^7 (A)And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now ^(B)the Canaanite and the Perizzite were living then in the land.

^8 (C)So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

²⁰ And the herdsmen of Gerar ^(A)contended with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well ^[a]Esek, because they quarreled with him.

² These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when ^(A)seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with ^(B)the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back an ^(C)evil report about them to their father.