Most Popular Bible Verses in Genesis

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Then God said, "Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!" And that is what happened:

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God also told them, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.

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Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.

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There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary.

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Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."

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Now after the population of human beings had increased throughout the earth, and daughters had been born to them,

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These are the records of the universe at its creation. Onthe day that the LORD God made the earth and skies,

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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

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When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in constant awareness that I'm always with you, and be blameless.

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The LORD God commanded the man: "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,

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Later, the LORD God said, "Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won't reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever "

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to differentiate between day and night, and to distinguish light from darkness. And God saw how good it was.

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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor a ruler's staff from between his feet, until the one comes, who owns them both, and to him will belong the allegiance of nations.

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By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

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Later, the LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks belonging to Mamre. As Abraham was sitting near the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day,

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The LORD God told the Shining One, "Because you have done this, you are more cursed than all the livestock, and more than all the earth's animals, You'll crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.

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Then God said, "Let the oceans swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures soar above the earth throughout the sky!"

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The two angels entered Sodom at sunset while Lot was sitting in the gate area of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up, greeted them, bowed low with his face to the ground,

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I'll make a great nation of your descendants, I'll bless you, and I'll make your reputation great, so that you will be a blessing.

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The Nephilim were on the earth at that time (and also immediately afterward), when those divine beings were having sexual relations with those human women, who gave birth to children for them. These children became the heroes and legendary figures of ancient times.

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God saw that the light was beautiful. He separated the light from the darkness,

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"Even God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you'll become like God, knowing good and evil."

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The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.

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Then God said, "Let there be a canopy between bodies of water, separating bodies of water from bodies of water!"

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so the LORD God caused a deep sleep to overshadow the man.

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Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth's animals!" And that is what happened:

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Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened:

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Meanwhile, Jacob had left Beer-sheba and was on his way to Haran.

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That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River

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After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

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When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.

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On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,

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and with every living creature that is with you the flying creatures, the livestock, and all the wildlife of the earth that are with you all the earth's animals that came out of the ark.

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God fashioned two great lights the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night as well as stars.

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After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.

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God said, "Please take your son, your unique son whom you love Isaac and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you."

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As Abram was entering Egypt, the Egyptians noticed how beautiful Sarai was.

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If you do what is appropriate, you'll be accepted, won't you? But if you don't do what is appropriate, sin is crouching near your doorway, turning toward you. Now as for you, will you take dominion over it?"

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The LORD also said, "How great is the disapproval of Sodom and Gomorrah! Their sin is so very serious!

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to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!" And that is what happened:

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The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!"

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Later, God told Noah and his sons,

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When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Cainan.

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When the sun had fully set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a fiery torch passed between the animal pieces.

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From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground,

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When Pharaoh's officials saw her, they brought her to the attention of Pharaoh and took the woman to Pharaoh's palace.

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but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him.

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Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

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Why did you say, "She is my sister,' so that I took her as a wife for myself? Now, here is your wife! Take her and get out!"

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During the night, Abram and his servants divided his forces, conquered his enemies, and pursued them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

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But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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He treated Abram well because of her, so Abram acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

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About that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, told Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you're doing.

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Instead, an underground stream would arise out of the earth and water the surface of the ground.

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And yes," she continued, "we have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place to spend the night."

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Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it's a small one. Let me escape there! It's a small one, isn't it? That way I'll stay alive!"

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Therefore swear an oath here by God that you won't deal falsely with me, my sons, or my descendants. Just as I've dealt graciously with you, won't you do so with me and with the land in which you live as a foreigner?"

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It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows.

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After he fathered Enosh, Seth lived 807 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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I'm going down to see whether they've acted according to the protests that have reached me. If not, I wish to know."

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Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me! Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

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along with Resen, which was located between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

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The gold of that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also found there.

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He recovered all the goods and brought back his nephew Lot, together with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

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After Abram's return from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with them, the king of Sodom went out to meet with him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley).

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two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded.

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After he fathered Cainan, Arpachshad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died. Cainan lived 130 years and fathered Shelah. After he fathered Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died.

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God looked at the earth, observing how corrupt its population had become, because the entire human race had corrupted itself.

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Also, his concubine Reumah gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

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When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

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May the LORD grant you dew from the skies, and from the fertile land; may he grant you abundant grain and fresh wine.

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"All right," the angel replied to Lot, "I'll agree with your request! I won't overthrow the town that you mentioned.

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Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.

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Get up! Walk throughout the length and breadth of the land, because I'm going to give it to you."

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Make the ark like this: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

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So Pharaoh assigned men to Abram, and they escorted him, his wife, and all that he had out of the country.

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When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

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"My punishment is too great to bear," Cain told the LORD.

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I'll remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature, so that water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings.

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The name of the first one is Pishon it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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Then two of the men turned away from there and walked toward Sodom, while Abraham remained standing in the presence of the LORD.

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The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land.

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Now as to your gods, if you find someone has them in their possession, he's a dead man. Take our relatives as witnesses, search through our belongings, and take whatever belongs to you that's in my possession." But Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

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"We may eat from the trees of the garden," the woman answered the Shining One,

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Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.)

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After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

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the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from which came the Philistines), and the Caphtorites.

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Egypt fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

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After he fathered Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

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Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

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However, I will establish my own covenant with you, and you are to enter the ark you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives.

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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

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God also told Noah, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I've established between me and everything that lives on the earth."

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The name of the second river is Gihon it winds through the entire land of Cush.

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May people serve and bow before you; may you be master over your brothers; may your mother's sons bow before you; may anyone who curses you be cursed; and may anyone who blesses you be blessed."

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Now these are the family records of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

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At this, the man bowed down and worshipped the LORD.

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And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation.

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"Why have you come to see me," Isaac asked them, "since you hate me so much that you sent me away from you?"

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The third river is named the Tigris it flows to the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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Seven days later, the flooding started.

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When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

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When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will observe it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living beings on the earth."

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After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Now as to Isaac, I'll confirm my covenant with him, to whom Sarah will give birth as your son at this time next year."

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Finally, Abraham inquired, "I hope my LORD will not be angry if I speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "For the sake of those ten I won't destroy it."

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Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow becomes visible in the clouds,

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Irad was born to Enoch. Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

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Lamech told his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to what I have to say: You wives of Lamech, hear what I'm announcing! I've killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

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Abraham continued to speak to him, asking, "What if 40 are found there?" The LORD replied, "I won't do it for the sake of those 40."

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After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, along with the Hittites,

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Abram traveled through the land to the place called Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

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including the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

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These three were Noah's sons, and from these men the whole earth was repopulated.

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These are Shem's descendants, listed by their families, each with their own lands, language, and family groups.

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I'll make your descendants as plentiful as the specks of dust of the earth, so that if one could count the specks of dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

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So Laban entered Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maid servants, but he didn't find them. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.

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"Look," Abraham said, "I've presumed to speak to my LORD" so what if 20 are found there?" "For the sake of those 20," the LORD responded, "I won't destroy it."

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Make a roof for the ark, and finish the walls to within one cubit from the top. Place the entrance in the side of the ark, and build a lower, a middle, and an upper deck.

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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore.

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When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

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After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

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When he was about to enter Egypt, he told his wife Sarai, "Look, I'm aware that you're a beautiful woman.

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In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying.

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These are the records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom descendants were born after the flood.

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When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Bring out with you every living creature including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth."

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Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

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When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

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Hurry up and flee there, because I cannot do anything until you get to that town." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

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Shem's sons included Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

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the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba, because the two of them swore an oath.

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"We've seen that the LORD is with you," they responded, "so we're proposing an agreement between us between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

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Haran died during his father's lifetime in the land of his birth, that is, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Later, the Canaanite families were widely scattered. The Canaanite border extended south from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and east toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Whenever you work the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you, and you'll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive."

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On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them,

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When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

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After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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"You're driving me from the soil today. I'll be hidden from you, and I'll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive. In the future, whoever finds me will kill me."

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These are Ham's descendants, listed by their families, each with their own lands, language, and family groups.

