Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on Ephraim’s head, although he was the younger. Crossing his hands, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

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,

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.