The Lord revealed the following message during the year in which King Sargon of Assyria sent his commanding general to Ashdod, and he fought against it and captured it.

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me – you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.