That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’

Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.

But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

Your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.

for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.’

Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

But while Joseph was there in the prison,

And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.

each of the two men – the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison – had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.

When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.

So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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

Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!’

Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.’ This they proceeded to do.

and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.

He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

They told him, ‘Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.’ Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them.

And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.

Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.

Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

When Jacob was told, ‘Your son Joseph has come to you,’ Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.

And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

He will tether his donkey to a vine,
his colt to the choicest branch;
he will wash his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.

Binding his foal to the vine
and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

Moses answered, ‘What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, “The Lord did not appear to you”?’

Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’”

Then the Lord said to him, ‘Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.’ So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

‘This,’ said the Lord, ‘is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob – has appeared to you.’

“that they may believe that the Lord the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Then the Lord said, ‘If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.

“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.

But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.’

If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

The Lord said to Moses, ‘When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshipped.

And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

the magicians said to Pharaoh, ‘This is the finger of God.’ But Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the Lord had said.

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,

For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.

But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.

So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.

Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. ‘For otherwise,’ they said, ‘we will all die!’

The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.’ So the Israelites did this.

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.

So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly.

I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.

Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.’ Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.”

When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord,

As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.

And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.

‘“If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so that they can continue to live among you.

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?

Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.

Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.

How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.’ (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

The Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?

And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.

And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.

And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘Because you did not trust in me enough to honour me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.’

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;

and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.

when a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.

If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

‘When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or binds herself by a pledge

“If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she bound herself will stand.

and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.

But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she bound herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.

But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.