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In the beginning
Then God said, “Let Us
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.
Now the earth was
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.”
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground
The Lord said to Abram:
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
Then God said, “Let there be light,”
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”
God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.
He said to the woman:
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire
yet he will rule over you.
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,
and all the peoples
will be blessed
God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,
God called the expanse “sky.”
When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,
The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.
After these things God tested Abraham
“Here I am,” he answered.
At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.
Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”
but you must not eat
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So the heavens and the earth and everything in them
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested
Evening came and then morning: the third day.
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty.
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,
After these events, the word of the Lord came
I am your shield;
your reward will be very great.
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.
to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness.
Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
or the staff from between his feet
until He whose right it is comes
and the obedience of the peoples belongs to Him.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,
By the seventh
Then the Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Then Melchizedek, king of Salem,
Then the Lord God said to the serpent:
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.
Then God said, “Let the water swarm with
The two angels entered Sodom
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
The Nephilim
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
“In fact, God knows that when
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,
And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain
These are the family
Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.
Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place,
For I have chosen
God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring,
So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
And the man said:
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.
Noah, however, found favor in the sight of the Lord.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open,
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,
The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
and with every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.
God made the two great lights—the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night—as well as the stars.
the sons of God
He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.
“Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love,
Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.
Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.
If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.
They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth.” And it was so.
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,
Every living creature will be food for you;
Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”
Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to You!”
When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.
From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,
Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s household.
but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.
And Bethuel fathered Rebekah.
Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army,
She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”
Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there—it’s only a small place, isn’t it?—so that I can survive.”
Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident.”
and you will eat the plants of the field.
Seth lived 807 years after the birth of Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
I will go down
So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.
After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley
two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.
After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land
an abundance of grain and new wine.
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved,
And he said to him, “All right,
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”
This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.
I will remember My covenant
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,
The men turned from there and went toward Sodom
When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.
If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live!
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
Enosh lived 815 years after the birth of Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
But I will establish My covenant with you,
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and every creature on earth.”
The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.
and nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brothers;
may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Those who curse you will be cursed,
and those who bless you will be blessed.
These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders,
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”
The name of the third river is the Tigris,
The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant
After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
But I will confirm My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time.
He answered, “I will not destroy it on account of 10.”
Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
Lamech said to his wives:
wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.
For I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
Then he spoke to Him again, “Suppose 40 are found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it on account of 40.”
After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem,
He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,
These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth,
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose 20 are found there?”
He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of 20.”
You are to make a roof,
After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.
After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth
When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.
In the six hundred and first year,
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Bring out all the living creatures
And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Hurry up! Run there, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba
They replied, “We have clearly seen how the Lord has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties—between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:
Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.
Laban asked, “What should I give you?”
And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.
The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.
After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”
These are Ham’s sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.
Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain’s sister was Naamah.
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban,
Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.
As people
Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Then the Lord came down
Therefore its name is called Babylon,
And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided;
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me but let you live.
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute.
Arpachshad fathered
And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.
and said, “Praise the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master.
As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words—“The man said this to me!”—he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.
The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
What if there are 50 righteous people in the city? Will You really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people who are in it?
He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that this act
They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.
Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai,
Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.
Kenan lived 840 years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron,
All wildlife, all livestock, every bird, and every creature that crawls on the earth came out of the ark by their groups.
She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne three sons for him.” Therefore he was named Levi.
Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.
They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, all birds, every fowl, and everything with wings according to their kinds.
The Lord, the God of heaven,
He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish,
So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.
suppose the 50 righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”
He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.”
Mahalalel lived 830 years after the birth of Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”
After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
Every creature perished—those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm
After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Abraham was 99 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,
Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.
He blessed him and said:
Creator
Laban said, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord.
Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth,
he will dwell in the tents of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.
Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils
Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”
The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”
He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.
Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.
Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”
Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.
My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live
“Understand that I am confirming My covenant
And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
And he named him Noah,
Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.
You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.
Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.
The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.
Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?
and you will serve your brother.
But when you rebel,
you will break his yoke from your neck.
Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
I am standing here at a spring. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, and I say to her: Please let me drink a little water from your jug,
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.
Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.
I’ve been with you these 20 years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.
Then I bowed down, worshiped the Lord, and praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,
There was a famine in the land,
No shrub of the field
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
He said to me, ‘The Lord before whom I have walked
and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides—
So God created the large sea-creatures
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant
The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.
Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Jared lived 800 years after the birth of Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth,
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.
and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us as is the custom of all the land.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have only done what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the Lord.”
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Then out of the sky the Lord rained burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord.
And he dreamed:
After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,
“Make yourself an ark of gopher
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
Methuselah lived 782 years after the birth of Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”
You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.
And all the men of his household—both slaves born in his house and those purchased with money from a foreigner—were circumcised with him.
who has handed over your enemies to you.
And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
A river went
and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.
Lamech lived 595 years after Noah’s birth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
“Your name will no longer be Jacob,”
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.
Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.
Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”
The Lord said, “If I find 50 righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites
Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.
So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.
Then the Lord said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”
I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. Such will be my wages.
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!”
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man
Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.
Adam named his wife Eve
He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him.
Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.
The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.
In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On.
And all the nations of the earth will be blessed
Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev
Then the Lord said to Abram,
Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see,
And he answered, “Here I am.”
God remembered Noah,
God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,
Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled
I will indeed bless you
They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.
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that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
I will require the life of every animal
Abraham took sheep and cattle
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious?
These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.
Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.
When Esau was 40 years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar,
Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.
He also said to him, “I am Yahweh who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew,
Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.
And he said, “I heard You
So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide,
You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals,
God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there.
He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Abrek!”
Then He said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!
A son was born to Seth
Then the Angel of the Lord said to her:
You will name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
Abraham was now old, getting on in years,
Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness
Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.
Your name will no longer be Abram,
But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.
Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans
Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,
Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies;
your father’s sons will bow down to you.
The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be concerned
Jacob then named the place Peniel,
Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,
Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky.
I have placed My bow in the clouds,
but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.
for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.”
Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Then the man replied,
Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I am placing you over all the land of Egypt.”
Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.
God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
And to you and your future offspring
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim
The Lord said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!”
Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”
Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant
Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given
From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived in Gerar,
And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah.
I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away.
And Abel also presented an offering—some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions.
And the Lord said to her:
two people will come from you and be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.
So God blessed them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Is anything impossible for the Lord?
Dinah, Leah’s daughter
The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.
His hand will be against everyone,
and everyone’s hand will be against him;
he will live at odds with
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age,
So he prepared a banquet for them, and they ate and drank.
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”
So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”
Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land,
Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case,
So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded.
Then He said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from Me.”
When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
But Abram said, “Lord God, what can You give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, “If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.”
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
But Sarah saw the son mocking
When Midianite
Yahweh was standing there beside him,
Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:
a fruitful vine beside a spring;
its branches
Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.
His kingdom started with Babylon,
The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.
Come, let Us go down there and confuse
The Angel of the Lord
This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions.”
After some time
Then Jacob made a vow:
and said, “By Myself I have sworn,”
Then they sat down to eat a meal.
for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.
When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac
Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand.
Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”
Laban said to him, “Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
Jacob had 12 sons:
You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
my son, you return from the kill.
He crouches; he lies down like a lion
or a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
His city was Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel
daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.
Abraham looked up and saw a ram
Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “The Lord heard that I am unloved and has given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt,
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law
Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
“The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He replied, “Here I am.”
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
So she called the Lord who spoke to her: The God Who Sees,
I will take nothing
He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.”
They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse.
You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
God heard the voice of the boy, and the
Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body
Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba,
stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you.
So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.
The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham,
Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”
The Lord was with Joseph,
God called the dry land “earth,” and He called the gathering of the water “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Look, I’ve got two daughters who haven’t had sexual relations with a man.
So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when He demolished the cities where Lot had lived.
He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.
As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them
Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
Abram was very rich
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Knead three measures
Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”
And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”
Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
So they got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.
He demolished these cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.
waged war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim,
So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.
This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to You a tenth of all that You give me.”
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves.
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But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Then he said, “My lord,
God also said to him:
Be fruitful and multiply.
A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,
will come from you,
and kings will descend from you.
God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant.
But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?”
Joseph died at the age of 110. They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
These are the names of Ishmael’s sons; their names according to the family records are: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
These are the family records of Jacob.
At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,
Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”
Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you
At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment
As the sun was setting, a deep sleep
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron
and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped
On that same day Isaac’s slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water!”
and his strong
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the name of
Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived.
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.”
I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.
Then he blessed Joseph and said:
the God who has been my shepherd
So Abraham got up early in the morning,
Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but no one will be able to raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt without your permission.”
With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni,
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
my strength and the firstfruits of my virility,
excelling in prominence, excelling in power.
The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about;
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
The servant took 10 of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand. Then he set out for Nahor’s town Aram-naharaim.
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.
After this, the Egyptian king’s cupbearer
But Judah approached him and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord.
Abram continued, “Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in
Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die,
About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”
“Bring her out!” Judah said. “Let her be burned to death!”
The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring,
Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah
A meal was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”
So Laban said, “Please speak.”
He slept with
The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.
Then the angels
may He bless these boys.
And may they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they grow to be numerous within the land.
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.
and also Mizpah,
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.
She said to her father, “Sir, don’t be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence;
Now you have gone off because you long for your father—but why have you stolen my gods?”
Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,
And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
Then He said to Jacob, “Let Me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”
Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son Hagar had.
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah
and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”
“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard.
so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.
Then Abraham took curds
They said to one another, “Here comes that dreamer!
So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you.
And they
Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.
So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women.
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.
Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival
Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord put him to death.
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry
In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.”
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.
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and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
All of these came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea
Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority;
Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.
When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.
and will be a harbor for ships,
and his territory will be next to Sidon.
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please, come near me,” and they came near. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt.
