Then Jacob<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since it is still the middle of the day,<n id="2" /> it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Complete my older daughter&#8217;s bridal week.<n id="1" /> Then we will give you the younger one<n id="2" /> too, in exchange for seven more years of work.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Jacob<n id="1" /> had marital relations<n id="2" /> with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban<n id="3" /> for seven more years.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, &#8220;This time I will praise the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221; That is why she named him Judah.<n id="1" /> Then she stopped having children.p>

&#8220;No longer will your name be Jacob,&#8221; the man told him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;but Israel,<n id="2" /> because you have fought<n id="3" /> with God and with men and have prevailed.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away,<n id="1" /> Rachel went into labor<n id="2" /> &#8211; and her labor was hard.

Then his brothers asked him, &#8220;Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?&#8221;<n id="1" /> They hated him even more<n id="2" /> because of his dream and because of what he said.<n id="3" />p>

Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more upright<n id="1" /> than I am, because I wouldn&#8217;t give her to Shelah my son.&#8221; He did not have sexual relations with her<n id="2" /> again.p>

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you<n id="1" /> and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.&#8221;p>

<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.

For these past two years there has been famine in<n id="1" /> the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

I will provide you with food<n id="1" /> there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor &#8211; you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.&#8221;&#8217;

They told him, &#8220;Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!&#8221; Jacob was stunned,<n id="1" /> for he did not believe them.

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,<n id="1" /> he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.p>

<p class="bodytext">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Then he blessed Joseph and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May the God before whom my fathersp> <p class="poetry">Abraham and Isaac walked &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the God who has been my shepherd<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all my life long to this day,p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> also said to him, &#8220;Put your hand into your robe.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out &#8211; there was his hand,<n id="2" /> leprous like snow!<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Moses instructed them to take<n id="1" /> his message<n id="2" /> throughout the camp, saying, &#8220;Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.&#8221; So the people were restrained from bringing any more.<n id="3" />

So they must no longer offer<n id="1" /> their sacrifices to the goat demons,<n id="2" /> acting like prostitutes by going after them.<n id="3" /> This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.<n id="4" />p>

If he does not redeem the field, but sells<n id="1" /> the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.