Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">Then he instructed them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am about to go<n id="2" /> to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Abram was 99 years old,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him and said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="3" /> Walk<n id="4" /> before me<n id="5" /> and be blameless.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Before I finished praying in my heart,<n id="1" /> along came Rebekah<n id="2" /> with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, &#8216;Please give me a drink.&#8217;

and the <sc>Lordsc> stood at its top. He said, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will give you and your descendants the ground<n id="2" /> you are lying on.

&#8220;This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought ruin<n id="1" /> on me by making me a foul odor<n id="2" /> among the inhabitants of the land &#8211; among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I<n id="3" /> am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!&#8221;

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, &#8220;What is this dream that you had?<n id="1" /> Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?&#8221;<n id="2" />