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He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."

so that I return safely to my father's household, then the Lord will be my God

Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her."

Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand—

This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine."

He continued, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die." This they proceeded to do.

Then Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved."

Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."

Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

"And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.

"This," said the Lord , "is so that they may believe that the Lord , the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you."