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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.
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And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
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While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
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Nahor’s Sons
Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
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The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
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Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
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Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
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His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
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So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
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May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
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Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.
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Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
