And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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

I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.”

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me – Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre – let them take their share.”

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”

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

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

So she said to Abraham, “Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”

When food was served, he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” “Tell us,” Laban said.

But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.

These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: Nebaioth (Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,