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but a stream [would] rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground--

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodMistThe EarthTaking Care Of The Earth

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Verse ConceptsAdam, Creation OfAirAnimal LifeBirds, Features OfStars Created By God

therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, ThePunishment, Legal Aspects OfPunishment, Nature OfTilling The SoilEdenIndustryAdam and eve disobey godGardensFarmingautonomy

Then Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainBlood, as symbol of guiltDeath penaltyRevenge, And RetaliationSanctity Of LifeSevenfoldRestraints From KillingMarks On PeopleDeath Penalty For KillingMan AvengingRevenge

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainPay Attention To People!

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be [so] counted.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalDust, Figurative UseUncountableNumerous As DustImpossible For People

that I would not take anything that is yours, from a thread to a sandal strap, so you could not say, ‘I [the King of Sodom] have made Abram rich.’

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinShoesCords

So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!"

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenParents Duty To ChildrenIntercessory Prayer

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”

“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”

Verse ConceptsFoot washingGuestsMorningServanthood, In SocietySalutationsHospitalityFeet WashingTravellersCity SquaresClean FeetThose Who Rose EarlyCare Of FeetStaying Temporarily

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfAbsence Of SexGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesPlea Of Innocence

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

"I thought that there's no fear of God in this place," Abraham replied, "and that they would kill me because of my wife.

Verse ConceptsFailureNo Fear Of GodWhy People Did Things

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenAbraham, Testing And Victorysarah

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

"Listen to us, sir. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial tombs. None of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

That he would give me, the cave of Machpelah, which pertaineth unto him, which is within the bounds of his field, - For full silver, let him give it me in your midst, For a possession of a buryingplace.

Verse ConceptsCavesCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's PresenceBurying placescouples

And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I will give you silver for the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodThighsSwearing Oaths

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Verse ConceptsWaterCamelsDrawing WaterPutting Animals Down

Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful}, upon which I am going.

Verse ConceptsSuccess Through Godspringtime

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Surely she [is] your wife. Now why did you say 'She [is] my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her."

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

Abimelech said, “What is this that you have done to us? One of the men [among our people] might easily have been intimate with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us [before God].”

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Then said they, "We saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee:

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific People

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

Verse ConceptsThose Who Are Liars

Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?"

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, water the sheep, and [afterward] replace the stone on the mouth of the well.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsGathering CreaturesThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsStopping WellsRolling

When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

Verse ConceptsAgreeing For Good

When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingAnimal ReproductionPolesBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteColor

Jacob kept the lambs separate, facing the striped and entirely black ones that belonged to Laban's flock. He set his own herd by itself and would not let them be with Laban's flock.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsSeparating AnimalsBlack AnimalsNot Mixing

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingStrength Of AnimalsAnimal ReproductionWater ContainersPoles

But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put [them there]. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger [were] Jacob's.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsWeak Animals

Then Laban asked Jacob, "What did you do? You deceived me, carried off my daughters like you would war captives,

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

Why did you hide [your intention] to flee and {trick me}, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicTambourinesLyresAvoiding SecrecyOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

It would be in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsPeople Possibly Doing EvilPowerHurtParents Being Wronghurting

And now, though you would wish to be gone, because you greatly longed after your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldRight DesiresRobbing Gods

Jacob answered Laban, “[I left secretly] because I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other PeopleFear Of Individuals

Then Jacob got angry and started an argument with Laban. "What have I done?" he demanded. "What's my crime that would cause you to come pursue me so violently?

Verse ConceptsHuntingAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, RighteousDisputesNamed People Angry With OthersWhat Sin?

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and [the Feared One] of Isaac, had not been with me, most certainly you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [exhausting] labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment and rebuked you last night.”

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersFear Of God, Examples OfGod Seeing Their AfflictionEmpty HandedGod For UsGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingThose Who ToiledGod Requite Them!

But Laban answered Jacob, "These women are my daughters. These children are my children. The flocks are mine. In fact, everything that you see belongs to me. But what would I do today to my daughters and the children they have borne?

