Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

So Esau (also known as Edom) lived in the hill country of Seir.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.

When they had brought them outside, they said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

God said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac – and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”