Genesis 12 - 50
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Now m the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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n And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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o I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and p in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from q Haran.
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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
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Abram r passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to s the oak of t Moreh. At that time u the Canaanites were in the land.
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Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, v "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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From there he moved to the hill country on the east of w Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
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Now x there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
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When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
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and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they y will kill me, but they will let you live.
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Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."
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When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
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And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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But the Lord z afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
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So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
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Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
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And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Genesis 13
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So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, a into the Negeb.
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b Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
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to c the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
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And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
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so that d the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
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e and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time f the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
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Then Abram said to Lot, g "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, h for we are kinsmen.
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i Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."
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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the j Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like k the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of l Zoar. (This was before the Lord m destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.
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Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Now the men of Sodom n were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, o northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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for all the land that you see I will give p to you and q to your offspring forever.
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r I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
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So Abram moved his tent and came and s settled by the t oaks of Mamre, which u are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 14
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In the days of Amraphel king of v Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of w Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
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these kings made war with x Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of y Admah, Shemeber king of y Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim ( z that is, the Salt Sea).
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Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the a Rephaim in b Ashteroth-karnaim, the c Zuzim in Ham, the d Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
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and the e Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as f El-paran on the border of the wilderness.
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Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, g Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling h in Hazazon-tamar.
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Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
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with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of i bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled j to the hill country.
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So the enemy took k all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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They also took Lot, l the son of Abram's brother, m who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.
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Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, n who was living by the o oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, p born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as q Dan.
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And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot r with his possessions, and the women and the people.
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After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the s King's Valley).
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And t Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was u priest of v God Most High.)
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And he blessed him and said,
w "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
x Possessor of heaven and earth;
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and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"
And Abram gave him y a tenth of everything.
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And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, z "I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
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that a I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
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I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let b Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."
Genesis 15
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After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: c "Fear not, Abram, I am d your shield; your reward shall be very great."
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But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and e a member of my household will be my heir."
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And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; f your very own son shall be your heir."
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And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and g number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, h "So shall your offspring be."
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And i he believed the Lord, and j he counted it to him as righteousness.
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And he said to him, "I am the Lord who k brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans l to give you this land to possess."
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But he said, "O Lord God, m how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
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He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
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And he brought him all these, n cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But o he did not cut the birds in half.
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And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
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As the sun was going down, a p deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
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Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain q that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and r they will be afflicted for s four hundred years.
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But t I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward u they shall come out with great possessions.
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As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; v you shall be buried in a good old age.
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And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for w the iniquity of the Amorites x is not yet complete."
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When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, y "To your offspring I give this land, from z the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
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the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
Genesis 16
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a Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was b Hagar.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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So, after Abram c had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, d she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May e the Lord judge between you and me!"
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But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
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The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to f Shur.
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And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
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The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
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The angel of the Lord also said to her, g "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
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And the angel of the Lord said to her,
"Behold, you are pregnant
and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
h because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
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He shall be i a wild donkey of a man,
his hand against everyone
and everyone's hand against him,
and he shall dwell j over against all his kinsmen."
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So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, k "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
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Therefore the well was called l Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between m Kadesh and Bered.
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 17
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be n blameless,
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that I may make my covenant between me and you, and o may multiply you greatly."
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Then Abram p fell on his face. And God said to him,
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"Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be q the father of a multitude of nations.
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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but r your name shall be Abraham, s for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make t you into nations, and u kings shall come from you.
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And I will v establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, w to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
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And x I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and y I will be their God."
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And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
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This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a z sign of the covenant between me and you.
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He who is a eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or b bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
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both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
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Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
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And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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I will bless her, and moreover, I will c give you a son by her. I will bless her, and d she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
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Then Abraham e fell on his face f and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
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And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
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God said, "No, but g Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name h Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and i multiply him greatly. He j shall father twelve princes, and k I will make him into a great nation.
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But l I will establish my covenant with Isaac, m whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."
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When he had finished talking with him, n God went up from Abraham.
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Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
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And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Genesis 18
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And the Lord appeared to him by the o oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
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He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. p When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
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and said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
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Let a q little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,
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while I bring a morsel of bread, that r you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - s since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."
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And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes."
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And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
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Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
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They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is t in the tent."
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The Lord said, "I will surely return to you u about this time next year, and v Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Now w Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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x So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, y "After I am worn out, and z my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?"
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The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
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a Is anything too hard for the Lord? b At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."
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But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
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Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
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The Lord said, c "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
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seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be d blessed in him?
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For I have e chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
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Then the Lord said, "Because f the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
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g I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, h I will know."
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i So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham j still stood before the Lord.
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Then Abraham drew near and said, k "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
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Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, l so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! m Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
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And the Lord said, n "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
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Abraham answered and said, o "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
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Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
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Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
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He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
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Then he said, p "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
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And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19
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The q two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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and said, "My lords, r please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night s and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, t "No; we will spend the night in the town square."
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But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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u And they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? v Bring them out to us, that we w may know them."
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Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,
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and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
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x Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
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But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow y came to sojourn, and z he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
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But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
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And they struck with a blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.
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Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, b bring them out of the place.
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For we are about to destroy this place, c because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it."
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So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, d "Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
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As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city."
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But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, e the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
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And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. f Do not look back or stop anywhere in the g valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."
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And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords.
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Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there - is it not a little one? - and my life will be saved!"
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He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called h Zoar.
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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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Then i the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
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But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became j a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had k stood before the Lord.
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And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
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So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God l remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
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Now Lot went up out of Zoar and m lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."
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So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."
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So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
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The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. n He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. o He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Genesis 20
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From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between p Kadesh and Shur; and he q sojourned in r Gerar.
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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, s "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
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t But God came to Abimelech u in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
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Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, v "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
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Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
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Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning w against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
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Now then, return the man's wife, x for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you y and all who are yours."
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So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid.
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Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
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And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
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Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, z There is no fear of God at all in this place, and a they will kill me because of my wife.
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Besides, b she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
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And when c God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, d say of me, He is my brother.'"
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Then Abimelech e took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
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And Abimelech said, "Behold, f my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
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To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given g your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is h a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated."
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Then i Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
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For the Lord j had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 21
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The Lord k visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah l as he had promised.
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And Sarah m conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age n at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, o Isaac.
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And Abraham p circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, q as God had commanded him.
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r Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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And Sarah said, s "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."
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And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? t Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
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And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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But Sarah u saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, v laughing.
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So she said to Abraham, w "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
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And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
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But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for x through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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And I will make y a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of z Beersheba.
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.
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Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
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And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
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Then a God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness b and became an expert with the bow.
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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At that time c Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, d "God is with you in all that you do.
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Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but e as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
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And Abraham said, "I will swear."
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When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants f had seized,
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Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men g made a covenant.
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Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
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And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
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He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
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Therefore h that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and i called there on the name of the Lord, j the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 22
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After these things k God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to l the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
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Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and m laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
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And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
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Abraham said, n "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and o laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, p "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for q now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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So Abraham called the name of that place, r "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
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And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
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and said, s "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring t as the stars of heaven and u as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess v the gate of his enemies,
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and w in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, x because you have obeyed my voice."
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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to y Beersheba. And Abraham lived at y Beersheba.
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Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, z Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
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a Uz his firstborn, b Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
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( c Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23
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Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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And Sarah died at d Kiriath-arba (that is, e Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
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f "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; g give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
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The Hittites answered Abraham,
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"Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
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Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
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And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."
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Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who h went in at the gate of his city,
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"No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
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Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
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And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
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Ephron answered Abraham,
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"My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred i shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
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Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham j weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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So k the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
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to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
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After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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The field and the cave that is in it l were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
Genesis 24
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Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord m had blessed Abraham in all things.
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And Abraham said to his servant, n the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, o "Put your hand under my thigh,
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that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that p you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
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q but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
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The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
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Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.
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The Lord, the God of heaven, r who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, s 'To your offspring I will give this land,' t he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
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But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then u you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."
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So the servant v put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
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Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to w Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
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And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when x women go out to draw water.
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And he said, "O Lord, y God of my master Abraham, z please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
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Behold, a I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
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Let the young woman to whom I shall say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels' - let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. b By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master."
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Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of c Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
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The young woman d was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
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Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."
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She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.
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When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."
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So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.
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The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.
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When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
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and said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"
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She said to him, e "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
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She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night."
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f The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord
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and said, "Blessed be the Lord, g the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken h his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord i has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."
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Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
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Rebekah had a brother whose name was j Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.
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As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
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He said, "Come in, k O blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."
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So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave l straw and fodder to the camels, and there was m water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
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Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." He said, "Speak on."
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So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.
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The Lord n has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
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And Sarah my master's wife o bore a son to my master when she was old, and p to him he has given all that he has.
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q My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
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but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'
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I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'
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But he said to me, 'The Lord, r before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and s prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
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Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'
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"I came today to the spring and said, t 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you s are prospering the way that I go,
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behold, I am standing u by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"
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v and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.'
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"Before I had finished w speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
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She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.
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Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' x So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
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y Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, t the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take z the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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Now then, if you are going to a show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."
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Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot b speak to you bad or good.
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Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, c as the Lord has spoken."
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When Abraham's servant heard their words, y he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
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And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
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And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, d "Send me away to my master."
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Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."
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But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
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They said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her."
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And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."
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So they sent away Rebekah their sister and e her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
"Our sister, may you f become
thousands of ten thousands,
and g may your offspring possess
the gate of those who hate him!"
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Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.
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Now Isaac had returned from h Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
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And Isaac went out i to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.
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And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel
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and said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.
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And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
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Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was j comforted after his mother's k death.
