And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:

And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:

And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:

And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:

And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:

And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

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 they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?

And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.

And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?

And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.

Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.

Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.

And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.

And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.

A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?

It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.