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Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who became a forger of bronze and iron work. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah.

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Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to the man and met him at the spring.

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Later, Lamech married two wives. One was named Adah and the other was named Zillah.

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As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there.

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Abraham answered, "Look, even though I am only dust and ashes, I've ventured to speak to my LORD.

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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry.

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Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the servants he had acquired while living in Haran. Then they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they arrived in the land of Canaan,

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However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.

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Therefore it was called Babylon, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the surface of the entire earth.

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To Eber were born two sons. One was named Peleg, because the earth was divided during his lifetime. His brother was named Joktan.

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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, "She is his wife.' Then they'll kill me, but allow you to live.

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From there Abram traveled on to the hill country east of Bethel and set up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

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Arpachshad fathered Cainan, Cainan fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

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Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had descendants. Shem was the father of the descendants of Eber.

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"Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hasn't held back his gracious love and faithfulness from my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"

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And so it was, as soon as he saw the nose ring and bracelets on his sister's wrists, and as soon as he heard what his sister Rebekah was saying about what the man had spoken to her, he went out to the man who was still standing by the camels at the spring!

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from whom the coastal nations spread into their own lands and nations, each with their own language and family groups.

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From birds according to their species, from domestic animals according to their species, and from everything that crawls on the ground according to their species two of everything will come to you so they may remain alive.

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Japheth's descendants included Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah.

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Perhaps there are 50 righteous ones within the city. Will you actually destroy it and not forgive the place for the sake of the 50 righteous that are found there?

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Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children.

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He replied, "You are to accept from me these seven ewe lambs as a witness that I have dug this well."

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They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar.

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"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark.

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Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah.

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Then Jacob gave Esau some of his food, along with some boiled stew. So Esau ate, drank, got up, and left, after having belittled his own birthright.

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When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

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"Look! I'm about to die," Esau replied. "What good is this birthright to me?"

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Then he said, "Isn't his name rightly called Jacob?" Esau asked. "He has circumvented me this second time. First, he took away my birthright, and now, look how he also stole my blessing." Then he added, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

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The sun had risen over the land about the time Lot reached Zoar.

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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

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After he fathered Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth.

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So Abram moved his tent and settled beside the oaks of Mamre that are by Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

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Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.

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Later, she conceived again and said, "This time my husband will become attached to me, now that I've borne him three sons." So he named him Levi.

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Gomer's descendants included Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended, leaving him.

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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan's descendants.

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along with every species of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and every creature that has wings.

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"The LORD God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and from my family's land, who spoke to me and promised me "I will give this land to your descendants,' will send his angel ahead of you, and you are to acquire a wife for my son from there.

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He became a fearless hunter in defiance of the LORD. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a fearless hunter in defiance of the LORD."

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Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then died.

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After he fathered Methuselah, Enoch communed with God for 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

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Isaac loved Esau, because he loved to hunt, while Rebekah loved Jacob.

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After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Javan's descendants included Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim,

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When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch.

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Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who live in tents and herd livestock.

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After Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the river ruled in his place.

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What if there are five less than 50 righteous ones? Will you bring destruction upon the city because of those five?" The LORD said, "I won't destroy it if I find 45 there."

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After he fathered Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.

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For your part, take some of the edible food and store it away these stores will be food for you and the animals."

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Shem lived 500 years after he fathered Arpachshad and had other sons and daughters.

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Every living thing on earth died flying creatures, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings.

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So after they had made a covenant in Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to Philistine territory.

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Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised,

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Aram's descendants included Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

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The males and females of each living creature entered the ark, just as God had commanded. Then the LORD sealed them inside.

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Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then died.

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Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, "Abram is blessed by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

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Enoch lived a total of 365 years,

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"Come on," Laban said. "The LORD has blessed you! So why are you standing out here when I've prepared some space in the house and a place for the camels?"

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The flood water surged even higher throughout the earth, until all the highest mountains under the sky were covered.

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The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.

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So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city.

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May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan serve him."

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Then Abram traveled on, continuing into the Negev.

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Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died.

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So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged.

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At this, Isaac began to tremble violently. "Who then," he asked, "hunted some game and brought it to me to eat before you arrived, so that I've blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed."

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The flood waters continued to surge, increasing throughout the earth, while the ark floated on the surface of the flood water.

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But his father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I'm Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.

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For if Cain is being avenged seven times, then Lamech will be avenged 77 times."

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Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

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Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

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Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand, placed it on Joseph's hand, had him clothed in fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

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But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Then Jacob told his relatives, "Go gather some stones." So they picked up stones and stacked them one on top of the other. Then they had a meal together there by the stack of stones.

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Their settlements extended from Mesha towards Sephar, the eastern hill country.

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All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.

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The king of Sodom told Abram, "Return the people to me, and you take the possessions for yourself."

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Cush's descendants included Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants included Sheba and Dedan.

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After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built

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When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.

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Eventually, what Rebekah's older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, "Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.

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After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.

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Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it."

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As soon as he finished talking to Abraham, the LORD left and Abraham returned to where he had been sitting.

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My master made me swear this oath: "You are not to select a wife for my son from among the daughters of the Canaanites in this land where I live.

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"Pay attention! I'm establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

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He named his second son Ephraim because, he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my troubles."

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He also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.

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whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."

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Then Esau implored his father, "Don't you have even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father!" Then Esau lifted his voice and wept bitterly.

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Now that you've searched all my belongings, what did you find that belongs to your house? Set it here in front of our relatives and we'll let them judge between us!

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Laban named the place Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.

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Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days.

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Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then died.

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But Laban answered Jacob, "These women are my daughters. These children are my children. The flocks are mine. In fact, everything that you see belongs to me. But what would I do today to my daughters and the children they have borne?

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By your sword you'll live; but you'll serve your brother. But when you've become restless, you'll break off his yoke from your neck."

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Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made."

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here I am standing by the spring. May it be that the young woman who comes out to draw water, from whom I request a little water from her jug to drink,

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The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed.

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The flood waters surged over the earth for 150 days.

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Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the servants born in his house or purchased with his money every male among the men of his household and circumcised them that very day, just as God had spoken to him.

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Later, Cain had sexual relations with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain founded a city and named it after his son Enoch.

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While bumper crops grew during the seven abundant years,

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Meanwhile, these past 20 years that I've been with you, your sheep and goats never had miscarriages, I never once ate any of the rams from your flock,

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"So I gave her a ring for her nose and bracelets for her wrists. I bowed down and worshipped the LORD, and I praised the LORD God of my master Abraham, who led me on the true way to request the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

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But then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized.

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Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.

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When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son,

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Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded,

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There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because the famine was so severe.

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no shrubs had yet grown in the meadows of the earth and no vegetation had sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there were no human beings to work the ground.

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Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth.

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Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

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"Abraham told me, "The LORD, who is with me wherever I go, will send his angel with you to make your journey successful. So you are to choose a wife for my son from my family, from my father's household.

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Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then died.

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This is the account of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

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and stay there with him a few days until your brother's fury subsides.

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So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was.

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The young woman then ran ahead and informed her mother's household what had happened.

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Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

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Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.

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The LORD came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

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Joseph collected the surplus food throughout the land of Egypt, storing food in cities; that is, he gathered the food from fields that surrounded every city and stored it there.

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and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth.

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After he fathered Enoch, Jared lived 800 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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Esau told Jacob, "Let me gobble down some of this red stuff, since I'm starving." (That's how Esau got his nickname "Edom".)

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and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

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One day the firstborn told the younger one, "Our father is old, and there's no man in the land to have sex with us, as everybody else throughout all the earth does.

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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD God Everlasting.

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Later that night, he woke up, quickly took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven children, and forded the river at Jabbok.

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by which you'll agree not to do us any harm, just as we haven't harmed you, since we've done nothing but good for you after we sent you away in peace. As a result, you've been tremendously blessed by the LORD."

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But Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I have made an oath to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

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Then the LORD rained sulfur and fire out of the sky from the LORD on Sodom and Gomorrah,

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when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God's angels were ascending and descending on it.

