Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

"Even God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you'll become like God, knowing good and evil."

Later, the LORD God said, "Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won't reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever "

After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.

Make the ark like this: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

He became a fearless hunter in defiance of the LORD. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a fearless hunter in defiance of the LORD."

Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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.

He looked off toward Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entire plain, and he saw smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Then prepare some food, just the way I like it, and bring it to me so that I can eat and bless you before I die."

So out he went, got them, and brought them to his mother, who then prepared some delicious food, just the way his father liked it.

He didn't recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau, so Isaac blessed him.

Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?"

Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but it seemed like only a few days because of his love for her.

He's treating us like foreigners. He sold us and spent all of the money that rightfully belonged to us.

Then Laban asked Jacob, "What did you do? You deceived me, carried off my daughters like you would war captives,

"Please," Jacob implored him, "don't refuse. If I'm to receive favor from you, then receive this gift from me, because seeing your face is like seeing the face of God, since you have favorably accepted me.

But we'll agree to your request, only if you will become like us by circumcising every male among you.

"Should he have treated our sister like a whore?" they asked in response.

After this, Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Go live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." But he was really thinking, ""otherwise, Shelah might die like his brothers." So Tamar left and lived in her father's house.

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

so Pharaoh asked his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this someone in whom the Spirit of God lives?

Joseph stored up so much grain like sand on the seashore in so much abundance! that he stopped keeping records because it was proving to be impossible to measure how much they were gathering.

"Your Excellency," they replied, "Why do you speak like this? Far be it from your servants to act like this.

That very day, Jacob blessed them with this blessing: "By you Israel will extend this blessing: "May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!'"

Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him?

"Benjamin is vicious like a wolf; what he kills in the morning he devours in the evening."