And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.
And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.
Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?
But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.
And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;
And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.
Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.
So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.
And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are you, my son?
And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss.
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