Study Desk

God blessed them and said, "Have many young ones so that you may grow in number. Fill the water of the seas, and let the birds grow in number on the earth."

The water continued to go down so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.

Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."

Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister' so that I made her my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and leave!"

I promise that I will not keep anything that is yours. I will not keep even a thread or a sandal strap so that you cannot say, ‘I made Abram rich.'

God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."

Then Abraham gathered Ishmael, all the males born in his camp, and the slaves he had bought. So that day Abraham circumcised every man and boy in his camp as God had told him to do.

So that night they got their father drunk again, and the younger daughter went and had sexual relations with him. Again, Lot did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

So that place was called Beersheba because they made a promise to each other there.

"I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife."

When the second baby was born, he was holding on to Esau's heel, so that baby was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

May God give you plenty of rain and good soil so that you will have plenty of grain and new wine.

May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham."

After seven years Jacob said to Laban, "Give me Rachel so that I may marry her. The time I promised to work for you is over."

In the morning when Jacob saw that he had had sexual relations with Leah, he said to Laban, "What have you done to me? I worked hard for you so that I could marry Rachel! Why did you trick me?"

So Jacob cut green branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled off some of the bark so that the branches had white stripes on them.

So that day Esau started back to Edom.

I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die."