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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
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His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
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You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
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The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
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They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
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But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
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that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
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Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
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The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.
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But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
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Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
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As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
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Lot and His Daughters
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
