<p class="bodytext">On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons&#8217; three wives.<n id="1" />

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi.<n id="1" /> He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.p>

<p class="bodytext">(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite<n id="1" /> replied to Abraham in the hearing<n id="2" /> of the sons of Heth &#8211; before all who entered the gate<n id="3" /> of his city &#8211;

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines<n id="1" /> and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.<n id="2" />p>

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah<n id="1" /> near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind,<n id="2" /> he called his older<n id="3" /> son Esau and said to him, &#8220;My son!&#8221; &#8220;Here I am!&#8221; Esau<n id="4" /> replied.

Then Rebekah took her older son Esau&#8217;s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

But Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How in the world<n id="1" /> did you find it so quickly,<n id="2" /> my son?&#8221; &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> your God brought it to me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> he replied.<n id="4" />

Then Isaac said to Jacob, &#8220;Come closer so I can touch you,<n id="1" /> my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">The sons of Zilpah, Leah&#8217;s servant, were Gad and Asher.p> <p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.p>

<p class="bodytext">Timna, a concubine of Esau&#8217;s son Eliphaz, bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons<n id="1" /> of Esau&#8217;s wife Adah.p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons<n id="1" /> of Esau&#8217;s wife Basemath.p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the chiefs<n id="1" /> among the descendants<n id="2" /> of Esau, the sons of Eliphaz, Esau&#8217;s firstborn: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

<p class="bodytext">Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons<n id="1" /> because he was a son born to him late in life,<n id="2" /> and he made a special<n id="3" /> tunic for him.

All his sons and daughters stood by<n id="1" /> him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will go to the grave mourning my son.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Joseph&#8217;s<n id="3" /> father wept for him.p>

<p class="poetry">The sons of Judah:p> <p class="poetry">Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerahp> <p class="poetry">(but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).p> <p class="poetry">The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.p>

<p class="poetry">These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">God said to Noah and his sons,<n id="1" />

These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.<n id="1" />p>

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.p>