<p class="bodytext">To Sarah he said, &#8220;Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver<n id="1" /> to your &#8216;brother.&#8217;<n id="2" /> This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

For the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> had caused infertility to strike every woman<n id="2" /> in the household of Abimelech because he took<n id="3" /> Sarah, Abraham&#8217;s wife.p>

My master&#8217;s wife Sarah bore a son to him<n id="1" /> when she was old,<n id="2" /> and my master<n id="3" /> has given him everything he owns.

His descendants<n id="1" /> settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next<n id="2" /> to Egypt all the way<n id="3" /> to Asshur.<n id="4" /> They settled<n id="5" /> away from all their relatives.<n id="6" />p>

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth,<n id="1" /> and you will spread out<n id="2" /> to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another<n id="3" /> using your name and that of your descendants.<n id="4" />

&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they said, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water<n id="1" /> the sheep.&#8221;p>

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle<n id="1" /> and sat on them.)<n id="2" /> Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.<n id="3" />

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you?<n id="1" /> Set it here before my relatives and yours,<n id="2" /> and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau<n id="1" /> then asked, &#8220;What did you intend<n id="2" /> by sending all these herds to meet me?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Jacob<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;To find favor in your sight, my lord.&#8221;

Please take my present<n id="1" /> that was brought to you, for God has been generous<n id="2" /> to me and I have all I need.&#8221;<n id="3" /> When Jacob urged him, he took it.<n id="4" />p>

But Jacob<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;My lord knows that the children are young,<n id="2" /> and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young.<n id="3" /> If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand<n id="1" /> that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, &#8220;Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you.<n id="1" /> Purify yourselves and change your clothes.<n id="2" />

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>

The warden did not concern himself<n id="1" /> with anything that was in Joseph&#8217;s<n id="2" /> care because the <sc>Lordsc> was with him and whatever he was doing the <sc>Lordsc> was making successful.p>

But seven years of famine will occur<n id="1" /> after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate<n id="2" /> the land.

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" />

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning<n id="1" /> as you are!

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands.<n id="1" /> Only I, the king, will be greater than you.<n id="2" />p>

Pharaoh<n id="1" /> had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command,<n id="2" /> and they cried out before him, &#8220;Kneel down!&#8221;<n id="3" /> So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.