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After Lot had separated from Abram, the LORD told Abram, "Look off to the north, south, east, and west from where you're living,

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So make yourself an ark out of cedar, constructing compartments in it, and cover it inside and out with tar.

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Then the LORD told Noah, "Come you and all your household into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation.

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After he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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Then Abraham set aside seven ewe lambs,

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Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.

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Far be it from you to do such a thing to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! The Judge of all the earth will do what is right, won't he?"

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Then Shem and Japheth took their father's cloak, laid it across both their shoulders, and walking backwards, they both covered their father's genitals. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's genitals.

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Every man born in his household as well as those who had been purchased with money from a foreigner was circumcised with him.

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A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides, becoming four branches.

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along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.

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After he fathered Noah, Lamech lived 595 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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"Your name won't be Jacob anymore," the man replied, "but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you've emerged victorious."

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Even though both the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about it.

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When the man was asleep, he removed one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh where it had been. Then the LORD God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

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"I don't know who did this thing," Abimelech replied. "You didn't report this to me, and I didn't hear about it until today."

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The LORD said, "If I find 50 righteous people within Sodom, I'll forgive the whole place for their sake."

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Meanwhile, Joseph had been delivered to Egypt and turned over to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's court officials and the Commander-in-Chief of the imperial guards. An Egyptian, he bought Joseph from the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

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Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day.

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After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.

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Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

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where Terah died at the age of 205 years.

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So the LORD said, "I will annihilate these human beings whom I've created from the earth, including people, animals, crawling things, and flying creatures, because I'm grieving that I made them."

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I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.

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Jacob responded, "You don't have to give me anything. Just do this for me: Let me tend your flock again and watch over it. Let me walk among your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, along with every black lamb, and let me do the same with the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages.

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Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"

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By this time, the earth had become ruined in God's opinion and filled with violence.

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The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds that fly, and to each of earth's animals, but there was not found a strength corresponding to him,

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he glanced up and saw three men standing there, not far from him. As soon as he noticed them, Abraham ran from the tent entrance to greet them and bowed low to the ground.

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Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

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After this, the men set out from there and looked out over Sodom. Abraham went with them to send them off.

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Later, after a while, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit that he had harvested,

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Just after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left his father Isaac, Jacob's brother Esau returned from hunting,

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Pharaoh also changed Joseph's name to Zaphenath-paneah and gave Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, to him as his wife. And that's how Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.

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Abram traveled from Egypt, along with his wife and everyone who belonged to his household including Lot to the Negev.

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Then the LORD told Abram, "You can be certain about this: Your descendants will be foreigners in a land that isn't theirs. They will be slaves there and will be oppressed for 400 years.

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Jacob continued to live in the land they were occupying, where his father had journeyed in the territory of Canaan.

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Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Eventually, Isaac grew so old that he could not see. One day, he called his eldest son Esau. "My son," he called out to him.

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God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside.

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But Jacob responded, "Sell me your birthright. Do it now."

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Leah conceived, bore a son, and named him Reuben, because she was saying, "The LORD had looked on my torture, so now my husband will love me."

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When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he gathered together 318 of his trained men, who had been born in his household, and they went out in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Cush fathered Nimrod, who became the first fearless leader throughout the land.

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They woke up early the next morning and made the treaty. After this, Isaac sent them off and they left on peaceful terms.

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These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you won't be able to say, "I made Abram rich.'

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Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

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As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors.

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When Cain became very upset and depressed, the LORD asked Cain, "Why are you so upset? Why are you depressed?

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After Shaul died, Achbor's son Baal-hanan ruled in his place.

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These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their records, by their nations. From these people, the nations on the earth spread out after the flood.

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Later on, Lot and his two daughters abandoned Zoar and settled in the hills because Lot was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived there in a cave, along with his two daughters.

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When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch was king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer was king of Elam, and Tidal was king of the Goiim,

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The LORD spoke to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

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Someone escaped, arrived, and reported what had happened to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, whose brothers Eshcol and Aner were allied with Abram.

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After this, Jacob called his sons together and told them, "Assemble yourselves around me so I can tell you all what is going to happen to you in the last days.

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Abraham named that place, "The LORD Will Provide," as it is told this day, "On the LORD's mountain, he will provide."

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You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate;

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Later, God told Jacob, "Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."

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Then he provided him with a chariot as his second-in-command, outfitted with a group of people who shouted out in front of him, "Bow your knees!" And that's how Pharaoh set Joseph over the entire land of Egypt.

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"What did you do?" God asked. "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

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Seth also fathered a son, whom he named Enosh. At that time, profaning the name of the LORD began.

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Right about then, Judah left his brothers and went to live with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

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"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.

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Now Abraham had grown old, was well advanced in age, and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.

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So God announced to Noah, "I've decided to destroy every living thing on earth, because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I'm about to annihilate them, along with the earth.

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Before they could lie down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house.

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Your name is no longer to be Abram. Instead your name will be Abraham, since I'll make you the father of many nations.

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Two years later to the day Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile River,

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But God replied, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son, and you are to name him Isaac. I'll confirm my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his descendants.

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Please say that you are my sister, so things will go well for me for your sake. That way, you'll be saving my life."

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Vegetation sprouted all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed. And God saw that it was good.

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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they journeyed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they had gone as far as Haran, they settled there,

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At this point, Joseph could not control his emotions any longer, so he cried out to everyone who was standing nearby, "Everybody! Leave me!" As a result, none of his staff was anywhere near him when he revealed himself to his brothers.

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"Your brothers will praise you, Judah. Your hand will be at the throat of your enemies, and your father's children will bow down to you.

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The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

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but God told Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the youth and your slave girl. Pay attention to Sarah in everything she tells you, because your offspring are to be named through Isaac.

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Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Keturah.

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After this, Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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I have given all green plants as food for every wild animal of the earth, every bird that flies, and to every living thing that crawls on the earth." And that is what happened.

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"Who told you that you are naked?" Godasked. "Did you eat fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?"

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"Look!" Pharaoh confirmed to Joseph, "I've put you in charge of the entire land of Egypt!"

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After Noah had lived 500 years, he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Abraham answered, "God will provide himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."

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Meanwhile, Rachel had taken the idols, placed them inside the saddle of her camel, and sat on them. Laban searched through the whole tent, but found nothing.

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God told Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai any longer, because her name is to be Sarah.

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Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

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I'll give to you and to your descendants the land to which you have traveled all the land of Canaan as an eternal possession. I will be their God."

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In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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Then one of them said, "I will certainly return to you in about a year's time. By then, your wife Sarah will have borne a son."

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"since Abraham's descendants will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?

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When Esau realized what his father Isaac was saying, he began to wail out loud bitterly. "Bless me," he cried, "even me, too, my father!"

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"Should I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do," the LORD asked,

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"Look, I've made a covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations.

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Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD earlier.

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God also said, "Here's the symbol that represents the covenant that I'm making between me and you and every living being with you, for all future generations:

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Later on, after Adam had sexual relations with his wife, she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him."

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Abraham traveled from there to the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was living in Gerar as an outsider,

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Then she conceived yet again, bore a son, and said, "This time I'll praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing children.

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I will establish my covenant with you: No living beings will ever be cut off again by flood waters, and there will never again be a flood that destroys the earth."

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prepared some delicious food, brought it to his father, and told him, "Can you get up now, father, so you may eat some of your son's game and then bless me?"

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So Isaac named the well Shebah, which is why the city is named Beer-sheba to this day.

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So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness.

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"Two nations are in your womb," the LORD responded, "and two separate people will emerge. One people will be the stronger, and the older one will serve the younger."

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God blessed them by saying, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!"

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"but as for the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, "You are not to eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die.'"

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The next day the firstborn told the younger one, "Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let's make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we'll preserve our father's lineage."

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From there he went north to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

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So Abram left there, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot accompanied him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

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So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her."

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Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the time set for it, I will return to you about a year from now and Sarah will have a son."

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Some time later, Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

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The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them!

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They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to visit you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

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One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau happened to come in from being outdoors, and he was feeling famished.

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He'll be a wild donkey of a man. He'll be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live in conflict with all of his relatives."

