He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”

Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

For twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied.

The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”

But Simeon and Levi replied, “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, “What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”

They replied, “The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”