The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.

After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.

“There, in the tent,” he answered.

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when He demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from the place where he is.

Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident.”

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”

And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”

Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.

May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.

I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’”

And he told the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’

He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs.

Then God withdrew from him at the place where He had spoken to him.

Jacob set up a marker at the place where He had spoken to him—a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

For their possessions were too many for them to live together, and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard in the prison where Joseph was confined.

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from?” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.

When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s money was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our money, and we have brought it back with us.