These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali. The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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