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So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

Verse ConceptsSleep, PhysicalAnestheticSealing ThingsAdam and eve

but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"

Verse ConceptsDeviousnessSin Producing DeathNot TouchingSin Produces DeathAdam and eveGardensNASB

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."

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilUniquenessGod, TrinityImmortality, In OtSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesArrogantly Like GodGraspingKnowing Right And WrongMen As GodsNot For EverPeople With Knowledgepotentialautonomy

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyTwo WomenSecond MarriageRelationships And DatingPatience In Relationships

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

Verse ConceptsStoringThriftStores Of Food

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfRitual LawAbraham, Calling And LifeSeven AnimalsUnclean SpiritsTwo AnimalsClean AnimalsMale And Female AnimalsUnclean AnimalsAnimals Having A Soulcouples

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

Verse ConceptsFeetStretching OutNot Being StillFeet In ActionNot StillNoah's Flood

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

Verse ConceptsShouldersCoveringCovering The BodySonsClothing OthersOuter GarmentsBackwardsNot Seeing PeopleDads

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Verse ConceptsNamed WivesFathers And Daughters

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGrandchildrenAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving In The LandLand Promised To Israel

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsAbraham

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationReinstating PeopleTransferring WivesRelationship Troubles

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Calling And LifeGoing Together

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

Verse ConceptsGathering Food

They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Escaping

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself."

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfSlavery, In Ot

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, 'It is I who made Abram rich.'

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinShoesCords

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me -- Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre -- let them take their share."

Verse ConceptsFood PermittedSharing Material Things

The Lord said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."

Verse ConceptsGoatsAbrahamdovesCarcass, Literal UsePigeonsAnimals, Types OfHeifersAnimals At Specific Ages

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

Verse ConceptsKnivesFractions, One HalfOpposite SidesHalf Of BodiesBirdscutting

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Verse ConceptsFoodBakersBakingWeights And Measures, DryHasty ActionKneading DoughThree Other ThingsHurrying Others OnOther Volume Measures

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Verse ConceptsButterMilkDairyCompanionshipPeople EatingRich Food

At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

Verse ConceptsDawnIniquity, Punishment ForEvil AssociationsDaybreakDestruction Of CitiesAt DaybreakGod UrgingAngels Providing Protection

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersMisrepresentationTaking Other PeopleSiblingsRelationship TroublesSportssarahrejuvenation

Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenWombReasons For BarrennessSealing ThingsInfertilitysarah

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfExcavationThings As Witnesses

God said, "Take your son -- your only son, whom you love, Isaac -- and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

Verse ConceptsCalvaryAbrahamAtonement, Types OfLove, And The WorldSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Places OfThe Only ChildSacrificing The FirstbornOnly Child Of PeopleThose Who Loved

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamKnifesGoing TogetherBurning SacrificesFirewoodCarrying Other Loads

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamKnivesStretching OutKilling Sons And Daughters

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingAbrahamFruitfulness, NaturalAn Innumerable NumberSkyStarsProsperity PromisedSeashoresCapturing GatesPeople OvercomingGod Multipling PeoplePeople MultiplyingGod Will BlessGod's Promise To AbrahamOvercoming EnemiesSand And GravelPromises concerningEnemiesDescendants of

and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

The servant asked him, "What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.

Verse ConceptsReturning to the old

"The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamLand, As A Divine GiftOaths, DivineServants, GoodAngels, Ministry To BelieversAngels Going At God's BiddingBringing People Out Of Other PlacesTaking A Wife

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!"

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

Verse ConceptsDeparturesTen AnimalsGiving Good Things

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

Verse ConceptsBraceletsNosesOrnamentsRingsGold OrnamentsJewelleryTwo OrnamentsHalf Of ThingsWeights Of Gold

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master's son, just as the Lord has decided."

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGiving In Marriage

Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham's servant took Rebekah and left.

Verse ConceptsCamelsRiding CamelsYoung Ladies

and asked Abraham's servant, "Who is that man walking in the field toward us?" "That is my master," the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.

Verse ConceptsCoveringVeilsMeeting PeopleWho Is This?The Brides Wedding Dress

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Verse ConceptsExcavationStopping WellsTimes Of People

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

Verse ConceptsExcavation

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Verse ConceptsExcavationPeople OpposedPeople Naming Things

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialExcavationPotential Of FruitSpacious PlacePeople Naming ThingsFreedomMoving To A New Placespacefruitfulnessland

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

Verse ConceptsAltarsCalling upon GodNomadsTentsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsExcavation

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

Therefore, take your weapons -- your quiver and your bow -- and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Uses OfHuntingQuiversArchers, MenArrowsDeergames

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies."

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodBefore DeathPeople Blessing

My father may touch me! Then he'll think I'm mocking him and I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing."

Verse ConceptsThose Who Are Liars

Then Rebekah took her older son Esau's best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Verse ConceptsClothing OthersFine Clothes

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."

Verse ConceptsDistinguishingIs It Really?Contact With People

But Isaac replied, "Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing."

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfPeople BlessingThose Who Deceived

Esau exclaimed, "'Jacob' is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he asked, "Have you not kept back a blessing for me?"

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfDoing Things TwicePeople Naming PeopleGraspingPeople BlessingStoring Other Things

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Verse ConceptsNightThe SunBedsSunsetsStones As Monuments

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsAnointing With OilMorning DevotionsMorningOilRising EarlyMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsThose Who Rose EarlyAnointing ThingsAnointing Oil

But Leah replied, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes too?" "All right," Rachel said, "he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I'll depart, because you know how hard I've worked for you."

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeServing Individuals

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsWhiteTreesPolesSkinningBlack And White

He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

Verse ConceptsDriving

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysOvertaking

"I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other PeopleFear Of Individuals

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillRobbing GodsIn Men's Presence

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

Verse ConceptsMonumentsObelisks

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersPolygamyWitnesses, LegalAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodPeople Possibly Doing Evil

May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod Is To Be Feared

During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsDuring One NightTwo WomenElevenFords

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

"No, please take them," Jacob said. "If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need." When Jacob urged him, he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleLiving In The Land

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."

Verse ConceptsSetting Out

"These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other People

They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockSpoils Of WarLoss Of DonkeysPossessing Sheep

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesPeople Parting

When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, "Let's not take his life!"

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

Reuben continued, "Don't shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitDippingCovered With BloodKilling Domesticated AnimalsColor

Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.

Verse ConceptsNot FindingNowhere To Be FoundWages Of A ProstitutePossessing Sheep

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBeing FirstMidwifeStretching OutFirstborn SonsCordsRed Cordsstories