Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, “I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

Now the famine was severe in the land.

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!

The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

Pray to the Lord, for the mighty thunderings and hail are too much! I will release you and you will stay no longer.”