<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" />

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.<n id="1" /> He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out<n id="2" /> for the place God had spoken to him about.p>

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

This was my lot<n id="1" /> for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave<n id="2" /> for you &#8211; fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

I am not worthy of all the faithful love<n id="1" /> you have shown<n id="2" /> your servant. With only my walking stick<n id="3" /> I crossed the Jordan,<n id="4" /> but now I have become two camps.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jacob looked up<n id="1" /> and saw that Esau was coming<n id="2" /> along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

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.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with<n id="1" /> Bilhah, his father&#8217;s concubine, and Israel heard about it.p> <p class="bodytext">Jacob had twelve sons:p>

Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream<n id="1" /> the same night.<n id="2" /> Each man&#8217;s dream had its own meaning.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Reuben said to his father, &#8220;You may<n id="1" /> put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care<n id="2" /> and I will bring him back to you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine.<n id="1" /> Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

And if<n id="1" /> they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you,<n id="2" /> then take<n id="3" /> some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Take a branch of hyssop,<n id="1" /> dip it in the blood that is in the basin,<n id="2" /> and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out<n id="3" /> the door of his house until morning.

For the <sc>Lordsc> will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees<n id="1" /> the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the <sc>Lordsc> will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer<n id="2" /> to enter your houses to strike you.<n id="3" />

I will meet with you there,<n id="1" /> and<n id="2" /> from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.p>

You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe<n id="1" /> that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them<n id="2" /> on the altar.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe<n id="1" /> of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh &#8211; for it is the ram for consecration<n id="2" /> &#8211;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Cut out<n id="2" /> two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write<n id="3" /> on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now when Moses came down<n id="2" /> from Mount Sinai with<n id="3" /> the two tablets of the testimony in his hand<n id="4" /> &#8211; when he came down<n id="5" /> from the mountain, Moses<n id="6" /> did not know that the skin of his face shone<n id="7" /> while he talked with him.

&#8220;Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the sin offering bull, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,