Genesis 25
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Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
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l She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
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Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
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The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
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m Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
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But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he n sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward o to the east country.
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These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.
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Abraham p breathed his last and q died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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Isaac and Ishmael r his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
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the field s that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. t There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
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After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at u Beer-lahai-roi.
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These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, v whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
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w These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: x Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and x Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
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Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
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Hadad, y Tema, z Jetur, z Naphish, and Kedemah.
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These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, a twelve princes according to their tribes.
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(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He b breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)
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c They settled from Havilah to d Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
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These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: e Abraham fathered Isaac,
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and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, f the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of g Paddan-aram, h the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
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And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And i the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went j to inquire of the Lord.
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And the Lord said to her,
k "Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
l the one shall be stronger than the other,
m the older shall serve the younger."
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When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.
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The first came out red, n all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
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Afterward his brother came out with o his hand holding Esau's heel, so p his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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When the boys grew up, Esau was q a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, r dwelling in tents.
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Isaac loved Esau because s he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.
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And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom. )
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Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now."
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Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"
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Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and t sold his birthright to Jacob.
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Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis 26
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Now there was a famine in the land, besides u the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to v Abimelech king of the w Philistines.
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And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell x in the land of which I shall tell you.
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y Sojourn in this land, and z I will be with you and will bless you, for a to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish b the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
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c I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And d in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
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because e Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
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So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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When the men of the place asked him about his wife, f he said, "She is my sister," for g he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because h she was attractive in appearance.
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When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.
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So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
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Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and i you would have brought guilt upon us."
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So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
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And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord j blessed him,
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and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.
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He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines k envied him.
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(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells l that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
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So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
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And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And m he gave them the names that his father had given them.
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But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,
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the herdsmen of Gerar n quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.
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And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
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From there he went up to Beersheba.
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And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, o "I am the God of Abraham your father. p Fear not, for q I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."
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So he r built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
26
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and s Phicol the commander of his army,
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Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and t have sent me away from you?"
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They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
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that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. u You are now the blessed of the Lord."
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So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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In the morning they rose early and v exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
32
That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water."
33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is w Beersheba to this day.
34
When Esau was forty years old, he took x Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
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and y they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 27
1
When Isaac was old and z his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."
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He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
3
a Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
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and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul b may bless you before I die."
5
Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,
6
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,
7
'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.'
8
Now therefore, my son, c obey my voice as I command you.
9
Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
10
And you shall bring it to your father to eat, d so that he may bless you before he dies."
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But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, e my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
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Perhaps my father f will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring g a curse upon myself and not a blessing."
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His mother said to him, h "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."
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So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
15
Then Rebekah took the i best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
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And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."
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But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the Lord your God granted me success."
21
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I j may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."
22
So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
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And he did not recognize him, because k his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. l So he blessed him.
24
He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."
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Then he said, "Bring it near to me, m that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
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So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments l and blessed him and said,
"See, n the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
28
May God give you of o the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and p plenty of grain and wine.
29
Let peoples serve you,
and nations q bow down to you.
r Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
s Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"
30
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31
He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."
32
His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
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Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
34
As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, t he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"
35
But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."
36
Esau said, u "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. v He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
37
Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, w I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and x with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"
38
Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And t Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39
Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:
"Behold, y away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
and away from the dew of heaven on high.
40
By your sword you shall live,
and you z shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
a you shall break his yoke from your neck."
41
Now Esau b hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, c "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; d then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42
But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
44
and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away -
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until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"
46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, e "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. f If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
Genesis 28
1
Then Isaac called Jacob g and blessed him and directed him, f "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
2
h Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of i Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
3
j God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
4
May he give k the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of l the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!"
5
Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,"
7
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8
So when Esau saw m that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,
9
Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, n Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of o Nebaioth.
10
Jacob left p Beersheba and went toward q Haran.
11
And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
12
And he r dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, s the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
13
And behold, t the Lord stood above it and said, u "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. v The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
14
Your offspring shall be like w the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and x your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
15
Behold, y I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and z will bring you back to this land. For I will a not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is b in this place, and I did not know it."
17
And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up c for a pillar d and poured oil on the top of it.
19
He called the name of that place e Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20
Then Jacob f made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
21
g so that I come again to my father's house in peace, h then the Lord shall be my God,
22
and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, i shall be God's house. And j of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."
Genesis 29
1
Then Jacob went on his journey and came to k the land of the people of the east.
2
As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,
3
and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well.
4
Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, l "We are from Haran."
5
He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
6
He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"
7
He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them."
8
But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."
9
While he was still speaking with them, m Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
10
Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
12
And Jacob told Rachel that he was n her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, o and she ran and told her father.
13
As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, o he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,
14
and Laban said to him, p "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
15
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
16
Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
18
Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, q "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
19
Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me."
20
So Jacob q served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
21
Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."
22
So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and r made a feast.
23
But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.
24
(Laban gave s his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
25
And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
26
Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27
t Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."
28
Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
29
(Laban gave u his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)
30
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban v for another seven years.
31
When the Lord saw that Leah was w hated, x he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
32
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord y has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."
33
She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.
34
Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be z attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi.
35
And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she called his name a Judah. Then she ceased bearing.
Genesis 30
1
When Rachel saw that b she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
2
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, c who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
3
Then she said, "Here is my servant d Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth e on my behalf, that even I may have children through her."
4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5
And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6
Then Rachel said, "God has f judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.
7
Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8
Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she called his name g Naphtali.
9
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and h gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10
Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11
And Leah said, i "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name i Gad.
12
Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13
And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women j have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.
14
In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found k mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15
But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
16
When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
17
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18
Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.
19
And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.
20
Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name l Zebulun.
21
Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.
22
Then God m remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and n opened her womb.
23
She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away o my reproach."
24
And she called his name Joseph, saying, p "May the Lord add to me another son!"
25
As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
26
Give me my wives and my children q for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."
27
But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
28
r Name your wages, and I will give it."
29
Jacob said to him, s "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.
30
For you had little before I came, t and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I u provide for my own household also?"
31
He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:
32
let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and v they shall be my wages.
33
So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."
34
Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said."
35
But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.
36
And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock.
37
Then w Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.
38
He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the x watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,
39
the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
40
And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban's flock.
41
Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,
42
but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43
Thus the man y increased greatly and z had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 31
1
Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."
2
And Jacob saw a that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, b "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
4
So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was
5
and said to them, c "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father d has been with me.
6
e You know that I have served your father with all my strength,
7
yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages f ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
8
If he said, g 'The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.
9
Thus God has h taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
10
In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.
11
Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am!'
12
And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for i I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
13
I am the God of Bethel, j where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now k arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"
14
Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there l any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?
15
Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For m he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.
16
All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
17
So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.
18
He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in n Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's o household gods.
20
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.
21
He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the p Euphrates, and q set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
22
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
23
he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.
24
But God came to Laban the Aramean r in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, s either good or bad."
25
And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.
26
And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have t tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27
Why did you flee secretly t and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
28
And why did you not permit me u to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
29
It is v in my power to do you harm. But the w God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, x either good or bad.'
30
And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you y steal my gods?"
31
Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
32
z Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33
So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.
34
Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
35
And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot a rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.
36
Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
37
For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and b your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
38
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.
39
What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. c From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40
There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
41
These twenty years I have been in your house. d I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and e you have changed my wages ten times.
42
f If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the g Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. h God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and i rebuked you last night."
43
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?
44
Come now, j let us make a covenant, you and I. k And let it be a witness between you and me."
45
So Jacob l took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
46
And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
47
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48
Laban said, m "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,
49
n and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight.
50
If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, o God is witness between you and me."
51
Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
52
p This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.
53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the q Fear of his father Isaac,
54
and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called r his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
55
Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed s his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.
Genesis 32
1
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2
And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's t camp!" So he called the name of that place u Mahanaim.
3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of v Seir, the country of Edom,
4
instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.
5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that w I may find favor in your sight.'"
6
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and x he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him."
7
Then Jacob was y greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,
8
thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."
9
And Jacob said, z "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who a said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
10
b I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
11
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for c I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.
12
But d you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
13
So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took e a present for his brother Esau,
14
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15
thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16
These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove."
17
He instructed the first, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?'
18
then you shall say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.'"
19
He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,
20
and you shall say, 'Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
21
So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22
The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the f Jabbok.
23
He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
24
And Jacob was left alone. And g a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25
When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
26
Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, h "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27
And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
28
Then he said, i "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for j you have striven with God and k with men, and have prevailed."
29
Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, l "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For m I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."
31
The sun rose upon him as he passed n Penuel, limping because of his hip.
32
Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
Genesis 33
1
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, o Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.
2
And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
3
He himself went on before them, p bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
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q But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him r and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, s "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
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Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down.
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Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
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Esau said, "What do you mean by t all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, u "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
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But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
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Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. v For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
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Please accept my w blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he x urged him, and he took it.
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Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you."
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But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.
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Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord y in Seir."
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So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? z Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
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So Esau returned that day on his way to a Seir.
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But Jacob journeyed to b Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
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And Jacob came safely to the city of c Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.
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And from the sons of d Hamor, Shechem's father, e he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
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There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Genesis 34
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Now f Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.
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And when Shechem the son of g Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
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And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
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So Shechem h spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl for my wife."
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Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
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And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
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The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and i very angry, because he j had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, k for such a thing must not be done.
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But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.
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Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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You shall dwell with us, and l the land shall be open to you. Dwell and m trade in it, and n get property in it."
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Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, o "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
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Ask me for as great a p bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."
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The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
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They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for q that would be a disgrace to us.
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Only on this condition will we agree with you - that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.
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Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
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But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."
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Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem.
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And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now r he was the most honored of all his father's house.