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When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

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So Isaac held a festival for them, and they ate and drank.

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Then the LORD God asked the woman, "What did you do?" "The Shining One misled me," the woman answered, "so I ate."

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That's why Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I'm so old and my husband is old, too, am I going to have sex?"

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Jacob journeyed on and reached the territory that belonged to the people who lived in the east.

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The LORD told him, "This won't happen, because whoever kills you will suffer seven times the vengeance." Then the LORD placed a sign on Cain so that no one finding him would kill him.

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so Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set aside?"

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So the servant went to the house and unbridled the camels. They provided straw and feed for the camels and water for washing his feet and those of the men with him.

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"Don't lay your hand on the youth!" he said. "Don't do anything to him, because I've just demonstrated that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me."

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Not only that," Pharaoh continued, "after they had finished devouring the cows, nobody could tell that they had gobbled them up, because they were just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

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Abraham approached and asked, "Will you actually destroy the righteous along with the wicked?

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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, what can you give me since I continue to be childless, and the heir of my household is Eliezer from Damascus?

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The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

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Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."

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Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.

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Later, after Joseph's brothers faced the reality of their father's death, they asked themselves, "What happens if Joseph decides to hold a grudge against us? What if he pays us back in full for all the wrong things we did to him?"

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Then Jacob woke up during the night and told himself, "Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!"

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Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom Hagar had borne to Abraham making fun of Isaac,

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So Judah's brothers listened to him. As the Midianite merchants were passing through, they extracted Joseph from the cistern and sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who then took Joseph down to Egypt.

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And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping.

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Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him.

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"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls.

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Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.

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His kingdom began in the region of Shinar with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.

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All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

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Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech."

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Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants: Every male among you is to be circumcised.

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I'm going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws."

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Now Joseph was well built and good looking. That's why, sometime later, Joseph's master's wife looked straight at Joseph and propositioned him: "Come on! Let's have a little sex!"

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Then he made this solemn vow: "If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I'm taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear,

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and said, "I have taken an oath to swear by myself," declares the LORD, "that since you have carried this out and have not withheld your only unique son,

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When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.

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After this, while they were seated, eating their food, they looked around and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with camels carrying spices, balm, and myrrh for sale down in Egypt.

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because I'm going to give you and your descendants all of the land that you see forever!

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The two of them went on together and came to the place about which God had spoken. Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood, tied up his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

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Adam lived another 800 years, fathering other sons and daughters after he had fathered Seth.

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After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

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Come on! Let's make our father drink wine, and then we'll have sex with him so we can preserve our father's lineage."

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Later, Laban asked Jacob, "Should you serve me for free, just because you're my nephew? Let's talk about what your wages should be."

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But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went inside his father's tent and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

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You are to bring two of every living thing into the ark so they may remain alive with you. They are to be male and female.

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he said, "Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest of slaves to his relatives."

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Ham's descendants included Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him?

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After Achbor's son Baal-hanan died, Hadar ruled in his place. His city's name was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, who was the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.

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Then Abraham looked up and behind him to see a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went over, grabbed the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

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So Abram told Lot, "Please, let's not have strife between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.

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Later, she conceived again, bore a son, and declared, "Because the LORD heard that I'm neglected, he gave me this one, too." So she named him Simeon.

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He looked off toward Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entire plain, and he saw smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

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Eventually, Jacob observed that there was grain in Egypt, so he asked his sons, "Why do you keep on staring at one another?

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So Judah instructed Onan, "You are to have sexual relations with your dead brother's wife, performing the duty of a brother-in-law with her, and have offspring for your brother."

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Some time later, somebody informed Joseph, "Your father is ill!" So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him to visit Jacob.

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Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."

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Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

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The men asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "There, in the tent," he replied.

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"The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become wealthy. He has provided him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, camels and donkeys.

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Just then, an angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.

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So Abraham instructed his servant, who was the oldest member of his household and in charge of everything he owned, "Make this solemn oath to me

563

So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are "God who sees,' because I have truly seen the one who looks after me."

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I will take nothing except what my warriors have eaten. But as for what belongs to the men who were allied with me, including Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their share."

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The LORD responded, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

566

Joseph was 30 years old when he began to serve Pharaoh, king of Egypt, by traveling throughout the land of Egypt, independent from Pharaoh's oversight.

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because Abraham kept saying about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister," King Abimelech of Gerar summoned them and took Sarah into his household.

568

Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.

569

So Esau harbored animosity toward Jacob because of the way his father had blessed him. Esau kept saying to himself, "The time to mourn for my father is very near. That's when I'm going to kill my brother Jacob."

570

Right about this time, Joseph had a dream and then told it to his brothers. As a result, his brothers hated him all the more!

571

As Jacob went on his way, angels from God met him.

572

So God made a canopy that separated the water beneath the canopy from the water above it. And that is what happened:

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You are all to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this is to be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

574

Now the men of Sodom were particularly evil and sinful in their defiance of the LORD.

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God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

576

A message came from the LORD to him again: "This one will not be your heir. Instead, the child who will be born to you will be your heir."

577

Later, Israel began his journey, taking along everything that he owned, and arrived at Beer-sheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

578

Remain in this land, and I'll be with and bless you by giving all these lands to you and to your descendants in fulfillment of my solemn promise that I made to your father Abraham.

579

"Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are violent weapons.

581

They filled in with sand all of the wells that Isaac's father Abraham's servants had dug during his lifetime.

582

But then he had another dream, and he proceeded to tell his brothers about that one, too. "I had another dream," he said. "The sun, moon, and eleven of the stars were bowing down before me!"

583

But the LORD was with Joseph. He became a very prosperous man while in the house of his Egyptian master,

584

God called the dry ground "land," and he called the water that had come together "oceans." And God saw how good it was.

585

Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever you wish, only don't do anything to these men, because they're here under my protection."

586

And so it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

587

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

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Then one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere on the plain. Escape to the hills, or you'll be swept away!"

589

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

591

Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

592

Abraham hurried into the tent and told Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of the best flour, knead it, and make some flat bread."

593

Isaac addressed his father Abraham: "My father!" "I'm here, my son," Abraham replied. Isaac asked, "The fire and the wood are here, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?"

594

So they had their father drink wine that night, and the older one had sexual relations with her father, but he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

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she told Abraham, "Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave's son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"

596

When his workers started digging another well, those herdsmen quarreled about that one, too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

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overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground.

598

they engaged in war against King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, along with the king of Bela (which was also known as Zoar).

599

Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

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this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me."

601

Besides, she really is my sister she's my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter so she could become my wife.

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therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.

603

When Jacob looked off in the distance, there was Esau coming toward him, accompanied by 400 men! So Jacob divided Leah's children, Rachel, and the children of the two servants into separate groups.

604

Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.

605

But Onan knew that the offspring wouldn't be his own heir, so whenever he had sexual relations with his brother's wife, he would spill his semen on the ground to avoid fathering offspring for his brother.

606

But God came to Abimelech in a dream during the night and spoke to him, "Pay attention! You're about to die, because the woman you have taken is a man's wife!"

607

"My lords," he told them, "if I have found favor with you, please don't leave your servant.

608

So God called his name Israel and also told him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you they'll emerge from your own loins!

609

God continued to speak to Abraham, "You and your descendants who are born in the future are to keep my covenant that is, you and your descendants, generation after generation.

610

But when the infants kept on wrestling each other inside her womb, she asked herself, "Why is this happening?" So she asked the LORD for an explanation.

611

Some time later, Joseph died at the age of 110 years, and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

612

Later he settled in the desert area of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

613

Here's a list of the names of Ishmael's sons, recorded by their names and descendants: Nebaioth was the firstborn, followed by Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

615

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.

616

Abraham ordered his two servants, "Both of you are to stay here with the donkey. Now as for the youth and me, we'll go up there, we'll worship, and then we'll return to you."

617

Some time later, his brothers left to tend their father's flock in Shechem.

618

When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil,

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I'll cause you to have as many descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I'll certainly give all these lands to your descendants. Later on, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless one another.

620

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.

