<p class="bodytext">But Judah said to him, &#8220;The man solemnly warned<n id="1" /> us, &#8216;You will not see my face<n id="2" /> unless your brother is with you.&#8217;

But if you will not send him, we won&#8217;t go down there because the man said to us, &#8216;You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">He replied, &#8220;You have suggested your own punishment!<n id="1" /> The one who has it will become my slave,<n id="2" /> but the rest of<n id="3" /> you will go free.&#8221;<n id="4" />

But you said to your servants, &#8216;If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.&#8217;

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn&#8217;t bear to see<n id="1" /> my father&#8217;s pain.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh&#8217;s officials went with him &#8211; the senior courtiers<n id="1" /> of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.p>

So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> destroyed<n id="2" /> every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky.<n id="3" /> They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">But God remembered<n id="1" /> Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over<n id="2" /> the earth and the waters receded.

<p class="bodytext">Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram&#8217;s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated<n id="1" /> the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

<p class="bodytext">After Abram<n id="1" /> returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram<n id="2" /> in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King&#8217;s Valley).<n id="3" />

That day the <sc>Lordsc> made a covenant<n id="1" /> with Abram: &#8220;To your descendants I give<n id="2" /> this land, from the river of Egypt<n id="3" /> to the great river, the Euphrates River &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual<n id="2" /> covenant for his descendants after him.

<p class="bodytext">Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money)<n id="1" /> and circumcised them<n id="2" /> on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

So in the morning the older daughter<n id="1" /> said to the younger, &#8220;Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let&#8217;s make him drunk again tonight.<n id="2" /> Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.&#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>

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>