This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

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

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

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.

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.”

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.

When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

and asked Abraham’s servant, “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord,

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,