So he said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Cursed<n id="1" /> be Canaan!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The lowest of slaves<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he will be to his brothers.&#8221;p>

After all, Abraham<n id="1" /> will surely become<n id="2" /> a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another<n id="3" /> using his name.

If he said,<n id="1" /> &#8216;The speckled animals<n id="2" /> will be your wage,&#8217; then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, &#8216;The streaked animals will be your wage,&#8217; then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.

<p class="bodytext">But his father refused and said, &#8220;I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude<n id="1" /> of nations.&#8221;

You may eat any moving thing that lives.<n id="1" /> As I gave you<n id="2" /> the green plants, I now give<n id="3" /> you everything.p>

I confirm<n id="1" /> my covenant with you: Never again will all living things<n id="2" /> be wiped out<n id="3" /> by the waters of a flood;<n id="4" /> never again will a flood destroy the earth.&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> took him outside and said, &#8220;Gaze into the sky and count the stars &#8211; if you are able to count them!&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So will your descendants be.&#8221;p>

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.

<p class="poetry">He will be a wild donkey<n id="1" /> of a man.p> <p class="poetry">He will be hostile to everyone,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and everyone will be hostile to him.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will live away from<n id="4" /> his brothers.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So his father Isaac said to him,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed,<n id="1" /> your home will bep> <p class="poetry">away from the richness<n id="2" /> of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">and away from the dew of the sky above.p>

Then this stone<n id="1" /> that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely<n id="2" /> give you back a tenth of everything you give me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Then God said to him, &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="1" /> Be fruitful and multiply! A nation &#8211; even a company of nations &#8211; will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He replied, &#8220;You have suggested your own punishment!<n id="1" /> The one who has it will become my slave,<n id="2" /> but the rest of<n id="3" /> you will go free.&#8221;<n id="4" />

When you gather in the crop,<n id="1" /> give<n id="2" /> one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest<n id="3" /> will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.&#8221;

Then God said, &#8220;I now<n id="1" /> give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field<n id="2" /> had yet sprouted, for the <sc>Lordsc> God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.<n id="3" />

Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you.<n id="1" /> Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.<n id="2" />

then I will remember my covenant with you<n id="1" /> and with all living creatures of all kinds.<n id="2" /> Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy<n id="3" /> all living things.<n id="4" />

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, &#8220;If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food<n id="1" /> to eat and clothing to wear,