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.

Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

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

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, “Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

God said to Noah and his sons,

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

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

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.