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.

Then Isaac brought Rebekah<n id="1" /> into his mother Sarah&#8217;s tent. He took her<n id="2" /> as his wife and loved her.<n id="3" /> So Isaac was comforted after his mother&#8217;s death.<n id="4" />p>

Stay<n id="1" /> in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,<n id="2" /> for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and I will fulfill<n id="4" /> the solemn promise I made<n id="5" /> to your father Abraham.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them<n id="1" /> all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.<n id="2" />

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>

Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau, your firstborn. I&#8217;ve done as you told me. Now sit up<n id="1" /> and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.&#8221;<n id="2" />

When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, &#8220;You must sleep<n id="1" /> with me because I have paid for your services<n id="2" /> with my son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221; So he had marital relations<n id="3" /> with her that night.

Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face<n id="1" /> the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban&#8217;s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban&#8217;s flocks.

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize<n id="1" /> that God is witness to your actions.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

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.

Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children,<n id="1" /> until I come to my lord at Seir.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel<n id="2" /> and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<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;

They should gather all the excess food<n id="1" /> during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh&#8217;s authority<n id="2" /> they should store up grain so the cities will have food,<n id="3" /> and they should preserve it.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was 30 years old<n id="1" /> when he began serving<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by<n id="3" /> Pharaoh and was in charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph gave orders to fill<n id="1" /> their bags with grain, to return each man&#8217;s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.<n id="2" />

I myself pledge security<n id="1" /> for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But Joseph said, &#8220;Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of<n id="1" /> you may go back<n id="2" /> to your father in peace.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">In Noah&#8217;s six hundred and first year,<n id="1" /> in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that<n id="2" /> the surface of the ground was dry.

<p class="bodytext">Lot looked up and saw<n id="1" /> the whole region<n id="2" /> of the Jordan. He noticed<n id="3" /> that all of it was well-watered (before the <sc>Lordsc> obliterated<n id="4" /> Sodom and Gomorrah)<n id="5" /> like the garden of the <sc>Lordsc>, like the land of Egypt,<n id="6" /> all the way to Zoar.