But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

Finally Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.