² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

²⁵ The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;

²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

²² Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.

²³ And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.

²⁴ No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

¹⁸ For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

¹ It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

¹¹ Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

⁷ It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

⁴ These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.