that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

Then the man searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).

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