The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.

He imprisoned them all for three days.

God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

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

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met

The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.