And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

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

And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,

See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are you, my son?

And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.