Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!”

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

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

But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked – the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.

In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.