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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
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He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.
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The Cupbearer and the Baker
Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
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each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
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So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,
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Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
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Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
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He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand—
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The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
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Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.
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A Silver Cup in a Sack
Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
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Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph said.
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Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.’”
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Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
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“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.”
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But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”
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“It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
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the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.
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The Lampstand
“Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
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Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
