⁵ And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob ^(A)held^[a] his peace until they came.

²² And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon ^(A)neither good nor bad. For Absalom ^(B)hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

²⁹ So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

²⁵ “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

¹⁵ But David occasionally went and returned from Saul ^(A)to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all the young men here?” Then he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the ^(A)sheep.”

And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him. For we will not ^[a]sit down till he comes here.”

^27 (A)But some ^(B)rebels said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him, ^(C)and brought him no presents. But he ^[a]held his peace.

³ And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:

So Aaron held his peace.

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.”

So he said to him, “Here I am.”

¹⁴ Then he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of ^(A)Hebron, and he went to Shechem.

³⁵ So he removed that day the male goats that were ^(A)speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.