Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it.

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.

Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.

Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

Now truly, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which says these things to you.

Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.

Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business?

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.

Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.

And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm.

And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.

Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts.

And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.

Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.

So go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold.

Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.

The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.

Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.