To an unknown God

45:4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
They came near. “He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
45:5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 45:6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 45:7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 45:8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

50:18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 50:19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. 50:21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

A clever (more profound) spin on “don’t get mad, get even” perhaps — make good.

Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

(OPB)

Sarah’s response to the birth of her child.

9:12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

(WEB)

This is a nice section to remember when I see a rainbow.

5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created people, He made them in the likeness of God. 5:2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human”.

(OPB)

Not your usual translation, but I prefer it. The Hebrew word “Adam” can be read as a generic name for humans (see e.g., Adam: Individual/Humanity & Etymology).

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

(KJV; OPB)

How do you decide whether or not two animals should have the same name? I think God is saying to Adam, “Do science.” See also Mark 12:17.