But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’

that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.”

He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.

Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’