Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure!

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Then Jacob said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

she called for her household servants and said to them, “See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to have sex with me, but I screamed loudly.