<t /><p class="bodytext">He instructed the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man&#8217;s money in the mouth of his sack.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants,<n id="1" /> so he cried out, &#8220;Make everyone go out from my presence!&#8221; No one remained<n id="2" /> with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Then the man said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;This one at last<n id="1" /> is bone of my bonesp> <p class="poetry">and flesh of my flesh;p> <p class="poetry">this one will be called<n id="2" /> &#8216;woman,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">for she was taken out of<n id="3" /> man.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">That is why<n id="1" /> a man leaves<n id="2" /> his father and mother and unites with<n id="3" /> his wife, and they become a new family.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">To the woman he said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will greatly increase<n id="1" /> your labor pains;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with pain you will give birth to children.p> <p class="poetry">You will want to control your husband,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but he will dominate<n id="4" /> you.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> the man had marital relations with<n id="2" /> his wife Eve, and she became pregnant<n id="3" /> and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, &#8220;I have created<n id="4" /> a man just as the <sc>Lordsc> did!&#8221;<n id="5" />

For your lifeblood<n id="1" /> I will surely exact punishment,<n id="2" /> from<n id="3" /> every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person<n id="4" /> I will exact punishment for the life of the individual<n id="5" /> since the man was his relative.<n id="6" />p>

Then they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (They had brick instead of stone and tar<n id="3" /> instead of mortar.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Abram said to Lot, &#8220;Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.<n id="1" />

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled<n id="1" /> toward the east.p> <p class="bodytext">So the relatives separated from each other.<n id="2" />

I will take nothing<n id="1" /> except compensation for what the young men have eaten.<n id="2" /> As for the share of the men who went with me &#8211; Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre &#8211; let them take their share.&#8221;p>

So Abram<n id="1" /> took all these for him and then cut them in two<n id="2" /> and placed each half opposite the other,<n id="3" /> but he did not cut the birds in half.

Abraham<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw<n id="3" /> three men standing across<n id="4" /> from him. When he saw them<n id="5" /> he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low<n id="6" /> to the ground.<n id="7" />p>

They shouted to Lot,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex<n id="2" /> with them!&#8221;p>

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest,<n id="1" /> with blindness. The men outside<n id="2" /> wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Then the two visitors<n id="1" /> said to Lot, &#8220;Who else do you have here?<n id="2" /> Do you have<n id="3" /> any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city?<n id="4" /> Get them out of this<n id="5" /> place

When Lot<n id="1" /> hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the <sc>Lordsc> had compassion on them.<n id="2" /> They led them away and placed them<n id="3" /> outside the city.

Later the older daughter said<n id="1" /> to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby<n id="2" /> to have sexual relations with us,<n id="3" /> according to the way of all the world.

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning<n id="1" /> Abimelech summoned<n id="2" /> all his servants. When he told them about all these things,<n id="3" /> they<n id="4" /> were terrified.

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.