So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

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

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River –

My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”

So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.