'Talking' in the Bible

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 Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

As soon as he finished talking to Abraham, the LORD left and Abraham returned to where he had been sitting.

And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

So on the way, he turned aside, approached her, and said, "Come on! Let's have some sex!" But he didn't realize that he was talking to his own daughter-in-law. "What will you give me," she asked, "in order to have sex with me?"

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

Meanwhile, they had no idea that Joseph could understand them, since he was talking to them through an interpreter.

And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?

Look! Your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that I am speaking to you [personally in your language and not through an interpreter].

Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.