And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.

See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.

And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.

And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.

And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?

And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.

And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.

And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.

I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,

And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;

They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.

And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.

And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;

For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.

Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison: