You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me---you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your goats, your cattle, and everything else that you have.

If you are in Goshen, I can take care of you. There will still be five years of famine; and I do not want you, your family, and your livestock to starve.' "

Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.

But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

"If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you.

Instead, as the scripture says: "If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them a drink; for by doing this you will make them burn with shame."

Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.

See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.

Do not pay back evil with evil or cursing with cursing; instead, pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give you when he called you.

But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.

Encourage the people of Jerusalem. Tell them they have suffered long enough and their sins are now forgiven. I have punished them in full for all their sins."