I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Then Esau said, “Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

Then the man searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”