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On the seventh[fn] day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested[fn] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

The LORD God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

“But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.' ”

“In fact, God knows that when[fn] you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[fn] and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring.[fn]

He will strike your head,

and you will strike his heel.

The man named his wife Eve[fn] because she was the mother of all the living.

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the LORD's help.”[fn]

And Abel also presented an offering ​— ​some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,

“If you do what is right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

His brother was named Jubal; he was the first[fn] of all who play the lyre and the flute.

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given[fn] me another offspring[fn] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

And he named him Noah,[fn] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

When the LORD saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

On that same day Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah's wife and his three sons' wives.

Those that entered, male and female of every creature, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down,

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, came out.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

“Whoever sheds human blood,

by humans his blood will be shed,

for God made humans in his image.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech,[fn] Accad,[fn] and Calneh,[fn] in the land of Shinar.[fn]

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg,[fn] for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah's lifetime.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the LORD there, and he called on the name of the LORD.

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife, Sarai.

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.

Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev ​— ​he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain[fn] of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the LORD's garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled[fn] his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.

The angel of the LORD said to her, “You have conceived and will have a son. You will name him Ishmael,[fn] for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son (whom Hagar bore) Ishmael.

Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

“I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.[fn] I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.

So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham's household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

The LORD appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.

The LORD said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year's time, and your wife Sarah will have a son! ” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

“For I have chosen[fn] him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city! ” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

But he hesitated. Because of the LORD's compassion for him, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters. They brought him out and left him outside the city.

But Lot's wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

“Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line.”

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line.”

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.[fn] He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally[fn] told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

Then Abimelech took flocks and herds and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

Abraham named his son who was born to him ​— ​the one Sarah bore to him ​— ​Isaac.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

This was very distressing to[fn] Abraham because of his son.

and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can't bear to watch the boy die! ” While she sat at a distance, she[fn] wept loudly.

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we'll come back to you.”

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Abraham looked up and saw a ram[fn] caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

“Uz his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

When Abraham got up from beside his dead wife, he spoke to the Hethites:

“Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God[fn] among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place.[fn] None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

“to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as burial property.”

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre ​— ​the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field ​— ​became

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring'[fn] ​— ​he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham's thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

while the man silently watched her to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

and said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives.”

As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah's words ​— ​“The man said this to me! ” ​— ​he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

“He said to me, ‘The LORD before whom I have walked will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's family.

“Then I knelt low, worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[fn] and Abraham's servant and his men.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother's death.

Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

These are the names of Ishmael's sons; their names according to the family records are Nebaioth, Ishmael's firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael's life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD was receptive to his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

The first one came out red-looking,[fn] covered with hair[fn] like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.[fn]

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

So Abimelech warned all the people, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”

Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Sitnah.[fn]

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac's servants also dug a well there.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[fn] Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”

And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son? ”

So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me, my son.”

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”

So he said, “Isn't he rightly named Jacob?[fn] For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven't you saved a blessing for me? ”

“and stay with him for a few days until your brother's anger subsides ​— ​

And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

“Is he well? ” Jacob asked.

“Yes,” they said, “and here is his daughter Rachel, coming with his sheep.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, he has heard me and given me a son,” so she named him Dan.[fn]

Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,[fn] I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.[fn]

Then Leah said, “What good fortune! ”[fn] and she named him Gad.[fn]

Leah said, “I am happy that the women call me happy,” so she named him Asher.[fn]

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.[fn]

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.[fn]

She named him Joseph[fn] and said, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats ​— ​every one that had any white on it ​— ​and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.

So Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.

He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for[fn] the hill country of Gilead.

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.

“If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

“The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor ​— ​the gods of their father[fn] ​— ​will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

“You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.' ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel[fn] ​— ​limping because of his hip.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.

That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn]

“Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father.

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father's family.

All the men who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised.

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Then God withdrew[fn] from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

With her last breath ​— ​for she was dying ​— ​she named him Ben-oni,[fn] but his father called him Benjamin.[fn]

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah.

This was the Anah who found the hot springs[fn] in the wilderness

while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom;

the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

“Are you really going to reign over us? ” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us? ” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

“They've moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.' ” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

They said to one another, “Oh, look, here comes that dream expert![fn]

Reuben also said to them, “Don't shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him” ​— ​intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.

Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me? ”

“What should I give you? ” he asked.

