He was a mighty hunter<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> (That is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;)

Then they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (They had brick instead of stone and tar<n id="3" /> instead of mortar.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">And he journeyed from place to place<n id="1" /> from the Negev as far as Bethel.<n id="2" /> He returned<n id="3" /> to the place where he had pitched his tent<n id="4" /> at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

But the land could<n id="1" /> not support them while they were living side by side.<n id="2" /> Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live<n id="3" /> alongside one another.

<p class="bodytext">When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch<n id="1" /> passed between the animal parts.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred<n id="1" /> in the days of Abraham.<n id="2" /> Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

They replied, &#8220;We could plainly see<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> is with you. So we decided there should be<n id="2" /> a pact between us<n id="3" /> &#8211; between us<n id="4" /> and you. Allow us to make<n id="5" /> a treaty with you

Indeed,<n id="1" /> you had little before I arrived,<n id="2" /> but now your possessions have increased many times over.<n id="3" /> The <sc>Lordsc> has blessed you wherever I worked.<n id="4" /> But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

There he said to them, &#8220;I can tell that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me has changed,<n id="1" /> but the God of my father has been with me.

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled<n id="1" /> was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Then the seven years of famine began,<n id="1" /> just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

<p class="bodytext">While the famine was over all the earth,<n id="1" /> Joseph opened the storehouses<n id="2" /> and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down<n id="1" /> about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred<n id="2" /> in Egypt from the day it was founded<n id="3" /> until now.

Hail fell<n id="1" /> and fire mingled<n id="2" /> with the hail; the hail was so severe<n id="3" /> that there had not been any like it<n id="4" /> in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

No one<n id="1" /> could see<n id="2" /> another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.p>

Now listen to me,<n id="1" /> I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God,<n id="2" /> and you bring<n id="3" /> their disputes<n id="4" /> to God;

Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc> from the ram of ordination. It was Moses&#8217; share just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.p>

But there was not a man among these who had been<n id="1" /> among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance<n id="1" /> among his brothers;<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> is his inheritance just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God told him.