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>

Rescue me,<n id="1" /> I pray, from the hand<n id="2" /> of my brother Esau,<n id="3" /> for I am afraid he will come<n id="4" /> and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.<n id="5" />

He instructed the servant leading the first herd,<n id="1" /> &#8220;When my brother Esau meets you and asks, &#8216;To whom do you belong?<n id="2" /> Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?&#8217;<n id="3" />

But Jacob did not send Joseph&#8217;s brother Benjamin with his brothers,<n id="1" /> for he said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What if some accident<n id="3" /> happens<n id="4" /> to him?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country.<n id="1" /> Joseph&#8217;s brothers came and bowed down<n id="2" /> before him with<n id="3" /> their faces to the ground.

<p class="bodytext">Now it was reported<n id="1" /> in the household of Pharaoh, &#8220;Joseph&#8217;s brothers have arrived.&#8221; It pleased<n id="2" /> Pharaoh and his servants.

When God made me wander<n id="1" /> from my father&#8217;s house, I told her, &#8216;This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me:<n id="2" /> Every place we go, say about me, &#8220;He is my brother.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah<n id="1" /> with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor).<n id="2" />

saying &#8220;Praised be the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love<n id="1" /> for my master! The <sc>Lordsc> has led me<n id="2" /> to the house<n id="3" /> of my master&#8217;s relatives!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Then I bowed down and worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>. I praised the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter<n id="1" /> of my master&#8217;s brother for his son.

<p class="bodytext">So Esau hated<n id="1" /> Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother.<n id="2" /> Esau said privately,<n id="3" /> &#8220;The time<n id="4" /> of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill<n id="5" /> my brother Jacob!&#8221;p>

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, each took his sword<n id="1" /> and went to the unsuspecting city<n id="2" /> and slaughtered every male.

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and tell Pharaoh,<n id="1" /> &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

<p class="bodytext">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay<n id="1" /> us in full<n id="2" /> for all the harm<n id="3" /> we did to him?&#8221;