17 occurrences

'Family' in the Bible

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheGenerationsBoatsRemnantNoah's ArkRelatives Also InvolvedEntering The ArkPeople Who Did RightFamiliesFamily Problems

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

Verse ConceptsSons In LawRelatives Also InvolvedBringing People Out Of Other Places

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

Verse ConceptsJourneyKindnessGod Has GuidedBless The Lord!God Showed His Lovingkindness

Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

Verse ConceptsKneelingMaidsMarital SexKneesMarital Sex Between

For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

Verse ConceptsLittle FoodGrowth In WealthPeople ProvidingBlessing Through God's People

And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysOvertaking

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodReturning to their landNamed Individuals Who Prayedgrandfathers

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfFive YearsPeople ProvidingAvoiding Poverty

His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeventiesSeventyTwo Sons

And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

Verse ConceptsGod, The EternalEternal Possessionfruitfulness

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

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.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

Verse ConceptsAge At DeathLiving In The Land

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