Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.

So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

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

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

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.

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

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

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