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We have to do only one thing before they will agree to stay here and become one nation with us. Our men will have to be circumcised like their men.

Just think! We'll get their property, as well as their flocks and herds. All we have to do is to agree, and they will live here with us.

including Hamor and Shechem. Then they took Dinah and left.

Jacob's other sons came and took everything they wanted. All this was done because of the horrible thing that had happened to their sister.

They took sheep, goats, donkeys, and everything else that was in the town or the fields.

After taking everything of value from the houses, they dragged away the wives and children of their victims.

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Look what you've done! Now I'm in real trouble with the Canaanites and Perizzites who live around here. There aren't many of us, and if they attack, they'll kill everyone in my household."

While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it "Weeping Oak."

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan, and they lived in the land of Seir.

The clans that descended from Esau took their names from their families and the places where they lived. They are Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Magdiel, and Iram. These clans descended from Esau, who was known as Edom, the father of the Edomites. They took their names from the places where they settled.

One day, Joseph told his brothers what he had dreamed, and they hated him even more.

His brothers asked, "Do you really think you are going to be king and rule over us?" Now they hated Joseph more than ever because of what he had said about his dream.

"They're not here anymore," the man replied. "I overheard them say they were going to Dothan." Joseph left and found his brothers in Dothan.

But before he got there, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him.

As Joseph's brothers sat down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with all kinds of spices that they were taking to Egypt.

When the Midianite merchants came by, Joseph's brothers took him out of the well, and for twenty pieces of silver they sold him to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt.

After this, they took the coat to their father and said, "We found this! Look at it carefully and see if it belongs to your son."

and they had three sons. He named the first one Er;

"What do you want?" he asked in return. "The ring on that cord around your neck," was her reply. "I also want the special walking stick you have with you." He gave them to her, they slept together, and she became pregnant.