621

As dawn was breaking, the angels pressured Lot. "Get going!" they told him. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be engulfed by the devastation that's coming to this city."

622

As the sun began to set, Abram was overcome with deep sleep, and suddenly a frightening and terrifying darkness descended on him.

623

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

624

as a promise to the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you won't acquire a wife for my son from the Canaanite women among whom I'm living.

625

Isaac received a 100-fold return on what he planted that year in the land he received, because the LORD blessed him.

626

That very same day, Isaac's servants arrived and reported to him about a well that they had just completed digging. "We've found water!" they said.

627

nevertheless his bow remained steady and his arms kept in shape by the strength of Jacob's Mighty One, in the name of the Shepherd, Israel's Rock,

628

Before the years of famine arrived, Joseph fathered two sons with Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.

629

I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers."

630

I'm going to cause you to have many descendants, and I'll bring nations from you. Kings will come from you.

632

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him.

633

Next they turned back and came to En-mishpat (which was also known as Kadesh) and conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, along with the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

635

Pharaoh also told Joseph, "I'm still Pharaoh, but without your permission nobody in all of the land of Egypt will so much as lift up their hands or take a step!"

637

Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks of sheep, herds, and tents.

639

Now Jacob used to listen while Laban's sons kept on complaining, "Jacob has taken over everything our father owns! He made himself wealthy from what belongs to our father!"

640

Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.

641

"Reuben, you're my firstborn, my strength, and the first fruit of my vitality. You excel in rank and excel in power.

642

That's when the LORD appeared to Isaac. "You are not to go down to Egypt," he said. "Instead, you are to settle down in an area within this land where I'll tell you.

643

Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him into the land of Seir (that is, into the territory of Edom) to meet his brother Esau.

644

Then Abraham's servant took ten camels from his master's herd of camels and left on his journey with all kinds of gifts from his master's inventory. Eventually, he traveled as far as Aram-naharaim, Nahor's home town.

645

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob told Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country.

646

Some time later, both the senior security advisor to the king of Egypt and his head chef offended their master, Egypt's king.

647

But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to Pharaoh.

648

Look!" Abram said, "You haven't given me any offspring, so a servant born in my house is going to be my heir."

649

Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel told Leah, "Please give me your son's mandrakes."

650

Later, Joseph told his brothers, "I'm going to die soon, but God will certainly provide for you and bring you up from this land to the land that he promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

651

Three months later, it was reported to Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution! And look! She's pregnant because of it!" "Bring her out," Judah responded. "Let's burn her to death!"

652

The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

653

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

654

On the third day he looked ahead and saw the place from a distance.

655

"I'm Abraham's servant," he said.

656

But when they had prepared a meal and set it in front of him, he said, "I'm not eating until I've spoken." "Speak up!" Laban exclaimed.

657

He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

658

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

659

"Do you have anyone else here in the city?" the angels asked Lot. "A son-in-law? Sons? Daughters? Get them out of this place,

660

the angel who has been rescuing me from all sorts of evil, bless these young men. May my name continue to live on within them, including the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a vast multitude throughout the earth."

661

Later, Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother Sarah and married her. Isaac loved her, and that's how he was comforted following the loss of his mother.

662

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, "May the LORD watch between you and me, when we are estranged from each other.

664

Then Rachel told her father, "Sir, please don't be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence. It's that time of the month." So Laban searched for the idols, but never did find them.

665

Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

666

Now then, return the man's wife. As a matter of fact, he's a prophet and can intercede for you so you'll live. But if you don't return her, be aware that you and all who are yours will certainly die."

667

Isaac replied, "Your brother came here deceitfully and stole your blessing."

668

"I'm your brother Joseph, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt!" he told them. "But don't be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.

669

and said, "Let me go, because the dawn has come." "I won't let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."

670

Judah found a wife for his oldest son Er. Her name was Tamar.

671

Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram's son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael.

672

That's how both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

673

This brought extreme grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

674

Then Jacob got angry and started an argument with Laban. "What have I done?" he demanded. "What's my crime that would cause you to come pursue me so violently?

675

Then Joseph embraced his father, cried over him, and kissed him.

676

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.

677

and said, "Look, my lords! Please come inside your servant's house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and be on your way." But they responded, "No, we would rather spend the night in the town square."

678

Meanwhile, down in Egypt, the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's court officials, who was also Commander-in-Chief of the imperial guards.

679

so he went to Abraham's son Ishmael and married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.

680

Then he took curds, milk, and the calf that had been prepared, placed the food in front of them, and stood near them under the tree while they ate.

681

After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who continued to live near Beer-lahai-roi.

682

"Look!" they said. "Here comes the Dream Master!

683

Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

684

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (that's near Egypt), all the way to Assyria, in defiance of all of his relatives.

685

Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. Abraham and Sarah were old really old and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.

686

Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?"

687

On the third day, which just happened to be Pharaoh's birthday, he threw a party for all his servants. He lifted the head of both his senior security advisor and of his head chef in front of his servants

689

Jacob sent Judah ahead of them to meet with Joseph, who would be guiding them to Goshen, and so they arrived.

690

But the LORD considered Er, Judah's oldest son, to be wicked so he put him to death.

691

Lot then went out and told his sons-in-law (they had married his daughters), "Get out of here! The LORD is going to destroy this city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

692

"Don't be afraid," Joseph responded. "Am I sitting in God's place?

693

In the future, you'll be able to verify my honesty because, when you come to check what I've earned, if you find a goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, then it will have been stolen by me."

694

All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.

695

This is a record of Esau's genealogy, that is, of Edom.

696

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

697

All of this latter group of kings allied together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

698

Instead, get up, travel to Paddan-aram, and visit the household of Bethuel, your mother's father. Marry one of Laban's daughters, since he's your mother's brother.

699

Everything that he owned, he entrusted into Joseph's care. He never concerned himself about anything, except for the food he ate.

700

When the man realized that he hadn't yet won the struggle, he injured the socket of Jacob's thigh, dislocating it as he wrestled with him,

701

"Zebulun will settle down near the sea shore and become a safe haven for shipping, bordering Sidon."

702

Joseph implored his brothers, "Please come close to me." So they did.

703

Now Sarah had said, "God has caused me to laugh, and all who hear about it will laugh with me."

704

Later, Joseph commanded his palace manager, "Fill the men's sacks to full capacity with food and replace each man's money at the top of the sack.

705

Abram answered Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish." So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar that she ran away from Sarai.

706

This is a list of the kings who ruled the territory of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelis.

707

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

709

The first son came out reddish his entire body was covered with hair so they named him Esau.

710

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, O God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you who told me, "Return to your country and to your relatives and I'll cause things to go well for you.'

711

Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed the knife to slaughter his son.

712

In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite.

713

In mounting terror, he cried out, "How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God's house and the gateway to heaven!"

714

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her wrists, weighing 10 shekels and presented them to her.

715

Then Sarai told Abram, "My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her, and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

716

then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.

717

Now after these things somebody told Abraham, "Look, Milcah has given birth to sons for your brother Nahor.

718

No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

719

by your father's God who helps you, by the Almighty who will keep on blessing you with blessings from heaven above, with blessings from the deepest ocean, with blessing from the breasts and the womb.

720

"If that's the way it has to be," their father Israel replied, "then do this: take some of the best produce of the land in your containers and take them to the man as a gift some resin ointment, some honey, fragrant resins, myrrh, pistachios, and almonds.

721

Then he bought a parcel of land for 100 pieces of silver from the descendants of Hamor, Shechem's father. He pitched his tent there,

722

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.

723

Then Abraham interceded with God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants so they could bear children,

724

God was with the boy as he grew up. He settled in the wilderness and became an expert archer.

725

After Jacob had arrived safely from Paddan-aram, he entered the city of Shechem, which was located in the territory of Canaan, and encamped facing that city.

726

He lived for seventeen more years in Egypt, until he was 147 years old.

727

Now Laban happened to have two daughters. The older one was named Leah and the younger was named Rachel.

728

When Hamor the Hivite's son Shechem, the regional leader, saw her, he grabbed her and raped her, humiliating her.

