And God said to Abraham: "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

"and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

"He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

"Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.

Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though [it is] only a man's covenant, yet [if it is] confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

And this I say, [that] the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

"He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.

And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him -- whom Sarah bore to him -- Isaac.

Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And the LORD said to her:"Two nations [are] in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; [One] people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger."

And the first came out red. [He was] like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau.

And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac [were] Esau and Israel.

Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.

For this [is] the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

(for [the children] not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."

When the LORD saw that Leah [was] unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel [was] barren.

Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I [am] unloved, He has therefore given me this [son] also." And she called his name Simeon.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Now I will praise the LORD." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die!"

So she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear [a child] on my knees, that I also may have children by her."

And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

And Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.

Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" So she called his name Gad.

Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed." So she called his name Asher.

But she said to her, "[Is it] a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

And she conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored [in childbirth,] and she had hard labor.

the sons of Leah [were] Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, [were] Dan and Naphtali;

Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

These [were] the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

"Men [and] brethren, let [me] speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Now consider how great this man [was,] to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.