'People' in the Bible

This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."

"Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.