<p class="poetry">Gad will be raided by marauding bands,p> <p class="poetry">but he will attack them at their heels.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Asher&#8217;s<n id="1" /> food will be rich,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and he will provide delicacies<n id="3" /> to royalty. p>

They also took Abram&#8217;s nephew<n id="1" /> Lot and his possessions when<n id="2" /> they left, for Lot<n id="3" /> was living in Sodom.<n id="4" />p>

Melchizedek king of Salem<n id="1" /> brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Abraham<n id="1" /> by the oaks<n id="2" /> of Mamre while<n id="3" /> he was sitting at the entrance<n id="4" /> to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> Isaac came from<n id="2" /> Beer Lahai Roi,<n id="3" /> for<n id="4" /> he was living in the Negev.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Jacob cooked some stew,<n id="1" /> and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him<n id="1" /> while he spent that night in the camp.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The sun rose<n id="1" /> over him as he crossed over Penuel,<n id="2" /> but<n id="3" /> he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob<n id="1" /> himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached<n id="2" /> his brother.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">So Judah and his brothers<n id="1" /> came back to Joseph&#8217;s house. He was still there,<n id="2" /> and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

<p class="poetry">Zebulun will live<n id="1" /> by the haven of the seap> <p class="poetry">and become a haven for ships;p> <p class="poetry">his border will extend to Sidon.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">To the woman he said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will greatly increase<n id="1" /> your labor pains;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with pain you will give birth to children.p> <p class="poetry">You will want to control your husband,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but he will dominate<n id="4" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">A fugitive<n id="1" /> came and told Abram the Hebrew.<n id="2" /> Now Abram was living by the oaks<n id="3" /> of Mamre the Amorite, the brother<n id="4" /> of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty<n id="5" /> with Abram.)<n id="6" />

<p class="poetry">He will be a wild donkey<n id="1" /> of a man.p> <p class="poetry">He will be hostile to everyone,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and everyone will be hostile to him.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will live away from<n id="4" /> his brothers.&#8221;p>

Abraham<n id="1" /> then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food<n id="2" /> before them. They ate while<n id="3" /> he was standing near them under a tree.p>

One of them<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I will surely return<n id="2" /> to you when the season comes round again,<n id="3" /> and your wife Sarah will have a son!&#8221;<n id="4" /> (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">But God appeared<n id="1" /> to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;You are as good as dead<n id="2" /> because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else&#8217;s wife.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

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" />