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To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
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And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
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Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
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I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
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“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
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Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
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And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
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Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)
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Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
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God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
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Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
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So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.
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Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
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So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
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And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
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And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”
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Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
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As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
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and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
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But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
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“Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,