So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

The Promised Blessing Jeopardized

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

Three Special Visitors

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Abraham and Abimelech

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.

Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

The Family of Jacob

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” Then she said, “Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.