So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

So tell<n id="1" /> my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things Joseph was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your father is weakening.&#8221; So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

When Jacob was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your son Joseph has just<n id="2" /> come to you,&#8221; Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

<p class="bodytext">Then Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;I am about to die, but God will be with you<n id="1" /> and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Then God said, &#8220;I now<n id="1" /> give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.<n id="2" />

So Sarai said to Abram, &#8220;Since<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with<n id="2" /> my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Abram did what<n id="4" /> Sarai told him.p>

<p class="bodytext">He said, &#8220;Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant&#8217;s house. Stay the night<n id="1" /> and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;No,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;we&#8217;ll spend the night in the town square.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with<n id="1" /> a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please.<n id="2" /> Only don&#8217;t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection<n id="3" /> of my roof.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Your<n id="1" /> servant has found favor with you,<n id="2" /> and you have shown me great<n id="3" /> kindness<n id="4" /> by sparing<n id="5" /> my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because<n id="6" /> this disaster will overtake<n id="7" /> me and I&#8217;ll die.<n id="8" />

Now swear to me right here in God&#8217;s name<n id="1" /> that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants.<n id="2" /> Show me, and the land<n id="3" /> where you are staying,<n id="4" /> the same loyalty<n id="5" /> that I have shown you.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really<n id="1" /> your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221; Isaac replied, &#8220;Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said,<n id="1" /> she quickly summoned<n id="2" /> her younger son Jacob and told him, &#8220;Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.<n id="3" />

You must also say, &#8216;In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jacob thought,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I will first appease him<n id="3" /> by sending a gift ahead of me.<n id="4" /> After that I will meet him.<n id="5" /> Perhaps he will accept me.&#8221;<n id="6" />

&#8220;These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough<n id="1" /> for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then he had another dream,<n id="1" /> and told it to his brothers. &#8220;Look,&#8221;<n id="2" /> he said. &#8220;I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;

He said to his brothers, &#8220;My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!&#8221; They were dismayed;<n id="1" /> they turned trembling one to another<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;What in the world has God done to us?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

&#8216;My father made me swear an oath. He said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am about to die. Bury me<n id="2" /> in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.&#8221; Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.&#8217;&#8221;