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God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God…

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal…

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire…

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you…

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his…

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had…

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its…

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’…

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They…

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind,…

Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in…

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with…

Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface…

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the…

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

God spoke to Noah, saying,

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake…

God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the…

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who…

When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to…

The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for…

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are,…

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…

The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your…

Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body…

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove,…

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will…

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had…

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt…

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because…

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after…

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and…

God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their…

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”…

Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will…

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s…

He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I…

Yahweh went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can…

He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked…

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we…

Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to…

But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in…

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this…

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of…

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way…

It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father.…

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman…

Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld…

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me.…

Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all…

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you,…

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you…

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into…

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.…

Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come…

Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and…

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…

Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not…

Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of…

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the…

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my…

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…

Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He…

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out…

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says,…

She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”

Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,…

but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife…

Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear…

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will…

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my…

Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to…

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.”…

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son,…

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,…

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was…

Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to…

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to…

Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with…

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My…

Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of…

Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me…

Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of…

His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up…

Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky…

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him,…

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters…

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s…

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not…

so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.

In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for…

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him…

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or…

She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then…

Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have…

God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me…

Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He…

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my…

The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land,…

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has…

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had…

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either…

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that…

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…

That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by…

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all…

May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will…

Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young,…

Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that…

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will…

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all…

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify…

They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob…

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the…

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as…

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons,…

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his…

He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said…

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it,…

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…

The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up…

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the…

He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his…

He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He…

He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute…

When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also…

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has…

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He…

She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to…

When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his…

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was…

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t…

Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into…

But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me…

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold,…

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,…

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the…

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one…

Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,…

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He…

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the…

They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

He put them all together into custody for three days.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul,…

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen?…

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…

Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give…

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned…

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers…

Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will…

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you…

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will…

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a…

Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is…

but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is…

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die,…

I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you,…

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your…

Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our…

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks.…

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of…

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and…

They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men…

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank,…

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men.…

He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a…

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then…

He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as…

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t…

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,…

You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the…

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the…

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go…

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were…

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you…

Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt.…

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your…

Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will…

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry…

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell…

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My…

Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we,…

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’…

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…

When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and…

They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and…

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our…

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for…

Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the…

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and…

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and…

Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I…

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed…

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward…

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in…

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in…

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered…

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your…

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to…

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land…