So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant.<n id="1" /> Potiphar appointed Joseph<n id="2" /> overseer of his household and put him in charge<n id="3" /> of everything he owned.

But remember me<n id="1" /> when it goes well for you, and show<n id="2" /> me kindness.<n id="3" /> Make mention<n id="4" /> of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,<n id="5" />

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, &#8220;I am Pharaoh, but without your permission<n id="1" /> no one<n id="2" /> will move his hand or his foot<n id="3" /> in all the land of Egypt.&#8221;

Reuben said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t sin against the boy,&#8217; but you wouldn&#8217;t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!&#8221;<n id="1" />

Doesn&#8217;t my master drink from this cup<n id="1" /> and use it for divination?<n id="2" /> You have done wrong!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

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>

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.<n id="1" /> The Egyptians mourned<n id="2" /> for him seventy days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But to Adam<n id="1" /> he said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because you obeyed<n id="2" /> your wifep> <p class="poetry">and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;You must not eat from it,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">cursed is the ground<n id="3" /> thanks to you;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">in painful toil you will eat<n id="5" /> of it all the days of your life.p>

When Abram heard that his nephew<n id="1" /> had been taken captive, he mobilized<n id="2" /> his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders<n id="3" /> as far as Dan.<n id="4" />

<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" />

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy.<n id="1" /> The Lord<n id="2" /> has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son.<n id="2" /> Then I will bless you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> So Jacob<n id="4" /> brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac<n id="5" /> drank.

He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;My father, get up<n id="2" /> and eat some of your son&#8217;s wild game. Then you can bless me.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

<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>

&#8220;No, please take them,&#8221; Jacob said.<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I have found favor in your sight, accept<n id="2" /> my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me,<n id="3" /> it is as if I have seen the face of God.<n id="4" />

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.

Indeed,<n id="1" /> your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, &#8216;If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.&#8217;p>

Then they said to Pharaoh, &#8220;We have come to live as temporary residents<n id="1" /> in the land. There<n id="2" /> is no pasture for your servants&#8217; flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.&#8221;p>