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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?"

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

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.

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.

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

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."

He issued similar instructions to the second and third group, as well as to all the others who drove the herds that followed: "This is how you are to speak to Esau when you find him.

Jacob's other sons came along afterward and plundered the city where their sister had been defiled,

Right after that, seven more cows came up out of the Nile. Ugly and gaunt, they stood next to the other cows on the bank of the Nile River.

"We each related our dreams, and then he interpreted them for us. He provided specific meanings for each of our dreams. And what he interpreted for each of us came true! Pharaoh restored me to my responsibilities, but he executed the other man."

Just then, seven other cows emerged after them, poor, ugly, and appearing very gaunt in their flesh. I've never seen anything as ugly as those cows anywhere in the entire land of Egypt!

Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.

"But your majesty," they pleaded, "your servants include twelve brothers, the sons of a common father back in the land of Canaan. Please! Our youngest brother remains with our father, and the other one is no longer alive."

"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!"

and may God Almighty cause the man to show compassion toward you. May he send all of you back, including your other brother and Benjamin. Now as for me, if I lose my children, I lose them."

Joseph himself brought portions to them from his own table, except that he provided to Benjamin five times as much as he did for each of the others. So they feasted together and drank freely with Joseph.

Then Joseph transported the people to cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

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."