So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.

But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

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

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.