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>

and said to Ephron in their hearing, &#8220;Hear me, if you will. I pay<n id="1" /> to you the price<n id="2" /> of the field. Take it from me so that I may<n id="3" /> bury my dead there.&#8221;p>

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven, who took me from my father&#8217;s house and the land of my relatives,<n id="1" /> promised me with a solemn oath,<n id="2" /> &#8216;To your descendants I will give this land.&#8217; He will send his angel<n id="3" /> before you so that you may find<n id="4" /> a wife for my son from there.

<p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I am deeply depressed<n id="1" /> because of these daughters of Heth.<n id="2" /> If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

and the <sc>Lordsc> stood at its top. He said, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will give you and your descendants the ground<n id="2" /> you are lying on.

I am the God of Bethel,<n id="1" /> where you anointed<n id="2" /> the sacred stone and made a vow to me.<n id="3" /> Now leave this land immediately<n id="4" /> and return to your native land.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought ruin<n id="1" /> on me by making me a foul odor<n id="2" /> among the inhabitants of the land &#8211; among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I<n id="3" /> am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, &#8216;This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain<n id="1" /> for your hungry households and go.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know<n id="1" /> that you are honest men and not spies.<n id="2" /> Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then their father Israel said to them, &#8220;If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man &#8211; a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

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>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each<n id="1" /> of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe.<n id="2" /> So the land became Pharaoh&#8217;s.

<p class="poetry">the Angel<n id="1" /> who has protected me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from all harm &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">bless these boys.p> <p class="poetry">May my name be named in them,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.p> <p class="poetry">May they grow into a multitude on the earth.&#8221;p>

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, &#8220;This is a very sad occasion<n id="1" /> for the Egyptians.&#8221; That is why its name was called<n id="2" /> Abel Mizraim,<n id="3" /> which is beyond the Jordan.p>