After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.

Later, after a while, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit that he had harvested,

After this, Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Later, Cain had sexual relations with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain founded a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Later on, after Adam had sexual relations with his wife, she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him."

After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.

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.

After Noah had lived 500 years, he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Now after the population of human beings had increased throughout the earth, and daughters had been born to them,

After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built

"Pay attention! I'm establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

After Noah had lived a total of 950 years, he died.

These are the records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom descendants were born after the flood.

These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their records, by their nations. From these people, the nations on the earth spread out after the flood.

These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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.

After Lot had separated from Abram, the LORD told Abram, "Look off to the north, south, east, and west from where you're living,

After Abram's return from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with them, the king of Sodom went out to meet with him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley).

Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are "God who sees,' because I have truly seen the one who looks after me."

That's why the spring was called, "The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me." It was between Kadesh and Bered.

I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.

God continued to speak to Abraham, "You and your descendants who are born in the future are to keep my covenant that is, you and your descendants, generation after generation.

Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.

Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."

I'll bring some food for you, and after that you may continue your journey, since you have come to visit your servant." So they replied, "Okay! Do what you've proposed."

That's why Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I'm so old and my husband is old, too, am I going to have sex?"

After this, the men set out from there and looked out over Sodom. Abraham went with them to send them off.

Indeed, I've made myself known to him in order that he may encourage his sons and his household that is born after him to keep the way of the LORD, and to do what is right and just, so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised."

On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

So after they had made a covenant in Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to Philistine territory.

After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.

After this, Abraham returned to his servants and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham settled.

Now after these things somebody told Abraham, "Look, Milcah has given birth to sons for your brother Nahor.

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

But her brother and mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days at least ten and after that she may go."

After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who continued to live near Beer-lahai-roi.

After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

Then Jacob gave Esau some of his food, along with some boiled stew. So Esau ate, drank, got up, and left, after having belittled his own birthright.

After he had been there awhile, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out through a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

by which you'll agree not to do us any harm, just as we haven't harmed you, since we've done nothing but good for you after we sent you away in peace. As a result, you've been tremendously blessed by the LORD."

They woke up early the next morning and made the treaty. After this, Isaac sent them off and they left on peaceful terms.

After this, Jacob's father Isaac told him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son."

Just after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left his father Isaac, Jacob's brother Esau returned from hunting,

After that happens and he has forgotten what you've done to him, I'll send for you so you can return from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman."

After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother's instructions to set out for Paddan-aram,

After that, Leah conceived, bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob told Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country.

Then he positioned the women servants and their children first, then Leah and her children next, and then Rachel and Joseph after them.

Leah also approached, and she and her children bowed low. After this, Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed low.

After Jacob had arrived safely from Paddan-aram, he entered the city of Shechem, which was located in the territory of Canaan, and encamped facing that city.

God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him.

Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I'm giving the land to you!"

After this, God ascended from the place where he had been speaking to him.

After Bela died, Zerah's son Jobab from Bozrah ruled in his place.

After Jobab died, Husham from the territory of the Temanites ruled in his place.

After Husham died, Bedad's son Hadad, who killed Midian in the field of Moab, ruled in his place. His city's name was Avith.

After Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah ruled in his place.

After Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the river ruled in his place.

After Shaul died, Achbor's son Baal-hanan ruled in his place.

After Achbor's son Baal-hanan died, Hadar ruled in his place. His city's name was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, who was the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.

After this, while they were seated, eating their food, they looked around and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with camels carrying spices, balm, and myrrh for sale down in Egypt.

Come on! Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites! That way, we won't have laid our hands on him. After all, he's our brother, our own flesh."

After this, Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Go live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." But he was really thinking, ""otherwise, Shelah might die like his brothers." So Tamar left and lived in her father's house.

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

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.

After he had fallen back to sleep, he had a second dream, in which seven ears of plump, fruit-filled grain grew up on a single stalk.

Suddenly seven thin ears of grain that had been scorched by an east wind sprouted up right after them

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!

Not only that," Pharaoh continued, "after they had finished devouring the cows, nobody could tell that they had gobbled them up, because they were just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

All of a sudden, seven thin, withered ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

The seven gaunt cows that arose after the healthy cows are seven years, as are the seven gaunt ears scorched by the east wind. There will be seven years of famine.

but after them seven years of famine are ahead, during which all of the abundance will be forgotten throughout the land of Egypt. The famine will ravage the land so severely that

When he returned, he spoke with them, but then he took Simeon away from them and had him placed under arrest right in front of them. After this, Joseph gave orders to fill up their sacks with grain, to return each man's money to his own sack, and to supply each of them with provisions for their return journey. All of this was done for them.

Later on, one of them opened up his sack to give his donkey some fodder after they had stopped at the place where they intended to lodge for the night. There, in the mouth of his sack, was all of his money!

After all, if we hadn't delayed, we could have been there and back twice by now!"

So he went after them and made that accusation.

Later on, after we had gone back to your servant, my father, we told him what Your Excellency had said.

After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."

However, as soon as his sons had told him everything Joseph had said, and after he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent along to carry him, their father Jacob's spirit was encouraged.

After this, Joseph went to inform Pharaoh. "My father and brothers have come here from Canaan," he said, "and they've come with their flocks, herds, and everything else they have. I settled them in the Goshen territory!"