And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman!

He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, “Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

You are also commanded to say, ‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”