'People' in the Bible

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.

And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.

And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.

Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:

And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.

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.

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

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.

And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.