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Then Joseph commanded his steward: “Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s money at the top of his bag.
Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.
before any king ruled over the Israelites:
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
The first one came out red-looking,
Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,
Then he commanded them: “I am about to be gathered to my people.
He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”
After the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing 10 shekels of gold.
Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering!
He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age,
Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
and by the Almighty who blesses you
with blessings of the heavens above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
and blessings of the breasts and the womb.
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift—some balsam and some honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.
He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs.
The younger also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi.
Then Abraham prayed to God,
God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.
After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely
Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years.
Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.
But he said, “Lord God, how can I know
But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.
I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her.
Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,
and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham.
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Now the famine in the land was severe.
Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite,
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.
God said to him:
you will no longer be named Jacob,
but your name will be Israel.
So He named him Israel.
Then I asked her: Whose daughter are you? She responded, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose
God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.
Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah,
Leah had ordinary
But I will also make a nation of the slave’s son
But he hesitated. Because of the Lord’s compassion for him, the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters. Then they brought him out and left him outside the city.
In the early evening Isaac went out to walk
because you got into your father’s bed
and you defiled it—he
When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.
I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me.
Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac.
“I am a foreign resident among you.
But there was no food in that entire region, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted by the famine.
When the time drew near for him to die,
Your two sons
a viper beside the path,
that bites the horses’ heels
so that its rider falls backward.
Now the Valley of Siddim contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,
At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh,
All those of Jacob’s household who had come to Egypt: 70
Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the Lord; we have no choice in the matter.
and the Horites
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage
There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock.
Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master in her
He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.
Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe,
So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their sheep and cattle and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.”
Now the girl was very beautiful,
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”
a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.
Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place.
Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the presence
After a long time
I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.
Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and lined up for battle in the Valley of Siddim
Then God opened her eyes,
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”
But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?”
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
He said, “Look, I am old and do not know the day of my death.
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience.
and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine.
He washes his clothes in wine
and his robes in the blood of grapes.
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
the inhabitants of the land:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
bore Amalek to Eliphaz.
These were the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Then his father Isaac answered him:
away from the richness of the land,
away from the dew of the sky above.
and had him thrown into prison,
So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,
They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom,
Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit
So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds.
Then Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the land of Rameses,
Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun.
Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me
This is the length of Abraham’s life:
They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.
However, I will judge the nation they serve,
Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”
But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,
He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.
They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their
These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:
The God of Abraham, and the gods
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”
Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
In the morning he devours the prey,
and in the evening he divides the plunder.”
He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.
Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
So Ephron’s field
So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face,
But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
That is why she named the spring, “A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him.
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.
You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
“Get out of the way!” they said, adding, “This one came here as a foreigner, but he’s acting like a judge!
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
“Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “give me success today,
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me,
to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.
for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord, that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with
God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
That is why, to this day, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.
When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on.
Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope
That night God spoke to Israel in a vision:
And Jacob replied, “Here I am.”
Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.
But the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old?’
I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves.
“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”
He said, “Don’t do this evil, my brothers.
When morning came, he was troubled,
On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi,
He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.
They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the entrance.
Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”
So when God had me wander from my father’s house,
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?
These are Edom’s chiefs,
according to their settlements in the land they possessed.
Esau
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces
Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally
Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you—you will be free from my oath.’
Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
Then Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.
Perez’s sons:
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”
She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”
So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”
the blessings of my ancestors
and
May they rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.
When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way,
So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.
When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
They were subject to Chedorlaomer for 12 years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”
Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she
That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
Then the Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.
As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.”
This is the length
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.
Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right
“Listen to us, lord.
These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites.
So he built an altar there,
“I am not able to,”
you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.
He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the well.
Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,
Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel
There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.
Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.
When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”
After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Then Joseph took them both—with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel’s left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel’s right—and brought them to Israel.
Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”
That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a house for himself and stalls for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.
So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,
Sarah denied it. “I did not laugh,” she said, because she was afraid.
But He replied, “No, you did laugh.”
When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and died. He was gathered to his people.
These are the tribes of Israel, 12 in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.
She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Now Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation;
Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,
What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so He put him to death also.
Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.”
When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,”
Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?
But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. Then she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”
The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?”
And Jacob said, “Swear to me.” So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed in thanks at the head of his bed.
Now this was a very difficult thing for
God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
But Lot said to them, “No, my lords
And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same.
may I never join their assembly.
For in their anger they kill men,
and on a whim they hamstring oxen.
You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.
Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.
Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,
the sons of Eliphaz, Esau’s firstborn:
Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
But the angels
according to their families and their localities,
by their names:
Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:
But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.
They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is abhorrent to them.
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”
He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”
Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.
“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son,” and she named him Dan.
Joseph found favor in his master’s sight
Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
“Today when I came to the spring, I prayed: Lord, God of my master Abraham, if only You will make my journey successful!
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people,
For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The Lord has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family?”
He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
This was the Anah who found the hot springs
while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah.
The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.
If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me,
And the man became very rich.
Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”
In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree.
Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.