And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.p>

And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.p>

<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.)

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Abram, &#8220;Know for certain<n id="1" /> that your descendants will be strangers<n id="2" /> in a foreign country.<n id="3" /> They will be enslaved and oppressed<n id="4" /> for four hundred years.

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah,<n id="1" /> the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.<n id="2" />p>

When his brother came out with<n id="1" /> his hand clutching Esau&#8217;s heel, they named him Jacob.<n id="2" /> Isaac was sixty years old<n id="3" /> when they were born.p>

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Esau was forty years old,<n id="2" /> he married<n id="3" /> Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was 30 years old<n id="1" /> when he began serving<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by<n id="3" /> Pharaoh and was in charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">In the six hundredth year of Noah&#8217;s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month &#8211; on that day all the fountains of the great deep<n id="1" /> burst open and the floodgates of the heavens<n id="2" /> were opened.

<p class="bodytext">In Noah&#8217;s six hundred and first year,<n id="1" /> in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that<n id="2" /> the surface of the ground was dry.

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated<n id="1" /> the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Abram was 99 years old,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him and said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="3" /> Walk<n id="4" /> before me<n id="5" /> and be blameless.<n id="6" />

<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>

Jacob said to Pharaoh, &#8220;All<n id="1" /> the years of my travels<n id="2" /> are 130. All<n id="3" /> the years of my life have been few and painful;<n id="4" /> the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.&#8221;<n id="5" />