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So Hamor and his son Shechem s came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
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"These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and t trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.
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Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people - when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.
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Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."
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And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who u went out of the gate of his city.
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On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, v Simeon and Levi, w Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.
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They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.
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All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.
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Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, x "You have brought trouble on me y by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, z the Canaanites and the Perizzites. a My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."
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But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"
Genesis 35
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God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to b Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you c when you fled from your brother Esau."
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So Jacob said to his d household and to all who were with him, "Put away e the foreign gods that are among you and f purify yourselves and change your garments.
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Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God g who answers me in the day of my distress and h has been with me wherever I have gone."
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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under i the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.
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And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
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And Jacob came to j Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because k there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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And l Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
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God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; m no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but n Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.
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And God said to him, o "I am God Almighty: be p fruitful and multiply. q A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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r The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."
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Then God s went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
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And Jacob t set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
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So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him u Bethel.
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Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
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And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for v you have another son."
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And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; w but his father called him Benjamin.
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So x Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to y Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
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and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is z the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.
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Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and a lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
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The sons of Leah: b Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali.
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The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at c Mamre, or d Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
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And Isaac breathed his last, and he died e and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And f his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 36
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These are the generations of Esau (that is, g Edom).
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Esau h took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, i Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
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and j Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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And Adah bore to Esau, k Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;
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and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
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Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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l For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. m The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
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So Esau settled in n the hill country of Seir. ( o Esau is Edom.)
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These are the generations of Esau the father of p the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
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These are the names of Esau's sons: q Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
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The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
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(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore r Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of s Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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These are t the chiefs of the sons of Esau. u The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
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Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
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These are the sons of v Reuel, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of w Oholibamah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
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These are the sons of Esau ( x that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
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y These are the sons of z Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
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The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
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These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
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These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
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These are the children of Anah: Dishon and a Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
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These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
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These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
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These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
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These are the chiefs of the Horites: the b chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, chief by chief in the land of Seir.
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c These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
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Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah.
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Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
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Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.
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Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
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Samlah died, and Shaul of d Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
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Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.
40
These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
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Oholibamah, Elah, e Pinon,
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Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of f Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.
Genesis 37
1
Jacob lived in g the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought h a bad report of them to their father.
3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was i the son of his old age. And he made him j a robe of many colors.
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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
5
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
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He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed:
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Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, k my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and l bowed down to my sheaf."
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His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
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Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
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But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and m your mother and your brothers indeed come n to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
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And o his brothers were jealous of him, p but his father kept the saying in mind.
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Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near q Shechem.
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And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
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So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of r Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15
And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
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"I am seeking my brothers," he said. "Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock."
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And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to s Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at s Dothan.
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They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them t they conspired against him to kill him.
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They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.
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Come now, u let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
21
But when v Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."
22
And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him" - w that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
23
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, x the robe of many colors that he wore.
24
And they took him and y threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
25
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a z caravan of a Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing b gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
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Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it c if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and d let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
28
Then e Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and f sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he g tore his clothes
30
and returned to his brothers and said, "The boy h is gone, and I, where shall I go?"
31
Then they took i Joseph's robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
32
And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not."
33
And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. j A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
34
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
35
All his sons and all his daughters k rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, l I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
36
Meanwhile m the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, n the captain of the guard.
Genesis 38
1
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and o turned aside to a certain p Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2
There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was q Shua. He took her and went in to her,
3
and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name r Er.
4
She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name r Onan.
5
Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name r Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him.
6
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, s was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.
8
Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to t your brother's wife and u perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
9
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.
10
And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
11
Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, v "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" - for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained w in her father's house.
12
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah x was comforted, he went up to y Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13
And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
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she took off her widow's garments z and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to a Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, b and she had not been given to him in marriage.
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When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
16
He turned to her at the roadside and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
17
He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it - "
18
He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, c "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
19
Then she arose and went away, and taking off d her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
20
When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her.
21
And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was at e Enaim at the roadside?" And they said, "No cult prostitute has been here."
22
So he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, 'No cult prostitute has been here.'"
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And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her."
24
About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law f has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and g let her be burned."
25
As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant." And she said, "Please identify whose these are, h the signet and the cord and the staff."
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Then Judah identified them and said, i "She is more righteous than I, since j I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
27
When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb.
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And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."
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But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called k Perez.
30
Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called k Zerah.
Genesis 39
1
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and l Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, m had bought him from the n Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
2
o The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
3
His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord p caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
4
So Joseph q found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house r and put him in charge of all that he had.
5
From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house s for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.
6
So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was t handsome in form and appearance.
7
And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
8
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and u he has put everything that he has in my charge.
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He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and v sin against God?"
10
And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he w would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
11
But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
12
x she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
13
And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
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she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
15
And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
16
Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
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and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.
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But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."
19
As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
20
And Joseph's master took him and y put him into the z prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
21
But a the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love b and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
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And the keeper of the prison c put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
23
The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because d the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.
Genesis 40
1
Some time after this, the e cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
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f and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
4
The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.
5
And one night they both dreamed - the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison - each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.
6
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.
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So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, g "Why are your faces downcast today?"
8
They said to him, h "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, i "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."
9
So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,
10
and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.
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Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand."
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Then Joseph said to him, j "This is its interpretation: k the three branches are three days.
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In three days Pharaoh will l lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
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Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
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For m I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and n here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,
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and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head."
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And Joseph answered and said, o "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.
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p In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head - from you! - and q hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you."
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On the third day, which was Pharaoh's r birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and s lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
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t He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and u he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.
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But he v hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Genesis 41
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After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
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and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.
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And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
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And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
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And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.
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And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and w blighted by the east wind.
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And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
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So in the morning x his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the y magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
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Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my offenses today.
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When Pharaoh was z angry with his servants a and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,
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b we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation.
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A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, c he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
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And d as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."
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e Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they f quickly brought him g out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. h I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
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Joseph answered Pharaoh, i "It is not in me; j God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, k in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.
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Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.
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Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.
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And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,
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but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.
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I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.
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Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,
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and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And l I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; m God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.
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The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also n seven years of famine.
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It is as I told Pharaoh; o God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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There will come p seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,
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but after them there will arise q seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. r The famine will consume the land,
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and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
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And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the s thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
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Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
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Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years.
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And t let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
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That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."
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This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
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And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find a man like this, u in whom is the Spirit of God?"
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
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v You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, w I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
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Then Pharaoh x took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and y clothed him in garments of fine linen z and put a gold chain about his neck.
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And he made him ride in his second chariot. a And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him b over all the land of Egypt.
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Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and c without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
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And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Joseph was thirty years old when he d entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
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During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,
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and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.
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And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, e like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
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Before the year of famine came, f two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
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The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has g made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
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The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end,
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and h the seven years of famine began to come, i as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
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So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and j sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe k over all the earth.
Genesis 42
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When l Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
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And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may m live and not die."
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So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
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But Jacob did not send Benjamin, n Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for o he feared that harm might happen to him.
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Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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Now Joseph was governor p over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and q bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
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Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and r spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
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And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
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And Joseph s remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. t And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
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They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
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We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies."
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He said to them, "No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see."
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And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one u is no more."
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But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies.
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By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
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Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."
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And he put them all together in custody for three days.
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On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, v for I fear God:
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if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry w grain for the famine of your households,
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and x bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.
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Then they said to one another, y "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."
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And Reuben answered them, z "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now a there comes a reckoning for his blood."
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They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
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Then he turned away from them and b wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
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c And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
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Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.
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And as d one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at e the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
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He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
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When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,
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"The man, the lord of the land, f spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
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But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies.
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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One g is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
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Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, h 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take i grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
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Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall j trade in the land.'"
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k As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
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And Jacob their father said to them, "You have l bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me."
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Then Reuben said to his father, "Kill m my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."
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But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for n his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. o If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, p you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
Genesis 43
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Now the famine was q severe in the land.
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And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."
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But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your r brother is with you.'
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If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
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But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
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Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?"
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They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
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And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may s live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
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I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. t If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
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If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice."
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Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little u balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
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Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money v that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
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Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.
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May w God Almighty x grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, y if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
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So the men took this present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
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When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the z steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
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The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house.
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And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys."
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So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the door of the house,
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and said, a "Oh, my lord, b we came down the first time to buy food.
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And c when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us,
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and we have brought other money down with us to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
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He replied, "Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.
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And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and d given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,
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they prepared e the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
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When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and f bowed down to him to the ground.
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And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man g of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
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They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they h bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
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And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, i his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, g of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
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Then Joseph hurried out, for j his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and k wept there.
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Then he washed his face and came out. And l controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
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They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is m an abomination to the Egyptians.
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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another in amazement.
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n Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was o five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
Genesis 44
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Then he commanded p the steward of his house, q "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
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and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.
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As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.
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They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his r steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
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Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and s by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
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When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.
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They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
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Behold, t the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?
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u Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be v my lord's servants."
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He said, "Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent."
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Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
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And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
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Then they w tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.
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When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They x fell before him to the ground.
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Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me y can indeed practice divination?"
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And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out z the guilt of your servants; behold, we are a my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."
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But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."
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Then Judah went up to him and said, b "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and c let not your anger burn against your servant, for d you are like Pharaoh himself.
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My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
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And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, e and a young brother, f the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'
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Then you said to your servants, g 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
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We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, h his father would die.'
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Then you said to your servants, i 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
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"When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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And when j our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'
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we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
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Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me k two sons.
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One left me, and I said, l Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
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If you m take this one also from me, n and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.'
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"Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,
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as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
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For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, o 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'
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Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
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For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."
Genesis 45
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Then Joseph could not p control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
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And Joseph said to his brothers, q "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
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So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, r whom you sold into Egypt.
