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Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

And when he saw the ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, who said, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing with the camels at the spring.

And it happened that when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh.

When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, "Bless me as well, my father!"

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, "Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you.

Now he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, "Jacob has taken all that our father has," and "From that which was our father's he has gained all this wealth."

And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor.

Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And they hated him even more on account of his dream and because of his words.

Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me.

And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "This is what your servant did to me," he became very angry.

Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested to see if there is truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die." And they did so.

And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring down your brother'?"

When he overtook them he spoke these words to them.

And they said to him, "Why has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

Then he said, "Now also according to your words, thus will it be. He who is found with it shall be my slave, but you shall be innocent."

And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.

Then they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words.