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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
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The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
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And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
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It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
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Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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The Japhethites
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
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The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.
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For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
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Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”
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The Birth of Isaac
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
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Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
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So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
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“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.”
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to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city.
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“The Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
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He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.
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I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
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But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
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You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”
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Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
