The Line of Seth

5 This is the document containing the family^[a] records^(A) of Adam.^[b] On the day that God created man,^[c] he made him in the likeness of God;

God Warns Noah

⁹ These are the family records^(A) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,^(B) blameless among his contemporaries;^(C) Noah walked with God.^(D)

The Table of Nations

10 These are the family records^(A) of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

From Shem to Abram

¹⁰ These are the family records^(A) of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

²⁷ These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Ishmael’s Family Records

¹² These are the family records^(A) of Abraham’s son Ishmael,^(B) whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

The Birth of Jacob and Esau

¹⁹ These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.^(A)

Esau’s Family

36 These are the family records^(A) of Esau (that is, Edom^(B)).

⁹ These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.

² These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,^(A) and he brought a bad report about them to their father.^(B)