Verse ConceptsPeople Possessing Other Things

And Jacob said, No, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand, inasmuch as I have seen thy face, as any man would see the face of God, and thou were pleased with me.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

They said to them, “We cannot do this thing and give our sister [in marriage] to one who is not circumcised, because that would be a disgrace to us.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

Verse ConceptsGesturesOld Age, DisabilitiesClothingChildren, needs ofIntimacyOld Age, Attainment OfOrnamentsPrejudiceRobesChildren, Parents LovePartialityHope For Old PeopleFine ClothesMulti ColouredThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteLove For ChildrenColor

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsGrudgesHatredJealousyPersecution, Forms OfSpiteSuffering, Causes OfHatred Between RelativesHating IndividualsNo PeaceMan's FavouriteBrothers Lovefriendliness

And Reuben said moreover unto them, "Shed not his blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hands upon him." For he would have rid him out of their hands and delivered him to his father again.

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldSheolWeepingComfort, Of FriendsParental LoveAfflicted To DeathNo Comfort

And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSemenNot GivingPeople With General KnowledgesexSeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow at your father’s house until Shelah my [youngest] son is grown”; [but he was deceiving her] for he thought that [if Shelah should marry her] he too might die like his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

Verse ConceptsSealsStaffConceptionCords

Judah recognized them and said, "She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn't give her to Shelah my son." He did not have sexual relations with her again.

Verse ConceptsRecognising ThingsGiving In Marriage

But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To Peoplemistress

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

Then spake the chief of the butlers with Pharaoh saying, My faults, would mention this day.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerRemindersButlersMemoriesPainful MemoriesReminders Of Sin

When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

Verse ConceptsBad Items

the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said [they would]; the famine was in all the [surrounding] lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread (food).

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.

Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfFear Of God, Examples OfThe Third Day Of The WeekKept Alive By MenIndividuals Fearing God

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as symbol of guiltJudgement On MurderersWronging Other Peopleaccounting

Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedIndividuals Passing AwayBereavement

But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

For if we had not delayed like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.”

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwicePeople Who Delayed

And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesPeople PartingNo DealingsHating Peoples

Please remember, the money which we found in the mouths of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Is it likely then that we would steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Verse ConceptsStealingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPeople Abandoning People

for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

I'll provide for you there, since there are still five years of famine left to go, and you, your households, and everything you own would have otherwise become impoverished.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfFive YearsPeople ProvidingAvoiding Poverty

Jacob sent Judah ahead of them to meet with Joseph, who would be guiding them to Goshen, and so they arrived.

And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face, but see, God has shown me your children as well.”

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attainment OfSeeing People

Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures

When Jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his people.

Verse ConceptsBedsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfLast WordsGathered To One's People

Now forty days were required for this, for that is the customary number of days [of preparation] required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept and grieved for him [in public mourning as they would for royalty] for seventy days.

Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

At the conclusion of the mourning period, Joseph addressed Pharaoh's household. "If you're satisfied with me, would you please take this message to Pharaoh for me? Tell him,

Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father's sheep.

Verse ConceptsGirlsSeven ChildrenFathers And Daughters

Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

Verse ConceptsInnsOpposition, To Sin And EvilMeeting GodGod KillingStaying TemporarilyGod Killing Individuals

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from working.”

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel); and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord [you have the promise of My changeless omnipotence and faithfulness].’”

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsHomeHand Of GodProperty, LandThe Promised LandI Am The Lordland

Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartListeningObstinate Individuals

And you shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me unto you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, before you would not hear.

Verse ConceptsA Feast In The WildernessWorshipping God

But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individualsmagic

But when Pharaoh saw that there was [temporary] relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen or pay attention to them, just as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHeart, Fallen And RedeemedCorrupted ConsciencesStiffnecked PeopleCessationObstinate IndividualsThings Stopping

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the [supernatural] finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodHardness Of HeartMiracles, Responses ToMission, Of IsraelPower Of God, ExpressedStiffnecked PeopleObstinate IndividualsGod Writing With His Fingermagic

And Moses said, It is not proper to do so; for we should sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, if we sacrificed the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, would they not stone us?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesFear Of StoningHating Peoplescats

And Moses said, "Behold, I will go out from thee and pray unto the LORD, and the flies shall depart from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people tomorrow. But let Pharaoh from henceforth deceive no more, that he would not let the people go to sacrifice unto the LORD."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitGod's Action TomorrowThose Who Deceived

And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

Verse ConceptsObstinate Individuals

Then Pharaoh inquired and discovered that not a single one of the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was stubborn and he would not let the people go.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartNot DyingObstinate Individuals

And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillGod Hardening People

For by now I could have put out My hand and struck you and your people with a pestilence, and you would then have been cut off (obliterated) from the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples