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Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainHuman Blood ShedOther References To Mouths

"You're driving me from the soil today. I'll be hidden from you, and I'll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive. In the future, whoever finds me will kill me."

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainFugitivesThe HomelessWanderersDriven From God's PresenceGod HidingBeing Hidden From GodHidden From God

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse Concepts100 Years And More

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse Concepts144,000100 Years And More

When he was about to enter Egypt, he told his wife Sarai, "Look, I'm aware that you're a beautiful woman.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In WomenWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureTrust In RelationshipsThe Beauty Of NatureBeing Beautifulsarah

Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Deceitdoubt, results ofNot DyingMisrepresentationsisterhood

After Lot had separated from Abram, the LORD told Abram, "Look off to the north, south, east, and west from where you're living,

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthWestCompassesPeople PartingNorth, South, East And WestLooking And SeeingFuture PlansDirection

So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You [are] El-Roi," for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."

Verse ConceptsVeilsNames Of GodGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The EarthThose Who Saw GodVisibilityOther References To God's Name

Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Verse ConceptsWellsGod Seeing All Peoplebeer

So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!"

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenParents Duty To ChildrenIntercessory Prayer

Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever you wish, only don't do anything to these men, because they're here under my protection."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

But they replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he's acting like a judge! So we're going to deal more harshly with you than with them." Then they pushed hard against the man (that is, against Lot), intending to break down the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

because we're going to destroy it. Their outcry has come to the attention of the LORD, so he sent us here to destroy it!"

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry

But God came to Abimelech in a dream during the night and spoke to him, "Pay attention! You're about to die, because the woman you have taken is a man's wife!"

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightDeath As PunishmentTransferring WivesDirect Communication Through Dreams

About that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, told Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you're doing.

Verse ConceptsCommanderAbraham, In SocietyAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Testing And VictoryGod With YouGod With Specific PeopleA Mans Reputation

And Abraham will say to him, Observe to thyself that thou shalt not turn back ray son there.

Verse ConceptsReturning to the old

And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For he dwelt in the land of the South.

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

Verse ConceptsBlessed By God

Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

"We've seen that the LORD is with you," they responded, "so we're proposing an agreement between us between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific People

Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathPeople BlessingMothers Deathgames

So Isaac told Jacob, "Come here, my son, so I can feel you and know for sure whether or not you're my son Esau."

Verse ConceptsDistinguishingIs It Really?Contact With People

And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

Laban said to him, “Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went to meet him and told him, "You're having sex with me tonight. I traded my son's mandrakes for you!" So he slept with her that night.

Verse ConceptsHiringMarital SexMeeting PeopleMarital Sex Between

Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. Then I'll leave, since you're aware of my service to you."

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeServing Individuals

then you are to reply, "We're from your servant Jacob. The herds are a gift. He's sending them to my master, Esau. Look! There he is, coming along behind us.'"

"Sir, you know that the children are frail," Jacob suggested, "and the ewes and cows with me are still nursing their young. If they're driven even for a day, the entire flock will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

But if you won't listen to us, then we're going to take our daughter and leave."

Verse ConceptsSetting Out

Then Jacob told Simeon and Levi, "You have certainly stirred up trouble for me! You've made me despised by the Canaanites and the Perizzites who live in this territory. Because I have only a few men with me, they're going to gather themselves together and attack me until I am totally destroyed, along with my entire household!"

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, "Don't fear! You're going to have another son."

Verse ConceptsMidwifechildbearing

At this, his brothers replied, "Do you really think you're going to rule us or lord it over us?" So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his interpretations of them.

Verse ConceptsHating Individualsdominion

No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfWhat Sin?

As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he knew who they were, but he remained disguised and asked them gruffly, "Where are you from?" "From the land of Canaan," they replied. "We're here to buy food."

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

Furthermore, Joseph remembered the dreams that he had about them. So he accused them, "You're spies! You've come here to spy on our undefended territories!"

Verse ConceptsSpyingPeople RememberingUnguardedvulnerability

We're all sons of a common father. We're honest men, your majesty. We're not spies!"

Verse ConceptsSpyingvulnerability

"I'm right!" Joseph insisted. "Just as I said, you're spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

So here's how we'll test you. You can bet the life of Pharaoh that you're not leaving here until your youngest brother comes here!

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

One of you is to be sent back so he can get your brother while the rest of you remain in custody. That way, we'll test whether or not you're telling the truth. If you're not, as surely as the Pharaoh lives, you're spies!"

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

If you're honest men, leave one of your brothers here in custody, then the rest of you can leave and take some grain with you to alleviate the famine that's affecting your households.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

"We're all guilty because of what we did to our brother!" they told each other. "We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We're in this mess because we wouldn't listen!"

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

But we told him, "No! We're honest men! We're not spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I can be sure that you're honest men, and not spies. Then I'll return your brother to you, and you'll be allowed to trade anywhere in the land.'"

Verse ConceptsTradeThe Youngest ChildSpyingReinstating People

Their father Jacob told them, "You're causing me to lose my children! Joseph is gone. Now Simeon is gone, and you're planning to take Benjamin, too. Everything's going against me!"

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedIndividuals Passing AwayBereavement

But if you don't send him, we're not going, because the man told us, "You'll never see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

Verse ConceptsNot With People

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

Don't you have the cup that my master uses to drink from and also uses to practice divination? You're wrong to have done this.'"

