He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”

You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.

that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”

Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor.

See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.

See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.

“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.

So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”

Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.

He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.

And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.