On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.

And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.

Rest in the shade of this tree while water is brought to wash your feet.

He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled in after Abraham’s death. Isaac also restored the names Abraham had given them.

At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep.

The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it.

who took them a three-days’ journey from where Jacob was. Meanwhile, Jacob stayed and cared for the rest of Laban’s flock.

Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob’s sons arrived. Finding the men slaughtered, they plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there.

But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer.

He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.

And everything happened just as he had predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker was executed and impaled on a pole.”

One of you must go and get your brother. I’ll keep the rest of you here in prison. Then we’ll find out whether or not your story is true. By the life of Pharaoh, if it turns out that you don’t have a younger brother, then I’ll know you are spies.”

If you really are honest men, choose one of your brothers to remain in prison. The rest of you may go home with grain for your starving families.

If you find his cup with any one of us, let that man die. And all the rest of us, my lord, will be your slaves.”

“That’s fair,” the man replied. “But only the one who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go free.”

“No,” Joseph said. “I would never do such a thing! Only the man who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”

“Issachar is a sturdy donkey, resting between two saddlepacks.

May my fatherly blessings on you surpass the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the heights of the eternal hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his brothers.