“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.

The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

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,

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.