Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.<n id="1" />p>

Springs<n id="1" /> would well up<n id="2" /> from the earth and water<n id="3" /> the whole surface of the ground.<n id="4" />

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased.<n id="1" /> So Cain became very angry,<n id="2" /> and his expression was downcast.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Cain, &#8220;Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

So Cain went out from the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> and lived in the land of Nod,<n id="1" /> east of Eden.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When humankind<n id="1" /> began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born<n id="2" /> to them,<n id="3" />

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons&#8217; wives because<n id="1" /> of the floodwaters.

The waters completely overwhelmed<n id="1" /> the earth, and the ark floated<n id="2" /> on the surface of the waters.

<p class="bodytext">Then Noah<n id="1" /> sent out a dove<n id="2" /> to see if the waters had receded<n id="3" /> from the surface of the ground.

<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.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans,<n id="1" /> while his father Terah was still alive.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the men got up to leave,<n id="1" /> they looked out over<n id="2" /> Sodom. (Now<n id="3" /> Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">The two men turned<n id="1" /> and headed<n id="2" /> toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Abraham got up early in the morning and went<n id="1" /> to the place where he had stood before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife<n id="1" /> and said to the sons of Heth,<n id="2" />

&#8220;I am a temporary settler<n id="1" /> among you. Grant<n id="2" /> me ownership<n id="3" /> of a burial site among you so that I may<n id="4" /> bury my dead.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

When food was served,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;Tell us,&#8221; Laban said.<n id="3" />p>

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become<n id="1" /> the wife of your master&#8217;s son, just as the <sc>Lordsc> has decided.&#8221;<n id="2" />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.

When Jacob saw the look on Laban&#8217;s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.<n id="1" />p>