730

But Lot kept urging them strongly, so they turned aside and entered his house. He prepared a festival and baked unleavened flat bread for them, and they ate.

731

I will bless her. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her."

732

Come, let's make a covenant just between you and me. And let it serve as a witness between you and me."

733

If the God of my father the God of Abraham, the God whom Isaac feared had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty handed. But God saw my misery and how hard I've worked with my own hands and he rebuked you last night."

734

where one night the LORD appeared to him. "I am the God of your father Abraham," he told him. "Don't be afraid, because I'm with you. I'm going to bless you and multiply your descendants on account of my servant Abraham."

735

"Your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me your gracious love in how you have dealt with me by keeping me alive. I cannot escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

736

Meanwhile, the famine remained severe throughout the region.

737

Esau had married Canaanite women, including Elon the Hittite's daughter Adah, Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah (who was Zibeon the Hivite's daughter), and

738

So Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent in the vicinity of Sodom.

739

Then God told him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel."

740

"That's when I asked, "Whose daughter are you?' "She replied, "I'm the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore for him.'

741

Uz is his firstborn, Buz is his brother, and Kemuel is the father of Aram,

742

God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him.

743

Pharoah sent word to summon Joseph quickly from the dungeon, so they shaved his beard, changed his clothes, and then sent him straight to Pharaoh.

744

Before he had finished speaking, Rebekah appeared. She was a daughter of Milcah's son Bethuel. (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.) She approached the well, carrying a jug on her shoulder.

745

and named the place Beth-el, although previously the city had been named Luz.

747

"Okay," Laban replied. "We'll do it the way you've asked."

748

Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."

749

But Lot kept lingering in the city, so the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters (because of the LORD's compassion for him!), brought them out of the city, and left them outside.

750

Then Abraham stood up from beside his dead wife and addressed the Hittites. He said,

751

Isaac went out walking in a field. He looked up, and all of a sudden there were some camels coming.

752

But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch."

753

Sure enough, when her due date arrived, she delivered twin sons.

754

I am the God of Bethel, the place where you consecrated that stone and made a vow to me. Now get up, leave this territory, and return to your native land.'"

755

Eliphaz's sons were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

756

Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. Abraham carried the fire and the knife. And so the two of them went on together.

757

"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."

758

Meanwhile, there continued to be no food throughout the land, because the famine remained very severe. As a result, both Egypt and Canaan languished under the effects of the famine.

759

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

760

You have two sons who were born to you in Egypt before I came to be with you, whom I now take as my own. Ephraim and Manasseh are mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are.

761

Dan will be a snake on the path, a viper on the road that snaps at the heels of horses, causing their riders to fall off.

762

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, so when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of their people fell into them, while the rest fled to the hill country.

763

When harvest season arrives, you are to provide a fifth of the harvest to Pharaoh. The remaining four fifths are to be for your use, for seed, and to feed you, your households, and your little ones."

764

Joseph had two sons born to him in Egypt, and all of Jacob's household who went to Egypt numbered 70.

765

"Since this has come from the LORD," Laban and Bethuel both replied, "we cannot speak one way or another.

766

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, near El-paran by the desert.

767

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

769

There was strife between the herdsmen in charge of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen in charge of Lot's livestock. Also, at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

770

My master's wife Sarah gave birth to my master's son in her old age, and Abraham has given him everything that belongs to him.

771

He instructed them, "This is what you are to say to my master Esau: "Your servant Jacob told me to tell you, "I've journeyed to stay with Laban and I've remained there until now.

773

But his father refused. "I know," he said. "I know. He's going to produce a large nation, and he's going to be very great. However, his younger brother will become even greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations."

774

After this, Joseph went to inform Pharaoh. "My father and brothers have come here from Canaan," he said, "and they've come with their flocks, herds, and everything else they have. I settled them in the Goshen territory!"

775

The woman was very beautiful, young, and had not had sexual relations with a man. Going down to the spring, she filled her jug and turned for home.

776

Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because, he said, "God has made me forget all of my hard life and my father's house."

777

The servant born in your house or the one purchased with money is to be circumcised. My covenant is to remain in your flesh as an eternal covenant.

778

"I thought that there's no fear of God in this place," Abraham replied, "and that they would kill me because of my wife.

779

Abraham agreed with Ephron, so he weighed out to Ephron the money to which he had agreed publicly while the Hittites were listening: 400 shekels of silver at the current merchant rate.

780

Some years later, Shua's daughter (that is, Judah's wife) died. As Judah was grieving, he visited the shearers of his flock in Timnah, accompanied by his Adullamite friend Hirah.

781

"Later, the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, "Jacob.' ""Here I am,' I replied

782

and whatever was torn by beasts, I never bothered to bring to you. Instead, I bore the losses myself. Even so, you demanded that I provide restitution for anything that was stolen, whether during the day or the night.

783

In addition, all of the surrounding nations came to Joseph to buy grain from Egypt, because the famine had become severe throughout the world.

784

Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (which was also known as Zoar) prepared for battle in the Valley of Siddim

785

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.

786

"Issachar is a strong donkey, resting between sheepfolds.

787

He took them across the river, along with all his possessions.

788

"Please," Jacob inquired, "Tell me your name." But he asked, "Why are you asking about my name?" And he blessed Jacob there.

789

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

790

Because she had been asking, "May God give me another son," she named him Joseph.

792

Then God replied to him in the dream, "I know that you did this with pure intentions, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore, I didn't allow you to touch her.

793

Binding his donkey to the vine and his mare's foal to its thick tendrils, he will wash his garments in wine and his robe in the juice of grapes.

794

But Israel stretched out his right hand, laying it on Ephraim's head (he was the younger son) and laying his left hand on Manasseh's head (even though Manasseh was the firstborn).

795

When birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

796

These were the descendants of Seir the Horite, who lived in the territory: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

797

Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

798

At this, his father Isaac replied to him, "Look! Away from the fertile land will be your dwellings; away from the dew of the skies above.

799

arrested Joseph, and locked him up in the same prison where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph remained there in prison.

800

So Jacob drew closer to kiss him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his son's clothes, he blessed him and said, "How my son's scent is the fragrance of the field that the LORD has blessed.

802

He journeyed by stages from the Negev to Bethel, the place where his tent had formerly been, between Bethel and Ai,

803

They also took Abram's nephew Lot captive, and confiscated his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

804

Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth.

805

so Pharaoh asked his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this someone in whom the Spirit of God lives?

806

So Abram brought him all these animals and cut each of them in half, down the middle, placing the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

807

Joseph settled his father and brothers, assigning them their own land in the best part of Egypt (in the territory of Rameses), just as Pharaoh had ordered.

808

Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

809

Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."

811

Now as soon as they saw him approaching from a distance, before he arrived they plotted together to kill him.

812

However, I will judge the nation that they serve, and later they will leave there with many possessions.

813

The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority."

814

But the land could not support them living together, because they had so many livestock that they could not stay together.

815

He sent them as far away from Jacob as a three days' journey could take them.

816

set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-israel.

817

As they were leaving, they all blessed Rebekah by saying, "Our sister, may you become the mother of tens of millions! May your descendants take over the city gates of those who hate them."

818

Here's a list of the names of Israel's sons, that is, of Jacob and his sons who moved to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn;

819

May Abraham's God and Nahor's god judge between us."

820

So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem.

821

"We had a dream," they replied, "but there's no one to interpret it." "Interpretations belong to God," Joseph told them, "so please tell me your stories."

822

"Benjamin is vicious like a wolf; what he kills in the morning he devours in the evening."

823

Then he placed the branches that he had stripped bare in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He placed the branches in front of the flock, and they went into heat as they came to drink.

824

Isn't the whole land available to you? Let's separate: If you go to the left, then I will go to the right; if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."

825

That's how Ephron's field in Machpelah, east of Mamre the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were within the boundaries of the field came to be deeded

826

So she took off her mourning apparel, covered herself with a shawl, and concealed her outward appearance. Then she went out and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah, because she knew that even though Shelah had grown up, she wasn't being given to him as his wife.

