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When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
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After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.
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After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
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After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
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After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
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After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
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When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
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After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
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When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
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And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
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Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
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Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.
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Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
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That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.
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He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
