“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

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

When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

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

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

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

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.