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Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…

and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…

The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in…

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this…

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…

But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to…

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my…

He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of…

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow,…

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the…

to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He…

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out…

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.

He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped…

Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all…

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword,…

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his…

Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was…

Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the…

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He…

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men.…

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.