So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”