He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob replied, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

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

The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

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

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

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.

When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.