The Speaker: Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?

For the Lord’s power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

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

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

The Lord’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area.

You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban,