100 | GEN 4:20 | Adah gave birth to a baby boy and she called him Jabal because Jabal means “to lead.” Then when Jabal grew up he was the ancestor of people who look after sheep and cattle. And he and his family were the first to live in tents. |
101 | GEN 4:21 | His younger brother was called Jubal because Jubal means “musical instrument.” He was the ancestor of people who play musical instruments. |
121 | GEN 5:15 | When Mahalalel was 65 years old he had a son called Jared. |
124 | GEN 5:18 | When Jared was 162 years old he had a son called Enoch. |
138 | GEN 5:32 | When Noah was 500 years old he had his family. His first son was Shem, the next was Japheth and the youngest was Ham. |
147 | GEN 6:9 | This is the story of Noah. He had three sons called Shem, Ham and Japheth. He was a good man and he did nothing wrong. He was the only good person and he had fellowship with God. |
173 | GEN 7:13 | But on the day when the first rain fell, Noah and his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat that they had made. |
224 | GEN 9:18 | The three sons of Noah who went into the boat and came out again were called Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. |
233 | GEN 9:27 | God will give Japheth many children and they will increase. And his descendants will live with Shem's people. Japheth will also rule over Canaan.” The name Japheth means “they will become many.” |
236 | GEN 10:1 | These are the names of Noah's descendants. His three sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. They all had sons after the flood. |
237 | GEN 10:2 | These were Japheth's sons. Their names were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras. |
239 | GEN 10:4 | And these were the sons of his younger brother, Javan. Their names were Elishah, Spain, Cyprus and Rhodes. |
240 | GEN 10:5 | Later on the descendants of Elishah and his brothers spread along the coast and on the islands. So they became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place. Each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Japheth. |
241 | GEN 10:6 | These were the sons of Ham. He was Japheth's younger brother. Their names were Cush, Egypt, Libya and Canaan. |
251 | GEN 10:16 | but Canaan also had other sons, so he was the ancestor of very many people. They were the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, |
260 | GEN 10:25 | Eber had two sons. One of them was called Peleg, and while he was alive all the people spread out and separated. So they called him Peleg, because Peleg means “they were separated.” And his brother was Joktan. |
261 | GEN 10:26 | Joktan's sons were called Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, |
264 | GEN 10:29 | Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. They were all Joktan's sons. |
329 | GEN 13:10 | So Lot looked round and saw a big river valley called the Jordan, and it was very good land. The river went all the way to a place called Zoar. There was plenty of water and trees and other plants, just like the place that Yahweh made called Eden, and also like the land of Egypt. Lot wanted the land with the big Jordan valley for himself, so he went off to the east and the two men separated. Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, but Lot made his camp near the city of Sodom. The people of Sodom were wicked. They didn't obey Yahweh; they were always doing evil things. But Lot and his family stayed there, before Yahweh destroyed the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. |
382 | GEN 15:21 | Some places belong to the Amorite people, some to the Canaanite people, some to the Girgashite people, and some to the Jebusite people. Truly I will give all these places of theirs to your descendants.” |
568 | GEN 22:20 | Some time later Abraham heard about Nahor, his younger brother. Nahor lived in the country where Abraham had lived before he went to Canaan. His wife's name was Milcah. Nahor and Milcah had eight sons. The first was called Uz, and his younger brothers were Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash and Jidlaph and the youngest son was Bethuel. And Bethuel had a daughter called Rebecca. |
661 | GEN 25:2 | These are the names of the children Keturah gave birth to for Abraham. They were called Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. |
662 | GEN 25:3 | Keturah's son Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants became so many that there were three groups. They were called the Asshurim, the Letushim and the Leummim people. |
674 | GEN 25:15 | Hadad, Tema, Jetur and Naphish and the last one was Kedemah. |
685 | GEN 25:26 | When the second one was born, he was holding on tightly to the heel of the first. So he was named Jacob, because Jacob means “he is holding the heel.” But when people talk about others and say, “He is holding the heel,” that means, “he is tricking people.” Their father Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. |
686 | GEN 25:27 | The two boys grew up. Esau was good at hunting and he loved being out in the bush. But Jacob was a quiet man who liked to stay at home. |
687 | GEN 25:28 | Isaac loved Esau more, because he liked eating the animals he killed, but Rebecca loved Jacob. |
688 | GEN 25:29 | One day Jacob was cooking some bean soup and Esau came back from hunting. He was hungry |
689 | GEN 25:30 | and he said to his younger brother Jacob, “I am very hungry. Give me some of that red soup.” That is why Esau had two names. One was Esau and the other was Edom, because Edom means “red.” |
690 | GEN 25:31 | “Yes, I will give you some,” Jacob answered. “But you must tell me that I am the firstborn and the leader now, and not you.” |
