The first came out reddish<n id="1" /> all over,<n id="2" /> like a hairy<n id="3" /> garment, so they named him Esau.<n id="4" />

Therefore, take your weapons &#8211; your quiver and your bow &#8211; and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game<n id="1" /> for me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Dinah, Leah&#8217;s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet<n id="1" /> the young women<n id="2" /> of the land.

Afterward his brother came out &#8211; the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand &#8211; and he was named Zerah.<n id="1" />p>

She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, &#8220;Have sex with me!&#8221; But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran<n id="1" /> outside.<n id="2" />

When he heard me raise<n id="1" /> my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.&#8221;p>

The first disappeared<n id="1" /> and I said, &#8220;He has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221; I have not seen him since.

<p class="bodytext">Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters.<n id="1" /> He said, &#8220;Quick, get out of this place because the <sc>Lordsc> is about to destroy<n id="2" /> the city!&#8221; But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left<n id="1" /> his father&#8217;s<n id="2" /> presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.<n id="3" />

The land produced vegetation &#8211; plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

<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.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.p>

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you &#8211; every living creature of the earth.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)<n id="1" />

From that land he went<n id="1" /> to Assyria,<n id="2" /> where he built Nineveh,<n id="3" /> Rehoboth-Ir,<n id="4" /> Calah,<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">So Abram left,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him to do,<n id="2" /> and Lot went with him. (Now<n id="3" /> Abram was 75 years old<n id="4" /> when he departed from Haran.)

<p class="bodytext">Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">But look,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to him: &#8220;This man<n id="2" /> will not be your heir,<n id="3" /> but instead<n id="4" /> a son<n id="5" /> who comes from your own body will be<n id="6" /> your heir.&#8221;<n id="7" />

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> took him outside and said, &#8220;Gaze into the sky and count the stars &#8211; if you are able to count them!&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So will your descendants be.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to him, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans<n id="3" /> to give you this land to possess.&#8221;