God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

Lamech took two wives for himself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.

And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female;

they all went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Descendants of Shem

These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood;

Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug;

and Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

The Doom of Sodom

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Now look, I have two daughters who have not had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law and your sons and daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

But he hesitated. So the men grasped his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, because the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.

Lot and His Daughters

Now Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and stayed in the mountains, because he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place of which God had told him.

And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,