“For your servant guaranteed for the lad, to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time’.” Genesis 44:32)
“When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognised them, but he acted like a stranger toward them” Genesis 42:7
“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8
Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours” Genesis 33:9
“For you are a people consecrated to the Eternal your God: the Eternal your God chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be a treasured people.” Deuteronomy 14:2
“When your heart will become haughty and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you … out of the land of slavery… you may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me’. But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth” Deuteronomy 8: 14-18
“Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die” Deuteronomy 5:21
“Also the Lord was angry with me, because of you, saying: ‘You too shall not go there’” Deuteronomy 1:37
“Every daughter from the tribes of the children of Israel who inherits property, shall marry a member of her father’s tribe” Numbers 36:8
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