Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me."

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

When the Egyptians see you they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

Then they said, "We'll call the girl and find out what she wants to do."

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, "The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!"

Leah said, "How happy I am, for women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher.

Now Joseph's brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Come now, let's kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we'll see how his dreams turn out!"

Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?