Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.”

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

So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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.”

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.