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She conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.

Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

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

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

"Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty." Thus he urged him and he took it.

Now 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 done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

Jacob's sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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

For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.

"There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"

The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper.

"So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.

The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Then they said to one another, "Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us."

Now the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time that we are being brought in, that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us, and take us for slaves with our donkeys."