For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

The Lord has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”

“By your sword you shall live,
And your brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will break his yoke from your neck.”

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

She conceived again and bore a son and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised,

then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!”

Then Judah said, “Let her keep them, otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her.”

Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”