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.

"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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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?"

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

But they said, "We'll call the young lady and see what she has to say about this."

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."

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."

She said, "How happy I am, because women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher.

Jacob would later call that place Peniel, because "I saw God face to face, but my life was spared."

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.

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

Come on! Let's kill him and toss him into one of the cisterns. Then we'll report that some wild animal devoured him and wait to see what becomes of his dreams!"