So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

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

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

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.

This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

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

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman!