<p class="bodytext">So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

And let me get<n id="1" /> a bit of food<n id="2" /> so that you may refresh yourselves<n id="3" /> since you have passed by your servant&#8217;s home. After that you may be on your way.&#8221;<n id="4" /> &#8220;All right,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;you may do as you say.&#8221;p>

But we said to him, &#8216;We are honest men; we are not spies!

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.&#8221; It was so.

<p class="bodytext">And Noah did all<n id="1" /> that God commanded him &#8211; he did indeed.<n id="2" />p>

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve.<n id="1" /> Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

That is why the well was called<n id="1" /> Beer Lahai Roi.<n id="2" /> (It is located<n id="3" /> between Kadesh and Bered.)p>

That is why he named that place<n id="1" /> Beer Sheba,<n id="2" /> because the two of them swore<n id="3" /> an oath there.p>

So he named it Shibah;<n id="1" /> that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba<n id="2" /> to this day.p>

&#8220;It is not our custom here,&#8221;<n id="1" /> Laban replied, &#8220;to give the younger daughter in marriage<n id="2" /> before the firstborn.

It happened just as he had said<n id="1" /> to us &#8211; Pharaoh<n id="2" /> restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies.&#8221;p>

But you must bring<n id="1" /> your youngest brother to me. Then<n id="2" /> your words will be verified<n id="3" /> and you will not die.&#8221; They did as he said.<n id="4" />p>

He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.p>

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.<n id="1" /> It was so.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place<n id="1" /> and let dry ground appear.&#8221;<n id="2" /> It was so.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.&#8221;<n id="1" /> It was so.

<p class="bodytext">That is why<n id="1" /> a man leaves<n id="2" /> his father and mother and unites with<n id="3" /> his wife, and they become a new family.<n id="4" />

But the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;All right then,<n id="1" /> if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> put a special mark<n id="3" /> on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.<n id="4" />

He was a mighty hunter<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> (That is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;)