827

Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him. Then he fell on his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

828

The sun was rising above Jacob as he crossed over from Peniel, limping due to his wounded thigh.

830

That's why the spring was called, "The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me." It was between Kadesh and Bered.

831

Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants."

832

But the LORD was with Joseph. He extended gracious love to him, causing the prison warden to be pleased with Joseph.

833

I'm unworthy of all your gracious love, your faithfulness, and everything that you've done for your servant. When I first crossed over this river, I had only my staff. But now I've become two groups.

834

Now, you promised me that "I'm certainly going to cause things to go well with you, and I'm going to make your offspring as numerous as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'"

835

But they replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he's acting like a judge! So we're going to deal more harshly with you than with them." Then they pushed hard against the man (that is, against Lot), intending to break down the door.

836

In response, Isaac told Esau, "Look! I've predicted that he's going to become your master, and I've assigned all his brothers to be his servants. What then can I do for you, my son?"

837

"Pharaoh's dreams are identical," Joseph replied. "God has told Pharaoh what he is getting ready to do.

838

Then Laban responded, "If I've found favor in your sight, please stay with me, because I've learned through divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.

839

That's when he prayed, "LORD God of my master Abraham, help me to succeed today. Please show your gracious love to my master Abraham.

840

Then Jacob told Simeon and Levi, "You have certainly stirred up trouble for me! You've made me despised by the Canaanites and the Perizzites who live in this territory. Because I have only a few men with me, they're going to gather themselves together and attack me until I am totally destroyed, along with my entire household!"

841

where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

842

because we're going to destroy it. Their outcry has come to the attention of the LORD, so he sent us here to destroy it!"

843

Now since Ephron the Hittite had taken a seat there among the Hittites, he responded publicly to Abraham where the Hittites and everyone who was entering the gate of his city could hear him:

844

When Joseph's brothers realized that their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him so much that they were unable to speak politely to him.

845

Eventually, Jacob told Laban, "Bring me my wife, now that my time of service has been completed, so I can go be with her."

846

God sent me ahead of you to keep you alive on the earth, and to save you all in a magnificent way.

847

Therefore, to this day the Israelis do not eat the hip tendon that connects to the thigh socket, because he had injured the socket of the thigh where the tendon connected to Jacob's hip.

848

Also included were Issachar's sons Tola, Puvvah, Job, and Shimron;

849

As it was, when Joseph arrived where his brothers were, they stripped off the tunic that Jacob had given him that is, the richly-embroidered tunic that he was wearing.

850

I'm assigning you one portion more than your brothers from the land that I confiscated from the control of the Amorites in battle."

852

Next, Abraham ran to the herd, found a choice and tender calf, and gave it to the young men, who went off in a hurry to prepare it.

853

The LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and think, "Am I really going to bear a child, since I'm so old?'

854

I'll bring some food for you, and after that you may continue your journey, since you have come to visit your servant." So they replied, "Okay! Do what you've proposed."

855

Abraham named his son who was born to him Isaac the very one whom Sarah bore for him!

856

After this, Jacob's father Isaac told him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son."

857

and said, "I urge you, my brothers, don't do such a wicked thing.

858

The very next morning, he was frustrated about the dream, so he sent word to summon all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them what he had dreamed, but no one could interpret them.

859

Three days later, while they were still in pain, Jacob's sons Simeon and Levi, two of Dinah's brothers, each grabbed a sword and entered the city unannounced, intending to kill all the males.

860

As evening approached, he had the camels kneel outside the town at the water well, right about the time when women customarily went out to draw water.

861

and blinded the men who were at the entrance of the house, from the least important to the greatest, so they were unable to find the doorway.

862

Fulfill the week for this daughter, then we'll give you the other one in exchange for serving me another seven years."

863

When God caused me to journey from my father's house, I asked her to do me this favor and say, "He's my brother.'"

864

So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

866

Then Rachel and Leah asked him, "Do we have anything left of inheritance remaining in our father's house?

867

Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs who descended from Edom, according to their territories in their own land. This was the dynasty of Esau, who was the ancestor of the Edomites.

868

Then he left that area and dug still another well. Because they did not quarrel over that one, Isaac named it Rehoboth, because he used to say, "The LORD has enlarged the territory for us. We will prosper in the land."

869

So Abimelech got up early the next morning, summoned all his servants, and told them all these things. The men became terrified.

870

Only then will you be released from fulfilling my oath. However, when you come to my family, if they don't give her to you, you'll be released from fulfilling my oath.'

871

Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."

872

So Jacob got up, seated his children and wives on camels,

873

and Judah's sons Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Technically, Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan.) Perez's sons were Hezron and Hamul.

874

That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked her, "Can I take God's place, who has not allowed you to conceive?"

875

and Leah exclaimed, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.

876

So Jacob approached his father, who felt him and said, "It's Jacob's voice, but Esau's hands."

877

since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.

878

"Dan will judge his people as one of Israel's tribes.

879

Then Judah suggested to his brothers, "Where's the profit in just killing our brother and shedding his blood?

880

"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he asked, "Where are you coming from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

881

So Joseph made all of Israel's other children make this promise: "Because God is certainly going to take care of you, you are to carry my bones up from here."

882

Your father's blessings will prove to be stronger than blessings from the eternal mountains or bounties from the everlasting hills. May they come to rest on Joseph's head, May they be set upon the brow of the one who was separated from his own brothers."

883

All of these people, who belonged to Jacob's family, traveled to Egypt. All of Jacob's direct descendants, not including his sons' wives, numbered 66 persons in all.

884

So Isaac moved from there and encamped in the Gerar Valley, where he settled.

885

"Now as for me, Rachel died after I arrived in Canaan from Paddan, much to my sorrow. While I was on my journey to Ephrathah (also known as Bethlehem), I buried her there."

886

So Esau lived in Mount Seir. (Esau was also known as Edom.)

887

Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.

888

As he was watching them, Jacob said, "This must be God's camp," so he named that place Mahanaim.

889

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her woman servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

890

They were subject to Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but they rebelled in the thirteenth year.

891

"We're all guilty because of what we did to our brother!" they told each other. "We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We're in this mess because we wouldn't listen!"

892

Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, "I can't bear to watch the child die!" That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

893

So they made their father drink wine that night as well, so he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

894

Then the LORD ordered Jacob, "Go back to your father's territory and to your relatives. I'll be with you."

895

As a result, it wasn't you who sent me here, but God himself! He established me as a father-figure to Pharaoh himself! I'm in charge of his entire palace and ruler over the entire land of Egypt.

896

When they arrived at Atad's threshing floor, which is located beyond the Jordan River, they held a great and mournful memorial service, during which Joseph spent seven days mourning for his father.

897

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, accompanied by Laban's sheep, Jacob approached the well, rolled the stone from the opening of the well, and then watered his mother's brother Laban's flock.

898

After this, Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Go live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." But he was really thinking, ""otherwise, Shelah might die like his brothers." So Tamar left and lived in her father's house.

899

Ishmael lived for 137 years, then he took his last breath, died, and joined his ancestors.

900

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take other wives besides them, though no one is watching us, keep in mind that God stands as a witness between you and me."

901

Joseph blurted out, "I'm Joseph! Is my father really alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, because they had become terrified to be in his presence.

902

That night, God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Be careful what you say to Jacob, whether it's one word good or bad."

903

Levi's sons Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

904

So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram to visit Bethuel's son Laban, the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

905

So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan plain. Then Lot traveled eastward, and they separated from each other.

906

When Judah recognized them, he admitted, "She is more upright than I, because I never did give her my son Shelah." And he never had sex with her again.

907

"Listen to us, sir. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial tombs. None of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

908

These were Ishmael's children, listed by their names according to their villages and their camps. There were a total of twelve tribal chiefs, according to their clans.

909

This was the same field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites, where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried.

910

In response, Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He also pitched his tents there and his servants dug a well.

911

"I can't do that," Joseph replied, "but God is concerned about Pharaoh's well-being."

