They said to one other, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

“Out of our way!” they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

He turned aside to her along the road and said, “Come on! I want to have sex with you.” (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, “What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?”

So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.

Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

The Lord’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur.

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.