Cush also begot Nimrod, which began to be mighty in the earth:

He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD, whereof came the proverb "he is as Nimrod, that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD."

And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.

so that the land was not able to receive them that they might dwell together. For the substance of their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together.

And Abraham said unto God, "O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!"

seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

And Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "See, she is of a surety thy wife, and why saidest thou that she was thy sister?" And Isaac said unto him, "I thought that I might peradventure have died for her sake."

Then said Abimelech, "Why hast thou done this unto us? One of the people might lightly have lain by thy wife and so shouldest thou have brought sin upon us."

And the man waxed mighty, and went forth and grew till he was exceeding great,

that he had possession of sheep, of oxen, and a mighty household; so that the Philistines had envy at him,

And always in the first bucking time of the sheep, Jacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the staves:

And ye know how that I have served your father with all my might.

Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps,

And he made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.

for Benjamin, Joseph's brother, would not Jacob send with his other brethren: for he said, "Some misfortune might happen him."

And he said, "My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. Moreover, some misfortune might happen upon him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave."

Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

And he said, "I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I will make of thee there a great people.

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

"Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.

and yet his bow bode fast, and his arms and his hands were strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: out of him shall come a herdsman, a stone in Israel.

When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, "Joseph might fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which we did unto him."