She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.”

When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he did successful,

After some time his master's wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there.[fn]

“When he heard me screaming for help,[fn] he left his garment beside me and ran outside.”

“but when I screamed for help,[fn] he left his garment beside me and ran outside.”

But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor with the prison warden.

The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph's authority,[fn] because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made everything that he did successful.

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

The king of Egypt's cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, “Why do you look so sad today? ”

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.

“This is its interpretation,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.

“This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. He elevated[fn] the chief cupbearer and the chief baker among his servants.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

When morning came, he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

“Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guards.

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.[fn] He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

The proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants,

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other?

But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from? ” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

Joseph then gave orders to fill their containers with grain, return each man's silver to his sack, and give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver there at the top of his bag.

Then Reuben said to his father, “You can kill my two sons if I don't bring him back to you. Put him in my care,[fn] and I will return him to you.”

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die ​— ​neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward, “Take the men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they will eat with me at noon.”

“When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one's silver was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about? ” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is detestable to them.

Joseph commanded his steward, “Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's silver at the top of his bag.

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and returned to the city.

“and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us ​— ​his life is wrapped up with the boy's life ​— ​

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,[fn] so he called out, “Send everyone away from me! ” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living? ” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.

“Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

He sent his father the following: ten donkeys carrying the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys carrying grain, food, and provisions for his father on the journey.

Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

They also took their cattle and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt.

These were Leah's sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons:[fn] thirty-three.

These were the sons of Zilpah ​— ​whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah ​— ​that she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons.

Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival[fn] at Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen,

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's family, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him, ‘My brothers and my father's family, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

He took five of his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,

Joseph then brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

So Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from Pharaoh's presence.

Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years.

And Jacob said, “Swear to me.” So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed in thanks at the head of his bed.[fn]

Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons God has given me here.”

So Israel said, “Bring them to me and I will bless them.”

Then Joseph took them from his father's knees and bowed with his face to the ground.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,

the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he thought it was a mistake[fn] and took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's.

Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.[fn]

“The scepter will not depart from Judah

or the staff from between his feet

until he whose right it is comes[fn]

and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him.

“He saw that his resting place was good

and that the land was pleasant,

so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load

and became a forced laborer.

“Asher's[fn] food will be rich,

and he will produce royal delicacies.

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

“Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there, Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there, and I buried Leah there.

When Jacob had finished giving charges to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, took his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Then Joseph, leaning over his father's face, wept and kissed him.

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,

Joseph and his father's family remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

“So where is he? ” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,[fn] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,[fn] the mountain of God.

Then he continued, “I am the God of your father,[fn] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

“Throw it on the ground,” he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it.

In addition the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

“You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak[fn] and will teach you both what to do.

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God's staff in his hand.

So he let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.

But Pharaoh responded, “Who is the LORD that I should obey him by letting Israel go? I don't know[fn] the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ”

“May the LORD take note of you and judge,” they said to them, “because you have made us reek to Pharaoh and his officials ​— ​putting a sword in their hand to kill us! ”

But the LORD replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”

Amram married his father's sister Jochebed,

and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

Amram lived 137 years.

“You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land.

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,' tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.' ”

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood.

Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn't take even this to heart.

But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

And the LORD did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh's palace and his officials' houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

The LORD did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left.

“But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of the LORD made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them,[fn]

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

The LORD gave[fn] the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded[fn] in the land of Egypt by[fn] Pharaoh's officials and the people.

“But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl,[fn] so that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

“If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.

“You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn.

“Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.

And the LORD gave the people such favor with the Egyptians that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

“If an alien resides among you and wants to observe the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate;[fn] he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

“Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, who were going out defiantly.[fn]

“As for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen.

When Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.

He threw Pharaoh's chariots

and his army into the sea;

the elite of his officers

were drowned in the Red Sea.

He said, “If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

“Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he will give you two days' worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”

When Moses's hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom[fn] (because Moses had said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land”)

He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”

“Blessed be the LORD,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from the power of Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh. He has rescued the people from under the power of Egypt!

“Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God's statutes and laws.”

“Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.

Moses let his father-in-law go, and he journeyed to his own land.

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Moses responded to the people, “Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not[fn] sin.”

“Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.

“If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with[fn] a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

“his master is to bring him to the judges[fn] and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.

“But if he did not intend any harm,[fn] and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.

“Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.