The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words.

Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.

Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness – who will rouse him?

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.