They said, “My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

“Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

If you send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.

We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”

So each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”

But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.