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

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

Then he said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother and was at the point of tears. So he went to his room and wept there.

So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”