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And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, s for God sent me before you to preserve life.
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For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are t yet five years in which there will be neither u plowing nor harvest.
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And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
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So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and v ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
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w You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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x There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'
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And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is y my mouth that speaks to you.
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You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and z bring my father down here."
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Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
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When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,
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and take your father and your households, and come to me, and a I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'
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And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take b wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"
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The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them b wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
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To each and all of them he gave c a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and d five changes of clothes.
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To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.
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Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, e "Do not quarrel on the way."
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So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.
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And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
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But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw f the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Genesis 46
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So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to g Beersheba, and offered sacrifices h to the God of his father Isaac.
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And God spoke to Israel i in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."
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Then he said, "I am God, j the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will k make you into a great nation.
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I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also l bring you up again, and m Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."
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Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons n that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and o came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,
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his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.
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p Now q these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. r Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,
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and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
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The sons of s Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of t Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but u Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of v Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
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w The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.
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The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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These are the sons of Leah, x whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
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The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
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y The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
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z These are the sons of Zilpah, a whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob - sixteen persons.
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The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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And b to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of c On, bore to him.
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And d the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
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These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob - fourteen persons in all.
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The sons of Dan: Hushim.
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e The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
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f These are the sons of Bilhah, g whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob - seven persons in all.
26
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.
27
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. h All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
28
He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came i into the land of Goshen.
29
Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and j fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
30
Israel said to Joseph, k "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."
31
Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, l "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32
m And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'
33
When Pharaoh calls you and says, m 'What is your occupation?'
34
you shall say, m 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock n from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell o in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is p an abomination to the Egyptians."
Genesis 47
1
So Joseph q went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in r the land of Goshen."
2
And from among his brothers he took five men and s presented them to Pharaoh.
3
Pharaoh said to his brothers, t "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, u "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
4
They said to Pharaoh, v "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell w in the land of Goshen."
5
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers x in the best of the land. y Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any z able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
7
Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, a and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my b sojourning are 130 years. c Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and d they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their b sojourning."
10
And Jacob e blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
11
Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of f Rameses, g as Pharaoh had commanded.
12
And Joseph h provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
13
Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
14
i And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
15
And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. j Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
16
And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."
17
So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
18
And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
19
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? k Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
20
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.
21
As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
22
l Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
23
Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
24
And at the harvests you shall give a m fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."
25
And they said, "You have saved our lives; n may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."
26
So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; o the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.
27
Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, p in the land of Goshen. q And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. r So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.
29
And s when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now t I have found favor in your sight, u put your hand under my thigh and v promise to deal kindly and truly with me. w Do not bury me in Egypt,
30
but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and x bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
31
And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then y Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
Genesis 48
1
After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2
And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
3
And Jacob said to Joseph, z "God Almighty appeared to me at a Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
4
and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you b for an everlasting possession.'
5
And now your c two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, d are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
6
And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow e Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."
8
When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"
9
Joseph said to his father, f "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that g I may bless them."
10
Now h the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, i and he kissed them and embraced them.
11
And Israel said to Joseph, j "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
12
Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.
14
k And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, l crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).
15
And he blessed Joseph and said,
"The God m before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
16
n the angel who has o redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
and in them let p my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them q grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
17
When Joseph saw that his father r laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
18
And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head."
19
But his father refused and said, r "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, s his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
20
So he blessed them that day, saying,
"By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
t 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'"
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but u God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
22
Moreover, I have given to v you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
Genesis 49
1
w Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you x in days to come.
2
"Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob,
listen to Israel your father.
3
"Reuben, you are y my firstborn,
my might, and the z firstfruits of my strength,
preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
4
Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you a went up to your father's bed;
then you defiled it - he went up to my couch!
5
b "Simeon and Levi are brothers;
weapons c of violence are their swords.
6
Let my soul come not into their council;
d O my glory, e be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
and in their willfulness they f hamstrung oxen.
7
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will g divide them in Jacob
and scatter them in Israel.
8
"Judah, h your brothers shall praise you;
i your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
j your father's sons shall bow down before you.
9
Judah is k a lion's cub;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
l He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
10
The m scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff n from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;
and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
11
Binding his foal to the vine
and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
12
His o eyes are darker than wine,
and his teeth whiter than milk.
13
p "Zebulun shall dwell at the q shore of the sea;
he shall become a haven for ships,
and his border shall be at Sidon.
14
r "Issachar is a strong donkey,
crouching between the sheepfolds.
15
He saw that a resting place was good,
and that the land was pleasant,
so he bowed his shoulder to bear,
and s became a servant at forced labor.
16
t "Dan shall u judge his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.
17
Dan v shall be a serpent in the way,
a viper by the path,
that bites the horse's heels
so that his rider falls backward.
18
I w wait for your salvation, O Lord.
19
x "Raiders shall raid y Gad,
but he shall raid at their heels.
20
z "Asher's food shall be rich,
and he shall yield royal delicacies.
21
a "Naphtali is a doe let loose
that bears beautiful fawns.
22
"Joseph is b a fruitful bough,
a fruitful bough by a spring;
his branches run over the wall.
23
The archers c bitterly attacked him,
shot at him, and harassed him severely,
24
yet d his bow remained unmoved;
his arms were made agile
by the hands of the e Mighty One of Jacob
(from there is f the Shepherd, g the Stone of Israel),
25
h by the God of your father who will help you,
by i the Almighty j who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that crouches beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26
The blessings of your father
are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up to the bounties k of the everlasting hills.
May they be l on the head of Joseph,
and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
27
m "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
in the morning devouring the prey
and at evening n dividing the spoil."
28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
29
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be o gathered to my people; p bury me with my fathers q in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30
in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, r which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
31
s There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There t they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -
32
the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites."
33
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and u was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50
1
Then Joseph v fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to w embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians x wept for him seventy days.
4
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, y "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5
My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb z that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
6
And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
7
So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8
as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left a in the land of Goshen.
9
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, b they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he c made a mourning for his father seven days.
11
When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.
12
Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
13
for d his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham e bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
14
After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
15
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
16
So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,
17
'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of f the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18
His brothers also came and g fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
19
But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for h am I in the place of God?
20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but i God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
21
So do not fear; j I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22
So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children k of the third generation. The l children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were m counted as Joseph's own.
24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but n God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land o that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
25
Then p Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
26
So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They q embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Acts 7:3
And said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Galatians 3:14
So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
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Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
Numbers 24:9
He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.
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Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great...
Genesis 22:18
And in your offspring shall all the nations of ...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Genesis 28:14
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the ea...
Jeremiah 4:2
And if you swear, 'As the Lord lives,' in truth...
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the cov...
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to hi...
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would ju...
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Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?
Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
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Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to yo...
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring af...
Exodus 33:1
The Lord said to Moses, "Depart; go up from her...
Psalms 105:9 - 12
The covenant that he made with Abraham, his swo...
Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt...
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to hi...
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was severe in the land.
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Genesis 20:1 - 18
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 26:6 - 11
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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1 Chronicles 16:21
He allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account.
Psalms 105:14
He allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account.
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Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
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Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Psalms 112:1 - 3
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
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Genesis 12:7 - 8
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 36:6 - 7
Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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1 Corinthians 6:1 - 8
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
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Acts 7:26
And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?
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Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.
Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape...
Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities, and all the vall...
Genesis 19:28
And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah an...
Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley o...
1 Kings 7:46
In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, ...
Matthew 3:5
Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region...
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Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
Joel 2:3
Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:8
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
Genesis 19:22
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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Genesis 19:24 - 25
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
2 Peter 2:7 - 8
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
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Genesis 28:14
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Acts 7:5
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram...
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from m...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Deuteronomy 34:4
And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of ...
2 Chronicles 20:7
Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants...
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely mult...
Genesis 28:14
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the ea...
Genesis 32:12
But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and m...
Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the f...
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant is in the midst of your people...
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look towa...
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Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2
And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
Acts 2:9
Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia.
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Genesis 14:8
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 19:22
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Numbers 34:12
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
Joshua 3:16
The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
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Genesis 15:20
The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 2:11
Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
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Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
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Deuteronomy 2:20
(It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there - but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim -
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Deuteronomy 2:10 - 11
( The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
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Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2:22
As he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
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Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Numbers 12:16
After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
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Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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2 Chronicles 20:2
Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar" (that is, Engedi).
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Genesis 11:3
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
Genesis 19:30
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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Genesis 14:16
Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.
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Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.
Genesis 17:12 - 13
He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
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Judges 18:29
And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
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Genesis 14:11 - 12
So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind...
Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a pr...
Hebrews 5:10
Being designated by God a high priest after the...
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of ...
Hebrews 7:11
Now if perfection had been attainable through t...
Hebrews 7:17
For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest f...
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Psalms 57:2
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
Acts 16:17
She followed Paul and us, crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.
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Hebrews 7:6 - 7
But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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Hebrews 7:4
See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
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Exodus 6:8
I will bring you into the land that I swore to ...
Numbers 14:30
Not one shall come into the land where I swore ...
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I...
Ezekiel 20:5 - 6
And say to them, Thus says the Lord God : On th...
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Ezekiel 20:23
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land that ...
Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was a...
Revelation 10:5 - 6
And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea an...
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Esther 9:15 - 16
The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
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Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Daniel 10:12
Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
Luke 1:30
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
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Psalms 3:3
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalms 18:2
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalms 84:11
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalms 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
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Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
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Psalms 147:4
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely mult...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your serva...
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behol...
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons...
1 Chronicles 27:23
David did not count those below twenty years of...
Hebrews 11:12
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead...
