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

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

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

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

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

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

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

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.