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>

Then I asked her, &#8216;Whose daughter are you?&#8217; She replied, &#8216;The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

<p class="bodytext">After Isaac<n id="1" /> had been there a long time,<n id="2" /> Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed<n id="3" /> Isaac caressing<n id="4" /> his wife Rebekah.

<p class="bodytext">Isaac replied to Esau, &#8220;Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?&#8221;

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there.<n id="1" /> As he blessed him,<n id="2" /> Isaac commanded him, &#8220;You must not marry a Canaanite woman.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, &#8220;Now this time my husband will show me affection,<n id="1" /> because I have given birth to three sons for him.&#8221; That is why he was named Levi.<n id="2" />p>

Then Leah said, &#8220;God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.&#8221; So she named him Zebulun.<n id="1" />p>

Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face<n id="1" /> the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban&#8217;s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban&#8217;s flocks.

God said to him, &#8220;Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.&#8221; So God named him Israel.<n id="1" />

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, &#8220;What is this dream that you had?<n id="1" /> Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?&#8221;<n id="2" />

But Onan knew that the child<n id="1" /> would not be considered his.<n id="2" /> So whenever<n id="3" /> he had sexual relations with<n id="4" /> his brother&#8217;s wife, he withdrew prematurely<n id="5" /> so as not to give his brother a descendant.

So she removed her widow&#8217;s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because<n id="1" /> she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)<n id="2" />p>

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" />

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah.<n id="1" /> He also gave him Asenath<n id="2" /> daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,<n id="3" /> to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.p>

<p class="bodytext">They replied, &#8220;The man questioned us<n id="1" /> thoroughly<n id="2" /> about ourselves and our family, saying, &#8216;Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?&#8217;<n id="3" /> So we answered him in this way.<n id="4" /> How could we possibly know<n id="5" /> that he would say,<n id="6" /> &#8216;Bring your brother down&#8217;?&#8221;p>

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">When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, &#8220;We cannot hide from our<n id="1" /> lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

The time<n id="1" /> for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh<n id="2" /> and show me kindness and faithfulness.<n id="3" /> Do not bury me in Egypt,