Run there quickly,<n id="1" /> for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.&#8221; (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

But the children struggled<n id="1" /> inside her, and she said, &#8220;If it is going to be like this, I&#8217;m not so sure I want to be pregnant!&#8221;<n id="2" /> So she asked the <sc>Lord,sc><n id="3" />

When his brother came out with<n id="1" /> his hand clutching Esau&#8217;s heel, they named him Jacob.<n id="2" /> Isaac was sixty years old<n id="3" /> when they were born.p>

So Esau said to Jacob, &#8220;Feed<n id="1" /> me some of the red stuff &#8211; yes, this red stuff &#8211; because I&#8217;m starving!&#8221; (That is why he was also called<n id="2" /> Edom.)<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Jacob did as Laban said.<n id="1" /> When Jacob<n id="2" /> completed Leah&#8217;s bridal week,<n id="3" /> Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, &#8220;This time I will praise the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221; That is why she named him Judah.<n id="1" /> Then she stopped having children.p>

Then Rachel said, &#8220;God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer<n id="1" /> and given me a son.&#8221; That is why<n id="2" /> she named him Dan.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Laban said, &#8220;This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement<n id="1" /> today.&#8221; That is why it was called Galeed.

But<n id="1" /> Jacob traveled to Succoth<n id="2" /> where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called<n id="3" /> Succoth.<n id="4" />p>

Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more upright<n id="1" /> than I am, because I wouldn&#8217;t give her to Shelah my son.&#8221; He did not have sexual relations with her<n id="2" /> again.p>

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered<n id="1" /> because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.<n id="2" />

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison<n id="1" /> while the rest of you go<n id="2" /> and take grain back for your hungry families.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph gave orders to fill<n id="1" /> their bags with grain, to return each man&#8217;s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He replied, &#8220;You have suggested your own punishment!<n id="1" /> The one who has it will become my slave,<n id="2" /> but the rest of<n id="3" /> you will go free.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So the sons of Israel did as he said.<n id="1" /> Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed,<n id="2" /> and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.&#8221;p>

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.<n id="1" /> The Egyptians mourned<n id="2" /> for him seventy days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the land produce vegetation:<n id="1" /> plants yielding seeds according to their kinds,<n id="2" /> and<n id="3" /> trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.&#8221; It was so.

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground &#8211; everything that has the breath of life in it &#8211; I give<n id="1" /> every green plant for food.&#8221; It was so.p>