So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.

Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor.

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

May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

“What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.

They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.”

Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.’”

But they said to him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!

Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”

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.”

When the news reached Pharaoh’s palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased.

To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.