Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:22; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:19; Genesis 24:50; Genesis 26:29; Genesis 28:8; Genesis 31:29; Genesis 37:2; Genesis 37:20; Genesis 37:33; Genesis 38:7; Genesis 39:9; Genesis 40:7; Genesis 41:3; Genesis 41:4; Genesis 41:19; Genesis 41:20; Genesis 41:21; Genesis 41:27; Genesis 44:4; Genesis 44:29; Genesis 44:34; Genesis 47:9; Genesis 48:16; Genesis 50:15; Genesis 50:17; Genesis 50:20

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Genesis 2:17

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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Genesis 3:22

22 And the LORD God 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.”
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Genesis 6:5

5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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Genesis 8:21

21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
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Genesis 13:13

13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
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Genesis 19:19

19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
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Genesis 24:50

50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.
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Genesis 26:29

29 that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
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Genesis 28:8

8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
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Genesis 31:29

29 I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
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Genesis 37:2

2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
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Genesis 37:20

20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
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Genesis 37:33

33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”
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Genesis 38:7

7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight; so the LORD put him to death.
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Genesis 39:9

9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
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Genesis 40:7

7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”
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Genesis 41:3

3 After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.
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Genesis 41:4

4 And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
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Genesis 41:19

19 After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 41:20

20 The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.
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Genesis 41:21

21 But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
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Genesis 41:27

27 The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
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Genesis 44:4

4 They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
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Genesis 44:29

29 If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’
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Genesis 44:34

34 How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”
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Genesis 47:9

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”
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Genesis 48:16

16 the Angel who has delivered me from all harm —may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.”
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Genesis 50:15

15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”
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Genesis 50:17

17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
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Genesis 50:20

20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
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