Genesis 8:9
8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered
the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah
in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove,
and brought it back into the ark.
Genesis 9:15
9:15 then I will remember my covenant with you
and with all living creatures of all kinds.
Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy
all living things.
Genesis 22:12
22:12 “Do not harm the boy!”
the angel said.
“Do not do anything to him, for now I know
that you fear
God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
Genesis 26:22
26:22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac
named it
Rehoboth,
saying, “For now the
Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”
Genesis 30:40
30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face
the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.
Genesis 31:32
31:32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death!
In the presence of our relatives
identify whatever is yours and take it.”
(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
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 39:6
39:6 So Potiphar
left
everything he had in Joseph’s care;
he gave no thought
to anything except the food he ate.
Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.
Genesis 39:9
39:9 There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do
such a great evil and sin against God?”
Genesis 42:21
42:21 They said to one other, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”
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 47:9
47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All
the years of my travels
are 130. All
the years of my life have been few and painful;
the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
Genesis 47:19
47:19 Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become
Pharaoh’s slaves.
Give us seed that we may live
and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”