So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city.

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.