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But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodMistThe EarthTaking Care Of The Earth

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodGuardsGuardiansSwordsEdenCherubim, Description ofSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesFire From God's ServantsGod's SwordTree Of LifeAngelic GuardianshipGardensCherubimDirectionautonomyclosure

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainCalling upon GodGod, The LordGod, Titles And Names OfActivity Begun

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

Verse ConceptsLanguageSpeechhumanity

They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding


And I will bless (do good for, benefit) those who bless you,
And I will curse [that is, subject to My wrath and judgment] the one who curses (despises, dishonors, has contempt for) you.
And in you all the families (nations) of the earth will be blessed.”

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsBalaams DonkeyAbrahamBlessedGentiles, In Otenemies, of Israel and JudahMediationParticipation, In ChristMessianic PropheciesBlessing Through God's PeopleBlessings For Jew And GentileCursing IsraelGod CursingGod Will BlessFamiliescurses

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

Verse ConceptsHumourPeople Wearing OutSoliloquyThe Promise Of A BabysexHaving A Babysarah

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsGentiles, In OtConsistencyBlessings, To AbrahamMission, Of IsraelParticipation, In ChristBlessing Through God's People

When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersNo Water For PeopleShortage Other Than Food

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.

Verse ConceptsCavesCaves For BuryingCaves Used As Graves

And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use can the birthright be to me?

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

Then he left that area and dug still another well. Because they did not quarrel over that one, Isaac named it Rehoboth, because he used to say, "The LORD has enlarged the territory for us. We will prosper in the land."

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialExcavationPotential Of FruitSpacious PlacePeople Naming ThingsFreedomMoving To A New Placespacefruitfulnessland

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

Verse ConceptsNightThe SunBedsSunsetsStones As Monuments

When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil,

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsAnointing With OilMorning DevotionsMorningOilRising EarlyMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsThose Who Rose EarlyAnointing ThingsAnointing Oil

And he set the reds which he had peeled, in the channels in the troughs of water, - where the flocks came in to drink straight before the flocks, and the females of the flock used to be in heat when they came in to drink;

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingWater ContainersPolesSkinning

Now Jacob used to listen while Laban's sons kept on complaining, "Jacob has taken over everything our father owns! He made himself wealthy from what belongs to our father!"

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfGetting RichTaking Possessions

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, "Kneel down!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSalutationsBowing Before JosephAuthority Delegated To People

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

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

Don't you have the cup that my master uses to drink from and also uses to practice divination? You're wrong to have done this.'"

And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up."

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

And Joseph said, "Give your livestock and I will give you [food] in exchange for your livestock if [your] money is used up."

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than Food

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

At harvest time [when you reap the increase] you shall give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be your own to use for seed for the field and as food for you and those of your households and for your little ones.”

Verse ConceptsLiteral Planting

In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsAffection, Kinds OfLove, And The WorldNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of MachpelahMen's OrdersGathered To One's Peoplegrandfathers