692 | GEN 25:33 | Jacob said, “I want you to make a promise and not change it. You must promise me that I will be the firstborn and the leader now.” So Esau agreed and made the promise. |
693 | GEN 25:34 | Then Jacob gave him some damper and some of the soup he had cooked. Esau ate the damper and drank the soup and he got up and left, saying, “What does it matter? Let him be the firstborn!” |
727 | GEN 26:34 | When Isaac's son Esau was forty years old, he took two girls to be his wives. They were both Hittites. One of them, the daughter of Beeri, was called Judith and the other, the daughter of Elon, was called Basemath. |
734 | GEN 27:6 | she said to Jacob, “I heard your father talking to Esau. |
739 | GEN 27:11 | Jacob said to his mother, “You know my older brother is very hairy. My hands aren't hairy like his. |
742 | GEN 27:14 | So Jacob went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. And she cooked them just as Isaac liked. |
743 | GEN 27:15 | She went and got some good clothes of Esau's and gave them to Jacob and he put them on. |
744 | GEN 27:16 | Then she put goat skin from the goat that Jacob had killed on his hands and arms and on the back of his neck. |
746 | GEN 27:18 | Then Jacob went and took the food to his father and said, “Father!” “What is it?” his father said. “Which of my sons are you?” |
747 | GEN 27:19 | Jacob said, “I am your firstborn son Esau. I have done what you told me. Please sit up and eat this meat. I have brought it so that you can give me your special blessing.” |
748 | GEN 27:20 | The old man said, “Son! How did you find the animal so quickly?” Jacob said, “Yahweh your God helped me, so I found it quickly.” |
750 | GEN 27:22 | Jacob came close to his father and Isaac touched him. Then he said, “When you speak your voice is like Jacob's, but your hands are like Esau's.” |
751 | GEN 27:23 | Isaac didn't recognize Jacob because his hands were all covered in goat skin. They were like Esau's. He was ready to give his special blessing to Jacob |
752 | GEN 27:24 | but again he asked him, “Are you really Esau?” “Yes,” said Jacob. |
753 | GEN 27:25 | Isaac said, “Give me the meat that you have brought. I will eat it first and then I will give you my special blessing.” Jacob gave his father the meat, and also brought some wine for him to drink. |
755 | GEN 27:27 | Jacob moved closer to kiss him and his father smelled Esau's clothes that Jacob was wearing. And so he gave him his special blessing. He said, “My son, you smell very good, just as the earth that God made smells good. |
758 | GEN 27:30 | Isaac finished his special blessing and Jacob left him. At the same time Jacob's older brother Esau came back bringing an animal that he had killed. |
764 | GEN 27:36 | Esau said, “I am your firstborn son, but he tricked me before, and so now he is like your firstborn son. And now he has done it again. You should have given me that special blessing, but he got it. Oh dear, it is his now! Twice he has tricked me. Truly he is called Jacob. Please, isn't there a blessing for me too?” The name Jacob means “he tricks people.” |
769 | GEN 27:41 | Then Esau really hated his brother Jacob, because his father had given him his special blessing. He said, “In a short time my father will die. Then I will kill Jacob.” |
770 | GEN 27:42 | Rebecca heard what Esau said and called Jacob to her and said, “Look, my son. Your brother wants to pay you back and kill you because of what you have done. |
774 | GEN 27:46 | Then she went to her husband Isaac and said, “Those women from here that Esau married don't belong to us; they are Hittites. I am tired of them. If Jacob also takes one of them for a wife, then what good will that do me?” |
775 | GEN 28:1 | Then the old man called Jacob to him. He said, “Don't take a Canaanite woman for your wife. |
779 | GEN 28:5 | Then Isaac sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia, to Laban. Laban was the son of Bethuel the Aramean, and he was also Rebecca's brother. And Rebecca was the mother of Jacob and Esau. |
780 | GEN 28:6 | Esau heard that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Mesopotamia to find a wife there. He also knew what Isaac had told Jacob when he blessed him. He had said, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.” |
781 | GEN 28:7 | And Esau knew that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone away to Mesopotamia. |
784 | GEN 28:10 | Jacob left Beersheba and set off to go to Haran. |
787 | GEN 28:13 | Yahweh was standing beside Jacob, and he said to him, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and to your descendants this land that you are lying on. |
790 | GEN 28:16 | Jacob woke up and said to himself, “Yahweh is here in this place and I didn't know!” |
792 | GEN 28:18 | Jacob got up next morning and took the stone that his head had been resting on and stood it up there so that people would know that Yahweh had come and appeared there. Then he poured olive oil on the stone so that it would belong to God. |
794 | GEN 28:20 | Then Jacob made a promise to Yahweh. He said, “If you will stay near me and keep me safe on my way and give me food and clothes, |
797 | GEN 29:1 | Then Jacob got up and moved camp and went towards the east. He travelled on and on |
798 | GEN 29:2 | until he was near his uncle's place. But before he realized where he was he suddenly came to a waterhole out in the fields. The shepherds who lived there used to take their sheep there for water. Every afternoon they took them to the waterhole but they used to wait for each other there. First they brought all the sheep together and then they moved the big stone at the opening of the well. They got water and filled the stone drinking trough that was nearby and let the sheep drink. After the sheep had finished drinking they shut up the well again with the stone. The shepherds always used to do that. When Jacob arrived at the waterhole some sheep were lying there. There were three flocks, but the opening of the well was still shut. |
