But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

Then Judah said to Onan, “Have sexual relations with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

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.

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

This is what she said to him: “That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.

“Out of our way!” they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.