יָשַׁב

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Isaac lived in Gerar.

Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”