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Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
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‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
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Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
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Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.
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Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
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The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”
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He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
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So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
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The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
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The Rulers of Edom
These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:
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When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
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But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
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So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
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But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
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He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and people shouted before him, “Make way!” Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.
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Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
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and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
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When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”
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And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.
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He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
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I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
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And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
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When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.
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They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him.
