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Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah's bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningPolygamyMan's Work Finished

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenJealousyPolygamySistersSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CausePossibility Of DeathThose Jealous Of People

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son's mandrakes." So he had marital relations with her that night.

Verse ConceptsHiringMarital SexMeeting PeopleMarital Sex Between

My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I've taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen."

Verse ConceptsHonestyBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And White

Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingWater ContainersPolesSkinning

When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingAnimal ReproductionPolesBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteColor

When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingStrength Of AnimalsAnimal ReproductionWater ContainersPoles

When Jacob saw the look on Laban's face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

Verse ConceptsWorseChange

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

Verse ConceptsNomadsCamp, Of IsraelOvertaking

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

It was also called Mizpah because he said, "May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.

He instructed the servant leading the first herd, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?'

Verse ConceptsAskingWho Is This?Where To?

He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, "You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesInjuryTouchWeakness, PhysicalDislocatingThighsTouching To HarmWrestlingmuscles

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodWho Is This?Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodSeeing People

Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need." When Jacob urged him, he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAdultery, Examples OfRulersRape

When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfRapeIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Polluted

Now Jacob's sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob's daughter, a crime that should not be committed.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldSexual Sin, Nature OfSorrowRapeNamed People Angry With Others

Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed SistersThose Who Deceivedhumor

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

Verse ConceptsFugitivesAppearances Of God In OtCommemorationSpeech, DivineWorship, Places OfBuilding AltarsGod AppearingBethel The House Of GodLiving In The Land

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesBuilding AltarsGod AppearingAltars

They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor -- and her labor was hard.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesHard Tasks

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you are having another son."

Verse ConceptsMidwifechildbearing

When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place; the name of his city was Avith.

Verse ConceptsdefeatForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsNamed WivesRulers Of Edom

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

Verse ConceptsDreams, Examples OfGrudgesSelf ConfidenceHating IndividualsSiblings

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?"

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before JosephWhat Is This?Immigrants

When his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, "Let's not take his life!"

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

Verse ConceptsFine ClothesPeople Stripping PeopleMulti ColouredColor

When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBalmsCaravansHerbs And SpicesMoney, Uses OfMyrrhPerfumeTradeTravelCamelsCommercePeople EatingSitting In Fellowship

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Verse Conceptswhores

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Verse ConceptsWombTwins

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

Verse ConceptsBusiness, ExamplesEntering HousesGone Away

When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAbandoning ThingsOutside The House

When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside."

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAbandoning ThingsOutside The House

but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside."

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAbandoning ThingsOutside The House

When his master heard his wife say, "This is the way your slave treated me," he became furious.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersTelling What People DidNamed People Angry With Others

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.

Verse ConceptsOther Sad People

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

Verse ConceptsBad Items

Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThirtyTravelAuthority Delegated To People

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, "Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you."

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you looking at each other?"

Verse ConceptsLooking Intently At PeopleSeeing Situations

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, "Where do you come from?" They answered, "From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food."

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

They said to one other, "Surely we're being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!"

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessTying Up

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

Verse ConceptsInnsMangersThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersFeeding AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyStaying Temporarily

When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.

Verse ConceptsSilverEmptyingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Return, buy us a little more food."

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, "Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."

Verse ConceptsHourMealsNoonStewardshipDinnerKilling Domesticated AnimalsSeeing People

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!"

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money -- the full amount -- in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.

Verse ConceptsInnsThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersStaying Temporarily

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, and they bowed down to the ground before him.

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before Joseph

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."

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessDivine FavourSalutationsThe Youngest ChildSeeing PeopleMothers And Sons

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakAt Daybreak

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, "Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

Verse ConceptsIngratitudePeople Not Far AwayRepaying Evil For Good

When the man overtook them, he spoke these words to them.

Verse ConceptsOvertaking

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

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

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

"So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us -- his very life is bound up in his son's life.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be FoundThose Who Loved

When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneGroups Sent AwayPeople Made KnownIdentity

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob's spirit revived.

Verse ConceptsRevival, Personalrevival

So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Verse ConceptsRefugeesSacrifice, In Ot

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes because our money has run out?"

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

When you gather in the crop, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children."

Verse ConceptsLiteral Planting

but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." Joseph said, "I will do as you say."

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good KidsCarrying Dead BodiesThe Cave Of MachpelahGathered To One's People

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

Verse ConceptsBedsGay Marriage

But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died -- to my sorrow -- in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfUnhappiness

When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he asked, "Who are these?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionThose At EaseForced LabourGood Qualities

These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

Verse ConceptsTwelve TribesPeople Who Blessed Othersisrael

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

Verse ConceptsBedsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfLast WordsGathered To One's People

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, "If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

Verse ConceptsFuneralsBereavement, Experience OfLamentingSevenWeeksSeven DaysBeyond JordanMourning The Death Of Others

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?"

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.' Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father." When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

"When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live."

Verse ConceptsInfantsSuffering, Nature OfInfanticideKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesBirthKilling Israelites

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

Verse ConceptsTwo To Four MonthsPeople Hiding PeopleWomen's Beauty

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers