Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

“Everything is fine,” the man in charge of Joseph’s household told them. “Don’t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

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

God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

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.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”