To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”

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.”

God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so.

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River –

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

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

Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.