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This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.

When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.

When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.

When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.

When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

…and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.

So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”

And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

…and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.

But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?”

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”

He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.