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These are the children of Esau (that is, Edom).

These are the children, and their children, of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

The children of Anah are Dishon and Oholibamah, Anah's daughter.

This is the story of the children of Jacob and of their children. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was caring for the flock with his brothers. The boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph told his father about how bad they were.

Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife. Do your duty as her brother-in-law. Have children for your brother."

But Onan knew that the children would not be his. So when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground to keep his brother from having children.

He gave the second son the name of Ephraim. "For," he said, "God has given me children in the land of my suffering."

Their father Jacob said to them, "You have taken my children from me! Joseph is no more. Simeon is no more. And now you would take Benjamin! All this has come upon me!"

Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me. And we will get up and go, so we and you and our children may live and not die.

May the All-powerful God give you such favor with the man that he may let your other brother and Benjamin return. If my children are taken from me, I am filled with sorrow."

You will live in the land of Goshen, you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and cattle, and all you have. And you will be near me.

They took their animals and all the things they owned from the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his children with him,

his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters. He brought all his children with him to Egypt.

These are the sons of Jacob and Zilpah, the woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She gave birth to sixteen of Jacob's children.

All the people who came to Egypt with Jacob, the children of his own body, were sixty-six people in all. Added to this were the wives of Jacob's sons.

Joseph gave food to his father and his brothers and all his father's family, for the needs of their children.

At gathering time, you must give a fifth part to Pharaoh. Keep the rest to have seeds for the field, and to feed yourselves and your children and those of your houses."

Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen. They became richer there, and had children, and grew to a very large number.

He said to me, ‘See, I will give you many children. I will make you a group of nations. And I will give this land to your children and to your children's children after you. It will belong to them forever.'

The children born to you after them will be yours. They will be called by the names of their brothers in their share of what the family is to receive.