They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied.

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!”

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

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

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.