Romans 4:18
In hope he believed against hope, that he shoul...
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 4:22
That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness.
Galatians 3:6
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness" - and he was called a friend of God.
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Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
Psalms 106:31
And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
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Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Nehemiah 9:7 - 8
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Acts 7:2 - 4
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant.
Psalms 105:44
And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil.
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Judges 6:17
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?
Psalms 86:17
Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
Isaiah 7:11 - 13
"Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
Luke 1:18
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
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Jeremiah 34:18 - 19
And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts -
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Leviticus 1:17
He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
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Acts 7:6 - 7
And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
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Exodus 1:11 - 12
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Acts 7:6
And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
Exodus 12:40 - 41
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Galatians 3:17
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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Exodus 6:6
Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
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Exodus 12:36
And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Psalms 105:37
Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
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Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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1 Kings 21:26
He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
Amos 2:9
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
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Daniel 8:23
And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to yo...
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from m...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Numbers 34:2
Command the people of Israel, and say to them, ...
Deuteronomy 34:4
And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of ...
Nehemiah 9:8
You found his heart faithful before you, and ma...
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Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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Genesis 15:2 - 3
But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
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Genesis 21:9
But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
Galatians 4:24
Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
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Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan.
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1 Samuel 1:6 - 7
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
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Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
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Genesis 25:18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
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Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 25:12 - 18
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
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Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
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Job 39:5 - 8
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.
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Genesis 25:18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
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Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.
Exodus 19:21
And the Lord said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish.
Exodus 33:20
But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God.
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Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
Genesis 25:11
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
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Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Deuteronomy 18:13
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Psalms 119:1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
Matthew 5:48
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Romans 4:11 - 12
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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Nehemiah 9:7
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
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Galatians 3:17
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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Hebrews 11:16
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.
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Exodus 6:7
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
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Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well.
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Leviticus 12:3
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Luke 1:59
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
Luke 2:21
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee.
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Exodus 12:48 - 49
If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him.
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Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Galatians 4:23
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
Galatians 4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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Genesis 21:3
Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
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Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.
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Genesis 25:12 - 16
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
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Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.
Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 26:2 - 5
And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
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Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Genesis 35:13
Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Genesis 19:2
And said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square.
Genesis 24:32
So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 43:24
And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder.
Luke 7:44
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
John 13:14
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
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Judges 19:5
And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.
Psalms 104:15
And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
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Genesis 19:8
Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
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Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
2 Kings 4:16
And he said, "At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Romans 9:9
For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Hebrews 11:11 - 12
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Luke 1:18
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
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1 Peter 3:6
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
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Job 42:2
I know that you can do all things, and that no ...
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heave...
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is...
Zechariah 8:6
Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous...
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man th...
Luke 1:37
For nothing will be impossible with God.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 22:18
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
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Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Genesis 19:13
For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Ezekiel 16:49 - 50
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
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Genesis 18:16
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said he would destroy them - had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
2 Samuel 24:17
Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house.
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Job 8:20
Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:10
Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Romans 3:5 - 6
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the Lord : "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
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Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
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Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Judges 4:18
And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Luke 24:28
So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther.
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Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:27
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Jude 1:7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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Judges 19:24
Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Exodus 2:14
He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known.
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2 Kings 6:18
And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Acts 13:11
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
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2 Peter 2:7
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
Revelation 18:4 - 5
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.
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Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
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Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.
Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord 's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
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Psalms 34:22
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
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Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Matthew 24:16 - 18
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and sa...
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be like the cities that the Lord o...
Jeremiah 50:40
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and th...
Lamentations 4:6
For the chastisement of the daughter of my peop...
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew ...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hos...
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fi...
2 Peter 2:6
If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ...
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Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
Genesis 19:19
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.
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Deuteronomy 2:19
And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.
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Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
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Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
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Genesis 26:6
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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Genesis 12:13 - 20
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
Genesis 26:7 - 11
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
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Psalms 105:14
He allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account.
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Job 33:15 - 16
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
Matthew 1:20
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 2:12
And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
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Genesis 18:23
Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.
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Genesis 39:9
He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?
Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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1 Samuel 7:5
Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
Job 42:8
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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Numbers 16:32 - 33
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
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Proverbs 16:6
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
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Genesis 12:12
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 12:13
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
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Genesis 12:16
And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
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Genesis 20:5
Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.
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Genesis 24:65
And said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.
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James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
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Genesis 12:17
But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
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1 Samuel 2:21
Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.
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Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12
He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.
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Genesis 18:11 - 12
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
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Galatians 4:30
But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
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Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Hebrews 11:18
Of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.
2 Kings 6:17 - 18
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:20
As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the Lord opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:31
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
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Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
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Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Genesis 26:26
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
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Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you.
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Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
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Genesis 26:15
(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
Genesis 26:18
And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
Genesis 26:20 - 22
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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Genesis 26:31
In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
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Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 1:12 - 13
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 1:6 - 7
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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John 19:17
And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
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John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36
And he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Revelation 5:12
Saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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Micah 6:7 - 8
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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Psalms 105:9
The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac.
Luke 1:73
The oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself.
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Jeremiah 33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!
Psalms 127:5
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
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Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
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Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalms 105:12
When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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Acts 7:5
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying.
Genesis 34:24
And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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1 Chronicles 21:25
So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
Jeremiah 32:9
And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
Zechariah 11:12
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:29 - 32
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Ruth 4:7 - 10
Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
Jeremiah 32:10 - 14
I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.
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Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
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Genesis 24:9
So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.
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Genesis 26:34 - 35
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?
Deuteronomy 7:3
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
Exodus 23:23
When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out.
Exodus 33:2
I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
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Joshua 2:17 - 20
The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.
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Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh.
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Deuteronomy 23:4
Because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
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1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?
John 4:7
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink.
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Genesis 24:27
And said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.
Genesis 24:42
I came today to the spring and said, 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go.
Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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Genesis 27:20
But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the Lord your God granted me success.
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Genesis 24:43
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink.
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Genesis 15:8
But he said, "O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
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Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
Genesis 24:52
When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Genesis 24:12
And he said, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24:42
I came today to the spring and said, 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go.
Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
Psalms 98:3
He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Genesis 29:5
He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him.
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Genesis 26:29
That you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.
Judges 17:2
And he said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the Lord.
Ruth 3:10
And he said, "May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
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Genesis 43:24
And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder.
Judges 19:21
So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
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Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Genesis 25:5
Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
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Genesis 24:3 - 8
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 24:21
The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.
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Genesis 24:12
And he said, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24:27
And said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.
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Genesis 24:40
But he said to me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
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Genesis 24:13
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
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Genesis 24:14
Let the young woman to whom I shall say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels' - let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.
Genesis 24:18
She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.
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1 Samuel 1:13
Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.
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Ezekiel 16:11 - 12
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
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Genesis 24:26
The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord
Genesis 24:52
When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
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Genesis 24:42
I came today to the spring and said, 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go.
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Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.
Joshua 2:14
And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.
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Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.
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Genesis 24:13 - 15
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:42 - 46
I came today to the spring and said, 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go.
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Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
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Genesis 24:56
But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.
Genesis 24:59
So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
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Genesis 35:8
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 25:11
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
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Psalms 77:12
I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds.
Psalms 143:5
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.
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Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 38:12
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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1 Chronicles 1:32 - 33
The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
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Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.
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Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Genesis 25:17
(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)
Genesis 35:29
And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 49:33
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
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Genesis 35:29
And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Genesis 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Genesis 49:30 - 31
In the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
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Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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1 Chronicles 1:29 - 31
These are their genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam.
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Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will beautify my beautiful house.
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Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will beautify my beautiful house.
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Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
Isaiah 21:14
To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.
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1 Chronicles 5:19
They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
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1 Chronicles 5:19
They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
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Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
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Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
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Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
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Genesis 24:29
Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.
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2 Samuel 21:14
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.
2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
1 Chronicles 5:20
And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him.
2 Chronicles 33:13
He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
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1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!
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2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
Obadiah 1:18 - 21
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
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Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
Genesis 27:40
By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.
Romans 9:12
She was told, "The older will serve the younger.
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Genesis 27:11
But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Genesis 27:16
And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Genesis 27:23
And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
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Hosea 12:3
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
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Genesis 27:36
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
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Genesis 27:3
Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
Genesis 27:5
Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it.
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Genesis 27:4
And prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.
Genesis 27:7
'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.'
Genesis 27:9
Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
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Hebrews 12:16
That no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
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Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
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Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
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Genesis 21:34
And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
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Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
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Micah 7:20
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Genesis 22:16 - 18
And said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son.
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Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 22:18
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
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Genesis 12:13
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:13
And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'
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Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
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Genesis 24:16
The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
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Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.
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Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Genesis 21:30
He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 21:25
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 24:12
And he said, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.
Psalms 27:1 - 3
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
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Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
Genesis 21:22 - 23
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
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Genesis 26:16
And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.
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Genesis 24:31
He said, "Come in, O blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
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Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36:2 - 3
Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
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Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?
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Genesis 48:10
Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
1 Samuel 3:2
At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.
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Genesis 25:27 - 28
When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
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Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 48:9
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.
Genesis 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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Genesis 27:13
His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.
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Genesis 27:4
And prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.
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Genesis 25:25
The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
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Genesis 27:21 - 22
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.
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Deuteronomy 27:18
"'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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1 Samuel 25:24
She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!
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Genesis 27:27
So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
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Genesis 27:12
Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.
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Genesis 27:16
And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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Hebrews 11:20
By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
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Genesis 27:10
And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.
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Genesis 27:23
And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
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Hosea 14:6
His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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Deuteronomy 33:13
And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath.
Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
2 Samuel 1:21
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
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Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 33:28
So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
Joel 2:19
The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
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Genesis 49:8
Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
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2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Numbers 24:9
He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.
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Hebrews 12:17
For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
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Genesis 25:26
Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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Genesis 25:33
Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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Genesis 27:28
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
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Genesis 27:34
As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!
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Genesis 27:28
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
Genesis 36:6 - 7
Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
Obadiah 1:18 - 21
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
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2 Kings 8:20 - 22
In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.
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Genesis 37:4
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
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Genesis 50:3 - 4
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Obadiah 1:10
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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Genesis 26:34 - 35
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father.
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Genesis 24:3
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
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Genesis 28:6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 12:2 - 3
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 36:7
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
Genesis 37:1
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 24:3
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 26:35
And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
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Genesis 36:3
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam.
Genesis 36:3
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Job 33:15 - 16
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
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John 1:51
And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
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Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Genesis 13:14 - 16
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
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1 Kings 8:57
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
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Exodus 3:5
Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
Joshua 5:15
And the commander of the Lord 's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'
Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Leviticus 8:10 - 11
Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Numbers 7:1
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Judges 1:26
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
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Judges 11:31
Then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord 's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
2 Samuel 15:7 - 9
And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
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Deuteronomy 26:17
You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
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Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Leviticus 27:30 - 33
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord 's; it is holy to the Lord.
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Numbers 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!
Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
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Exodus 2:16 - 17
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Genesis 14:16
Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
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Genesis 24:28 - 29
Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
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Genesis 29:12
And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.
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Genesis 2:23
Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my ...
Genesis 37:27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and l...
Judges 9:2
"Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem,...
2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at ...
2 Samuel 19:12 - 13
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my fle...
1 Chronicles 11:1
Then all Israel gathered together to David at H...
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Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.
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Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
John 2:1 - 2
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
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Genesis 30:9 - 12
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.
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Genesis 30:3 - 7
Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved.
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Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
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Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Deuteronomy 26:7
Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
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Numbers 18:2
And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
Numbers 18:4
They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.
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Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
Genesis 49:8
Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
1 Samuel 1:5
But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.
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Genesis 29:29
(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)
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Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
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Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Matthew 4:13
And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.
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Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 29:24
(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
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Genesis 49:19
Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.
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Genesis 49:19
Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.
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Luke 1:48
For he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed.
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Song of Solomon 7:13
The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
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Matthew 4:13
And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.
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Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
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Luke 1:25
"Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."
1 Samuel 1:6
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
Isaiah 4:1
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.
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Genesis 35:17
And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for you have another son.
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:30
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
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Genesis 29:15
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?
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Genesis 31:6
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Genesis 31:38 - 40
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.
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Genesis 30:43
Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Genesis 31:8
If he said, 'The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.
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Genesis 31:8 - 12
If he said, 'The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.
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Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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Genesis 30:30
For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?
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Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 26:13 - 14
And the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.
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Genesis 4:5
But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good.
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Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
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Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Genesis 31:38 - 40
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 30:29
Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.
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Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Numbers 14:22
None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice.
Nehemiah 4:12
At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, "You must return to us.
Job 19:3
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
Zechariah 8:23
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'
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Genesis 30:32
Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.
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Genesis 31:1
Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth.
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Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Genesis 28:18 - 22
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
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Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good.
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2 Samuel 20:1
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!
1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents.
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Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.
Genesis 29:15 - 20
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?
Genesis 29:27
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.
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Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Genesis 28:6 - 7
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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Genesis 31:30
And now you have gone away because you longed g...
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put...
Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ...
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and ...
1 Samuel 19:13
Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and...
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting o...
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall dwell many day...
Zechariah 10:2
For the household gods utter nonsense, and the ...
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Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Psalms 72:8
May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
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2 Kings 12:17
At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.
Luke 9:51
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
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Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.
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Genesis 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the Lord ; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Numbers 24:13
If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak'?
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.
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Genesis 31:20
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.
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Genesis 31:26
And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?
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Genesis 31:55
Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.
Ruth 1:9
The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!" Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
Ruth 1:14
Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
1 Kings 19:20
And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?
Acts 20:37
And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him.
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Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Judges 18:24
And he said, "You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, 'What is the matter with you?'
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Genesis 44:9
Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants.
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Leviticus 19:32
You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
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Genesis 31:54
And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
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Exodus 22:12
But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
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Genesis 29:27 - 28
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.
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Genesis 31:7
Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
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Psalms 124:1 - 2
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side - let Israel now say -
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Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
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Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
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Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.
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Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you.
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Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.
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Genesis 28:18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
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Genesis 31:44
Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me.
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Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.
Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
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Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.
1 Samuel 12:5
And he said to them, "The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness.
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to us.
Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Job 16:19
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.
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Genesis 31:43 - 44
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?
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Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
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Genesis 31:37
For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
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Genesis 31:28
And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
Genesis 31:43
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?
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Joshua 5:14
And he said, "No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?
Luke 2:13
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying.
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Joshua 21:38
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands.
2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 17:24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 17:27
When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
1 Kings 2:8
And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
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Genesis 36:8 - 9
So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. ( Esau is Edom.)
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
Joshua 24:4
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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Genesis 33:8
Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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Genesis 33:1
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.
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Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.
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Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
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Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
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2 Samuel 7:18
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
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Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
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Genesis 28:13 - 15
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.
Proverbs 18:16
A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
Proverbs 19:6
Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath.
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Deuteronomy 2:37
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.
Deuteronomy 3:16
And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites.
Joshua 12:2
Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead.
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Hosea 12:3 - 4
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
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Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Matthew 15:21 - 28
And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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Genesis 35:10
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.
2 Kings 17:34
To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
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Hosea 12:3 - 4
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
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Genesis 33:4
But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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Judges 13:18
And the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?
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Genesis 16:13
So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to...
Exodus 24:10 - 11
And they saw the God of Israel. There was under...
Deuteronomy 5:24
And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has sho...
Judges 6:22
Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of ...
Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely d...
Exodus 33:20
But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man...
Isaiah 6:5
And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am...
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Judges 8:8
And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
Judges 8:17
And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.
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Genesis 32:6
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.
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Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
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Genesis 32:28
Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
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Genesis 45:14
Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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Genesis 48:9
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Genesis 32:16
These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 32:5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'
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Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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2 Kings 5:15
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.
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2 Samuel 13:25
But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.
2 Samuel 13:27
But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
2 Kings 5:23
And Naaman said, "Be pleased to accept two talents." And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.
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Genesis 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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Genesis 33:8
Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 34:11
Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
Genesis 47:25
And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.
Ruth 2:13
Then she said, "I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.
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Genesis 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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Joshua 13:27
And in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
Judges 8:5
So he said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
Psalms 60:6
God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
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Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family.
Psalms 60:6
God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
John 4:5
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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Genesis 30:21
Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.
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Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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Judges 14:2
Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.
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Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
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Joshua 7:15
And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'
Judges 20:6
So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
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Genesis 34:31
But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?
Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.
2 Samuel 13:12
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.
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Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.
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Genesis 34:21
These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'
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Genesis 47:27
Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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Exodus 22:16 - 17
If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Deuteronomy 22:29
Then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
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Joshua 5:9
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
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1 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain.
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Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.
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Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city.
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Genesis 49:5 - 7
Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.
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Genesis 29:33 - 34
She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.
Genesis 30:21
Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.
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Joshua 7:25
And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
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Exodus 5:21
And they said to them, "The Lord look on you an...
1 Samuel 13:4
And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defe...
1 Samuel 27:12
And Achish trusted David, thinking, "He has mad...
2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a s...
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your fath...
1 Chronicles 19:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a s...
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Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
Genesis 15:20 - 21
The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim.
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1 Chronicles 16:19
When you were few in number, and of little account, and sojourners in it.
Psalms 105:12
When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
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Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.
Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region 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.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Joshua 24:23
He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Exodus 19:10
The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments
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Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps.
Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
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Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
Judges 9:6
And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
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Genesis 24:59
So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:15
And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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Genesis 32:28
Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 28:3
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
Genesis 48:4
And said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.
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Genesis 17:5 - 6
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 17:22
When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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Genesis 28:18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!
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Luke 1:59 - 60
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
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Genesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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Ruth 1:2
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
Ruth 4:11
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Matthew 2:6
"'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
Matthew 2:16 - 18
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
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1 Samuel 10:2
When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it - he went up to my couch!
1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
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Genesis 35:23 - 26
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 46:8 - 27
Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Exodus 1:2 - 4
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:13
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -
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Genesis 25:30
And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)
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Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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Genesis 36:14
These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:18
These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:25
These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
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Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 36:10
These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
1 Chronicles 1:35
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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Genesis 13:6
So that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 23:4
"I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Genesis 28:4
May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!
Genesis 37:1
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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Genesis 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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Genesis 36:1
These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Genesis 36:19
These are the sons of Esau ( that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
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Genesis 36:43
Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.
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Genesis 36:4
And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel.
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Numbers 24:20
Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction.
1 Samuel 15:2 - 3
Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
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Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
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Exodus 15:15
Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
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Genesis 36:11 - 12
The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
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Genesis 36:13
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
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Genesis 36:14
These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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Genesis 36:1
These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Genesis 36:8
So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. ( Esau is Edom.)
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Genesis 36:20 - 28
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah.
1 Chronicles 1:38 - 42
The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
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Genesis 14:6
And the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2:22
As he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
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Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
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Genesis 36:20
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah.
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Genesis 36:31 - 43
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
1 Chronicles 1:43 - 54
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, the name of his city being Dinhabah.
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Genesis 26:22
And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
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Numbers 33:42
And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
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Genesis 36:9
These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
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Genesis 36:7
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
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1 Samuel 2:23 - 24
And he said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.