800 | GEN 29:4 | Jacob asked the shepherds, “Where do you come from?” “From Haran,” they answered. |
801 | GEN 29:5 | Jacob asked, “Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?” “Yes,” they said. |
803 | GEN 29:7 | Jacob said, “The sun is still high, so you can't take your sheep inside yet. Why don't you let them drink and take them back to the grass?” |
805 | GEN 29:9 | While Jacob was still talking to them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep. |
806 | GEN 29:10 | When Jacob saw Rachel and his uncle's sheep, he went to the well, moved the stone and gave the sheep water to drink. |
809 | GEN 29:13 | When Laban heard about his nephew Jacob he ran to meet him. When he found him he hugged and kissed him and brought him inside the house. Then Jacob told Laban everything that had happened. |
810 | GEN 29:14 | Laban said, “Yes indeed, you are my relative.” Then Jacob stayed there for a month. After one month had gone, |
811 | GEN 29:15 | Laban said to Jacob, “You shouldn't work for me for nothing just because you are my nephew. How much money will I give you?” |
814 | GEN 29:18 | Jacob loved Rachel and wanted to marry her. So he said to Laban, “I will work for you for seven years, and then you can give me Rachel for my wife.” |
816 | GEN 29:20 | So Jacob stayed there and worked for Laban. A long time passed. He stayed there working for Laban for seven years so that he could have Rachel for his wife. He kept on working, but it seemed to him a short time, because he wanted Rachel so much. |
817 | GEN 29:21 | Then Jacob said to Laban, “Seven years have gone now. Let me have your daughter.” |
819 | GEN 29:23 | But that night Laban took his older daughter Leah to Jacob, and not Rachel. So Jacob and Leah slept together. |
821 | GEN 29:25 | Jacob didn't know that he had slept with Leah until the next morning. He went to Laban and said, “Why have you done this to me? I worked hard to get Rachel, and you have tricked me!” |
823 | GEN 29:27 | Just wait, and stay with Leah for seven days, while all the people are here with us. Then if you will work for me for another seven years, I will give you Rachel.” |
824 | GEN 29:28 | Jacob agreed and he stayed with Leah for seven days. Then afterwards Laban gave Rachel to Jacob for his wife. |
826 | GEN 29:30 | Then Jacob and Rachel slept together, and he loved her more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban another seven years. |
827 | GEN 29:31 | Yahweh saw that Jacob loved Rachel more, so he gave Leah children and not Rachel. She was unable to have children, |
831 | GEN 29:35 | Then Leah became pregnant again, and she had another son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” So she called him Judah, because Judah means “I will praise him.” Then she stopped having children. |
832 | GEN 30:1 | Rachel was still unable to have any children, and so she became jealous of her sister Leah. She said to Jacob, “If you don't give me any children I will die.” |
833 | GEN 30:2 | Jacob became angry with her and said, “God is the one who is stopping you from having children. I am not God.” |
835 | GEN 30:4 | So she gave Bilhah to Jacob to be his wife and he slept with her. |
836 | GEN 30:5 | Bilhah became pregnant and then she had a son for Jacob. |
838 | GEN 30:7 | Then Bilhah became pregnant again and she had another son for Jacob. |
840 | GEN 30:9 | Leah realized that she had stopped having children and so she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob to be his wife. |
841 | GEN 30:10 | Then Zilpah had a son for Jacob. |
843 | GEN 30:12 | Then Zilpah had another son for Jacob. |
846 | GEN 30:15 | Leah answered, “You have already taken my husband away from me. Are you going to take my son's mandrakes away too?” Rachel said, “If you give me some mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight.” In that country the people thought that if women ate mandrakes they would become pregnant. |
847 | GEN 30:16 | The sun was setting when Jacob returned from where the wheat was growing and Leah went to meet him. She said to him, “We are going to sleep together tonight. I have given some mandrakes to Rachel today. So I have bought you with mandrakes.” So that night Leah and Jacob slept together. |
848 | GEN 30:17 | God answered Leah's prayer and she became pregnant, and then she had another son for Jacob. Now she had five sons. |
850 | GEN 30:19 | Then Leah became pregnant again and she had another son for Jacob. Now she had six children. |
855 | GEN 30:24 | Maybe Yahweh will give me another son.” So she named him Joseph, because Joseph means “he will give another.” |
856 | GEN 30:25 | After Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban, “Let me go so that I can return home. |
860 | GEN 30:29 | Jacob said, “You know that I have done your work well. I have looked after your sheep and goats very carefully. |
862 | GEN 30:31 | “How much will I give you?” Laban asked. Jacob said, “I don't want any money. Just let me go and take the black lambs and young goats that are spotted. I will take those and that is all. From today you can easily find out if I am honest. When you look and see any goat of mine that is not spotted or any sheep that is not black, you will know that it has been stolen. If you agree, I will go on looking after your sheep and goats.” |