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Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
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A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
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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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I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
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“He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.
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“I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.’ “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,
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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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Ishmael’s Sons
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
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Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Jacob’s Children
When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
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She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
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Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
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His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
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The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam and Korah.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
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When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
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So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?”
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These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
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These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
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Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.
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Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
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Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
