Thematic Bible: General references to natural


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Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"

In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife's son who is actually the firstborn.

So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!"

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor.


And you must tell the Israelites, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance."


He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, "Get up and eat."

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, "So, couldn't you stay awake with me for one hour?

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship's cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

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

So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.

In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.


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