The Lord called to Samuel, and he replied, “Here I am!”

The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

She became pregnant and had a son. Judah named him Er.

Moses built an altar, and he called it “The Lord is my Banner,”

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me. I answered, ‘Here I am!’

Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.