Discovery Box| (0.57) | Gen 34:7 |
| Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. 1 They 2 were offended 3 and very angry because Shechem 4 had disgraced Israel 5 by sexually assaulting 6 Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed. 7 |
| (0.57) | Gen 37:2 |
| This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, 1 was taking care of 2 the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster 3 working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. 4 Joseph brought back a bad report about them 5 to their father. |
| (0.57) | Gen 37:22 |
| Reuben continued, 1 “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” 2 (Reuben said this 3 so he could rescue Joseph 4 from them 5 and take him back to his father.) |
| (0.57) | Gen 38:11 |
| Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, 1 “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” 2 So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. |
| (0.57) | Gen 38:16 |
| He turned aside to her along the road and said, “Come on! I want to have sex with you.” 1 (He did not realize 2 it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, “What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?” 3 |
| (0.57) | Gen 40:20 |
| On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He “lifted up” 1 the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants. |
| (0.57) | Gen 42:7 |
| When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger 1 to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, 2 “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.” 3 |
| (0.57) | Gen 42:16 |
| One of you must go and get 1 your brother, while 2 the rest of you remain in prison. 3 In this way your words may be tested to see if 4 you are telling the truth. 5 If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” |
| (0.57) | Gen 42:38 |
| But Jacob 1 replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. 2 If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair 3 in sorrow to the grave.” 4 |
| (0.57) | Gen 43:7 |
| They replied, “The man questioned us 1 thoroughly 2 about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ 3 So we answered him in this way. 4 How could we possibly know 5 that he would say, 6 ‘Bring your brother down’?” |
| (0.57) | Gen 43:18 |
| But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said, “We are being brought in because of 1 the money that was returned in our sacks last time. 2 He wants to capture us, 3 make us slaves, and take 4 our donkeys!” |
| (0.57) | Gen 43:23 |
| “Everything is fine,” 1 the man in charge of Joseph’s household told them. “Don’t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. 2 I had your money.” 3 Then he brought Simeon out to them. |
| (0.57) | Gen 43:32 |
| They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, 1 and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting 2 to do so.) 3 |
| (0.57) | Gen 44:16 |
| Judah replied, “What can we say 1 to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? 2 God has exposed the sin of your servants! 3 We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.” |
| (0.57) | Gen 46:34 |
| Tell him, ‘Your servants have taken care of cattle 1 from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen, 2 for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting 3 to the Egyptians.” |
| (0.57) | Gen 47:6 |
| The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men 1 among them, put them in charge 2 of my livestock.” |
| (0.57) | Gen 49:26 |
| The blessings of your father are greater than 1 the blessings of the eternal mountains 2 or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers. 3 |
| (0.57) | Gen 50:5 |
| ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, 1 “I am about to die. Bury me 2 in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’” |
| (0.57) | Gen 50:17 |
| ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept. 1 |
| (0.57) | Exo 5:3 |
| And they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey 1 into the desert so that we may sacrifice 2 to the Lord our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.” 3 |
