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

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

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

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

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

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.”

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.

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

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

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

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

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

He also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.