and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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

And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

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

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

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

What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

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