When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I’ll die!”

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

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.

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

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor – and her labor was hard.

but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you say.”