So the man exclaimed, "At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called "Woman,' because she was taken from Man."

When the woman saw that the tree produced good food, was attractive in appearance, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate some, too.

Now Adam had named his wife "Eve," because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living.

Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."

And she did it again, giving birth to his brother Abel. Abel shepherded flocks and Cain became a farmer.

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

Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them,

"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.)

Then Shem and Japheth took their father's cloak, laid it across both their shoulders, and walking backwards, they both covered their father's genitals. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's genitals.

He also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.

May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan serve him."

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

Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had descendants. Shem was the father of the descendants of Eber.

Shem's sons included Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

These are Shem's descendants, listed by their families, each with their own lands, language, and family groups.

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.

Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, "She is his wife.' Then they'll kill me, but allow you to live.

Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me! Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Why did you say, "She is my sister,' so that I took her as a wife for myself? Now, here is your wife! Take her and get out!"

Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

Then Sarai told Abram, "My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her, and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

Abram answered Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish." So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar that she ran away from Sarai.

"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he asked, "Where are you coming from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

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."

But Sarah denied it. "I didn't laugh," she claimed, because she was afraid. The LORD replied, "No! You did laugh!"

But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

So they had their father drink wine that night, and the older one had sexual relations with her father, but he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So they made their father drink wine that night as well, so he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

because Abraham kept saying about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister," King Abimelech of Gerar summoned them and took Sarah into his household.

Didn't he say to me, "She's my sister'? And she also said, "He's my brother.' I did this with pure intentions and clean hands."

Besides, she really is my sister she's my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter so she could become my wife.

She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"

she told Abraham, "Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave's son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"

but God told Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the youth and your slave girl. Pay attention to Sarah in everything she tells you, because your offspring are to be named through Isaac.

So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness.

Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.

Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, "I can't bear to watch the child die!" That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

May it be that the young woman to whom I ask, "Please, lower your jug so that I may drink,' responds, "Have a drink, and I'll water your camels as well.' May she be the one whom you have chosen for your servant Isaac. This is how I'll know that you have shown your gracious love to my master."

Before he had finished speaking, Rebekah appeared. She was a daughter of Milcah's son Bethuel. (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.) She approached the well, carrying a jug on her shoulder.

The woman was very beautiful, young, and had not had sexual relations with a man. Going down to the spring, she filled her jug and turned for home.

"Drink, sir!" she replied as she quickly lowered her jug on her arm to offer him a drink.

When she had finished giving him a drink, she also said, "I'll also draw water for your camels until they've had enough to drink."

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and ran to the well to draw again until she had drawn enough water for all ten of the servant's camels.

"I am the daughter of Bethuel," she answered. "He's the son of Milcah and Nahor.

And yes," she continued, "we have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place to spend the night."

if she tells me to drink and also draws water for the camels, may she be the woman that the LORD has chosen for my master's son.'

"Before I had finished praying, along came Rebekah with her jug on her shoulder! She went to the spring and drew some water. I asked her to please let me have a drink.

She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and told me, "Have a drink while I also water your camels.' So I drank, and she also gave my camels water to drink.

"That's when I asked, "Whose daughter are you?' "She replied, "I'm the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore for him.'

So here's Rebekah she's right in front of you. Take her and go, so she can become a wife for your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed."

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."

But they said, "We'll call the young lady and see what she has to say about this."

So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.

Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted from her camel

"That's my master," the servant told her. So she reached for a veil and covered herself. Then the servant informed Isaac about everything he had done.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

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.

Sure enough, when her due date arrived, she delivered twin sons.

Later on, the men of that place asked about his wife, so he replied, "She's my sister," because he was afraid to call her "my wife." He kept thinking, ""otherwise, the men around here will kill me on account of Rebekah, since she's very beautiful."

So Abimelech called Isaac and confronted him. "She is definitely your wife!" he accused him, "So why did you claim, "She's my sister?'" Isaac responded, "Because I had thought ""otherwise, I'll die on account of her.'"

Rebekah gave these instructions to her son Jacob: "Quick! Pay attention!" she said. "I heard your father talking to your brother Esau. He told him,

"My son," she replied, "let any curse against you fall on me. Just listen to me, then go and get them for me."

She put some goat skins over his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Then she handed the delicious food and bread that she had prepared to her son Jacob,

Eventually, what Rebekah's older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, "Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.

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?"

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

Jacob told Rachel that he was related to her father, since he was Rebekah's son, so she ran and told her father.

Leah conceived, bore a son, and named him Reuben, because she was saying, "The LORD had looked on my torture, so now my husband will love me."

Later, she conceived again, bore a son, and declared, "Because the LORD heard that I'm neglected, he gave me this one, too." So she named him Simeon.

Later, she conceived again and said, "This time my husband will become attached to me, now that I've borne him three sons." So he named him Levi.

Then she conceived yet again, bore a son, and said, "This time I'll praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing children.

Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"

Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."

Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.

so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali.

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her woman servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

and Leah exclaimed, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.

She said, "How happy I am, because women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher.

God heard what Leah had said, so she conceived and bore a fifth son for Jacob.

Then Leah said, "God has paid me for giving my servant to my husband as his wife." So she named him Issachar.

Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. This time my husband will exalt me, because I've borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

so she conceived, bore a son, and remarked, "God has removed my shame."

Because she had been asking, "May God give me another son," she named him Joseph.

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

Some time later, Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, "Don't fear! You're going to have another son."

Just before she died, Rachel called her son's name Ben-oni, but his father Jacob named him Benjamin.

Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz.