Genesis 2:24; Genesis 4:20; Genesis 4:21; Genesis 9:18; Genesis 9:22; Genesis 9:23; Genesis 10:21; Genesis 11:28; Genesis 11:29; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 15:15; Genesis 17:4; Genesis 17:5; Genesis 19:31; Genesis 19:32; Genesis 19:33; Genesis 19:34; Genesis 19:35; Genesis 19:36; Genesis 19:37; Genesis 19:38; Genesis 20:12; Genesis 20:13; Genesis 22:7; Genesis 22:21; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 24:23; Genesis 24:38; Genesis 24:40; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:15; Genesis 26:18; Genesis 26:24; Genesis 27:6; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 27:10; Genesis 27:12; Genesis 27:14; Genesis 27:18; Genesis 27:19; Genesis 27:22; Genesis 27:26; Genesis 27:30; Genesis 27:31; Genesis 27:32; Genesis 27:34; Genesis 27:38; Genesis 27:39; Genesis 27:41; Genesis 28:2; Genesis 28:7; Genesis 28:8; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 28:21; Genesis 29:9; Genesis 29:12; Genesis 31:1; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 31:5; Genesis 31:6; Genesis 31:7; Genesis 31:9; Genesis 31:14; Genesis 31:16; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:29; Genesis 31:30; Genesis 31:35; Genesis 31:42; Genesis 31:53; Genesis 32:9; Genesis 33:19; Genesis 34:4; Genesis 34:6; Genesis 34:11; Genesis 34:13; Genesis 34:19; Genesis 35:18; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 35:27; Genesis 36:9; Genesis 36:24; Genesis 36:43; Genesis 37:1; Genesis 37:2; Genesis 37:4; Genesis 37:10; Genesis 37:11; Genesis 37:12; Genesis 37:22; Genesis 37:32; Genesis 37:35; Genesis 38:11; Genesis 41:51; Genesis 42:13; Genesis 42:29; Genesis 42:32; Genesis 42:35; Genesis 42:36; Genesis 42:37; Genesis 43:2; Genesis 43:7; Genesis 43:8; Genesis 43:11; Genesis 43:23; Genesis 43:27; Genesis 43:28; Genesis 44:17; Genesis 44:19; Genesis 44:20; Genesis 44:22; Genesis 44:24; Genesis 44:25; Genesis 44:27; Genesis 44:30; Genesis 44:31; Genesis 44:32; Genesis 44:34; Genesis 45:3; Genesis 45:8; Genesis 45:9; Genesis 45:13; Genesis 45:18; Genesis 45:19; Genesis 45:23; Genesis 45:25; Genesis 45:27; Genesis 46:1; Genesis 46:3; Genesis 46:5; Genesis 46:29; Genesis 46:31; Genesis 46:34; Genesis 47:1; Genesis 47:3; Genesis 47:5; Genesis 47:6; Genesis 47:7; Genesis 47:9; Genesis 47:11; Genesis 47:12; Genesis 47:30; Genesis 48:1; Genesis 48:9; Genesis 48:15; Genesis 48:16; Genesis 48:17; Genesis 48:18; Genesis 48:19; Genesis 48:21; Genesis 49:2; Genesis 49:4; Genesis 49:8; Genesis 49:25; Genesis 49:26; Genesis 49:28; Genesis 49:29; Genesis 50:1; Genesis 50:2; Genesis 50:5; Genesis 50:6; Genesis 50:7; Genesis 50:8; Genesis 50:10; Genesis 50:14; Genesis 50:15; Genesis 50:16; Genesis 50:17; Genesis 50:22

Genesis 2:24

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 4:20

20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

Genesis 4:21

21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.

Genesis 9:18

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Genesis 9:22

22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23

23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

Genesis 10:21

21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 11:28

28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

Genesis 11:29

29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.

Genesis 12:1

1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

Genesis 15:15

15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 17:4

4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5

5 No longer will you be called Abram ; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 19:31

31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.

Genesis 19:32

32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Genesis 19:33

33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Genesis 19:34

34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”

Genesis 19:35

35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Genesis 19:36

36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Genesis 19:37

37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab ; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

Genesis 19:38

38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Genesis 20:12

12 Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20:13

13 And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

Genesis 22:7

7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Genesis 22:21

21 Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

Genesis 24:7

7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24:23

23 Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Genesis 24:38

38 but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24:40

40 “He replied, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.

