Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,

Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.

Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.”

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.

So when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things.

Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Then his brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.