And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.

When God made me wander from my father's house, I told her, 'This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

After these things Abraham was told, "Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor --

"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.

The young woman ran and told her mother's household all about these things.

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I've done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me."

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister's son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you."

I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, 'Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.'

He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, "Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next."

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.

Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said. "I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, "What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?"

Tamar was told, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

After three months Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant." Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"

They told him, "We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them." Joseph responded, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me."

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

In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning."

This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

But Joseph told them, "It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

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

"Everything is fine," the man in charge of Joseph's household told them. "Don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

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

"Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so I can see him.'

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

They told him, "Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!" Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Joseph went and told Pharaoh, "My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."

After these things Joseph was told, "Your father is weakening." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has just come to you," Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.