /> from my father&#8217;s house, I told her, &#8216;This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me:<n id="2" /> Every place we go, say about me, &#8220;He is my brother.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

But God said to Abraham, &#8220;Do not be upset<n id="1" /> about the boy or your slave wife. Do<n id="2" /> all that Sarah is telling<n id="3" /> you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the servant took ten of his master&#8217;s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal.<n id="1" /> He journeyed<n id="2" /> to the region of Aram Naharaim<n id="3" /> and the city of Nahor.

Stay<n id="1" /> in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,<n id="2" /> for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and I will fulfill<n id="4" /> the solemn promise I made<n id="5" /> to your father Abraham.

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>

<p class="bodytext">Isaac replied to Esau, &#8220;Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?&#8221;

I am with you!<n id="1" /> I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!&#8221;p>

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds<n id="1" /> would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well&#8217;s mouth.p>

When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister&#8217;s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob<n id="1" /> told Laban how he was related to him.<n id="2" />

My integrity will testify for me<n id="1" /> later on.<n id="2" /> When you come to verify that I&#8217;ve taken only the wages we agreed on,<n id="3" /> if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face<n id="1" /> the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban&#8217;s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban&#8217;s flocks.

<p class="bodytext">Laban replied<n id="1" /> to Jacob, &#8220;These women<n id="2" /> are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,<n id="3" /> and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today<n id="4" /> or the children to whom they have given birth?

<p class="bodytext">He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, &#8220;You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.<n id="1" />

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, each took his sword<n id="1" /> and went to the unsuspecting city<n id="2" /> and slaughtered every male.

<p class="bodytext">So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession<n id="1" /> and the rings that were in their ears.<n id="2" /> Jacob buried them<n id="3" /> under the oak<n id="4" /> near Shechem

So Potiphar<n id="1" /> left<n id="2" /> everything he had in Joseph&#8217;s care;<n id="3" /> he gave no thought<n id="4" /> to anything except the food he ate.<n id="5" />p> <p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">On the third day it was Pharaoh&#8217;s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He &#8220;lifted up&#8221;<n id="1" /> the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

Then<n id="1" /> seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows<n id="2" /> as these in all the land of Egypt!