Lexicon :: Strong's H1931 - hû'

So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.

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

That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

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.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave still today.

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.

So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.

These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom),

and these are their chiefs.

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.

chief Magdiel, and chief Iram.

These are Edom’s chiefs,

according to their settlements in the land they possessed.

Esau[fn] was father of the Edomites.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a long-sleeved robe[fn] for him.

“Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and his brothers agreed.

They sent the long-sleeved robe to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son’s robe or not? ”

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.

After a long time[fn] Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers.

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

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? ”

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ”

He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority;[fn] he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority,[fn] and he was responsible for everything that was done there.

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.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

“It is just as I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“The abundance in the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows it, for the famine will be very severe.

Then Joseph said to them, “I have spoken:[fn] ‘You are spies! ’

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.

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

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.

The steward replied, “What you have said is right, but only the one who is found to have it will be my slave, and the rest of you will be blameless.”

When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.

Then Joseph said, “I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father.”

“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.’