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(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

Verse ConceptsPrecious Stones

The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

Verse ConceptsSatanticRetributionSerpentsSnakesStomachsLifelongCrawlingThe Ancient SerpentGod CursingNoting What Animals EatAdam and evePunishmentPunishmentscatsfatedust

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainHuman Blood ShedOther References To Mouths

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me."

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainFugitivesThe HomelessWanderersDriven From God's PresenceGod HidingBeing Hidden From GodHidden From God

Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalAnimals Multiplying

Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

Verse ConceptsAnimalsAnimal LifeFearResponsibility, For God's WorldBirds, Features OfMan's DominionMan's FunctionFear And AnimalsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodRelation Of Animals To ManThe RainbowRainbow

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth."

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahImmortality, In OtThe Eternal CovenantGod Seeing All The EarthGod Remembering His CovenantPromises concerningThe RainbowRainbow

So God said to Noah, "This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth."

Verse ConceptsThe RainbowRainbow

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

Verse ConceptsIdentity

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

Verse ConceptsIdentity

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Verse ConceptsNationalismNoah's Flood

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Deceitdoubt, results ofNot DyingMisrepresentationsisterhood

Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryLove Between RelativesConflictFamily ConflictResolving Conflict

He said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She replied, "I'm running away from my mistress, Sarai."

Verse ConceptsWhere From?Where To?mistress

Then the Lord's angel said to her, "You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.

Verse ConceptsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Pays Attention

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen one who sees me!"

Verse ConceptsVeilsNames Of GodGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The EarthThose Who Saw GodVisibilityOther References To God's Name

I will give the whole land of Canaan -- the land where you are now residing -- to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamGod, The EternalLand, As A Divine GiftProperty, LandThe Promised LandEternal PossessionSojourningI Will Be Their God

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The WickedInvestigatingOutcry

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?" He replied, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

Abraham spoke to him again, "What if forty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the sake of the forty."

Verse ConceptsFortiesNumbers Of Righteous People

Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

Abraham said, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty."

Verse ConceptsTwentyNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceVulgarityHomosexualitySexual Union IntendedWhere Are People?sex

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it."

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry

At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

Verse ConceptsDawnIniquity, Punishment ForEvil AssociationsDaybreakDestruction Of CitiesAt DaybreakGod UrgingAngels Providing Protection

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else's wife."

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightDeath As PunishmentTransferring WivesDirect Communication Through Dreams

To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your 'brother.' This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you."

Verse ConceptsCoveringSilverA Thousand ThingsMan VindicatesSpecific Sums Of MoneyPeople Giving Other Things

Now swear to me right here in God's name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you."

Verse ConceptsKindnessNegotiationPolitical Alliances, By OathsSojourningFalse WaysPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

"Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead."

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Verse ConceptsDrawing Water

"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Staying TemporarilyFathers And Daughters

Laban said to him, "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"

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

Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She replied, 'The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.' I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Verse ConceptsJewelleryWho Is This?This Is Me

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, "This is the Lord's doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

These are the names of Ishmael's sons, by their names according to their records: Nebaioth (Ishmael's firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps -- twelve princes according to their clans.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelCastlesRulersTwelve Beings

and the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombFavouritismJacob, The PatriarchSubjectionTwo GroupsFreshness Of YouthWombServing PeopleStrong NationsOvercoming Adversity

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are."

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord."

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianNot TouchingGoing In PeaceBlessed By God

He went to his father and said, "My father!" Isaac replied, "Here I am. Which are you, my son?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Behold Me!

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."

Verse ConceptsDistinguishingIs It Really?Contact With People

So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's."

Verse ConceptsVoicesContact With PeopleRecognising Thingscheaters

Then he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" "I am," Jacob replied.

Verse ConceptsIs It Really?This Is Me

His father Isaac asked, "Who are you?" "I am your firstborn son," he replied, "Esau!"

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsWho Is This?This Is Me

and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

Jacob asked them, "My brothers, where are you from?" They replied, "We're from Haran."

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

"We can't," they said, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep."

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesRollingUnable To Do Other Things

Then Laban said to him, "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodyOne MonthSame Bone And Fleshspace

Then Laban said to Jacob, "Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be."

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteGod Sending His Son

Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

Verse ConceptsPeople Possessing Other Things

It was also called Mizpah because he said, "May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

"This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByObelisksCairnsThings As Witnesses

He instructed the servant leading the first herd, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?'

Verse ConceptsAskingWho Is This?Where To?

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodWho Is This?Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodSeeing People

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.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAdultery, Examples OfRulersRape

"These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you are having another son."

Verse ConceptsMidwifechildbearing

Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them." "I'm ready," Joseph replied.

Verse ConceptsSheepBehold Me!People Sending People

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

The man said, "They left this area, for I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfWhat Sin?

Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh's authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

Verse ConceptsDiscernment Of GovernorsWisdom, Human NatureUnique IndividualsGod's Things Revealed

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you looking at each other?"

Verse ConceptsLooking Intently At PeopleSeeing Situations

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!"

Verse ConceptsSpyingPeople RememberingUnguardedvulnerability

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies."

Verse ConceptsSpyingvulnerability

They replied, "Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive."

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndividuals Passing AwayTwelve BeingsPassing Awayvulnerability

But Joseph told them, "It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we are not spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.'

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveThe Youngest ChildIndividuals Passing AwayTwelve Beings

"Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.'"

Verse ConceptsTradeThe Youngest ChildSpyingReinstating People

Their father Jacob said to them, "You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me."

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedIndividuals Passing AwayBereavement

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!"

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

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting to do so.)

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesPeople PartingNo DealingsHating Peoples

Judah replied, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord's slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found."

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutAcquitting The Just

Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

You are also commanded to say, 'Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

Verse ConceptsCartsWagons

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt -- Jacob and his sons: Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

Verse ConceptsReadinessParental LoveResigned To DeathLiving OnSeeing People

The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

Joseph went and told Pharaoh, "My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

They replied, "You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves."

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

"Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofSonsTwo SonsPeople Possessing Other Things