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At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainAbraham, Testing And Victoryprocess

For your part, take some of the edible food and store it away these stores will be food for you and the animals."

Verse ConceptsStoringThriftStores Of Food

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGrandchildrenAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving In The LandLand Promised To Israel

Now the Valley of Siddim contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.

Verse ConceptsBitumen and tarMineralsEscaping To MountainsPeople Falling From A HeightPeoples Who FledSurvivors Of The Nations

And some man came who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

Verse ConceptsAlliancesAbraham, Characteristics OfAllegiancesOaksOthers Who FledTelling Of Happenings

I'll bring some food for you, and after that you may continue your journey, since you have come to visit your servant." So they replied, "Okay! Do what you've proposed."

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPeople Refreshed

Abraham hurried into the tent and told Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of the best flour, knead it, and make some flat bread."

Verse ConceptsFoodBakersBakingWeights And Measures, DryHasty ActionKneading DoughThree Other ThingsHurrying Others OnOther Volume Measures

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Verse ConceptsButterMilkDairyCompanionshipPeople EatingRich Food

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Verse ConceptsKindnessPeople's Inability To SaveEscaping To MountainsPossibility Of DeathGod Showed His LovingkindnessUnable To Save

So Abimelech took some sheep and oxen, and some male and female servants, gave them to Abraham, returned his wife Sarah to him,

Verse ConceptsSheepOwning LivestockReinstating PeopleGroups Of SlavesPeople Giving Other ThingsPossessing Sheepsarah

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

Verse ConceptsSojourning

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" Abraham replied.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamAbraham, Characteristics OfTrialsAbraham, Testing And VictoryBehold Me!Temptation

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels, and set out, taking some of his master’s good things with him; so he got up and journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers], to the city of Nahor [the home of Abraham’s brother].

Verse ConceptsDeparturesTen AnimalsGiving Good Things

"Come on," Laban said. "The LORD has blessed you! So why are you standing out here when I've prepared some space in the house and a place for the camels?"

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianCamelsHospitalityTravellersA Place PreparedBlessed By GodOutside The HouseBlessings From Godspace

"Before I had finished praying, along came Rebekah with her jug on her shoulder! She went to the spring and drew some water. I asked her to please let me have a drink.

Verse ConceptsShouldersHeart, And Holy SpiritWater ContainersRequesting FoodDrawing WaterMan Providing WaterWhile Still SpeakingUnder One's BreathCarrying Other LoadsHeartfelt Prayer To God

Then the servant brought out some silver and gold items, along with some clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumandowryBetrothalGoldMarriage, Customs ConcerningOrnamentsMarriage, The BrideCosmeticsPresentsPeople Giving ClothesJewelleryjewelry

And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide with us some days, or say ten; after that she shall go.

Verse ConceptsTen Or More DaysPeople Who Delayed

Isaac went out walking in a field. He looked up, and all of a sudden there were some camels coming.

Verse ConceptsEveningRelationships With Boyfriendphotography

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodYielding To TemptationVegetablesWeedcookingprepping

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationRequesting FoodRed BodiesPeople With Apt Names

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodVegetablesThose Who Provided A Meallent

When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Verse ConceptsLooking Through WindowsAfter A Long TimeSportshugs

Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Uses OfHuntingQuiversArchers, MenArrowsDeergames

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die."

Verse ConceptsTasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

Verse ConceptsListening

‘Bring me the game and make a delicious meal for me to eat so that I can bless you in the Lord’s presence before I die.’

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathPeople BlessingMothers Deathgames

Go to the flock and bring me two healthy young goats. I'll prepare some delicious food for your father, just the way he loves it.

Verse ConceptsGoatsAnimals, Types OfSavourinessTwo AnimalsLoving Other Things

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Verse ConceptsSavourinessLoving Other Things

Then Rebekah took some garments that belonged to her elder son Esau the best ones available and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Verse ConceptsClothing OthersFine Clothes

Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitFirstbornInheritance, MaterialFirstborn SonsThis Is MePeople Blessing

Then he said, “Serve me, and let me eat some of my son’s game so that I can bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.

Verse ConceptsWineProviding WinePeople Blessing

He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

Verse ConceptsSavourinessPeople BlessingDeercooking

At this, Isaac began to tremble violently. "Who then," he asked, "hunted some game and brought it to me to eat before you arrived, so that I've blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed."

Verse ConceptsTremblingIndividuals TremblingWho Is This?People Blessing

Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."