Genesis 26:3

3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:15

15 So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

Genesis 26:18

18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:24

24 That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 27:6

6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:9

9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

Genesis 27:10

10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”

Genesis 27:12

12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”

Genesis 27:14

14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

Genesis 27:18

18 He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”

Genesis 27:19

19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Genesis 27:22

22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Genesis 27:26

26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

Genesis 27:30

30 After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

Genesis 27:31

31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Genesis 27:32

32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”

Genesis 27:34

34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”

Genesis 27:38

38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Genesis 27:39

39 His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

Genesis 27:41

41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 28:2

2 Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28:7

7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

Genesis 28:8

8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

Genesis 28:13

13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.

Genesis 28:21

21 so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the LORD will be my God

Genesis 29:9

9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.

Genesis 29:12

12 He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

Genesis 31:1

1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

Genesis 31:3

3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 31:5

5 He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:6

6 You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength,

Genesis 31:7

7 yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

Genesis 31:9

9 So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:14

14 Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate?

Genesis 31:16

16 Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Genesis 31:18

18 and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31:19

19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

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.’

Genesis 31:30

30 Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:35

35 Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.

Genesis 31:42

42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”

Genesis 31:53

53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 32:9

9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’

Genesis 33:19

19 For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.

Genesis 34:4

4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”

Genesis 34:6

6 Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.

Genesis 34:11

11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

Genesis 34:13

13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

Genesis 34:19

19 The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.

Genesis 35:18

18 As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:22

22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 35:27

27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Genesis 36:9

9 This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

Genesis 36:24

24 The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

Genesis 36:43

43 Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied. This is the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 37:1

1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

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.

Genesis 37:4

4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

Genesis 37:10

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Genesis 37:11

11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 37:12

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

Genesis 37:22

22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

Genesis 37:32

32 They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”

Genesis 37:35

35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

Genesis 38:11

11 Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.

Genesis 41:51

51 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

Genesis 42:13

13 But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

Genesis 42:29

29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,

Genesis 42:32

32 We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.’

Genesis 42:35

35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.

Genesis 42:36

36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”

Genesis 42:37

37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”

Genesis 43:2

2 So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 43:7

7 They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’ he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

Genesis 43:8

8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

Genesis 43:11

11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Genesis 43:23

23 “It’s all right,” he said. “Don’t be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 43:27

27 He asked them how they were, and then he said, “How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?”

Genesis 43:28

28 They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him.

Genesis 44:17

17 But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”

Genesis 44:19

19 My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Genesis 44:20

20 And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:22

22 And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’

Genesis 44:24

24 When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.

Genesis 44:25

25 “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy a little more food.’

Genesis 44:27

27 “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44:30

30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,

Genesis 44:31

31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

Genesis 44:32

32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’

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.”

Genesis 45:3

3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.

Genesis 45:8

8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.

Genesis 45:9

9 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.

Genesis 45:13

13 Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Genesis 45:18

18 and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’

Genesis 45:19

19 “You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come.

Genesis 45:23

23 And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.

Genesis 45:25

25 So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45:27

27 But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

Genesis 46:1

1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:3

3 “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Genesis 46:5

5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

Genesis 46:29

29 Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.

Genesis 46:31

31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

Genesis 46:34

34 you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 47:1

1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:3

3 Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”

Genesis 47:5

5 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,

Genesis 47:6

6 and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

Genesis 47:7

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh,

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.”

Genesis 47:11

11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.

Genesis 47:12

12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

Genesis 47:30

30 but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.” “I will do as you say,” he said.

Genesis 48:1

1 Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.

Genesis 48:9

9 “They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

Genesis 48:15

15 Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

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.”

Genesis 48:17

17 When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim’s head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Genesis 48:18

18 Joseph said to him, “No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48:19

19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”

Genesis 48:21

21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 49:2

2 “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Genesis 49:4

4 Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

Genesis 49:8

8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

Genesis 49:25

25 because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.

Genesis 49:26

26 Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

Genesis 49:28

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.

Genesis 49:29

29 Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 50:1

1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:2

2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,

Genesis 50:5

5 ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”

Genesis 50:6

6 Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Genesis 50:7

7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—

Genesis 50:8

8 besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

Genesis 50:10

10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.

Genesis 50:14

14 After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.

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?”

Genesis 50:16

16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:

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.

Genesis 50:22

22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years