That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

But Simeon and Levi replied, “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.

The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.