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And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Verse ConceptsNaked In ShameEating Forbidden FoodTelling Of People's SituationsGod Forbidding

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"

Verse ConceptsAdam, PriviledgesAbel and CainOne FleshPregnancyDesign Of MarriageSexual LoveMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTrue GainThe Promise Of A BabyBabies Sinful From BirthAdam and evewomanhood

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

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Verse ConceptsNoah's Ark

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPeople WaitingPeople Sending Creatures

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.

Verse ConceptsShouldersCoveringCovering The BodySonsClothing OthersOuter GarmentsBackwardsNot Seeing PeopleDads

and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Verse ConceptsCowsSheepAnimals, Types OfOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesMultitudes Of DonkeysPeople Giving Other ThingsPossessing Sheep

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!"

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationReinstating PeopleTransferring WivesRelationship Troubles

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.

Verse ConceptsKnivesFractions, One HalfOpposite SidesHalf Of BodiesBirdscutting

So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child when I am old?'

Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?The Promise Of A Babysarah

Then Sarah lied, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. But the Lord said, "No! You did laugh."

Verse ConceptsLiesLying, Examples OfContradictingThose Frightened Of Godsarahdenial

He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesSmokeConflagrationssmoking

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Verse ConceptsRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

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

Did Abraham not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationPlea Of Innocence

Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenAbraham, Testing And Victorysarah

"I do not know who has done this thing," Abimelech replied. "Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today."

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

"Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGodly Fear, Examples OfThe Only ChildOnly Child Of PeopleIndividuals Fearing GodNot SparingGod ForbiddingLeaving People Alone

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeoplePeople Getting Up

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

"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

Then he said to them, "If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar

"No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingIn Men's PresencePeople Giving Other Things

and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

"Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

He prayed, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersGrace, In OtAdventureSuccess Through GodguidanceHaving A Good Day

When I came to the spring today, I prayed, 'O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

Verse ConceptsSuccess Through Godspringtime

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

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

But Isaac asked his son, "How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the Lord your God brought it to me," he replied.

Verse ConceptsPeople OvercomingWork Soon Done

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

Verse ConceptsHairy PeopleNot Recognising PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

Stay there until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I'll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

Verse ConceptsAnger, Sinful ExamplesForgetting ThingsAnger SubsidingBereavement

Then Jacob woke up and thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!"

Verse ConceptsFear, Caused ByRising EarlyMorning DevotionsThe Presence Of Godawakening

Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah's bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningPolygamyMan's Work Finished

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

Verse ConceptsGoatsLambsNegotiationBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteColor

Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban's flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban's flocks.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsSeparating AnimalsBlack AnimalsNot Mixing

But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsWeak Animals

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn't you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicTambourinesLyresAvoiding SecrecyOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father's house. Yet why did you steal my gods?"

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldRight DesiresRobbing Gods

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillRobbing GodsIn Men's Presence

So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsPeople Sitting DownSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot Findinghidingstatues

Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period." So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. "What did I do wrong?" he demanded of Laban. "What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

Verse ConceptsHuntingAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, RighteousDisputesNamed People Angry With OthersWhat Sin?

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

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

Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today." That is why it was called Galeed.

Verse ConceptsThings As Witnesses

Esau then asked, "What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?" Jacob replied, "To find favor in your sight, my lord."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob's daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father's household.)

Verse ConceptsHappiness

and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

So she removed her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

He turned aside to her along the road and said, "Come on! I want to have sex with you." (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, "What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?"

Verse ConceptsDaughters In LawNot Recognising PeopleWages Of A Prostitute

Judah said, "Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn't find her."

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

Judah recognized them and said, "She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn't give her to Shelah my son." He did not have sexual relations with her again.

Verse ConceptsRecognising ThingsGiving In Marriage

Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to have sex with her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph's care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Verse ConceptsFindingSuccessGod With Specific PeopleSuccess Through God

So he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerRemindersButlersMemoriesPainful MemoriesReminders Of Sin

But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "What if some accident happens to him?"

Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

Verse ConceptsRecognising PeopleNot Recognising Peoplevulnerability

But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die." They did as he said.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

Verse ConceptsCamouflageInterpreting LanguageIgnorant Of Facts

But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

Israel said, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?"

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

The man did just as Joseph said; he brought the men into Joseph's house.

They said, "My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

Then put my cup -- the silver cup -- in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the money for his grain." He did as Joseph instructed.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Joseph said to them, "What did you think you were doing? Don't you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

So the sons of Israel did as he said. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Verse ConceptsJourneyPeople Providing Food

They told him, "Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!" Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

Verse ConceptsFaintingNot Believing PeopleLiving On

Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did."

Verse ConceptsOccupationsThose Who Kept Stock

But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

Verse ConceptsCultivationLiteral PlantingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

Verse ConceptsObeying People

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?"

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.' Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father." When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPast, TheNot Knowing People

The man replied, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, thinking, "Surely what I did has become known."

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you come home so early today?"

Verse ConceptsWork Soon DoneFathers And Daughters

He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us."

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInvitationsHospitalityTravellersWhere Are People?

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill

Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh's slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, "Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past -- both yesterday and today?"

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesFloggingIncomplete Works

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementAnguish, CauseOther Sad PeopleDepression

But Moses replied to the Lord, "If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?"

Verse ConceptsEloquencedoubtersHesitationLipsDoubtShynessTimidityUncircumcised In Heart

And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the Lord had commanded them -- Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesMiracles Of Moses And AaronThings Changedmagic