And that is how the universe was created. When the LORD God made the universe,

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.

This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,

These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.

So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.

When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.

Eli was now very old. He kept hearing about everything his sons were doing to the Israelites and that they were even sleeping with the women who worked at the entrance to the Tent of the LORD's presence.

Stop it, my sons! This is an awful thing the people of the LORD are talking about!

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

For some people from Chloe's family have told me quite plainly, my friends, that there are quarrels among you.

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

In the first place, I have been told that there are opposing groups in your meetings; and this I believe is partly true.