But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

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.

Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.

“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.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

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

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.