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

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Genesis 2:8

8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
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Genesis 2:10

10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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Genesis 2:11

11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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Genesis 2:12

12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
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Genesis 11:2

2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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Genesis 11:7

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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Genesis 11:8

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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Genesis 11:9

9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Genesis 11:31

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 Harran, they settled there.
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Genesis 12:7

7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 12:8

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
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Genesis 12:10

10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
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Genesis 13:3

3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
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Genesis 13:4

4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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Genesis 13:14

14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
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Genesis 13:18

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
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Genesis 18:16

16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
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Genesis 18:22

22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
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Genesis 18:28

28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 18:29

29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
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Genesis 18:30

30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
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Genesis 18:31

31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 18:32

32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 19:20

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
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Genesis 19:22

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. )
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Genesis 19:27

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
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Genesis 20:1

1 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,
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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.” ’ ”
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Genesis 21:17

17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
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Genesis 21:31

31 So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
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Genesis 21:33

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
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Genesis 22:2

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
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Genesis 22:9

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Genesis 23:13

13 and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”
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Genesis 24:5

5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
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Genesis 24:6

6 “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.
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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.
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Genesis 24:8

8 If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
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Genesis 25:10

10 the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
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Genesis 26:8

8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
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Genesis 26:17

17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.
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Genesis 26:19

19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.
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Genesis 26:22

22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”
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Genesis 26:23

23 From there he went up to Beersheba.
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Genesis 26:25

25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
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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.
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Genesis 27:45

45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
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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.
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Genesis 28:6

6 Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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Genesis 28:11

11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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Genesis 29:2

2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.
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Genesis 29:3

3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
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Genesis 30:32

32 Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.
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Genesis 31:13

13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”
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Genesis 31:46

46 He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
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Genesis 32:13

13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
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Genesis 32:29

29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
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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.
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Genesis 33:20

20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
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Genesis 35:1

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
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Genesis 35:3

3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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Genesis 35:7

7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
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Genesis 35:15

15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.
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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.
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Genesis 38:2

2 There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;
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Genesis 39:1

1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
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Genesis 39:11

11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.
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Genesis 39:20

20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,
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Genesis 39:22

22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.
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Genesis 40:3

3 and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
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Genesis 41:12

12 Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream.
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Genesis 42:2

2 He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
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Genesis 42:26

26 they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
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Genesis 43:25

25 They prepared their gifts for Joseph’s arrival at noon, because they had heard that they were to eat there.
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Genesis 43:30

30 Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.
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Genesis 44:14

14 Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.
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Genesis 45:11

11 I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’
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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.
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Genesis 48:7

7 As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
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Genesis 49:24

24 But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
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Genesis 49:31

31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah.
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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.’ ”
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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.
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