Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

God saw that the light was good, so he ·divided [separated] the light from the darkness.

God ·named [called] the light “day” and the darkness “night.” ·Evening passed, and morning came [^LThere was evening and there was morning; ^Cin the OT a day begins at nightfall]. This was the first day.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the ·sky [^Lfirmament/dome/expanse of the heavens] to ·separate [divide] day from night. ·These lights will be used for [^LThey will be] signs, seasons, days, and years.

They will be in the ·sky [^Lfirmament/dome/expanse] to give light to the earth.” And it happened.

So God made the two ·large [great] lights. He made the ·brighter [^Lgreater] light to rule the day and made the ·smaller [lesser] light to rule the night. ·He also made the stars [^L…and the stars].

to rule over the day and over the night, and to ·separate [divide] the light from the darkness. God saw that all these things were good.

They lived in the area between Mesha and Sephar in the hill country in the East.

Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel [^Ca town in the central hill country south of Shechem] and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai [^Ca town near Bethel] was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and ·worshiped him [^Lcalled on the name of the Lord].

When he saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim [^Csounds like “two camps” in Hebrew; a city in the hill country of Gilead; Josh. 13:26, 30].

“Joseph is like a ·grapevine that produces much fruit [or fruitful bough/tree; or foal of a wild donkey] a ·healthy vine [or fruitful bough/tree; or foal of a wild donkey] ·watered by [^Lby] a spring, ·whose branches grow over the wall [or a wild donkey on a hillside].

The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the ·oldest [or eternal] mountains, greater than the ·good things [delight] of the long-lasting hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the forehead of the one who was ·separated from [or prince among] his brothers [^CEphraim would become the dominant tribe in northern Israel].