The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate of his city –

This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man’s dream had its own meaning.

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

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

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

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

These were the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.