Verse ConceptsThe SunGathering CreaturesUntimelinessFeeding AnimalsDuring The DayNot The Time

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”

Verse ConceptsGood ActivityStaying TemporarilyGiving In Marriage

Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Verse ConceptsWheat

Then said Leah, God hath dowered me even me with a hand-some dowry, Now! will my husband dwell with me, for I have borne him six sons. So she called his name, Zebulon.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodPeople With Apt Names

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Verse ConceptsBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteTaking Animals

Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsWhiteTreesPolesSkinningBlack And White

It's actually in my power to do some serious evil to you, but last night the God of your father told me, "Be careful what you say to Jacob whether good or evil.'

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsPeople Possibly Doing EvilPowerHurtParents Being Wronghurting

Then Jacob told his relatives, "Go gather some stones." So they picked up stones and stacked them one on top of the other. Then they had a meal together there by the stack of stones.

Verse ConceptsStones As Monuments

So Jacob made an oath by his father's Fear, offered sacrifices there on the mountain, and called on his relatives to eat some food. So they ate the food and spent the night on the mountain.

Verse ConceptsFeasting On Special OccasionsFeastingInvitationsEating Before GodStaying Temporarily

He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesGapsIn Front

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”

But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

but Jacob set out for Succoth, built a house there, and constructed some cattle shelters. He named the place Succoth.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBooths

Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople Visiting

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesHard Tasks

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesPeople Parting

Some time later, his brothers left to tend their father's flock in Shechem.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

And the man saith, 'They have journeyed from this, for I have heard some saying, Let us go to Dothan,' and Joseph goeth after his brethren, and findeth them in Dothan.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

Then they sat down to eat [some] food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices {on the way} to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBalmsCaravansHerbs And SpicesMoney, Uses OfMyrrhPerfumeTradeTravelCamelsCommercePeople EatingSitting In Fellowship

Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitDippingCovered With BloodKilling Domesticated AnimalsColor

After some time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessSheep ShearingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsMourning The Death Of Others

So on the way, he turned aside, approached her, and said, "Come on! Let's have some sex!" But he didn't realize that he was talking to his own daughter-in-law. "What will you give me," she asked, "in order to have sex with me?"

Verse ConceptsDaughters In LawNot Recognising PeopleWages Of A Prostitute

Now some time later, the cupbearer (butler) and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, Egypt’s king.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerBakersArts And Crafts, Types ofOffenceButlersWronging Other People

The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he became their personal attendant. And they were in custody for some time.

and, in the uppermost basket, was some of every kind of food for Pharaoh that a baker could make, - but, the birds, kept eating them out of the basket from off my head.

Verse ConceptsBirds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

When Pharaoh was angry with some of his servants, he incarcerated me in custody of the captain of the bodyguard, along with Pharaoh's head chef.

Verse ConceptsBakingCaptainsNamed People Angry With Others

Listen,” he went on, “I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.”

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s [younger] brother, with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that some harm or injury may come to him.”

Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

Verse ConceptsSpying

If you're honest men, leave one of your brothers here in custody, then the rest of you can leave and take some grain with you to alleviate the famine that's affecting your households.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

Later on, one of them opened up his sack to give his donkey some fodder after they had stopped at the place where they intended to lodge for the night. There, in the mouth of his sack, was all of his money!

Verse ConceptsInnsMangersThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersFeeding AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyStaying Temporarily

But the man who was in charge of the land responded, "I'm going to test your honesty. Leave one of your brothers with me, take some grain for the famine that's afflicting your households, and leave.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

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."

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us some food.”

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

So if you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy some food.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift—some balsam and some honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.

Verse ConceptsFoodAlmondsBalmsHerbs And SpicesMyrrhHoneyAlmond Trees

And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was some oversight.

Verse ConceptsHonestyMistakesDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

We've also brought along some more money to buy supplies, but we don't know who put our money back into our sacks."

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodIndeterminate Sums Of Money

But our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food.’

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolAfflicted To DeathGrey

In addition," Pharaoh ordered, "Do this: take some transport wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones to ride in, along with your wives, and bring your father and come!

Verse ConceptsCartsWagons

He gave each of them some changes of clothes, but he also gave Benjamin 300 pieces of silver and five changes of clothes.

Verse ConceptsDressPresentsFive ThingsPeople Giving ClothesSpecific Sums Of Money

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsFive People

Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsDeathbedsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfGoing TogetherSick Individuals

When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath,” (that is, Bethlehem).

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfUnhappiness

"Before he died, your father left some instructions. He told us, "Tell Joseph, "Please forgive your brothers' offenses. I beg you, forgive their sins, because they wronged you."' So please forgive the transgression of the servants of your father's God."

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience