So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate<n id="1" /> of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Cain had marital relations<n id="1" /> with his wife, and she became pregnant<n id="2" /> and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after<n id="3" /> his son Enoch.

So he overthrew those cities and all that region,<n id="1" /> including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew<n id="2" /> from the ground.

<p class="bodytext">After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near<n id="1" /> the city.

<p class="bodytext">All the men who assembled at the city gate<n id="1" /> agreed with<n id="2" /> Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate<n id="3" /> was circumcised.

<p class="bodytext">Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.p>

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.p>

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc> came down to see the city and the tower that the people<n id="1" /> had started<n id="2" /> building.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building<n id="1" /> the city.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain<n id="1" /> and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron&#8217;s city.<n id="1" />p>

He made the camels kneel down by the well<n id="1" /> outside the city. It was evening,<n id="2" /> the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Here I am, standing by the spring,<n id="1" /> and the daughters of the people<n id="2" /> who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

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>

He called that place Bethel,<n id="1" /> although the former name of the town was Luz.

Jacob&#8217;s sons killed them<n id="1" /> and looted the city because their sister had been violated.<n id="2" />

Joseph<n id="1" /> made all the people slaves<n id="2" /> from one end of Egypt&#8217;s border to the other end of it.

<p class="bodytext">So when God destroyed<n id="1" /> the cities of the region,<n id="2" /> God honored<n id="3" /> Abraham&#8217;s request. He removed Lot<n id="4" /> from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed<n id="5" /> the cities Lot had lived in.p>

Joseph<n id="1" /> collected all the excess food<n id="2" /> in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities.<n id="3" /> In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.