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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time
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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 said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.
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Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
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Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
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Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
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He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
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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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He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.
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He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and people shouted before him, “Make way!” Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.
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The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
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Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”
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The Second Journey to Egypt
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
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The Death of Jacob
Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
