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nsb@Genesis:1:27 @ God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.

nsb@Genesis:2:2 @ By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.

nsb@Genesis:2:3 @ God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done.

nsb@Genesis:2:4 @ This is the account of when Jehovah God created the heavens and the earth.

nsb@Genesis:2:7 @ Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

nsb@Genesis:2:23 @ The man said: »This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘Woman.’ This is because she was taken out of Man.«

nsb@Genesis:2:24 @ This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

nsb@Genesis:2:25 @ The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

nsb@Genesis:3:8 @ The man and his wife heard the sound of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. They hid from Jehovah, among the trees of the garden.

nsb@Genesis:3:13 @ Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: »What is this you have done?« The woman answered: »The serpent deceived me, and I ate.«

nsb@Genesis:3:14 @ So Jehovah God said to the serpent: »Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

nsb@Genesis:3:18 @ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field.

nsb@Genesis:3:20 @ Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

nsb@Genesis:3:21 @ Jehovah God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

nsb@Genesis:3:22 @ Jehovah said: »The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.«

nsb@Genesis:4:1 @ Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: »With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.«

nsb@Genesis:4:2 @ Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

nsb@Genesis:4:4 @ But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. Jehovah looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

nsb@Genesis:4:5 @ He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast.

nsb@Genesis:4:8 @ While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

nsb@Genesis:4:17 @ Cain had intercourse with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Later Cain built a city. He named it after his son Enoch.

nsb@Genesis:4:21 @ His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

nsb@Genesis:4:23 @ Lamech said to his wives: »Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.

nsb@Genesis:4:25 @ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.«

nsb@Genesis:5:1 @ This is the written genealogy of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

nsb@Genesis:5:3 @ When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

nsb@Genesis:6:3 @ Jehovah said: »My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal and corrupt. Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years.«

nsb@Genesis:6:5 @ Jehovah saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

nsb@Genesis:6:6 @ Jehovah was grieved that he had made man on the earth. His heart was grieved with pain.

nsb@Genesis:6:9 @ This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God.

nsb@Genesis:6:15 @ »This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

nsb@Genesis:7:1 @ Jehovah said to Noah: »Go into the ark, you and your whole family. For I have found you righteous in this generation.

nsb@Genesis:7:7 @ Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

nsb@Genesis:7:13 @ Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

nsb@Genesis:8:9 @ The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

nsb@Genesis:8:12 @ He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

nsb@Genesis:8:18 @ Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

nsb@Genesis:8:21 @ Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: »Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

nsb@Genesis:9:1 @ God blessed Noah and his sons. He said: »Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

nsb@Genesis:9:5 @ »I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.

nsb@Genesis:9:6 @ »Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.

nsb@Genesis:9:8 @ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

nsb@Genesis:9:12 @ God said: »This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

nsb@Genesis:9:17 @ God said: »This is the sign of the covenant I have established with all life on the earth.«

nsb@Genesis:9:21 @ He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent.

nsb@Genesis:9:22 @ Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

nsb@Genesis:9:24 @ Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him.

nsb@Genesis:9:25 @ He said: »Canaan is cursed! He will be a lowly slave to his brothers.«

nsb@Genesis:9:27 @ »May God extend the territory of Japheth. And may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.«

nsb@Genesis:10:1 @ This is the genealogy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who also had sons after the flood.

nsb@Genesis:10:4 @ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

nsb@Genesis:10:10 @ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in Shinar.

nsb@Genesis:10:15 @ Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

nsb@Genesis:10:25 @ Two sons were born to Eber. One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided. His brother was named Joktan.

nsb@Genesis:11:6 @ Jehovah said: »If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.

nsb@Genesis:11:10 @ This is the genealogy of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad.

nsb@Genesis:11:27 @ This is the genealogy of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

nsb@Genesis:11:28 @ While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

nsb@Genesis:11:31 @ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

nsb@Genesis:12:5 @ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.

nsb@Genesis:12:7 @ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring.« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

nsb@Genesis:12:8 @ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.

nsb@Genesis:12:11 @ He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: »I know what a beautiful woman you are.

nsb@Genesis:12:12 @ »When the Egyptians see you, they will say: ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but will let you live.

nsb@Genesis:12:15 @ Pharaoh’s officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.

nsb@Genesis:12:17 @ Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

nsb@Genesis:12:20 @ Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

nsb@Genesis:13:1 @ Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

nsb@Genesis:13:3 @ He traveled from place to place from the Negev until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier.

nsb@Genesis:13:4 @ This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

nsb@Genesis:13:10 @ Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

nsb@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

nsb@Genesis:13:18 @ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.

nsb@Genesis:14:12 @ They also captured Lot, son of Abram’s brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

nsb@Genesis:14:14 @ Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive. Abram led his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, in pursuit as far as Daniel.

nsb@Genesis:14:15 @ He divided his forces against them by night. He and his servants routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

nsb@Genesis:14:16 @ Then he brought back all the goods. He also brought back his nephew Lot and all the men and women.

nsb@Genesis:15:4 @ The word of Jehovah came to him: »This man shall not be your heir. No one but your very own issue shall be your heir.«

nsb@Genesis:15:6 @ He believed in Jehovah. Jehovah considered Abram’s faith as his righteousness.

nsb@Genesis:15:7 @ Then God said to him: »I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.«

nsb@Genesis:15:13 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.

nsb@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

nsb@Genesis:16:3 @ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.

nsb@Genesis:16:12 @ »He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.«

nsb@Genesis:17:3 @ Abram fell on his face and God said to him:

nsb@Genesis:17:4 @ »This is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

nsb@Genesis:17:10 @ »This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

nsb@Genesis:17:12 @ »For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised. This includes those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner, those who are not your offspring.

nsb@Genesis:17:14 @ »Any male not circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.«

nsb@Genesis:17:17 @ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?«

nsb@Genesis:17:19 @ God replied: »Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

nsb@Genesis:17:20 @ »Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

nsb@Genesis:17:21 @ »But my covenant I will establish with Isaac. Sarah will bear him to you by this time next year.«

nsb@Genesis:17:23 @ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

nsb@Genesis:17:25 @ His son Ishmael was thirteen.

nsb@Genesis:17:26 @ Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.

nsb@Genesis:17:27 @ Every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.

nsb@Genesis:18:19 @ »I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.«

nsb@Genesis:18:33 @ Jehovah went his way as soon as he finished speaking with Abraham. Abraham returned to his place.

nsb@Genesis:19:12 @ »Do you have any other relatives here in the city?« The angels asked. »Get them out of this place, sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.

nsb@Genesis:19:14 @ Lot rushed out to tell his sons-in-law: »Hurry! Get out of the city! Jehovah is going to destroy it.« But the young men thought he was only joking.

nsb@Genesis:19:16 @ Lot still hesitated. So the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for Jehovah was merciful.

nsb@Genesis:19:21 @ The angel said to him: »All right, I will grant you this request too. I will not destroy the city you are talking about.

nsb@Genesis:19:30 @ Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.

