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And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"

Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.

Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.

Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father's house.

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

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"

The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.

Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys."

They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.