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God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he was called Israel.

So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock; and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron. He came to Shechem,

The man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them at Dothan.

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore;

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"—for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and the staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

So he returned to Judah, and said, "I have not found her; moreover the townspeople said, ‘No prostitute has been here.'"

So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him; he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and, with him there, he had no concern for anything but the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,

But remember me when it is well with you; please do me the kindness to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this place.

In the morning his spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

As he interpreted to us, so it turned out; I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."