because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

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

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

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

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

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.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

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.

but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.