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• Genesis 31Bible

  Genesis 31 is the chapter in which Jacob, at God's direction, secretly leaves Laban's household with his wives, children, and possessions. Laban pursues him, and after a dispute at Mount Gilead the two make a covenant, marked by a heap of stones as a witness, and then part ways.

• Genesis 36Bible

  Genesis 36 is a genealogy recording the wives and descendants of Esau (Edom), his move to Mount Seir, the Horites who lived in that land before him, and the eight kings and the chiefs of Edom.

• Genesis 34Bible

  Genesis 34 records how, after Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi used a deceitful demand for circumcision to kill the men of the city of Shechem, after which their brothers plundered the city.

• Genesis 40Bible

  Genesis 40 tells how Joseph, while in prison, interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker. As Joseph foretold, one is restored to his office and the other is executed, but Joseph himself is forgotten.

• Genesis 35Bible

  In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.

• Genesis 33Bible

  Genesis 33 tells how Jacob meets his brother Esau, who has come with four hundred men. The two embrace and are reconciled. Jacob then travels by way of Succoth to Shechem in the land of Canaan, where he buys a field and builds an altar.

• Genesis 38Bible

  Genesis 38 interrupts the Joseph narrative with the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. It recounts the conflict over continuing a family line and records the birth of the twins Perez and Zerah.

• Genesis 44Bible

  Genesis 44 is the chapter in which Joseph tests his brothers with a silver cup. When the youngest, Benjamin, is seized to become a servant, Judah pleads to be made a servant in the boy's place.

• Genesis 39Bible

  Genesis 39 tells how Joseph, sold as a slave into the house of Potiphar, captain of the Egyptian guard, refuses the advances of his master's wife, is falsely accused, and is put in prison; yet because the LORD is with him, he prospers even in prison.

• Genesis 37Bible

  Genesis 37 tells how Joseph, Jacob's favored son, provokes his brothers' hatred by recounting his dreams and is then sold by them for twenty pieces of silver and carried off to Egypt.

• Genesis 42Bible

  During a famine, Joseph's ten older brothers travel to Egypt to buy grain and bow before Joseph, who has become governor of the land. Accused of being spies, they return home, leaving Simeon behind as a hostage.

• Genesis 43Bible

  Genesis 43 is the chapter in which, as the famine continues, Jacob's sons take Benjamin with them on a second journey down to Egypt and are entertained in Joseph's house.

• Genesis 48Bible

  In Genesis 48 the aged and ailing Jacob adopts Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, as his own. Crossing his arms as he lays his hands on them, he blesses the younger, Ephraim, ahead of the elder, Manasseh.

• Genesis 46Bible

  Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.

• Genesis 47Bible

  Genesis 47 is the chapter in which Joseph presents his father and brothers to Pharaoh and settles them in the land of Goshen. During the famine he acquires, in turn, the Egyptians' money, livestock, and land for Pharaoh, and the aged Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him in Canaan.

• Genesis 41Bible

  Genesis 41 is the chapter of Genesis in which Joseph interprets Pharaoh's two dreams as seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine, becomes ruler over Egypt, and stores up grain.

• Genesis 50Bible

  Genesis 50 is the final chapter of the Book of Genesis. It recounts Jacob's funeral and burial in Canaan, Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers, who fear him after their father's death, and Joseph's final request and death.

• Genesis 45Bible

  Genesis 45 is the chapter in which Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, forgives them, and, with Pharaoh's approval, summons his father Jacob and the whole family to Egypt.

• Genesis 49Bible

  Genesis 49 is the chapter in which Jacob, shortly before his death, calls his twelve sons together, speaks in poetic form about the future of each, asks to be buried in the cave of Machpelah, and then dies.

• Table of NationsBible

  The Table of Nations is the genealogy in Genesis 10 of the peoples descended from Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In a single list, it shows how humanity divided into many nations and languages and spread abroad after the Flood.