In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

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

Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

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

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes according to their clans.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

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

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.