“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.”

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,