He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, “My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”

When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

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

In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father?” “What is it, my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’

We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.’

We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

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