"Now let me die," Israel told Joseph, "since I've seen your face and confirmed that you're still alive!"

Verse ConceptsReadinessParental LoveResigned To DeathLiving OnSeeing People

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

"Reuben, you're my firstborn, my strength, and the first fruit of my vitality. You excel in rank and excel in power.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsStrong IndividualsPowerful IndividualsFamily StrengthPowerExcellencemanhoodstrenghdignity

But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch."

Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

At the conclusion of the mourning period, Joseph addressed Pharaoh's household. "If you're satisfied with me, would you please take this message to Pharaoh for me? Tell him,

Joseph wept when they talked to him. So Joseph's brothers went to visit him, fell prostrate in front of him, and declared, "Look! We're your servants."

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

"Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women," the midwives replied to Pharaoh. "They're so healthy that they give birth before the midwives arrive to help them."

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

Meanwhile, Pharaoh continued commanding all of his people, "You're to throw every Hebrew son who is born into the Nile River, but you're to allow every Hebrew daughter to live."

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

You're to speak to him and tell him what to say. I'll help both you and him with your speech, and I'll teach both of you what you are to do.

Verse ConceptsGod As Our TeacherGod TeachingGod Will Be With YouSpeaking The Word God Gives

Moses left and returned to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses told him, "Please let me go and return to my own people in Egypt so I can see whether they're still alive." Jethro told Moses, "Go in peace."

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

"You're no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past. They must gather straw for themselves.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types of

But you're to impose the previous quota of bricks that they're making. You're not to reduce it! It is because they're lazy that they're crying out, "Let's go offer sacrifices to our God.'

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

No straw is being given to us, yet they're saying to us, "Make bricks!' Look, we are being beaten. It's wrong how you are treating your people!"

Verse ConceptsWronging Other People

Then Pharaoh said, "You are lazy, lazy! That's why you're saying, "Let's go offer sacrifices to the LORD.'

Verse Conceptshumor

The LORD told Moses, "Now you're about to see what I'll do to Pharaoh. Indeed, he'll send them out under compulsion and he'll drive them out of his land violently."

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodLooking At God's Works

And Pharaoh will not hear to you; and I gave ray hand upon Egypt, and I brought forth my army, my people the sons of Israel, out of Egypt, with great judgments.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands In OppositionEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

Verse ConceptsLateness

Tell the entire congregation of Israel, "On the tenth of this month they're each to take a lamb for themselves, according to their ancestors' households, one lamb for each household.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsFamiliesFamily FirstProtecting Your Family

They're to take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat the lamb.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambDoorpostsSprinklingBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Verse ConceptsBread, Kinds OfBitter HerbsEating Before GodBitter FoodHerbsEating Meatcooking

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

Verse ConceptsHeadsLegsEating Meatporkcookinglungs

Also, on the first day you're to hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day you're to hold a holy assembly. No work is to be done during those days, except for preparing what is to be eaten by each person.

Verse ConceptsHolidayWork, And RestConvocationsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7No Work On Feast DaysChristmas TreeGraduationcookingprepping

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We’re all going to die!”

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

Pharaoh will say about the Israelis, "They're wandering aimlessly in the land, and the desert has closed in on them.'

Verse ConceptsBewildermentShutting Doorswandering

Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid! Stand still and watch how the LORD will deliver you today, because you will never again see the Egyptians whom you're looking at today.

Verse ConceptsBeing AfraidDeliverance, Means OfStillnessNot Seeing PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpfearless

When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

Verse ConceptsActing AloneFrom Morning Till EveningWhat Do You Do?

“What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’ father-in-law said to him.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

You are to teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they're to go and the things they're to do.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysMoses, Significance OfScripture TeachingLearning The Right WayThe Law ProclaimedWalking In God's WaySocial dutiesDecision Making

And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

"When you take a census of the Israelis to register them, each is to give a ransom for himself to the LORD when they're registered so there won't be a plague among them when they're registered.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsNatural Disasters

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

Verse ConceptsNecksStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleSelf WillGod Seeing The Wicked

Aaron said, "Sir, don't be angry. You know the people that they're intent on evil.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleGod's People Sinning

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

the pure [gold] lampstand, its lamps--the lamps of the row--and all its equipment and the oil of the light;

Verse ConceptsOilOil For LampsGold Items For The Tabernacl

Whoever carries their carcass is to wash their clothes, because they've become unclean until evening. They're unclean for you.

Verse ConceptsWashingClean ClothesUnclean Until EveningCarrying Other Loads

These are unclean for you among the swarming creatures, so anyone who touches them when they're dead becomes unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsUnclean Until Evening

Furthermore, anything on which they fall when they're dead becomes unclean, whether on an article of wood, clothing, skin, or a sack. And any vessel used for any work is to be washed in water, because it has become unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsDressClean ObjectsUnclean Until Evening

and anything into which their carcass falls becomes unclean. An oven or stove is to be broken in pieces. They're unclean and therefore unclean for you.

Verse ConceptsBakingOvensBreaking Containersporkcookingpot

You are not to eat anything that crawls on its belly, anything that walks on four legs, anything that has many legs, or any of the swarming creatures that swarm the land, because they're detestable.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsCrawlingUnclean SpiritsFeet Of CreaturesClean And UncleanClean AnimalsForbidden FoodUnclean AnimalsEating Meatbugsworms