nsb@Genesis:20:2 @ he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

nsb@Genesis:20:3 @ God appeared to the king in a dream and said: »You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.«

nsb@Genesis:20:5 @ »Abraham said that she was his sister. She said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience. I have done no wrong!«

nsb@Genesis:20:6 @ God said to him in a dream: »Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

nsb@Genesis:20:8 @ So Abimelech got up early in the morning. He called all his servants and told them everything. The men were very afraid.

nsb@Genesis:20:10 @ Abimelech also asked Abraham: »What were you thinking when you did this?«

nsb@Genesis:20:11 @ Abraham said: »I thought that because there are no people who reverence God in this place, I would be killed because of my wife.

nsb@Genesis:20:14 @ Abimelech took sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

nsb@Genesis:20:16 @ He said to Sarah: »Do not forget that I have given your brother twenty-five pounds of silver. This is to silence any criticism against you from everyone with you. You are completely cleared.«

nsb@Genesis:20:17 @ Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could have children.

nsb@Genesis:21:2 @ Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him.

nsb@Genesis:21:4 @ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him.

nsb@Genesis:21:5 @ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

nsb@Genesis:21:6 @ Sarah said: »God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.«

nsb@Genesis:21:7 @ She added: »Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.«

nsb@Genesis:21:11 @ This upset Abraham because of his son Ishmael.

nsb@Genesis:21:21 @ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:21:22 @ Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do.

nsb@Genesis:21:26 @ Abimelech said: »I do not know who has done this thing. You did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.«

nsb@Genesis:21:30 @ He said: »You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.«

nsb@Genesis:21:32 @ They made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

nsb@Genesis:22:3 @ Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey. He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him. He had cut the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out for the place that God had told him about.

nsb@Genesis:22:9 @ They came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

nsb@Genesis:22:13 @ Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.

nsb@Genesis:22:16 @ He said: »I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,

nsb@Genesis:22:18 @ ‘»All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.’«

nsb@Genesis:22:24 @ His concubine, Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

nsb@Genesis:23:3 @ Abraham left the side of his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.

nsb@Genesis:23:6 @ »Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.«

nsb@Genesis:23:9 @ to sell me Machpelah Cave. It is near the edge of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for its full price here in your presence. Then I can own it as a burial ground.«

nsb@Genesis:23:18 @ His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement.

nsb@Genesis:23:19 @ Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:23:20 @ The Hittites sold the field and its cave to Abraham as his property to be used as a tomb.

nsb@Genesis:24:2 @ Abraham said to the senior servant of his household who was in charge of all that he owned: »Take a solemn oath.

nsb@Genesis:24:5 @ The servant asked: »What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?«

nsb@Genesis:24:7 @ »Jehovah, the God of heaven, took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth. He spoke to me and swore to me. He said: I will give this land to your descendants. He will send his angel before you. You will take a wife for my son from there.

nsb@Genesis:24:8 @ »You will be free from this oath if the woman is not willing to follow you. Only do not take my son back there.«

nsb@Genesis:24:9 @ The servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master. He swore to him concerning this matter.

nsb@Genesis:24:10 @ The servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and then set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand. He arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

nsb@Genesis:24:11 @ He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time. This is the time when women go out to draw water.

nsb@Genesis:24:14 @ »Let there be the girl to whom I say: ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers: 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' May she be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loving-kindness to my master.«

nsb@Genesis:24:20 @ She quickly emptied her jar into the water trough. Then she ran back to the well to draw more water. She drew enough for all his camels.

nsb@Genesis:24:21 @ The man quietly watched her to see whether or not Jehovah made his trip successful.

nsb@Genesis:24:23 @ He said: »Please tell me who your father is. Is there room in his house for my men and me to spend the night?«

nsb@Genesis:24:27 @ He said: »Praise Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham. He has faithfully kept his promise to my master. Jehovah has led me straight to my master’s relatives.«

nsb@Genesis:24:30 @ Laban had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms and had heard her say what the man told her. He went to Abraham’s servant, who was standing by his camels at the well,

nsb@Genesis:24:32 @ The man went into the house. Laban unloaded the camels and gave them straw and fodder. Then he brought water for Abraham’s servant and his men to wash their feet.

nsb@Genesis:24:37 @ »I solemnly promised my master I would do what he said. He told me: ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the women in this land of Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:24:40 @ »He said to me: ‘Jehovah, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you to make your journey successful. You will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house.

nsb@Genesis:24:48 @ »I bowed low and worshiped Jehovah, and praised Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham. He guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

nsb@Genesis:24:58 @ They called Rebecca and asked: »Do you want to go with this man?« »Yes,« she answered.

nsb@Genesis:24:59 @ They allowed Rebecca and her old family servant to go with Abraham’s servant and his men.«

nsb@Genesis:24:67 @ Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in. She became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca. He was comforted for the loss of his mother.

nsb@Genesis:25:6 @ While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:25:8 @ Then he took his last breath and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

nsb@Genesis:25:9 @ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre.

nsb@Genesis:25:10 @ This was the field Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

nsb@Genesis:25:11 @ After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi..

nsb@Genesis:25:12 @ This is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.

nsb@Genesis:25:15 @ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

nsb@Genesis:25:17 @ Ishmael lived one hundred and thirty-seven years. Then he died and was gathered to his ancestors.

nsb@Genesis:25:18 @ His descendants lived as nomads from the region of Havilah to Shur. This is near Egypt, in the direction of Assyria. He died in the presence of all his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:25:19 @ This is the genealogy of Abraham’s son Isaac and his descendants. Abraham was the father of Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:25:21 @ Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife because she was childless. Jehovah answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.

nsb@Genesis:25:22 @ She was going to have twins. Before they were born they struggled against each other in her womb. She said: »Why should something like this happen to me?« She asked Jehovah for an answer.

nsb@Genesis:25:25 @ The first one was reddish. His skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.

nsb@Genesis:25:28 @ Isaac preferred Esau. This is because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed. Rebecca preferred Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:25:33 @ Jacob answered: »First make a vow that you will give me your birthright.« Esau made the vow and gave his rights as firstborn to Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:25:34 @ Jacob gave him some bread and some of the soup. He ate and drank and then got up and left. Esau did not care about his birthright.

nsb@Genesis:26:3 @ »You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.

nsb@Genesis:26:4 @ »I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth.

nsb@Genesis:26:5 @ »This is because Abraham did everything I told him to do.«

nsb@Genesis:26:7 @ His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her. So he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.

nsb@Genesis:26:11 @ So Abimelech charged all the people, saying: »He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.«

nsb@Genesis:26:15 @ The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt.

nsb@Genesis:26:18 @ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

nsb@Genesis:26:22 @ He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth. He said: »Now Jehovah has made room for us. We will prosper in this land.«

nsb@Genesis:26:25 @ Isaac built an altar there and worshiped Jehovah. Then he set up his camp. His servants dug another well.

nsb@Genesis:26:26 @ Abimelech came from Gerar with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:26:31 @ Early the next morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said good-bye to them. They parted as friends.

nsb@Genesis:26:35 @ These two women brought a lot of grief to his parents, Isaac and Rebekah.

