Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”p>

Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it<n id="1" /> from the sons of Hamor, Shechem&#8217;s father, for a hundred pieces of money.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Shechem said to Dinah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> father and brothers, &#8220;Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me<n id="2" /> I&#8217;ll give.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Jacob&#8217;s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem<n id="1" /> had violated their sister Dinah.

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked<n id="1" /> because he wanted Jacob&#8217;s daughter Dinah<n id="2" /> badly. (Now he was more important<n id="3" /> than anyone in his father&#8217;s household.)<n id="4" />

With her dying breath,<n id="1" /> she named him Ben-Oni.<n id="2" /> But his father called him Benjamin instead.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre,<n id="1" /> to Kiriath Arba<n id="2" /> (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs<n id="1" /> in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).p>

chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements<n id="1" /> in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.p>

When Joseph&#8217;s<n id="1" /> brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them,<n id="2" /> they hated Joseph<n id="3" /> and were not able to speak to him kindly.<n id="4" />p>

Then they brought the special tunic to their father<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;We found this. Determine now whether it is your son&#8217;s tunic or not.&#8221;p>

All his sons and daughters stood by<n id="1" /> him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will go to the grave mourning my son.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Joseph&#8217;s<n id="3" /> father wept for him.p>

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh,<n id="1" /> saying,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Certainly<n id="3" /> God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father&#8217;s house.&#8221;

They replied, &#8220;Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers.<n id="1" /> We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time,<n id="2" /> and one is no longer alive.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

<p class="bodytext">When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man&#8217;s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.

Their father Jacob said to them, &#8220;You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.<n id="1" /> Simeon is gone.<n id="2" /> And now you want to take<n id="3" /> Benjamin! Everything is against me.&#8221;p>

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, &#8220;Return, buy us a little more food.&#8221;p>

When he sees the boy is not with us,<n id="1" /> he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

<p class="bodytext">Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?&#8221; His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.