Genesis 26:3
26:3 Stay
in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,
for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,
and I will fulfill
the solemn promise I made
to your father Abraham.
Genesis 28:13
28:13 and the
Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the
Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac.
I will give you and your descendants the ground
you are lying on.
Genesis 31:18
31:18 He took
away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.
Genesis 31:29
31:29 I have
the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful
that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
Genesis 31:35
31:35 Rachel
said to her father, “Don’t be angry,
my lord. I cannot stand up
in your presence because I am having my period.”
So he searched thoroughly,
but did not find the idols.
Genesis 42:35
42:35 When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 43:8
43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die – we and you and our little ones.
Genesis 44:17
44:17 But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”
Genesis 45:9
45:9 Now go up to my father quickly
and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!
Genesis 45:18
45:18 Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you
the best land in Egypt and you will eat
the best
of the land.’
Genesis 46:31
46:31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh,
‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
Genesis 47:1
Joseph’s Wise Administration
47:1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of
Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 48:19
48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 50:10
50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.
Genesis 50:15
50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”