<p class="bodytext">So Abraham&#8217;s servant<n id="1" /> went to the house and unloaded<n id="2" /> the camels. Straw and feed were given<n id="3" /> to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.<n id="4" />

They said to them, &#8220;We cannot give<n id="1" /> our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace<n id="2" /> to us.

He asked the men who were there,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is the cult prostitute<n id="2" /> who was at Enaim by the road?&#8221; But they replied, &#8220;There has been no cult prostitute here.&#8221;

Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant<n id="1" /> of the captain of the guards,<n id="2" /> was with us there. We told him our dreams,<n id="3" /> and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.<n id="4" />

He gave sets of clothes to each one of them,<n id="1" /> but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">These<n id="1" /> are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food,<n id="2" /> was attractive<n id="3" /> to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise,<n id="4" /> she took some of its fruit and ate it.<n id="5" /> She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">So after Abram had lived<n id="1" /> in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant,<n id="2" /> to her husband to be his wife.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Out of our way!&#8221;<n id="1" /> they cried, and &#8220;This man came to live here as a foreigner,<n id="2" /> and now he dares to judge us!<n id="3" /> We&#8217;ll do more harm<n id="4" /> to you than to them!&#8221; They kept<n id="5" /> pressing in on Lot until they were close enough<n id="6" /> to break down the door.p>

&#8220;Listen, sir,<n id="1" /> you are a mighty prince<n id="2" /> among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you<n id="3" /> from burying your dead.&#8221;p>

But Leah replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t it enough that you&#8217;ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son&#8217;s mandrakes too?&#8221; &#8220;All right,&#8221;<n id="2" /> Rachel said, &#8220;he may sleep<n id="3" /> with you tonight in exchange for your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;

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;

<p class="bodytext">Then their father Israel said to them, &#8220;If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man &#8211; a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Tell him, &#8216;Your servants have taken care of cattle<n id="1" /> from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,&#8217; so that you may live in the land of Goshen,<n id="2" /> for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting<n id="3" /> to the Egyptians.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each<n id="1" /> of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe.<n id="2" /> So the land became Pharaoh&#8217;s.