912

you are to tell him, "Your servants have been taking care of livestock since we were youths. We and our ancestors have taken care of livestock.' That way, you'll be able to live in the Goshen territory, since shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

913

On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

914

While he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to his concubines and sent them to the east country in order to keep them away from his son Isaac.

915

Since God has revealed all of this to you," Pharaoh told Joseph, "there is no one so wise and discerning as you.

916

As he was observing a well that had been dug out on the open range, all of a sudden he noticed three flocks of sheep lying there, because shepherds watered their flocks from that well. There was a very large stone that covered the opening of the well,

917

so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali.

918

He built an altar there to God and named the place El Beth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother.

919

There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her, had sexual relations with her,

920

So Abimelech took some sheep and oxen, and some male and female servants, gave them to Abraham, returned his wife Sarah to him,

921

Later, when it was time for Tamar to give birth, she was carrying twins in her womb!

922

Laban responded, "You certainly are my flesh and blood!" So Jacob stayed with him for about a month.

923

She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"

924

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, since she had concealed her face.

925

Then he brought them both close to his father, placing Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right.

926

My father might touch me and he'll realize that I'm deceiving him. Then, I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing."

927

Benjamin's sons included Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

928

That very day, Laban removed the male goats that were striped or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted that is, every one that had white on them and all the black lambs and placed them into the care of his sons.

929

Their father Jacob told them, "You're causing me to lose my children! Joseph is gone. Now Simeon is gone, and you're planning to take Benjamin, too. Everything's going against me!"

930

"We were tying sheaves together out in the middle of the fields, when all of a sudden, my sheaf stood up erect! And then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf!"

931

but Jacob set out for Succoth, built a house there, and constructed some cattle shelters. He named the place Succoth.

932

Joseph stored up so much grain like sand on the seashore in so much abundance! that he stopped keeping records because it was proving to be impossible to measure how much they were gathering.

933

So they took Joseph's coat, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

934

Then the man asked him, "What's your name?" "Jacob," he responded

935

After this, Abraham returned to his servants and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham settled.

936

Rebekah gave these instructions to her son Jacob: "Quick! Pay attention!" she said. "I heard your father talking to your brother Esau. He told him,

937

But Sarah denied it. "I didn't laugh," she claimed, because she was afraid. The LORD replied, "No! You did laugh!"

938

After concluding this set of instructions to his sons, Jacob tucked his feet up into bed, quit breathing, and was gathered to his ancestors.

939

That's how Israel blessed these twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father told them when he pronounced his blessing for them, blessing each one with a blessing suitable for them.

940

So Isaac lived in Gerar.

941

Just then, Israel saw Joseph's sons and asked, "Who are these?"

942

Israel remained in Egypt's Goshen territory, acquired land there, became prosperous, and his descendants grew very numerous.

943

She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and told me, "Have a drink while I also water your camels.' So I drank, and she also gave my camels water to drink.

944

Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

945

Later, Abimelech traveled from Gerar to visit Isaac. He arrived with Ahuzzath, his staff advisor, and Phicol, the commanding officer of his army.

946

Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim's children, as well as the children who had been born to Manasseh's son Machir, whom he adopted as his own.

947

Later on, as Isaac was returning one evening from Beer-lahai-roi (he had been living in the Negev),

948

The LORD considered what Onan was doing to be evil, so he put him to death, too.

949

Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman."

950

Later on, the men of that place asked about his wife, so he replied, "She's my sister," because he was afraid to call her "my wife." He kept thinking, ""otherwise, the men around here will kill me on account of Rebekah, since she's very beautiful."

951

Instead, you are to go to my country and to my family and acquire a wife for my son Isaac."

952

Now Abimelech had not yet come near her, so he asked, "LORD, will you destroy an innocent nation?

953

As it was, he withdrew his hand, and then his brother was born. Amazed, the midwife cried out loud, "What's this? A breach birth?" So that boy was named Perez.

954

Joseph continued to live in Egypt, along with his father's household, until he was 110 years old.

955

Joseph's sons born in the land of Egypt were Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, bore for him.

956

Simeon's sons Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, who was the son of a Canaanite woman;

957

What Joseph proposed pleased Pharaoh and all of his advisors,

958

Then prepare some food, just the way I like it, and bring it to me so that I can eat and bless you before I die."

959

"What if the woman doesn't want to come back with me to this land?" the servant asked. "Shouldn't I have your son go to the land from which you came?"

960

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

961

Son, you'd better do what I say! Get up, run off to my brother Laban in Haran,

962

Abraham was very troubled about what was being said about his son,

963

"I'm God, your father's God. Don't be afraid to move down to Egypt, because I'm going to turn you into a mighty nation there.

964

"No! Please, my lords!" Lot pleaded with them.

965

Jacob also noticed that the way Laban had been looking at him wasn't as nice as it had been just two days earlier.

966

I'll never join their council; I'll never enter their assembly. In their anger they committed murder and lamed cattle just for fun.

967

So you are to be appointed in charge over my palace, and all of my people are to do whatever you command them to do. Only the throne will have greater authority than you."

968

"But look!" Jacob pointed out to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, but I'm smooth skinned.

969

ran away from me secretly, and stole from me by not keeping me informed. Otherwise, I could have sent you off with a party and singing, accompanied by a band playing tambourines and harps.

970

These were the tribal leaders of Esau's descendants; that is, the children of Eliphaz, who was Esau's firstborn: tribal leaders Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

971

But the angels inside reached out, dragged Lot back into the house with them, shut the door,

973

"Bandits will raid Gad, but Gad will raid them back."

974

These were the names of the chiefs who descended from Esau according to their clans, territories, and names: tribal leaders Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

975

Jacob spent the night there. Out of everything that he had brought with him, he chose a gift for his brother Esau

976

But Jacob replied, "My son isn't going back with you, since his brother is dead and he's the only one left. If something should harm him as you travel, then it'll be death for me and my sad, gray hair!"

977

Joseph's staff served him by himself, his brothers separately, and the Egyptian staff members by themselves, because the Egyptians wouldn't take their meal with the Hebrews, since doing so was detestable for the Egyptians.

978

When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.

979

Jacob kept the lambs separate, facing the striped and entirely black ones that belonged to Laban's flock. He set his own herd by itself and would not let them be with Laban's flock.

980

As it was, when it was time for the livestock to breed, I once looked up in a dream, and the male goats that were mating with the flock were producing streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.

981

Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.

982

That's how Joseph pleased Potiphar as he served him. Eventually, Potiphar appointed Joseph as overseer of his entire household. Moreover, he entrusted everything that he owned into his care.

983

Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's sons were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

984

"So today I arrived at the spring and prayed, "LORD God of my master Abraham, if you wish to make the journey that I have traveled successful,

985

they carried him to the territory of Canaan and buried him in the cave in Machpelah field near Mamre that Abraham had purchased as a cemetery from Ephron the Hittite.

987

What you had previously was only a few head, but the herd has now multiplied, because the LORD has blessed you through my efforts. But now, when am I going to be able to provide for my own household?"

988

Jacob told Rachel that he was related to her father, since he was Rebekah's son, so she ran and told her father.

989

"Naphtali is a free running deer who produces eloquent literature."

990

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

991

Zibeon's children were Aiah and Anah. Anah discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while grazing his father Zibeon's donkeys.

992

Afterwards, his brother came out, and around his hand was the scarlet. So they named him Zerah.

993

The conquerors captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, including their entire food supply, and then left.

994

If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you'll be free from this oath to me. Just don't take my son back there!"

995

Therefore the man Jacob prospered so much that he had large flocks, female and male servants, as well as camels and donkeys.

996

Meanwhile, Joseph continued to be ruler over the land, in charge of selling to everyone in the land. Joseph's brothers appeared and bowed down to him, face down.

997

Give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him, at the end of his field. He should sell it to me in your presence at full price for a burial site."

998

Also included were Gad's sons Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli;

999

Within three more days, Pharaoh will behead you and hang you on gallows, where birds will eat your flesh from you."

1000

so go find your weapons, take your bow and arrows, go outside, and hunt some game for me.