Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

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

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

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.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God.

When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)