<p class="bodytext">Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Finally Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.&#8221;p>

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest,<n id="1" /> with blindness. The men outside<n id="2" /> wore themselves out trying to find the door.

<p class="bodytext">That day Isaac&#8217;s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. &#8220;We&#8217;ve found water,&#8221; they reported.<n id="1" />

But Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How in the world<n id="1" /> did you find it so quickly,<n id="2" /> my son?&#8221; &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> your God brought it to me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> he replied.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So Laban entered Jacob&#8217;s tent, and Leah&#8217;s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols.<n id="1" /> Then he left Leah&#8217;s tent and entered Rachel&#8217;s.<n id="2" />

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle<n id="1" /> and sat on them.)<n id="2" /> Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.<n id="3" />

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you?<n id="1" /> Set it here before my relatives and yours,<n id="2" /> and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!<n id="3" />p>

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent<n id="1" /> this message<n id="2" /> to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau<n id="1" /> then asked, &#8220;What did you intend<n id="2" /> by sending all these herds to meet me?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Jacob<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;To find favor in your sight, my lord.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Esau said, &#8220;Let me leave some of my men with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why do that?&#8221; Jacob replied.<n id="2" /> &#8220;My lord has already been kind enough to me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Shechem said to Dinah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> father and brothers, &#8220;Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me<n id="2" /> I&#8217;ll give.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs<n id="1" /> in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).p>

The man said, &#8220;They left this area,<n id="1" /> for I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8221; So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.p>

Then they brought the special tunic to their father<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;We found this. Determine now whether it is your son&#8217;s tunic or not.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah had his friend Hirah<n id="1" /> the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge,<n id="2" /> but Hirah<n id="3" /> could not find her.

So he returned to Judah and said, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said, &#8216;There has been no cult prostitute here.&#8217;&#8221;

Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep the things<n id="1" /> for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest.<n id="2" /> I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;p>

So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant.<n id="1" /> Potiphar appointed Joseph<n id="2" /> overseer of his household and put him in charge<n id="3" /> of everything he owned.

Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master&#8217;s house?