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Genesis 44:20
And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.
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Genesis 37:23
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
Genesis 37:32
And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not.
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Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 42:9
And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.
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Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
Genesis 44:14
When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
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Genesis 35:18
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
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Genesis 37:7
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:9
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.
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Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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Luke 2:19
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Luke 2:51
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
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Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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2 Kings 6:13
And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan.
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2 Kings 6:13
And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan.
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Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death.
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Genesis 37:26
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
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Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.
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Genesis 37:29 - 30
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
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Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Lamentations 3:53
They flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me.
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Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
Isaiah 21:13
The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
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Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
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Genesis 37:20
Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.
Judges 8:24
And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
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Genesis 45:4
So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Psalms 105:17
He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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Genesis 44:13
Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.
Numbers 14:6
And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
2 Samuel 3:31
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
Job 1:20
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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Genesis 42:13
And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve b...
Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One...
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have ...
Genesis 44:31
As soon as he sees that the boy is not with us,...
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says the Lord : "A voice is heard in Ramah...
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bea...
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Genesis 37:23
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
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Genesis 37:20
Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis 44:28
One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
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2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
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Genesis 42:38
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.
Genesis 44:31
As soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
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Genesis 40:3 - 4
And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
Genesis 41:10
When Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard.
Genesis 41:12
A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
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Genesis 38:16
He turned to her at the roadside and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?
Genesis 19:3
But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
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1 Samuel 22:1
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
2 Samuel 23:13
And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Micah 1:15
I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
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1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death.
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Genesis 46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:19 - 20
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 38:3
And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
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Genesis 38:3
And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
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1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death.
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Matthew 22:24
Saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.
Mark 12:19
Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Luke 20:28
And they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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Ruth 1:12 - 13
Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons.
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Leviticus 22:13
But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.
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Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
2 Samuel 13:39
And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.
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Judges 14:1
Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Genesis 38:19
Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 24:65
And said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.
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Genesis 38:21
And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?" And they said, "No cult prostitute has been here.
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Genesis 38:26
Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
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Genesis 38:25
As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant." And she said, "Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.
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Genesis 38:14
She took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
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Genesis 38:14
She took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
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Judges 19:2
And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
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Leviticus 21:9
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
John 8:5
Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?
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Genesis 38:18
He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
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1 Samuel 24:17
He said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
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Genesis 38:14
She took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
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Genesis 46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:20
And the sons of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.
1 Chronicles 2:4
His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
Matthew 1:3
And Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.
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Genesis 38:29
But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.
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Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
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Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
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Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him ste...
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him...
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander...
Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and...
Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has be...
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you whereve...
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have ...
1 Samuel 18:14
And David had success in all his undertakings, ...
1 Samuel 18:28
But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was wi...
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2 Chronicles 26:5
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
Psalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
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Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 19:19
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
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Genesis 39:8
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
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Genesis 30:27
But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
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Genesis 29:17
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
1 Samuel 16:12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
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Genesis 39:4
So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
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2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
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Proverbs 7:13
She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him.
Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
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Psalms 105:18
His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron.
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Genesis 40:3
And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
Genesis 40:5
And one night they both dreamed - the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison - each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.
Genesis 40:15
For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.
Genesis 41:14
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
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Genesis 39:2
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Acts 7:9 - 10
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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Exodus 3:21
And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty.
Exodus 11:3
And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.
Exodus 12:36
And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
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Genesis 40:4
The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.
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Genesis 39:2 - 3
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
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Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.
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Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
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Nehemiah 2:2
And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid.
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Genesis 41:15
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.
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Genesis 41:16
Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.
Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
Daniel 2:47
The king answered and said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.
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Genesis 40:18
And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.
Genesis 41:12
A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Daniel 2:36
This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.
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Genesis 41:26 - 27
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.
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2 Kings 25:27
And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
Jeremiah 52:31
And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
Genesis 40:19 - 20
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head - from you! - and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.
Genesis 40:22
But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Psalms 3:3
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
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Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
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Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
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Genesis 40:13
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
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Genesis 40:22
But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Matthew 14:6
But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod.
Mark 6:21
But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
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Genesis 40:13
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
Genesis 40:19
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head - from you! - and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.
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Genesis 40:13
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
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Nehemiah 2:1
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
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Genesis 40:19
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head - from you! - and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.
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Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it - wither away on the bed where it sprouted?
Ezekiel 19:12
But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.
Hosea 13:15
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
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Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Daniel 2:1
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.
Daniel 2:3
And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
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Genesis 41:24
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good e...
Exodus 7:11
Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorc...
Exodus 7:22
But the magicians of Egypt did the same by thei...
Daniel 1:20
And in every matter of wisdom and understanding...
Daniel 2:2
Then the king commanded that the magicians, the...
Daniel 4:7
Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldea...
Matthew 2:1
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea ...
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Genesis 40:2 - 3
And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
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Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
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Genesis 40:5
And one night they both dreamed - the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison - each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.
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Genesis 40:12 - 19
Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
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Genesis 40:21 - 22
He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.
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Psalms 105:20
The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free.
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Daniel 2:25
Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: "I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.
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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord 's, and on them he has set the world.
Psalms 113:7 - 8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.
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Genesis 41:12
A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Daniel 5:16
But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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Daniel 2:30
But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
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Genesis 40:8
They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.
Daniel 2:22
He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
Daniel 2:47
The king answered and said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.
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Genesis 41:1 - 7
After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile.
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Genesis 41:8
So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Daniel 4:7
Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.
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Daniel 2:28 - 29
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
Daniel 2:45
Just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.
Revelation 4:1
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.
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2 Kings 8:1
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.
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Genesis 41:25
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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Genesis 41:47
During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly.
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Genesis 41:54
And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
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Genesis 47:13
Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Isaiah 14:24
The Lord of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.
Isaiah 46:10 - 11
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.
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Genesis 41:48
And he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.
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Numbers 27:18
So the Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
Daniel 4:8
At last Daniel came in before me - he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods - and I told him the dream, saying.
Daniel 4:18
This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father - your father the king - made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers.
Daniel 5:14
I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
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Psalms 105:21
He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions.
Acts 7:10
And rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
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Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
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Esther 3:10
So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.
Esther 8:2
And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Esther 8:8
But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.
Esther 8:10
And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.
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Esther 8:15
Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
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Ezekiel 16:11
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
Daniel 5:7
The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:29
Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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Esther 6:9
And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'
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Genesis 41:40
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 45:8 - 9
So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:26
And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
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Psalms 105:21 - 22
He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions.
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1 Samuel 16:21
And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
1 Kings 12:6
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?
1 Kings 12:8
But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
Daniel 1:19
And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Judges 7:12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
Psalms 78:27
He rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas.
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Genesis 46:20
And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 48:5
And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
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Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
Hosea 13:15
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
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Psalms 105:16
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
Acts 7:11
Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
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Genesis 41:30
But after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land.
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Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 47:14
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 47:20
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis 47:24
And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.
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Genesis 41:54
And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41:56
So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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Acts 7:12
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
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Genesis 43:8
And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
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Genesis 35:18
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
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Genesis 42:38
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 41:41
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 37:7
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:9 - 10
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.
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Genesis 42:30
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
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Genesis 37:5
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Genesis 37:9
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.
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Genesis 42:7
Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food.
Genesis 42:30
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
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Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:30
And returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?
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Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Nehemiah 5:15
The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
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Genesis 42:33
Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
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Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.
Genesis 43:5
But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
Genesis 44:23
Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.
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Job 36:8 - 9
And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction.
Genesis 37:23 - 28
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
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Genesis 37:21
But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life.
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Genesis 9:5
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the Lord see and avenge!
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Luke 11:50 - 51
So that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation.
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Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
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Genesis 44:1
Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.
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Genesis 42:35
As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 43:21
And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us.
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Exodus 4:24
At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
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Genesis 42:7
Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food.
Genesis 42:9
And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.
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Genesis 42:13
And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.
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Genesis 42:15
By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:19 - 20
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households.
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Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households.
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Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
Genesis 34:21
These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.
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Genesis 42:27
And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 43:21
And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us.
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Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
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Genesis 46:9
And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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Genesis 42:13
And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.
Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.
Genesis 37:33
And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.
Genesis 44:28
One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
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Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.
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Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 44:31
As soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 41:54
And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41:57
Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
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Genesis 42:20
And bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.
Genesis 44:23
Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.
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Genesis 42:2
And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.
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Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben said to his father, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.
Genesis 44:32
For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.
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Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
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Genesis 42:25
And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
Genesis 42:27
And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42:35
As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.
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Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.
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Genesis 43:19
So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the door of the house.
Genesis 44:1
Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 44:4
They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh.
Genesis 39:4
So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
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Genesis 44:18
Then Judah went up to him and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
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Genesis 42:3
So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
Genesis 42:10
They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
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Genesis 42:27
And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
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Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 37:5 - 11
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
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Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.
Genesis 42:13
And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.
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Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
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Genesis 35:18
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
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Genesis 43:27
And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?
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1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
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Genesis 42:24
Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
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Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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Genesis 46:34
You shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Exodus 8:26
But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
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2 Samuel 11:8
Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
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Genesis 45:22
To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.
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Genesis 44:4
They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
Genesis 43:16
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.
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Genesis 42:25
And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
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Genesis 44:1
Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.
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Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?
Genesis 30:27
But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
2 Kings 21:6
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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Genesis 43:21
And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us.
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Genesis 31:32
Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
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Genesis 44:16
And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.
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Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Genesis 37:7
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:9 - 10
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
Genesis 43:28
They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
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Genesis 44:5
Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'
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Genesis 37:18
They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
Numbers 32:23
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.
