That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said.

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors.

Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

He instructed the servant who was over his household, “Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.

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

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

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

seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.