“No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”

“Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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

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

“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of Edom.

Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!”