The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.

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

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.