The dream was repeated to Pharaoh<n id="1" /> because the matter has been decreed<n id="2" /> by God, and God will make it happen soon.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then he blessed Joseph and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May the God before whom my fathersp> <p class="poetry">Abraham and Isaac walked &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the God who has been my shepherd<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all my life long to this day,p>

<p class="bodytext">The earth was ruined<n id="1" /> in the sight of<n id="2" /> God; the earth was filled with violence.<n id="3" />

Abraham said to God, &#8220;O that<n id="1" /> Ishmael might live before you!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

In the dream the angel of God said to me, &#8216;Jacob!&#8217; &#8216;Here I am!&#8217; I replied.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared<n id="1" /> because God took<n id="2" /> him away.p>

<p class="bodytext">Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

<p class="poetry">May God give youp> <p class="poetry">the dew of the sky<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the richness<n id="2" /> of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">and plenty of grain and new wine.p>

This is just what I told<n id="1" /> Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

On the third day Joseph said to them, &#8220;Do as I say<n id="1" /> and you will live,<n id="2" /> for I fear God.<n id="3" />

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God<n id="1" /> for 300 years,<n id="2" /> and he had other<n id="3" /> sons and daughters.

the sons of God<n id="1" /> saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

<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.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel<n id="1" /> because there God had revealed himself<n id="2" /> to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning.<n id="1" /> God has revealed<n id="2" /> to Pharaoh what he is about to do.<n id="3" />

So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">The Nephilim<n id="1" /> were on the earth in those days (and also after this)<n id="2" /> when the sons of God were having sexual relations with<n id="3" /> the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children.<n id="4" /> They were the mighty heroes<n id="5" /> of old, the famous men.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then in the dream God replied to him, &#8220;Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience.<n id="1" /> That is why I have kept you<n id="2" /> from sinning against me and why<n id="3" /> I did not allow you to touch her.

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.<n id="1" /> He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out<n id="2" /> for the place God had spoken to him about.p>

<p class="bodytext">When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there<n id="1" /> and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up<n id="2" /> his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.