Abram said, “Lord God, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”

since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?

The Lord said, “Do not reach out [with the knife in] your hand against the boy, and do nothing to [harm] him; for now I know that you fear God [with reverence and profound respect], since you have not withheld from Me your son, your only son [of promise].”

and said, “By Myself (on the basis of Who I Am) I have sworn [an oath], declares the Lord, that since you have done this thing and have not withheld [from Me] your son, your only son [of promise],

Then he set the branches which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated and conceived when they came to drink.

So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we reply? Or how can we clear ourselves, since God has exposed the sin and guilt of your servants? Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, the rest of us as well as he with whom the cup is found.”

And one [son] went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces,” and I have not seen him since.

Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man’s life,

And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die [in peace], since I have seen your face [and know] that you are still alive.”