The word of Hashem came to Avraham in a vision saying, "Fear not, Avraham, I am a shield for you; your reward is very great." And he trusted in Hashem, and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. He said to him, "I am Hashem Who brought you out of Haran to give you this land to inherit it." He said, "My Lord, Hashem - Whereby shall I know that I am to inherit it?" And He said to him, "Take to Me three heifers, three goats, three rams, a turtledove, and a young dove." He took all these to Him - he cut them in the center, and placed each piece opposite its counterpart. The birds, however, he did not cut up. Birds of prey descended upon the carcasses, and Avraham drove them away. And it happened, as the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell upon Avraham; and behold — a dread! great darkness fell upon him. And He said to Avraham, "Know with certainty that your offspring shall be aliens in a land not their own, they will serve them, and they will oppress them four hundred years. But also the nation that they shall serve, I shall judge, and afterwards they shall leave with great wealth. As for you - you shall come to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And the fourth generation shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite shall not yet be full until then."
And Sarah's life was a hundred years and twenty years and seven years: the years of Sarah's life. And these are the days of the years of Avraham's life that he lived: a hundred years and seventy years and five years, and he expired. And Yitzchak and Yishmael, his sons, buried him at the cave of Machpelah at the field of Ephron, son of Zohar, the Hittite, facing Mamre, the field that Avraham had bought from the children of Heth. Avraham was buried there -- and Sarah, his wife. And the field and the cave that was in it were established for Avraham as a posession for a tomb from the children of Heth.
And it was after Abraham's death, and God blessed Yitzchak his son. And Yitzchak settled near Beer-lahai-roi. And Yishmael dwelt from Havilah to Shur — which is near Egypt — toward Assyria; he fell facing all his brothers. And these are the years of Yishmael's life: a hundred years and thirty years and seventy years, and he expired.
Yitzchak entreated Hashem opposite his wife, because she was barren. Hashem allowed Himself to be entreated by him, and his wife Rivka conceived. The children agitated within her, and she said, "If so, why am I thus?" And she went to inquire of Hashem. And Hashem said to her,
"Two nations are in your womb;
two regimes from your insides shall be separated;
the might shall pass from one regime to the other,
and the elder shall serve the younger."
When her term to bear grew full, then behold! there were twins in her womb. The first one emerged red, entirely like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esav. After that his brother emerged with his hand grasping on to the heel of Esav; so he called his name Ya'akov; Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.
And Yitzchak's days were a hundred years and eighty years, and he expired. And Esav and Ya'akov, his sons, buried him.
And Jacob worked seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him a few days because of his love for her.
God remembered Rachel; God hearkened to her and He opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." So she called his name Yoseph.
And Yoseph brought Ya'akov, his father, and stood him in front of Par'oh. And Ya'akov blessed Par'oh. And Par'oh said to Ya'akov, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" And Ya'akov said to Par'oh, "The days of the years of my residences are a hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and bad, and they haven't attained the days of the years of my father's lives, in the days of their residences." And Ya'akov blessed Par'oh and went out from in front of Par'oh. And Yoseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Mitzraim, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses. And Yoseph supported his father and his brothers and all of his father's household, bread by the number of infants. And they were fruitful and multiplied very much. And Ya'akov lived in the land of Mitzraim seventeen years. And Ya'akov's days, the years of his life, were seven years and a hundred forty years, and he expired.
