From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him.

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore them to him.

The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

He said to his people, “Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.