'Cannot' in the Bible

Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period." So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

They said to them, "We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.'

But we replied, 'We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won't be permitted to see the man's face if our youngest brother is not with us.'

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.