Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

Tamar was told, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

in addition to Basemath the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

He said to his brothers, “My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; they turned trembling one to another and said, “What in the world has God done to us?”

The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

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

Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”

In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.