'Return' in the Bible

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

Then the Lord's angel said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.

One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son."

So he said to his servants, "You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you."

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."

But he said to them, "Don't detain me -- the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master."

and I return safely to my father's home, then the Lord will become my God.

The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.'"

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.

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, 'Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man's money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Return, buy us a little more food."

"So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us -- his very life is bound up in his son's life.

My father made me swear an oath. He said, "I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan." Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.'"