<p class="bodytext">The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first<n id="1" /> of those who live in tents and keep<n id="2" /> livestock.

The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

<p class="bodytext">Noah<n id="1" /> was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed<n id="2" /> the earth.

<p class="bodytext">Now Lot, who was traveling<n id="1" /> with Abram, also had<n id="2" /> flocks, herds, and tents.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You know how I have worked for you,&#8221; Jacob replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;and how well your livestock have fared under my care.<n id="2" />

It happened just as he had said<n id="1" /> to us &#8211; Pharaoh<n id="2" /> restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

So Israel&#8217;s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers,<n id="1" /> for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.p>

Then she gave birth<n id="1" /> to his brother Abel.<n id="2" /> Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Noah.<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Noah was a godly man; he was blameless<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">among his contemporaries.<n id="3" /> He<n id="4" /> walked with<n id="5" /> God.

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.