When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

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

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.

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

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

(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”