nsb@Genesis:27:1 @ Isaac was old and going blind. He called his older son Esau and said to him: »Son!« Esau answered: »Here I am.«

nsb@Genesis:27:5 @ Rebekah listened while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Esau went into the open country to hunt for some wild game to bring back.

nsb@Genesis:27:10 @ »You take it to him to eat. Then he will give you his blessing before he dies.«

nsb@Genesis:27:11 @ Jacob said to his mother: »You know that Esau is a hairy man. I have smooth skin.

nsb@Genesis:27:13 @ His mother replied: »Let any curse against you fall on me, my son. Just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:14 @ So Jacob brought the meat to his mother. And she cooked the tasty food that his father liked.

nsb@Genesis:27:16 @ She also covered the smooth part of his hands and neck with goatskins.

nsb@Genesis:27:18 @ He went to his father and said: »Father?« »Yes,« he answered. »Who are you, Son?«

nsb@Genesis:27:22 @ Jacob went closer. His father touched him. He said: »You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau’s.«

nsb@Genesis:27:26 @ Then his father Isaac said to him: »Come close, my son, and kiss me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:27 @ He came close and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his garments. Then he blessed him and said: »See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field Jehovah has blessed.«

nsb@Genesis:27:30 @ No sooner had Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob left his presence, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

nsb@Genesis:27:31 @ He also prepared a good-tasting meal and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father: »Please, Father, eat some of the meat I have hunted for you so that you will bless me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:32 @ »Who are you?« his father Isaac asked him. »I am your firstborn son, Esau,« he answered.

nsb@Genesis:27:33 @ Isaac began to tremble and shake all over. He asked: »Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.«

nsb@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard this he cried out loudly and bitterly. He said: »Give me your blessing also, Father!«

nsb@Genesis:27:36 @ Esau said: »This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the firstborn son. Now he has taken my blessing. Have you saved a blessing for me?«

nsb@Genesis:27:37 @ Isaac answered: »I have already made him master over you. I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!«

nsb@Genesis:27:40 @ »You will live by your sword. You will serve your brother. Soon you will become restless and break his yoke from your neck.«

nsb@Genesis:27:41 @ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: »The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.«

nsb@Genesis:28:4 @ »He will bless you and your descendants as he blessed Abraham. You may take possession of this land, in which you have lived and which God gave to Abraham!«

nsb@Genesis:28:6 @ Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria.

nsb@Genesis:28:7 @ Jacob did as his father and mother said. He went to Paddan-aram.

nsb@Genesis:28:8 @ It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women.

nsb@Genesis:28:9 @ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

nsb@Genesis:28:11 @ As soon as the sun went down he stopped for the night. He took one of the stones from that place, put it under his head, and lay down there.

nsb@Genesis:28:15 @ »Remember, I am with you. I will watch over you wherever you go. I will also bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I do what I have promised you.«

nsb@Genesis:28:16 @ Jacob woke up from his sleep and said: »Truly, Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it!«

nsb@Genesis:28:17 @ He was filled with reverence. He said: »This is an awesome place! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to the heavens!«

nsb@Genesis:28:18 @ Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had under his head. He set it up as a marker and poured oil on top of it.

nsb@Genesis:28:22 @ »This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.«

nsb@Genesis:29:1 @ Jacob continued on his trip and arrived at the land in the east.

nsb@Genesis:29:2 @ Suddenly he came upon a well out in the fields. There were three flocks of sheep lying around it. The flocks were watered from this well. It had a large stone over the opening.

nsb@Genesis:29:6 @ Jacob asked: »How is he?« They replied: »He is well. Here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.«

nsb@Genesis:29:10 @ Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of his uncle Laban, with his uncle Laban’s sheep. He came forward and rolled the stone off the opening of the well and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

nsb@Genesis:29:13 @ As soon as Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him. He embraced and kissed him and brought him into his home. Then Jacob told Laban all that had happened.

nsb@Genesis:29:23 @ In the evening when it was dark, he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him. Jacob slept with her.

nsb@Genesis:29:24 @ Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her maid.

nsb@Genesis:29:27 @ »Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you will have to work for me another seven years.«

nsb@Genesis:29:28 @ Jacob did that. He finished the week with Leah. Then Laban gave his daughter Rachel to him as his wife.

nsb@Genesis:29:29 @ Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

nsb@Genesis:29:33 @ She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »Certainly, Jehovah has heard that I am unloved. He has also given me this son.« She named him Simeon.

nsb@Genesis:29:35 @ Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »This time I will praise Jehovah.« So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

nsb@Genesis:30:3 @ She said: »Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.«

nsb@Genesis:30:14 @ During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields. He found some mandrake plants. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah: »Please, give me some of your son’s mandrake plants.«

nsb@Genesis:30:20 @ Leah said: »God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons.« So she named him Zebulun.

nsb@Genesis:30:35 @ Laban took out the striped and spotted male goats, all the speckled and spotted female goats, and every black lamb. He had his sons take charge of them that same day.

nsb@Genesis:30:36 @ They moved away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

nsb@Genesis:30:40 @ Jacob kept the sheep separate from the goats and made them face in the direction of the streaked and black animals of Laban’s flock. In this way he built up his own flock and kept it apart from Laban’s.

nsb@Genesis:31:1 @ Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying: »Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father. He has gained all his wealth from him.«

nsb@Genesis:31:4 @ Then Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah to come out to the open country where his flocks were.

nsb@Genesis:31:9 @ »This way God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.

nsb@Genesis:31:13 @ »‘I am the God of Bethel. That is where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Arise and leave this land. Return to the land of your birth.’«

nsb@Genesis:31:17 @ Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

nsb@Genesis:31:18 @ He drove all his livestock ahead of him. He took all the possessions that he had accumulated. He took his own livestock that he had accumulated in Paddan-aram and went back to his father Isaac in Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:31:19 @ When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

nsb@Genesis:31:23 @ Laban took his men with him and pursued Jacob for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

nsb@Genesis:31:25 @ Jacob camped on a mountain. So when Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, he set up his camp not far from Jacod’s.

nsb@Genesis:31:28 @ »You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing you did.

nsb@Genesis:31:29 @ »It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father came to me this night. He said, ‘Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.’

nsb@Genesis:31:36 @ Jacob lost his temper. »What crime have I committed?« he asked angrily. »What law have I broken that gives you the right to hunt me down?

nsb@Genesis:31:46 @ Jacob said to his relatives: »Gather some stones.« They took stones, put them into a pile, and ate there by the pile of stones.

nsb@Genesis:31:47 @ In his language, Laban called it »Jegar Sahadutha«, but Jacob called it »Galeed.«

nsb@Genesis:31:48 @ Laban said: »This pile of stones stands as a witness between you and me today.« This is why it was named Galeed,

nsb@Genesis:31:52 @ »This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me.

nsb@Genesis:31:53 @ »May the God of Abraham and Nahor—the God of their father—judge between us.« So Jacob swore this oath out of respect for his father Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:31:54 @ He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

nsb@Genesis:31:55 @ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and went back home.

nsb@Genesis:32:2 @ When he saw them, Jacob said: »This is God’s camp!« He named that place Mahanaim.

