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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
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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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Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.
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But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
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Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
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Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
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The Death of Sarah
Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
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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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The Death of Abraham
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
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After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
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So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
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Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”
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Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.
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Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?
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The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
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But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.
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What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
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About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”
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Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
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No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
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He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.
