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

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.