When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

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

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

Then she had yet another son, whom she named Shelah. She gave birth to him in Kezib.

His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.

If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves!”

He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

Reuben continued, “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)

His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

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