The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

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.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

They replied, “We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us – between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.