[19:1] The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. [4:17] Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and named it Enoch after his son Enoch. At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son." [43:33] When they were seated before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth, the men looked at one another in amazement. [35:15] So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. [35:27] Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens. [14:15] He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus. Ham was the father of Canaan. [21:24] And Abraham said, "I swear it." When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each according to his dream. [47:16] And Joseph answered, "Give me your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone." When they heard of it, the men were indignant and very angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. [49:11] Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes; [49:12] his eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. [43:22] Moreover we have brought down with us additional money to buy food. So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac, [31:54] and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the height and called his kinsfolk to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill country. [30:15] But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? [9:17] God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." [5:10] Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters. So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. [34:13] The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. [41:45] Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. Only let us agree with them, and they will live among us." [37:12] Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem. So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms. [31:47] Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. [7:15] They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. It is a custom among religious Jewish communities for a weekly Torah portion, popularly referred to as a parashah, to be read during Jewish prayer services on Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays. [29:12] And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. [1:16] God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars. [42:8] Although Joseph had recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him. And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." [35:10] God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Why should we die before your eyes? And since they bred when they came to drink, [30:39] the flocks bred in front of the rods, and so the flocks produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted. [44:16] And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? The story of the disruption of Jacob’s family, the tale of Joseph and his brothers, is the most extended narrative in the book of Genesis, being told over four sidrot (weekly portions). [7:11] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. [29:28] Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife. [21:14] So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. [46:3] Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. [19:20] Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. [5:13] Kenan lived after the birth of Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters. [12:3] I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." [34:6] And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him, [34:7] just as the sons of Jacob came in from the field. [6:6] And the LORD was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. [25:21] Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. [37:21] But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life." And he said, "Here I am, my son." [26:6] So Isaac settled in Gerar. [24:10] Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all kinds of choice gifts from his master; and he set out and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor. [5:1] This is the list of the descendants of Adam. [27:43] Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran, [27:44] and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away - [27:45] until your brother's anger against you turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send, and bring you back from there. [49:19] Gad shall be raided by raiders, but he shall raid at their heels. Why should I lose both of you in one day?" [41:55] When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And they came closer. [33:18] Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city. [16:10] The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude." [8:20] Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. [1:24] And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." She saw that Shelah was grown up, yet she had not been given to him in marriage. [9:7] And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it." [2:25] And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. [45:7] God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. [18:12] So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?" Tiamat was salty water; Apsu was fresh water. [29:18] Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." [7:21] And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings; [7:22] everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. [42:11] We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants have never been spies." [2:21] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [4:25] Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him." The two powerful groups making up the community—the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their origin to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the "elders" and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had "given" them the land—were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own "history of origins", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text. This consequently affects one’s views on Creation, man, Original Sin. The King of Gerar takes Sarah for his wife, but God warns him to return her (because she's really Abraham's wife), and he obeys. [50:15] Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers said, "What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?" The Genesis story is also remarkably humanistic compared to the Babylonian story. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold from you any burial ground for burying your dead." [43:8] Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and let us be on our way, so that we may live and not die - you and we and also our little ones. [25:31] Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright." [29:16] Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. [44:19] My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?' 3 Then God commanded, “Let there be light”—and light appeared. so she named him Gad. [36:20] These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, [36:21] Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the clans of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. He answered, "I am your firstborn son, Esau." [7:18] The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. [9:24] When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, [9:25] he said, "Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers." And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." [44:1] Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the top of his sack. [44:23] Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.' Substantial differences render this unlikely. [42:33] Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way. [24:39] I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.' Due to her old age, Sarah tells Abraham to take her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as a second wife (to bear a child). [18:11] Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. From ancient times, Judaic and Christian believers have embraced Genesis and its account of creation as Scripture—God’s word. [50:26] And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt. [10:30] The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country of the east. [29:25] When morning came, it was Leah! [24:35] The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys. [37:10] But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What kind of dream is this that you have had? [50:4] When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, "If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows: [50:5] My father made me swear an oath; he said, 'I am about to die. He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it." [47:19] Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. [10:26] Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, [10:27] Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, [10:28] Obal, Abimael, Sheba, [10:29] Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan. And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. [7:23] He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. [17:13] Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. [49:10] The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and the obedience of the peoples is his. [31:27] Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? [29:34] Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons"; therefore he was named Levi. [30:41] Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob laid the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods, [30:42] but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. Genesis 1-11 begins with an account of creation. Peter Gabriel, puis le batteur Phil Collins après le départ du premier en 1975, ont été au chant les figures emblématiques du groupe. You shall get a wife for my son from my kindred, from my father's house. [37:13] And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? [38:26] Then Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." [22], This leaves the question of when these works were created. [14:18] And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High. [3:1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made. The first covenant is between God and all living creatures, and is marked by the sign of the rainbow; the second is with the descendants of Abraham (Ishmaelites and others as well as Israelites), and its sign is circumcision; and the last, which does not appear until the Book of Exodus, is with Israel alone, and its sign is Sabbath. The servant said, "It is my master." And he said, "There, in the tent." [7:16] And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. [42:15] Here is how you shall be tested: as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here! [43:6] Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?" With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, [50:8] as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. [17:9] God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. His brother is dead; he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.' The story of the most controversial period in the illustrious career of Genesis: the overblown Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Peter Gabriel's departure. [13:1] So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. [24:66] And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. [19:15] When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city." [27], The patriarchs, or ancestors, are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with their wives (Joseph is normally excluded). . [26:1] Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. [46:27] The children of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. [46:13] The children of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Jashub, and Shimron. [2:3] So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. When the waters recede, God promises he will never destroy the world with water again, making a rainbow as a symbol of his promise. [13:11] So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; thus they separated from each other. [20:9] Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? [49:13] Zebulun shall settle at the shore of the sea; he shall be a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. However, Noah is the only good human; so first, he instructs the righteous Noah and his family to build an ark and put examples of all the animals on it, seven pairs of every clean animal and one pair of every unclean. [42:35] As they were emptying their sacks, there in each one's sack was his bag of money. [45:23] To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. [2:10] A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. [10:15] Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, [10:16] and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, [10:17] the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, [10:18] the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. [25:1] Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. [18] There are four major textual witnesses to the book: the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and fragments of Genesis found at Qumran. to Israel), and Israel is expected to have faith in God and his promise. [15:11] And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. [31:42] If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. [36:7] For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock. [6:16] Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and put the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks. [27:9] Go to the flock, and get me two choice kids, so that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he likes; [27:10] and you shall take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies." [45:10] You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. [22:24] Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. [41:43] He had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command; and they cried out in front of him, "Bow the knee!" [30:13] And Leah said, "Happy am I! [23:1] Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this was the length of Sarah's life. After many generations of Adam have passed from the lines of Cain and Seth, the world becomes corrupted by human sin and Nephilim, and God wants to wipe out humanity for their wickedness. [31:44] Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me." [27:2] He said, "See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. [31:41] These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. [38:11] Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"- for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So they sent away with mirth and songs, and rebuked you last night ''. Not from this that my LORD speak such words as these? when came. New models before 2020 between Kadesh and Bered was eighty-six years old, well in. You swear to do the thing, because he had made, and bowed down the... 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