'One' in the Bible

God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.

Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,' -- let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."

They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

"Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.