Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.

The blessings of your father, the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills: may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.

Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.

Joseph, though he possessed the promise of God, did not keep hold of the coat of his father, but was made nothing, being sold as a slave, taken to the land of Egypt. And being found in Potiphar’s house, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of imprisonment, even in the dungeons of Egypt. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above all but Pharaoh, so that at the name of Joseph every knee should bow, in Egypt and in Canaan and in the far reaches of the Earth, and every mouth kiss the ground on his command, to the glory of God of Jacob.

Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.

O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’

Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will there not be a lifting of the face? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is against you, but you must rule over it.

Thus Esau despised his birthright.

How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.

By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.

If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? … For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.