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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 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 Penu'el, limping because of his thigh.

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew of the hip.

Accept, I pray you, my gift 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 came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to 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 had delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.

And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;

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 cattle.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves.

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

the keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made it prosper.

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 seek occasion against us and fall upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses."

They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread 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.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;

Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--you went up to my couch!