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>

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.

My integrity will testify for me<n id="1" /> later on.<n id="2" /> When you come to verify that I&#8217;ve taken only the wages we agreed on,<n id="3" /> if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Laban replied<n id="1" /> to Jacob, &#8220;These women<n id="2" /> are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,<n id="3" /> and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today<n id="4" /> or the children to whom they have given birth?

<p class="bodytext">During the night Jacob quickly took<n id="1" /> his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons<n id="2" /> and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s house until Shelah my son grows up.&#8221; For he thought,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want him to die like his brothers.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Tamar went and lived in her father&#8217;s house.p>

He turned aside to her along the road and said, &#8220;Come on! I want to have sex with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> (He did not realize<n id="2" /> it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, &#8220;What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?&#8221;<n id="3" />

While they were bringing her out, she sent word<n id="1" /> to her father-in-law: &#8220;I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then she said, &#8220;Identify<n id="3" /> the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.&#8221;

So Potiphar<n id="1" /> left<n id="2" /> everything he had in Joseph&#8217;s care;<n id="3" /> he gave no thought<n id="4" /> to anything except the food he ate.<n id="5" />p> <p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.<n id="6" />

The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph&#8217;s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing.<n id="1" />

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers,<n id="1" /> and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting<n id="2" /> to do so.)<n id="3" />

<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>

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men<n id="1" /> among them, put them in charge<n id="2" /> of my livestock.&#8221;p>

But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died &#8211; to my sorrow<n id="1" /> &#8211; in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath&#8221; (that is, Bethlehem).<n id="2" />p>

Come, let&#8217;s deal wisely<n id="1" /> with them. Otherwise<n id="2" /> they will continue to multiply,<n id="3" /> and if<n id="4" /> a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with<n id="5" /> our enemies and fight against us and leave<n id="6" /> the country.&#8221;p>

If any household is too small<n id="1" /> for a lamb,<n id="2" /> the man<n id="3" /> and his next-door neighbor<n id="4" /> are to take<n id="5" /> a lamb according to the number of people &#8211; you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">On the first day there will be a holy convocation,<n id="1" /> and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind<n id="2" /> on them, only what every person will eat &#8211; that alone may be prepared for you.

then you will say, &#8216;It is the sacrifice<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck<n id="2" /> Egypt and delivered our households.&#8217;&#8221; The people bowed down low<n id="3" /> to the ground,

Pharaoh got up<n id="1" /> in the night,<n id="2" /> along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house<n id="3" /> in which there was not someone dead.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When Pharaoh released<n id="2" /> the people, God did not lead them<n id="3" /> by the way to the land<n id="4" /> of the Philistines,<n id="5" /> although<n id="6" /> that was nearby, for God said,<n id="7" /> &#8220;Lest<n id="8" /> the people change their minds<n id="9" /> and return to Egypt when they experience<n id="10" /> war.&#8221;