For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.

And have mercy on those who waver;

Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).

The evildoer must continue to do evil, and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy. The one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.