Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed me some of the red stuff – yes, this red stuff – because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.

she called for her household servants and said to them, “See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to have sex with me, but I screamed loudly.

In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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.

The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

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

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

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac.

After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

She became pregnant and had a son. Judah named him Er.

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?