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The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
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And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son—Enoch.
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Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
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And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.
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To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
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Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”
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Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.
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Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him.
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So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
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So he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously.
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Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
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When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
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Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
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And when Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who attacked Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
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And when Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
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And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
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Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”