'Talking' in the Bible

With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended, leaving him.

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

Rebekah gave these instructions to her son Jacob: "Quick! Pay attention!" she said. "I heard your father talking to your brother Esau. He told him,

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

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.

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