nsb@Genesis:32:3 @ Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in Seir, the country of Edom.

nsb@Genesis:32:6 @ When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said: »We went to your brother Esau. He is already on his way to meet you. He has four hundred men with him.«

nsb@Genesis:32:7 @ Jacob was frightened and worried. He divided the people who were with him into two groups. He also divided his sheep, goats, cattle, and camels.

nsb@Genesis:32:13 @ Jacob stayed there that night. Then he prepared a gift for his brother Esau from what he had brought with him:

nsb@Genesis:32:16 @ He placed servants in charge of each herd. He said to his servants: »Go ahead of me, and maintain a distance between the herds.«

nsb@Genesis:32:18 @ »Say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. This is a gift sent to you. Jacob is directly behind us.’«

nsb@Genesis:32:20 @ »Be sure to say, ‘Jacob is right behind us.’« He thought: »I will make peace with him by giving him this gift that I am sending ahead of me. After that, I will see him, and he will welcome me back.«

nsb@Genesis:32:22 @ That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok River.

nsb@Genesis:32:25 @ The man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob. He gave him a blow in the hollow part of his thigh, so that his leg was damaged.

nsb@Genesis:32:31 @ The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his thigh.

nsb@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket. This is because God touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh at the muscle.

nsb@Genesis:33:1 @ Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. Therefore he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two concubines.

nsb@Genesis:33:3 @ Jacob went ahead of them. He bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

nsb@Genesis:33:4 @ Esau ran to meet him. He threw his arms around him, and kissed him. They both cried.

nsb@Genesis:33:8 @ Esau asked: »What about that other group I met? What do you mean by all this company?« Jacob answered: »It was to gain your favor.«

nsb@Genesis:33:11 @ »Take my offering then, with my blessing. God has been very good to me and I have enough.« So at his strong request, he took it.

nsb@Genesis:33:14 @ »Please let my lord pass on before his servant. I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.«

nsb@Genesis:33:16 @ So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

nsb@Genesis:33:17 @ Jacob moved on to Succoth. He built a house there for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is named Succoth.

nsb@Genesis:33:19 @ He bought the piece of land on which he pitched his tents. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of silver.

nsb@Genesis:34:4 @ He told his father: »I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife.«

nsb@Genesis:34:5 @ Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced. Since his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

nsb@Genesis:34:13 @ Jacob’s sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what happened to their sister.

nsb@Genesis:34:19 @ The young man did not delay to do what was required. This was because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter. He was the most honored of all his family.

nsb@Genesis:34:20 @ Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said:

nsb@Genesis:34:21 @ »These people are friendly toward us. So let them live in our land and move about freely in the area. Look, there is plenty of room in this land for them. We can marry their daughters and let them marry ours.

nsb@Genesis:35:2 @ Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: »Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.

nsb@Genesis:35:5 @ Jacob and his family traveled through Canaan. God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.

nsb@Genesis:35:18 @ Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:35:21 @ Israel moved on again. He pitched his tent by the tower of Eder.

nsb@Genesis:35:22 @ While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

nsb@Genesis:35:27 @ Jacob came home to his father Isaac, to Mamre’s city, Kiriath-arba. Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while.

nsb@Genesis:35:29 @ Isaac took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

nsb@Genesis:36:1 @ This is the genealogy of Esau, who is Edom, and his descendants.

nsb@Genesis:36:2 @ Esau selected his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

nsb@Genesis:36:6 @ Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his cattle and all his animals, and all his goods which he had gained in the land of Canaan, and went to a country away from the presence of his brother Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:36:9 @ This is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

nsb@Genesis:36:24 @ These were the sons of Zibeon: both Aiah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

nsb@Genesis:36:32 @ Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

nsb@Genesis:36:33 @ And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:34 @ When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:35 @ And when Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who attacked Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

nsb@Genesis:36:36 @ When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:37 @ And when Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:38 @ When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:39 @ And when Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

nsb@Genesis:37:1 @ Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.

nsb@Genesis:37:2 @ This is the story of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph told his father about the bad things his brothers were doing.

nsb@Genesis:37:3 @ Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel’s old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

nsb@Genesis:37:5 @ One time Joseph had a dream. He told his brothers about it and they hated him even more.

nsb@Genesis:37:8 @ »Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us?« his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.

nsb@Genesis:37:9 @ Joseph had another dream and told his brothers: »I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.«

nsb@Genesis:37:10 @ He also told the dream to his father. His father scolded him. »What kind of a dream is that? Do you think that your mother, your brothers, and I are going to come and bow down to you?«

nsb@Genesis:37:11 @ Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

nsb@Genesis:37:12 @ His brothers went to Shechem to take care of their father’s flock.

nsb@Genesis:37:13 @ His father Jacob said to him: »I want you to go to your brothers. They are with the sheep near Shechem.« »Yes, I will go,« Joseph answered.

nsb@Genesis:37:14 @ His father said: »Go and find out how your brothers and the sheep are doing. Then come back and let me know.« So he sent him from Hebron Valley. Joseph was near Shechem,

nsb@Genesis:37:17 @ »They are not here anymore,« the man replied. »I heard them say they were going to Dothan.« Joseph soon found his brothers in Dothan.

nsb@Genesis:37:21 @ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said.

nsb@Genesis:37:22 @ »Do not murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a dry well out here in the desert.« Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father.

nsb@Genesis:37:23 @ When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat.

nsb@Genesis:37:26 @ Judah asked his brothers: »What will we gain by killing our brother and covering up his death?

nsb@Genesis:37:27 @ »Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.« His brothers agreed.

nsb@Genesis:37:29 @ Reuben came back to the pit and found that Joseph was not there. He tore his clothes in sorrow.

nsb@Genesis:37:30 @ He returned to his brothers and said: »The boy is not there! What am I going to do?«

nsb@Genesis:37:32 @ They took the robe to their father and said: »We found this. Does it belong to your son?«

nsb@Genesis:37:33 @ He recognized it and said: »Yes, it is his! Some wild animal has killed him. My son Joseph has been torn to pieces!«

nsb@Genesis:37:34 @ Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

nsb@Genesis:37:35 @ All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: »I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son.« So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:38:1 @ At that time Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah, who was from the town of Adullam.

nsb@Genesis:38:6 @ For his first son Er, Judah got a wife whose name was Tamar.

nsb@Genesis:38:9 @ Onan knew that the children would not belong to him. So when he had intercourse with his brother’s widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, assuring that there would be no children for his brother.

nsb@Genesis:38:11 @ Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar: »Return to your father’s house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up.« He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

nsb@Genesis:38:12 @ After some time Judah’s wife died. When he finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah of Adullam went to Timnah, where his sheep were being sheared.

nsb@Genesis:38:13 @ Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.

nsb@Genesis:38:20 @ Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand. But he did not find her.

nsb@Genesis:38:23 @ Then Judah said: »Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you did not find her.«

nsb@Genesis:38:28 @ As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand. The midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said: »This one came out first.«

nsb@Genesis:38:29 @ When he drew back his hand, his brother came out. She said: »So this is how you have broken out!« He was named Perez.