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Genesis 44:9
Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants.
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Genesis 43:20
And said, "Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food.
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Exodus 32:22
And Aaron said, "Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
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Genesis 41:40
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.
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Genesis 44:30
Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life.
Genesis 43:8
And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
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Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
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Genesis 42:15
By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:20
And bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.
Genesis 43:3
But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.
Genesis 43:5
But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.
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Genesis 44:31
As soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 43:3
But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.
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Genesis 43:2
And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food.
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Genesis 46:19
The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Genesis 37:33
And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.
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Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.
Genesis 42:38
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.
Genesis 42:38
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 43:9
I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
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Genesis 43:31
Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food.
Esther 5:10
Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.
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Acts 7:13
And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
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Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
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Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Psalms 105:16 - 17
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
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Genesis 41:30
But after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land.
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Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
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Genesis 45:26
And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
Genesis 41:43
And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 46:34
You shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers...
Genesis 47:1
So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father ...
Genesis 47:4
They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn ...
Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your fa...
Genesis 47:27
Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in th...
Genesis 50:8
As well as all the household of Joseph, his bro...
Exodus 8:22
But on that day I will set apart the land of Go...
Genesis 47:11
Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers...
Joshua 10:41
And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as fa...
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Genesis 47:12
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Genesis 50:21
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
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Genesis 42:23
They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
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Acts 7:14
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
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Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.
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Genesis 46:5
Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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Genesis 45:19
And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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2 Kings 5:5
And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
2 Kings 5:22 - 23
And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, 'There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'
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Genesis 43:34
Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
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Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.
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Genesis 45:19
And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45:21
The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
Genesis 46:5
Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Genesis 28:10
Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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Genesis 26:24 - 25
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
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Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.
Job 33:14 - 15
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
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Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Exodus 1:7
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:9
And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall make response before the Lord your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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Genesis 15:16
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Genesis 50:1
Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
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Genesis 45:19
And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45:21
The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
Genesis 45:27
But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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Joshua 24:4
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 52:4
For thus says the Lord God : "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.
Acts 7:14 - 15
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
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Genesis 46:8 - 11
Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Exodus 6:14 - 16
These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.
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Exodus 1:1 - 5
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
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Numbers 26:5
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites.
1 Chronicles 5:1 - 3
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son.
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1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death.
1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea.
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Genesis 38:3
And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.
Genesis 38:10
And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
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Genesis 38:29
But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.
1 Chronicles 2:5
The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
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1 Chronicles 7:1
The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
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Genesis 29:32 - 35
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
Genesis 30:1 - 21
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!
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1 Chronicles 7:30
The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
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Genesis 30:10 - 13
Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Genesis 29:24
(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
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Genesis 41:50 - 52
Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.
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Genesis 41:45
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Numbers 26:38 - 40
The sons of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites.
1 Chronicles 7:6 - 12
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
1 Chronicles 8:1
Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third.
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1 Chronicles 7:13
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah.
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Genesis 30:5 - 8
And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
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Genesis 29:29
(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)
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Exodus 1:5
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Acts 7:14
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
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Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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Genesis 45:14
Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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Luke 2:29 - 30
Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word.
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Genesis 47:1
So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.
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Genesis 47:3
Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.
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Genesis 46:32
And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
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Genesis 46:32
And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
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Genesis 37:12
Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
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Genesis 46:28
He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
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Genesis 43:32
They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Exodus 8:26
But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
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Genesis 46:31
Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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Acts 7:13
And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
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Genesis 46:33
When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?
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Genesis 46:32
And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
Genesis 46:34
You shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
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Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall make response before the Lord your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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Genesis 46:34
You shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
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Genesis 45:18
And take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.
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Genesis 47:4
They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 18:25
Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
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Genesis 47:10
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners,...
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;...
Psalms 119:19
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your co...
Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house o...
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise...
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received th...
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners,...
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;...
Psalms 119:19
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your co...
Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house o...
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise...
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received th...
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Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
Psalms 39:4 - 5
O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
James 4:14
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Genesis 11:32
The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 25:7
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.
Genesis 35:28
Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
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Genesis 47:7
Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 12:37
And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.
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Genesis 45:11
There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.
Genesis 50:21
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
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Genesis 41:56
So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 47:19
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.
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Nehemiah 5:2 - 3
For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.
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Ezra 7:24
We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
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Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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Genesis 47:22
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
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Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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Genesis 46:3
Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
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Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.
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Deuteronomy 31:14
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
1 Kings 2:1
When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh.
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Genesis 24:49
Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.
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Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
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Genesis 49:29
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 50:5
My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Genesis 48:2
And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
1 Kings 1:47
Moreover, the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' And the king bowed himself on the bed.
Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Genesis 35:9
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
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Genesis 41:50 - 52
Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.
Genesis 46:20
And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.
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Joshua 13:7
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 14:4
For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.
Joshua 17:17
Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only.
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Genesis 35:9 - 19
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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Genesis 33:5
And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant.
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Genesis 49:25 - 26
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
Genesis 27:4
And prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.
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Genesis 27:1
When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am.
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Genesis 27:27
So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
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Genesis 37:33
And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.
Genesis 45:26
And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
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Genesis 48:17
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
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Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 24:40
But he said to me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
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Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
Genesis 31:11
Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am!
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.
Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
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Isaiah 44:22 - 23
I have blotted out your transgressions like a c...
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and ...
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
2 Samuel 4:9
But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brothe...
Psalms 34:22
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none...
Psalms 121:7
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will k...
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Amos 9:12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the Lord who does this.
Acts 15:17
That the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
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Numbers 26:34
These are the clans of Manasseh, and those listed were 52,700.
Numbers 26:37
These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.
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Genesis 48:14
And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).
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Genesis 48:17
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
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Numbers 1:33
Those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.
Numbers 1:35
Those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
Numbers 2:19
His company as listed being 40,500.
Numbers 2:21
His company as listed being 32,200.
Deuteronomy 33:17
A firstborn bull - he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Ruth 4:11 - 12
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
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Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
John 4:5
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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Genesis 49:1 - 27
Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
Deuteronomy 33:6 - 25
"Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few."
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Numbers 24:14
And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come,...
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in tribulation, and all these thin...
Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will surely ...
Isaiah 2:2
It shall come to pass in the latter days that t...
Jeremiah 23:20
The anger of the Lord will not turn back until ...
Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who reveals myster...
Daniel 10:14
And came to make you understand what is to happ...
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return a...
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Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
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Deuteronomy 21:17
But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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Genesis 35:22
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son.
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Genesis 29:33 - 34
She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.
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Genesis 34:25 - 26
On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.
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Psalms 16:9
Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.
Psalms 57:8
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
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Psalms 26:9
Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men.
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Joshua 11:6
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.
Joshua 11:9
And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
2 Samuel 8:4
And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.
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Numbers 3:5 - 13
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
Joshua 19:1 - 9
The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.
1 Chronicles 4:24 - 39
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul.
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Genesis 29:35
And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
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Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target.
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1 Chronicles 5:2
Though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph).
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Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.
Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan.
Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
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Numbers 23:24
Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.
Numbers 24:9
He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.
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Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.
Zechariah 10:11
He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
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Deuteronomy 28:57
Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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Proverbs 23:29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
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Deuteronomy 33:18 - 19
And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.
Joshua 19:10 - 11
The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.
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Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Joshua 9:1
As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this.
Judges 5:17
Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings.
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Judges 5:16
Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
1 Chronicles 12:32
Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
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Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
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Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan.
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Genesis 30:6
Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.
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Judges 18:27
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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Psalms 25:5
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are...
Psalms 119:166
I hope for your salvation, O Lord, and I do you...
Psalms 119:174
I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law...
Isaiah 25:9
It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is o...
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to the Lord ; I will...
Luke 2:25
Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name wa...
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Deuteronomy 33:20
And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.
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1 Chronicles 5:18 - 22
The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war.
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Deuteronomy 33:24
And of Asher he said, "Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.
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Deuteronomy 33:23
And of Naphtali he said, "O Naphtali, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the Lord, possess the lake and the south.
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Genesis 41:52
The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Joshua 17:14
Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?
Joshua 17:18
But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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Genesis 37:24
And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
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Job 29:20
My glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.
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Psalms 132:2
How he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob.
Psalms 132:5
Until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
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Psalms 23:1
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalms 80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
Ephesians 2:20
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
1 Peter 2:4
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious.
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
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Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.
Genesis 50:17
Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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Deuteronomy 33:13
And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath.
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Deuteronomy 33:15
With the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
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Deuteronomy 33:16
With the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
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Judges 20:21
The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.
Judges 20:25
And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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Zechariah 14:1
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.
Ezekiel 39:10
So that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.
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Genesis 49:33
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 47:30
But let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said.
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Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
Genesis 23:9
That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.
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Genesis 23:16 - 18
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
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Genesis 35:29
And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Genesis 49:29
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
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Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
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Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
Luke 23:56
Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
John 19:39 - 40
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
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Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Numbers 20:29
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Job 2:13
And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
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Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.
Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
Isaiah 22:16
What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?
Matthew 27:60
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
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Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son.
Acts 8:2
Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
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Genesis 50:3
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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Genesis 49:29 - 30
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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Genesis 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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Genesis 37:7
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:10
But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?
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Genesis 30:2
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
2 Kings 5:7
And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.
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Genesis 45:5
And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
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Genesis 45:11
There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.
Genesis 47:12
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
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Job 42:16
And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
Psalms 128:6
May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
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Numbers 32:39
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
1 Chronicles 7:14 - 15
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
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Genesis 30:3
Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
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Genesis 15:14
But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Exodus 3:16 - 17
Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
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Exodus 13:19
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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