My master&#8217;s wife Sarah bore a son to him<n id="1" /> when she was old,<n id="2" /> and my master<n id="3" /> has given him everything he owns.

Then he<n id="1" /> brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham<n id="1" /> so that you may possess the land<n id="2" /> God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<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" />

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>

He entrusted them to<n id="1" /> his servants, who divided them into herds.<n id="2" /> He told his servants, &#8220;Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.&#8221;

He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221; She replied, &#8220;Your seal, your cord, and the staff that&#8217;s in your hand.&#8221; So he gave them to her and had sex with her.<n id="1" /> She became pregnant by him.

While she was giving birth, one child<n id="1" /> put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, &#8220;This one came out first.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc> was with Joseph and showed him kindness.<n id="1" /> He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.<n id="2" />

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards &#8211; me and the chief baker.

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses,<n id="2" /> just as Pharaoh had commanded.

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham took<n id="1" /> some food<n id="2" /> and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child,<n id="3" /> and sent her away. So she went wandering<n id="4" /> aimlessly through the wilderness<n id="5" /> of Beer Sheba.

<p class="bodytext">She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> heard that I was unloved,<n id="1" /> he gave me this one too.&#8221; So she named him Simeon.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So that day Laban<n id="1" /> removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care<n id="2" /> of his sons.

Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face<n id="1" /> the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban&#8217;s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban&#8217;s flocks.

The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph&#8217;s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing.<n id="1" />

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph&#8217;s. He clothed him with fine linen<n id="1" /> clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah.<n id="1" /> He also gave him Asenath<n id="2" /> daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,<n id="3" /> to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.p>

Joseph<n id="1" /> collected all the excess food<n id="2" /> in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities.<n id="3" /> In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.