Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.

They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.

After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

And the Lord said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;
two people will come from you and be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”

and also Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”

Jacob’s other sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a robe of many colors for him.

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.

It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

After them, seven other cows—ugly, very sickly, and thin—came up. I’ve never seen such ugly ones as these in all the land of Egypt.

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other?

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

They were seated before him in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

and Joseph moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.