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And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
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And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.
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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
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And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
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And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
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And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
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And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
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And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.
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And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
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And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
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And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
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And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
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And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
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And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah.
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And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
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And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech.
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And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
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And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.
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And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
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And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
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And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.
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And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
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And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
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And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
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And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
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And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
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And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
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And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
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And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
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Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim,
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And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
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And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
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And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.
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And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
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And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.
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And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.
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And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.
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Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.
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And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
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And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years.
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And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples.
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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
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And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
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And Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him.
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And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
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Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.
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And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.
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These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
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I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
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These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.
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And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
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The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
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And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.
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And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.
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Let Pharaoh do [this]: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,
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and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep [it].
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And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
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And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
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And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by handfuls.
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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.
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And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.
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And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;
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and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.
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And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.
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And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
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And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread for horses, and for flocks of sheep, and for herds of cattle, and for asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.
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And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.
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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.
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Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will be at the shore of the ships, And his side [toucheth] upon Sidon.
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
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And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.