but he did not respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.

He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

Then Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

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 whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

Did not he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

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 you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.

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

For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

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

"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead."

He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

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 price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

"My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

He left that place, and dug another well. They did not argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac, his father.

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."

It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them into Laban's flock.

but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he was running away.

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them.

She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.

That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

When he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

The young man did not wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.

He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.

Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

His master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand.

He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He did not concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he did not listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

The keeper of the prison did not look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.

He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

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

Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'Do not sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

They did not know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.

They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.

Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

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, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

The children of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

Only he did not buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

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

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

Israel said to Joseph, "I did not think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."

He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.