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And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I gave my slave to my husband: and she named him Issachar.

And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she named him Zebulun.

And now, [though] you would surely be gone, because you intensely longed after your father's house, [yet] why have you stolen my gods?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said if I don't, you will take your daughters from me by force.

Therefore the sons of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Take, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

And the young man didn't defer to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father.

The sons of Jacob came on the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

he is not greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

The keeper of the prison didn't look to anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it to prosper.

And the reason the dream was doubled to Pharaoh is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was intense in all the earth.

And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we are brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for slaves, and our donkeys.

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is disgusting to the Egyptians.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was intense on them: and the land became Pharaoh's.