Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the children of Heth.

And he went before them and fell on the ground seven times, until he came unto his brother.

They answered, "Thy servant our father is in good health, and is yet alive. And they bowed themselves and fell to the ground."

And he answered, "Nay, but I am the captain of the host of the LORD and am now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did reverence, and said unto him, "What sayeth my Lord unto his servant?"

and that ye go not unto these nations that remain with you: and that ye neither make mention or swear by the names of their gods, and that ye neither serve them nor bow yourselves unto them.

Yet for all that, as soon as the judge was dead they turned and did worse than their fathers in following strange gods, and in serving them, and ceased not from their inventions nor from their malicious ways.

All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the LORD our maker.

which wood serveth for men to burn. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withal: he maketh a fire of it to bake bread. And afterward maketh a god thereof, to honour it: and an Idol to kneel before it.

"What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?

For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,