And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

“No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”

So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me – Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre – let them take their share.”

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

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

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years.

“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob replied, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,