The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters – all his descendants.

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

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

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

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

Then the two visitors said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.