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To the woman He said, "I will make your pain much worse in giving birth. You will give birth to children in pain. Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

This is the book of the children of Adam and of their children's children. When God made man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.

God made good come to Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Have many children, and cover the earth.

As for you, have many children. Cover the earth with many people."

"See, I make My agreement with you, and with your children after you,

Children were born to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth.

These are the children of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

Now these are the children of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Then the Lord showed Himself to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children and to your children's children." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord Who had shown Himself to him.

For I will give all the land that you see to you and to your children and to your children's children forever.

I will make your family after you like the dust of the earth. So if anyone could number the dust of the earth, then he could number your children's children.

He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."

God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your children and those born after them will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. There they will be servants and suffer for 400 years.

The Lord made an agreement with Abram on that day. He said, "I have given this land to your children and to their children's children, from the river of Egypt as far as the big Euphrates River,

Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "Now see, the Lord has kept me from having children. Go in to the woman who serves me. It may be that I will get children through her." Abram listened to what Sarai said.

And I will keep My agreement between Me and you. I will give you many children."

I will make My agreement between Me and you and your children after you through their whole lives for all time. I will be God to you and to your children's children after you.

I will give to you and your children after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan for yourselves forever. And I will be their God."