-
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
-
To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
-
After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
-
After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
-
Wickedness in the World
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
-
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
-
The Semites
Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
-
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
-
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
-
Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
-
So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
-
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
-
Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
-
Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
-
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
-
And every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.
-
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
-
And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
-
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
-
Nahor’s Sons
Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
-
My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
-
Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
-
Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
-
Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
-
Dinah and the Shechemites
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