nsb@Genesis:38:30 @ Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.

nsb@Genesis:39:2 @ Jehovah was with Joseph. Joseph became a successful man. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.

nsb@Genesis:39:4 @ Potiphar was pleased with him and made him his personal servant. He put him in charge of his house and everything he owned.

nsb@Genesis:39:5 @ Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s household and everything he had in his house and in his fields because of Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:39:7 @ Soon his master’s wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her.

nsb@Genesis:39:9 @ »No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?«

nsb@Genesis:39:11 @ One day he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were there.

nsb@Genesis:39:12 @ She grabbed him by his coat and said: »Come to bed with me!« But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand.

nsb@Genesis:39:13 @ When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind,

nsb@Genesis:39:14 @ she called her household servants and said to them: »Look! My husband brought this Hebrew here to fool around with us. He came in and tried to go to bed with me. I screamed as loud as I could.

nsb@Genesis:39:15 @ »When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me.«

nsb@Genesis:39:18 @ »When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.«

nsb@Genesis:40:1 @ The king’s chief cupbearer and his chief baker made the king angry.

nsb@Genesis:40:2 @ Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

nsb@Genesis:40:7 @ He asked these officials of Pharaoh who were with him in his master’s prison: »Why do you look so unhappy today?«

nsb@Genesis:40:9 @ So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said: »In my dream a grapevine with three branches appeared in front of me.

nsb@Genesis:40:12 @ »This is what it means,« Joseph said to him. »The three branches are three days.

nsb@Genesis:40:13 @ »In the next three days Pharaoh will release you and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

nsb@Genesis:40:14 @ »Remember me when things go well for you. Please do me a favor. Mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.

nsb@Genesis:40:18 @ Joseph answered: »This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

nsb@Genesis:40:20 @ It happened on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

nsb@Genesis:40:21 @ He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

nsb@Genesis:41:8 @ The king was upset the next morning. So he called his magicians and wise men and told them what he had dreamed. None of them could tell him what the dreams meant.

nsb@Genesis:41:14 @ So the king sent for Joseph. He was quickly brought out of jail. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to the king.

nsb@Genesis:41:24 @ »The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but no one could tell me what it meant.«

nsb@Genesis:41:36 @ »This food will be a reserve supply for our country during the seven years of famine that will happen in Egypt. Then the land will not be ruined by the famine.«

nsb@Genesis:41:37 @ The king and his officials approved this plan,

nsb@Genesis:41:39 @ The king said to Joseph: »God has shown you all this. Therefore it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.

nsb@Genesis:41:42 @ Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand. He clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.

nsb@Genesis:41:43 @ He had him ride in his second chariot. They proclaimed before him: »Bow the knee!« Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:41:44 @ Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph: »Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.«

nsb@Genesis:41:45 @ Pharaoh named Joseph, Zaphenath-paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:41:51 @ Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh, because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father’s family.

nsb@Genesis:42:1 @ When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons: »Why are you doing nothing?«

nsb@Genesis:42:5 @ Israel’s sons left with the others who were going to buy grain. This is because there was also famine in Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:42:7 @ Joseph recognized his brothers the moment he saw them. Even so, he acted as if he did not know them and spoke harshly to them: »Where did you come from?« They answered: »From Canaan, to buy food.«

nsb@Genesis:42:8 @ Even though Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

nsb@Genesis:42:15 @ »This is how you will be tested: I swear by the name of the king that you will never leave unless your youngest brother comes here.

nsb@Genesis:42:18 @ On the third day, Joseph said: »Do this and live, for I too respect God.

nsb@Genesis:42:21 @ They said to one another: »Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.«

nsb@Genesis:42:22 @ Reuben said: »Did I not tell you? Did I say, ‘Do not sin against the boy’? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.«

nsb@Genesis:42:25 @ Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man’s money in his sack. They were to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them.

nsb@Genesis:42:27 @ They stopped for the night. One of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and his money was right inside his sack.

nsb@Genesis:42:28 @ He said to his brothers: »My money has been put back! It is right here in my sack!« They wanted to die. They trembled and turned to each other and asked: »What has God done to us?«

nsb@Genesis:42:33 @ »The governor of that land said to us, ‘This is how I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me. Take food for your starving families and go.

nsb@Genesis:42:34 @ »‘But bring me your youngest brother. Then I will know that you are not spies but honest men. I will give your brother back to you, and you will be able to move about freely in this country.’«

nsb@Genesis:42:35 @ As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened.

nsb@Genesis:42:37 @ So Reuben said to his father: »You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Let me take care of him. I will bring him back to you.«

nsb@Genesis:42:38 @ Jacob replied: »My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!«

nsb@Genesis:43:2 @ When they finished eating the grain they brought from Egypt, Israel said to his sons: »Go back and buy us a little more food.«

nsb@Genesis:43:7 @ They answered: »The man kept asking about our family and us. He asked, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How could we possibly know he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?«

nsb@Genesis:43:8 @ Then Judah said to his father Israel: »Send the boy along with me. Let us get going so that we will not starve to death.

nsb@Genesis:43:10 @ »If we had not waited so long, we could have made this trip twice by now.«

nsb@Genesis:43:16 @ He saw Benjamin and told the servant in charge of his house: »Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and cook it, so they can eat with me at noon.«

nsb@Genesis:43:18 @ On the way they were worried and started talking: »We are being taken there because of the money that was put back in our sacks last time. He will arrest us and take our donkeys. He will make us his slaves!«

nsb@Genesis:43:29 @ Joseph looked around and saw his brother Benjamin. He said: »This must be the youngest brother you told me about. God bless you, my son.«

nsb@Genesis:43:30 @ Right away he rushed off to his room and cried because of his love for Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:43:31 @ After washing his face and returning, he was able to control himself. He said: »Serve the meal!«

nsb@Genesis:43:32 @ Joseph was served at a table by himself. His brothers were served at another. The Egyptians sat at yet another table. This is because Egyptians felt it was disgusting to eat with Hebrews.

nsb@Genesis:44:1 @ Later, Joseph told the servant in charge of his house: »Fill the men’s grain sacks with as much as they can hold and put their money in the sacks.

nsb@Genesis:44:4 @ They just left the city and were not far off, when Joseph said to the man in charge of his house: »Follow the men and when you overtake them, say to them: ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

nsb@Genesis:44:5 @ »‘Is this the cup that my master drinks from and that he uses for telling the future? What you have done is evil!’«

nsb@Genesis:44:7 @ They answered him: »What do you mean, Sir, by talking like this? We swear that we have done no such thing.

nsb@Genesis:44:11 @ Each of the brothers quickly put his sack on the ground and opened it.

nsb@Genesis:44:13 @ This upset the brothers so much that they began tearing their clothes in sorrow. Then they loaded their donkeys and returned to the city.

nsb@Genesis:44:14 @ When Judah and his brothers got there, Joseph was still at home. So they bowed down to Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:44:17 @ He said: »It is far from me that I should do this. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. As for you, you go in peace to your father.«

nsb@Genesis:44:20 @ »We answered, ‘We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

nsb@Genesis:44:22 @ »We replied, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If the boy leaves him, his father will die.’

nsb@Genesis:44:29 @ »‘If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.’

nsb@Genesis:44:33 @ »Sir, I am your slave. Please let me stay here in place of Benjamin. Please let him return home with his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:45:1 @ Joseph could no longer control himself in front of those standing near him. He sent them out of the room and when he was alone with his brothers he made himself known to them. / Joseph could no longer control his feelings in front of his servants. He sent them out of the room. When he was alone with his brothers, he told them: »I am Joseph!«

nsb@Genesis:45:3 @ Joseph said to his brothers: »I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?« His brothers could not answer him because they were afraid of him.

nsb@Genesis:45:4 @ »Please come closer to me,« Joseph said to his brothers. They came closer. He said: »I am Joseph, the brother you sold into slavery in Egypt!

nsb@Genesis:45:8 @ »It was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me like a father to Pharaoh. He made me lord over his entire household, and ruler of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:45:9 @ »Hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: »God has made me lord of Egypt. Come here to me immediately!

nsb@Genesis:45:14 @ Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. (Acts strkjv@20:37)

nsb@Genesis:45:15 @ He kissed all his brothers and wept on them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

nsb@Genesis:45:16 @ When the news reached the palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, the king and his officials were pleased.

nsb@Genesis:45:22 @ Joseph gave some new clothes to each of his brothers. He gave Benjamin five new outfits and three hundred pieces of silver.

nsb@Genesis:45:23 @ To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things in Egypt. And ten other donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for the return trip.

nsb@Genesis:45:24 @ Then he sent his brothers off and told them: »Do not argue on the way home!«

nsb@Genesis:46:1 @ Jacob packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshiped.

nsb@Genesis:46:6 @ They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his family arrived in Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:46:7 @ He brought his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters, his entire family.

nsb@Genesis:46:15 @ These were the sons Leah gave to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of these sons and daughters was thirty-three.

nsb@Genesis:46:18 @ These were the descendants of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She gave birth to these children for Jacob. The total was sixteen.

nsb@Genesis:46:25 @ These were the descendants of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She gave birth to these sons for Jacob. The total was seven.

nsb@Genesis:46:26 @ The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who went with him to Egypt was sixty-six. This did not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.

nsb@Genesis:46:29 @ Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father’s neck and cried for a long time.

nsb@Genesis:46:31 @ Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father’s family: »I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father’s family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.

nsb@Genesis:46:34 @ »Be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen. Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.

nsb@Genesis:47:1 @ Joseph took five of his brothers and went to the king. He told him: »My father and my brothers have come from Canaan with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own. They are now in the region of Goshen.«

nsb@Genesis:47:2 @ Then he presented his brothers to the king.

nsb@Genesis:47:4 @ »We have come to live in this country. The famine is so severe in the land of Canaan that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.«

nsb@Genesis:47:7 @ Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to the king. Jacob gave the king his blessing.

nsb@Genesis:47:11 @ Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt. He gave them property in the best of the land near the city of Rameses. This was as the king had commanded.

nsb@Genesis:47:12 @ Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father’s family, including the very youngest.

nsb@Genesis:47:20 @ Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for the king. Every Egyptian was forced to sell his land, because the famine was so severe. All the land became the king’s property.

nsb@Genesis:47:26 @ Joseph made it a law for the land of Egypt that one-fifth of the harvest should belong to the king. This law still remains in force today. Only the lands of the priests did not become the king’s property.

nsb@Genesis:47:29 @ When the time drew near for him to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him: »Place your hand under my thighs and make a solemn vow that you will not bury me in Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:47:31 @ Jacob said: »Make a vow that you will.« Joseph made the vow. Jacob gave thanks there on his bed.

nsb@Genesis:48:1 @ Later Joseph was told that his father was ill. So he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and went to see Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:48:2 @ Jacob was told that his son Joseph had come to see him. He gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

nsb@Genesis:48:4 @ »He promised: ‘I will give you a large family with many descendants that will grow into a nation. I am giving you this land that will belong to you and your family from generation to generation.’«

nsb@Genesis:48:10 @ Israel’s eyesight was failing because of old age. He could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to his father. Israel hugged them and kissed them.

nsb@Genesis:48:12 @ Joseph took them off his father’s lap and bowed with his face touching the ground.

nsb@Genesis:48:13 @ Then Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right, facing Israel’s left, and Manasseh on his left, facing Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.

nsb@Genesis:48:14 @ But Israel crossed his hands and reached out. He put his right hand on Ephraim’s head, although Ephraim was the younger son. He put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was older.

nsb@Genesis:48:15 @ Jacob blessed Joseph. He said: »May God, in whose presence my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac walked, may this God who has been my shepherd all my life to this very day,

nsb@Genesis:48:17 @ Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on Ephraim’s head. Joseph did not like it. So he took his father’s hand in order to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

nsb@Genesis:48:18 @ He said to his father: »That is not right, Father! This is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.«

nsb@Genesis:48:19 @ His father refused and said: »I know, Son, I know! Manasseh, too, will become a nation. He, too, will be important. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be more important than he. His descendants will become many nations.«

nsb@Genesis:48:20 @ That day he blessed them. He said: »Because of you, Israel will speak this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’ In this way Israel put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.«

nsb@Genesis:49:1 @ Jacob called for his sons. He said: »Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the future.

nsb@Genesis:49:9 @ »Judah is like a lion, killing his victim and returning to his den. He is like a lion stretching out and lying down. No one dares disturb him.

nsb@Genesis:49:10 @ »The royal scepter shall not depart from Judah. His descendants will always rule. Nations will bring him tribute and bow in obedience before him. This, until Shiloh comes and all will obey him.

nsb@Genesis:49:11 @ »He will tie his donkey to a grapevine, his colt to the best vine. He will wash his clothes in wine, his garments in the blood of grapes.

nsb@Genesis:49:12 @ »His eyes are darker than wine. His teeth are whiter than milk.

nsb@Genesis:49:13 @ »Zebulun will live by the coast. He will have ships by the coast. His border will go as far as Sidon.

nsb@Genesis:49:15 @ »When he sees that his resting place is good and that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden and will become a slave laborer.

nsb@Genesis:49:16 @ »Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

nsb@Genesis:49:24 @ »His bow stayed steady! His arms remained limber because of the help of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

nsb@Genesis:49:26 @ »The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest mountains and the riches of the ancient hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the prince among his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:49:27 @ »Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning and evening he destroys his enemies.«

nsb@Genesis:49:28 @ These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is how Jacob blessed each of them.

nsb@Genesis:49:29 @ Jacob told his sons: »Soon I will die. I want you to bury me in Machpelah Cave.

nsb@Genesis:49:31 @ »Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there. Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there. I also buried Leah there.

nsb@Genesis:49:33 @ Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons. He pulled his feet into his bed. He took his last breath and joined his ancestors in death.

nsb@Genesis:50:1 @ Joseph threw himself on his father. He cried over him, and kissed him.

nsb@Genesis:50:2 @ Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father’s body.

