Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.

Noah and His Sons

Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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.

Promises to Abram

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.

But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

Huz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,