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The sun rose as Jacob was leaving Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Even today the descendants of Israel do not eat the muscle which is on the hip joint, because it was on this muscle that Jacob was hit.

Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way.

and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.

He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.

He left because the land where he and Jacob were living was not able to support them; they had too much livestock and could no longer stay together.

Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he had been born to him when he was old. He made a long robe with full sleeves for him.

"Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us?" his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Return to your father's house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up." He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, because she had her face covered.

From then on, because of Joseph the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian and everything that he had in his house and in his fields.

He refused and said to her, "Look, my master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has.

The jailer did not have to look after anything for which Joseph was responsible, because the Lord was with Joseph and made him succeed in everything he did.

but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then I woke up.

After that, there will be seven years of famine, and all the good years will be forgotten, because the famine will ruin the country.

The time of plenty will be entirely forgotten, because the famine which follows will be so terrible.

People came to Egypt from all over the world to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

but Jacob did not send Joseph's full brother Benjamin with them, because he was afraid that something might happen to him.

The sons of Jacob came with others to buy grain, because there was famine in the land of Canaan.