<p class="poetry">You are a lion&#8217;s cub, Judah,p> <p class="poetry">from the prey, my son, you have gone up.p> <p class="poetry">He crouches and lies down like a lion;p> <p class="poetry">like a lioness &#8211; who will rouse him?p>

Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Noah built an altar to the <sc>Lordsc>. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.<n id="1" />

He looked out toward<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region.<n id="2" /> As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

and had a dream.<n id="1" /> He saw<n id="2" /> a stairway<n id="3" /> erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Once<n id="1" /> during breeding season I saw<n id="2" /> in a dream that the male goats mating with<n id="3" /> the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Let us go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel. Then I will make<n id="2" /> an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress<n id="3" /> and has been with me wherever I went.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After some time<n id="1" /> Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with<n id="2" /> his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile,<n id="1" /> and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.<n id="2" />

The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent<n id="1" /> seven years of famine.

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn&#8217;t bear to see<n id="1" /> my father&#8217;s pain.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,<n id="1" /> he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.p>

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.p>

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, &#8220;God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">At dawn<n id="1" /> the angels hurried Lot along, saying, &#8220;Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here,<n id="2" /> or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!&#8221;<n id="3" />

God<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Take your son &#8211; your only son, whom you love, Isaac<n id="2" /> &#8211; and go to the land of Moriah!<n id="3" /> Offer him up there as a burnt offering<n id="4" /> on one of the mountains which I will indicate to<n id="5" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Abraham looked up<n id="1" /> and saw<n id="2" /> behind him<n id="3" /> a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he<n id="4" /> went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Then he said, &#8216;Observe<n id="1" /> that all the male goats mating with<n id="2" /> the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.