That is why to this day<n id="1" /> the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck<n id="2" /> the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip near the attached sinew.p>

When Esau<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw the women and the children, he asked, &#8220;Who are these people with you?&#8221; Jacob<n id="3" /> replied, &#8220;The children whom God has graciously given<n id="4" /> your servant.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from<n id="1" /> Jacob his brother

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, &#8220;What is this dream that you had?<n id="1" /> Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?&#8221;<n id="2" />

Reuben continued,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Don&#8217;t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (Reuben said this<n id="3" /> so he could rescue Joseph<n id="4" /> from them<n id="5" /> and take him back to his father.)p>

So she removed her widow&#8217;s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because<n id="1" /> she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)<n id="2" />p>

While they were bringing her out, she sent word<n id="1" /> to her father-in-law: &#8220;I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then she said, &#8220;Identify<n id="3" /> the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.&#8221;

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do<n id="1" /> such a great evil and sin against God?&#8221;

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you<n id="1" /> and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh&#8217;s cup in his hand, just as you did before<n id="2" /> when you were cupbearer.

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">They said to one other,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Surely we&#8217;re being punished<n id="2" /> because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was<n id="3" /> when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress<n id="4" /> has come on us!&#8221;

But Jacob<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.<n id="2" /> If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair<n id="3" /> in sorrow to the grave.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

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">When Joseph looked up<n id="1" /> and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother&#8217;s son, he said, &#8220;Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?&#8221; Then he said, &#8220;May God be gracious to you, my son.&#8221;<n id="2" />

They had not gone very far from the city<n id="1" /> when Joseph said<n id="2" /> to the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Pursue the men at once!<n id="3" /> When you overtake<n id="4" /> them, say to them, &#8216;Why have you repaid good with evil?

<p class="bodytext">Judah replied, &#8220;What can we say<n id="1" /> to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves?<n id="2" /> God has exposed the sin of your servants!<n id="3" /> We are now my lord&#8217;s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But Joseph said, &#8220;Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of<n id="1" /> you may go back<n id="2" /> to your father in peace.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob started out<n id="1" /> from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and tell Pharaoh,<n id="1" /> &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Then they said to Pharaoh, &#8220;We have come to live as temporary residents<n id="1" /> in the land. There<n id="2" /> is no pasture for your servants&#8217; flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.&#8221;p>