Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)

These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.