Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

and Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

If it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”