And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work which God created to make.

And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed.

And Jehovah God made the rib (which He had taken from the man) into a woman. And He brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And Jehovah had respect to Abel and to his offering,

And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was angry to His heart.

And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

two by two they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.

And it happened, at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

He also sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth.

And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and came to know what his younger son had done to him.

And they said to one another, Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built.

But Sarai was barren. She had no child.

And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

And it happened, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

And it happened when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

And he treated Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male servants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels.

And Pharaoh commanded men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, (and Lot was with him) into the south.

And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been from the beginning, between Bethel and Hai,

to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. And Abram called on the name of Jehovah there.

And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

And there came one who had escaped. And he told Abram the Hebrew, for he lived in the plains of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these had a covenant with Abram.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear. And she had a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her slave woman, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife (after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan).

And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you. I have given my slave woman into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you.

And she called the name of Jehovah who had spoken to her, You are a God of vision! For she said, Even here have I looked after Him that sees me?

And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, far gone in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And Jehovah went His way as soon as He had left off talking with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place.

The sun had risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Zoar.

But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, will You also kill a righteous nation?

For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And Jehovah visited Sarah as He had said. And Jehovah did to Sarah as He had spoken.

For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.

And they came to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. And he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

And Abraham listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, which passes with the merchant.

And Abraham was old, going on in age. And Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, I pray you, put your hand under my thigh.

And before he had finished speaking, it happened, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And the young woman was very beautiful to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.

And the man was watching her, keeping silent, in order to know whether Jehovah had prospered his journey or not.

And it happened, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hand, weighing ten shekels of gold.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the well.

And I bowed my head and worshiped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter to his son.

And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son while he still lived, eastward to the east country.

And when he had been there a long time, it happened that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window, and saw; and behold! Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and many servants. And the Philistines envied him.

For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

And the same day it happened, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. And they said to him, We have found water.

And she gave the delicious things and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And he also had made tasty meat and brought to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game so that your soul may bless me.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Padan-aram in order to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

and Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan-aram;

then Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to the wives which he had for his wife.

And he came on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took of the stones of that place, and placed them at his head. And he lay down in that place to sleep.

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

And Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her.

When Leah saw that she had quit bearing, she took her slave woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob to wife.

And when Rachel had borne Joseph, it happened that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away so that I may go into my own place and to my country.

For you had little before I came, and it has now increased to a multitude. And Jehovah has blessed you since my coming. And now when shall I provide for my own house also?

And that day he took out the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black from among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

And he set the rods which he had peeled by the troughs, by the water troughs, where the flocks came to drink, across from the flocks, and the flocks were in heat when they came to drink.

And the man increased exceedingly, and had many flocks, and maidservants, and male servants, and camels, and asses.

And he drove away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his property, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, in order to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel had stolen the images which were her father's.

It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

Then Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount. And Laban with his brothers pitched in Mount Gilead.

With whomever you find your gods, let him not live. Before our brothers, choose what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Rachel had taken the images and put them into the camel's saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all the tent, but did not find them.

Unless the God of my fathers, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had.

And Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found grace in your sight, then receive my present at my hand. For therefore have I seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

And he bought a piece of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his cattle in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they had come.

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard. And the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel, in lying with the daughter of Jacob. And it ought not to be done so.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, speaking with deceit because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was more honorable than all the house of his father.