The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Then Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to endure!

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

I will greatly multiply your descendants," the Lord's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

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.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?"

"Very well," he replied, "I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham's wife.

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too."

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.

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

"The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

Then she will reply to me, "Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels too." May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master's son.'

She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham's servant took Rebekah and left.

and asked Abraham's servant, "Who is that man walking in the field toward us?" "That is my master," the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Then Rebekah took her older son Esau's best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"

But Isaac replied, "Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing."

Esau exclaimed, "'Jacob' is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he asked, "Have you not kept back a blessing for me?"

Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.

Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work."

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon.

But Leah replied, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes too?" "All right," Rachel said, "he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."

Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?"

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need." When Jacob urged him, he took it.

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.

They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

What he did was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord killed him too.

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."

Soon after these things, his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Have sex with me."

Joseph's master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

Now Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh's hand."

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

Take your brother too, and go right away to the man.

So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.'

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.

After these things Joseph was told, "Your father is weakening." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too."

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations."

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow."

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."