Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, “Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him. So he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed.

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

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

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

This is what she said to him: “That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

When his master heard his wife say, “This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.