Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes.

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh

So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said.

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

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

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

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

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.”