for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.")

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, "Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed.

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you -- fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

But Simeon and Levi replied, "Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?"

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"

Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

Joseph said to them, "What did you think you were doing? Don't you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?"

Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you will Israel bless, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!

You are a lion's cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness -- who will rouse him?