<t /><p class="bodytext">What follows is the account of Esau (also known as Edom).<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">This is the account of Esau, the father<n id="1" /> of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account<n id="1" /> of the heavens andp> <p class="bodytext">the earth<n id="2" /> when they were created &#8211; when the <sc>Lordsc> God<n id="3" /> made the earth and heavens.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the record<n id="1" /> of the family line<n id="2" /> of Adam.p> <p class="bodytext">When God created humankind,<n id="3" /> he made them<n id="4" /> in the likeness of God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account<n id="1" /> of Noah&#8217;s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons<n id="2" /> were born<n id="3" /> to them after the flood.p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread<n id="1" /> over the earth after the flood.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Abraham&#8217;s son Ishmael,<n id="1" /> whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah&#8217;s servant, bore to Abraham.p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the names of Ishmael&#8217;s sons, by their names according to their records:<n id="1" /> Nebaioth (Ishmael&#8217;s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Isaac,<n id="1" /> the son of Abraham.p> <p class="bodytext">Abraham became the father of Isaac.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Noah.<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Noah was a godly man; he was blameless<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">among his contemporaries.<n id="3" /> He<n id="4" /> walked with<n id="5" /> God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Shem.p> <p class="bodytext">Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Terah.p> <p class="bodytext">Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

<p class="bodytext">This is the account of Jacob.p> <p class="bodytext">Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son,<n id="1" /> was taking care of<n id="2" /> the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster<n id="3" /> working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives.<n id="4" /> Joseph brought back a bad report about them<n id="5" /> to their father.p>