As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

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

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided."

It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him 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,"

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in his sack's mouth.

As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."