nsb@Genesis:50:4 @ When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king’s officials: »Please take this message to the king:

nsb@Genesis:50:7 @ So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king’s officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:50:8 @ His family, including his brothers, and the rest of his father’s family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen.

nsb@Genesis:50:13 @ They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre. He was buried in the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

nsb@Genesis:50:14 @ After the funeral, Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else returned to Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:50:16 @ Thus they sent word to Joseph, saying: »Your father gave us orders before his death. He said,

nsb@Genesis:50:18 @ Then his brothers also came and immediately bowed down in front of him. »We are your slaves!« they said.

nsb@Genesis:50:20 @ »Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.

nsb@Genesis:50:22 @ Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father’s family. He was a hundred and ten years old when he died.

nsb@Genesis:50:23 @ Joseph lived long enough to see Ephraim’s children and grandchildren. He also lived to see the children of Manasseh’s son Machir. He welcomed them into his family.

nsb@Genesis:50:24 @ Before Joseph died, he told his brothers: »I will not live much longer. God will take care of you. He will lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:50:26 @ Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin.

nsb@Exodus:1:6 @ Joseph, all his brothers, and that entire generation died.

nsb@Exodus:1:9 @ He said to his people: »There are too many Israelites! They are stronger than we are.

nsb@Exodus:1:22 @ Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

nsb@Exodus:2:6 @ She opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. »This is one of the Hebrew babies,« she said.

nsb@Exodus:2:7 @ His sister asked her: »Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?«

nsb@Exodus:2:9 @ Pharaoh’s daughter told her: »Take care of this child, and I will pay you. The baby’s mother carried him home and took care of him.«

nsb@Exodus:2:11 @ After Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were hard at work. He saw an Egyptian beating one of them.

nsb@Exodus:2:12 @ Moses looked around to see if anyone was watching. Then he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

nsb@Exodus:2:15 @ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian by a well.

nsb@Exodus:2:20 @ He asked his daughters: »Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.«

nsb@Exodus:2:21 @ Moses was content to live with the man. He gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

nsb@Exodus:2:22 @ She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: »I have been a stranger in a strange land.«

nsb@Exodus:2:24 @ God heard their groaning. He remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nsb@Exodus:3:1 @ One day Moses was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain.

nsb@Exodus:3:3 @ »This is strange,« he thought. »Why is the bush not burning up? I will go closer and see.«

nsb@Exodus:3:6 @ »I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.« Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

nsb@Exodus:3:10 @ »Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.«

nsb@Exodus:3:12 @ God said: »I will be with you! This shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.«

nsb@Exodus:3:13 @ Then Moses said to God: »Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel. I will say to them: ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may ask me: ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?’«

nsb@Exodus:3:15 @ God, further said to Moses: »You shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘JEHOVAH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER! This is my memorial-name to all generations.

nsb@Exodus:3:21 @ »I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. When you go you will not go empty handed.

nsb@Exodus:4:5 @ Jehovah said: »Do this to prove to the Israelites that Jehovah, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to you.«

nsb@Exodus:4:6 @ Jehovah spoke to Moses again: »Put your hand inside your robe.« Moses obeyed. When he took his hand out, it was diseased, covered with white spots, like snow.

nsb@Exodus:4:7 @ Jehovah said: »Put your hand inside your robe again.« He did so, and when he took it out this time, it was healthy, just like the rest of his body.

nsb@Exodus:4:8 @ Jehovah said: »If they will not believe you or be convinced by the first sign, then this one will convince them.

nsb@Exodus:4:14 @ Then the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: »Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. He is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

nsb@Exodus:4:15 @ »You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and his mouth. I will teach you what you are to do.

nsb@Exodus:4:18 @ Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him: »Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.« Jethro said to Moses: »Go in peace.«

nsb@Exodus:4:20 @ So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

nsb@Exodus:4:21 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.«

nsb@Exodus:5:2 @ But Pharaoh responded: »Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and besides, I will not let Israel go.«

nsb@Exodus:5:15 @ Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: »Why are you treating us like this?

nsb@Exodus:5:21 @ They said: »May Jehovah see what you have done and judge you! You have made Pharaoh and his officials hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us.«

nsb@Exodus:5:22 @ Moses went back to Jehovah and asked: »Why have you brought this trouble on your people? Why did you send me?

nsb@Exodus:6:1 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. I will show him my power. He will let my people go! I will show him my power, and he will throw them out of his country.«

nsb@Exodus:6:5 @ »Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel. This is because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage. I have remembered my covenant.

nsb@Exodus:6:9 @ Moses reported this to the Israelites. But they would not listen to him. For they were so discouraged by their backbreaking work.

nsb@Exodus:6:20 @ Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived one hundred and thirty-seven years.

nsb@Exodus:7:2 @ »You shall speak all that I command you. Your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

nsb@Exodus:7:10 @ Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials. It became a large snake.

nsb@Exodus:7:11 @ Then Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells.

nsb@Exodus:7:12 @ Each of them threw his staff down. They all became large snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed theirs.

nsb@Exodus:7:15 @ »In the morning meet Pharaoh when he is on his way to the Nile. Wait for him on the bank of the river. Take the staff that turned into a snake.

nsb@Exodus:7:17 @ »Jehovah says: ‘This is the way you will recognize that I am Jehovah: I will strike the Nile with this staff in my hand. The water will turn into blood.

nsb@Exodus:7:20 @ Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the Nile in front of Pharaoh and his officials. All the water in the river turned into blood.

nsb@Exodus:7:23 @ Pharaoh turned and went back to his palace. This did not change his mind and heart.

nsb@Exodus:8:6 @ »So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt. The frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:8:17 @ So Aaron struck the ground with his stick. The dust in Egypt was turned into gnats. They swarmed over the people and the animals.

nsb@Exodus:8:23 @ »‘»I will put a dividing line between my people and your people. This sign will happen tomorrow.« ’«

nsb@Exodus:8:24 @ Jehovah did what he said. Dense swarms of flies came into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. All over Egypt the flies ruined everything.

nsb@Exodus:8:25 @ Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron. He said: »Go, sacrifice to your God here in this country.«

nsb@Exodus:8:31 @ Jehovah did what Moses asked. The swarms of flies left Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Not a single fly was left.

nsb@Exodus:9:1 @ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, this is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go to serve me.

nsb@Exodus:9:5 @ Jehovah set a definite time: »I, Jehovah, choose tomorrow as the time when I will do this.«

nsb@Exodus:9:13 @ Jehovah told Moses to get up early the next morning and say to the king: »God of the Hebrews commands you to let his people go, so they can serve him!

nsb@Exodus:9:14 @ »If you do not, he will send his worst plagues to strike you, your officials, and everyone else in your country. Then you will find out that no one can oppose Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:9:18 @ »At this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

nsb@Exodus:9:20 @ The ones among the servants of Pharaoh who respected the word of Jehovah made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.

nsb@Exodus:9:21 @ He who paid no regard to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.

nsb@Exodus:9:23 @ Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:9:24 @ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

nsb@Exodus:9:27 @ The king sent for Moses and Aaron and said: »This time I have sinned. Jehovah is in the right. My people and I are in the wrong.

nsb@Exodus:9:28 @ »Pray to Jehovah! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go. You do not have to stay here any longer.«

nsb@Exodus:9:33 @ Moses left the royal palace and the city. He lifted his arms in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder, hail, and drenching rain stopped.

nsb@Exodus:9:34 @ The king realized that the storm was over. He disobeyed once more. He and his officials were so stubborn

nsb@Exodus:9:35 @ that he refused to let the Israelites go. This was exactly what Jehovah said would happen.

nsb@Exodus:10:1 @ Jehovah told Moses: »Go back to the king. I have made him and his officials stubborn, so that I could work these signs.

nsb@Exodus:10:2 @ »I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.«

nsb@Exodus:10:6 @ »‘Your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians. This is something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day. He turned and went out from Pharaoh.’«

nsb@Exodus:10:7 @ Pharaoh’s servants said to him: »How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?«

nsb@Exodus:10:13 @ Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

nsb@Exodus:10:17 @ »Please forgive my sin one more time. Pray to Jehovah your God to take this deadly plague away from me.«

nsb@Exodus:10:22 @ Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days.

nsb@Exodus:10:23 @ The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living.

nsb@Exodus:11:1 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »I will send only one more punishment on the king of Egypt and his people. After that he will let you leave. In fact, he will drive all of you out of here.

nsb@Exodus:11:6 @ »Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again.

nsb@Exodus:11:7 @ »But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast. This is so you may understand how Jehovah makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.«

nsb@Exodus:11:10 @ Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh. Yet Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart. He did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

nsb@Exodus:12:2 @ »This month shall be the beginning of months for you. It is to be the first month of the year to you.

nsb@Exodus:12:3 @ »Tell the whole community of Israel: ‘On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household.

nsb@Exodus:12:6 @ »‘Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals.

nsb@Exodus:12:11 @ »‘Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s Passover.’«

nsb@Exodus:12:14 @ »This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations.

nsb@Exodus:12:17 @ »You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance.

nsb@Exodus:12:22 @ »Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

nsb@Exodus:12:24 @ »You shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children from generation to generation.

nsb@Exodus:12:25 @ »When you enter the land Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this rite.

nsb@Exodus:12:26 @ »When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you?

nsb@Exodus:12:30 @ Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the other Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.

nsb@Exodus:12:42 @ It is a night to be observed for Jehovah for having brought them out from the land of Egypt. This night is for Jehovah and should be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

nsb@Exodus:12:43 @ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: »This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it.

nsb@Exodus:12:48 @ »The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.

nsb@Exodus:13:3 @ Moses said to the people: »Remember this day in the month of Abib. It is the day Jehovah’s mighty power rescued you from slavery in Egypt. Do not eat anything made with yeast.

nsb@Exodus:13:4 @ »You are going out this day in the month Abib.

nsb@Exodus:13:5 @ »Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. He swore to your fathers to give you this land flowing with milk and honey. You shall observe this rite in this month.

nsb@Exodus:13:8 @ »On that day tell your children: ‘We do this because of what Jehovah did for us when we left Egypt.’«

nsb@Exodus:13:9 @ »This festival will be like a mark on your hand. It will be a reminder on your forehead that the teachings of Jehovah are always to be a part of your conversation! Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring you out of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:13:10 @ »You must follow these rules every year at this time.

nsb@Exodus:13:14 @ »In the future when your children ask you, ‘What does this mean?’ tell them: ‘Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of slavery in Egypt.’’«

nsb@Exodus:13:15 @ »Pharaoh was too stubborn to let us go. Because of this every firstborn male in Egypt-human and animal was killed. This is why we sacrifice every firstborn male to Jehovah and buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:13:16 @ »This festival will be like a mark on your hand and like a band on your forehead, because Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of Egypt.«

nsb@Exodus:13:19 @ Moses took the body of Joseph with him. Joseph made the Israelites solemnly promise to do so. Joseph said: When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place.

nsb@Exodus:14:4 @ »I will make him stubborn. He will pursue you. My victory over the king and his army will bring me honor. Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah!« The Israelites did as they were told.

nsb@Exodus:14:5 @ The king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped. He and his officials changed their minds and said: »What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as our slaves!«

nsb@Exodus:14:6 @ The king got his war chariot and army ready.

nsb@Exodus:14:7 @ He commanded his officers in charge of his six hundred best chariots and all his other chariots to start after the Israelites.

nsb@Exodus:14:10 @ The Israelites saw the king coming with his army. They were frightened and begged Jehovah for help.

nsb@Exodus:14:13 @ But Moses said to the people: »Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of Jehovah. He will accomplish this for you today. The Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.

nsb@Exodus:14:17 @ »I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

nsb@Exodus:14:18 @ »Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I am honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots and his horsemen.«

nsb@Exodus:14:21 @ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Jehovah swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land. The waters were divided.

nsb@Exodus:14:27 @ Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But Jehovah threw them into the sea.

nsb@Exodus:14:31 @ The Israelites saw the great power with which Jehovah had defeated the Egyptians. So they stood in awe of Jehovah. They had faith in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.

nsb@Exodus:15:1 @ Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Jehovah: »I will sing to Jehovah, because he has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.

nsb@Exodus:15:2 @ »Jehovah is my strong defender. He is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will sing about his greatness.

nsb@Exodus:15:3 @ »Jehovah is His name, and he is a warrior!

nsb@Exodus:15:14 @ »Nations learned of this and trembled. The Philistines shook with horror.

nsb@Exodus:15:26 @ He said: »If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.«

nsb@Exodus:16:1 @ The whole congregation of Israelites moved from Elim to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. This was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:16:3 @ The Israelites said to them: »If only Jehovah had allowed us die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!«

nsb@Exodus:16:4 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.

nsb@Exodus:16:6 @ Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: »This evening you will know that it was Jehovah who brought you out of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:16:8 @ Moses said: »This will happen when Jehovah gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to eat in the morning. Jehovah hears your complaints against him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against Jehovah.«

nsb@Exodus:16:15 @ When the children of Israel saw, they said to one another: »What is this?« For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them: »This is the bread Jehovah has given you to eat.«

nsb@Exodus:16:16 @ This is what Jehovah has commanded: »Each man should gather according to what he can eat. You shall take two quarts for each person in your tent.«

nsb@Exodus:16:17 @ The sons of Israel did this. Some gathered much and some little.

nsb@Exodus:16:25 @ Moses said: »Eat this today, because today is the Sabbath, a day of rest dedicated to Jehovah. You will not find any food outside the camp.

nsb@Exodus:16:29 @ »Jehovah has given you the Sabbath. He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place! Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.«

nsb@Exodus:16:32 @ Moses said: »This is what Jehovah has commanded: ‘Let two quarts of it be kept throughout your generations. Then they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’«

nsb@Exodus:17:2 @ So they complained to Moses about this: »Give us water to drink!« Moses said: »Why do you complain to me? Why do you test Jehovah?«

nsb@Exodus:17:6 @ »Behold! I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock and water will come out of it. Then the people may drink.« Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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